A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

Syllables are genuine units, but division of words and sentences into them presents great difficulties.

The simplest division, and the one most frequently used ( with subdivisions ) in gas and electric rate cases, is a threefold division of the total operating and capital costs into `` customer costs '', `` energy '' or `` volumetric costs '', and `` demand '' or `` capacity '' costs.

The city sewer maintenance division said efforts will be made Sunday to clear a stoppage in a sewer connection at Eddy and Elm Streets responsible for dumping raw sewage into the Providence River.

his division of society into two classes, one the hero, the other the villain.

Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.

The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

Soon after assuming the throne, he conducted a campaign to reincorporate the Balearic Islands into the Kingdom of Aragon-which had been lost due to the division of the kingdom by his grandfather, James I of Aragon.

The division into cold mist and warm ether first broke the spell of confusion.

In Sri Lanka the division of an acre into 160 perches or 4 roods is common.

Spencer believed that just as there were many varieties of beetles, respectively modified to existence in a particular place in nature, so too had human society “ spontaneously fallen into division of labour ”.

The Falcons went 11 – 5, winning their third division title and earning a first-round bye into the playoffs.

General support units may be grouped into artillery formations for example, brigades even divisions, or multi-battalion regiments, and usually under command of division, corps or higher HQs.

This information was then summarized as pieces of papyrus scroll into one big yearly account for each particular sub — division of the estate.

As aircraft began to travel faster, aerodynamicists realized that the density of air began to change as it came into contact with an object, leading to a division of fluid flow into the incompressible and compressible regimes.

They were organised into three corps headquarters, two motor divisions, one airborne division, one artillery division, three mechanized divisions, one airborne brigade, three surface-to-surface missile brigades, two antitank brigades, one special duties brigade, and seven surfaceto-air missile brigades.

* The division of both poems into two distinct phases-a first half Odyssean phase of wandering and adventuring in a different land and a second half Iliadic phase upon taking leadership in a new kingdom and fighting a terrible enemy there.

In 1994, the league was restructured into three divisions, with the three division winners and a wild-card team advancing to a best-of-five postseason round, the National League Division Series ( NLDS ).

In 1994, the league was restructured into three divisions, with the three division winners and a wild-card team advancing to a best-of-five postseason round, known as the American League Division Series ( ALDS ).

Its 24 chapters tell of the entry of the Israelites into Canaan, their conquest and division of the land under the leadership of Joshua, and of serving God in the land.

* Dividing up Europe The 1944 division of Europe between the Soviet Union and Britain into zones of influence.

Hare, and Simon Blackburn have argued in favor of the fact / norm distinction, meanwhile, with Gibbard going so far as to argue that, even if conventional English has only mixed normative terms ( that is, terms that are neither purely descriptive nor purely normative ), we could develop a nominally English metalanguage that still allowed us to maintain the division between factual descriptions and normative evaluations.

The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three conventional divisions of this volume of space, though treatments vary and a few objects such as do not fit easily into any division.

Coarse wavelength division multiplexing ( CWDM ) in contrast to conventional WDM and DWDM uses increased channel spacing to allow less sophisticated and thus cheaper transceiver designs.

Demarchy, in theory, could overcome some of the functional problems of conventional representative democracy, which is widely subject to manipulation by special interests and a division between professional policymakers ( politicians and lobbyists ) vs. a largely passive, uninvolved and often uninformed electorate.

The division by the standard molality b < sup >< s > o </ s ></ sup > or the standard amount concentration c < sup >< s > o </ s ></ sup > is necessary to ensure that both the activity and the activity coefficient are dimensionless, as is conventional.

Though the usage of the term as a kind of shorthand to designate the work of certain Post-war " schools " employing relatively specific material and generic techniques has become conventional since the mid-1980s, the theoretical underpinnings of Postmodernism as an epochal or epistemic division are still very much in controversy.

There is no clear division between a booby trap and conventional, mass produced land mines which are usually hidden under soil, but may be triggered by a tripwire or directional mine designed specifically to work with a tripwire.

In 1985, the division began its reorganization from a conventional infantry division to a light infantry division.

" Except for its educational division, which still publishes a substantial number of conventional textbooks, Thomson had the good fortune to move into these businesses as customers were demanding electronic delivery of their information ," according to a July 3, 2006 article in The New York Times.

Nevertheless, mimivirus does not exhibit the following characteristics, all of which are part of many conventional definitions of life: homeostasis, response to stimuli, growth in the normal sense of the term ( instead replicating via self-assembly of individual components ) or undergoing cellular division.

Its operations also cover South Port, which was renamed Southpoint for conventional cargo handling, and acquired Northport Distripark Sdn Bhd ( NDSB ) as part of its logistics division.

These imitations followed no convenient or conventional political or religious division.

In arithmetic, the Euclidean division is the conventional process of division of two integers producing a quotient and a remainder.

This and many other arguments by the show that there are legitimate ontological differences between the two schools of thought and that they are not really one school of thought that has a division in terms of how they describe the conventional and empty natures of phenomena.

After working in the rabies division of Rue Vaquelin and studying the microbe that causes dysentery, he seeks the collaboration of a younger bacteriologist, Fernald Widal: together they are able to immunize some guinea pigs by inoculating them with Eberth bacilluses previously killed by the heat, hence questioning the basis of the conventional vaccination method, built on the notion that only weakened-but not dead-bacteria can be used to immunize.

This migration of musical culture east from Paris to Burgundy also corresponds with the conventional ( and by no means universally accepted ) division of music history into Medieval and Renaissance ; while Guillaume de Machaut is often considered to be one of the last Medieval composers, Dufay is often considered to be the first significant Renaissance composer.

He eventually became the commander of the so-called Sonderkommando Dirlewanger ( at first designated as a battalion, later expanded to a brigade and eventually a division ), composed originally of a small group of former poachers along with soldiers of a more conventional background.

The decision to convert the division to a training role was undertaken after the poorly executed Arakan offensive when it was realised that the troops being sent into the field, both British and Indian, while not lacking conventional military fighting skills, lacked the necessary knowledge and training to operate in the Burmese jungle.

The group's subsidiaries include Etiqa Insurance & Takaful which provides both conventional and Shariah-compliant insurance products, and Maybank Investment Bank which is the Group's investment banking division following the acquisition of Mayban Discount and Mayban Securities.

There are other major " conventional " units in the United States Army that have parachute capabilities ; the separate 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, based in Italy and Germany, and the Alaska-based 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, which has its division headquarters in Hawaii, and the 1st Battalion ( Airborne ), 509th Infantry Regiment based in Fort Polk, Louisiana supporting the Joint Readiness Training Center as the opposing force for training rotational units.

) The division between classes is conventional and rigid ; each verb receives the class that typically corresponds to it.