The quality of a president's leadership is measured first by his success in building up the faculty.

But the Russians use gymnastics as the first step in training for all other sports because it provides training in every basic quality except one, endurance.

In the mid-1870s, a form of amplitude modulation — initially called " undulatory currents "— was the first method to successfully produce quality audio over telephone lines.

124-126 .</ ref > While other philosophers also recognized such transitions in states of matter, Anaximenes was the first to associate the quality pairs hot / dry and cold / wet with the density of a single material and add a quantitative dimension to the Milesian monistic system .< ref > Kirk, G. S., J. E.

The Lynx was also the first gaming console with hardware support for zooming / distortion of sprites, allowing fast pseudo-3D games with unrivaled quality at the time and a capacity for drawing filled polygons with limited CPU intervention.

Mike Judge himself is highly critical of the animation and quality of earlier episodes, in particular the first two --" Blood Drive "/" Give Blood " and " Door to Door "-- which he described as " awful, I don't know why anybody liked it ...

Dutch-Bandanese relations were mutually resentful from the outset, with Holland ’ s first merchants complaining of Bandanese reneging on agreed deliveries and price, and cheating on quantity and quality.

The most valuable American comics have combined rarity and quality with the first appearances of popular and enduring characters.

In a final, production quality rendering of a ray traced work, multiple rays are generally shot for each pixel, and traced not just to the first object of intersection, but rather, through a number of sequential ' bounces ', using the known laws of optics such as " angle of incidence equals angle of reflection " and more advanced laws that deal with refraction and surface roughness.

The first maps were manually constructed with brushes and parchment ; therefore, varied in quality and were limited in distribution.

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

The form was felt by the ancients to contrast the rising action of the first verse with a falling quality in the second.

After the first few, Harry Cohn said " it was the beginning of Columbia making a better quality of pictures.

The first was the quality of its arms, as the Italian and British colonial authorities could sabotage the transportation of 30, 000-60, 000 modern Mosin – Nagant rifles and Berdan rifles from Russia into landlocked Ethiopia.

The attraction between a magnet and ferromagnetic material is " the quality of magnetism first apparent to the ancient world, and to us today ".

Although digitizing can be the first step in cleaning up a signal, it does not, by itself, improve the quality.

Comparison of the ' To be, or not to be ' soliloquy in the first three editions of Hamlet, showing the varying quality of the text in the Bad Quarto, the Good Quarto and the First Folio

The first print run of 2, 000 was shelved because Tenniel objected to the print quality.

The author of the Cologne Chronicle of 1499 quotes Ulrich Zell, the first printer of Cologne, that printing was performed in Mainz in 1450, but that some type of printing of lower quality had previously occurred in the Netherlands.

The first blow came in 1911, when Eastman Kodak modified its exclusive contract with the MPPC, to allow Kodak to sell its raw film stock, which led the industry in quality and price, to unlicensed independents.

The race is a quality handicap for horses 3 years old and over, run over a distance of 3, 200 metres, on the first Tuesday in November at Flemington Racecourse.

In 2010, the Festa Europea Della Musica had its first edition in Montalcino, to underscore and promote the beauty and culture of the town, and develop the artistic presence in the territorio as an " abbinamento " to the immense quality of its wines and way of life.

The quality and communications capacity of the second satellite reportedly was much greater than the first.

Styling, performance, quality construction, reliability, and price made the 912 a very attractive buy to both new and old customers, and it substantially outsold the 911 during the first few years of production.

The first part of the new structure -- that for supporting the basic program of vocational rehabilitation services -- is described in this Section.

However, first I thoughtfully study my sketch for improvement of color and design along the lines I have described.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

We shall show that the polynomials Af behave in the manner described in the first paragraph of the proof.

She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.

I have previously described how, during the week of the murder, Bridget spent the first few hot days scrubbing and ironing clothes.

Therefore employment and education in all the schools in a metropolitan area are related in different ways from those which are characteristic of the comprehensive high school described in my first report.

Frogs range in size from the goliath frog ( Conraua goliath ) of West Africa to the long Paedophryne amauensis, first described in Papua New Guinea in 2012.

He first recognised and described Alper's disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( the latter with Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ).

Compositae were first described in 1792 by the German botanist Paul Dietrich Giseke.

The Apiaceae was first described by John Lindley in 1836.

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of radioactivity by Ernest Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He < sup > 2 +</ sup > ions.

It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, a design for a mechanical computer.

The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete.

In recognition of her additions to Menabrea's paper, which included a way to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the machine, she has been described as the first computer programmer.

" The structure repeats on the first floor and in the design of two windows at the ends forming galleries, but on the large central window there are two balconies as described above.

Also, the contents of an expanding universe ( to first order ) can be described as an adiabatically cooling fluid.

In the system described by Irenaeus, " the Unbegotten Father " is the progenitor of Nous, and from Nous Logos, from Logos Phronesis, from Phronesis Sophia and Dynamis, from Sophia and Dynamis principalities, powers, and angels, the last of whom create " the first heaven.

Antibiosis was first described in 1877 in bacteria when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis.

John Tyndall first described antagonistic activities by fungi against bacteria in England in 1875.

This type of interaction was first formally described by Gregor Mendel.

The first mention of aeronautics in history was in the writings of ancient Egyptians who described the flight of birds.