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Prokofieff might well emerge as a cultural hero, who, by the force of his creative life, helped preserve the main stream of tradition, to which the surviving idioms of current experimentalism may be eventually added and integrated.
The main treaty was opened for signature on December 1, 1959, and officially entered into force on June 23, 1961.
Their main force was infantry, armed with javelins in the front ranks and pikes behind, which formed into a phalanx ; and was supported by camelmen and horsemen on the flanks.
It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.
They deployed their main force in Thrace, forming three armies.
On 7 August, therefore, the first of Baden's 15, 000 Imperial troops ( the remainder following two days later ) left Marlborough's main force to besiege the heavily defended city of Ingolstadt, farther down the Danube.
At 02: 00 on 13 August, 40 squadrons were sent forward towards the enemy, followed at 03: 00, in eight columns, by the main Allied force pushing over the Kessel.
He has been criticized for allowing Clérambault to maintain a force of infantry in Blenheim so large that it denied the main army manpower it needed.
Marching along the coast, the French army stormed Alexandria and captured the city, before Bonaparte led the main force of his army inland.
The British Army of the Rhine was the Germany garrison formation, with the main fighting force being I ( BR ) Corps.
Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana ( the vital life force in Hinduism ), or, according to some, by the energy in sunlight ( according to Ayurveda, sunlight is one of the main sources of prana ).
Armored Cataphracts began to be deployed in eastern Europe and the near East, following the precedents established by Persian forces, as the main striking force of the armies in contrast to the earlier roles of cavalry as scouts, raiders, and outflankers.
He had particular difficulty in believing in natural selection as the main motive force in evolution.
The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.
The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.
Roberts then led the main British force from Kabul and decisively defeated Ayub Khan in September at the Battle of Kandahar, bringing his rebellion to an end.
" Regardless, The Thin Blue Line, as Morris's film would be called, was popularly accepted as the main force behind getting its subject, Randall Adams, out of prison.
The Indian Army also gave full support to the main Bangladeshi guerrilla force, the Mukti Bahini.
The New York Times reported in September 1906 on the rationale for the changes: " The main efforts of the football reformers have been to ' open up the game '— that is to provide for the natural elimination of the so-called mass plays and bring about a game in which speed and real skill shall supersede so far as possible mere brute strength and force of weight.
A new constitution came into force on 1 January 2009 which modernised the Chapter on fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, embedding self-determination in the main body of the constitution.
Contrary to popular belief, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder.
It is widely accepted that the main driving force for the evolution of elliptical galaxies is mergers of smaller galaxies.
While their main force had constructed siege works and was close to taking the cities of Thessalonica and Cassandreia, it retreated to the Balkan interior at the news that the emperor was advancing.
The main force was provided by the Jesuit order, founded by the Spaniard Ignatius of Loyola.
A second German force was sent into Belgium and the Netherlands to act as a diversion to this main thrust.

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* 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
Then, about 50 million years ago, the carnivorans split into two main divisions: caniforms ( dog-like ) and feliforms ( cat-like ).
This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).
North of 50 ° south latitude, 86 % of the main basin is covered by pelagic sediments, of which more than half is globigerina ooze.
Soufrière Hills continues to play a detrimental role in both agricultural and economic activity on Montserrat. Today, Montserrat ’ s main economic activity is in construction and government services which together accounted for about 50 percent of GDP in 2000 when it was EC $ 76 million.
The South Equatorial Current, flowing west along the equator, swings southward east of New Guinea, turns east at about 50 ° S, and joins the main westerly circulation of the Southern Pacific, which includes the Earth-circling Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Pain is the main reason for visiting the emergency department in more than 50 % of cases and is present in 30 % of family practice visits.
This whole complex of processes is carried out by the ribosome, formed of two main chains of RNA, called ribosomal RNA ( rRNA ), and more than 50 different proteins.
Rice prides itself on the amount of green space available on campus ; there are only about 50 buildings spread between the main entrance at its easternmost corner, and the parking lots and Rice Stadium at the West end.
Following the sale of 50 % of the car division Saab Automobile AB to General Motors, the main reason behind the merger with lorry manufacturer Scania-Vabis in 1968 had disappeared.
Under Omani Arabs Zanzibar became East Africa's main slave port, with as many as 50, 000 enslaved Africans passing through every year during the 19th century.
Houses are made in many different architectural styles which may be of European, American and International architecture and which vary in size, although the main difference with the US and Canada is that houses are mainly constructed with bricks and concrete instead of wood ; thus houses tend to last much longer, approximately 50 years.
The slowest System / 360 models announced in 1964 ranged in speed from 0. 0018 to 0. 034 MIPS ; the fastest System / 360 models were approximately 50 times as fast with 8 kB and up to 8 MB of internal main memory, though the latter was unusual, and up to 8 megabytes of slower Large Core Storage ( LCS ).
It was East Africa's main slave-trading port, and in the mid-19th century as many as 50, 000 slaves were passing annually through the slave markets of Zanzibar.
The Cray-1 used only four different IC types, an ECL dual 5-4 NOR gate ( one 5-input, and one 4-input, each with differential output ), another slower MECL 10K 5-4 NOR gate used for address fanout, a 16 × 4-bit high speed ( 6 ns ) static RAM ( SRAM ) used for registers, and a 1, 024 × 1-bit 50 ns SRAM used for the main memory.
Robert Winglee, who originally proposed the M2P2 technique, calculates a specific impulse of 200 kN · s / kg ( roughly 50 times better than the space shuttle main engine ).
The British fleet used frigates to keep a constant watch on the harbour, while the main force remained out of sight 50 miles
However, as the economy was the main issue, Bush's campaign floundered across the nation, even in strongly Republican areas, and Clinton maintained leads with over 50 percent of the vote nationwide consistently, while Bush typically saw numbers in the upper 30s.
general assessment: inadequate ; requires considerable expansion and modernization ; teledensity of 15 main lines per 100 persons is low ; mobile-cellular penetration is increasing and is currently about 50 telephones per 100 persons.
The main 50 / 60 Hz transformer used to convert between line voltage and battery voltage needs to provide two slightly different turns ratios: One to convert the battery output voltage ( typically a multiple of 12 V ) to line voltage, and a second one to convert the line voltage to a slightly higher battery charging voltage ( such as a multiple of 14 V ).
According to the product label, the main ingredients of Nutella are sugar ( 50 %) and vegetable oils ( mostly palm oil ), followed by hazelnut, cocoa solids, and skimmed milk.
It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north.
The main thesis was Mrs. Von Harbou's, but I am at least 50 percent responsible because I did it.
For those living with CP, impaired upper limb function affects almost 50 % of children and is considered the main factor contributing to decreased activity and participation.
The salinity of the lake's main basin, Gilbert Bay, is highly variable and depends on the lake's level ; it ranges from 5 to 27 % ( 50 to 270 parts per thousand ).

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