The gulf is relatively shallow with the depth decreasing from the entrance to the gulf to the continent.

Acarnania () is a region of west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth.

In 1772 another Turkish fleet was destroyed by the Russians at the entrance to the gulf.

With the exception of flat islets blocking the entrance to Laguna di Grado, there are no islands in the gulf.

After battling bad weather, he sighted the Ottoman ships on 27 May at the entrance to the gulf and despite the superior numbers of the Ottomans ( about 10 battleships and some smaller vessels vs 3 battleships, 2 frigates and 4 armed merchantmen ) he sailed up before a light SSE breeze to attack.

From Diu he sailed up the Gulf of Cambay to Gogo, and thence turning back towards the Persian Gulf made Julfar ( just within the entrance of the gulf ), Muscat and Ormuz.

For a long time it was believed that a third Antikyra existed somewhere in Locris, on the north side of the entrance to the Corinthian gulf, near Naupactus.

Another beautiful building is the Propylaea, the entrance gate of the Acropolis.

There were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;

At the entrance side of the shelter, each roof beam is rested on the inside 4 inches of the block wall.

Ventilation is provided in a concrete block basement shelter by vents in the wall and by the open entrance.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

Should Congress authorize the Attorney General to file suit to accomplish admission of a child to a school to which he is denied entrance??

Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.

The hymen is, in essence, a fragile membrane that more or less completely covers the entrance to the vagina in most female human beings who have not had sex relations.

`` Mr. Wycoff's car is waiting for you at the east entrance ''.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

Various of the apartments are of the terrace type, being on the ground floor so that entrance is direct.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone.

In Cat Among the Pigeons Poirot's entrance is so late as to be almost an afterthought.

Belief through faith is the condition for entrance into the Kingdom of God ; unbelief is the condition for exit from the Kingdom of God – not a lack of good works.

While entrance to the Park is free, Gaudí's house, " la Torre Rosa ," — containing furniture that he designed — can be only visited for an entrance fee.

There is a charge for entrance to the apartment on the second floor and the roof.

Employers can use medical entrance examinations for applicants, after making the job offer, only if all applicants ( regardless of disability ) must take it and it is treated as a confidential medical record.

Nonetheless, the written sources do not mention damages wrought by fire, save the Gardens of Sallust, which were situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance ; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.

To the south of the entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike.

East of the entrance and north of the Parthenon is the temple known as the Erechtheum.

Steven Zhang of the Cornell Daily Sun has described the graduates of elite schools, especially those in the Ivy League, of having a " smug sense of success " because they believe " gaining entrance into the Ivy League is an accomplishment unto itself.

The Abbey is cared for by Historic Scotland and is open to the public throughout the year ( entrance charge ).

A wave of flame rippling through their cave had reached Nagamo, his friend, and with a shriek the man bolted through the entrance, then slowed to the jerky walk of a puppet, his uniform blazing.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

On the other side of the Golden Horn I rode through Eminonu Square, with Yeni Cami, or the New Mosque, which dates from the Seventeenth Century, just across from the entrance to the bridge.

Hub, nosing about, spotted reporters in the lobby, so Andy was hustled away quietly through the hotel's service entrance in a strange car which Hub had procured somewhere.

All rays which issue from O and pass through the aperture stop also pass through the entrance and exit pupils, since these are images of the aperture stop.

6 ) at a finite distance from the axis ( or with an infinitely distant object, a point which subtends a finite angle at the system ) is, in general, even then not sharply reproduced, if the pencil of rays issuing from it and traversing the system is made infinitely narrow by reducing the aperture stop ; such a pencil consists of the rays which can pass from the object point through the now infinitely small entrance pupil.

Naming the central ray passing through the entrance pupil the axis of the pencil or principal ray, it can be said: the rays of the pencil intersect, not in one point, but in two focal lines, which can be assumed to be at right angles to the principal ray ; of these, one lies in the plane containing the principal ray and the axis of the system, i. e. in the first principal section or meridional section, and the other at right angles to it, i. e. in the second principal section or sagittal section.

This ray, named by Abbe a principal ray ( not to be confused with the principal rays of the Gaussian theory ), passes through the center of the entrance pupil before the first refraction, and the center of the exit pupil after the last refraction.

It lacks its own entrance from Whitehall, and is entered through the Ripley Building.

People were filing in through the veranda, past the coffin, and out at the front entrance.

:: Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven -- through a purification or immediately -- or immediate and everlasting damnation.

Heracles was able to overpower Cerberus and proceeded to sling the beast over his back, dragging it out of the underworld through a cavern entrance in the Peloponnese and bringing it to Eurystheus.

They were not allowed to enter a Church through the main entrance.

The entrance to the church is through a single door in the south transept.

Dust fine enough to pass the entrance will probably pass through the shelter.

From this original entrance there is a Descending Passage high and wide which goes down at an angle of 26 ° 31 ' 23 " through the masonry of the pyramid and then into the bedrock beneath it.

Although the front entrance is on the ' ground floor ', commuters are taken through a set of escalators to the 3rd floor elevator lobby.

For admissions to the Engineering Faculty at the undergraduate level, students are admitted through the WBJEE, an entrance examination open to students from all over India.

The area is enclosed and visitable through an entrance on the last block of Ermou Street, close to the intersection with Peiraios Street.

From the cool entrance, ware is slowly transported through the kiln, and its temperature is increased steadily as it approaches the central, hottest part of the kiln.

Among the most notable: the Black Marble H & R Block fountain in front of Union Station with its synchronized water jets shooting high into the air, the Nichols Bronze Horses at the corner of Main and JC Nichols Parkway at the entrance to the Plaza Shopping District and the unique " family friendly " walk through fountain at Hallmark Cards World Headquarters in Crown Center.