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On the other hand, it is no interference with sovereignty to point out defects where they exist, such as that a plan calls for factories without power to run them, or for institutions without trained personnel to staff them.
On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.
On C, from the point P at Af to the point Q at Af, we construct the chord, and upon the chord as a side erect a square in such a way that as S approaches zero the square is inside C.
On C there is a Af correspondence in which the Af points cut from C by a general line, l, of the pencil correspond to the point of intersection of the image of L and the plane of the pencil.
On the plane the most common alternative is polar coordinates, where every point is represented by its radius r from the origin and its angle θ.
On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.
On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.
On the other hand, Babylon is never mentioned in Lamentations, though this could simply be to make the point that the judgment comes from God, and is a consequence of Judah disobeying Him.
On the left side, is a function mapping any point in space to a complex number ; on the right side, is a ket.
On this point, their publishing organisation, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, prefers the translation: " should be born from above ".
On the one hand, Bernard Bolzano ( 1817 ) had been aware that any bounded sequence of points ( in the line or plane, for instance ) has a subsequence that must eventually get arbitrarily close to some other point, called a limit point.
The dealer flips a button to the " On " side and moves it to the point number signifying the second phase of the round.
A player wishing to play craps without being the shooter should approach the craps table and first check to see if the dealer's " On " button is on any of the point numbers.
On July 4, 2008, Colorado defeated the Florida Marlins, 18 – 17, after at one point being down, 13 – 4.
On the other hand, prominent distributists such as Dorothy Day and those involved in the Catholic Worker movement were / are strict pacifists even to the point of condemning involvement in the Second World War at much personal cost.
On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.
On the seabed off the west coast of the island rests a block of rock 22 km long and 11 km wide, which appears to have slid off the island largely intact at some point in prehistory, similar to the predicted future collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a geological fault on the neighboring island, La Palma.
On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (° F ) and the boiling point 212 ° F ( at standard atmospheric pressure ).
On top of the political aspect of graffiti as a movement, political groups and individuals may also use graffiti as a tool to spread their point of view.
Copernicus's book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres ), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution.
According to Ducellier the Petrelë Castle | castle of Petrela was the access point to the region known with this name On the location of Arbanon see also
On the issue of violence opinions have gone from a violentist point of view mainly exemplified by illegalism and insurrectionary anarchism to one that can be called anarcho-pacifist.

On and sail
On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.
On his own initiative, Foley decided to exploit this tactical error and changed his angle of approach to sail through the gap.
On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.
On 17 April he set sail with Diogo Pereira, leaving Goa on board the Santa Cruz for China.
On the morning of Sunday 17 December 1967, Holt, friends Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards drove down from Melbourne to see the British lone yachtsman Alec Rose sail through Port Phillip Heads in his boat Lively Lady to complete a leg of his solo circumnavigation of the globe, which started and ended in England.
Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley | Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound ( Shelley ) | Prometheus Unbound ( 1845 ) On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats.
On February 19, 1932, boats were able to sail on Lake Champlain.
Most of the ancients, including the first two just mentioned, refer to his work by his name: " Pytheas says ..." Two late writers give titles: the astronomical author Geminus of Rhodes mentions ( ta peri tou Okeanou ), literally " things about the Ocean ", sometimes translated as " Description of the Ocean ", " On the Ocean " or " Ocean ;" Marcianus, the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, mentions a ( periodos gēs ), a " trip around the earth " or ( periplous ), " sail around.
On 30 March 1191 the French set sail for the Holy Land and Philip arrived on 20 May.
On other points of sail, it is easy to stop or slow the boat by heading into the wind ; there may be no such easy way out when running, especially in close quarters or when a spinnaker, whisker pole or preventer are set.
On April 24, 1616 they tried to moor at the " Island of Good Hope " ( Niuafo ' ou ), but a less welcoming reception there made them decide to sail on.
On 4 August they prepared to sail up the Gulf.
On September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison.
* July 21 – On her 200th birthday, the fully restored USS Constitution ( aka " Old Ironsides ") sets sail for the first time in 116 years.
On a square-rigged ship, a bowline ( sometimes spelled as two words, bow line ) is a rope that holds the edge of a square sail towards the bow of the ship and into the wind, preventing it from being taken aback.
On October 31 the output from one solar panel ( with solar sail attached ) deteriorated abruptly.
On 15 August, Cornwallis decided to detach 20 ships of the line from the fleet guarding the Channel and to have them sail southward to engage the enemy forces in Spain.
On 5 May 1803, Somers was ordered to Baltimore, Maryland, to man, fit out, and command, and when that schooner was ready for sea, to sail her to the Mediterranean.
On 27 September the Norman fleet finally set sail for England, arriving, it is believed, the following day at Pevensey on the coast of East Sussex.
On 14 May 1741, Byron's ship, HMS Wager, was shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and the survivors decided to split in two teams, one to make its way by boat to Rio de Janeiro, the other, John Byron's, to sail North and meet Spaniards.
On the way they visited France and Italy, and set sail for India from the Port of Naples on 30 December 1896.
On 22 September, Isabella, Mortimer and their modest force set sail for England.
On the other hand, a sheet, used to control the orientation of a triangular sail, must be very flexible and smooth, and need only be strong enough to support the tension caused by the wind.
On a modern fore-and-aft rigged boat the largest sail set on the main-mast is known as the mainsail, rather than main course.
On large ships baggywrinkle protects the sail from chafing against the rigging.

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