The Talmud stresses the thrasonical Goliath's ungodliness: his taunts before the Israelites included the boast that it was he who had captured the Ark of the Covenant and brought it to the temple of Dagon ; and his challenges to combat were made at morning and evening in order to disturb the Israelites in their prayers.

" Premiums " for a very wide range of challenges ( including devising new forms of machinery and agricultural improvements, which included new ways to improve the cultivation of opium poppies etc.

Challenges have also included food challenges ( including foods eaten by the local population ), and knowledge quizzes about the locale or players.

Typical shows included menageries of wild animals, freak shows, wax works, boxing / wrestling challenges and theatrical shows.

Past challenges included performing stand-up at a local laundromat, working as a tour guide in Los Angeles, participating in a roast at the Friars Club of Beverly Hills and performing comedy on a specific subject with little preparation time on a radio show.

A " Career " mode exclusive to the Wii version is included, consisting of challenges in which players must clear songs to earn various unlockables, including maraca effects and additional songs.

The Oz project was an attempt in the early 1990s to use intelligent agent technology to attack the challenges in IS, the architecture included a simulated physical world, several characters, an interactor, a theory of presentation, and a drama manager.

" The many challenges included building a 101 kilometer long access road ( a project that required boring kilometer long tunnels through two mountains ) and constructing the world's longest single span aerial tramway.

Postmodern theology seeks to respond to the challenges of post modern and deconstructionist thought, and has included the death of God movement, Process Theology, Feminist theology and Queer Theology and most importantly Neo-orthodox Theology.

Windschuttle challenges the idea that mass killings were commonplace, arguing that the colonial settlers of Australia did not commit widespread massacres against Indigenous Australians ; he drastically reduces the figures for the Tasmanian Aboriginal death toll, and writes that Aborigines referred to by both Reynolds and Ryan as resistance figures, included ‘ black bushrangers ’ and others engaged in acts normally regarded as ' criminality '; arguing that the evidence clearly shows that attacks by Aborigines on settlers were almost invariably directed at acquiring goods, such as flour, sugar, tea and tobacco, and that claims by orthodox historians that this was a form of guerrilla warfare against British settlement aren't supported by credible evidence.

Over the years elite fields included Olympic champions, world records were continually sought, and the marathon continued to inspire Chicago communities and spectators until challenges of the early 1920s sidelined the event.

In entering into a relationship with her, Sloan accepted the challenges posed by her alcoholism and her sexual history, which included prostitution ; although Dolly worked in a department store by day, Sloan met her in a brothel.

Despite the challenges of syndication, which included varying airtimes ( sometimes late at night ) in various markets, the series was able to operate in the black, but not producing a profit substantial enough for investors to back it financially.

Segments included musical challenges.

Busoni, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Schreker were already recognized before 1914 as modernists, and Ives was retrospectively also included in this category for his challenges to the uses of tonality.

Using legal challenges, by the 1940s, black attorneys who included notables such as Thurgood Marshall, Oliver W. Hill, William H. Hastie, Spottswood W. Robinson III and Leon A. Ranson were gradually winning civil rights cases based upon federal constitutional issues.

Other challenges included allowing for the cargo to expand and contract due to temperature changes, and providing a method to ventilate the tanks.

These included that his grand jury had not been legal ; that challenges of certain jurors were improperly overruled ; that testimony by Amelia Jane Schofield was not permissible as it was under another indictment ; and, most importantly, that it was his religious duty to marry multiple times.

Such challenges included the removal of original lead paint, the complete replacement of all 16 tracks ( serving 200 trains a day ), extensive structural steel repairs ( under load ), erection of a new steel canopy, complete exterior masonry restoration, new electrical and plumbing, and construction of a new pedestrian concourse.

Also, to increase replay value, an offline multiplayer mode is included, along with challenges and extra movies unlocked with specific game completion percentages.

Recommendation 44 – Federal and provincial governments should prevent potential challenges to Canada ’ s health care system by: Ensuring that any future reforms they implement are protected under the definition of “ public services ” included in international law or trade agreements to which Canada is party ; and reinforcing Canada ’ s position that the right to regulate health care policy should not be subject to claims for compensation from foreign-based companies.

Unprecedented challenges included: all public transportation needed to be restarted, stoplights and street signs were destroyed, the city ’ s world famous street cars were in total disrepair, bankruptcy was a real threat, bonds were downgraded to junk status, half the city ’ s workforce was laid off, millions of tons of storm debris and construction trash had to be removed, construction costs tripled and an historic number of building permits needed to be issued.

It also included updates addressing short-term copyright reform issues dealing with the " challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet and digital technology in general ", fulfilling the Government Statement on Proposals for Copyright Reform.

There are many variations of this approach but important constructs included in all variations are promoting a sense of safety ; providing appropriate structures ; creating supportive relationships ; providing opportunities to belong ; providing positive social norms ; giving youth responsibilities and meaningful challenges ; and providing opportunities for skill building.

The score for A Little Night Music has elements not often found in musical theater, presenting challenges for performers, with complex meters, pitch changes, polyphony, and high notes for both males and females.

Faced with a high crime rate, a public corruption problem, often violent harassment and intimidation by unknown assailants of human rights activists, judicial workers, journalists, and witnesses in human rights trials, the government began serious attempts in 2001 to open a national dialogue to discuss the considerable challenges facing the country.

In this book he describes radical nanotechnology as a deterministic / mechanistic idea of nano engineered machines that does not take into account the nanoscale challenges such as wetness, stickness, brownian motion, high viscosity ( Drexler view ).

Within a few years, this previously obscure term featured regularly in the lexicon of the conservative social and political challenges against curriculum expansion and progressive teaching methods in US high schools and universities.

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High-rise structures pose particular design challenges for structural and geotechnical engineers, particularly if situated in a seismically active region or if the underlying soils have geotechnical risk factors such as high compressibility or bay mud.

Most of the city is underlain by smectite-rich clay which is locally capped by silt or fine sand ; the high shrink-swell potential associated with smectite creates major challenges to urban infrastructure.

Other local political concerns include Ogden ’ s relatively high tax and utility rates, efforts to fight crime, allegations of government corruption, and challenges facing the Ogden City schools.

He addresses a series of challenges created by people who are either skeptical of — or hostile towards — the idea of musical excellence within the walls of a typical middle-class American high school.

Among the challenges in tweeter design and manufacture are: providing adequate damping, to stop the dome's motion rapidly when the signal ends ; ensuring suspension linearity, to allow high output at the low end of its frequency range ; ensuring freedom from contact with the magnet assembly, keeping the dome centered as it moves ; and providing adequate power handling without adding excessive mass.

He was possibly an unwise choice as his arrogant behaviour towards his hosts, themselves no strangers to high self-esteem among military officers, resulted in numerous challenges to duel ; he was quickly sent home.

Reprocessing has been politically controversial because of the potential to contribute to nuclear proliferation, the potential vulnerability to nuclear terrorism, the political challenges of repository siting ( a problem that applies equally to direct disposal of spent fuel ), and because of its high cost compared to the once-through fuel cycle.

People high in N-Ach are characterised by a tendency to seek challenges and a high degree of independence.

Drawbacks and design challenges are excessive noise generation ( at takeoff and due to sonic booms during flight ), high development costs, expensive construction materials, great weight, and an increased cost per seat over subsonic airliners.

It provides a set of high performance object-oriented C ++ classes designed to help address the inherent complexities and challenges in network programming by preventing common errors.

The 12 American contestants were asked to transform from boys to refined gentlemen through a series of challenges, and mastering skills like arts, sports, cooking, and fitting into high society.

Players may also encounter tactical and exploration challenges, but these games first-and-foremost require high reaction speed and good hand – eye coordination.

Satisfaction is a high subjective attribute that provokes a difficult measuring due to the player preferences and pleasures have influence in the satisfaction for specific game elements: characters, virtual word, challenges, and so on.

To obtain a high degree of motivation, the game should have a set of resources to ensure the players perseverance in the performed actions to overcome the game challenges.

Yet, independence had its many challenges, as years of colonial neglect left The Gambia with only two government-owned hospitals and high schools, and a poor infrastructure.

The OUSL's Mission is To enhance access to high quality, affordable and relevant education through Open Distance Education and ensure lifelong learning opportunities to face challenges in a knowledge society

The challenges in most air ambulance operations, particularly those involving helicopters, are the high ambient noise levels and limited amounts of working space, both of which create significant issues for the provision of ongoing care.

This national annual high school competition encourages students to work collaboratively and apply their math and science knowledge in practical, creative ways to solve real everyday engineering challenges ; UNITE-With funding from the U. S. Army Educational Outreach Program ( AEOP ), the UNITE program is targeted toward talented high school students and helps prepare them for college through summer classes.