After the Georgian remodelling of the castle, it was decided it would be more convenient to perform executions nearer the castle.

The landscaped grounds, nearer the castle, are also open and the Root Houses, built by the fifth Duke's wife, can also be seen.

Already many an American knows his count, and rejoices or worries depending on whether it is nearer 180 ( safe ) or 250 ( dangerous ).

The astronomical date for this midpoint is nearer to 5 May or 7 May, but this can vary from year to year.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

Serbia is refusing to return the islands ( and disregards the committee decision ) with the explanation that they are nearer to the Serbian side of the river so they are Serbian.

The edition of 1849 may be regarded as historically the most important, from the mass of new critical material it used ; that of 1859 is distinguished from Tischendorf's other editions by coming nearer to the received text ; in the eighth edition, the testimony of the Sinaitic manuscript received great ( probably too great ) weight.

The execution judges are positioned two on each side of the pool, and they score the diver which is nearer to them.

This Chinese phoneme is nearer to the pronunciation of English voiced unaspirated in Dow than the voiceless aspirated in Taos, but it is neither.

In addition, Malta was considered an island of North Africa for centuries, while Iceland, though nearer to Greenland ( North America ), is also generally included in Europe.

The goal of Orthodox Christians from baptism is to continually draw themselves nearer to God throughout their lives.

This targets the 3 ' ( sib ) end of the mRNA for RNAaseIII degradation, which results in a lower effective concentration of int mRNA than xis mRNA ( as the int cistron is nearer to the sib sequence than the xis cistron is to the sib sequence ), so a higher concentrations of xis than int is observed.

The curve of the chains of a suspension bridge is always an intermediate curve between a parabola and a catenary, but in practice the curve is generally nearer to a parabola, and in calculations the second degree parabola is used.

At the start of the game the football is placed on the central point, unless one player gives the other a handicap, in which case the ball starts nearer one player's goal.

The region of the north, in proportion as it is removed from the heat of the sun and is chilled with snow and frost, is so much the more healthful to the bodies of men and fitted for the propagation of nations, just as, on the other hand, every southern region, the nearer it is to the heat of the sun, the more it abounds in diseases and is less fitted for the bringing up of the human race.

If the master plan is successful, many commuters will travel to work in a core area nearer their homes, and the downtown area's daytime population will decrease.

Another theory that has recently gained support is that they were brought much nearer to the site as glacial erratics by the Irish Sea Glacier.

Good performance for a splay tree depends on the fact that it is self-optimizing, in that frequently accessed nodes will move nearer to the root where they can be accessed more quickly.

Bates, however, believed that these conditions are caused by tension of the muscles surrounding the eyeball, which he believed prevents the eyeball from sufficiently changing shape ( per his explanation of accommodation ) when gaze is shifted nearer or farther.

As these dwellings moved down nearer to rivers, the pits became rectangular in shape as well as larger, with two separated hearths.

However, recent evidence ( DNA analysis ) of the Elder Woman's teeth and the lock of hair found in Tutankhamun's tomb proves that the body is Tiye and is nearer to a middle aged woman.

What distinguishes the Sicilian School from the troubadours, however, is the introduction of a kinder, gentler type of woman than that found in their French models ; one who was nearer to Dante's madonnas and Petrarch's Laura, though much less characterised psychologically.

He was thirteen years old when his father married an American woman and the family moved to London to be nearer to European royalty.

The portions of the walls ‘ furthest ’ from the view point will appear to be shorter than the nearer areas due to perspective.

“ Hulloa !” they seem to say, “ here ’ s a game – what do all you ridiculous things want ?” And they come a few steps nearer.

Robert Gordon ’ s map Aberdeen, Banf, Murrey & c. to Inverness: Fra the north water to Ross which is dated at some time between 1636-1652 shows Buckie in its own right as a community some small distance from the coast with the community of Freuchny sitting nearer the shore to the north.

Obviously the burglar wanted to see what he was doing, for there is a streetlamp here, whereas the bust could have been broken at another empty house nearer Harker ’ s, but it had been dark there.

He and his wife and two children lived there for two years with no settlers any nearer than Foster ’ s Corner -- now called Fosterville, with the exception of two young men who lived here in the summer seasons on the farms occupied now by H. H.

The curved lines represent the relationship between pressure ( on the vertical, y-axis ) and Volume ( thermodynamics ) | volume ( on the horizontal, x-axis ) for an ideal gas at different temperature s: lines which are further away from the origin ( mathematics ) | origin ( that is, lines that are nearer to the top right-hand corner of the diagram ) represent higher temperatures.

The effects would be greater if the astronauts were traveling nearer to the speed of light ( approximately 300, 000 km / s ), instead of their actual speed — which is the speed of the orbiting ISS.

There are a great many bishops who have never had a cross on their bosom, nor a mitre on their head, who appeal not to the authority of the Pope at Rome, but to the Almighty Dollar, a pope much nearer home.

The longest and most robust legs are at the middle of the trunk, with those nearer the head and tail more spindly.

The lifeboatman's helmet depicted below ( seen at Southport lifeboat station in England on 7 September 2008 ) covers the same area as a motorcycle helmet including all of the ears, Its casing is thinner, and nearer to the size of the head, and has lengthwise ridges.

The 2005 edition of the Laws of the Game included a new International Football Association Board decision that stated being " nearer to an opponent's goal line " meant that " any part of his head, body or feet is nearer to his opponents ' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent ( the last opponent typically being the goalkeeper ).

A batter who has been " softened up " by a series of bouncers, which pitch nearer the bowler than normal and reach the batsman around head height, or even hit the batsman, may tend to play the next ball on the back foot, and thus be susceptible to a full length yorker delivery that bounces at his toes.

The winner, by IAAF Competition Rules, is determined by the first athlete with his or her torso ( not including limbs, head, or neck ) over the nearer edge of the finish line .< ref >

The horse nearer the inside of a race track will have a shorter distance to run than a horse on the outside track, although it is also more vulnerable to being cut off by horses that start off faster and head to the inside rail.

Being the head of river navigation also meant being the best location for the start of the Cariboo Wagon Road ( as there were no usable roads between Yale and the settlements nearer the Fraser's mouth.

They were everywhere now among the dark trees below him, constant and inflectioned and ceaseless, so that, as the instant for giving over to the day birds drew nearer and nearer, there was no interval at all between them.

These forests cover extensive areas away from the rivers ; nearer the rivers they occupy the higher, better-drained sites, giving rise to a landscape in which the forests appear as islands amid a sea of savannah grasses growing as high as a person on horseback.

While those vase paintings that resemble the frieze cluster around 430, the vases that quote the pediments are datable nearer to the end of the century, giving further evidence of the priority of the sculptural program.