He wrote to his wife on 14 January 1860: " I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life.

Giant firms in some Asian countries were able to take advantage of their poorly devised accounting standards to cover up immense debts and losses, which yielded a collective effect that eventually led the whole region into financial crisis.

The distance was taken out of the neutral zone and this often threw visiting players off of their game, giving home teams an immense advantage.

Subsequently, the Luftwaffe was able to achieve air superiority over France in 1940, giving the German military an immense advantage in terms of reconnaissance and intelligence.

One particular Liu Jin, leader of the Eight Tigers, was notorious for taking advantage of the young emperor and squandered immense amount of silver and valuables.

Hunt's folksy manner, lack of pretense and unbridled enthusiasm led Emerson to gush, " I could only think of the immense advantage which a thinking soul possesses when horsed on a robust and vivacious temperament.

Alex is there, however ; he took advantage of everyone else's quests so that he would gain immense power for himself from the light of the Golden Sun, a manifestation of Alchemy itself.

Dwight D. Eisenhower criticized the notion of the confluence of corporate power and de facto fascism, but nevertheless brought attention to the " conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry " in his 1961 Farewell Address to the Nation, and stressed " the need to maintain balance in and among national programs -- balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage.

They had now, from South Australia to Queensland, a stretch of about 2, 000 miles of railway, and if the four colonies could only combine to adopt a uniform gauge, it would be an immense advantage to the movement of troops.

" Andrew Prevost, Jr., wrote Franklin on December 12, 1812: ' We have lost an immense property from the infamous advantage taken by Cooper and others without your knowledge by a forced Sale under your Title.

Taking advantage of their immense knowledge of advanced technology, the Cylons exploited a backdoor in the Colonial military's software written into Dr. Gaius Baltar's programs by Number Six, a Cylon working undercover who had become Baltar's lover, and who deliberately used him to find weaknesses in the Colonial defense systems he had designed.

Atkins was a fierce defender who was known for using his immense size and agility to his advantage.

Companies such as Fox, Answer Products ( Manitou ), Marzocchi and RockShox, introduced them with very similar strength to their dual crown counterparts, with the immense advantage of being single crown.

The character of Storace's music is preeminently English ; but his early intercourse with Mozart gave him an immense advantage over his contemporaries in his management of the orchestra, while for the excellence of his writing for the voice he was no doubt indebted to the vocalization of his sister Ann ( Nancy ) Storace.

The dressphere allowed the player to gain abilities such as Cripple and Mad Rush, taking full advantage of the Berserkers immense strength.

" However, according to her, Spears could not take advantage of the kiss as later her career and lifestyle came under immense media scrutiny and criticism.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

The Juruá River ( Portuguese Rio Juruá ; Spanish Río Yurúa ) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.

The immense development of the Fehme is explained by the privileges of the Freischöffen ; for they were subject to no jurisdiction but those of the Westphalian courts: whether as accused or accuser they had access to the secret sessions, and they shared in the discussions of the general chapter as to the policy of the society.

The king's Catholic baptism was of immense importance in the subsequent history of Western and Central Europe in general, for Clovis expanded his dominion over almost all of the old Roman province of Gaul ( roughly modern France ).

The Adriatic Sea's high water quality, along with the immense number of coves, islands and channels, makes Dalmatia an attractive place for nautical races, nautical tourism, and tourism in general.

Sulla served not only with brilliance as a general during the Social War, but also with immense personal bravery.

The article gained immense popularity among mathematicians and the general population as a whole, and so resulted in Julia's later receiving of the Grand Prix de l ' Académie des Sciences.

" The fatal hour having arrived, a large detachment of troops was paraded, and an immense concourse of people assembled ; almost all our general and field officers, excepting his excellency and staff, were present on horseback ; melancholy and gloom pervaded all ranks, and the scene was affectingly awful.

In general, the title Father ( capitalized ) signifies God's role as the life-giver, the authority, and powerful protector, often viewed as immense, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent with infinite power and charity that goes beyond human understanding.

Yet he continued working on it in poverty and old age, and I like to think he was happy in his immense design, and with the admiration of such men as Jussieu and the Institut in general.

After high expectations, China's performance drew immense criticism on online communities, which condemned the coach Zhu Guanghu, players, and the Chinese Football Association in general.

However, perhaps the most significant consequence of Celtic rock has simply been as a general spur to immense musical and cultural creativity.

Based upon her immense fear of mathematics in general, ( Quote " I'd rather slit my wrists than take a math course at age 48 ") she refused to take the course but can still be seen sporadically taking undergraduate courses.

The immense popularity of Grave Digger has made it the poster child for Monster Jam, and in some cases monster trucks in general.

Though there are several exceptions but in general both these communities share an immense rivalry between them regarding Mohun Bagan-East Bengal football match.

The impact of A Sea Symphony manifests itself not only in the life of the composer ( his first symphony and first work of such an immense scale ), but also in the newfound support and appreciation of the English symphony and 20th century English music in general.

Whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, with the variety of its climates, productions, and commerce, the difference of extent, and number of inhabitants in all ; the dissimilitude of interest, morals, and policies, in almost every one, will receive it as an intuitive truth, that a consolidated republican form of government therein, can never form a perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to you and your posterity, for to these objects it must be directed: this unkindred legislature therefore, composed of interests opposite and dissimilar in their nature, will in its exercise, emphatically be, like a house divided against itself.

The primary sources disagree over the outcome of this Frankish invasion: Isidore of Seville writes that the future king Theudigisel, who was then a general of Theudis, had killed all of the invaders except a group which had bribed him to allow them to escape ; Although Gregory of Tours writes that " they succeeded in conquering a large part of Spain and they returned to Gaul with immense booty ", Roger Collins observes that this was the first Visigothic victory over their Frankish rivals -- an achievement which undoubtedly added to Theudis ' prestige.

An unofficial report stated: " The PE staff at the school are of the highest quality, and the general enthusiasm is immense throughout lessons.

This caused immense controversy, leading to a strike by students and complaints from the local press, including from nationalists who considered it to be a retrogressive move.

First of all, and this has been calculated by observation, the universe is expanding -- that is, the galaxies are receding from each other at immense speeds.

A reason for this is that allegory has an immense power of illustrating complex ideas and concepts in a digestible, concrete way.

In the swamp regions of north-east Africa papyrus and associated plants, including the soft-wooded ambach, flourish in immense quantities, and little else is found in the way of vegetation.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

The battlefield of Ramillies is very similar to that of Blenheim, for here too there is an immense area of arable land unimpeded by woods or hedges.

Tetrameles nudiflora is a tree of immense proportions of height and width, Tetramelaceae, Anisophylleaceae and Corynocarpaceae are tall canopy trees in temperate and tropical forest.

From a monetary standpoint, governments control just how much money is in circulation worldwide, which plays an immense role on how money is spent in one's own country.

This mixture of small molecules is extraordinarily complex, as the variety of molecules that are involved in metabolism ( the metabolites ) is immense.

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.

The Adagio is an immense ABA ternary structure.

Glorantha is immense.

It is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity.

There is an immense number of distinct compounds that contain carbon atoms.

The number of these compounds is immense and the described number of defined compounds is close to 10 million.

So immense is the star-power of Madhuri Dixit that Subhash Ghai actually carved out a solid role for her in this macho tale of a bad boy and his shenanigans.

After passing the Pongo de Huaracayo ( or Guaracayo ), the cerros, or hills, gradually disappear, and for a distance of about the river is full of islands, and there is nothing visible from its low banks but an immense forest-covered plain known as the selva baja (" low jungle ") or Peruvian Amazonia, home to indigenous peoples such as the Urarina of the Chambira Basin, the Candoshi, and the Cocama-Cocamilla peoples.

Sapho is extracted from roots found on Ecaz, and its use doubles or even triples the Mentat's already immense processing power.

Much of what is known about axonal function comes from studying the squid giant axon, an ideal experimental preparation because of its relatively immense size ( 0. 5 – 1 millimeters thick, several centimeters long ).