Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

Originally combined with the Book of Nehemiah in a single book of Ezra-Nehemiah, the two became separated in the early centuries of the Christian era.

Originally given to the single best pitcher in the major leagues, the award changed its format over time.

Originally, it was a single award covering the whole of baseball.

Originally displacing 4. 5 L and featuring a single overhead camshaft design, it produced 219 hp ( 163 kW / 222 PS ) for the North American market and 237 hp ( 176 kW / 240 PS ) in other markets.

Originally, the deck had to be composed by combining two poker, piquet or euchre decks and removing unneeded cards ( a piquet deck does not have the 2-6, making it easier to modify, and a euchre deck is exactly half a pinochle deck ), but with the game's popularity in the United States in the early 1900s, a single boxed deck with the necessary cards was marketed, and these specialized pinochle decks are now widely available in similar styles to common 52-card counterparts.

Originally the characins were all grouped within a single family, the Characidae.

Originally, EEPROMs were limited to single byte operations which made them slower, but modern EEPROMs allow multi-byte page operations.

Originally released in 1978, the single was re-released in 1979, and it was then that the Police gained widespread recognition in the United Kingdom, as well as scoring a minor hit with the song in several other countries.

Originally coined by the Dopyera brothers when they formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company, in time it came, in common language, to mean any resonator guitar, or specifically one with a single inverted resonator.

Originally released as a single DVD on August 29, 2000, it was re-released twice as part of two different Abbott and Costello collections, The Best of Abbott and Costello Volume Three, on August 3, 2004, and again on October 28, 2008 as part of Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection.

Originally the volutes lay in a single plane ( illustration at right ); then it was seen that they could be angled out on the corners.

Originally two separate metropolitan boroughs with their own town halls and administrations, it has today a single united local government authority, the Kensington & Chelsea London Borough Council, based in Kensington.

Originally encompassing Morris County and parts of both Sussex and Warren County, Hanover Township became too unwieldy for a single local government as time passed.

Originally encompassing all of Morris County and parts of Sussex and Warren County, Hanover Township became too unwieldy for a single local government to maintain.

Originally established in the early 19th century as an outpost and stop on the stage line that ran between Salisbury, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia, called Wrights Crossroads, the Reidsville community grew from a single home and inn owned by the family of Reuben Reid ( a local farmer, businessman, and justice of the peace who was the father of David S. Reid ) into a thriving farming community primarily supporting tobacco production and cigarette manufacturing.

Originally it was intended that only one pier ( the East Pier ) would be built ( 3, 500 feet long ), and when John Rennie was appointed Directing Engineer for the work, he insisted that a single pier would result in sand drifting behind the pier and that a second West Pier ( 4, 950 feet long.

Originally just wanting a single female singer to replace the high backing vocals originally provided by Martyn Ware, he says that he thought having two female vocalists / dancers would also add potential glamour to the band.

Originally formed as a gospel quartet, following the death of brother Vernon, the remaining trio launched a career into doo-wop scoring with their first million-selling hit single, " Shout ", in 1959.

Originally, Floyd IIs were single locking, locking only at the nut.

Originally, there was a single type of graphician creating typical 2D graphics ( referred to as pixeled graphics because they were typically created pixel by pixel ).

Originally female flight attendants were required to be single upon hiring, and were fired if they got married, exceeded weight regulations, or reached age 32 or 35 depending on the airline.

By 1976 John “ Jay ” David ( ex Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show ) had replaced Franz on drums, and they issued a single “ Bar in my Car ”, on Buffalo Records, but the record company “ tanked as soon as the record came out .” Originally titled " I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of My Car ( And Drive Myself to Drink )", the song appears on numerous internet lists of " worst country song titles " as being from their album Fear of Frying, but this is incorrect.

Originally, the most basic polymer OLEDs consisted of a single organic layer.

Originally this involved special facilities and army level teams.

Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth ′ s equator to the North Pole ( at sea level ), its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology.

Originally, these recordings documented speedruns — attempts to complete a level as quickly as possible — and multiplayer matches.

Originally, these playoffs were introduced in 1974 and were part of the Second Division, to determine which team was promoted to the highest level together with the division champions.

Originally designated in 1891 as the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School, UNCG was established as a school to train women educators, based on the assumption that if women received training they would, in turn, educate their children and ultimately improve the level of education and literacy in the state.

Originally a tree of tropical rainforest, it needs a hot humid climate, but can withstand a dry season on sites with a high ground water level.

Originally, the golf course was watered from another deep well within the Park boundary at the southeast corner, but that water had such a high level of hardness that it was abandoned in 1985 and the drinking water is now also used on the golf course.

Originally opened as a supermax prison, it has recently been downgraded to a " high level " security facility.

The Taipaleenjoki started draining Suvanto and decreased its level by 7 m. Originally waters of Lake Suvanto flowed into the Vuoksi River through a waterway at Kiviniemi ( now Losevo ), but as a result of the change, the waterway dried out.

Originally the lake was susceptible to variations in level and flooding along its shoreline.

Originally, this was just a Voodoo3 modified to support newer technologies and higher clock speeds, with performance estimated to be around the level of the RIVA TNT2.

Originally plain in style, a minaret's origin in time can be determined by its level of ostentation.

Originally, the HVAC system didn't work above row 25 of the upper level, exposing fans in the higher rows to the full force of the often-oppressive heat typical of Arizona summers.

Originally choice-based conjoint analysis was unable to provide individual level utilities as it aggregated choices across a market.

Originally the convertible was only in the SE trim level until the 1999 model year where it became only available in the GT trim.

Originally a county-level city, Zhongshan was elevated to prefecture level in January 1988.

Originally many of the new houses had 15 '- 0 " high granite shop fronts at street level which were divided into three bays, a narrow bay at each side, incorporating a door, and a wide bay at the middle of the facade for the display of goods.

Originally, 108 small towers were arrayed around the temple at ground level and on various of its tiers ; most of them have collapsed.

Originally, all data structures in Pick were hash-files ( at the lowest level ) meaning records are stored as associated couplets of a primary key to a set of values.

Originally, there were no official political parties in Manitoba, although many leading politicians were affiliated with parties that existed at the national level.

Originally, the mall consisted of 1. 2 million square feet ( 110, 000 m² ) on one level, three department stores ( Hecht's, Lansburgh's, and Woodward & Lothrop ), and 100 specialty stores, including Jelleff's.

Originally the station building was at grade level.

Taipaleenjoki started draining Suvanto and decreased its level by 7 m. Originally waters of Lake Suvanto flowed into Vuoksi River through a waterway at Kiviniemi ( now Losevo ), but as a result of the change, the waterway dried out.

Originally, it was one of two engines used to pump water back up to the summit level of the BCN Old Main Line ( Birmingham Canal ) canal at Smethwick, not far from the Soho Foundry where it was made.

Originally the zero level of NAP was the average summer flood water level in the IJ just north of the centre of Amsterdam ( which was at the time, in 1684, the main shipping area, then still connected with the open sea ).