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Spaceships range in size from small one-man " fighters " to immense passenger liners and cargo ships.
The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.
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.

immense and body
The immense authority of the sacred college of pontiffs was centered on the Pontifex Maximus, the other pontifices forming his consilium or advising body.
Yoshinobu opposed this action, and composed a message of protest, to be delivered to the imperial court ; at the urging of men of Aizu, Kuwana, and other domains, and in light of the immense number of Satsuma and Chōshū troops in Kyoto, he dispatched a large body of troops to convey this message to the court.
In addition to this, the yeshiva wielded immense power as the principal body for interpreting Jewish religious law.
Her head was immense, while the rest of her body atrophied to a useless appendage.
It has a heavy body of timber on the north, with a rich soil of openings and prairie on the south, and has excellent facilities by water for obtaining pine logs from the immense pinery of Wolf river, a great quantity of which is here manufactured into lumber.
Those political consequences were immense especially on the domain of authonomy of Królestwo Kongresowe ( Congress Poland ) from the main body of Russia and in access of Poles to higher offices in the country.
The power coursing through his body was so immense and so unstable that it would frequently discharge in a massive energy explosion.
There are immense difficulties involved – its powers, electoral system, and above all relations with the Commons, which would certainly resent the creation of a body with rival claims to democratic legitimacy.
These artificial intelligences were members of the TechnoCore, an immense assemblage of these personae that has " seceded " from its creator, humanity, to which it serves as a type of advisory body.
While trying to deal with the ebb and flow of energy through his body into and out of the Source, Josh attracts the attention of Captain Atom, the Flash, Green Lantern ; after a brief fight, he easily defeats all three heroes and leaves the planet feeling that with his immense power levels, he was a threat to everyone on Earth.
Thus, while Iraq's body politic crumbled under immense political and economic pressure throughout the monarchic period, the military gained increasing power and influence ; moreover, because the officers in the new army were by necessity Sunnis who had served under the Ottomans, while the lower ranks were predominantly filled by Shia tribal elements, Sunni dominance in the military was preserved.
Out of his immense body of work, three have really stood out in the public mind: the master-planned cities of Irvine and Newport Beach, and the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco.
He was a man of great physical force and of vigorous intellect, and his large experience and immense energy of body and mind soon placed him in the front rank of physicians in the State.
Many went on to form their companies, thus creating an everlasting legacy of his immense body of work and influence on the dancers of his generation.
Though his size be immense, as is his strength, and his body covered with a thick skin, defended with strong hair, yet even the camel is not capable of sustaining the violent punctures the fly makes with his pointed proboscis.
Krillin states that only a calm-hearted person can sustain a Spirit Bomb, and when Goku transforms into his Super Saiyan form, his body absorbs the Spirit Bomb's immense energy.
In addition to the powers he has because of his Kryptonian-cyborg body, he also has been shown wielding ten Qwardian power rings and as such, has access to all the immense powers they bestow.
Despite having immense power, she has an unnaturally small amount of Mana power, which creatures require to survive in the Netherworld, leaving her body to die slowly.
The body can be summoned if the Signets are destroyed, which can be done using the immense magical power contained within the artifacts that Lloyd gathered, called the Divine Moon Objects.

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