The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.

More generally, the statement must occur in the " course of justice ," but this definition leaves room open for interpretation.

High replies that, of course, Valhalla has food and drinks fit for kings and jarls, for the mead consumed in Valhalla is produced from the udders of the goat Heiðrún, who in turn feeds on the leaves of the " famous tree " Læraðr.

In due course, Spanish and other European sailors adopted the hobby of smoking rolls of leaves, as did the Conquistadors, and smoking primitive cigars spread to Spain and Portugal and eventually France, most probably through Jean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal, who gave his name to nicotine.

Individual runs down the course, or " heats ", begin from a standing start, with the crew pushing the sled for up to 50 meters before boarding ; though the pilot does not steer, grooves in the ice make steering unnecessary until the sled leaves the starting area.

After a course of 290 kilometers the Rhone leaves Switzerland.

Trees without this growth will, of course, die without their leaves and branches.

He then takes the food and water or wine, leaves presents, goes back up, feeds his horse or donkey, and continues on his course.

Shortly after it leaves its source, the Inn flows through the largest lakes on its course, Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana.

The distance at which the line first intersects and then leaves every settler's claim and improvement ; prairie ; river, creek, or other " bottom "; or swamp, marsh, grove, and wind fall, with the course of the same at both points of intersection ; also the distances at which you begin to ascend, arrive at the top, begin to descend, and reach the foot of all remarkable hills and ridges, with their courses, and estimated height, in feet, above the level land of the surrounding country, or above the bottom lands, ravines, or waters near which they are situated.

In this dogmatic statement, the phrase " having completed the course of her earthly life ," leaves open the question of whether the Virgin Mary died before her assumption or whether she was assumed before death ; both possibilities are allowed.

The dogmatic definition within the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus which, according to Roman Catholic dogma, infallibly proclaims the doctrine of the Assumption leaves open the question whether, in connection with her departure, Mary underwent bodily death ; that is, it does not dogmatically define the point one way or the other, as shown by the words " having completed the course of her earthly life ".

It looks ancient and infirm, but in 1900 was sending forth a few leaves on its two or three remaining branches and was, of course, cared for tenderly.

In some systems this intensity modulation is achieved by moving the leaves in the MLC during the course of treatment, thereby delivering a radiation field with a non-uniform ( i. e. modulated ) intensity.

The leaves and buds of young sunflowers exhibit heliotropism ( sun turning ) as their orientation changes from east to west during the course of a day .< ref >

The Chief gives Gadget a self-destructing note containing his mission ( and of course, Gadget leaves it to blow up in the Chief's face ).

Roth eventually leaves Iraq too, to be replaced by Holliman, but stays on the course as he is seen reporting with a gas mask from Tel Aviv shortly after the Gulf War begins.

Deep keratitis involves deeper layers of the cornea, and the natural course leaves a scar upon healing that impairs vision if on or near the visual axis.

More water is diverted from La Grange Diversion Dam to irrigate farmland in the Central Valley, which leaves the lower course of the river with less than 60 % of its historic flow.

In the course of the cycle the poet, whose beloved now fancies someone else, leaves his beloved's house secretly at night, quits the town and follows the river and the steep ways to a village.

Over the course of the series, George becomes a sportscaster, Marsha graduates from law school and starts a career as a lawyer, Kevin leaves for college and gets his own apartment, and Heather moves up in high school.

In any case, such a course leaves the investor more after-tax assets to donate if so inclined.

" An attack on Iraq would certainly shatter Bush ’ s alliance, they assert, predicting calls from Security Council members saying that diplomacy should have been given more time, and that they will not wish to allow a course of action " that leaves America sitting too prettily as sole remaining superpower.

: This of course leaves the simple negligence standard as an option with the jury free to impose damages upon a finding that the publisher failed to act as " a reasonable man.

In the course of these travels he made a point of complying with all local enactments, even where such compliance laid him open to the charge of inconsistency ( Yer.

The first new brewery was opened in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, and was the first of nine to open over the course of the next 25 years.

In the course of the proof, he made use of a lemma that from any countable cover of the interval by smaller open intervals, it was possible to select a finite number of these that also covered it.

If the content or presentation of a course is inconsistent with preconceived information, the student will learn if he or she is open to varying concepts.

* The Evergreen State College-A state sponsored college in Olympia, Washington that emphasizes book seminars, an open interdisciplinary curricula with students taking a single course at a time that may last several quarters and written evaluations rather than numerical grades.

' Let us obey the Biblical injunction: you of course, have the choice of natural means ; but as for me, I am afraid that there is no course open to me but the scientific way.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

The courseware platform is open source, and other universities will be encouraged to add their own course content.

In addition, Jews from as far as France, Austria and Germany were brought to Kaunas during the course of Nazi occupation and executed in the Ninth Fort. On 1943 the Germans operated special Jewish squads to open the massgraves and burn the remaining corpses.

First, the parallax ( the small change in apparent position over the course of a year caused by the Earth moving from one side of its orbit around the Sun to the other ) of stars in close open clusters can be measured, like other individual stars.

Of course, if no other player chooses to open, the betting will be checked around and the play will fail.

The Semester Abroad Scheme is a highly competitive programme open to academically outstanding juniors who wish to follow a regular Cambridge degree course as fully matriculated members of the University.

3 ) restricts the practice of psychotherapy to graduates in psychology or medicine who have completed a four-year postgraduate course in psychotherapy at a training school recognised by the state ; French legislation restricts use of the title " psychotherapist " to professionals on the National Register of Psychotherapists ; the inscription on this register requires a training in clinical psychopathology and a period of internship which is only open to physicians or titulars of a master's degree in psychology or psychoanalysis.

The golf course is only open to faculty, staff, and alumni.

For example, South Asian art music ( Hindustani and Carnatic music ) is frequently cited as placing little emphasis on what is perceived in western practice as conventional ' harmony '; the underlying ' harmonic ' foundation for most South Asian music is the drone, a held open fifth ( or fourth ) that does not alter in pitch throughout the course of a composition.

After reaching the coast of present day Sierra Leone, da Gama took a course south into the open ocean, crossing the Equator and seeking the South Atlantic westerlies that Bartolomeu Dias had discovered in 1487.

The final route ( in heavy rain ) took the following course: Hammersmith, Kensington ( blocked ), Kensington Gore ( blocked ), Hyde Park, Park Lane ( blocked ), return to Hyde Park where soldiers forced the gates open, Cumberland Gate ( blocked ), Edgware Road, Tottenham Court Road, Drury Lane, the Strand, and from there was forced into the city centre.

The surface forces, moreover, are so weak and so few in numbers vis-à-vis the British fleet that the only course open to them-presupposing their active employment-is to show that they know how to die gallantly and thereby to create the basis for an eventual rebirth in the future ".

Started in 1982, the Universities Summer School is an intensive residential course open to boys and girls throughout the UK who attend maintained schools, are at the end of their first year in the Sixth Form, and are about to begin their final year of schooling.

The North SeaTac Park has the SeaTac Community Center, baseball, soccer ( football ), and softball fields, a disk golf course, an outdoor basketball court, an open area, playground equipment, a picnic shelter, toilet facilities, and paved walking trails.

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The runners started at a lane on the edge of the racecourse and raced away from the course out over open countryside towards the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

When a legitimate argument is raised against his course of action by Tiresias, he is in fact completely open to changing course, even before he learns of the deaths of his family members.