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 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.

Its light curve can be approximated by adding together a number of sine waves, with periods that range between 0. 8 and 1. 5 hours.

Its mass number was uncertain between 243 and 244 in the initial report, but was later established as 243.

Its high coordination number and softness ( tendency to form covalent bonds ) are the basis of the separation of Cs < sup >+</ sup > from other cations, as is practiced in the remediation of nuclear wastes, where < sup > 137 </ sup > Cs < sup >+</ sup > is separated from large amounts of nonradioactive K < sup >+</ sup >.

Its genesis is mostly in association croquet, but it differs in a number of important ways that reflect the home-grown traditions of American " backyard " croquet.

Its title track, though only reaching number 24 in the UK singles chart, gained lasting popularity, and within months had been released in both German and French.

Its three singles became top twenty hits in both countries, where its title track reached number one.

Its emphasis was on science — and conformably to the broad 18th-century understanding of the term ' science ', its content extends beyond what would be called science or technology today, and includes topics from the humanities and fine arts, e. g. a substantial number from law, commerce, music, and heraldry.

Its dream ballet sequence, lasting an unprecedented seventeen minutes, was the most expensive production number ever filmed up to that point.

Its antibacterial properties have also been demonstrated scientifically, although they are markedly weaker than those from a number of other plants studied.

Its four stable isotopes have 82 protons, a magic number in the nuclear shell model of atomic nuclei.

Its central station links Lübeck to a number of lines, notably the line to Hamburg.

Its worst case cost is proportional to the number of elements in the list ; and so is its expected cost, if all list elements are equally likely to be searched for.

Its common oxidation number is + 2.

Its genetic features, including many known and mapped phenotypic mutants and a large number of progeny per cross ( typically 100-200 ) facilitated the discovery of transposons (" jumping genes ").

Its resident population in 2012 was 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during Hajj period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah.

Its format is divided into a number of recurring segments such as TV and movie parodies, as well as freeform articles.

Its overall usefulness, however, has been limited by natural features, including a number of cataracts in the main Nile between Khartoum and the Egyptian border.

Its extreme rarity in the Earth's crust, comparable to that of platinum, is partly due to its high atomic number, but also due to its formation of a volatile hydride which caused the element to be lost to space as a gas during the hot nebular formation of the planet.

Its operations were overseen by the Twenty Committee under the chairmanship of John Cecil Masterman ; the name of the committee comes from the number 20 in Roman numerals: " XX ".

Its only mailing address was a post-office box, number 1663, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Its aim was to publish and publicize the work of what was, by then, a growing number of students and collaborators ( this is also the name used to refer to the group of students who developed his sociological program ).

Its initial political stance – in the June 1919 Manifesto – includes, however, many elements that would not be normally associated with fascism in the classic definition, including support for democracy ( indeed, the fascist manifesto actually called for greater democratic rights ) and a limited number of social ideas.

Its inclusion helped the song reach number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1992 ( it remained in the Hot 100 for over 40 weeks ), and won the band an MTV Award at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

Its fourteen minutes consisted of a number of scenes depicting Tate filming Eye of the Devil, dancing in nightclubs and sightseeing around London, and also contained a brief interview with her.