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One noteworthy point in his railway practice was his advocacy, in opposition to Robert Stephenson, of steeper gradients than had previously been thought desirable or possible, and so far back as 1838 he expressed decided disapproval of the maintenance of the broad gauge on the Great Western, because of the troubles he foresaw it would lead to in connection with future railway extension, and because he objected in general to breaks of gauge in the lines of a country.
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One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
One noteworthy exception is provided by the caeside anion ().
One or two of its decrees are noteworthy as showing that Eugene had at heart the advancement of learning.
One of the most noteworthy allegations of vaccine-induced injury is the MMR vaccine controversy.
One of Britten's most noteworthy works from the 1930s was Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op.
One of the most noteworthy homes is St Basil's, a riverfront mansion built by socialite Physician Dr. John Scratchley in the 1850s.
One of the most famous is César Franck but Henri Vieuxtemps, Eugène Ysaÿe, Guillaume Lekeu and Wim Mertens are also noteworthy.
One noteworthy figure was Tom Moulton who invented the dance remix as we now know it.
One noteworthy flaw in Star Raiders is that it is possible for the player to avoid incoming objects, while stationary, simply by rotating the ship.
One of the most noteworthy of the " mediating " theologians, he has been ranked with Friedrich Schleiermacher, August Neander, Karl Nitzsch, Julius Müller and Richard Rothe.
One of the most noteworthy is in the west of Hartshill Hayes Country Park from where looking north Atherstone can be seen and looking northeast Leicester can be seen, depending on favourable visibility.
" One noteworthy aspect of the work is his anticipation of microbiology and epidemiology.
One noteworthy example is the now-classic " I'll Be Around ", the first of the Spinners ' Thom Bell-produced hits for Atlantic Records in the mid 1970s.
One of the most noteworthy features of Olmsted and Vaux's creations is the Prospect Park watercourse.
One of the most noteworthy points of interest on the island is the island's own underground railway, which is still used to transport goods from the harbour up to the castle.
One of his most noteworthy accomplishments during his tenure as Secretary General was his valuable assistance in facilitating the negotiations between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Kruschev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, thereby narrowly averting the possibility of a major global catastrophe.
One noteworthy member of III Gallica was centurion Lucius Artorius Castus.
One noteworthy portion of Fyshwick, located between the railway line and Canberra Avenue, was built as an internment camp during early 1918.
" One or more of these factors make noteworthy opinion leaders:
One noteworthy advance was Buick's Max Trac, a traction control system that prevented wheelspin during acceleration on slippery surfaces.
One of the few noteworthy films to successfully balance sexuality and suspense is the Al Pacino thriller Sea of Love ( 1989 ).
One of the regiment's most noteworthy battles in Italy was the Melfa River Crossing.
One of the most noteworthy is the book " Mobility First: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive Twenty-First Century " by Reason Foundation's Director of Urban Growth and Land Use Policy, Sam Staley.
One noteworthy feature of the work is the way in which an extended cadenza for the soloist takes on the role of the development section in the sonata form first movement.
One noteworthy but legally meaningless court case questions the legality of the foreclosure practice is sometimes cited as proof of various claims regarding lending.
One and point
One of the early humorists already mentioned, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, can be used to illustrate another point where Faulkner touches authentic Southern materials and also earlier literary treatment of those materials.
One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.
One might digress at this point and speculate that if it is `` wise '' to create special sections for special status, then why not a special section for women pregnant before marriage, and one for 44-year-old men with teenage children, and so on.
One young man, exhilarated to the point of insanity by liquor and the excitement of the moment, performed a perfect swan dive out of the stands at the Yale Bowl during the Yale-Army football game, landed squarely on his head on the concrete ramp below, and died at once.
One of the Dead Sea Scrolls ( 4Q535, Manuscript B ) is written from Amram's point of view, and hence has been dubbed the Testament of Amram.
The principle it works on, the constant of simultaneity, is analogous in some ways to gravity ... One point has to be fixed, on a planet of certain mass, but the other end is portable.
* One central point of divergence is Steiner's views on reincarnation and karma.
One of the first reactions was to simply increase the guard, creating what at times might seem a small army trailing every leader ; another was to begin clearing large areas whenever a leader was present, to the point where entire sections of a city might be shut down.
Finally the structure portrays the trial faced by the Anointed One as the focal point of the book ( D ).
One important turning point came in the Seven Years ' War, when the British conquered the port of Havana and introduced thousands of slaves in a ten month period.
One large text which has survived, The Book of Two Principles ( Liber de duobus principiis ), elaborates the principles of dualistic theology from the point of view of some of the Albanenses Cathars.
One can use the same principle to specify the position of any point in three-dimensional space by three Cartesian coordinates, its signed distances to three mutually perpendicular planes ( or, equivalently, by its perpendicular projection onto three mutually perpendicular lines ).
In Part Two, the author acknowledges the criticism of his digressions in Part One and promises to concentrate the narrative on the central characters ( although at one point he laments that his narrative muse has been constrained in this manner ).
One featured in the album The Artist in the Ambulance called " The melting point of wax.
One of these is centered on the northwest point of the atoll, another is found near the Point Marianne Cemetery on the southeast end of the airfield.
One aspect that gradually became disturbing from a civil rights point of view, was that relatives would use deception, or legal dealings or even kidnapping to get the recruit into deprogrammers ' hands, without allowing the person any recourse to a lawyer or psychiatrist of their own choosing.
One reason that the ancients treated the parallel postulate as less certain than the others is that verifying it physically would require us to inspect two lines to check that they never intersected, even at some very distant point, and this inspection could potentially take an infinite amount of time.
One is translation, which means a shifting of the plane so that every point is shifted in the same direction and by the same distance.
One point that Bagley noted was that students in the U. S. were not getting an education on the same levels as students in Europe who were the same age.
One of the topics he dealt with was the freedom of the will, a crucial point.
One point agreed on is that fractal patterns are characterized by fractal dimensions, but whereas these numbers quantify complexity ( i. e., changing detail with changing scale ), they neither uniquely describe nor specify details of how to construct particular fractal patterns.
One purpose of point positioning is the provision of known points for mapping measurements, also known as ( horizontal and vertical ) control.
One often cited example, though perhaps not Luther's chief concern, is a condemnation of the selling of indulgences ; another prominent point within the 95 Theses is Luther's disagreement both with the way in which the higher clergy, especially the pope, used and abused power, and with the very idea of the pope.
One group of opponents of this point of view, including many European nations, maintain that all civilized nations have certain norms of conduct expected of them, including the prohibition of genocide, slavery and the slave trade, wars of aggression, torture, and piracy, and that violation of these universal norms represents a crime, not only against the individual victims, but against humanity as a whole.
* All at One Point — The fact that all matter and creation used to exist in a single point.
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