The truss rod counteracts the immense amount of tension the strings place on the neck, bringing the neck back to a straighter position.

They returned in 1806, bringing with them an immense amount of information about the region as well as numerous plant and animal specimens.

* The term Noöcene epoch refers to " how we manage and adapt to the immense amount of knowledge we ’ ve created.

Such reactors can no longer form on Earth: radioactive decay over this immense time span has reduced the proportion of U-235 in naturally occurring uranium to below the amount required to sustain a chain reaction.

Syracuse, the principal city of Sicily, was not much smaller than Athens, and conquering all of Sicily would have brought Athens an immense amount of resources.

They also note the immense amount of funding that soft drink sales bring to schools.

Archer feels an immense amount of pressure concerning his mission, especially when hunting the Xindi to save Earth from destruction.

Brahms's First Piano Concerto in D minor ( pub 1861 ) was the result of an immense amount of work on a mass of material originally intended for a symphony.

Prior to the Act, charters were granted by state legislatures who were under an immense amount of political pressure and could be influenced by bribes.

Negotiations conducted during that time prove fruitless, and on its termination, Agesilaus raids Phrygia, where he easily captures an immense amount of booty, since Tissaphernes has concentrated his troops in Caria.

By strict economy of time he accomplished an immense amount of work ; he exacted similar application from his dependents, and proved himself a hard husband, a strict father, a severe and cruel master.

The many customers of the several merchants carried away an immense amount of the necessaries of the home, while the several merchants furnished in such profuse quantities.

After Moltke's repulse at Melle, the capture of Ghent followed in mid-July with an immense amount of supplies and material along with its garrison consisting of 2, 200 Dutch troops ; and some 700 British troops.

This also puts an immense amount of pressure on the biceps and triceps muscles, and when tried by suspects ( even unsuccessfully ) can lead to injury, including bruising around the wrists, or tearing the muscles used ( including pulling them off their attachments to the bones ).

For example, some people in charge of the government have an immense amount of power, and yet they do not make much money.

For example, he kidnapped all the cats in the city to make an immense amount of static electricity, and in his appearance in the pilot he constructed a laser cannon designed to create a giant gelatin mold which would be used to cause an earthquake under the United States Gold Reserve.

They returned in 1806, bringing with them an immense amount of information about the region as well as numerous plant and animal specimens.

Sun Wukong possesses an immense amount of strength ; he is able to lift his 13, 500 jīn ( 8, 100 kg or 17, 881 lbs ) staff with ease.

He therefore did not deny the competitive form of struggle, but argued that the cooperative counterpart has been underemphasized: " There is an immense amount of warfare and extermination going on amidst various species ; there is, at the same time, as much, or perhaps even more, of mutual support, mutual aid, and mutual defense ... Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.

During her lifetime she was highly esteemed and trusted by British officials and given an immense amount of power for a woman at the time.

Billions of dollars per year are spent, by agencies such as the Information Awareness Office, National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to develop, purchase, implement, and operate systems such as Carnivore, ECHELON, and NarusInsight to intercept and analyze the immense amount of data that traverses the Internet and telephone system every day.

# Each SM store represents an immense amount of detail resulting in very high resolution of information.

In the military sphere, the Korean army as it existed in the early 1890s consisted of about 5, 000 soldiers and it was increased to an immense amount of 28, 000 right before the Russo-Japanese War.

At the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries the annual income was calculated as over £ 437: an immense amount of money for the time.

The property bubble that had begun growing in 1997, fed by historically low interest rates and an immense surge in immigration, imploded in 2008, leading to a weakening economy and soaring unemployment.

The immense size of the empire, followed by its encompassing nature, made the Seleucid rulers have a governing interest in implementing a policy of racial unity initiated by Alexander.

Since the development of technology, transmission and storage systems have been of immense interest to technologists and technology users.

The color pattern of the Appaloosa is of immense interest to those who study equine coat color genetics, as it and several other physical characteristics are linked to the leopard complex mutation ( LP ).

Daniel Allen Butler comments that " although it was of immense interest to Titanic buffs the world over, it lacked the spark of the original ," which by 1998 had reached its fiftieth printing.

Of immense interest is the text, recently attributed to him, called Laterculus Malalianus.

Despite Ataru's lack of interest in Lum ( due of immense shame that the tag game brought to him ) and attempts to rekindle his relationship with Shinobu, Lum frequently interferes and eventually Shinobu loses interest in Ataru.

There was an immense interest in the Finnish language and Finnish culture in the mostly Swedish speaking upper class.

He refused to stand for a seat, in the Liberal interest, in the Lower House of the Prussian diet, but continued to take an active interest in politics, and in 1855 published in two volumes a work, Die Zeichen der Zeit: Briefe, etc., which exercised an immense influence in reviving the Liberal movement which the failure of the revolution had crushed.

The immense following and the tribute album revealed a huge interest that, by audience numbers, was never received back in the day when they had quit.

Marx believed that capitalism could only be overthrown by means of a revolution carried out by the working class: " The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.

The latter was an immense symphonic cantata for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, spanning almost an hour of unbroken music ; its attention to musico-dramatic detail points to Novák's increasing interest in opera, a genre he had yet to attempt.

The article sparked immense interest in the Mazatec ritual practice among beatniks and hippies, an interest that proved disastrous for the Mazatec community and for María Sabina in particular.

* Simon P Gillayley-Simon is a mute, highly intelligent child with an immense interest in details of the world around him.

Consequently his choice of a wife would be bound to generate immense popular interest and close media scrutiny.

As one commentator noted, Mary's “… lifelong interest in philanthropy was about to become a profession .” One of her first undertakings was to fulfill E. H .’ s vision of an immense state park.

After the deaths of Thévenot and d ' Herbelot, Galland lived for some time at Caen under the roof of Nicolas Foucault, the intendant of Caen, himself no mean archaeologist ; and there he began in 1704 the publication of Les mille et Une Nuits, which excited immense interest during the time of its appearance, and is still the standard French translation.

The trial opened on June 10, 1867 under Judge George P. Fisher and held immense public interest in the United States.

Garrincha was known amongst footballing scouts but did not arrive in professional football until his late teens ; he had no interest in a professional career despite his immense talent.

As an immediate witness and insider of the entire turbulent epoch in the history of the Balkans, she is still the subject of immense regional media interest.