In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

A distinction is sometimes made between the smaller adobes, which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger adobines, some of which may be one to two yards ( 1 – 2 m ) long.

For Euclid ’ s method to succeed, the starting lengths must satisfy two requirements: ( i ) the lengths must not be 0, AND ( ii ) the subtraction must be “ proper ”, a test must guarantee that the smaller of the two numbers is subtracted from the larger ( alternately, the two can be equal so their subtraction yields 0 ).

( Which of the two families is actually larger is unclear, owing to uncertainty about exactly how many species exist in each family ).

Its total land area is -- slightly larger than Washington, D. C. -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

Leonhart Rauwolff, in AD 1574, found it " divided ... into two towns ," the one " Turkish ," " so surrounded by the river, that you cannot go into it but by boats ," the other, much larger, on the Arabian side of the river.

Essentially there were two grades of suit, a smaller kind known as dike ( δίκη ) or private suit, and a larger kind known as graphe or public suit.

* 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

The proportion and overall size of these two parts helps determine the overall tonal balance and " native sound " of a particular body style – the larger the body, the louder the volume.

This instrument had the advantage of a larger field of view and he was able to obtain precise positions of a large number of stars that transited close to the zenith over the course of about two years.

The ice cover is the main habitat for two larger animal species.

Politically, tourism is the more important of the two, as it employs a greater number of people within the Territory, and a larger proportion of the businesses in the tourist industry are locally owned, as are a number of the highly tourism-dependent sole traders ( for example, taxi drivers and street vendors ).

In larger universities where both a statistics and a biostatistics department exist, the degree of integration between the two departments may range from the bare minimum to very close collaboration.

In a multi-hand, face-up, single deck game, it is possible to establish whether insurance is a good bet simply by observing the other cards on the table after the deal ; even if there are just 2 player hands exposed, and neither of their two initial cards is a ten, then 16 in 47 of the remaining cards are tens, which is larger than 1 in 3, so insurance is a good bet.

The term community has two distinct commutive meanings: 1 ) Community usually refers to a social unit larger than a small village that shares common values.

Thus, a week of Beetle Bailey would arrive at the Lansing State Journal in two sheets, printed much larger than the final version and ready to be cut apart and fitted into the local comics page.

A casino craps table is run by up to four casino employees: a boxman who guards the chips, supervises the dealers and handles " coloring out " players ( exchanging small chip denominations for larger denominations in order to preserve the chips at a table ); two base dealers who stand to either side of the boxman and collect and pay bets ; and a stickman who stands directly across the table from the boxman, takes bets in the center of the table ( hard ways, yo, craps, horn, etc.

This occurs when two surfaces converge rapidly and obliquely at a small angle, and high-temperature highly shocked material is expelled from the convergence zone with velocities that may be several times larger than the impact velocity.

The two stars will be closest between 2043 and 2050, when they will require a telescope with larger aperture to split.

The two stadiums are roughly equidistant for Cubs fans living in north-suburban Chicago ; hence, fans in this region take advantage of Miller Park's larger seating and parking capacity, more modern amenities, and the certainty that the game will not be weather-delayed ( due to Miller Park's roof ) to attend Cubs games in Milwaukee in large numbers, enhancing the rivalry's intensity.

After it was shown that at least one such body was larger than Pluto, on August 24, 2006 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) reclassified Pluto, grouping it with two similarly sized " dwarf planets " rather than with the eight " classical planets ".

In general per carat prices of larger stones are higher than those of smaller stones, but popularity of certain sizes of stone can affect prices.

For example, up to 98 % of small stones ( less than in diameter ) may pass spontaneously through urination within four weeks of the onset of symptoms, but for larger stones ( in diameter ), the rate of spontaneous passage decreases to less than 53 %.

The larger stones allowed one to walk around them, thereby changing the viewpoint of its vision.

Rabbi Obadiah of Bertinoro writing in 1488, states " the Westen Wall, part of which is still standing, is made of great, thick stones, larger than any I have seen in buildings of antiquity in Rome or in other lands.

For larger stones, the doctor may also use the extra tube in the ureteroscope to extend a flexible fiber that carries a laser beam to break the stone into smaller pieces that can then pass out of the body in the urine.

Channels move sideways via differential velocity: On the outside of a curve, deeper, swift water picks up sediment ( usually gravel or larger stones ), which is re-deposited in slow-moving water on the inside of a bend.

Some picture stones and engravings on stone coffins, especially those from the area of modern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, show two winged immortals playing Liubo on a mountain, usually as part of a larger scene depicting the Queen Mother of the West and various mythical animals.

Many quarry stones such as marble, granite, limestone and sandstone are cut into larger slabs and removed from the quarry.

One of them produced hailstones reported to be larger than golfballs, with conglomerate stones up to 10cms across.

By starting with a dense wood-like material, such as nutshells or peach stones, one obtains a form of charcoal with particularly fine pores ( and hence a much larger pore surface area ), called activated carbon, which is used as an adsorbent for a wide range of chemical substances.

The rear ripper is intended for use in loosening rocky ground and ripping out larger stones.

Edward VII had the Cullinan I and Cullinan II set respectively into the Sceptre with the Cross and the Imperial State Crown, while the remainder of the seven larger stones and the 96 smaller brilliants remained in the possession of the Dutch diamond cutting firm of Messers I. J. Asscher of Amsterdam who had split and cut the Cullinan, until the South African Government bought these stones and the High Commissioner of the Union of South Africa presented them to Queen Mary on June 28, 1910.

For the next two hundred years, Greek building sites witnessed a sharp drop in the weights handled, as the new lifting technique made the use of several smaller stones more practical than of fewer larger ones.

However, larger stones may require other methods of treatment.

Beyond the impressive decorative elements of Puuc architecture, the use of a concrete core is also considered an architectural advance beyond the earlier Maya technique of using larger stones ( set on top of one another in lime and mud mortar ) for structural support.

In any other situation, it is better to just give up the stone ( s ) in risk of being isolated and play offensive moves elsewhere and make the opponent lose a similar or preferably larger number of stones on another part of the board.

This top level surface permitted a smoother shape and protected the larger stones in the road structure from iron wheels and horse hooves.

The lower road thickness was restricted to stones no larger than.

McAdam believed that the " proper method " of breaking stones for utility and rapidity was accomplished by people sitting down and using small hammers, breaking the stones so that none of them was larger than six ounces in weight.

They are of a traditional design and were originally beacons to guide the soul of the deceased, The road leads to 18 pairs of stone statues of mythical animals, which are all sculpted from whole stones and larger than life size, leading to a three-arched gate known as the Dragon and Phoenix Gate.

In stone, as well as engraved gems, larger hardstone carvings in semi-precious stones have been highly prestigious since ancient times in many Eurasian cultures.