While Keirsey's main strength may be his accuracy regarding differences in overt behavior, perhaps his most important contribution is his synthesis of Myers ' model of " sixteen types " with Ernst Kretschmer's model of four " temperament types ," which Keirsey traces back to Greek mythology.

Kretschmer's first command was the, a Type VIIA U-Boat, in 1937.

Siegfried von Forstner was another of Kretschmer's student officers aboard U-99 who later received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for sinking 15 ships as commanding officer of.

Kretschmer was the first to describe the persistent vegetative state which has also been called Kretschmer's syndrome.

Kretschmer's usual standards of conduct were evident during the sinking of his boat ; he signaled Walker asking for rescue for his men, taking care to ensure as many left the submarine as possible, and assisted some of his crew towards the rescue nets hung from the British destroyer.

The discoveries of the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Crete, around 1900 tended to confirm Kretschmer's views.

Kretschmer's tactics were widely copied throughout the U-Boat force, although they achieved mixed results.

* Keirsey Temperament Sorter developed by David Keirsey is influenced by Isabel Myers sixteen types and Ernst Kretschmer's four types.

He had strength in his six-foot frame, but it was like the tensile steel in a rapier.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

He was a loud-voiced man, once vigorous but for many years now declining in strength and ability.

It was recognized that skywave signals, because of their reflected nature, are of great variability and subject to wide fluctuations in strength.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

These dosages could have been increased by increasing the source strength which was small in this case.

Paper electrophoresis was carried out on the concentrated samples in a Spinco model R cell using barbital buffer, pH 8.6, ionic strength 0.075, at room temperature on Whatman 3MM filter paper.

Since the strength of the Mexicans had been underrated, too small a posse had been collected, and since the deputy had not been provided with search warrants, MacPherson and his men decided it was much wiser to withdraw.

Captain Chandler saw that it was building up strength.

Taking precedence over all other legislation on Capitol Hill last week was the military strength of the nation.

Each subject center library was chosen because of its demonstrated strength in a particular area, which headquarters could then build upon.

My message, today, is the same as it was 15 years ago: that there is goodness in people, and strength and love in God.

One item in this unhappy scheme was to have Germany policed exclusively by its continental neighbors, among whom only the Soviet Union possessed real military strength.

Maggie couldn't seem to get her strength back or catch up with herself with all she had to do: there was the big basket of clothes to be coaxed through the rackety old washer and lugged out and lugged back ; ;

He mumbled at her but let himself be led off inside the house, shuffling mightily to make it clear how weak and aged he was and how he was buffeted about by those who still had their wicked strength.

The day's sun was gathering its strength in gold, and she wished she had brought her parasol, if only to shade Doaty's flowers.

Or, what was worse, she prayed for him out loud at bedtime: `` Please, Lord Gord, please give my brother the strength to go swimming like he promised ''.

It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.

" Splendid it is ," was the travelers reply, " but methinks not it confers much strength.

More than six feet tall ( about 1. 9 m ), he was also noted for his immense physical strength.

The father of Abu Bakr asked him to for why doesn't he liberate strong and young slaves who could be a source of strength for him, Abu Bakr replied that he was freeing the slaves for the sake of God, and not for his own sake.

In Sparta, Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical strength and military intelligence was unrivaled.

But evidently the effects of the volume's strength were greater than those of its weakness, for the book was referred to several times in later issues.

By this time Tate had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and her health and strength were failing ; her meeting with Bush marked her final public appearance.

The phrase and concept is quite old, Roman Emperor Hadrian ( 76-138 AD ) said that he sought " peace through strength, or failing that peace through threat.

He was authoritarian and, while he inspired respect, he was not loved ; historian L. G. Thomas credits him with holding the Liberal Party together through his strength, but blames him for failing to heal its underlying divisions.

James Bernard Cullen says: " Richard Copley was in poor health on his arrival in America and went to the West Indies to improve his failing strength.

By 1966, though his itinerary remained unreduced, Vanier's strength was failing.

He supported his failing strength by means of opium, on the use of which he communicated a paper to the Proceedings of the Göttingen Royal Society in 1776 ; the excessive use of the drug is believed, however, to have hastened his death.

Jones and others felt it was important that Texas gain recognition from European states and begin to set up trade relations with them, to make annexation of Texas more attractive to the United States or, failing that, to give Texas the strength to remain independent.

Henri Grégoire had brought to the attention of the National Convention France's failing maritime power and the naval mastery of England, proposing that improvements in navigation would lay the foundations for a renaissance in naval strength.

Although defeating strong top ranked teams in international friendlies throughout the years, the team's strength has diminished slowly, failing to qualify for any major tournament since 2004.

Flight Sergeant Aaron summoned his failing strength to successfully direct the bomb-aimer in belly-landing the damaged aircraft in the darkness.

In pain and failing strength, Raistlin overcomes the deeply wounded dark elf, and kills Liam with his own blade.

Krohcol was under its designated strength and delayed due to a second battalion the 5 / 14th Punjab Regiment and a light artillery battery failing to arrive on time.

Residual strength is the load or force ( usually mechanical ) that a damaged object or material can still carry without failing.

However, the negotiators at Vienna took no account of Prussia's growing strength within and among the German states, failing to foresee that Prussia would challenge Austria for leadership within the German states.

Despite obviously failing health and political strength, Koirala could still draw a great popular support.

While in the church he felt compelled to pray to Guérin, asking for strength to undergo a medical operation for his failing eyesight, as his eyes had deteriorated to legally blind status: 20-800 in one eye and 20-1000 in the other.

Now forced to depend on each other more than ever, as well as collect the more powerful Kanohi Nuva, the Toa Nuva tried to match the Bohrok-Kal's strength with their own, failing miserably every time.

Although he fell ill shortly after arriving, his superior naval strength delayed British supremacy over the island for a year, the British failing in their attempts in the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ).

As Ella Sheppard, one of the original Jubilee Singers recalled, " our strength was failing under the ill treatment at hotels, on railroads, poorly attended concerts, and ridicule.

Due to his failing strength, he was unable to wander into the forests.