Its purpose is to prevent London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the sea.

Its small round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters, and both Ian McKellen in the title role, and Dench, received exceptionally favourable notices.

Its earliest meaning was a tailless ( and therefore exceptionally human-like ) nonhuman primate.

Its centrepiece is an exceptionally large and handsome market square lined with a picturesque jumble of noble Georgian buildings.

Its exposed northerly position can give rise to some exceptionally low winter sunshine levels-in January 1983 it recorded just 38 minutes of sunshine, a record low for Scotland.

Its strange design allows reverse to share cogs with first gear, and is exceptionally quiet, but results in difficult engagement and unreliable operation.

Its exceptionally large main entrance was used as a shelter by prehistoric Indians from the earliest known human settlement in the southeastern United States, through to European colonization.

Its species ' life-cycle is exceptionally violent, and as the seasons pass into winter, members of the species become more and more unthinking, working only upon instinct.

Its operations came to a close with the freezing of the Gulf of Finland during the exceptionally cold winter of that year.

According to Robert Simpson, though not commonly performed and often thought of as the ugly duckling of Bruckner's symphonic body of work, the Sixth Symphony nonetheless makes an immediate impression of rich and individual expressiveness: " Its themes are exceptionally beautiful, its harmony has moments of both boldness and subtlety, its instrumentation is the most imaginative he had yet achieved, and it possesses a mastery of classical form that might even have impressed Brahms.

Its habitats are exceptionally varied for such a small area, ranging from lowlands to glaciers.

Its cranial cavity was exceptionally small due the walls of the cranium being exceedingly thick.

Its sepulchral monuments, many of which are figured by Hocker, Heilsbronnischer Antiquitätenschatz ( Ansbach, 1731-1740 ), are of exceptionally high artistic interest.

Its first apparition was a long, gloomy column of refugees riding in farm wagons, or pushing prams.

Its long jaws contained, both sides combined, 58 or more banana-shaped teeth ; larger tyrannosaurids possessed fewer teeth, Gorgosaurus at least sixty-two.

Its F-15 Eagle fighter planes have no similar capability at extremely long ranges.

Its climate encourages outdoor recreation and tourism, though its economic mainstay has long been resource extraction, principally logging and mining.

Its mainland is about long and wide.

Its historic ties, its long military presence as well as its economic influence have also given it a political influence.

Its bottom is about long and wide, with gently sloping sides.

Its skull, forty to fifty centimetres long, bore a low bone crest that ran down from the base of the skull to halfway to the beak.

Its most notable feature are its long, narrow, upcurved jaws with a pointed tip, making the animal look like a pair of flying tweezers.

Its chief distinguishing characteristics are its extremely long neck and legs, its horn-like ossicones and its distinctive coat patterns.

Its long neck gives it a large amount of dead space, in spite of its narrow windpipe.

Its heart, which can weigh more than and measures about long, must generate approximately double the blood pressure required for a human to maintain blood flow to the brain.

Its most celebrated song is a Parsons-Harris duet cover of " Love Hurts ", a song that long remained in Harris ' solo repertoire.

Its position on the estuaries of the Stour and Orwell rivers and its usefulness to mariners as the only safe anchorage between the Thames and Humber led to a long period of maritime significance, both civil and military.

Its reference manual was two pages long.

Its long, graceful, menacing head figure carved in the stern, such as the Oseburg ship, echoed the designs of its predecessors.

Its longest version consists of over 100, 000 shloka or over 200, 000 individual verse lines ( each shloka is a couplet ), and long prose passages.

Its antlers consisted of a 2 1 / 2 meter long horizontal bar, with no tines, ending in small palmations.

Its Alamo Plaza Restaurant is gone, its pool long since filled in, its original color scheme painted over, its front desk now behind bulletproof glass and its rooms infested with roaches, vermin and a clientele engaged in enough criminal activity that the property averages more than one call for service to police daily.

Its separation from Australia at the end of the Cretaceous ( 65 MYA ) and from New Zealand in the mid-Miocene has led to a long period of evolution in near complete isolation.

Its coastline is 5 152 km long.

Its updated model, SL-1200MK2, released in 1978, had a stronger motor, a convenient pitch control slider for beatmatching and a stylus illuminator, which made it the long standing favourite among disc jockeys ( see " Turntablism ").

Its side effects and long half-life in the human body made it unsuitable for medical applications.

Its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold.

Spain lies between latitudes 26 ° and 44 ° N, and longitudes 19 ° W and 5 ° E. Its Atlantic coast is long.

Its life history is much simpler than that of the truly colonial bumblebees and can serve as an example of the life cycle of many other species.

Its supposed fundamental importance to life can be seen in words such as aspire, inspire, perspire and spirit, all derived from the Latin spirare.

Its most common meaning, however, pertains to two principal ideals ; that social life should be structured through well-defined and well-regulated classes ( varna ), and that an individual's life within a class should be organized into defined stages ( ashrama, see dharmasastra ).

Its most common isotope einsteinium-253 ( half life 20. 47 days ) is produced artificially from decay of californium-252 in a few dedicated high-power nuclear reactors with a total yield on the order of one milligram per year.

Its Jewish and non-Jewish inhabitants are " clothed with garments of light and eternal life, and eat of the tree of life " ( Enoch 58, 3 ) near to God and His anointed ones.

Its introduction allowed night life to flourish in cities and towns as interiors and streets could be lighted on a larger scale than before.

Its short storage life currently limits its commercial potential.

Its name derives from the Ancient Greek words and, meaning visible life, since it was once believed that life began in the Cambrian, the first period of this eon.

Its iconography illustrating the donor's career gives an edited version of Pius ' life, passing over his former support of the antipope Felix V. Though Pinturrichio labored for five years, the books never reached their splendid destination ; yet the Piccolomini Library is a monument of the High Renaissance in Siena.

Its point of determinism predates the age of evangelism, which it holds is still valid in crystallising predisposition into maturing faith in this life.

Its constitution was largely unwritten, and was constantly evolving throughout the life of the Republic.

Its goal is to achieve a peaceful world where these basic values can be enhanced and where each individual can live a meaningful life with the full development of his or her personality and talents, and with the guarantee of human and civil rights in a democratic framework of society.

Its landscape is often arid, though animal and plant life are still plentiful on the surface.

Its essential principles are three: ( 1 ) The improvement of this life by material means.

Its domination of political life came to an end in March 2000, when Abdoulaye Wade, the leader of the Senegalese Democratic Party ( PDS ) and leader of the opposition for more than 25 years, won the presidency.

Its most common function is that of a lockpick, but can be used to perform other operations such as performing medical scans, remotely controlling other devices and tracking alien life.

Its Due Process Clause prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness.

Its objects were to combat the influence of the Zohar and subsequent developments in modern Kabbalah, which were then pervasive in Yemenite Jewish life, to restore what they believed to be a rationalistic approach to Judaism rooted in authentic sources, and to safeguard the older (" Baladi ") tradition of Yemenite Jewish observance that they believed to be based on this approach.

Its life cycle is usually far greater than a purely electronic UPS, up to 30 years or more.

Its central theme follows that it is Michael's destiny to replace his father as the head of the family, despite his determination to lead a more Americanized life with his girlfriend ( and eventual wife ) Kay Adams.

Its great biological diversity can be attributed to the presence of five of the seven life zones and three of the four desert types in North America.