Although the only announced candidate for the presidency of the republic, the National Assembly elected him by the second narrowest margin in Lebanese history ( 57 votes out of 92 ) on August 23, 1982 ; most Muslim members of the Assembly boycotted the vote.

* The Lange Voorhout is a wide avenue containing many splendid houses ( now home to several embassies ) as well as The Hague's oldest and narrowest house and the famous " Hotel des Indes ", the city ’ s most luxurious hotel.

It is wide at its narrowest point, and is considered one of the most dangerous and unpredictable waters in the world.

Émile Faguet described Maistre as " a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, an intransigent legitimist, apostle of a monstrous trinity composed of pope, king and hangman, always and everywhere the champion of the hardest, narrowest and most inflexible dogmatism, a dark figure out of the Middle Ages, part learned doctor, part inquisitor, part executioner.

It marks the narrowest part of the river between Switzerland and the North Sea, and is the most famous feature of the Rhine Gorge, a 65 km section of the river between Koblenz and Bingen that was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in June 2002.

There is currently a conflict between the different districts of the California Courts of Appeal as to the availability of summary adjudication ; most superior courts tend to side with the narrowest interpretation of California Code of Civil Procedure section 437c, under which a party may make such a motion only with respect to an entire cause of action, an affirmative defense, or a punitive-damages claim.

Vertical cliffs rise above both sides of the canyon up to a height of over 700 m. The most attractive part is the area around the steep drop of the stream downstream from Anića luka, where steep cliffs rise directly above the stream, forming the narrowest part of the canyon between Anića luka and the parking lot.

The Basilar membrane is widest ( 0. 42 – 0. 65 mm ) and least stiff at the apex of the cochlea, and narrowest ( 0. 08 – 0. 16 mm ) and most stiff at the base.

At its narrowest and most subjective scope, the story reads as though the viewpoint character were narrating it ; dramatically this is very similar to the first person, in that it allows in-depth revelation of the protagonist's personality, but it uses third-person grammar.

Waiheke has a resident population of 8, 730 people ( 2011 ) with most of the population living close to the western end of the island, or near the isthmus between Huruhi Bay and Oneroa Bay which, at its narrowest, is only 600 metres wide.

The animal species, in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress.

By far the most used method is a number of tunnels which carry the Shinkansen, trains, cars, and even one for pedestrians at the narrowest point.

It is also home to most of the tourist attractions in Warsaw, including the tallest building in Warsaw ( 234 m ), the narrowest street ( 5. 3 m ), the oldest university ( est.

It is the narrowest common tree and, despite its name, fits many breeds of horse.

The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, because the Lieder are independent, connected only by the poetry and common themes.

In the narrowest definition, the Xanthorrhoeaceae sensu stricto consists only of the genus Xanthorrhoea.

In the narrowest definition, the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto is characterized by an umbellate inflorescence with an inferior ovary.

The narrowest definition of Scafell Pike begins at the ridge of Mickledore in the south, takes in the wide, stony summit area and ends at the next depression, Broad Crag Col, c. 920 m ( 3, 030 ft ).

" The court observed that some authorities " include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents "— but since Minor was born in the United States and her parents were U. S. citizens, she was unquestionably a citizen herself, even under the narrowest possible definition, and the court thus noted that the subject did not need to be explored in any greater depth.

In its narrowest definition, a labor shortage is an economic condition in which there are insufficient qualified candidates ( employees ) to fill the market-place demands for employment at any price.

The narrowest part of the strait, the 13-kilometre ( 7 – nautical mile ) wide Abegweit Passage in the western part of the strait between Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick, is now spanned by the Confederation Bridge.

The bay communicates with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean via Rockaway Inlet, a high current area that is wide at its narrowest point, with an average depth of.

The distance across the Strait from Cape York to New Guinea is approximately 150 km at the narrowest point ; the islands lie scattered in between, extending some 200 – 300 km from furthest east to furthest west.

Abegweit Passage is the narrowest part of the Northumberland Strait, comprising the 13-kilometre wide portion between Cape Tryon, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick.

New Lynn is located at a narrowing of the Auckland isthmus, and one of the two narrowest points joining the North Auckland Peninsula to the rest of the North Island ( the other is at Otahuhu, to the southeast ).

Panmure was an important town and port as it was strategically placed near the narrowest part of the isthmus, and during the New Zealand land wars of the 1860s it became a very busy place.

At its widest, across from New Market Gap near Luray, the valley is about wide, while at its narrowest north of Luray near Compton, it is only.

Plamondon was returned by the narrowest margin of his career in the 2011 federal election against a strong challenge from a New Democratic Party ( NDP ) candidate.

They annihilated Houston Leones 7-0, and beat the New Orleans Shell Shockers 4-0 on the final day with a hat trick from Felix Garcia to secure second place in the division by one point from El Paso, squeaking into the playoffs by the narrowest of margins.

Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, which is only wide here, and is the closest French town to England.

England achieved what was then the narrowest Ashes victory margin of three runs in the fourth Test at Melbourne, with Willis taking three wickets.

Despite Armstrong's triumphs, it was reported that he was only appointed captain of the 1921 Australian team to tour England by " the narrowest possible margin ".

* Parliament Street, Exeter, one of the world's narrowest streets in Exeter, England

Currently, all three of the metropolitan regions of Northern California ( Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, and Metropolitan Fresno ) are connected but are separated from Greater Los Angeles with Kings, Tulare and Kern Counties at the narrowest gap.

On Russian maps, the short narrowest section of the strait ( south of the mouth of the Amur ) is called Nevelskoy Strait, after Admiral Gennady Nevelskoy, who explored the area in 1848 ; the body of water north of there, into which the Amur River flows, is the Amur Liman ; and the name of " Strait of Tartary " is reserved for the largest section of the body of water, south of Nevelskoy Strait.

The narrowest part of the Betuwe became the western front of the allied bridgehead in the area.

The Manukau City area is concentrated immediately to the south of the Otahuhu isthmus, the narrowest connection between Auckland City and the Northland region and the rest of the North Island.

Anadoluhisarı, constructed on an area of 7, 000 m², is situated at the narrowest point with 660 m of the Bosporus strait and next to a creek named Göksu ( ancient Greek name: Aretòs ).

In the narrowest sense, it only covers Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, bounded on the north by the states of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and south to the junction between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, which it is the closest continental area of Antarctica ( 1000 km ).

The Plateau is at its narrowest in the Pitești area, where it only reaches 30 km in width, as opposed to the 70 – 80 km average.

It runs across the narrowest area of a ridge between Grindle Hill and Round Hill.

For both the original Māori and the first English settlers, the Papatoetoe area was handily located close to the narrowest points between Auckland's two great harbours, where waka could be ported over land.

Silba has an area 15 km² in the shape of number 8, with the village of Silba located at the narrowest point in the middle.

Described as essentially cone-shaped, in that he is largest in diameter at the head, and narrowest at the feet, with each area of the body narrower than the one above it.

Southern Thailand is located on the Malay Peninsula, with an area around 70, 713 km², bounded to the north by Kra Isthmus as the narrowest part of the peninsula.

For instance, the Olympus FL-50 has a guide number of 50m at ISO 100 when set to its narrowest setting, but significantly less when illuminating a wider area.

The area is oval shaped, with the narrowest points at the northwest and southeast.

The bridge is situated at the narrowest part of the Danube in the Budapest area, spanning only 290 m. It is named after Queen Elisabeth, a popular queen and empress of Austria-Hungary, who was assassinated in 1898.

The ice bridge holding the Wilkins Ice Shelf to the Antarctic coastline and Charcot Island was long but only wide at its narrowest point – in 1950 it was It shattered in April 2009 over an area measuring.