The amphitheatre's largest-scale performance to date was the Feast of Lanterns on September 5, 1908.

When he was 20 years old, he and Wei Qing were sent with separate armies to attack the Xiongnu on the largest-scale Han offensive to date.

The Gustafsen Lake siege, led by Dosanjh became the largest-scale police operation in BC history, in which armoured vehicles and anti-vehicle mines were deployed and thousands of rounds of ammunition were shot at protesters.

For the 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix, the largest-scale repairs in the last 35 years were carried out at the circuit, to fundamentally solve problems with the track surface.

The largest-scale example is ammonia, which is prepared via the Haber process from nitrogen.

Dr. Tennison states: " Given the account of Elliot Paul, and given that Lead Belly witnessed boogie-woogie in 1899 in the Arklatex ; and given the North to South migration of the Thomas family ; and given the Texas & Pacific headquarters in Marshall in the early 1870s ; and given that Harrison County had the largest slave population in the state of Texas ; and given the fact that the best-documented and largest-scale turpentine camps in Texas did not occur until after 1900 in Southeast Texas, it is most probable that boogie-woogie spread from Northeast to Southeast Texas, rather than from Southeast to Northeast Texas, or by having developed diffusely with an even density over all of the Piney Woods of East Texas.

It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated global audience of 1. 9 billion, across 150 nations, watched the live broadcast.

Physical cosmology, as a branch of astronomy, is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution.

* Physical cosmology, a branch of astronomy, is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution

Her largest-scale work, the evening-length Clytemnestra, was created in 1958, with a score by Egyptian-born composer Halim El-Dabh.

Some of the largest-scale chemicals are produced via catalytic oxidation, often using oxygen.

However, on smaller length-scales, matter is observed to form " clumps ", i. e., to cluster hierarchically ; many atoms are condensed into stars, most stars into galaxies, most galaxies into clusters, superclusters and, finally, the largest-scale structures such as the Great Wall of galaxies.

The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler is one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire.

Hydraulic mining became the largest-scale, and most devastating, form of placer mining.

Modern navigators often enter passage plans on electronic Chart Display and Information System | electronic systems. A good passage plan will include a track line laid out upon the largest-scale charts available which cover the vessel's track.

In astronomy, voids are empty spaces between filaments ( the largest-scale structures in the Universe ), which contain very few, or no, galaxies.

The largest-scale sparks are those produced naturally by lightning.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization ( CSTO ; ) is an intergovernmental military alliance which was signed on 15 May 1992.

To this end, the CSTO holds yearly military command exercises for the CSTO nations to have an opportunity to improve inter-organisation cooperation.

Also, Russia has won the right to veto the establishment of new foreign military bases in the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation ( CSTO ).

In order to deploy military bases of a third country in the territory of the CSTO member-states, it is necessary to obtain the official consent of all its members.

On December 21, 2011, Russia won the right to veto the establishment of new foreign military bases in the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation ( CSTO ).

On August 3, 2009 the foreign ministry of Uzbekistan criticized plans by Russia to establish a military base in southern Kyrgyzstan for the CSTO rapid reaction force, stating, " The implementation of such projects on complex and unpredictable territory, where the borders of three Central Asian republics directly converge, may give impetus to the strengthening of militarization processes and initiate all kinds of nationalistic confrontations.

The CSTO was unable to agree on providing military assistance to Kyrgyzstan at a meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, which was attended by Roza Otunbayeva as well as Alexander Lukashenko.

Kurmanbek Bakiyev denied charges that his supporters were behind the ethnic conflict and called on the CSTO to intervene.

On 23 June 2006, Uzbekistan became a full participant in the CSTO ; and its membership was formally ratified by the Uzbek parliament on 28 March 2008.

On September 5, 2008, Armenia assumed the rotating CSTO presidency during a CSTO meeting in Moscow, Russia.

As of 2006 the following countries are CSTO members: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Russia and Uzbekistan.

On 7 October 2002, the Presidents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan signed a charter in Tashkent founding the CSTO.

Then the Russian President's foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko threatened to publish the transcript of a CSTO meeting where Lukashenko said that his administration would recognize Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence.

Askar Akayev also called for the CSTO to send troops saying, " Our priority task right now should be to extinguish this flame of enmity.

The CSTO charter reaffirmed the desire of all participating states to abstain from the use or threat of force.

Additionally, Kazakhstan took over the rotating presidency of the CSTO from Belarus.

" Only weeks later the deputy chairman of Otubayeva's interim Kyrgyz government complained that their appeals for help from the CSTO had been ignored.

" Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that " only in the case of a foreign intrusion and an attempt to externally seize power can we state that there is an attack against the CSTO ," and that, " all the problems of Kyrgyzstan have internal roots ," while CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha called the violence " purely a domestic affair.

On December 10, 2010, the member states approved a declaration establishing a CSTO peacekeeping force and a declaration of the CSTO member states, in addition to signing a package of joint documents.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko expressed doubt about the future of the CSTO for failing to prevent Bakiyev's overthrow, stating, " What sort of organization is this one, if there is bloodshed in one of our member states and an anticonstitutional coup d ' etat takes place, and this body keeps silent?

But if Belarus ’ s closest CSTO ally is trying .... to destroy this basis and de facto put the Belarussians on their knees, how can one talk about consolidating collective security in the CSTO space?

Russia usually takes a leading role in regional organisations such as the CIS, EurAsEC, CSTO, and the SCO.

Collective Security Treaty Organisation ( CSTO ) General Secretary Nikolai Bordyuzha and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev expressed support for Putin's decree.

The CSTO is currently an observer organisation at the United Nations General Assembly.

The CSTO employs a " rotating presidency " system in which the country leading the CSTO alternates every year.

Kazakhstan currently has the CSTO presidency.

In May 2007 the CSTO secretary-general Nikolai Bordyuzha suggested Iran could join the CSTO saying, " The CSTO is an open organization.