Equipment from the Soviet Union is being progressively replaced by more modern U. S., French, and British equipment, a significant portion of which is built under license in Egypt, such as the M1A1 Abrams tank which makes Egypt the owner of the second largest number of latest generation main battle tanks in the region after Israel, and the second after Syria in case of the older generations.

He worried about the absence of older fossils because of the implications on the validity of his theories, but he expressed hope that such fossils would be found, noting that: " only a small portion of the world is known with accuracy.

The most common classes of chemicals with this property are the stilbenes and older, non-commercial fluorescent chemical such as umbelliferone, which absorb energy in the UV portion of the spectrum and re-emit it in the blue portion of the visible spectrum.

Rhys's father, Gruffydd ap Rhys, was eventually able to become ruler of a small portion, and more territory was won back by Rhys's older brothers after Gruffydd's death.

Thus younger stars will tend to have a higher portion of heavy elements in their atmospheres than do the older stars.

Bede offers a different, and probably older, account wherein Dál Riata was settled by a certain Reuda, which is more internally consistent, given that Old Irish Dál means portion or share, and is usually followed by the name of an eponymous founder.

The eastern section of the city is older and is the original portion of the town before more recent growth.

The most important portion, the Gathas, in older ( before the works of Johanna Narten ' Gathic ') Avestan, are the hymns thought to have been composed by Zoroaster himself.

The older " downtown " area was part of the earlier portion which became a city in 1896.

I-65 parallels the older US 31-W, which runs through a small southeastern portion of the county.

The eastern and southern portion of the county is sparsely populated, dotted with older small communities and small tracts of newer suburban villages between large swathes of corn and soybean fields.

The city is one of the older suburbs in the St. Louis area, having been a streetcar suburb in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; much historic architecture remains in the southern, older portion of the city, particularly along Delmar Boulevard.

Todd Lane, the older portion of Carleton Avenue up to the 9A entrance and Horsechestnut are part of the village.

The 15. 8 % of those 65 years or older living alone made up a substantial portion of the 37. 1 % single-person households.

About the only area around Rivesville where the coal has not been mined out is directly under the older portion of the town and under the riverbed.

A major focus of his career was the remodelling of older country houses, his first major commission was the transformation of Henry Holland's Trentham Hall, Staffordshire ( 1834 – 40 ) it was remodelled in the Italianate style with a large tower ( a feature Barry often included in his country houses ), Barry also designed the Italianate gardens, with parterres and fountains, largely demolished in 1912, only a small portion of the house consisting of the porte-cochère, with a curving corridor and the stables are still standing, although the gardens are undergoing a restoration, additionally the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall.

The Supreme Court's decision did not specifically address the constitutionality of the older portion of the statute which prohibits the unauthorized wearing, manufacturing, or sale of military medals or decorations.

The term itself derives, however, from the far older practice of appropriating a portion of production by gaining ownership or control of land.

Tajin Chico is a multilevel portion of the site that stretches north-northwest from the older parts of the city up a hill.

In more recent decades, the dancing portion of the event has usurped the older meanings of the term, though the tradition of guests performing music, song, story telling and poetry still persists in some areas.

An online copy of an older and less reliable ( 19th-century ) English translation of the portion dealing only with Spain is at: Medieval Sourcebook: The Islamic conquest of Spain

While the newest portion dates from 1603, the current façade incorporates an older ninth century façade in the Carolingian style.

The streets in the southern older, portion of the suburb were named after parts of castles: The barbette, The Barbican, The Barricade, The Bartizan, The Bastion, The Battlement, The Bulwark, The Citadel, The High Tor, The Outpost, The Palisade, The Parapet, The Postern, The Rampart, The Redoubt, The Scarp, The Tor Walk and Sortie Port.

Henry Purcell Senior, whose older brother Thomas Purcell ( d. 1682 ) was also a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England.

The club then merged with the Royal Southern and occupied that club's older premises which it had created from the regency public steam baths by the basin at West Hoe before the rejuvenated club moved in the late 1980s to Queen Anne Battery.

The affirmation needs sign and ministerial countersign but also the older Royal Order has to be signed and countersigned, ordering to publish the law in a special publication, the Staatsblad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ( Bulletin of Acts, Orders and Decrees of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, also called Bulletin of Acts and Decrees ).

Canada briefly issued a $ 1000 Canadian dollar bill in 1992, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was able to successfully argue against the continued printing of this bill in 2000 ; it is still legal tender but no more are being printed, and it will diminish as older bills are destroyed.

There, the congregation women and older men painstakingly cleaned the mortar from the bricks, one by one, to provide the building blocks for a new St. John Lutheran Church to serve the people of Royal.

His early playing career benefited from the timing of the Second World War: as a sixteen-year-old he was ineligible for call-up where many older players had already been recruited, and was thus able to pick up a lot of work in London before and during his time as a student at the Royal College of Music, which was itself interrupted by his own call-up into the Band of the Scots Guards.

" This is not the Royal Squadron, whose duties also included guarding the king in battle, and which was at that time commanded by Cleitus — a man of the older generation — but a small group of close companions specifically designated to fight alongside the king.

Although marriages within the Royal Family and between Royal Families are the rule, it is interesting to note Langley's marital ties to his older brother, John of Gaunt.

Karolinska institutet ( often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, the-et being a definite article, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute ) is a medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area, Sweden, and one of Europe's largest and most prestigious medical universities.

Purdon was 14 years old when World War II began and he saw his older brother, Robert, enlist in the Royal Scots regiment and serve as a Commando for several years.

His father had died the previous year, his sister Barbara had married, and his older brother Harry had recently left Scotland, enlisting with the Royal Navy after a business failure.

* Royal Tennis Court, Hampton Court Palace: The oldest surviving real tennis court in England, built on the site of an even older ( 1528 ) court in the 1620s, where the game can be watched by the general public during British Summer Time.

The $ ½ shows an older Queen Elizabeth II and the back shows a picture of Sister Sarah in the Nassau Straw Market ; the $ 1 shows Sir Lynden Pindling and on the back the Royal Bahamas Police Force Band ; the $ 3 has a young Queen Elizabeth II and on the back shows a Family Island Regatta with native sloops ; the $ 5 – Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield and the back shows a Junkanoo group ' rushing ' in the Junkanoo parade ; the $ 10 – an older Queen Elizabeth II ( replacing Sir Stafford Sands ) and the back shows the Hope Town Lighthouse and settlement in Abaco, the $ 20 – Sir Milo Butler ; the $ 50 – Sir Roland Symonette ; the $ 100 – an older Queen Elizabeth II and the back shows a jumping blue marlin, the national fish of The Bahamas.

He recruited leading musicians including Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford as members of the College faculty and established a close working relationship with London's older conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music.

It is not unknown for the Mint to strike gold sovereigns with the date of the previous ( or even older ) years, e. g. bullion sovereigns struck during the reign of George VI were all dated 1925 and featured the head of George V. Additionally, the Royal Mint was selling sovereigns dated 2010 in December 2009.

Fowler ( voiced by Benjamin Whitrow ), an older rooster who has been untrusting of Rocky, gives him his respect for rescuing Ginger and his old Royal Air Force ( RAF ) badge in tribute.

It was also while in Tokyo that William met a Hungarian-born divorcee named Zsuzsi Starkloff, and though he reportedly loved and wished to marry his seven-years older girlfriend, the Royal Court forbade the union because the former Mrs. Starkloff was previously married.

Sauce Mornay does not appear in Le cuisinier Royal, 10th edition, 1820 ; perhaps sauce Mornay is not older than the great Parisian restaurant of the 19th century, Le Grand Véfour in the arcades of the Palais-Royal, where sauce Mornay was introduced.

Although of even older origin, the Company was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1394, the Company's earliest extant Charter.

As treasurer ( 1577 ) and controller ( 1589 ) of the Royal Navy, he rebuilt older ships and helped design the faster ships that withstood the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Although the older history cannot be proven, there was a society called the Royal Foresters in the 18th century.

The area has a number of residential housing estates including a large collection of local authority housing at Nursery Avenue, an estate at Ballachrink which also houses more local authority dwellings, Lakeside Gardens to the north east side of the village, Birch Hill, which can be found above the core village area and a number of older residences in the centre, notably Royal Avenue, Port Jack and Alberta Drive all of which were developed in the earliest years of the twentieth century.