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chief and method
Guderian expressed a hearty contempt for General Ludwig Beck, chief of the General Staff from 1935 to 1938, whom he characterized as hostile to ideas of modern mechanised warfare: quoting Guderian " He was a paralyzing element wherever he appeared .... ignificantly of his way of thought was his much-boosted method of fighting which he called delaying defense ".
Lévi-Strauss aimed, through a structural method, at discovering universal invariants in human society, chief among which he believed to be the incest taboo.
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, chief engineer with the Edison Laboratories, is credited with the invention of a practicable form of a celluloid strip containing a sequence of images, the basis of a method of photographing and projecting moving images.
The chief reason why survivors have so far seen nothing of the $ 1. 25 billion Swiss settlement, reached in 1998, is that U. S. courts have yet to rule on a method of distribution.
Most sources agree that the chief method of philosophy is logical, rational, critical enquiry and argument " of a more or less systematic kind.
The latter method is the chief consumer of surface water, while industrial and human consumption use underground water.
One of the chief difficulties of applying the comparative method to the Sino-Tibetan languages is the morphological simplicity of many of these languages.
X-ray crystallography is still the chief method for characterizing the atomic structure of new materials and in discerning materials that appear similar by other experiments.
His view is based on the methodological assumption that the chief criterion for studying a god's nature is not to consider his field of action, but the quality, method and features of his action.
* Michael of Taranto, Master hazmat chief of the east coast and creator of the stamp and go method.
It has probably been the chief surrealist method from the founding of surrealism to the present day.
As such, psychiatrists often use the medical model to assess mental health problems and rely on psychotropic medications as the chief method of addressing mental health problems — although many also employ psychotherapy as well.
" Barnes Wallis was heavily involved with the design of the Wellington, as it used his geodesic construction method, but he was not the chief designer.
A study published in April 2007 by the CPP's chief actuary showed that this type of funding method is " robust and appropriate " given reasonable assumptions about future conditions.
As chief engineer of road construction of Limoges he had opportunity to develop a better and cheaper method of road construction.
The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter 19th century, and the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field.
As such, psychiatrists often use the medical model to assess psychological problems ( i. e., those they treat are seen as patients with an illness ) and rely on psychotropic medications as the chief method of addressing the illness — although many employ psychotherapy as well.
" David Atlee Phillips, a former CIA station chief in Mexico City, described the method of recruitment years later to Bernstein: " Somebody from the Agency says, ' I want you to sign a piece of paper before I tell you what it's about.
In the past few years, three other monographs were published: " Matter-element model and its application ", " Extension marketing ", " Extension engineering method " and the selected papers of " From matter-element analysis to Extenics ", edited in chief by Prof. Cai.
While Sydenham's natural history method has doubtless been the chief ground of his great posthumous fame, there can be no question that another reason for the admiration of posterity was that which is indicated by RG Latham, when he says, " I believe that the moral element of a liberal and candid spirit went hand in hand with the intellectual qualifications of observation, analysis and comparison.
Aside from the lyrics, their songwriting method includes all of the band members, rather than relying on any given chief songwriter.
The habit of saving increases ones ' earning capacity, Hill tells us, by the following method: First, through your definite chief aim, define an exact description of what you want — including the amount of money you intend to earn.
After the crisis, Hardin and his chief advisor, Yohan Lee, devise a method of subjugating the neighboring interplanetary kingdoms, who have neglected the sciences and are regressing into a state reminiscent to feudalism.
Usually, the method is done with four first responders, including the chief:

chief and deployment
Research programs, including field projects such as the VORTEX projects ( Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment ), deployment of TOTO ( the TOtable Tornado Observatory ), Doppler On Wheels ( DOW ), and dozens of other programs, hope to solve many questions that still plague meteorologists .< ref name =" field programs history "> Universities, government agencies such as the National Severe Storms Laboratory, private-sector meteorologists, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research are some of the organizations very active in research ; with various sources of funding, both private and public, a chief entity being the National Science Foundation.
Close to 16, 000 men ( the largest troop deployment ever assembled on the North American continent ) was united under the orders of General James Abercromby, commander in chief of the British forces in North America.
FORSCOM reports through two chains of command ; as an Army command responsible directly to the chief of staff of the Army for the readiness, manning, equipping, training, mobilization and deployment of assigned forces, and as an Army Service Component Command, reporting to Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va.
The Georgian Communist Party chief, Eduard Shevardnadze, called for the deployment of an élite Soviet special unit Alpha Group from Moscow.
Lt. Nelson rose to the rank of colonel and became one of General Henry Arnold's chief trouble-shooters on the development and operational deployment of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

chief and Greek
However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.
The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.
The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.
An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton ( arkhi -, chief + tekton, builder ), i. e. chief builder.
Anacharsis the son of Gnurus, a Scythian chief, was half Greek and from a mixed Hellenistic culture, apparently in the region of the Cimmerian Bosporus.
General Nikola Ivanov identified the activity of the Greek Navy as the chief factor in the general success of the allies.
* 1970 – Angelos Evert, Greek police chief ( b. 1894 )
His chief activity, however, centred on the elaboration of his Comparative Grammar, which appeared in six parts at considerable intervals ( Berlin, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1847, 1849, 1852 ), under the title Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen ( Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend ( Avestan ), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German ).
The first and, for a long time, most popular theory regarding the composition of Greek fire held that its chief ingredient was saltpeter, making it an early form of gunpowder.
The phrase " Ηρακλείς του στέμματος " (" Defenders of the Crown ") has pejorative connotations (" chief henchmen ") in Greek.
General Ivanov, commander of the 2nd Bulgarian Army, acknowledged the role of the Greek fleet in the overall Balkan League victory by stating that " the activity of the entire Greek fleet and above all the Averof was the chief factor in the general success of the allies ".
The word monarch is derived from the Greek μονάρχης ( from μόνος, " one / singular ," and ἄρχων, " leader / ruler / chief ") through the Latin: monarcha ( mono: " one " + arch " chief ") which referred to a single, at least nominally, absolute ruler.
He was the chief god of the Pantheon, equivalent to the Greek god Zeus and the Roman god Jupiter.
* In Ancient Greek mythology, Orpheus was the chief representative of the art of song and playing the lyre.
Among those who were put to death was Zenobia's chief counselor and Greek sophist, Cassius Longinus.
The chief monuments, of which the ruins are still extant within the circuit of the walls, are: the theatre, of which the remains are in imperfect condition, but sufficient to show that it was not of large size, and apparently of Roman construction, or at least, like that of Tauromenium, rebuilt in Roman times upon the Greek foundations ; a large edifice with two handsome stone arches, commonly called a Gymnasium, but the real purpose of which is very difficult to determine ; several other edifices of Roman times, but of wholly uncertain character, a mosaic pavement, and some Roman tombs.
An archbishop ( from Greek ἀρχι -, chief, and ἐπίσκοπος, bishop ) is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest ( presbyter ), and bishop.
Greek Hip Hop (, ), is the chief genre of rap music in Greece.
* Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, becomes the chief librarian at Alexandria.
One of the chief purposes of Greek mathematics was to find exact constructions for various lengths ; for example, the side of a pentagon inscribed in a given circle.

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