Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.

The tank proved highly successful, and as technology improved the tank became a weapon that could cross large distances at much higher speeds than supporting infantry and artillery.

A notable opioid for the purpose of relief of diarrhoea is loperamide which is only an agonist of the μ opioid receptors in the large intestine and does not have opioid affects in the central nervous system as it doesn't cross the blood – brain barrier in significant amounts.

Beryllium has a large scattering cross section for high-energy neutrons, about 6 barns for energies above ~ 0. 01 MeV.

Philostorgius and the Alexandrian chronicle affirm, that this cross of light was encircled with a large rainbow.

France has a system of large, navigable rivers, such as the Loire, Seine and Rhône that cross the country.

Agarose is composed of long unbranched chains of uncharged carbohydrate without cross links resulting in a gel with large pores allowing for the separation of macromolecules and macromolecular complexes.

His large family plot is surrounded by a chain, and his grave is a simple Celtic cross with double plinth and kerb.

* 366 – The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.

Its genetic features, including many known and mapped phenotypic mutants and a large number of progeny per cross ( typically 100-200 ) facilitated the discovery of transposons (" jumping genes ").

In areas where the supply of sand is reduced because of the inability of the sand to cross riverbeds, the winds also scour the land to form large gravel plains.

Nuclear pores are large protein complexes that cross the nuclear envelope, which is the double membrane surrounding the eukaryotic cell nucleus.

They went in procession from city to city, clad in white garments, with faces hooded, and wearing on their backs a red cross, following a leader who carried a large cross.

In January 1913, before Terra Nova left for home, a large wooden cross was made by the ship's carpenters, inscribed with the names of the lost party and Tennyson's line from his poem Ulysses: " To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ", and was erected as a permanent memorial on Observation Hill, overlooking Hut Point.

In those days it was easier and quicker to cross the strait towards nearby Kolka, Saunags or Mazirbe, than travel by horse large distances inland.

Some of the neutrons wander past the acrylic vessel into the light water, and since light water has a very large cross section for neutron capture these neutrons are captured very quickly.

A cross compound turbine is typically used for many large applications.

The two-meter-wide Yellow – red – blue ( 1925 ) consists of several main forms: a vertical yellow rectangle, an inclined red cross and a large dark blue circle ; a multitude of straight ( or sinuous ) black lines, circular arcs, monochromatic circles and scattered, coloured checkerboards contribute to its delicate complexity.

The Tupolev Tu-95 ' Bear ', a Soviet-era bomber, has large bulged landing gear nacelles behind the two inner engines, increasing the aircraft's overall cross section aft of the wing root.

Missourians cross the border in large numbers to elect a pro-slavery body.

* Summer – Constantine I joins his father in Gaul, from Bononia ( Boulogne ) they cross the Channel to Britain and make their way to Eboracum ( York ), capital of Britannia Secunda and home to a large military base in order to deal with a rebellion by the Picts.

* January 2 – The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, and invade the Gallic provinces.

Crucifixion is an ancient method of deliberately painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

But they, naturally, kept his secret well, and the public at large knew only of a great excitement in musical and court circles.

Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.

She stood there, a large old woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.

Though far from completion, these studies indicated beyond a doubt that savings would result which would be of unprecedented benefit to the railroads concerned, their investors, their customers, their users, and to the public at large.

Specifically, Congress should consider authorizing the Peace Corps to receive contributions from American businesses, unions, civic organizations and the public at large.

Some 45 frequencies are assigned for use primarily by dominant Class 1, -- A or Class 1, -- B clear-channel stations, designed to operate with adequate power and to provide service -- both groundwave and ( at night ) skywave -- over large areas and at great distances, being protected against interference to the degree necessary to achieve this objective.

This new machine takes up filament yarn from spinneret or extruder and winds large packages at speeds up to 6,000 feet per minute.

With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

It leases the whole facility to a large oil company, at least large enough to have a strong credit position.

Differential thermal analysis showed a very small endothermic reaction at 340-degrees-C and a large endothermic reaction at 470-degrees-C.

If, in a certain part of the range, it starts life 1 foot longer than do any of the other ( relatively large ) giants, and reaches maturity at, let us guess, 18 inches longer than the others, a quadrupling of the maturity length would result in a maximum of ( nearly ) 40 feet.

Lastly, governmental and private planners will at this stage begin to see large capital requirements looming ahead.

However, as witnessed by the large corporate bond calendar at present, as well as the record amount of municipal bond issues approved by voters, the over-all demands for capital funds seem likely to remain high, so that any downward pressure on rates from reduced demand should not be great.

And the authors give numerous instances of calculated guessing on the patient's part to show how large a role it played in his process of readapting himself and how proficient he became at it.

The ten or more dangerous parties singled out for prosecution were still at large, and Pels realized that if these men entrenched themselves in their adobe houses, defending themselves through loopholes, it would be most difficult to capture them.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.