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After the Partisans managed to endure and avoid these intense Axis attacks between January and June 1943, and the extent of Chetnik collaboration became evident, Allied leaders switched their support from Draža Mihailović to Tito.
International broadcasting, in a limited extent, began during World War I, when Central Powers and Allied stations broadcast press communiqués using Morse code.
As the extent of the Allied offensive became apparent, General Otto Liman von Sanders, the commander of the Ottoman forces in the Dardanelles, appointed his competent officer, Colonel Mustafa Kemal, the commander for the defence of Suvla and Sari Bair.
During his journeys across Germany he was shocked at the extent of destruction, especially that caused by Allied bombing.
The motive was twofold: both an unwillingness to follow the Geneva convention now that the threat of German reprisals against Allied POWs was gone, and also they were " to an extent unable to meet the high standards of the Geneva code " for the large number of captured Germans.
Keren was decisive in terms of the strategic objectives of the Allied forces ( to the extent that when Wavell was created an earl he chose as his second title the viscounty of Keren and of Winchester ).
In Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Dynarski plays a major supporting role as Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, appearing throughout much of the game's Soviet campaign and to a lesser extent, the Allied campaign, too.
By that time the German offensive in France had progressed to such an extent that the British could no longer afford any commitment in Norway, and the 25, 000 Allied troops were evacuated from Narvik merely 10 days after their victory.
The Treaty of Versailles also specified the de-militarization of the entire area to provide a buffer between Germany on one side and France, Belgium and Luxembourg ( and to a lesser extent, the Netherlands ) on the other side, which meant that no German forces were allowed there after the Allied forces had withdrawn.
This occurred in part because the Allied surge across France in 1944 was slowed down by logistical difficulties as the Allies reached the easternmost extent of France, but the primary reason for the stout German defenses of these regions is that Alsace ( German: Elsaß ) and Lorraine ( German: Lothringen ) were claimed as part of Germany and would be defended as strongly as any other German soil.
The Colonel expresses concern that escaped Allied prisoners may attempt to seek refuge in the Vatican, and requests permission to paint a white line across St. Peter's Square in order to mark the extent of Vatican sovereignty.
This was viewed with concern by high commanders, to such extent that the Allied air commander in the South West Pacific, Major General George Kenney, considered sending the wing to the New Guinea campaign, and returning U. S. Fifth Air Force fighter units to Darwin.

extent and quantitative
Fascist propaganda of this sort, Adorno wrote, " simply takes people for what they are: genuine children of today ’ s standardized mass culture who have been robbed to a great extent of their autonomy and spontaneity " The result of these labors, the 1950 study The Authoritarian Personality was pioneering in its combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting and evaluating data as well as its development of the F-scale.
Several broad disciplines including Psychology, Human Factors and Cognitive Science subsume usability engineering, but the theoretical foundations of the field come from more specific domains: human perception and action ; human cognition ; behavioral research methodologies ; and, to a lesser extent, quantitative and statistical analysis techniques.
It could be argued, however, that any concept which attempts to assess degree or extent is inherently quantitative.
Although simulations of social systems received substantial attention in the mid-1970s after the Club of Rome published reports predicting global environmental catastrophe based upon the predictions of global economy simulations, the inflammatory conclusions also temporarily discredited the nascent field by demonstrating the extent to which results of the models are highly sensitive to the specific quantitative assumptions ( backed by little evidence, in the case of the Club of Rome ) made about the model's parameters.
In judging whether a reasonable basis for comparison exists, the valuation analysis must consider: ( 1 ) the similarity of qualitative and quantitative investment and investor characteristics ; ( 2 ) the extent to which reliable data is known about the transactions in which interests in the guideline companies were bought and sold ; and ( 3 ) whether or not the price paid for the guideline companies was in an arms-length transaction, or a forced or distressed sale.
[...] The evidence does not provide systematic quantitative proof regarding the extent to which bias and vote-rigging altered the election outcome.

extent and qualitative
Within the Māori community, and to a lesser extent throughout New Zealand as a whole, the word Māoritanga is often used as an approximate synonym for Māori culture, the Māori suffix-tanga being roughly equivalent to the qualitative noun ending "- ness " in English.
To some extent this reflects the gap, familiar from other disciplines such as community development, community organizing and community based research In addition, the difficulty that Information Systems has in recognising the qualitative dimension of technology research means that the kind of approach taken by supporters of community informatics is difficult to justify to a positive field oriented towards solutions of technical, rather than social problems.

extent and superiority
Their trade failed to a very great extent, firstly, because of the Nabetean domain over the north of Hijaz ; secondly, because of the Roman superiority over the naval trade routes after the Roman conquest of Egypt, Syria and the north of Hijaz ; and thirdly, because of inter-tribal warfare.
In terms of the philosophy and history of mathematics, the very existence of non-classical mathematics raises the question of the extent to which the foundational mathematical choices humanity has made arise from their " superiority " rather than from, say, expedience-driven concentrations of effort on particular aspects.
As a matter of fact, he acknowledged the primacy and supreme power of the Roman Pontiff, but, in common with many other theologians of his time, maintained the superiority of general councils, at least to the extent that they could compel the pope's resignation.
Therefore, war in its most natural manner would involve each state continually reciprocating each other's use of force ( plus some ) to maintain a superiority, until both were using violence to its utmost extent.
Here the argument is that civilizations sometimes get caught up in internal superiority contests, and deplete the environment to such an extent that they may never recover.
Despite these improvements, by the early 1920s the performance of the Silver Ghost's competitors had improved to the extent that its previous superiority had been eroded.

extent and by
The defensiveness has been exaggerated by another bad habit, our tendency to rate the `` goodness '' or `` badness '' of other nations by the extent to which they applaud the slogans we circulate about ourselves.
Copernicus, to an extent unachieved by Ptolemy, approximated to Euclid's vision.
To some extent predispositions are shaped by exposure to group environments.
To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.
it is necessary to perceive the extent of foreign aid demanded by the Christian imperative.
The type of program desired can be determined by the nature and extent of the adjustments needed.
Research and development activities undertaken by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted jointly with the Department of Defense to the end that developments under this Act which are primarily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense of the Nation and that developments which are primarily of a military nature will, to the greatest practicable extent compatible with military and security requirements, be available to advance the purposes of this Act and to strengthen the civil economy of the Nation.
Naturally it will be dictated to a large extent by the shape and size of your land.
The dirt on the soiled objects is mechanically held by surface irregularities to some extent.
It was possible to make estimates of the quantum yield by observing the extent of reduction of a uranyl oxalate actinometer solution illuminated for a known time in a typical reaction cell and making appropriate conversions based on the differences in the absorption spectra of uranyl oxalate and of chlorine, and considering the spectral distribution of the light source.
Not all these regions exhibited equal agglutinating activity, as evidenced by titer and the extent of the active areas.
To some extent the system can be considered a Gemeinschaft in which `` social-role occupancies are determined by birth, by attributes such as sex or caste, which are biologically or socially immutable ''.
The four functional problems of a social system are, to some extent, solved by the subsystems within this population.
The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.
The extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is itself a function of three things: the passage of time, the level of GNP, and the size of the wage increase.
We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.
The displacement ( at least to a considerable extent ) of the ethical jurisprudence of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by positivism reshaped both international law theory and doctrine.
To the extent that the jurisdictional principle of 1875 stands unmodified by subsequent legislation, federal equitable relief against state action must be available -- or so it seems to Mr. Justice Frankfurter.
Section 381(a) applies only to a transfer by liquidation of a subsidiary owned to the extent of at least 80 per cent, a statutory merger or consolidation, an acquisition of substantially all a corporation's assets solely in exchange for voting stock, or a change of identity, form, or place of organization.
To the extent that the problem is merely parking, an aggressive downtown management, like that of Lazarus Brothers in Columbus, Ohio, can fight back successfully by building a garage on the lot next door.
Mussorgsky makes this quite clear by the extent to which choral scenes propel the action.
The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit world of the entities which previously populated it.

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