Its great natural strength and situation, not far from the mouth of the Sis pass, and near the great road which debouched from the Cilician Gates, made Anazarbus play a considerable part in the struggles between the Byzantine Empire and the early Muslim invaders.

Its focus is on individual moves or short sequences of moves, unlike traditional climbing or sport climbing, which generally demand more endurance over longer stretches of rock where the difficulty of individual moves is not as great.

Its prominence outside China is due to the great numbers of early emigrants from Guangdong.

" Its brilliant flares were clearly visible for great distances at sea, and at night its glowing lava turned it into a brilliant luminous cone.

Its high profile and popularity make it a merchandising environment, which results in great investments from sponsors and budgets in the hundreds of millions for the constructors.

Its 2, 138 pages prompted Playfair to remark that “ The great size of the book, and the obscurity which may justly be objected to many parts of it, have probably prevented it from being received as it deserves .”

Its connotation is that of an accomplishment arrived at by great effort of time and energy.

According to Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, President of the Board which recommended its formation, " The College is concerned with grand strategy and the utilization of the national resources necessary to implement that strategy ... Its graduates will exercise a great influence on the formulation of national and foreign policy in both peace and war ...."

Its gross profits were great as well, as they surpassed that of all 13 American colonies combined, up until the 19th century, despite being thousands of times smaller.

Its extensive coastlines on the Persian Gulf and Red Sea provide great leverage on shipping ( especially crude oil ) through the Persian Gulf and Suez Canal.

Its English protagonist Edward Waverley, like Don Quixote, a great reader of romances, has been brought up by his Tory uncle, who is sympathetic to Jacobitism, although Edward's own father is a Whig.

Its structure was drawn with great care and architects from all over the world were called for this purpose.

Its refinement, cooking techniques and use of ingredients were of great influence to the cuisine of the Central Thai plains.

Its creation largely stemmed from the great public outcry over the Excise Act of 1754, which gave tax collectors unlimited powers to interrogate colonists concerning their use of goods subject to customs and permitted the use of a general warrant known as a writ of assistance, allowing them to search the homes of colonists and seize “ prohibited and uncustomed ” goods.

Its width varies from, due to the great number of islands.

" Its great architects ," the historian Clive Trebilcock writes, " Colonel T. E.

Its western anchor, Nanga Parbat, lies just south of the northernmost bend of Indus river, its eastern anchor, Namcha Barwa, just west of the great bend of the Tsangpo river.

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Its great advantage was that, unlike engraving which requires special skill in metalworking, etching is relatively easy to learn for an artist trained in drawing.

Its great advantage was that, unlike engraving which requires special skill in metalworking, etching is relatively easy to learn for an artist trained in drawing.

Its caudal fins had a similar shape to the great white sharks and the pelagic shortfin and longfin makos.

Its length was 110 m, and its breadth 55 m, so that it was actually longer than the great Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigentum, though not equal to it in breadth.

Its compact span for a given lifting area allows for great maneuverability and it is still used for aerobatics aircraft and crop dusting.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

Its claim to be " atheoretical " is held to be unconvincing because it makes sense if and only if all mental disorder is categorical by nature, which only a biological model of mental disorder can satisfy.

Its anion, α-ketoglutarate ( α-KG, also called oxo-glutarate ) is an important biological compound.

Its production also promotes and enhances biodiversity and biological cycles.

Its proliferation is viewed critically from a biological point of view, since it threatens to displace endangered local species, especially on the heaths.

Its mandate was to continue its previous mission of biomedical research and its role as the world ’ s leading research campus for biological agents requiring specialty containment.

Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity.

Its biological distinctiveness was recognised by UNESCO in 1990 when the Réserve de Biosphère du Mont Ventoux was created, protecting an area of 810 square kilometres ( 200, 150 acres ) on and around the mountain.

Its poor accuracy makes it ineffectual against hardened military targets so its speculated use would be to deliver a chemical, biological or nuclear warhead against large installations or cities.

Its mountains rise to a peak of about 8, 000 feet, and are home to one of the world ’ s largest remaining low-altitude rainforests, with numerous unknown endemic species of flora and fauna and exceptional biological diversity.

Its stated mission is to: promote an integrative biodiversity science, linking biological, ecological and social disciplines in an effort to produce socially relevant new knowledge ; and provide the scientific basis for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

Its biological function is to control buoyancy.

Its biological relationship had long been argued ; it is now classified into a monotypic subfamily Nymphicinae but had sometimes in the past been misclassified among the Platycercinae, the broad-tailed Parakeets.

Its taxonomy is greatly complicated by the " biological mix-up " it forms with the House Sparrow in the Mediterranean.

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Its stated purpose is to " disseminate factual reports and sound commentary on new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine the climatic and biological consequences of the ongoing rise in the air's CO < sub > 2 </ sub > content.

Its domesticated hybrid descendant, the Society Finch or Bengalese Finch, is found worldwide as a pet and a biological model organism.

Its base, the Martin-de-Viviès research station, first called Camp Heurtin, then La Roche Godon, and the only settlement on the island, is the capital of the territory and is home to about 30 ( non-permanent ) inhabitants involved in biological, meteorological and geomagnetic studies.

Its enclosure within walls has given rise to extended meanings, of a hermit's or monk's cell, and since the 17th century, of a biological cell in plants or animals.

Its special focus is on programs in biological technology.

Its exhibits reject universal common descent and biological evolution, and assert that the Earth and all of its life forms were created 6, 000 years ago over a six-day period.

Its faculty continued undergraduate and graduate teaching of medicine and the biological sciences as members of the faculty of the University of Illinois.

Its morphological closeness to the Kagu may be the result of convergent evolution, although New Zealand's proximity to New Caledonia and shared biological affinities ( the two islands are part of the same microcontinent ) has led some researchers to suggest they share a common ancestor from Gondwana.

Its rating system is based on the project's interpretations of biblical ideology, and downgrades content that runs contrary to it, such as homosexuality, paganism, atheism and biological evolution.