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The skirmishing was almost constant.
After the end of the Berriasian, however, temperatures increased again, and these conditions were almost constant until the end of the period.
Chechnya was a country in the Northern Caucasus which has been in almost constant battle against foreign rule since the 15th century.
Because cylinder bore diameter, piston stroke length and combustion chamber volume are almost always constant, the compression ratio for a given engine is almost always constant, until engine wear takes its toll.
Due to the abundance of sunshine, year-round tropical temperatures moderated by the almost constant trade winds, and the great variety of scenic destinations to visit, during the second half of the 20th century on into the 21st, the Caribbean Sea became a popular place for tourism.
In the diesel cycle the combustion occurs at almost constant pressure and the exhaust occurs at constant volume.
The almost constant breeze keeps conditions reasonably comfortable.
There are compression algorithms that keep the BPP almost constant throughout the entire duration of the video.
Honorius ' reign was plagued by almost constant barbarian incursions into Gaul, Italy and Hispania.
In AD 114 Trajan temporarily occupied Mesopotamia, and with the end of Hadrian's 40-year peace the two powers were at almost constant hostilities.
Although almost any subject can be found in almost any scale, there are common scales for such miniatures which remain constant today.
Medieval Spain was the scene of almost constant warfare between Muslims and Christians.
The machine was in almost constant use for the next ten years.
The Commonwealth, subjected to almost constant warfare until 1720, suffered enormous population losses as well as massive damage to its economy and social structure.
For instance, endothermic animals ( mammals and birds ) maintain a constant body temperature, while ectothermic animals ( almost all other organisms ) exhibit wide body temperature variation.
The almost uniformly warm waters that make up 81 % of Indonesia's area ensure that temperatures on land remain fairly constant.
:< BLOCKQUOTE > For almost a thousand years, from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second Turkish siege of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam.
As such many of these islands fell under Norwegian and Ui Imair hegemony between the 9th and 13th centuries and this Norse influence would see almost constant warfare on the western seaboard of Scotland until the partitioning of the Hebrides in 1156.
The company was in almost constant conflict with the English ; relations were particularly tense following the Amboyna Massacre in 1623.
Abbott was a constant advocate of social reform, and was an advocate of Theodore Roosevelt's progressivism for almost 20 years.

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The presence of almost all the radioactive < sup > 35 </ sup > S in the solution showed that the protein coat that protects the DNA before adsorption stayed outside the cell.
These favorable developments, combined with the presence of a large and cheap labour force, laid the foundation for spectacular economic growth that lasted almost uninterrupted until the " Hot Autumn's " massive strikes and social unrest of 1969-70, which then combined with the later 1973 oil crisis and put an abrupt end to the prolonged boom.
In due course the Governor-General received the Koh-i-Noor from Login, who had been appointed Governor of the Citadel, the Royal Fort at Lahore, with the Royal Treasury, which Login valued at almost £ 1, 000, 000 (£ as of ), excluding the Koh-i-Noor, on 6 April 1848, under a receipt dated 7 December 1849, in the presence of the members of the Board of Administration — the local resident H. M. Lawrence, C. C.
Blacksmiths are credited with magical powers in many parts of the world, and it is significant that the Boudas are workers in iron and clay ; in the Life of N. Pearce ( i. 287 ) a European observer tells a story of a supposed transformation which took place in his presence and almost before his eyes ; but it does not appear how far hallucination rather than coincidence must be invoked to explain the experience.
Further refinement can be brought by weighting changes in one direction higher than changes in another ; for instance, the presence of thoracic wings almost guarantees placement among the pterygote insects, although because wings are often lost secondarily, there is no evidence that they have been gained more than once.
It has been widely criticized, however, over the lack of Hamas presence in the Organization, even after Hamas won almost two-thirds of the seats in the 2006 legislative council elections.
Comparisons have also been drawn to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almost appear to be two halves of a single character.
The SCSI standard defines command sets for specific peripheral device types ; the presence of " unknown " as one of these types means that in theory it can be used as an interface to almost any device, but the standard is highly pragmatic and addressed toward commercial requirements.
Although they did not succeed in maintaining a presence in Tibet, their texts found their way into the Tibetan Buddhist canon, providing the Tibetans with almost all of their primary sources about the Foundation Vehicle.
The British High Commission closed in 2005 after maintaining a presence for almost a century.
Furthermore, they noted that quill knobs are almost never found in flightless bird species today, and that their presence in Velociraptor ( presumed to have been flightless due to its relatively large size and short forelimbs ) is evidence that the ancestors of dromaeosaurids could fly, making Velociraptor and other large members of this family secondarily flightless, though it is possible the large wing feathers inferred in the ancestors of Velociraptor had a purpose other than flight.
With the creation of Al-Andalus, most of the Iberian peninsula is conquered by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost eight centuries of Muslim presence there.
He also made it a point to be aboard during the initial sea trial of almost every nuclear submarine completing its new-construction period, and by his presence both set his stamp of personal integrity that the ship was ready for the rigors of the open seas, and ensured adequate testing to either prove as much or to establish issues requiring resolution.
By mid-18th century their presence in the lands of modern Belarus became almost permanent.
No significant natural sources have ever been identified for these compounds — their presence in the atmosphere is due almost entirely to human manufacture.
Very few in the ecology movement would accept doing bodily harm by non-legal means to achieve their goals-they have no organized presence and are rejected by almost all players in the ecology movement.
The corn sheller was almost identical in design, with slight modifications to deal with the larger kernel size and presence of cobs.
Hamilton almost single-handedly worked out the nation's early financial system, and for several years was a major presence in Washington's administration as well.
Her presence almost immediately gained attention, both as a woman and as someone who did not follow the rules.
In addition to an almost ubiquitous presence in American sandwiches, mayonnaise forms the basis of Northern Alabama's signature White Barbeque sauce.
In South America, whilst in the continental cratons soils are almost as old as in Australia and Southern Africa, the presence of the geologically young and evolving Andes means that this region is on the western side of the subtropical anticyclones and thus receives warm and humid air from the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1938, almost 25 % of the population was Jewish, making Płock one of the cities in Poland with the highest proportional Jewish presence.
Enraged, Willie grabs them, places them inside a small jewellery box, with the golden harp, but Mickey manages to escape, and with the help of the singing harp who sings to put Willie to sleep, makes his way into Willie's shirt pocket and steals the key, accidentally landing in a small box of dust and pepper, making him, and Willie sneeze and almost alerting him to his presence in the process.
Despite the presence in the story of Neptune, Mercury, Venus and other immortals, she does not date from Classical times, was born around 1000, and has a character almost diametrically opposed to that cited for her namesake in the previous paragraph.
A fictional universe can be almost indistinguishable from the real world, except for the presence of the invented characters and events that characterize a work of fiction ; at the other extreme it can bear little or no resemblance to reality, with invented fundamental principles of space and time.

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