Steel is the strongest commonly-available fiber, and comes in different lengths ( 30 to 80 mm in Europe ) and shapes ( end-hooks ).

The Wilheminian values were further discredited as consequence of World War I and the subsequent inflation, since the new youth generation saw no point in saving for marriage in such conditions, and preferred instead to spend and enjoy.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole-" Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

One decade of the E12 series ( there are twelve preferred values per decade of values ) shown with their electronic color codes on resistors.

Resistors use preferred numbers for their specific values, which are determined by their tolerance.

The tolerance of device values is arranged so that every value corresponds to a preferred number, within the required tolerance.

The method is slower but more sensitive at lower values of k, which are also preferred for searches involving a very short query sequence.

There are used for 130 phonetic values, each used to write on average ten homophonous or nearly homophonous words, though there are allographs as well ; women differed on which Chinese character they preferred for a particular phonetic value.

Because “ the right to petition is ‘ among the most precious of the liberties safeguarded by the Bill of Rights ,’ ... the right of access to the courts shares this ‘ preferred place ’ in our hierarchy of constitutional freedoms and values.

That is, prospect A might be preferred to prospect B even if the probability of receiving a value x or greater is at least as high under prospect B as it is under prospect A for all values of x, and is greater for some value of x.

These differ in their preferred line ending convention and their interpretation of values outside the ASCII range ( their character encoding ).

Religious apologetics is the effort to show that the preferred faith is not irrational, that believing in it is not against human reason, and that in fact the religion contains values and promotes ways of life more in accord with human nature than other faiths or beliefs.

While Intermedia values both disciplines, the term " Intermedia " has become the preferred term for interdisciplinary practice.

Numerically odd values may be preferred so that processors without byte addressing will fault when attempting to use them as pointers ( which must fall at even addresses ).

This interface is termed the " customization wizard ", and it creates a user layer which stores the user's preferred values of the properties.

A median filter is a rank-selection ( RS ) filter, a particularly harsh member of the family of rank-conditioned rank-selection ( RCRS ) filters ; a much milder member of that family, for example one that selects the closest of the neighboring values when a pixel's value is external in its neighborhood, and leaves it unchanged otherwise, is sometimes preferred, especially in photographic applications.

He commented that he would have preferred if the games weren't one-hit-kill games, saying that it hampers their replay values.

Then in December 2002 the organization publishes The Redesign of Studio Culture that outlines the five values for the preferred culture in studios: engagement, innovation, optimism, respect and sharing.

In this latter case, values are no more a matter for logical defence than are aesthetic judgements or matters of preferred flavours ; with the presumption of a necessity for logical defence coming simply from a different bias of value set ( one which seeks abstract universal guides that can be applied in a meaningful way by concrete personal beings ( humans )).

The values of the common and preferred stock were based on the closing price of MetLife ’ s common stock on October 29.

Note that even if a PRL is restrictive according to the preferred only indicator, the use of wildcard SID / NID or MCC / MNC values as preferred systems would essentially make the PRL permissive because wildcards match any system that is located.

However, interpretation of decay values is not straightforward, and they seem to be preferred by authors with philosophical objections to the bootstrap ( although many morphological systematists, especially paleontologists, report both ).

Subsequently, a PPO is preferred when: comparing oscillator values between different securities, especially those with substantially different prices ; or comparing oscillator values for the same security at significantly different times, especially a security whose value has changed greatly.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

Prosperity for the whole nation is certainly preferred to a tax cut.

Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.

From the evidence `` it may be conjectured that core - core marriages are the preferred unions for core males and females ; ;

The wash wheel is the equipment preferred for the test.

Mr. Clifton would have preferred death and bankruptcy to having his son stay with his wife's people without contributing to his and his family's upkeep, and besides that there were the things that had to be bought for the baby, milk and orange juice and vitamins and soap, just plain soap.

When looking for a long-term partner more conventional altruism may be preferred which may indicate that he is also willing to share resources with her and her children while when looking for a short-term partner heroic risk-taking, which may be costly signal showing good genes, may be more preferable.

be preferred for reporting purposes.

Although specialized and experienced amateur astronomers tend to acquire more specialized and more powerful equipment over time, relatively simple equipment is often preferred for certain tasks.

After trouble with an incompetent Swiss French nursery helper Marcelle for toddler Rosalind, she decides " Scottish preferred .. good with the young.

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

Alcott preferred the term " Symposium " for their group.

One possible reason for this distribution is that the population preferred not to live in the forest except in troubled times.

In New York's Chinatown, the restaurants were known for having a " phantom " menu with food preferred by ethnic Chinese, but believed to be disliked by non-Chinese Americans.

There were a few reasons for this, one of which was political, as the kings of England preferred to appoint bishops from the south to the northern bishoprics, hoping to counter the northern tendency towards separatism.

Herodian says " in their opinion Alexander showed no honourable intention to pursue the war and preferred a life of ease, when he should have marched out to punish the Germans for their previous insolence ".

For theoretical analysis, this approach is more suited for constructing detailed formal proofs and is generally preferred in the research literature.

In contrast, the Danes preferred to choose easy targets, mapping cautious forays designed to avoid risking all their accumulated plunder with high-stake attacks for more.

This was the preferred method for protein consumption over animal husbandry, as it required much more work to defend the kept animals against American Indians or the French.

Long-term trials have shown continued effectiveness without the development of tolerance, and, in addition, unlike benzodiazepines, it does not disrupt sleep architecture and produces less severe cognitive and psychomotor impairment ; it also has a low potential for abuse and dependence and may be preferred over the benzodiazepines for these reasons.

The baneful influence of these antiquated principles was clearly shown in the maintenance of Königgratz-Josefstadt in 1866 as a strategic point, which was preferred to the defeat of the separated Prussian armies, and in the strange plans produced in Vienna for the campaign of 1859, and in the almost unintelligible Battle of Montebello in the same year.

In Indian mythology, autumn is considered to be the preferred season for the goddess of learning Saraswati, who is also known by the name of " goddess of autumn " ( Sharada ).