# Assume the first item is largest.

# Look at each of the remaining items in the list and if it is larger than the largest item so far, make a note of it.

# The last noted item is the largest in the list when the process is complete.

if the item > largest, then

largest ← the item

Next we reconstruct the heap and remove the next largest item, and insert it into the array.

The NSC meetings, including prior briefings and subsequent review of NSC Actions, constituted the largest single item on his weekly agenda.

Keo has become particularly notable in recent years for its marketing of antiques, with the largest dealer — Morris Antiques — operating a 10-building complex including space for item sales and antique restoration.

The first item printed in Pennsylvania was in German and was the largest book printed in any of the colonies before the American Revolution.

In Ireland, the accidental introduction of the Bank Vole in the 1950s has led to a major shift in the Barn Owl's diet: where their ranges overlap the vole is now by far the largest prey item.

The size of the prey item given to a python should be equivalent to or slightly larger than the width of the largest part of its body.

The largest form of gifts in kind is created in many nations by the donation of aging automobiles with the item donated being picked up, sold and the proceeds given to the charity or non-profit ( type or named ) which was the target of the donor's generosity.

Education had become the largest single item in the federal budget by 1963, and there was a renewed emphasis on school construction.

The largest prey item recovered from a Hector ’ s dolphin stomach was an undigested red cod weighing 500 g with a standard length of 35 cm.

" The monetary amounts weren't always literal: the smallest line item Johnny ever recorded was " two cents: what I felt like " after a professional setback ; the largest was " one million dollars " ( the way he felt after finding a missing woman and her daughter in a snowbound cabin ).

Apart from tariffs, the largest new tax revenue by far came from new excise taxes -- a sort of value added tax -- that was imposed on every sort of manufactured item.

It sits adjacent to the Melbourne Museum and is the largest item in Museum Victoria's collection.

Using the same ideas used in minimum / maximum algorithms, we can construct a simple, but inefficient general algorithm for finding the kth smallest or kth largest item in a list, requiring O ( kn ) time, which is effective when k is small.

Interest payments are the single largest item of expenditure and accounted for more than 40 % of the total non development expenditure in the 2003 – 04 budget.

Other missions have more specific collecting rules, such as collecting as many items ( swans, crabs, pairs ) as possible within a given time, or collecting the largest item possible ( such as a cow or bear ).

It immediately became the fastest and largest selling single make-up item to date, as well as the standard make-up used in all Technicolor films.

Medicaid, one of these twelve unfunded mandates, comprises the second largest item in state budgets, which accounted for almost 13 percent of state general revenues in 1993.

The Vancouver Public Library ( VPL ) is the second largest public library system in Canada, with more than 2. 8 million items in its collections, 22 branches, approximately 375, 000 cardholders, and nearly nine million item borrowings annually.

This was largest item to arrive at the dock since the Saturn V arrived for display in 1977.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

It transfers yarn directly from the producers' largest package into ideal supply packages for use on Unifil loom winders in weaving stretch yarn fabrics.

Remove about half the branches from each plant, leaving only the strongest with the largest buds.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.

Behind this reply, and its many variations, is the ever-present budget problem all libraries must face, from the largest to the smallest.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

For some time, China has been the largest producer of antimony and its compounds, with most production coming from the Xikuangshan Mine in Hunan.

In Chaco Canyon, Chacoan developers quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling 15 major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.

The size of the burhs ranged from tiny outposts such as Pilton to large fortifications in established towns, the largest at Winchester.

The largest piece of buttress known from Andaman was a dining table of.

In 2006, the deviation from the national average was the largest for any province in Canadian history.

The largest population clusters of North America ( the Boston – Washington, San Francisco-San Diego, Chicago – Pittsburgh, and Quebec City – Windsor Corridors ) are all thousands of kilometers away from Alberta.

Africa is a continent comprising 62 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface.

The arid region, the Sahara — the largest desert in the world, covering — extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.

The aorta (; from Greek ἀορτή-aortē, from ἀείρω-aeirō " I lift, raise ") is the largest artery in the body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart and extending down to the abdomen, where it bifurcates into two smaller arteries ( the common iliacs ).

Between 1940 and 1990, Phoenix jumped from the 99th largest city in the nation to the 9th largest ( it is currently the 6th largest ).

Every year both clubs play the " Klassieker " (" The Classic "), a derby match between the teams from the two largest cities of the Netherlands.

The largest islands are, from North to South, Chichagof Island, Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, Kupreanof Island, Revillagigedo Island and Prince of Wales Island.

The settlement compensated the Natives for the collaborative use of their lands and opened the way for all Alaskans to profit from oil, one of the state's largest natural resources.