He decreased the silver purity of the denarius from 89 % to 83. 5 % — the actual silver weight dropping from 2. 88 grams to 2. 68 grams.

Upon his accession he reduced the silver purity of the denarius from 46. 5 % to 43 % — the actual silver weight dropping from 1. 41 grams to 1. 30 grams ; however, in 229 he revalued the denarius, increasing the silver purity and weight to 45 % and 1. 46 grams respectively.

Single-walled nanotubes are dropping precipitously in price, from around $ 1500 per gram as of 2000 to retail prices of around $ 50 per gram of as-produced 40 – 60 % by weight SWNTs as of March 2010.

He decreased the silver purity of the denarius from 58 % to 46. 5 % — the actual silver weight dropping from 1. 82 grams to 1. 41 grams.

He also reduced the silver purity from 79 % to 76 % — the silver weight dropping from 2. 57 grams to 2. 34 grams.

He decreased the silver purity of the denarius from 56. 5 % to 51. 5 %, the actual silver weight dropping from 1. 81 grams to 1. 66 grams – though the overall weight slightly increased.

Designed for unicycle trials, trials unicycles are stronger than standard unicycles in order to withstand the stresses caused by jumping, dropping, and supporting the weight of the unicycle and rider on components such as the pedals and cranks.

Removing the First Law's " inaction " clause solves this problem but creates the possibility of an even greater one: a robot could initiate an action which would harm a human ( dropping a heavy weight and failing to catch it is the example given in the text ), knowing that it was capable of preventing the harm and then decide not to do so.

Carpentier defended his title twice again in 1919 before dropping down a weight to challenge Battling Levinsky for the light heavyweight championship of the world.

Upon his accession, Julianus immediately devalued the Roman currency, decreasing the silver purity of the denarius from 87 % to 81. 5 % — the actual silver weight dropping from 2. 75 grams to 2. 40 grams.

Trials unicycles are stronger than standard unicycles in order to withstand the stresses caused by jumping, dropping, and supporting the weight of the unicycle and rider on components such as the pedals and cranks.

You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by dropping a heavy weight in front of it.

The characteristic " melting " appearance of the Moreton Bay fig is due to its habit of dropping aerial roots from its branches, which upon reaching the ground, thicken into supplementary trunks which help to support the weight of its crown.

By dropping their elbows and reaching the necessary blade to the surface on the side they are flipping on the paddler can use the power face to pull down on while doing a side crunch to redistribute their weight over their boat.

If the belt is too loose you could either have it slip upward and injure the patient's chest ( especially the female patient ) or increase your risk for dropping them once the weight is put on the belt.

Flash memory ( in particular, NAND flash ) has an established and growing niche as a replacement for magnetic hard disks in high performance enterprise computing installations because it has no moving parts ( making it more robust ) and has a much lower latency ; as removable storage such as USB sticks, because in lower capacity ranges it can be made smaller and cheaper than hard disks ; and on portable devices such as notebook computers and cell phones because of its lower size and weight, better tolerance of physical stress caused by e. g. shaking or dropping, and low power consumption.

Edie easily manipulated the situation at Silver Hill, but her weight kept dropping to just ninety pounds.

The 1977 Delta 88s and other GM B-body cars were considerably downsized from their predecessors in length and wheelbase ( – the same as the four-door 1973 – 77 A-body Cutlass Sedan ) and nearly lighter in weight, with curb weights dropping to between depending on model.

The math curriculum has varied as well, occasionally dropping and adding new subjects or shifting the weight of particular subjects.

" According to a VH1 reunion episode, the issue of Iyall's weight was the reason for the label dropping them.

For a long time, it was the only seismic source available until weight dropping was introduced around 1954, allowing geophysicists to make a trade-off between image quality and environmental damage.

Shamrock came into the fight with Fujita noticeably smaller than his previous fight with Otsuka, dropping roughly 15 pounds of weight.

Whether five, seven, or eight, none proved sufficient to sever the man's head from his suffering body, and Ketch pulled a butcher's knife from the sheath on his hip, which he drew across the last cords of sinew and flesh that prevented the head from dropping to the scaffold floor.

Alesi pulled away and Berger was dropping back.

Changing is done simply by stepping into the new longyi and pulling it up, at the same time loosening and dropping the old one, or the new one can be pulled over from the head down.

The men's version of the loros was a long strip, dropping down straight in front to below the waist, and with the portion behind pulled round to the front and hung gracefully over the left arm.

For bow collectors and pantographs, this is done by having two contact wires run side by side over a length about four wire supports: a new one dropping down and the old one rising up, allowing the pantograph to smoothly transfer from one to the other.

At the end of the run is the arrest wire and the mono-track that guides it expands to slow it down after dropping it arrest gear in case of a failure.

Biggs served 19 months before escaping from Wandsworth Prison on 8 July 1965 by scaling the wall with a rope ladder and dropping on to a waiting removal van.

* The single-pulley technique entails dropping a pulley attached to another length of rope, which the victim clips to the climbing harness.

Such tropes that are frequently seen in westerns include shooting the center of a coin, stylistic pistol twirling, glancing shots that intentionally only graze an opponent ( the bullet through the hat being an example, the bullet cutting the hangman's rope being another trope in Westerns ), precise shots that shoot the guns out of opponents ' hands ( typically as an alternative to killing ), or shooting an opponent's belt buckle, thus dropping his pants.

Tintin and the Captain revive and find themselves in a grain silo but are rescued by Snowy dropping a rope into it.

The rope was too short, and in dropping to the ground he broke one of his bones, but succeeded in getting to the boat.

When she finally catches up with Flying Fox, he hangs Kai from a rope, dropping her from a great height.

He loses his gun, and Hannay lowers a rope to him, but the exhausted Medina is too much for one-handed Hannay to raise up, and lowering him wears through the rope until it breaks, dropping Medina to his death.

He had almost given up when he realized that the dropping of his biwa into the icy jowls of the black Pacific was the memory for which he had been searching.

The word was formerly written in English as " Accomptant ", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the " p ", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form ( see also comptroller ).

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

The practice of dropping the letter u in such words was also considered a labour-saving technique during the early days of printing in which movable type was set manually.

This also made it difficult to pass the ball when very close to one's own end zone, since merely dropping back to pass or kick would result in a safety ( rules of the forward pass at the time required the passer to be five yards behind the line of scrimmage, which would make throwing the forward pass when the ball was snapped from behind one's own five-yard line illegal in itself ).

The Oxford English Dictionary ( first edition ) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness ; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French conter fleurette, which means " to ( try to ) seduce " by the dropping of flower petals, that is, " to speak sweet nothings ".

The numerous other systems which have been used by diverse countries for their maps and charts are gradually dropping out of use as more and more countries move to global, geocentric reference systems using the GRS80 reference ellipsoid.

The symptoms of a single person may be similar from episode to episode, but are not necessarily so and may be influenced by the speed at which glucose levels are dropping, as well as previous incidents.

Kabul experimented with liberalization, dropping laws requiring women to wear the burka, restrictions on speech and assembly loosened which led to student politics in the capital.

This reduces the power of the parser because, as the following example depicts, dropping the lookahead info can confuse the parser as to which grammar rule to pick next, resulting in a reduce / reduce conflict.

As their arms / points of contact move away from each other, they develop tension, which the follow may either break by dropping their arms or breaking the hold, or ' follow ' by moving.

University of California, Berkeley has three institutional structures within which media studies can take place: the department of Film and Media ( formerly Film Studies Program ), including famous theorists as Mary Ann Doane and Linda Williams, the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies, dropping any connotations which accompany the term “ Mass ” in the former title.

Those who want to vote against the sole candidate on the ballot must go to a special booth to cross out the candidate's name before dropping it into the ballot box — an act which, according to many North Korean defectors, is far too risky to even contemplate.

U. S. forces then recaptured Guam beginning July 21 and invaded Tinian ( see Battle of Tinian ) on July 24, which provided the take off point for the Enola Gay, the plane dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima a year later.

Bismarck was discarded (" dropping the pilot " in the words of the famous Punch cartoon ), promoted to the rank of " Colonel-General with the Dignity of Field Marshal " ( so-called because the German Army did not appoint full Field Marshals in peacetime ) and given a new title, Duke of Lauenburg, which he joked would be useful when travelling incognito.

The " Lombard " appeared in 1999, ( AKA: Bronze Keyboard ) a thinner, lighter, and faster ( 333 or 400 MHz ) PowerBook with a longer battery life and had both USB and SCSI built in and was a New World ROM Mac, and then the " Pismo " in 2000, which replaced the single SCSI port with two FireWire ports, updated the PowerBook line to AGP graphics, a 100 MHz bus speed, and DVD-ROM optical drives standard, in addition to dropping the " G3 " from the PowerBook name.

An alternate packing technique called the Frank method involves lightly dropping tobacco in the pipe, after which a large plug is gingerly pushed into the bowl all at once.

The new strategic thinking found its place in the proposed Joint Emergency War Plan codenamed “ Halfmoon ”, which called for the dropping of fifty atomic bombs on twenty cities in the Soviet Union.

Following that game, which sapped the team's bullpen strength, the Padres stumbled, dropping games at home, where they struggled to score runs, and on the road, where they committed uncharacteristic errors and failed to hold leads.

After secondary school Saddam studied at an Iraqi law school for three years, dropping out in 1957 at the age of 20 to join the revolutionary pan-Arab Ba ' ath Party, of which his uncle was a supporter.

Time-sensitive applications often use UDP because dropping packets is preferable to waiting for delayed packets, which may not be an option in a real-time system.

There was no catastrophic epidemic or famine in England or Scotland in the 19th century – it was the first century in which a major epidemic did not occur throughout the whole country, with deaths per 1000 of population per year in England and Wales dropping from 21. 9 from 1848 – 54 to 17 in 1901 ( contrasting with, for instance, 5. 4 in 1971 ).

The Mail Strike, for example, which consists of a flying postbox dropping explosive envelopes, is a reference to the postal strikes of the time, while the Mad Cow refers to Britain's BSE epidemic of the 1990s.