Spherical concave backing surfaces support the diaphragm when excessive pressures are applied and prevent the stresses within the diaphragm from exceeding the elastic limit.

As the more conservative group with strong backing from wealthy businessmen, the U.M.C.I.A. was generally favored against the more progressive, labor-based U.N.F.P..

Freddy's backing dropped away from him and Mr. Willis was forced to make up the deficit.

But many Criollos did not want to lose the class privileges, in any new republics, and the most among the coloured majorities ( Indians, blacks and mixed-bloods ) did not want to lose the backing that they had from the Crown and Catholic Church.

Unfortunately, because of cash flow problems ( resulting from growing too fast, insufficient financial backing, technical problems, and a sudden problem with Z80 processor deliveries ) the company suddenly folded even before it came to full fruition.

His other son Max Chilton races in the GP2 Series with backing from Aon.

They justified this relatively low ranking ( though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600 ) with the summary statement: " Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company's new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a sexier way of playing Atari 2600 titles.

Rumbling drums and moaning backing vocals suggest that things are going from bad to worse.

The first tour took place as a commercial venture, made without official backing, but the six subsequent visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour, the first representative of the four Home Unions, enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities.

Bayezid II's overriding concern was the quarrel with his brother Cem, who claimed the throne and sought military backing from the Mamluks in Egypt.

By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson ( on washtub bass ) and Jody Williams ( whom he had taught to play the guitar ).

He received strong backing from the middle and working classes as well as from the provincial elites.

The previously uncached datum fetched from the backing store during miss handling is usually copied into the cache, ready for the next access.

The album's three new songs, which were released as singles, were " Instinct ", " Not the Girl You Think You Are " and " Everything Is Good for You ", which featured backing vocals from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

Another popular early project was Jonathon Fowler's JFDuke3D, which in December 2003 received backing from the original author of Build, programmer Ken Silverman.

Characterised by the heavy rock sound of his new backing band, it was a marked departure from the acoustic guitar and folk rock style established by Space Oddity.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

The request moves through the network from node to node, backing out of a dead-end ( step 3 ) and a loop ( step 7 ) before locating the desired file.

Fatah publicly disassociated itself from the group, but it is widely believed that it enjoyed Arafat's direct or tacit backing.

His vocal backing of these movements further burdened Zambia, since the white regimes were the country's main trading partners.

This one in Warrington, United Kingdom, also shows the red + yellow combination seen in a number of European countries, and a backing board with white border to increase the target value of the signal head.

Rollfilm or roll film is any type of spool-wound photographic film protected from white light exposure by a paper backing, as opposed to film which is protected from exposure and wound forward in a cartridge.

* White Chocolate: Guest rapper, beatboxer and backing vocals ( The only one claiming to be a " white / American " character )

While most of Motown's backing musicians were African American, and many originally from Detroit, the Funk Brothers included white players as well, such as Messina ( who was featured guitarist on Soupy Sales's nighttime jazz TV show in the 1950s ), Brokensha ( originally from Australia ), Coffey, and Pittsburgh-born Babbitt.

Another source said that Treen, who was named Republican national committeeman after his gubernatorial race, received the backing of 55 % of white voters but only 2 % among African Americans.

Officer Cadets may wear a small white backing behind their badges.

After mass protest forced him to resign, John unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Eugenia Charles with the backing of white supremacist groups ( in what became dubbed " Operation Red Dog ").

The opposition, mostly white old-guard conservative machine politicos, convinced Sawyer to oppose Evans, with their backing, and the progressive coalition was broken.

Fox is a white ruthless gang boss who has the backing of the CSA, in return for spreading fear in Gotham and snitching for Owlman.

In 2008, he toured with an all-female back-up band ( dressed mostly in white ) that provided basic rock instrumentation as well as horns and backing vocals.

" What'd I Say " was banned by many black and white radio stations because of, as one critic noted, " the dialogue between himself and his backing singers that started in church and ended up in the bedroom ".

Though Allen and Maddox split the white vote, Allen's claim to African-American backing proved decisive.

Rick Danko of The Band made use of a white Bass VI while backing Ronnie Hawkins in The Hawks, though by the time the Hawks were with Bob Dylan, Danko had switched to a Fender Jazz Bass.

Bromide paper is very similar to black & white photographic paper, except the backing is much thinner, and like imagesetter film is of diminished spectral sensitivity.

When Shane goes into town with Starrett and the rest of the homesteaders, he gets into a fistfight with Ryker's men after being ridiculed for backing down before.

Although there is no official documental backing, the town is considered to be named after King William III, Prince William of Orange of the House of Nassau.

With the Regent's backing, Nash created a master plan for the area, put into effect from 1818 onwards, which stretched from St James ’ s northwards and included Regent Street, Regent's Park ( 1809 – 1832 ) and its neighbouring streets, terraces and crescents of elegant town houses and villas.

Olds provided financial backing for Kardell Tractor and Truck Company to move into town.

With this kind of backing, the route of the road was deflected and it passed through the town.

Over 60 trains pass through the town daily and the railroad recently completed an underpass which redirects the tracks below US-36, rather than crossing the highway and backing up traffic.

Normally minor streams, particularly Glass Hollow Creek, became raging torrents, pushing debris before them, backing up water into the town.

Having been effectively given insider information about which side to back in the coming revolution, the Rougons then make a series of seemingly bold moves to show their loyal and steadfast support for Napoleon III, winning the admiration of the most influential people in the town, mostly royalists who are themselves afraid of showing too much commitment for fear of backing the " wrong horse " and losing their standing and fortune.

John Rocque's 1745 map of London already showed the Horns Tavern at Knight's Hill in the south of the town, backing onto extensive woodland, with an open valley stretching to ' Island Green ' in the north, approximately where Herne Hill railway station stands now.

Protest and backing from the Scottish Government took place in 2009, after Diageo, the owner of Johnnie Walker announced plans to close the bottling plant in the town after 289 years.

His solution, an-tall gas absorption tower in which carbon dioxide bubbled up through a descending flow of brine, together with efficient recovery and recycling of the ammonia, proved effective, and by 1864, Solvay and his brother Alfred had acquired good financial backing and constructed a plant in the Belgian town of Charleroi.

In their stead, a motley group of convicts who were banished from New Spain formed the initial group of colonists, and although the missionaries at Mission Santa Cruz protested bitterly against this pueblo being situated so close to their domain, the town received the official backing.

With the backing of the former Aberdeen District Council ( see Aberdeen City Council ), the Secretary of State for Scotland and supported financially by Ashdale Land and Property Company Ltd., the new satellite town of Westhill was created upon the old farming land.

After backing down from gunfighter Kirk Jordan, Brooks left town shortly after.

Now he is planning his most ambitious project yet, backing a railway which will connect the town to the main line and open a fertile valley which he has been secretly buying up.

The recording of backing vocals was unplanned and the lack of technology to sample voices meant the four singers in the band had to sing a full vocal track all the way through, causing the lyric " this town is coming like a ghost town " to become like an " hypnotic chant ".

After years of backing away from criminals and gunfights, one resident of the small western town of Firecreek decides to fight back.

At a public meeting on 9 July 1920, the then Halifax Town chairman Dr A. H. Muir stated: " Speaking from inside information I know that if, in February 1921, we can produce a ground that will meet league requirements, and if we can show financial backing that is worthy of a town this size, our position as members of the English League with all that means, is absolutely secure.