For example, the large antlers of a moose are bulky and heavy and slow the creature's flight from predators ; they also can become entangled in low-hanging tree branches and shrubs, and undoubtedly have led to the demise of many individuals.

On the night of a heavy snowstorm, they sneaked through Crassus ' lines and made a bridge of dirt and tree branches over the ditch, thus escaping.

Low-powered microwave transmitters can be foiled by tree branches, or even heavy rain or snow.

This requirement was extremely ambitious for the time, but it was realised that much of the complexity of contemporary CPUs could be dispensed with, since this machine would need only to perform I / O, branches, add register-register, move data between registers and memory, and would have no need for special instructions to perform heavy arithmetic.

According to the rendering Daphne prays for help either to the river god Peneus or to Gaia, and is transformed into a laurel ( Laurus nobilis ): " a heavy numbness seized her limbs, thin bark closed over her breasts, her hair turned into leaves, her arms into branches, her feet so swift a moment ago stuck fast in slow-growing roots, her face was lost in the canopy.

Sepp Holzer has successfully used no-pruning methods on his high-altitude farm in the Austrian Alps, noting that under heavy winter snow loads, short-pruned branches will break, often killing the tree, but longer unpruned branches will bend down and touch the ground, thus giving them another point of support and preventing breakage.

These nests consist of heavy tree branches, upholstered with grass when in use.

Long used by regional inhabitants, both permanent and nomadic, with a large number of locally collected artifacts testifying to its heavy occupation, the spring sat astride the several branches of the later-developed Comanche War Trail as they converged on this important water hole from beyond Texas, coming south across the Northern Plains and the Llano Estacado.

Ash fall is unlikely to kill mature trees, but ash loading may break large branches during heavy ash falls (> 500 mm ).

** Fillis: A design with a heavy tread, and branches that rise to the eye in a rounded triangular shape.

The branches are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, where they are joined by a heavy dowel of wood, or rod of metal.

Just past Saint Andrew's Boulevard Route 161 passes through a largely commercial section of Clifton with a heavy concentration of medical offices between Saint Andrew's Boulevard and the northern terminus as well as several other offices ( including branches of Bank of America, Clifton Savings, and PNC Bank ).

This is due to heavy browsing by elk and cattle and because of frequent grass fires of human and natural origin which kill the lower branches on the Engelmann spruce, Douglas-fir and Ponderosa pine that populate the uplands around the grasslands dominating the bottoms of the calderas.

In Northern areas where heavy snows occur, this plant is also susceptible to broken branches and uprooting in wet, heavy snow. The tree has also been introduced in Kenya on parts of Mount Kenya

In particular, many people specifically requested the tree and its brethren not to fall or drop heavy branches on the harvester, a situation which is mentioned in a number of different stories of people who were not sufficiently careful.

Excessive removal of the lower branches can displace the canopy weight, this will make the tree top heavy, therefore adding stress to the tree.

The stem produces lateral shoots and much more sturdy branches to bear heavy yields.

In winter, the park is notable for its yukitsuri — ropes attached in a conical array to carefully support tree branches in the desired arrangements, thereby protecting the trees from damage caused by heavy snows.

These branches will appear nearer the start of the track of a heavy charged particle, where more energy is imparted to the ionized electrons.

The tree's branches often bend under the weight of this heavy foliage.

The weakened trunk has begun to lean toward the heavy branches.

Strung out along the coulée ’ s edge, silhouetted against the sky, the militia fired a vast amount of ammunition at their enemies, succeeding mostly in showering tree branches across the ravine, but when the artillerymen pushed their guns to the coulée ’ s edge to try to fire down at the concealed enemy, they suffered heavy casualties.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Mickey felt his shoulders come up against the wall beside the heavy slab front door.

Lowering a concentrated, heavy weight down the anchor line – rope or chain – directly in front of the bow to the seabed, behaves like a heavy chain rode and lowers the angle of pull on the anchor.

The CRT uses an evacuated glass envelope which is large, deep ( i. e. long from front screen face to rear end ), fairly heavy, and relatively fragile.

They were medium rather than heavy cavalry, meaning that they were better suited to be scouts, skirmishers, and pursuers rather than front line fighters.

The upgraded Rubicon model of the JK Wrangler is equipped with electronically activated locking differentials, Dana 44 axles front and rear with 4. 10 gears, a 4: 1 transfer case, electronic sway bar disconnect and heavy duty suspension.

Soviet losses on the front were heavy, and the country's international reputation suffered.

World War I resulted in heavy casualties for Slovenia, particularly on the bloody Soča front in Slovenia's western border area.

They have wormlike bodies of 3 to 4 meters in length with two tentacular arms that end in fine tentacles for manipulation and two tentacles that end in paddles that can be used for heavy lifting ( including acting as " legs ", lifting the front of the creature off the ground in a humanoid-like stance ).

* August 2 – The first cold front of the White Earthquake strikes Chile, during the rest of August several communities becomes isolated due to heavy snowfall and livestock is decimated.

The French First Army and British 2nd and 5th Armies attacked on 9 October on a 13, 500 yards front, from south of Broodseinde to St Jansbeek, to advance half of the distance from Broodseinde ridge to Passchendaele on the main front, led to heavy casualties on both sides, with advances in the north of the attack being retained by British and French troops and most of the ground taken in front of Passchendaele and on the Becelaere and Gheluvelt spurs being lost to German counter-attacks.

The heavy rain and mud again made movement difficult and little artillery could be brought closer to the front.

The outbreak of World War I saw heavy action in these areas, as the front ran between Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.

" Writing in Richardson's sister paper, The Manchester Guardian, the critic referred to Johnson's ' sex snobbery and sadism ' tag, but pointed out that whilst " the casualties take place on a somewhat narrower front than usual, they are heavy ".

At the time, this was a relatively quiet sector of the front, but the first battalion was struck by a German heavy artillery bombardment on the afternoon of 12 March 1918 that buried 21 men of the unit — of which 14 remained entombed.

Being increasingly concerned about the heavy casualties sustained in taking Shanghai combined with the concomitant exhaustion of the troops and deteriorating military discipline, the General Staff Headquarters in Tokyo decided not to expand the war front any further.

The film makes extensive use of the IntroVision process, a variation of front projection that allows realistic three-dimensional interaction of foreground characters with projected backgrounds without the heavy cost of traditional bluescreen effects.

However, in 1711, when traveling from the front in Flanders to The Hague in connection with the law suit about the Principality of Orange, in his haste he insisted in crossing the Hollands Diep during a heavy storm.

These imperial robes consist of a number of tunics and cloaks, of scarlet cloth heavy embroidered in gold and including an elbow length cape with a deeply scalloped edge, fringed in gold ( the scallops on either side of the opening on the front being particularly long, giving them the appearance of a western priest's stole ) and two large squares of scarlet cloth similarly heavily embroidered and fringed in gold attached to each shoulder.

During World War II the city was torn apart by heavy bombardments and by the passage of the front over the Gothic Line during the Battle of Rimini and was eventually captured by Greek and Canadian forces.

In 2002, when Karzai became the subject of heavy media coverage as one of the front runners to lead Afghanistan, it was reported that he was a former consultant for them.