An extended cold spell caused ice to build up on the aerator which was mounted on a floating platform and caused the entire platform to sink lower in the water.

The firing platform attaches to the howitzer lower carriage by using a socket and a locking handle.

A circular stone building surmounted by a pyramid rests on a lower platform, square.

In his 1932 election campaign platform Franklin Delano Roosevelt pledged to lower tariffs.

Several stairways rise to the upper platform from the lower ; that at the northwest corner is believed by some archaeologists be part of a much wider monumental staircase, mostly hidden or destroyed, and dating from the Second Temple era.

The al-Kas ablution fountain for Muslim worshipers on the southern portion of the lower platform.

The lower platform also houses a fountain ( known as al-Kas ), originally supplied with water via a long narrow aqueduct leading from pools at Bethlehem ( colloquially known as Solomon's Pools ), but now supplied from Jerusalem's water mains.

There are several cisterns embedded in the lower platform, designed to collect rain water as a water supply.

Some crowns also appear to have a semi-circular platform for additional ornaments attached to the lower front edge of the crown ( on two of the crowns of Menelik II these platforms each support a small gold statuette of St. George fighting the dragon ).

The more traditional platform is situated at an elevated level relative to the track, but often lower than the train floor, although ideally the platform should be at the same level as the train floor.

Similarly a train station may be served by heavy-rail and light-rail vehicles ( with lower floors ) and also have a dual height platform.

The Command Module had two DSKYs connected to its AGC: one located on the main instrument panel and a second located in the lower equipment bay near a sextant used for aligning the inertial guidance platform.

The DVP platform promoted Christian family values, secular education, lower tariffs, opposition to welfare spending and agrarian subsides and hostility to " Marxism " ( that is, the Communists, and also the Social Democrats ).

As an application development platform, dBase fills a gap between lower level languages such as C, C ++, and Java and high-level proprietary 4GLs ( fourth generation languages ) and purely visual tools, providing relative ease-of-use for business people with less formal programming skill and high productivity for professional developers willing to trade off the low-level control.

Its platform stressed Christian family values, secular education, lower tariffs, opposition to welfare spending and agrarian subsides and hostility to " Marxism " ( that is, the Communists, and also the Social Democrats ).

In addition to providing platform continuity, the lower capability processor kept the IIgs from competing with the Macintosh which, at the time, was monochrome-only.

Other current thinking would have the entire interior at the lower level and the East porch used for access to the great altar of Athena Polias via a balcony and stair and also as a public viewing platform.

The advent of downloadable game services like Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network has further fueled the expanded market for remakes, as the platform allows companies to sell their games at a lower price, seen as more appropriate for the smaller size typical of retro games.

Focus areas of OTI include wireless community networks building, the creation and management of an open source platform that supports broadband research tools and speed tests, the development of a platform ( called Commotion ) to lower barriers for building distributed communications networks, among other projects.

Depending on train station platform heights, three designs can be used for entry-high platforms require use of a " split level " car design, where the doors are located on a middle level, with access into the upper or lower level branching off-with stairs or ramps going both up and down ( sometimes this configuration includes a section of seating at the middle level in the entry section, with double levels only in part of the lengths of the car ).

Most low platform double-decker trains have level entry onto the lower level of the car, allowing wheelchair access.

Therefore, if a lower court has ruled in an improper manner, or against legal precedent, that judgment will stand if not appealed – even if it might have been overturned on appeal.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

Roma finished in the lower half of Serie A for five seasons in a row, before eventually succumbing to their only ever relegation to Serie B at the end of the 1950 – 51 season ; around a decade after their championship victory.

Therefore, it works as a neutron reflector and neutron moderator, effectively slowing the neutrons to the thermal energy range of below 0. 03 eV, where the total cross section is at least an order of magnitude lower – exact value strongly depends on the purity and size of the crystallites in the material.

Likewise, in Toronto, the Prince Edward Viaduct has five lanes of motor traffic, bicycle lanes, and sidewalks on its upper deck ; and a pair of tracks for the Bloor – Danforth subway line on its lower deck.

The main waterways are the Albert Canal connecting Antwerp to Liège, the Ghent – Terneuzen Canal through the port of Ghent connecting Ghent with the Westerschelde, the Boudewijn Canal through the port of Bruges-Zeebrugge connecting Bruges with the North Sea, the Brussels-Charleroi Canal, Brussels-Scheldt Maritime Canal and Scheldt connecting Charleroi to Antwerp, the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal and Scheldt connecting the Borinage to Antwerp, the connection between the North Sea and Antwerp and the connection between Dunkerque and Liège via the Nimy-Blaton-Péronnes Canal, the Canal du Centre, the lower Sambre and the Meuse.

LOB % tends to regress toward 70 – 72 % over time, so unusually high or low percentages could indicate that pitcher's ERA could be expected to rise or lower in the future.

Sacrifice bunts ( sacrifice hits since 1954 ), which would lower a batter's on-base percentage, are not included in the calculation for on-base percentage, as bunting is an offensive strategy – often dictated by the manager – the use of which does not necessarily reflect on the batter's ability and should not be used to penalize him.

A belt worn over the torso represents the lower limit of punches – any boxer repeatedly landing low blows ( below the belt ) is disqualified.

On the other hand, taking a longer-term view, the number of journeys in 2002 – 3 was lower than for the 1950 – 60 period.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

As far back as the Qin Dynasty ( 221 BC – 206 BC ), the government required blacksmiths and weapon-makers to engrave their names onto weapons in order to trace the weapons back to them, lest their weapons should prove to be of a lower quality than the standard required by the government.

* Teclu burner – The lower part of its tube is conical, with a round screw nut below its base.

* Meker burner – The lower part of its tube has more openings with larger total cross-section, admitting more air and facilitating better mixing of air and gas.

Low levels of mobile penetration – which stand at 30 percent, a significantly lower percentage than in the rest of the continent – dampen the potential expansion of access to financial services through mobile technology.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

* Median – the middle value that separates the higher half from the lower half of the data set

The Ernesto Samper administration ( 1994 – 98 ) emphasized social welfare policies which targeted Colombia's lower income population.

* BAT-2 – Fast combat engineering vehicle with the engine, lower hull and " small roadwheels " suspension of the T-64.

" From these principles and some additional constraints —( 1a ) a lower bound on the linear dimensions of any of the parts, ( 1b ) an upper bound on speed of propagation ( the velocity of light ), ( 2 ) discrete progress of the machine, and ( 3 ) deterministic behavior — he produces a theorem that " What can be calculated by a device satisfying principles I – IV is computable.

Color temperatures over are called cool colors ( blueish white ), while lower color temperatures ( 2, 700 – 3, 000 K ) are called warm colors ( yellowish white through red ).