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Its massive contours are rooted in the simple need of man, since he is always incomplete, to complete himself.
Its population of about 26 million people provided a massive pool of manpower, but 3 / 4 of the population and nearly all of the Muslim component lived in the Asian part of the Empire.
Its storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts, and documentary, behind-the-rings looks at the massive logistics effort which made big top circuses possible.
Its massive capstone is supported by standing stones to either side, with another ( triangular ) supporting stone at the rear – like a doorless closet.
Its massive crossing tower was rated " probably the largest and finest Romanesque tower in England " by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.
Its officers were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and to avoid detection.
Its granite west doorway with an architrave, has inclined jambs and a massive lintel.
Its arrival in virgin wilderness sparked a massive logging industry almost overnight, spawning immigration from the United States to the Choctaw Nation -- and communities along its length.
Its most striking feature is the massive, square-planned bell tower with double orders of mullioned windows.
Its massive Roman walls still survive, and excavations have revealed a forum, a temple, baths, amphitheatre, shops, and many comfortable houses with mosaic floors, etc.
Its stout body had long thighs, massive shins and in-turning feet, making it similar in skeletal structure to the brown bear.
Its core is impermeable clay-like gravel, supported by two massive shoulders of river gravel.
Its shows achieved massive audiences and are still remembered many years later.
Its main spaceport, Port Brasta, has a massive duty-free shopping mall, the motto of which is, " be like the twenty-second elephant with heated value in space -- bark!
Its appearance at the Calverton Executive Airpark on Long Island has prompted the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to take the lead on ruling whether a massive redevelopment of the airport will receive the necessary environmental permits.
Its head is orange-brown with a black eyestripe and bib, and a massive bill, which is black in summer but paler in winter.
Its particularly massive appearance is due to the absence of external decorations, as carving had just begun when the works stopped, besides an elaborate use of perspective effects.
Its standing threatened by the New Look, the Army questioned the wisdom of reliance on " massive retaliation " and strategic air power to the neglect of other force elements.
Its four arched ribs are supported on massive masonry abutments.
Its southern hemisphere is interspersed with massive geysers of ice and water vapor that shoot hundreds of miles from the surface of the world.
Its main city is renamed " Ysai " and is oppressed by a massive building complex referred to as either " The Keep " or " Barony " ( formerly " Harkonnen Keep "), one of the few remaining buildings from the Harkonnens ( apart from a secret no-chamber ).
Wainwright noted that " Its lines are smooth, its curves graceful ; but because the slopes are steep everywhere, the quick build-up of the massif from valley levels to central summit is appreciated at a glance-and it should be an appreciative glance, for such massive strength and such beauty of outline rarely go together.
Its relatively low elevation disguises a massive peak that rises sharply from nearby sea levels.
Its focus is on human information discourse ( interaction ) within massive, dynamically changing information spaces.

Its and fortifications
Its fortifications have been replaced by boulevards beyond which extend numerous suburbs, while on the left bank of the Tarn is the suburb of Villebourbon, which is connected to the town by a remarkable bridge of the early 14th century.
Its extent varied in places as a result of subsequent improvements to the fortifications and is depicted differently on the various maps.
Its fortifications were dismantled in 1874.
Its obsolete and ruined fortifications were destroyed upon order of Mayor Józef Królikowski.
Its military harbour was fortified by Louis XIV's commissary of fortifications Vauban.
Its fortifications were increased in response to the border warfare which raged between England and Scotland in the period from about 1300 to 1600.
Its fortifications are now well restored.
Its solid fortifications are a testament to the innumerable attacks by Spanish, French and English pirates and privateers ; the many forts that dot the barrier between land and sea are symbols of the resistance and battles that secured Portuguese independence and national interests.
Its fortifications had been laid out by Major Joseph Gilbert Totten, Izard's senior Engineer officer, and consisted of three redoubts and two blockhouses, linked by other fieldworks.
Its fortifications were destroyed by the French in 1807.
Its wealth attracted the raids of pirates, against which fortifications such as Fort San Juan de Ulúa were built.
Its integrity had been fatally compromised in May 1989 when a reformist Communist government in Hungary, supported by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, began to dismantle its border fortifications.
Its oldest origins are indeterminate and the oldest fortifications on this site may date back to the Iron Age, later being used as a Norman Motte-and-bailey castle which was reportedly destroyed and replaced in a short period during the 13th century.
Its roles include mobility assurance, road breaching, defense and fortifications, counter-mobility of enemy forces, construction and destruction under fire, sabotage, explosives, bomb disposal, counter-NBC and special engineering missions.
Its brief was to enquire into the state and sufficiency of fortifications existing and planned for defending the UK, with a specific focus on naval dockyards.
Its builders intended that Murney ( then Murray ) Tower complement the fortifications of Fort Henry, Ontario.
Its main fortifications were pointed seaward, while the land defences encircled the city at a distance of 15 – 20 km and the inner belt at a range of 5 km.
The Defenses of Washington D. C. was a short lived command, from September 2, 1862 through February 2, 1863. used for the consolidation of all the defenses of the area including and surrounding Washington, D. C. Its main focus was on the maintaining of the fortifications in extending in a ring around Washington, D. C.
Its ancient fortifications have disappeared but its central area is characterized by a wide streets radiating from the principal thoroughfare of Main Street.
Its fortifications were demolished in 1807.
Its construction was started in 1872 by the British, as part of a program of improvements to Malta's fortifications recommended in Colonel Jervois's Report of 1866 titled " Memorandum with reference to the improvements to the defences of Malta and Gibraltar, rendered necessary by the introduction of Iron Plated Ships and powerful rifled guns ".
Its fortifications included a moat three metres deep, drawbridges, bastions, buttresses, ramparts, battlements, loopholes, and a catapult.

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