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.

Finally, Montevideo and the department of Maldonado ( which is strongly affected by the tourism industry in Punta del Este ) had the highest indexes of social and economic development in the country.

It is located in the western part of the country in the department of the same name at an elevation of roughly ( the city is built on steep hills ) above sea level, making it the world's highest de facto capital city, or administrative capital, with Quito being the highest legal capital.

The highest point in the department is in the woods of Chantemerlière, near the commune of Contré in the north-east, and rises to 173 m.

The Causses are a series of very dry calcium plateaus in the south-west, and the south-east contains the Cévennes, which include the highest point in the department, the granite Mont Lozère at 1, 702m.

Although this service to the state was regarded by him as only an apprenticeship to the service of science, he fulfilled its duties with such conspicuous ability that not only did he rise rapidly to the highest post in his department, but he was also entrusted with several important diplomatic missions.

Also in 1991, the United States Department of Education recognized Manual as a Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the department can bestow on a school.

The Gex region is separated from the rest of the department by the last eastern mountain chain of the Jura where the highest elevation in the department, the Crêt de la Neige ( 1720 m ), can be found.

The highest point of the range and of the department is the Pic de Montalet ( about 4150 ft .); several other summits are not much short of this.

The highest point in the department, at 510 m, is the Pech Maurel, situated in the commune of Castanet.

The highest point in the department is the Sub-Peak " Pic Lory " at 4, 088 metres, subsidiary to the Barre des Ecrins.

The highest point in the department is the Mont Aigoual.

Roughly 47 % of the department is covered by woodlands and forests ( the third highest in France ), while 38 % of land is in agricultural use.

Seine-Saint-Denis is the French department with the highest proportion of immigrants: 21. 7 % at the 1999 census ( see table below ).

College of Marin is well known for its theatre department, with the highest transfer acceptance to Juilliard of any junior college in the state.

The range reaches its highest point at Le Crêt de la Neige in the departments of Ain and finds its southern terminus in the northwestern part of the department of Savoie.

In 2007, students in the German department were awarded 13 Fulbright scholarships, five more than the previous highest number from a single department.

Though formal numbers are not kept, and the claim cannot be confirmed, the number of award winners from one department to study in a specific country is considered by some scholars to be the highest in the 60-year history of the Fulbright program.

The Ministry of Defence is the Government department and highest level of military headquarters charged with formulating and executing defence policy for the Armed Forces ; it employed 103, 930 civilians in 2006.

Up to 300, 000 customers visit the shop on peak days, comprising the highest proportion of customers from non-English speaking countries of any department store in London.

Old Main ( Utah State University ) | Old Main, the agricultural college's now-iconic first building, now houses administrative offices, the department of Computer Science, and much of the College of HaSSMeanwhile, after visiting a few rural agricultural schools in his native Denmark, Anthon H. Lund of the Utah Territorial Legislature decided that there existed in Utah a need for such a school fusing the highest in scientific and academic research with agriculture, the way of life for the vast majority of locals.

Col du Tourmalet ( 2, 115 m / 6, 939 ft ) is the highest road in the central Pyrenees in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France.