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The five or six European supervisors on the island were given " a row of little tin-roofed, one-storeyed houses above the beach ", while the native laborers from Niue Island and Aitutaki were housed in " big, barn-like shelters ".
Large cascades of hydropower plants are built in European Russia along big rivers like Volga.
In 1999, the Come on Over album was remixed for the European market as a pop album with less country instrumentation and actually gave her the big breakthrough in Europe she and her producer husband ( Robert John " Mutt " Lange ) were looking for.
It became the biggest selling album of the year in Great Britain and a bestseller in other big European markets as well, selling more than one million copies in Germany and nearly 4 million in the UK alone.
Adult ducks are fast fliers, but may be caught on the water by large aquatic predators including big fish such as the North American muskie and the European pike.
The origins of choral music are found in traditional music, as singing in big groups is extremely widely spread in traditional cultures ( both singing in one part, or in unison, like in Ancient Greece, as well as singing in parts, or in harmony, like in contemporary European choral music ).
Some large contemporary European jazz ensembles play mostly avant-garde jazz using the instrumentation of the big bands.
He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named " The Country of Canadas ", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ( Quebec City ) and at Hochelaga ( Montreal Island ).
* 9. 3 × 62mm: Very common big game hunting round in Scandinavia along with the 6. 5 × 55mm, where it is used as a very versatile hunting round on anything from small and medium game with lightweight cast lead bullets to the largest European big game with heavy soft point hunting bullets.
Norton knocked out previously unbeaten top prospect Duane Bobick in one round and after despatching European title holder Lorenzo Zannon easily, he beat number two contender Jimmy Young ( who himself had beaten George Foreman and Jody Ballard ) in a 15-round split-decision in a WBC big mandatory title-elimination fight, with the winner to face reigning WBC champion Ali, but Ali's camp told Ring Magazine they did not want to fight Norton for a fourth time.
However, the country outside of Auckland is still much less heterogeneous, with big parts of the South Island remaining predominantly of European descent.
At the time, most European countries tried to ensure similar guarantees, and because of the Tunisian crisis Italy found no other big potential ally than her historical enemy, Austria – Hungary, against which Italy had fought three wars in the 34 years before the first treaty signing.
The ferries played a big part in Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008 celebrations.
Chapin's follow-up album, Sniper and Other Love Songs ( 1972, # 160 ), was less successful despite containing the Chapin anthem " Circle " ( a big European hit for The New Seekers ).
Since 1980, due to the higher number of people leaving big cities ( Liège and Verviers ) to more rural municipalities, and due to the highway E40 ( European route E40 ) passing on its territory, Soumagne recovers from the loss of coal mining and the end of the " Cooperative ".
* Holm or Holmen is a common suffix too in Nordic and northern European countries (" holme " means " islet " in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although the meaning is more precise: a holme in Swedish is usually big enough to have wood and some fresh water but too small for a village ; smaller islets have other names – there is an intricate name system to make it possible to remember and recognize different islets, hundreds of which have been important in some archipelagos ).
European ministers have continuously failed to reach a decision in support of or against the applications, highlighting the big divide among member states.
Their debut Eden Fire was a great success with euphoric press, European chart entries and shows at some of the big festivals in Europe such as Wacken Open Air and With Full Force.
With European Formula One restricted by the 1. 5 litre regulations and big powerful 2. 5 litre Australian cars were tremendously attractive to the European teams and when BRM Grand Prix team toured Australia during the summer of 1962, the seed grew that became the Tasman Series.
For decades the Spanish Netherlands ports produced more revenue than the colonies since all goods brought from Spain, Mediterranean possessions, and the colonies were sold directly there to neighboring European countries: wheat, olive oil, wine, silver, spice, wool and silk were big businesses.
The tournament had enhanced his reputation and Rüştü caught the attention of the big European clubs.
The following war in the Balkans, the disintegration of Yugoslavia and sanctions imposed by the UN on all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, accelerated the process, which would, only thirteen months after the victory in Bari, practically leave Red Star without its entire generation of European and World champions and left the big question how many titles would this generation have won.

big and powers
Some of the helium-3 found in the terrestrial atmosphere is also a relic of atmospheric and underwater nuclear weapons testing, conducted by the three big nuclear powers before 1963.
The war was cast as a big picture struggle-that allowing the Axis powers to have their own way would be so horrible that anything done by the Allies became justified.
Raeder stated that unless this was done, there would be a delay in warship construction which would ensure that the time when the Kriegsmarine " would be sufficiently strong and ready to act against the big sea powers " would not happen in the near future.
It would place the final responsibility for verification and control where it belongs, not with the big powers alone, not with one's adversary or one's self, but in an international organization within the framework of the United Nations.
Since the Sperry " big company " mentality encroached on the decision-making powers of the ERA founders, they left Sperry to form the Control Data Corp. in 1957, setting up shop in an old warehouse across the river from Sperry's St. Paul laboratory, in Minneapolis at 501 Park Avenue.
As a member of the Non-aligned Movement Bangladesh never took any position in line with big powers.
Darkwing, already lacking powers, used the machine on himself and became big enough to battle Extraordinary Guy.
" It also accused the United States of manipulating the investigation and named the administration of U. S. President Barack Obama directly of using the case for " escalating instability in the Asia-Pacific region, containing big powers and emerging unchallenged in the region.
Ace plans to use Jimbo's powers to win big in Las Vegas, and he takes his girlfriend Kitty with them.
In 1999, as Congress was considering legislation that became the GLBA, he published an essay arguing that the “ moral hazard ” created by deposit insurance, too big to fail considerations, and other governmental support for banking should be resolved before commercial banking firms could be given “ universal banking ” powers.
The big thing in Germany constitution is individual liberty, which gives protection to individual liberty in an extensive catalogue of human rights and also divides powers between the federal and state levels which are between the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.
The Hawks traded Mutombo to the Eastern Conference-leading Philadelphia 76ers in February 2001 for their injured center Theo Ratliff, as the Sixers needed a replacement stellar big man to compete with Western Conference powers Tim Duncan or Shaquille O ' Neal, should they reach the finals.
This account was first published in May 1997, God told Walsch in Chapter 19 ( p. 226 ) that because the President Bill Clinton was " courageously fighting big money's vested interest " there were going to be " tremendous powers attempting to remove him from office.
Unlike his two predecessors, Thant retired after ten years on speaking terms with all the big powers.
By 1966, when Thant was reappointed, all the big powers, in a unanimous vote of the Security Council, affirmed the importance of the secretary-generalship and his good offices, a clear tribute to Thant's work.
After that, Buyeo was torn between big powers, and ravaged during the waves of movement of northern nomadic peoples into China.
Economically, middle powers are generally those that are not considered too " big " or too " small ", however that is defined.
Taoiseach Éamon de Valera stated in his wartime speeches that small states should stay out of the conflicts of big powers ; hence Ireland's policy was officially " neutral ", and the country did not publicly declare its support for either side although in practice, while Luftwaffe pilots who crash-landed in Ireland and German sailors were interned, Royal Air Force ( RAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ), and United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) pilots who crashed were usually allowed to cross the border into British territory ( although some Allied personnel were also interned ).
Klaw is later freed from prison by a member of the extra dimensional race of Sheenarians, who wish him to use his sonic powers to help open a dimensional portal big enough for their invading armada to enter Earth.
Blackie was a Radical and Scottish nationalist in politics, of a fearlessly independent type ; possessed of great conversational powers and general versatility, his picturesque eccentricity made him one of the characters of the Edinburgh of the day, and a well-known figure as be went about in his plaid, worn shepherd-wise, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, and carrying a big stick.
A rising demand for petroleum during the war had demonstrated to the big powers the importance of having their own sources of oil.
The title character does not have any super powers at all, but is a normal ( talking ) house cat that dresses in a diaper, a baby ’ s bonnet, and a big blue bow to fight minor neighborhood injustices.
Historically more common, especially in northern areas of Afghanistan and the Pashtun areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, than at present, it waned in the big cities after World War I, forced out for reasons that dance historian Anthony Shay describes as " Victorian era prudery and severe disapproval of colonial powers such as the Russians, British, and French, and the post-colonial elites who had absorbed those Western colonial values.
They sent a petition to the Sultan and the consuls of the big powers in Chania.

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