Spaceships range in size from small one-man " fighters " to immense passenger liners and cargo ships.

Due to its immense size, Hurricane Ike caused devastation from the Louisiana coastline all the way to the Kenedy County, Texas region near Corpus Christi.

Of these, El Mirador, Tikal, Nakbé, Tintal, Xulnal and Wakná are the largest in the Maya world, Such size was manifested not only in the extent of the site, but also in the volume or monumentality, especially in the construction of immense platforms to support large temples.

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 ).

Furthermore, because of the exponential growth of the pot size in pot-limit play, seeing one of these hands to the end can be very expensive and carry immense reverse implied odds.

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.

In late 1994, a finished version 386BSD Release 1. 0 was distributed by Dr. Dobb's Journal on CDROM only due to the immense size ( 600 MB ) of the release ( the " 386BSD Reference CD-ROM ") and was a best-selling CDROM for three years ( 1994 – 1997 ).

The NASA Ames Research Center wind tunnels are known not only for their immense size, but also for their diverse characteristics that enable various kinds of scientific and engineering research.

Contemporary sources provide total figures of losses for the French that are generally considered as exaggerated as those of the total size of the army, but convey the sense that casualties were immense.

There is an immense size variation in vertebrate erythrocytes, as well as a correlation between cell and nucleus size.

Due to the immense size of the panorama, patrons were given orientation plans to help them navigate the scene.

According to the legend, Capaneus had immense strength and body size and was an outstanding warrior.

Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ) includes two aliens, from Saturn and Sirius, who are of immense size and visit the Earth out of curiosity.

A noted explorer, Charles Edward Douglas, claims in his journals that he had an encounter with two raptors of immense size in Landsborough River valley ( probably during the 1870s ), and that he shot and ate them.

They were immense in size, and were embellished with parks and lakes.

The sarcophagi are of immense size, and the burial must have entailed enormous expense.

It is certain that this vast prairie was known as Mamou Prairie as far back as the 18th century and that Anglo-Americans first called it ' Mammouth Prairie ' because of its immense size.

The hall is high, and remarkable chiefly for its size and for its stone carvings by Gibbons, yet in spite of its immense size it is merely a vast ante-room to the saloon.

The Dark Tower was described as existing on a massive scale so large it was almost surreal, although Tolkien does not provide much detail beyond its size and immense strength.

The visual appearance for the viewer is that either the background suddenly grows in size and detail and overwhelms the foreground, or the foreground becomes immense and dominates its previous setting, depending on which way the dolly zoom is executed.

Known as the Tyrant, he has dominated humanity to a breaking point ; he himself has become a full man-worm hybrid, immense in size and physically more sandworm than human.

Pope Gregory responded quickly, calling Lammenais ' new book " small in size, but immense in perversity.

The Mission covered an immense area which, expanded over much of the boundaries of the present day tri-city incorporations of Newark, Fremont, and Union City.

In the aftermath of the twenty-four hour occupation, the Goldsmiths ' Senior Management Team ( SMT ) informed the Student Union that due to the immense damages caused, further occupational protest action would result in the retroactive imposition of a £ 15, 000 charge taken from the following year's budget, in order to pay for the damage that the students had caused.

Governments on both sides of politics, well aware of the immense stretches of uninhabitable desert that separated the small productive regions of Australia, regarded air transport as a matter of national importance ( as did the governments of other geographically large nations, such as the Soviet Union and the United States ).

Not only did it have immense influence in the National Union of Mineworkers but it was extremely influential in the Electrical Trade Union and in the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers the key blue collar union.

Although offering a unique and quite non pareil portrayal of the immense personalities and problems facing the men who led the Union to ultimate victory, the first edition ( published in 1911 ) suffers from rewrites by Welles himself and after his death, by his son ; the 1960 edition is drawn directly from his original manuscript.

Given the Russian historical experiences of frequent invasions and the immense death toll ( estimated at 27 million ) and the destruction the Soviet Union sustained during World War II, the Soviet Union sought to increase security by dominating the internal affairs of countries that bordered it.

However, his department never had more than 30, 000 men stationed over an immense area and he was not able to concentrate forces adequately to challenge Grant nor the Union Navy on the river.

Especially in the context of the European Union, the cooperation between the countries reaches immense coordination and collaboration.

Other planners and USAF leadership, however, believed that the Soviet Union could support its " immense armed forces for at least two years of intensive warfare " if industrial and government centers were not attacked.

In 1912, immense public pressure secured the approval of the Sáenz Peña Law which established the secret ballot and universal suffrage for men, which would open the path to the 1916 victory of the first democratic president, Hipolito Yrigoyen, of the Radical Civic Union.

Jay argues that the benefits of Union against foreign wars are immense.

Soon after, the Picts come from Albania with an immense army and attack the northern part of the island.

The immense booty taken brings in over 11 million guilders, part of which is used to fund the entire army of the Dutch republic for 8 months long.

The approach of the immense German army greatly concerned Saladin and the other Muslim leaders, who began to rally troops of their own to confront Barbarossa's forces.

Edward was amazed by their small numbers of soldiers, and immediately attempted to levy an immense army to crush them.

The contrast with states bordering the Commonwealth, where army commanders could be dismissed at any time by their sovereigns, was immense.

Although he held no formal executive position, he wielded immense unofficial power, exercising personal command of both the ARVN Special Forces ( a paramilitary unit which served as the Ngô family's de facto private army ) and the Cần Lao political apparatus ( also known as the Personalist Labor Party ) which served as the regime's de facto secret police.

Áedán mac Gabráin, the Irish king of Dál Riata ( to the northwest of Bernicia ), was alarmed by Æthelfrith's successes, and in 603 he led " an immense and mighty army " against Æthelfrith.

Using its power of attracting evil-intentioned creatures, Poquelin began amassing an immense army with which to conquer the lands of Icewind Dale.

In 1997, the Chan government's multi-million-dollar contract with Sandline International, a mercenary organization, to counter separatist guerrilla warfare on Bougainville caused the Sandline affair, with immense public protests and a 10-day mutiny by the underpaid national army.

In one incident 300 fencers arrived at the roadline near Pungarehu, dug up the road, sowed it in wheat and constructed a fence, with a newspaper reporting: " They looked like an immense swarm of bees or an army of locusts, moving with a steady and uninterrupted movement across the face of the earth.

She had immense psychological and political consequences, since it would prove that with a reduced army lightly equipped, but also with a great mobility, it was possible to defeat conventional armies.

In the height of his passion for conquests, he led an immense army against the Dog Rong, who inhabited the western part of China.

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.

" Jackson did and that evening penned a note of gratitude to her: " I thank you, for myself and for the army, for the immense service that you have rendered your country today.

According to Bede's account in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Book I, chapter 34 ), Æthelfrith had won many victories against the Britons and was expanding his power and territory, and this concerned Áedán, who led " an immense and mighty army " against Æthelfrith.

The sight of the dreaded Parthian cavalry so panics the defecting Romans that they go back over to Livius, swelling his army and allowing him to score an immense victory.

" I refuse to place ," said Sartre, " in the same category the actions of an organization of poor peasants ... and those of an immense army backed by a highly organized country.

He comes to the aid of his vassal King Marsile ( a. k. a. " Marsillion ") and brings an immense army to fight Charlemagne.

Despite his military skills, Faidherbe was never able to form an army strong enough to seriously worry the Prussians, as his army, composed of raw recruits, suffered immense supply difficulties and low morale in the freezing winter of 1870 / 71.

The invading British army, laden with an immense network of supply wagons, invades Zululand and marches in the direction of Ulundi, the Zulu capital.

Crassus arrived in Syria in late 55 BC and immediately set about using his immense wealth to raise an army.

Even worse for the Order, their enemy unleashes an ancient magic on the main army, wreaking immense destruction.