And everywhere in evidence among the few remaining defensive units was that old handmaiden of disaster -- multiple command.

Astronomy is sometimes promoted as one of the few remaining sciences for which amateurs can still contribute useful data.

Armenia's record on discrimination toward the few remaining national minorities is generally good.

Ancient-There are few remaining examples with early art often favouring drawing over colour.

The only Ainu speakers remaining ( besides perhaps a few partial speakers ) live solely in Japan.

Nevertheless the Lombards viewed Italy as a rich land which promised great booty, assets Alboin used to gather together a horde which included not only Lombards but many other peoples of the region, including Heruli, Suebi, Gepids, Thuringii, Bulgars, Sarmatians, the remaining Romans and a few Ostrogoths.

Not wishing to see Nicomedia or the other few remaining forts in Asia Minor suffer the same fate, Andronikos III sought to pay off the Ottomans with tribute — the Ottomans did not stop at this and seized Nicomedia as well in 1337.

His loss of the empire's few remaining territories in Anatolia made the Ottoman Turks posed to expand into Europe as did its lack of strength following his reign to prevent the formation of the Serbian Empire.

The few remaining Jews in the Arab countries reside mostly in Morocco and Tunisia.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

The site sprawls over an estimated ; among the few structures remaining today are a ruined bath and gymnasium complex and a recently uncovered stadium.

This line also came under severe pressure and, in turn, was forced back to their third-line of cavalry and the few battalions still remaining on the plain.

For decades the generations of few remaining sighthounds were regarded as hunting-suited, when showing enough attacking initiative for fox hunting.

Often the result of flash floods, such streams usually dry out within a few days as the remaining puddles seep into the sandy clay soil.

Agrippina was one of the few remaining descendants of Augustus, and her son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Emperor Nero ) was one of the last males of the Imperial family.

Although most economies today are market economies or mixed economies ( which are partially planned ), fully planned economies exist in the remaining few countries of Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, and Myanmar.

Temple Bar and Grafton Street are two of the few remaining areas that were not affected by the wave of Georgian reconstruction and maintained their medieval character.

Sapir worked first with Betty Brown one of the language's few remaining speakers.

In the remaining few years of his life, Callistus II attempted to secure the status of the Church as it had existed at the end of the reign of Pope Gregory VII.

In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

However the Legislative Council had few powers at this time, with government remaining fully in the hands of the colonial authorities.

Conversion to Islam and the Albigensian Crusade ( 1209 – 1229 ) greatly reduced the remaining number of Gnostics throughout the Middle Ages, though a few Mandaean communities still exist.

About 70 – 80 % of the mass in a cluster is in the form of dark matter, with 10 – 30 % consisting of this heated gas and the remaining few percent of the matter in the form of galaxies.

Although quilted armour survived into the English Civil War in England as a poor man's cuirass, and as an item to be worn beneath the few remaining suits of full plate, it was increasingly replaced by the ' buff coat '- a leather jacket of rough suede.

At the end of the 1980s, however, Callejas had few remaining vehicles with which to pull the country out of the deep regionwide recession of the 1980s.

Very few fried foods are used and the use of salt and pepper is discouraged.

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

Brine cured olives are kept in a salt water solution for a few days or more.

The chemical elements of the food a person eats become in a few hours part of that person's human body and are no longer food but have been turned into the human flesh and blood and bone of that person, yet the physical chemical elements of what was once food remain the same ( calcium, copper, salt, protein, sugars, fats, water, etc .).

By 1900, restaurants serving Chinese cuisine from Canton and Shanghai offered a simple ramen dish of noodles ( cut rather than hand pulled ), a few toppings, and a broth flavored with salt and pork bones.

... exceedingly convenient for private families, for by putting one of the cakes in a saucepan with about a quart of water, and a little salt, a basin of good broth may be made in a few minutes.

The chicken flavor of the soup is most potent when the chicken is simmered in water with salt and only a few vegetables, such as a mirepoix of onion, carrots, and celery.

The vast majority of these families live in salt water ; only the Abyssocottids, Comephorids, and a few species of Cottids live in fresh water.

Small quantities of salt and spices are generally measured by volume worldwide, as few households have sufficiently precise balances to measure by weight.

Due to the high porosity of the limestone, there are few available freshwater lenses that are fully unmixed with salt water.

The beef is marinated in a mix of spices, salt and saltpeter for three, five or six days and then boiled slowly for a few hours.

The Gurage and other southern tribes in Ethiopia ferment the Besso for a few days with water and a bit of sugar, add a pinch of salt and chili and drink it as a fortifying and energising meal-in-a-drink.

Although it will continue to grow no matter what, it will benefit from the addition of animal manure applied as a mulch, and can also be mulched with other nitrogen rich materials such as lawn mowings, and is one of the few plants that will tolerate the application of fresh urine diluted 50: 50 with water, although this should not be regularly added as it may increase salt levels in the soil and have adverse effects on soil life such as worms.

Eligible, but less desirable, are a few small grey patches ( this grey is consistent with a Merle marking ) or a white base with single black hairs showing through, which tend to give a salt and pepper or dirty effect.

But only a few installments later, this has sublimated somewhat into history: when Val saves his new friend Sir Gawain from a robber knight and Gawain decides to take the villain to Camelot for summary judgement from King Arthur, the whole party is at one point attacked by another enormous beast — only this time it ’ s a salt water crocodile !...

There was a major setback when the bathhouse caught fire and the only available fire equipment was a few buckets of salt water brought up from the beach.

A few aquatic plants are able to survive in brackish, saline, and salt water.

A dose as small as a few grains of salt can kill an adult human.

" ( Alternately reported as " While at a conference a few weeks back, I spent an interesting evening with a grain of salt.

It is covered by a few meters of salt crust, which has an extraordinary flatness with the average altitude variations within one meter over the entire area of the Salar.

It is covered with a solid salt crust with a thickness varying between tens of centimeters to a few meters.

Traditionally, very few spices other than salt were available, and fresh herbs like dill were limited to the summer months.

The village, like a few others located on the gulf coast, was a location where salt was harvested from the tidal pools in the area ; the salt trade in this area dates back to Pre-Columbian times.