I want to make clear what I consider the one technical development in the first wave of significant post-war arts.

The X3 committee also addressed how ASCII should be transmitted ( least significant bit first ), and how it should be recorded on perforated tape.

Alpha, both as a symbol and term, is used to refer to or describe a variety of things, including the first or most significant occurrence of something.

He won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow ( equal with Leonid Stein ), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory.

Press coverage of the event first aroused significant American interest in the automobile.

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

Developed in the late 19th century, stockless anchors represented the first significant departure in anchor design in centuries.

Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.

Under the leadership of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, the first half of the 20th century was a period of significant development for the Ismā ' īlī community.

The works of this poetess are significant, because although they start out using the third person, they shift to the first person voice of the poet herself, and they mark a significant development in the use of cuneiform.

Many individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.

The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.

Of significant note is that it was the first new game for the system whose game card has an authentic " curved lip " plastic shell.

As the first Franciscan to hold a chair at the University of Paris, Alexander had many significant disciples.

The original Athlon ( now called Athlon Classic ) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time.

Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, provided texts for a significant number of British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.

They cite his defense of the Christology described in the first chapter of the Gospel of John and his significant theological works ( C. S.

The film is ultimately significant insofar as it displays the first enunciation of De Palma's style in all its major traits – voyeurism, guilt, and a hyper-consciousness of the medium are all on full display, not just as hallmarks, but built into this formal, material apparatus itself.

Isaiah's first significant acts as a prophet occurred when Judah, under king Ahaz, faced invasion from Israel and Aram Damascus ( Syria ) after refusing to join them in a revolt against Assyria, the dominant imperial power of the age.

One significant enhancement in biological weapon development was the first use of anthrax.

One of the first and throughout its history one of the most significant treatises of the common law, Bracton ’ s De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ( On the Laws and Customs of England ), was heavily influenced by the division of the law in Justinian ’ s Institutes.

Marconi's contributions to Cape Breton Island were also quite significant as he used the island's geography to his advantage in transmitting the first North American trans-Atlantic radio message from a station constructed at Table Head in Glace Bay to a receiving station at Poldhu in Cornwall, England.

In late Neolithic times, the Yellow River valley began to establish itself as a center of Yangshao culture ( 5000 BC to 3000 BC ), and the first villages were founded ; the most archaeologically significant of these was found at Banpo, Xi ' an.

A new illness or a renewal or worsening of the first illness enables a person to receive the sacrament a further time.

In recent history, born again is a term that has been widely associated with the evangelical Christian renewal since the late 1960s, first in the United States and then later around the world.

Thus, the first Grail stories may have been celebrations of a renewal in this traditional sacrament.

These novelties included the first official introduction of the vernacular language into the liturgy for renewal of baptismal promises within the Easter Vigil celebration.

Its motto uno avulso non deficit alter ( when one is torn away another succeeds ) is from the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid and is relevant first in the more overarching sense of having replaced the Monks of Medmenham ; then in establishing the continuity of the society through a process of constant renewal of its graduate and undergraduate members.

Rockville soon became the first city in Maryland to enter into a government funded urban renewal program.

In June 1955 he was the last remaining star of the studio's heyday, but with his contract up for renewal — Tracy opted to go independent for the first time in his movie career.

These symbolize the renewal of life, the coming of the warmth of summer, and the growth of the church at and from the first Pentecost.

Even so, by 4 January 1471, Charles had agreed to support the King-in-exile in regaining the English throne, and this renewal of friendship between the two men was followed by Edward visiting Margaret at Hesdin until 13 January, the first time the pair had seen one another since Margaret's departure from England.

The university was on the verge of building a brand new campus, to be one of the nation's first federally funded urban renewal projects.

Washington was the first city in the nation to undergo urban renewal projects as part of the " City Beautiful movement " in the early 1900s.

" The first project known as the Guthrie Transportation Museum became the hub project of the renewal effort.

The Great Depression exacerbated the economic slump, and as a result city leaders enthusiastically embraced the concept of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s, receiving considerable federal funds used to demolish much of the north side of Merrimack Street, most of the Federal homes along Water Street ( dating from the city's first hundred years of development ), and throughout downtown.

"; the second movement is a remembrance of happy times in the life of the deceased ; the third movement represents a view of life as meaningless activity ; the fourth movement is a wish for release from life without meaning ; and the fifth movement – after a return of the doubts of the third movement and the questions of the first – ends with a fervent hope for everlasting, transcendent renewal, a theme that Mahler would ultimately transfigure into the music of his Das Lied von der Erde.

Despite its intent of ameliorating the ravages of war the inception of the First Geneva Convention inaugurated " a renewal of military activity on a large scale, to which the people of western Europe … had not been accustomed since the first Napoleon had been eliminated.

The first structure to be completed and occupied as part of this renewal was the Fordham Law School of Fordham University in 1962.

Since the 2005 Buncefield fire the former Maylands Avenue factory estate, badly affected by the fire, has been re branded as Maylands Business Park and a 40 tonne sculpture by Jose Zavala called Phoenix Gateway placed on the first roundabout off the M1 to symbolise its renewal.

In July 2003 the Hong Kong Housing Society ( HKHS ) announced that its first urban renewal project would be to improve the living environment at Po On Road / Wai Wai Road in Sham Shui Po.

Additionally, several measures were taken to increase the demand for EVs in Portugal: ( 1 ) EVs are fully exempt from both the Vehicle Tax due upon purchase ( Imposto Sobre Veículos ) and the annual Circulation Tax ( Imposto Único de Circulação ); ( 2 ) Personal Income Tax provides an allowance of EUR 803 upon the purchase of EVs ; ( 3 ) EVs are fully exempt from the 5 %- 10 % company car tax rates which are part of the Corporation Income Tax ; ( 4 ) The Budget Law provides for an increase of the depreciation costs related to the purchase of EVs for the purpose of Corporation Income Tax ; ( 5 ) the first 5, 000 EVs to be sold in Portugal will receive a 5, 000 € incentive fund, and the Cash-for-Clunkers program grants an additional 1, 500 € fund if an internal combustion engine vehicle built before 2000 is delivered when acquiring the new EV ; ( 6 ) The Portuguese State did also commit to play a pedagogic role and defined that EVs will have a 20 % share of the annual renewal of public car fleet, starting in 2011.

It is a major commercial and industrial area that is currently undergoing major transit oriented urban renewal, which was first planned in the Ipswich Regional Centre Strategy.

The Highway 407 Act, Section 22, gives the owner of the 407 ETR the ability to deny license plate renewal of drivers who have refused to pay their toll for more than 125 days after the toll first incurred.

" It marked a turn of season, with February 5 the official first day of spring bringing the renewal of agricultural activities after winter.

The first, known as the " backhand method " was to wait for the inevitable renewal of the Soviet offensive and conduct another operation similar to that of Kharkov — allowing the Red Army to take ground, extend itself and then counterattack and surround it.

Against this backdrop of renewal and conflict, humanity makes its first contact with another intelligent, spacefaring species: the " Moties ," who represent a far more grave threat than even the Sauron Supermen.