The Chinese had long been a source of aid and apparently wished to maintain contact with Comoros to counterbalance Indian and Soviet ( later Russian ) influence in the Indian Ocean.

He tells how Ptolemy " placed in a circle around the statue Homer all the cities who laid claim to Homer " and mentions a painting of the poet by the artist Galaton, which apparently depicted Homer in the aspect of Oceanus as the source of all poetry.

The only other major contemporary source is the Liber Historiae Francorum, an anonymous adaptation of Gregory's work apparently ignorant of Fredegar's chronicle: its author ( s ) ends with a reference to Theuderic IV's sixth year, which would be 727.

He was also, apparently, according to a hostile Greek source from the twelfth century, the first pope who went around clean shaved whilst pope.

The effect apparently depends on selective attention rather than merely the source of stimulation.

The first release of DeCSS was preceded by a few weeks by a program called DoD DVD Speed Ripper from a group called DrinkOrDie, which didn't include source code and which apparently did not work with all DVDs.

The poet Stesichorus wrote a song of Geryon ( Γηρυονηΐς — Geryoneïs ) in the sixth century BC, which was apparently the source of this section in Bibliotheke ; it contains the first reference to Tartessus.

Although one source tells us that he died at the age of 70, he was apparently still alive in 366 BCE, and he must have been nearer to 80 years old when he died at Athens, c. 365 BCE.

The Chengjiang fossils comprise the oldest diverse metazoan assemblage above the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition, and thus the fossil record ’ s best data source for understanding the apparently rapid diversification of life known as the Cambrian Explosion.

The source of the new name was apparently taken in honor of one of its financial backers, Marsden J. Perry of New York, who eventually served as president of the railroad.

It is now known that traditional airspeed gauges using a pitot tube give inaccurately high readings in the transonic regime, apparently due to shock waves interacting with the tube or the static source.

The SMC was detected with an X-ray luminosity ( L < sub > x </ sub >) of 5 x 10 < sup > 38 </ sup > ergs / s in the range 1. 5-12 keV, and 2. 5 x 10 < sup > 39 </ sup > ergs / s in the range 5-50 keV for an apparently extended source.

( The CD is apparently mislabeled and does not mention this performance as a source of the recording.

It was stated to be very vulnerable to radiation, and apparently a type of volatile memory ( since robots in storage required a power source keeping their brains " alive ").

It is, apparently, his source of power.

According to one source neighbours reported that the family lived in unusual harmony, apparently relying on their love and support for one another and their religious devotion.

Stowell apparently devised his theory using Sir William Gull ’ s private papers as his primary source material.

His speech balloon, found on the crime scene, indicates his murder was a way of “ censoring ” the star, who apparently had just heard someone explain the source of his success.

After completing his task, Larrel regains his sanity and uses the Heartstone Gem to discover the source of the evil, which apparently resides in the dwarven city of Dorn's Deep.

This turns out to be correct and leads to the development of a cheap, clean, and apparently endless source of energy: the " Electron Pump ", which trades matter between our universe ( where plutonium 186 decays into tungsten 186 ) and a parallel one governed by slightly different physical laws ( where tungsten 186 turns into plutonium 186 ), yielding a nuclear reaction in the process.

The caverns were apparently unknown to humankind until 1974, when cavers Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts found a narrow crack in the bottom of a sinkhole, and followed the source of warm, moist air toward what ended up being more than of pristine cave passages.

According to one source, at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, the British tried to hand the nearby Aqir airfield and camp to the Palestinian Arabs, apparently without success.

Tang dependence upon their northern allies was apparently a source of embarrassment to the Chinese, who surreptitiously encouraged the Kirghiz and the Karluks to attack the Uyghurs, driving them south into the Tarim Basin.

Jewish designs are so pernicious, according to Qutb's logic, that " anyone who leads this community away from its religion and its Quran can only be Jewish agent ", causing one critic to claim that the statement apparently means that " any source of division, anyone who undermines the relationship between Muslims and their faith is by definition a Jew ".

Another source of intellectual stimulus was opened to her at that time by the founding of Johns Hopkins University within walking distance of home.

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.

The power source was a commercial D. C. rectifier.

It was possible to make estimates of the quantum yield by observing the extent of reduction of a uranyl oxalate actinometer solution illuminated for a known time in a typical reaction cell and making appropriate conversions based on the differences in the absorption spectra of uranyl oxalate and of chlorine, and considering the spectral distribution of the light source.

These dosages could have been increased by increasing the source strength which was small in this case.

The maximum distance sampled was 23 miles from the source.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

The greatest source of trouble was rain which had repeatedly flowed from openings above, soaking the surface and leaving streaks of dissolved lime, very conspicuous even after cleaning, particularly in the `` Landing of Columbus '', `` Oglethorpe and the Indians '', and `` Yorktown ''.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

During the first administration of Bienville, the peltry trade of the Mobile district was a lucrative source of revenue.

For Blanche, Kitti's death was a source of guilty, but nonetheless soaring, happy hope.

That meant that something between the light and its reflection on the wall was moving closer to the source of the light -- in this case, the window.

This was disclosed today by a responsible source amid intensified efforts by the Soviet Union to gain a greater role in the staff and operation of the United Nations.

The Yang, or male principle, was the source of light, heat, and dynamic vitality, associated with the Sun ; ;

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

This was no man's land, disputed by the Haijac Union and the Israeli Republic, a potential source of war for the last two hundred years.

The war effort was the source of continued disparagement of Lincoln, and dominated his time and attention.

This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.