At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

This concept of " corrected lime potential " to define the degree of base saturation in soils became the basis for procedures now used in soil testing laboratories to determine the " lime requirement " of soils.

By the late 1980s, the cellular industry's subscriber base had grown into the millions across America and it became necessary to add channels for additional capacity.

A clarification came in 1955 that awarded a stolen base to a runner, even if he became involved in a rundown, provided he managed to evade the rundown, and advance to the base he was intending to steal.

These first settlements were abandoned after attacks by Spanish privateers, but English privateers often used the Cayman Islands as a base and in the 18th century they became an increasingly popular hideout for pirates, even after the end of legitimate privateering in 1713.

Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.

The British Churchill tank because of its good cross-country performance and capacious interior with side hatches became the most adapted with modifications, the base unit being the AVRE carrying a large demolition gun.

Later after a financial review by the developer, they decided to reduce the height of the superstructure by increasing the size of the floor plate so as to reduce the complex architectural requirements of the tower base which means a highstrength concrete solution became possible.

Central or Middle Russian ( with its Moscow sub-dialect ), the transitional step between the North and the South, became a base for the Russian literary standard.

* 1497-Gibraltar became the main base in the conquest of Melilla by the troops of the Duke of Medina Sidonia.

The next year, Phage Φ-X174, with only 5386 base pairs, became the first DNA-genome project to be completed, by Fred Sanger.

Gotenhafen became an important base, due to its being relatively distant from the war theater, and many German large ships-battleships and heavy cruisers were anchored there.

The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign.

In 1941, however, the German invasion of the Soviet Union failed, and after the United States entered the war, Britain became the base for massive Anglo-American bombings of German cities.

However, deindustrialization became impractical and the U. S. instead called for a strong industrial base in Germany so it could stimulate European economic recovery.

The Kingdom of Asturias became the main base for Christian resistance to Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula for several centuries.

The government's daunting task then became how to create an economic base able to compensate for the withdrawal of much United States assistance without becoming solely dependent on traditional agricultural exports.

The conflict between the Hohenstaufen and the Welf had irrevocably weakened the Imperial authority and the Norman kingdom of Sicily became the base for Hohenstaufen rule.

Nearby Radlett was the base for Handley Page Aircraft Company, while Hatfield became home to de Havilland.

The town became a naval base in 1657 and was heavily fortified, with Harwich Redoubt, Beacon Hill Battery, and Bath Side Battery.

Following the work of Weierstrass, it eventually became common to base calculus on limits instead of infinitesimal quantities.

Jamaica became a base of operations for privateers, including Captain Henry Morgan, operating from the main English settlement Port Royal.

The earliest evidence of human activity in Jersey dates to about 250, 000 years ago ( before Jersey became an island ) when bands of nomadic hunters used the caves at La Cotte de St Brelade as a base for hunting mammoth.

Zanzibar became a base from which trade and exploration of the African mainland could be mounted.

The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

Morphologically, the breast is a cone with the base at the chest wall, and the apex at the nipple, the center of the NAC ( nipple-areola complex ).

The intent was to give investigators a common base, as well as to center the action on well-drawn characters with clear motivations.

A casino craps table is run by up to four casino employees: a boxman who guards the chips, supervises the dealers and handles " coloring out " players ( exchanging small chip denominations for larger denominations in order to preserve the chips at a table ); two base dealers who stand to either side of the boxman and collect and pay bets ; and a stickman who stands directly across the table from the boxman, takes bets in the center of the table ( hard ways, yo, craps, horn, etc.

), announces the results of each roll, collects the dice with an elongated wooden stick, and directs the base dealers to pay winners from bets in the center of the table.

Never a strong center of industry and manufacturing, the city's economic base relies on the education, medical, technology and insurance industries.

* Bore: The hollow cylinder bored down the center of the cannon, including the base of the bore or bottom of the bore, the nearest end of the bore into which the ordnance ( wadding, shot, etc.

It was also a processing center for returning sick or wounded U. S. soldiers, and a Coast Guard training base.

The primer charge is at the base of the cartridge, either within the rim ( a " rimfire " cartridge ) or in a small percussion cap embedded in the center of the base ( a " centerfire " cartridge ).

Mahmud of Ghazni consolidated the conquests of his predecessors and turned the city of Ghazni into a great cultural center as well as a base for frequent forays into the Indian subcontinent.

Strong trade ties also made the region an important cultural center and established it as a base that would influence nearby kingdoms and regions in Burma, Sri Lanka, Maritime Southeast Asia, and Indochina.

An important military base and industry center, the city was heavily bombed by Task Force 38 and FEAF during 1944 – 1945.

As the Ghibellines intended their fortress to be a strategic military stronghold and center of control for the area, they set about creating a settlement around the base of the Rock to support the garrison ; in an attempt to lure residents from Genoa and the surrounding cities, they offered land grants and tax exemption to new settlers.

First, in order to modernize the economy from an agricultural base to a manufacture and service base, castle towns were developed as the center and basis of local economies.

* the sphenoid sinuses, in the sphenoid bone at the center of the skull base under the pituitary gland.

The dial switch in the base interrupted the line current by repeatedly but very briefly disconnecting the line 1 – 10 times for each digit, and the hook switch ( in the center of the circuit diagram ) disconnected the line and the transmitter battery while the handset was on the cradle.

Versailles is also an important military center, with several units and training schools headquartered at the Satory military base, which was the headquarters of the famed 2nd French Armored Division until 1999, and where a military exhibition is organized annually.

North Carolina sauces vary by region ; eastern North Carolina uses a vinegar-based sauce, the center of the state enjoys Lexington-style barbecue which uses a combination of ketchup and vinegar as their base, and western North Carolina uses a heavier ketchup base.

< center > Forging | Forged steel shrapnel shells for BL 5 inch gun Mk I-V | BL 5 inch gun with bursting charge in base ( left ), and in nose ( right ) for comparison, 1886 </ center >

Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north of the country and is the base of many significant international corporations.

This can be canceled by inserting an equal and opposite inductive reactance in series, by means of a loading coil typically at the base or center of the antenna.