Water in these places drills its way downward by dissolving the carbonate rock to form an extensive underground river system.

He named both oxygen ( 1778 ) and hydrogen ( 1783 ) and helped construct the metric system, put together the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature.

Domestically speaking, the county has a nationwide cellular telephone system and an extensive network of telephone cables.

In Belgium an extensive system of tram-like local railways called vicinal or buurtspoor lines crossed the country in the first half of the 20th century, and had a greater route length than the main-line railway system.

extensive microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 64 earth stations.

In conjunction with these products, Burroughs also manufactured an extensive range of cheque processing equipment, normally attached as terminals to a larger system such as a B2700 or B1700.

The extensive Chilean protected areas system includes 32 national parks, 48 natural reserves and 15 natural monuments.

* System: privatization began in 1988 ; advanced telecommunications infrastructure ; modern system based on extensive microwave radio relay facilities ; fixed-line connections have dropped in recent years as mobile-cellular usage continues to increase, reaching a level of 85 telephones per 100 persons

** Domestic: extensive microwave radio relay links ; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations

The country has an extensive road system of more than 30, 000 kilometers, although much of it is in disrepair.

An extensive system of ferries, operated by Jadrolinija, serves Croatia's many islands and links coastal cities.

The Cretaceous was named for the extensive chalk deposits of this age in Europe, but in many parts of the world, the Cretaceous system consists for a major part of marine limestone, a rock type that is formed under warm, shallow marine circumstances.

An extensive canal system exists within the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert to provide irrigation to agriculture within the area.

A more extensive system of social welfare benefits was established by the Attlee Government, which did much to reduce acute social deprivation.

The Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento | Sarmiento Line is part of the extensive Rail transport in Argentina # Commuter network | Buenos Aires metropolitan rail system.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

The vast system of Roman aqueducts also made extensive use of hydraulic cement.

DeVos and Wagatsuma observe that a systematic and extensive caste system was part of the Japanese society.

Many cacti have a short growing season and a long dormancy and are able to react quickly to any rainfall, helped by an extensive but relatively shallow root system.

Its coordinates are 15 25 N, 61 20 W. It is known as " The Nature Island of the Caribbean " due to its spectacular, lush, and varied flora and fauna, which is protected by an extensive natural park system.

He introduced an extensive new tax system based on heads ( capita ) and land ( iuga ) and tied to a new, regular census of the Empire's population and wealth.

Embodying the philosophy explained by Chesterton, above, that too much capitalism means too few capitalists, not too many, America's extensive system of anti-trust legislation seeks to prevent the concentration of market power in a given industry into too-few hands.

; Telephone system: large system ; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern ; Telecom Egypt, the landline monopoly, has been increasing service availability and in 2006 fixed-line density stood at 14 per 100 persons ; as of 2007 there were three mobile-cellular networks and service is expanding rapidly

Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.

The church granted Jesuits extensive powers to phase out the encomienda system, angering settlers dependent on a continuing supply of Indian labor and concubines.

In addition, to oversee the large administrative burden of an extensive labor camp system, the concentration camps were placed under the command of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt ( WVHA ).

The use of slave labor was extensive, especially in agriculture.

Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally 5, 000 acres, with extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops, with labor by slaves.

Ethan Gutmann, adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, approached the allegations by conducting extensive interviews around the world with a variety of former prisoners from Chinese labor camps and prisons, including Falun Gong practitioners and non-practitioners.

" Pat's Chapel ", dedicated on June 1, 1968, was named in honor of Patrick Hansel Coffey ( 1899 – 1967 ), who supervised the construction from extensive volunteer labor in the community, but he died five months before the completion.

The anthracite coal mining industry, and its extensive use of child labor in the early part of the twentieth century, was one of the industries targeted by the National Child Labor Committee and its hired photographer, Lewis Hine.

After invention of the cotton gin in 1793, which enabled the development of extensive new areas for new types of cotton cultivation, manumissions decreased due to increased demand for slave labor.

The country saw extensive deregulation of the labor market beginning in 2005 under John Howard's Liberal Party of Australia through their WorkChoices policy.

Existence of an extensive network of forced labor camps producing consumer goods for export to Europe and the United States became classified.

He took a scientific approach to farming and kept extensive and meticulous records of both labor and results.

In Kerala, the only other large state where the CPI ( M ) came to power, state administrations have actually carried out the most extensive land, tenancy and agrarian labor wage reforms in the non-socialist late-industrializing world.

The maquiladora operators have also been accused of discriminating against child-bearing-aged women to keep costs down, because Mexico ’ s labor laws contain extensive maternity requirements.

Boserup argues that low intensity farming, extensive shifting cultivation for example, has lower labor costs than more intensive farming systems.

Greater organization and specialization results in greater complexity, technical division of labor and a greater codification of cultural responses with more extensive social control.

They are far more results-oriented than the Knights, enforcing demerit policies when Weird Pete is behind the GM screen ( often worked off by unpaid labor behind Weird Pete's counter ), and holding extensive post-mortems on their game sessions, to see where things could have been done better ( usually by the members of the group not slaughtering one another's characters for minor infractions of local " rules ", to vent a real-life grudge, or to gain experience points needed to advance their own character a level ( or two )).

Prior to the extensive division of labor and mechanization resulting from the Industrial Revolution, it was possible for workers to control the quality of their own products.

Gracchus rose to office at a time when the Roman Republic was bloated with the effects of extensive expansion abroad ; a huge influx of slave labor and foreign wealth, a change in the function of agriculture and devaluation in the crop market were causing a massive domestic crisis, challenging the fundamental values of Roman culture ( there is a debate over whether it was a grain crisis or a manpower crisis ).

As one reviewer argued in the Journal of American History, major Republican leaders such as President William McKinley and Senator Mark Hanna made pro-labor statements, many unions supported their own independent labor parties, and unity within the AF of L was never as extensive as claimed.

This vehicle would require extensive restoration with a significant amount of parts and labor — a very time-consuming and costly prospect.

Krupp industries, under both his leadership and later that of his son, was offered facilities in eastern Europe and made extensive use of forced labor during the war.

Simitis is largely known in Greece for his political philosophy which is known as Eksynchronismos (" modernization ") which focuses on extensive public investment and infrastructure works as well as economic and labor reforms.

What had begun as back-breaking land clearing by yeoman farmers, supported by extensive families, was expanded into a labor-intensive plantation system dependent on the labor of enslaved Native Americans.