( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

The grounds for the Church's position are Scriptural ( Old Testament ), the teachings of the fathers and doctors of the early Church, the unbroken tradition of nineteen centuries, the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical authority and the natural law.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

He notes that “ to suppose that the eye ... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree ”.

A July 2012 assessment found that exploitation of natural resources since the 2009 coup have had dire consequences for the island's wildlife: 90 percent of lemur species were found to be threatened with extinction, the highest proportion of any mammalian group.

It has extremes of many kinds: some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach ; the impressive and famous sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy ; some of the most northerly surviving natural woodland in the British Isles ; the remote possibility that Arctic Char survive in Heldale Water and the most northerly Martello Towers, which were built to defend the area during the Napoleonic War, but were never used in combat.

It is mostly flat with no real mountains, and the state's highest natural point is Jerimoth Hill, 812 feet ( 247 m ) above sea level.

But if that be entirely intrusted to the magistracy ,-- a select body of men, and those generally selected, by the prince, of such as enjoy the highest offices of the state ,-- these decisions, in spite of their own natural integrity, will have frequently an involuntary bias towards those of their own rank and dignity.

At the time, that was considered the highest international honor in the natural sciences.

According to scientific studies, natural human skin colour diversity within populations is highest in Sub-Saharan African populations, with skin reflectance values ranging from 19 to 46 ( med.

He described nature as being governed by laws which were difficult to discern or to state mathematically, and the highest aim of natural philosophy was understanding these laws through inductive reasoning, finding a single unifying explanation for a phenomenon.

The nearby island, known as Pontikonisi ( Greek meaning " mouse island "), though small is very green with abundant trees, and at its highest natural elevation ( excluding its trees or man-made structures, such as the monastery ), stands at about.

On June 5, 2007, the regional subsidiary of national broadcaster DR reported that a hill, Kobanke, situated in the southeast near the town Rønnede in Faxe municipality, with a natural point of terrain at 122. 9 m ( 403. 21 feet ), was the highest natural point on Zealand.

Gyldenløveshøj, south of the city Roskilde has a height of 126 m ( 413. 4 feet ), but that is due to a man-made hill from the 17th century and its highest natural point is only 121. 3 m ( 397. 96 feet ).

The highest natural point in New York, Mount Marcy at 5, 344 feet ( 1, 629 m ), is in the Town of Keene.

For about ten years since 2000, Inner Mongolia's GDP growth has been among the highest in the country, largely owing to the success of natural resource industries in the region.

The Tatra Mountains, Tatras or Tatra ( Tatry either in Polish and in Slovak-plurale tantum, Tátra in Hungarian ), are a mountain range which forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland, and are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains.

Under the influence of this work ( and the ideas of Georg Gottfried Gervinus, according to whom " the highest natural object of musical imitation is emotion, and the method of imitating emotion is to mimic speech "), Mussorgsky in 1868 rapidly set the first eleven scenes of Nikolai Gogol's The Marriage ( Zhenitba ), with his priority being to render into music the natural accents and patterns of the play's naturalistic and deliberately humdrum dialogue.

However, it took him another 12 years to create completely spherical pearls that were indistinguishable from the highest quality natural ones, and commercially viable harvests were not obtained until the 1920s.

Romanesque monastery at the top of la Mola ( 1107 m ), the highest point of the natural reserve of Sant Llorenç del Munt i Serra de l ' Obac

The highest natural point in Utah, Kings Peak at 13, 528 feet ( 4, 123 m ), is located in Duchesne County.

Elevation in the county ranges from mean sea level along the Gulf coast to its highest natural point of 269 feet at Chinsegut Hill.

Elevation in the county ranges from mean sea level to its highest natural point of 110 feet near the intersection of SR 580 and Countryside Blvd.

The president's opportunity for influencing education reaches its highest point, as he decides which projects he will cut back, which he will advance by increased allowances or new fund-raising efforts.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

** High Atlas, a mountain range in Morocco, contains the highest point in the Atlas Mountains

Mount Ararat, at the highest point in Turkey, is located in the Anti-Taurus.

The largest of these, Mount Aragats, high, is also the highest point in Armenia.

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The depth of water is necessary for determining scope, which is the ratio of length of cable to the depth measured from the highest point ( usually the anchor roller or bow chock ) to the seabed.

The highest point is located in North Andaman Island ( Saddle Peak at ).

Hence, from the point of view of the reader, numerals in Western texts are written with the highest power of the base first whereas numerals in Arabic texts are written with the lowest power of the base first.

The territory ’ s lowest point is at the Lein river near Rodamsdörfle, the highest point is the Grünberg ’ s peak near Unterkochen at 733 m.

The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.

After his impeachment proceedings in 1998 and 1999, Clinton's rating reached its highest point.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

The highest point is Monalanong Hill, at.

Its lowest point is the Caribbean Sea and its highest point is Mount Sage at above sea level.

The lowest point is at sea level and the highest is Bukit Pagon ().

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* highest point: Tena Kourou 749 m

The lowest point in the country is at Lake Tanganyika, at, with the highest point being on Mount Heha, at.

Nakagawa's defenses were based at Peleliu's highest point, Umurbrogol Mountain, a collection of hills and steep ridges located at the center of Peleliu overlooking a large portion of the island, including the crucial airfield.

Borneo's highest point is Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, with an elevation of above sea level.

The reserve has 83 acres ( 33. 6 ha ) of public land and at its highest point it reaches 162 metres with the distinctive landmark at the summit.