Its structure is achieved by drafting two arcs which rise steeply from each springing point on a small radius and then turn into two arches with a wide radius and much lower springing point.

Its duties include submitting draft laws, decrees, and other bills to the National Assembly and the Council of State ; drafting state plans and budgets and implementing them following the National Assembly's approval ; managing the development of the national economy ; organizing national defense activities and assuring the preparedness of the armed forces ; and organizing and managing the state's foreign relations.

Its responsibilities include the drafting of opinions for the Foreign Affairs Council, which is one of the configurations of the Council of the European Union, and exercising " political control and strategic direction " of EU crisis-management operations.

Its duties included appointing representatives to the United Nations, appointing interim ministers to Iraq's vacant cabinet positions, and drafting a temporary constitution known as the Transitional Administrative Law ( TAL ), which would be used to govern Iraq until a permanent constitution could be written and approved by the general electorate.

Its name is Latin for compass, referring to the drafting tool used for drawing circles ; it should not be confused with Pyxis, a constellation that represents a mariner's compass.

Its name comes from the general shape of the instrument where the horizontal member of the T slides on the side of the drafting table.

Its task was to do much of the drafting of the articles of the constitution.

Martin Allen was the chairman, co-founder and largest individual stockholder ( 2, 272, 866 shares ) of Computervision Corp. Its first product, CADDS-1, was aimed at the printed circuit layout, and 2-D drafting markets.

Its activities include annual conferences, a Military Fellows Program that " brings together senior officers from the armed forces of the United States and key Middle Eastern allies ", a Presidential Study Group it describes as a " bipartisan, blue-ribbon commission charged with drafting a blueprint for the next administration's Middle East policy ", closed-door policy forums, and various publications and research programs.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

Its dangerous effects have been downgraded to the public by some who believe national security requires further testing.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Its editors only knew of one example to point to, a public housing development of 278 homes in New Haven described by John Schulz in the March, 1950 issue.

Its temperature was denoted by Af.

Its synthesis has not been demonstrated in cell-free systems, nor has its synthesis by systems with intact thyroid cells in vitro been unequivocally proven.

Its enforcement was enjoined by a federal trial court.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

Its costive deliberations were likened to those of the British courts of chancery mercilessly caricatured by Dickens in Bleak House.

Its contents are another matter, for they reveal the kinds of interests pursued by the congregation.

Its abstract decor is by John Hultberg.

Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services.

Its size is determined by its function as a glycogen and fat storage unit, and may change with the seasons as these reserves are built or used up.

Its eggs are laid on the forest floor and when they hatch, the tadpoles are carried one by one on the back of an adult to a suitable water-filled crevice such as the axil of a leaf or the rosette of a bromeliad.

Its album Pimp to Eat featured guest appearances by various members of Rhyme Syndicate, Odd Oberheim, Jacky jasper ( who appears as Jacky Jasper on the song " We Sleep Days " and H-Bomb on " War "), D. J.

Its notoriety arises from an incident in 1894 in which the then owner, an English landlady named Agnes McDonnell, was savagely beaten and the house set alight, allegedly by a local man, James Lynchehaun.

Its members cannot be dismissed by the government.

Its holding power is defined by its weight underwater ( i. e. taking its buoyancy into account ) regardless of the type of seabed, although suction can increase this if it becomes buried.

Its basin is surrounded by ( north ) Amguyema River and Palyavaam River, ( northwest ) Bolshoy Anyuy River and the Oloy branch of the Omolon River and ( southwest ) Penzhina River.

Its coastal acquisition may have been one reason yellow amber came to be designated by the same term as ambergris.

Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.

Its first recording is an a cappella version from 1922 by the Sacred Harp Choir.

Its length as measured by the United States Geological Survey is, and by steamboat measurement,.

Its climate is Oceanic with influences of Continental Mediterranean.

Its basin includes much of China, southeastern Russia, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, most of Indonesia and Malaysia, the Philippines, all of the Pacific Islands, the northeast coast of Australia, and Canada and the United States west of the Continental Divide ( including most of Alaska ), as well as western Central America and South America west of the Andes.

Its primary units were 84 flying squadrons, mostly equipped with F-51 Mustang and F-47 Thunderbolt fighters with air defense of the continental United States as their main mission, it's units under the jurisdiction of the Continental Air Command of the regular Air Force.

Its predecessor, the First Continental Congress, had sent entreaties to the British King George III to stop the Coercive Acts and had created the Continental Association to establish a coordinated protest of the Coercive Acts ; in particular, a boycott had been placed on British goods.

Its immediate predecessor was Optus Vision, a joint venture between, Optus and Continental Cablevision with small shareholdings by media companies Publishing and Broadcasting Limited and Seven Network.

Its original partners included the Journal itself, Adelphia, Scripps-Howard, Continental Cablevision, Cablevision, and most importantly, Chicago's Tribune Company, which provided the network's technical output.

Its summit is the highest point exactly on the Continental Divide.

Its presence there enabled O ' Sullivan Bere to control the sea fisheries off the Irish coast and collect sizeable taxes from Irish and Continental fishing vessels sheltering in the haven.

Its duties are to stimulate and coordinate the Continental Board of Counselors and assist the Universal House of Justice in matters relating teaching and protection of the faith.

Its teams also compete for the Continental Cup.

Its position provided a natural fortress not only protecting the Continental Army, but also overlooking the plains towards New Brunswick where the British forces were stationed in 1777.

Its past was a present in Continental capitals half a century ago.