The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.

It was introduced to Europe at the close of the 17th century as a handsome greenhouse plant, and is hardy outdoors in the south of England and Ireland if protected from severe frosts.

Jaguar Land Rover announced in October 2010 that they have scrapped plans to close one of the two facilities in the Midlands – Jaguar's Castle Bromwich Assembly and Land Rover's Solihull plant.

The leaves of the plant close quickly when touched.

The team claimed that part of the Palestinian leader's wealth was in a secret portfolio worth close to $ 1 billion, with investments in companies like a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Ramallah, a Tunisian cell phone company and venture capital funds in the US and the Cayman Islands.

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl disaster occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine situated close to the border with Belarus.

It is often burned in power stations constructed very close to any mines, such as in Australia's Latrobe Valley and Luminant's Monticello plant in Texas.

It then announced plans to lay off 13, 000 employees in mid-February 2007, close a major assembly plant and reduce production at other plants in order to restore profitability by 2008.

In Universal Century, the space-based Principality of Zeon rebels against Earth Federation, requiring a weapons system that could function in zero and normal gravity and be able to open and close air locks, plant demolition charges, and engage with enemy tanks and planes ; with a robotic giant being an excellent choice.

A shill, plant, or stooge is a person who publicly helps a person or organization without disclosing that he has a close relationship with that person or organization.

* Slovenia will close down its nuclear plant by this year.

Note that anise hyssop, Agastache foeniculum ( also called blue giant hyssop ), is a very different plant and not a close relation, although both are in the mint family.

It was encouraged for pragmatic reasons, such as natural trellising, but mainly with the idea that different species of plant may thrive more when close together.

A Rubbermaid plant was the county's largest private employer, until the company announced, in June 2006, that the plant, located in the Centerville industrial park, would close in October 2006.

In March 2006, Fruit of the Loom announced it would close the Rabun Apparel plant and lay off all 930 employees.

Other episode plots in this season included: a prominent citizen being murdered due to sexual abuse in his family ; Virgil ’ s ex-partner and Althea ’ s ex-lover coming back to Sparta and being exposed as a murderer ; Chief Gillespie having to confront the legacy of his own bigoted past when he's duty-bound to arrest a close, lifelong friend — who is also the sheriff of the neighboring county — for committing a racially-motivated murder in his jail ; Bubba getting caught up in a love triangle ; Althea ’ s niece visiting from Philadelphia ; Virgil and Althea going to an all-White church ; Joanne being stalked by a murderous ex-con, which eventually exposes that she had been a prostitute out of necessity in a different city, long ago ; the arrest of councilwoman White ’ s son ; Chief Gillespie witnessing, and being deeply affected by, an execution ; a plant strike that leads to murder ; Bubba being accused of rape ; and, a manhunt for a drunk driver who killed three of Sparta's most popular high school cheerleaders, and crippled a fourth.

On March 11, 2009 National announced plans to close its assembly and test plant in Suzhou, China, and its wafer fabrication plant in Arlington, Texas.

The plant takes the form of a sprawling, mat-forming perennial, and is especially abundant close to the coast.

Hoping to give better and faster service to the fisherman and buyers, he began looking for a place to build a cold storage plant close to the fishing grounds.

IC has decided to close the plant and move all bus manufacturing to the Tulsa, OK plant.

In 1925, the Marvell Bottling plant was built by James Williford, only to close shortly afterward due to the high cost and shortage of sugar.

The millimeter-wave WPAN will allow high coexistence ( close physical spacing ) with all other microwave systems in the 802. 15 family of WPANs.

This allows close to uniform spacing of 12 keys per octave while maintaining uniformity of seven " natural " keys per octave.

An efficient Tesla turbine requires close spacing of the disks.

They are annulated, although the annulation may be difficult to discern on account of their close spacing (~ 0. 2mm ) and low relief.

* the bigger the discrepancy δp, the closer the dark and pale zones ; a great spacing between dark and pale zones mean that the patterns have very close steps.

Several of these kits are also available for the OO modeller who aims for more realistic track, since most RTR track is actually scaled to HO and does not represent any British prototype and the sleeper spacing is too close together for scale.

In spite of the close proximity of Wallasey and Birkenhead and their respective ferry landing stages, both Corporations had used different gangway spacing on their vessels.

The key decision for the perforator is the spacing of the holes ; if too far apart, the stamps will not separate easily, and the stamps are likely to tear, but if too close, the stamps will tend to come apart in normal handling.

A clearance seal is used to close or fill ( and join ) spacing between two parts, e. g. in machine housings, to allow for the vibration of those parts.

However, if a piece of metal is located sufficiently close to a twin-lead line, within a distance comparable to the wire spacing, it will be significantly closer to one wire than the other.

The purpose of three-sided cards is to provide the benefits of two-sided cards – ease of authoring ( enter data once to create two cards ), synchronized updates ( changes to one are reflected in the other ), and spacing between opposite sides ( so opposite sides of the same card are not tested too close together ) – without the card needing to be symmetric.

In most European countries the standard mains power receptacle will physically accept banana and even US-style " double banana " plugs ( the standard US pin spacing of 3 / 4 inch ( 19. 05 mm ) is close enough to the mains plug spacing of about 19 mm, and the pin diameter is also compatible ), leading to a risk of electrical shock.

However, this close lead spacing made solder bridges more likely and put higher demands on the soldering process and alignment of parts during assembly.

The later pin grid array and ball grid array packages, by allowing connections to be made over the area of the package and not just around the edges, allowed for higher pin counts with similar package sizes, and reduced the problems with close lead spacing.

The close string spacing and light strings might have made guitarists more comfortable, but were an annoyance to string bass players.

By maintaining the same proportion of spacing throughout the algorithm, we avoid a situation in which is very close to or, and guarantee that the interval width shrinks by the same constant proportion in each step.

The close spacing of the plates can make thorough cleaning difficult, and the stack of plates often cannot be easily disassembled for cleaning.

With more difficult production comes the employment of a variety of enhanced oil recovery techniques, including steam flooding and tighter well spacing, often as close as one well per acre.

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

However, if their United States income is not subject to the withholding of tax on wages, their returns are due June 15, 1962, if they use a calendar year, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of their fiscal year.

We use the term `` bio-medicine '' because of the close interrelation between biology and medical research.

Absolute zero cannot be achieved, although it is possible to reach temperatures close to it through the use of cryocoolers, dilution refrigerators, and nuclear adiabatic demagnetization.

Throughout his later career, he made use of his close connection to Thomson and Scott as he established businesses that supplied rails and bridges to the railroad, offering the two men a stake in his enterprises.

In that setting one can use birational geometry, techniques from number theory, Galois theory and commutative algebra, and close analogues of the methods of algebraic topology, all in an integrated way.

Those that do not use this approach tend to put these officers close to the guns.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

However the Soviets harshly protested against the use of the Reichstag building by institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany and tried to disturb the sittings by flying supersonic jets close to the building.

Before this time bricks were generally made close to their point of intended use.

Panzer forces were dispersed among the three German concentrations without strong emphasis on independent use, being used to create or destroy close pockets of Polish forces and seize operational-depth terrain in support of the largely un-motorized infantry which followed.

For instance, if a user is designing a Microsoft Windows desktop application, he / she might use the. NET Windows Forms library to design the desktop application and call its APIs like Form1. Close () and Form1. Show () to close or open the application and write the additional operations him / herself that it need to have.

Winer's influence gave him the desire to use the oldest manuscripts in order to compile the text of the New Testament as close to the original as possible.

Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of chiaroscuro.

In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

They are typically used for tight, controlled shots that are close to the basket, although some players use them for short drives where trees or other obstacles come into play.

While many mathematicians before Galois gave consideration to what are now known as groups, it was Galois who was the first to use the word group ( in French groupe ) in a sense close to the technical sense that is understood today, making him among the founders of the branch of algebra known as group theory.

Against Enki's wish the Gods decide to slay Kingu, and Enki finally consents to use Kingu's blood to make the first human, with whom Enki always later has a close relationship, the first of the seven sages, seven wise men or " Abgallu " (* Ab

A leading example of this use of close in reverse-angle cutting is His Last Fight ( 1913 ), directed by Ralph Ince for Vitagraph, in which one-third of the cuts are between a shot and the reverse angle.

Another often used model, especially in computational fluid dynamics, is to use the Euler equations away from the body and the boundary layer equations, which incorporates viscosity, in a region close to the body.

Because they fire pistol ammunition, they have limited long-range use, but in close combat can be used in fully automatic in a controllable manner due to the lighter recoil of the pistol ammunition.

Besides using Gothic architecture as a setting, with the aim of eliciting certain associations from the reader, there was an equally close association between the use of Gothic architecture and the storylines of Gothic novels, with the architecture often serving as a mirror for the characters and the plot lines of the story.

" This suggests that Hecate's close association with dogs derived in part from the use of watchdogs, who, particularly at night, raised an alarm when intruders approached.

Richmond Hill was decommissioned after the close of 405 line broadcasts, although the 200ft tower remained in use for radio with Manx Radio transmitting on 96. 9 MHz and then 97. 3 MHz until 1989.

The Scuderi design requires the use of outwardly opening valves that enable the piston to move very close to the cylinder head without the interference of the valves.