Its primary responsibilities are defensive: counterintelligence, counter-terrorism, and related proactive measures.

Its site, with sheer cliffs on one side and a natural valley on the other, afforded an excellent defensive location.

Its 13th Infantry Brigade had to establish another bridgehead across the Simeto, but the Germans had brought in more troops and prepared defensive positions, and after hard fighting it was not until 5 August 1943 that the Eighth Army entered the city of Catania itself.

Its defensive characteristics are essentially decorative.

Its bastions showed that it was mainly built for defensive purposes.

Its intelligence concentrated on the Finnish army, taking notes on the locations of Finnish artillery and defensive positions.

Its mists and shadowy mazes hide entry to Doriath and Thingol takes a defensive stance behind it.

Its ground floor was divided into several small rooms, and at the south end there was a Fachwerk building whose outside wall was the southern defensive wall.

Its focus areas include a broad spectrum of technologies including information fusion and exploitation, communications and networking, collaborative environments, modeling and simulation, defensive information warfare and intelligent information systems technologies.

Its three-story building, finished in a baroque style and completed around 1638-40, is also a part of the town ’ s defenses, with its back wall integrated into the town's defensive barrier.

Its duties included coastal defense, air raid protection and defensive fortification construction.

Its long history consists of the many successful repulsions of major invasions and defensive against foreign invasions.

Its ruins remain built up against the south gate of the Roman fort and clearly show its defensive nature, with external stone steps and narrow loop windows.

Its significance as a defensive fortress and administrative centre varied throughout the ages according to the political situation.

Its tower was used as a defensive structure by Abén Humeya's partisans.

Its strategic position does however suggest some defensive function.

Its defensive systems were upgraded in the 18th century with bastions around the castle.

Its theological importance lies in its bold attempt to interpret Islamic teachings from rationalistic view-point in a period of the Muslim history, when Islam seemed to be on the defensive every where in the world.

Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

Its influence has also spread widely outside East Asia, and is amongst the most translated works in world literature.

Its schools spread throughout the entire Church ; its doctors wrote monumental works in all branches of knowledge, including the extremely important Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.

Broad who in one of his early works known simply as Broad's famous list of 1925 ( see chapter XIV of The Mind and Its Place in Nature ) stated the basis of what this theory was to become.

Its treatment of rhetoric is less comprehensive than the classic works of antiquity, but provides a traditional treatment of res-verba ( matter and form ): its first book treats the subject of elocutio, showing the student how to use schemes and tropes ; the second book covers inventio.

Its " putrid vapors the pong of bad fish, manure, and a tanning works mixed together ," wrote Tim Flannery, who noted one bizarre peril: " A rotting whale could fill with gas to bursting, ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man.

Its legacy can be seen in Thomas Wooler's radical periodical The Black Dwarf, Richard Carlile's numerous newspapers and journals, the radical works of William Cobbett, Henry Hetherington's periodicals the Penny Papers and the Poor Man's Guardian, the works of the Chartist William Lovett, George Holyoake's newspapers and books on Owenism, and freethinker Charles Bradlaugh's New Reformer.

* Van Diemen's Land is often mentioned in the works of Flogging Molly, such as in the song " Every Dog Has Its Day.

Its construction began during the Spanish Renaissance in the early 16th century, shortly after the conquest of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs, who commissioned the works to Juan Gil de Hontañón and Enrique Egas.

Its art gallery is highlighted by works of the Flemish, Italian and Spanish schools.

Its distinctive rhythmic profile and function thus led to the French overture style as found in the works of late Baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach.

Its governing body consists of the trustees of the Ramakrishna Math — the organ to carry out religious works.

Its history has been broad and varied, from classic works of nineteenth-century women authors such as George Eliot and Margaret Fuller to cutting-edge theoretical work in women's studies and gender studies by " third-wave " authors.

Its members were individually active during these years and published works which were created within their constraints.

Its collections encompass diverse cultural items such as Ashanti Empire sculptures, Buddhist art, Dutch Golden Age painting, works by Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Auguste Rodin, among others.

Its rationale is inductive: it works often enough, is the only source of new ideas, and has no substitute in expediting the discovery of new truths.

Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has made Como a popular tourist destination and the city contains numerous works of art, churches, gardens, museums, theatres, parks and palaces: the Duomo ( seat of Diocese of Como ), the Basilica of Sant ' Abbondio, the Villa Olmo, the public gardens with the Tempio Voltiano, the Teatro Sociale, the Broletto ( the city ’ s medieval town hall ) and the 20th century Casa del Fascio.

Its subject, the differences between US and European intellect, manners, and morals, is one that frequently appears in the works of Henry James.

Its main subjects are art, science and natural history, and it owns a number of works by Michelangelo and Rembrandt.

Its participants – Piotr Buchkin, Rudolf Frentz, Alexander Samokhvalov, Isaak Brodsky, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Dormidontov, Mikhail Avilov among them – became the founding fathers of the Leningrad school while their works formed one of its richest layers and the basis of the largest museum collections of Soviet painting of the 1930-1950s.

Its publishing includes professional books, textbooks, monographs, reference works, over 300 academic journals, Bibles and prayer books, English language teaching publications, educational software, and electronic publishing.

Its theory begins with the description, in the 18th century, of schematics for works, and was codified in the early 19th century.

Its large commercial fleet engaged in acts of piracy, while wealthy merchants paid for such tributes as public works, monuments, and competitions as well as the games and gladiator fights.