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.

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.

In the mid 3rd century, the Bastarnae were part of a Gothic-led grand coalition of lower Danube tribes which inflicted immense damage on the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire in a series of massive invasions.

The immense, overwhelming presence of Gormenghast Castle ; its ' umbrageous ceilings ', its ' empire of red rust ' and the way in which it shapes and deforms the personalities of those who dwell in and under it, marks Gormenghast out as one of the great Gothic edifices, as Hill House in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House or Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.

According to ancient historians Sozomen, Socrates, and Theodoret, Pulcheria had a deep dislike for Anthemius, the former guardian of Theodosius ; the reasons may have been his distaste for her immense power within the empire and her unwillingness to allow Anthemius to gain power amongst the imperial court.

are treated in sci-fi as symbol of immense power, often relic of Precursor civilization or symbol of all-powerful future empire.

The Qhapaq Ñan unified this immense and heterogeneous empire through a well-organized political system of power.

This immense empire did not cease to stop in Kuwait ; Kharafi had his businesses and franchies spread over nearly 11 countries, including Egypt, South Africa and Syria.

Imperium is a two-player game simulating a series of conflicts between the emerging Terran ( human ) Confederation and an immense and ancient alien empire, the Imperium.

Joseph Fouché recalled Napoleon saying before the Peninsular War, " Reflect that the sun never sets in the immense inheritance of Charles V, and that I shall have the empire of both worlds.

While the later Aravidu dynasty rulers never actually wielded power over the erstwhile empire, they nevertheless enjoyed immense prestige in the land, and often received homage from the great satraps of the empire.

In spite of all the other businesses, Leslie takes an immense liking for the media empire, with which she intends to destroy Oliver.

They rode on mules with gilded bridles, rich saddles and housings, carrying hawks on their wrist, followed by an immense train of attendants.

Franks, was followed by an immense bequest of 3, 300 finger rings, 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1, 500 netsuke, 850 inro, over 30, 000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery and plate, among them the Oxus Treasure.

The success which followed his labors not only in the city of Utrecht, but also in Zwolle, Deventer, Kampen, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Gouda, Leiden, Delft, Zutphen and elsewhere, was immense ; according to Thomas à Kempis the people left their business and their meals to hear his sermons, so that the churches could not hold the crowds that flocked together wherever he came.

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.

First among them was the Portuguese Empire, followed soon by the Spanish Empire, which was challenged by the Dutch Empire, itself replaced on the high seas by the British Empire, whose landed possessions were immense and held together by the greatest navy of its time.

Dravid followed this with an unbeaten 72 under immense pressure in the second innings to set up a famous victory.

More Disumbrationist paintings followed: a composition of zig-zag lines and eyeballs he called " Illumination "; a garish picture of a black woman doing laundry which he called " Aspiration ", and which a critic praised as " a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy, with a lot of Jerdanowitch individuality "; " Gination ", an ugly, lopsided portrait ; and a painting named " Adoration ", of a woman worshipping an immense phallic idol, which was exhibited in 1927.

This method was not popular with the patients, however, due to the immense pain it caused, and the infection that usually followed.

A full season for Arrows followed in, though both Berger and team mate Thierry Boutsen were hampered by the Arrows A8 which wasn't the best chassis on the grid and didn't allow either to exploit the immense power of the BMW M12 engine.

When she set out for home with her precious burden she was followed by an immense concourse, including one hundred keening women.

Makara Sankranti identifies a period of enlightenment, peace, prosperity and happiness followed by a period of darkness, ignorance and viciousness with immense sorrow.

This was an immense space to vault over, and moreover, it followed that every alternate pier served no purpose, so far as the support of the nave vault was concerned, and this would seem to have suggested an alternative, viz.

This success was followed up in 1808 by the production of the " Reddition de Vienne " and " Atala au Tombeau " a work which went far to deserve its immense popularity, by a happy choice of subject, and remarkable freedom from the theatricality of Girodet's usual manner, which, however, soon returned again in his " La Révolte du Caire " ( 1810 ).

Before leaving the Cévennes for the last time he went to Alais and to Ribaute, followed by an immense concourse of people.

They were followed by an immense boom in tourism, making the 1980s one of the city's best decades in a long time.

They were followed by an immense boom in tourism, making the 1980s one of the city's best decades in a long time.

The details were later immortalized in 1928 by Júlio Ivo, then president of the municipal council of Mafra ( during the presidency of Sidónio Pais, who explained: "... the automobiles stopped and the Royal Family got out, they followed the Rua do Norte to the Rua de Baixo, to the narrow lane that connects the two road, almost in front of the Travessa da Estrela ... On arrival at the Rua de Baixo, the Royal Family went in the following order: at the front, the King Manuel ; followed by Maria Pia, then Amélia ... the King, who accompanied him, climbed aboard the boat using crates and baskets of fish ... the flagman signalled with his hat, and the first boat, the Bomfim, carrying the blue and white flag on the stern, followed by the rows, driving the King ... the affluence along the coast was immense.

After the territorial gains of the first two days, a hiatus followed as the immense logistical support needed to keep armies in the field caught up with the new realities.

Despite the high cost of the animation, a deluge of similar laserdisc video games followed Dragon's Lair because of its immense popularity.

Despite other epidemics, coupled with the immense taxes imposed by Constantin Hangerli, and the major earthquake of October 14, 1802 ( followed by ones in 1804 and 1812 ), the city's population continued to increase.

When the scholars undertook to edit, revise, and collect into individual midrashim the immense array of haggadot, they followed the method employed in the collections and revisions of the halakhot and the halakhic discussions.

He followed suit with his main work in English, Buddhist Logic ( 2 vols., 1930 – 32 ), which has exerted an immense influence on Buddhology.