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States were free to enact, within broad, though ( perhaps ) determinate limits, their own rules as to the application of foreign law by their courts, to vary the law merchant, and to enact legislation with regard to many claims arising on the high seas.
The development of the tourism sector in Algeria had previously been hampered by a lack of facilities, but since 2004 a broad tourism development strategy has been implemented resulting in many hotels of a high modern standard being built.
On November 21, 1867, the House Judiciary Committee produced a bill of impeachment: it had a broad collection of complaints against him, but as stated, these were not thought to be easily provable under the Constitution, which required evidence " as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
An afterglow is a broad high arch of whitish or rosy light appearing in the sky due to very fine particles of dust suspended in the high regions of the atmosphere.
Despite his high profile as one of the world's most popular and recognizable superheroes, Rogers also has a broad understanding of the espionage community, largely through his ongoing relationship with S. H. I. E. L. D.
Although it is theoretically possible that detailed schedule analysis will yield different conclusions than broad schedule analysis, in practice there tends to be a high correlation between the two.
Painted with broad bands of garish color and highly simplified forms, and employing a high viewpoint, the agonized figure is reduced to a garbed skull in the throes of an emotional crisis.
There are many different types of tropical moist forests, although most extensive are the lowland evergreen broad leaf rainforests, for example várzea and igapó forests and the terra firma forests of the Amazon Basin ; the peat swamp forests, dipterocarp forests of Southeast Asia ; and the high forests of the Congo Basin.
Abilities in the HERO System, particularly Powers ( a broad category that includes superpowers, magic, psionics, and high technology ), are modeled based on their effects.
Doom was and remains notorious for its high levels of violence, gore, and satanic imagery, which have generated much controversy from a broad range of groups.
Proponents argue that a basic income that is based on a broad tax base, would be more economically efficient, as the minimum wage effectively imposes a high marginal tax on employers, causing losses in efficiency.
The western coast features many protected harbors, but silting is a major problem caused by sediment from the high levels of inland erosion carried by rivers crossing the broad western plains.
Consequently, it is potentially useful for a broad range of scientific, industrial, and biomedical applications that require high image acquisition rates, including real-time diagnosis and evaluation of shockwaves, microfluidics, MEMS, and laser surgery.
High, rugged, faulted mountains ; almost isolated volcanic peaks ; high rolling plateaus ; and broad, level, swampy plains are found there.
As this sub-topic is generally broad and complex — at high levels of play it is routine for ten or more moves to be rattled off from rote memorization by both players, travelling down well-worn paths, and there is a common naming system for diverse early-game move choices — it is probably best to leave expansion of this topic to a separate article specifically dedicated to the issue or to say no more.
Spanish transit is marked by a high degree of integration between its long distance railway system and inner-city metro systems, although the historic use of broad gauge has limited integration with its neighbours.
In South Australian English however there is a high proportion of people who use the broad / aː / vowel from the word " cart " in these words.
The area has borne the brunt of the tectonic divergence between the African and Arabian plates and the converging Arabian and Eurasian plates, which has made the region a very diverse zone of high snow-covered mountains, fertile broad alluvial basins and desert plateau, which has also increased its biodiversity further and enabled the survival into historic times of species not found elsewhere.
The larger of the two chambers is long by broad and high.
Her father, a rabbi, opposed the Zionist movement and sent Rosa to a Christian high school for girls in Homel, which gave her a broad general education.
Her head is clean-shaped ; her forehead high and broad, and standing somewhat forward.
Not far from these tombs is a huge dolmen ( the Pierre Levée ), which is long, broad and high, and around which used to be held the great fair of Saint Luke.
It conducts a broad spectrum of inter-disciplinary scientific research in three main areas: particle and high energy physics ; photon science ; and the development, construction and operation of particle accelerators.
5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, weighs between 150 and 160 pounds, rather bright complexion, but not a mulatto, broad shoulders, larger flat nose, large eyes, broad flat feet, rather knockneed, walks brisk and active, hair on the top of the head very thin, no beard, except on the upper lip and the top of the chin, a scar on one of his temples, also one on the back of his neck, a large knot on one of the bones of his right arm, near the wrist, produced by a blow.

high and forehead
Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.
Repnin, who had a rather narrow face, longish nose, high forehead, and arching brows, looked like a quizzical Mephistopheles.
Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.
It was believed that she had a fair face like Aphrodite with a tall body, slim, small hips, and a high forehead.
The forehead was high in relation to the beak, and the nostril was located low on the middle of the beak and surrounded by skin, a combination of features shared only with pigeons.
Holbein painted her with high forehead, heavy-lidded eyes and a pointed chin.
He had already become engaged to Gill's middle daughter, Petra, whose characteristic long neck and high forehead continued as standard female features in Jones's artwork for the rest of his career, even though his engagement to her did not last more than a couple of years.
Adult males also have a protruding crest which gives them a " high, domed forehead "; it is tufted with white hairs.
A portrait of Marie as a young girl shows her to have been pretty with regular features and a high forehead.
A point of interest is that the " high, domed forehead " was seen as the sign of a prodigious intellect during Conan Doyle's time.
The gaur is a strong and massively built species with a high convex ridge on the forehead between the horns, which bends forward, causing a deep hollow in the profile of the upper part of the head.
His head is partially bald and is small and compact, but the forehead is high.
Compared to Neanderthals, the skeletons showed the same high forehead, upright posture and slender ( gracile ) skeleton as modern humans.
They are worn by women around their head or on the forehead as a circlet on very formal or high social occasions.
A few of the 14 identified traits of a criminal included large jaws, forward projection of jaw, low sloping forehead ; high cheekbones, flattened or upturned nose ; handle-shaped ears ; hawk-like noses or fleshy lips ; hard shifty eyes ; scanty beard or baldness ; insensitivity to pain ; long arms, and so on.
" Historian Steven E. Woodworth wrote, " Beneath the ponderous dome of his high forehead, the General would gaze goggle-eyed at those who spoke to him, reflecting long before answering and simultaneously rubbing both elbows all the while, leading one observer to quip that the great intelligence he was reputed to possess must be located in his elbows.
His headgear has a ruff on the back, a skull and cobra over the forehead, and the crescent high on the right.
The cocked ears and broad forehead present an immense frontage ; the head is held high, with the trunk curled between the tusks, to be uncoiled in the moment of attack ; the massive fore-legs come down with the force and regularity of ponderous machinery ; and the whole figure is rapidly foreshortened, and appears to double in size with each advancing stride.
A low and little forehead denoted magnanimity, boldness, and confidence ; a fleshy and wrinkle-free forehead, litigiousness, vanity, deceit, and contentiousness ; a sharp forehead, weakness and fickleness ; a wrinkled forehead, great spirit and wit yet poor fortune ; a round forehead, virtue and good understanding ; a full large forehead, boldness, malice, boundary issues, and high spirit ; and a long high forehead, honesty, weakness, simplicity, and poor fortune.

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