Add also a comparatively primitive industrial plant which would severely limit our capacity to keep abreast of the Soviets even in the missile field which is reputed to be our main strength.

Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.

With minimal police training, their main role was to increase the strength of police posts, where they functioned as sentries, guards, escorts for government agents, reinforcement to the regular police, and crowd control, and mounted a determined counter-insurgency campaign.

The role of horsemen did however remain secondary to that of the hoplites or heavy infantry who comprised the main strength of the citizen levies of the various city states.

The fatigue strength of crankshafts is usually increased by using a radius at the ends of each main and crankpin bearing.

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 good example of a less stereotyped epic is The Deed of Paksenarrion in which the main character becomes a paladin through her own growing strength instead of it having been forced on her at birth.

Manufacturing, the main source of union strength in the United Kingdom, had shrunk by half during the early 1980s recession pushing unemployment from 1, 500, 000 to more than 3, 000, 000.

The three main mechanisms by which osteoporosis develops are an inadequate peak bone mass ( the skeleton develops insufficient mass and strength during growth ), excessive bone resorption, and inadequate formation of new bone during remodeling.

The army's main bases include Port Moresby, Wewak and Lae, while company strength outstations are located at Kiunga and Vanimo.

It was in charge of demographics concerns and of empowering the population, which, according to mercantilist theory, was to be the main strength of the state.

A main point of debate in the discussion of linguistic relativity is the strength of correlation between language and thought.

Two main skills of sailing are trimming the sails correctly for the direction and strength of the wind, and maintaining a course relative to the wind that suits the sails once trimmed.

But like the Bears, the Patriots main strength on offense was their rushing attack.

The Colts ' main strength was their defense.

However, the main strength on the Cowboys offense was their running game.

Like the Colts, the Cowboys main strength was their defense.

But the Steelers ' main strength during the season was their staunch " Steel Curtain " defense, which led the league with the fewest total yards allowed ( 3, 074 ) and the fewest passing yards allowed ( 1, 466 ).

However, the Broncos main offensive strength was their rushing game.

But the Rams main strength was their defense which featured defensive end Jack Youngblood, who made the Pro Bowl for the 7th year in a row and was playing with a broken leg, and lightning-quick Fred Dryer on the opposite end.

The Dolphins ' main strength was their defense, nicknamed the " Killer Bees " because 6 of their 11 starters had last names that began with the letter " B ".

The tribe, which receives recruits from the main group of boys, grows in strength and begins to adopt customs common to primitive cultures, including face paint and bizarre rituals including sacrifices to the beast.

Further aviation benefits of a Wankel engine include: ( i ) rotors cannot seize, since rotor casings expand more than rotors ; ( ii ) a Wankel is not susceptible to " shock-cooling " during descent ; ( iii ) a Wankel does not require an enriched mixture for cooling at high power ; ( iv ) having no reciprocating parts, it is less vulnerable to damage during " over-revving " ( the main rev-limit being the strength of the main bearings ).

* The Ark of the Covenant is the main focus of Steven Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the same prop also appears in a cameo in a later sequel in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The Raiders ' main offensive deep threat was wide receiver Cliff Branch ( 44 receptions, 858 yards, 7 touchdown ), while wide receiver Bob Chandler contributed 49 receptions for 786 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell and Michael Land created the soundtrack for the game, arranging John Williams ' main theme " The Raiders March " for a variety of compositions.

The state's main contributions to American popular music began in the 1960s, when The Kingsmen and Paul Revere & the Raiders established Oregon as a minor center of frat rock and garage rock.

The main employers in Ambon Island are the Gubernatorial Office ( PEMDA ), the Mayoral Office ( PEMKOT ), Raiders 733 ( Indonesian Military Unit ), and Ambon City Center ( the only mall in Ambon Island ).

The main grandstand is named after Canberra Raiders and Australian rugby league player Mal Meninga, and a statue of another Raiders and Australian league representative Laurie Daley adorns the main grandstand entrance.

Under the tutelage of Naval Aviators from nearby NAS Pensacola in March 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and his Raiders practiced taking off with their B-25 Mitchell bombers on a short runway, demarcated to represent an aircraft carrier deck, using the short cross-field runway near the southern end of Hurlburt Field's main runway.

The main setting of Shadow Raiders is the Cluster, a series of four interdependent worlds.

The main theme used is " The Raiders March ", composed by John Williams, from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

* The National Rugby League team the Canberra Raiders ' main color is lime green.

" Los Profanadores de Tumbas " (" The Tomb Raiders "), issues 1-10, main villain: Eric von Kraufen

In 1987, the Kingston Raiders junior hockey club was the main tenant with 60 % of the facilities events.

The main teams of TLT are the Night Raiders, Memory Police ( who erase the memories of civilians involved in any Night Raider missions or witnessing any Space Beast attacks ) and White Sweeper, who are involved in clean-up.

He came back to the main lineup in round 25 against the Canberra Raiders.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

And it was his main present!!

The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was about 9', and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes.

The half-intensity diameter of the main lobe of the antenna was about 18'.5, and the brightness temperature was reduced by assuming a Gaussian shape for the antenna beam and a uniformly bright disk for the moon.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

The editor's main criticism of the trial was the haste with which it was conducted.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Vermont's main railroad line was prostrate.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.