They have a great advantage in ease of audit time and payment.

A great many writers are bewitched by the apparently overwhelming advantage an attacker would have if he were to strike with complete surprise using nuclear rockets.

This gave the Juniors the use of the entire ring at the show -- a great advantage to them!!

Whole blocks are disappearing and more are scheduled to vanish to make room for wide boulevards that will show off its treasures to better advantage -- the great domes and graceful spires of its mosques, the panorama of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn.

By its nature it has always been of great psychological advantage and small efforts have required considerably greater counter-efforts.

Various factors in the setting can still be of great advantage in making the first intercourse a good rather than a bad memory for one or both.

The executive paid tribute to research and development and technology for their great contributions in the past, but he also cautioned industry that they tend to be great equalizers because they move at a fairly even pace within an industry and fail to give it the short-term advantage which it often needs.

Stilicho's enemies later reproached him for having gained his victory by taking impious advantage of the great Christian festival.

President Kennedy recognized this: “ The advantage is, from Khrushchev ’ s point of view, he takes a great chance but there are quite some rewards to it .”

* In Roman Catholicism and several other Christian denominations, a Doctor of the Church is an eminent theologian ( for example, Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelic Doctor ) from whose teachings the whole Church is held to have derived great advantage.

Perennialists freely acknowledge that any particular selection of great books will disagree on many topics ; however, they see this as an advantage, rather than a detriment.

At the end of the commentary Simplicius wrote: " Nor does my writing this commentary prove beneficial to others only, for I myself have already found great advantage from it, by the agreeable diversion it has given me, in a season of trouble and public calamity.

Although heavily outnumbered by Portuguese troops ( approximately 30, 000 Portuguese to some 10, 000 guerrillas ), the PAIGe had the great advantage of safe havens over the border in Senegal and Guinea, both recently independent of French rule.

Spain's neutrality in World War I allowed it to become a supplier of material for both sides to its great advantage, prompting an economic boom in Spain.

Tracked vehicles can attack and operate from and in areas which a wheeled vehicle could not which is a great tactical advantage.

This is a great advantage over traditional fish farms ( e. g. sweet water farms ) for which the farmers buy feed ( which is expensive ).

Despite a significant technological advantage, the Cetagandans are finally driven off at great cost after many years of occupation and guerrilla warfare, in large part due to the leadership of General Count Piotr Vorkosigan, Miles ' paternal grandfather.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter, “ In our private pursuits it is a great advantage that every honest employment is deemed honorable.

That year the Central American federal government hired surveyors to chart the route and contacted the government of the United States to seek financing and the engineering technology needed for building the canal, to the great advantage of both nations.

It was an advantage to the pope that the great sums of money he collected could be used according to Boniface's own judgment.

Pius II succeeded in reconciling the Emperor and the King of Hungary, and derived great encouragement as well as pecuniary advantage from the discovery of mines of alum in the papal territory at Tolfa.

” You professed to have felt delighted when you heard of my arrival, thinking that it would have been of great advantage for the emperor and the people ; you added that you would have obeyed my summons had not a previous intimation of the emperor prevented you.

The same athlete could be an ephedros more than once, and this could of course be of great advantage to him as the ephedros would be spared the wear and tear of the rounds imposed on his opponent ( s ).

Pneumatic tube networks gained great prominence in the late 19th and early 20th century for businesses or administrations that needed to transport small but urgent packages ( such as mail or money ) over relatively short distances ( within a building, or, at most, within a city ).

* Systag FlexyTSC a successor of their SIKAREX unit-the electronics of which could be used to apply a feedback system to heat the sample holder to give a result closer to true adiabaticy, however as the sample holder is an open ended glass tube, one soon loses the sample as a great deal of smoke.

Matheson goes to great lengths to rationalize or naturalize the vampire myth, transplanting the monster from the otherworldly realms of folklore and Victorian supernaturalism to the test tube of medical inquiry and rational causation.

The development of radar before and during World War II was a great stimulus to the evolution of high frequency transmitters in the UHF and microwave ranges, using new devices such as the magnetron and traveling wave tube.

He compressed the heck out of my 12-string, and it sounded so great we decided to use two tube compressors Teletronix LA-2As in series, and then go directly into the board.

Making the element using a tube of a diameter perhaps 1 / 50 of its length, however, results in a reactance at this altered frequency which is not so great, and a much less serious mismatch which will only modestly damage the antenna's net performance.

Lava Beds National Monument is geologically outstanding because of its great variety of " textbook " volcanic formations including: lava tube caves ; fumaroles ; cinder cones ; spatter cones ; pit craters ; hornitos ; maars ; and lava flows and volcanic fields

The lava tube collapse systems and lava outcrops support a great diversity of plant life, from an impressive variety of lichens and mosses to plants such as Desert Sweet ( Chamaebatiaria millefolium ) and the aromatic purple Desert Sage ( Salvia dorrii carnosa ).

The long-tailed pair has many attributes as a switch: largely immune to tube ( transistor ) variations ( of great importance when machines contained 1, 000 or more tubes ), high gain, gain stability, high input impedance, medium / low output impedance, good clipper ( with not-too-long tail ), non-inverting ( EDSAC contained no inverters!

The disc tube a great success and exceeded projected sales reaching number one twice in the lists of sales, its first single " the essence of your voice " reached number one in the Top 40.

I went down and down between two dingy walls until I found myself at the round opening of the gigantic iron tube, which seems to undulate like a great intestine in the enormous belly of the river.

However a great many US Air Traffic TRACON facilities and Towers still use the older cathode ray tube technology.

While Fleming's valve was a great stride forward it would take some years before thermionic, or vacuum tube technology was fully adopted.

The assembly process did not teach much about electronics, but provided a great deal of what could have been called " electronics literacy ," such as the ability to identify tube pin numbers or read a resistor color code.

Arthur Bright has written, " Despite the fact that the tube was expensive to install, complicated, and required very high voltages, its operating advantages were great enough for it to find restricted use in stores, offices, and similar general lighting uses as well as in photography and some advertising and decorative applications.

Its great length — up to eighteen feet in two lengths joined by a central bronze tube — was an asset against hoplites and other soldiers bearing shorter weapons, because they had to get past the sarissas to engage the phalangites.

The Gyrojet rocket is fired through a simple straight, smooth-walled tube of no great strength.

They are remarkable for the great size, length of tube, and beauty of their flowers, which, borne upon generally small and dumpy stems, appear much larger and more attractive than would be expected.

Taking its lead from the Society's objections, The Times published an alarmist article on 25 December 1900 claiming that " a great tube laid under the heath will, of course, act as a drain ; and it is quite likely that the grass and gorse and trees on the Heath will suffer from the loss of moisture ...

It arises from the cartilaginous portion of the auditory tube and the adjoining part of the great wing of the sphenoid, as well as from the osseous canal in which it is contained.