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enormous and encyclopedic
Although the law book was poorly arranged and offered little explanations on contradictory passages, it attained enormous popularity, owing to its encyclopedic nature and to its being written in simple Burmese with little Pali.

enormous and work
* 1958: Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew took to a newspaper office a cast of one of the enormous footprints he and other workers had seen at an isolated work site at Bluff Creek, California.
The 10th edition was a nine-volume supplement to the 9th, but the 11th edition was a completely new work, and is still praised for excellence ; its owner, Horace Hooper, lavished enormous effort on its perfection.
However, despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries, there is still no certain definition of what folk music ( or folklore, or the folk ) is.
As Montag leaves for work, he finally tells Mildred ( who is watching an interactive soap opera on the " parlor walls " -- three enormous, floor-to-ceiling television screens ) that she overdosed on sleeping pills.
The primary advantage of in vitro work is that it permits an enormous level of simplification of the system under study, so that the investigator can focus on a small number of components.
But while Mies ' work had enormous influence and critical recognition, his approach failed to sustain a creative force as a style after his death and was eclipsed by the new wave of Post Modernism by the 1980s.
Much of Jacobi's work was published posthumously in the 1860s, generating enormous interest in France and Germany ( Hawkins, p. 43 ).
The construction produced a tremendous economic boom, as thousands of Paraguayans who had never before held a regular job went to work on the enormous dam.
Satisfied that his Japanese collaborators would continue his work, he journeyed back on the frigate Java to his former residence, Batavia, in possession of his enormous collection of thousands of animals and plants, his books and his maps.
This work has continued without interruption ever since, an enormous federal subsidy of San Francisco Bay shipping.
He had enormous influence on the 20th century's most important ghost story writer, M. R. James, and although his work fell out of favour in the early part of the 20th century, towards the end of the century interest in his work increased and remains comparatively strong.
Neither workers nor managers really controlled the work process and this created enormous inefficiencies and waste.
" Kimberly Jones of The Austin Chronicle noted that the two leading characters being mistreated was the biggest disappointment from The Wedding Planner, feeling that while Lopez and McConaughey have " enormous charisma " ( referencing Lopez's work on Out of Sight ( 1998 ) as an example ) the " blandness of The Wedding Planner burlap-sacks their appeal in an altogether dowdy outing for two stars who deserve much snazzier threads.
* 1084: the enormous Chinese historical work of the Zizhi Tongjian is compiled by scholars under Chancellor Sima Guang, completed in 294 volumes and included 3 million written Chinese characters
* Song Zhun of Song Dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1, 556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village.
He also noted that he exhibited an " enormous capacity for work ".
The Sound Pattern of English has had an enormous influence on subsequent work.
The band took a full Moog modular synthesizer ( an enormous, complex, and unreliable ( tuning-wise ) instrument, which Dr. Robert Moog thought " would never work live ") on the road with them, which added to the uniqueness of the band's live sound.
These groups developed, constructed and run house-high, complex measurement devices in many years of cooperative work and evaluate enormous amounts of data.
For instance, despite a high degree of automation within Culture technology, menial tasks are often undertaken by non-sentient technology, to avoid the exploitation of sentient lifeforms ( though Minds often work at administrative tasks using bare fractions of their enormous mental capabilities ).
Albert Johannsen authored an enormous two volume scholarly work, The House of Beadle & Adams, which is exhaustive in its detail.
Considering that the piece was written in a rather short time, it can be considered work of an enormous performance.
The published criticism of James's work has reached enormous proportions.

enormous and China
The decades of Manchu conquest caused enormous loss of lives and the economic scale of China shrank drastically.
The inclusion of China as an " approved " importing country created enormous controversy despite being supported by CITES, the World Wide Fund for Nature and Traffic.
The 1990s led to an enormous growth in China ’ s economic welfare.
There are vague plans about extending rail lines from Balykchy in the north and / or from Osh in the south into the People's Republic of China, but the cost of construction would be enormous.
A constituent, James Stewart, once commented to a friend who wrote this letter, "... he ( Stewart ) had come mainly to see one Jardine, an enormous Laird from Applegarth Parish and China, and a very good man ; who is understood to be dangerously ill at present.
* 1771: The enormous Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex of Chengde, China is completed
* 1161: the Song Dynasty Chinese navy, employing gunpowder bombs launched from trebuchets, defeats the enormous Jin Dynasty navy in the East China Sea in the Battle of Tangdao and on the Yangtze River in the Battle of Caishi.
* The enormous Du Jiang Yan Irrigation System of China is engineered and constructed by Li Bing in 256 BC.
* An enormous drought in Henan province, China, coupled with a gigantic swarm of locusts in the summer, forces many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to cannibalism instead of dying by starvation.
* An enormous flood along the Grand Canal of China inundates large tracts of the North China Plain, killing tens of thousands of people and adding to the further decline of the Tang Dynasty.
* Chancellor Sima Guang and a group of scholars of the Chinese Song Dynasty complete the compilation of the Zizhi Tongjian, an enormous written universal history of China in 294 volumes of 3 million written Chinese characters.
In the Szechwan region belonging to the State of Qin of ancient China, the Dujiangyan Irrigation System was built in 256 BCE to irrigate an enormous area of farmland that today still supplies water.
* Sima Guang, high chancellor of the Chinese Song Dynasty, heads a team of scholars in initiating the compilation of an enormous written universal history of China, known as the Zizhi Tongjian.
Such a case occurred in the year 858 when an enormous flood along the Grand Canal inundated thousands of acres of farmland and killed tens of thousands of people in the North China Plain.
Scyphozoa includes the moon jelly Aurelia aurita, in the order Semaeostomeae, and the enormous Nemopilema nomurai, in the Order Rhizosomeae, found between Japan and China and which in some years causes major fisheries disruptions.
Eventually, the enormous amount of water has to find a new way to the sea and bursts out across the flat North China Plain, sometimes finding a new course.
Their trades with some interruptions continued in the 9th century within the framework of the Uighur Empire, which until 840 extended across northern Central Asia and obtained from China enormous deliveries of silk in exchange for horses.
Large tempered earth ( i. e. rammed earth ) walls were built in ancient China since the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1600-1050 BC ), as the capital at ancient Ao had enormous walls built in this fashion ( see siege for more info ).
Fisheries were traditionally some of the richest in China, fed by enormous sediment runoff and extensive shallows to serve as hatcheries.
According to GAO ( 2010 ), China has recently been putting enormous importance on foreign language learning, especially the English Language.
The novel ends with an epilogue summarizing how the Organization continued on to conquer the rest of the world and how people of other races were eliminated ( China and the entire eastern half of Asia were destroyed by prolonged bombardment with various weapons of mass destruction and made into an enormous desert ; Blacks were exterminated in Africa as well as America ; Puerto Ricans, described as " a repulsive mongrel race ", were exterminated and the island re-settled by whites ).

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