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breadth and interests
The breadth of Weber's topical interests is apparent in the depth of his social theory:
Despite Binet's extensive research interests and wide breadth of publications, today he is most widely known for his contributions to intelligence.
: Its sheer breadth is so discontinuous with the reasons offered for it that the amendment seems inexplicable by anything but animus toward the class that it affects ; it lacks a rational relationship to legitimate state interests.
Norton was widely admired for the breadth of his intellectual interests, remarkable scholarship and interest in the common good.
Students can choose subjects across the six faculties to suit their interests and career objectives, adding the breadth and depth they want to personalise their degree through a combination of major and minor studies.
" But the magazine was unable to find anyone with both professional credentials and the breadth of scientific interests necessary to recapture the popularity the column enjoyed under Stong and Ingalls.
* When losing an outdoor game, feigning a deep, informed and more than amateur interest in e. g. botany or ornithology, in order to convey a breadth of interests and suggest to the opponent that losing is not of concern.
Nevertheless, he goes on to comment that " Potter's achievement is in translating to film something of the breadth of Woolf's remarkable range of interests, not only in language and literature, but also in history, nature, weather, animals, the relation of the sexes and the very nature of the sexes.
The breadth of his interests, abilities and character are determined from his writings that remain and from the testimonials of friends who survived.
The Society has over 20 topical sections and seven regional chapters, reflecting the breadth of interests and activities of its members.
Applications to the school are reviewed on the basis of character, intellectual ability, emotional maturity, curiosity, and breadth of interests.
The whole continent of North America was one of his special interests and he approved the setting up of provinces, houses, and colleges the length and breadth of that vast territory.
As a reaction to claims by the British that they were governing with " the true interests of the natives at heart ", Macaulay wrote: " The dimensions of " the true interests of the natives at heart " are algebraically equal to the length, breadth and depth of the whiteman's pocket.
Art Applied to Industry, a series of lectures he gave to the Society of Arts in 1864, illustrates the breadth of his interests, the topics covered including glass, pottery, brass and iron, gold and silver, furniture, the weaver's art and external architectural decoration.

breadth and ranging
His output was prodigious in quantity and breadth, ranging from songs and teaching pieces to operas, cantatas, and symphonies.
They reflect the breadth of the Island ’ s geological history, ranging from Early Cretaceous to Early Oligocene and Pleistocene age.
As an accomplished writer and passionate observer of social movements, Klein has covered a breadth of subjects ranging from Canada and the global economy to behind the scenes at the Dalai Lama ’ s Kalachakra initiation.

breadth and over
Greenberg argued for the virtues of breadth over depth.
Payroll registers that survive testify to the breadth of Suleiman's patronage of the arts, the earliest of documents dating from 1526 list 40 societies with over 600 members.
The group's international esteem is demonstrated by its breadth of collaboration with over 40 academic institutions and industrial partners across the world.
Whether his beard was reddish, or any other colour I cannot say, for the razor had passed over it very closely and left a surface smoother than chalk ... His blue eyes indicated both a high spirit and dignity ; and his nose and nostrils breathed in the air freely ; his chest corresponded to his nostrils and by his nostrils ... the breadth of his chest.
Brighton was recently ranked # 56 out of over 18, 000 in the inaugural " US News & World Report " ranking of U. S. high schools ( 2007 ), which is generally regarded as having more breadth of analysis than the Newsweek rankings.
A muscular slip, the axillary arch, varying from 7 to 10 cm in length, and from 5 to 15 mm in breadth, occasionally springs from the upper edge of the latissimus dorsi about the middle of the posterior fold of the axilla, and crosses the axilla in front of the axillary vessels and nerves, to join the under surface of the tendon of the pectoralis major, the coracobrachialis, or the fascia over the biceps brachii.
Ravana's central palace-complex ( main citadel ) was a massive collection of several edifices that reached over one yojana ( 8 miles or 12. 88 kilometres ) in height, one yojana in length, and half a yojana in breadth.
Scotland has a long history of universal provision of public education which, traditionally, has emphasised breadth across a range of subjects compared to depth of education over a smaller range of subjects at secondary school level.
This focus on breadth rather than depth has been hotly debated over the years, but it nevertheless forms a characteristic of the Polytechnicien program.
Traditionally, the Scottish system at secondary school level has emphasized breadth across a range of subjects, while the English, Welsh and Northern Irish systems have emphasised greater depth of education over a smaller range of subjects.
" The Combat " was a large painting, over 10 feet in height and 13 feet in breadth.
" A vessel of thirty-seven feet length, nine feet breadth of beam, and eighteen inch draw, for her trial voyage on San Francisco Bay a very large passenger was repeatedly warned not to stir from his " post of honor immediately over the boiler ," and on her only voyage to Sacramento in November / December 1847 it was reported that the baby of one of her passengers needed to be passed around to keep the " crank " vessel trim.
" Given the massive undertaking in creating 11 volumes over 50 years, errors and incompleteness were inevitable by Durant's own reckoning ; but no other historical survey matches let alone exceeds the breadth and depth of his project, he claimed.
With a career spanning over five decades and a repertoire comprising over 80 albums, the range and breadth of his work has been regarded as genre-defining.
H. coriacea Blume has been known to have as many as 70 in an inflorescence, each individual measuring nearly 2 cm in diameter with the umbels over 30 cm in breadth.
Oxford PPE graduate Nick Cohen and former tutor Iain McLean consider the course's breadth important to its appeal, especially because British society values generalists over specialists.
It measures over 50 ft in length and almost 30 ft in breadth.
* Turning right as you leave the village, is Temple Cronan, a 12th century church measuring 21 ft in length and over 12 ft in breadth.
Classical Chinese buildings, especially those of the wealthy are built with an emphasis on breadth and less on height, with close heavy platform and a large roof that floats over this base, with the vertical walls not well emphasized.
In a tract not more than 225 km in length and 65 km in breadth there are over thirty peaks rising to elevations exceeding 5500 m.
Westhoughton covers an area of and has an average breadth of over from north-east to south-west, and an extreme length of nearly from northwest to south-east.
It is preserved in an immense tome, measuring 19 inches high, 13 inches in breadth, and 7 inches thick, and weighs over 75 pounds — so impressive, as Hort says, as to fill the beholder with a feeling akin to awe.
Since then, under CEO Perk Perkins, Orvis has increased both the magnitude and breadth of its conservation program, and annually donates five percent ( over $ 10 million in the last ten years ) of pre-tax profits to a great variety of conservation projects.

breadth and pure
This last piece is noticeable as showing the artist's treatment of pure landscape, though it also contains some of his daintiest figurepieces, like that of the wind-blown girl, standing on the summit of a pedestal, with the swifts darting around her and the breadth of sea beyond.
In discovery of small molecule therapeutics, an emphasis on training that provides for breadth of synthetic experience and " pace " of bench operations is clearly present ( e. g., for individuals with pure synthetic organic and natural products synthesis in Ph. D. and post-doctoral positions, ibid .).
Today ’ s pure car carriers and their close cousins, the pure car / truck carrier ( PCTC ) are distinctive ships with a box-like superstructure running the entire length and breadth of the hull, fully enclosing the cargo.
According to the Biblical account ( Exodus 25: 19 ; 37: 6 ), the mercy seat was manufactured from pure gold, and was the same width and breadth as the Ark beneath it – 2. 5 cubits long, and 1. 5 cubits wide ; the Ark and mercy seat were, according to this passage, kept inside the Holy of Holies – the Temple's innermost sanctuary, the Sanctum Sanctorum, which was separated from the remainder of the temple by a thick curtain ( parochet ), because the ark and mercy seat were associated with the presence of Yahweh.

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