Once a huge inland sea ( the Pale-Chadian Sea ) whose only remnant is shallow Lake Chad, this vast depression extends west into Nigeria and Niger.

The " mighty pillars resisted destruction up to the height of the gallery pavement, and are now effectively the only remnant of the fourth-century buildings.

Jean manages to survive only by absorbing the remnant of the Phoenix Force housed within Madelyne, giving her both Madelyne's memories and the Phoenix's memories from " The Dark Phoenix Saga ".

It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.

The mountain, the coastal zone as far north as Latina, including the only remaining remnant of the swamp, and two of the Pontine Islands offshore, Zannone and Ponza, have been included in the Circeo National Park.

The descendants of the Alans, who live in the autonomous republics of Russia and Georgia, speak the Ossetic language which belongs to the Northeastern Iranian language group and is the only remnant of the Scytho-Sarmatian dialect continuum, which once stretched over much of the Pontic steppe and Central Asia.

* there may be an evident stipe, or there may be only a remnant consisting of a column of non-fertile tissue,

The extant forces available to the local Austrian generals could do no more than garrison a few fortresses, and they necessarily fell back to the mountain frontier of Bohemia and Moravia with only a small remnant of their available forces left in the garrisons.

Jehovah's Witnesses only record the number of " partakers " at this public event, no list is published of the number of baptized Witnesses who are actually considered to be authentic members of this " remnant.

** Historic Village of Paradise Cemetery, the only remnant of the village along the Green River.

This room was restored in the 17th century ; the fresco fragment to the right of the entrance is the only remnant of the original decorations.

The only remnant of this glorious age that has survived is Lithia Springs and its historic lithia spring water under the name brand Lithia, that is still bottled and sold in restaurants and health food stores.

The Cutlerite remnant in Minnesota slowly dwindled over the following years, being only briefly revived by an attempt by Clitherall resident Clyde Fletcher to found his own Cutlerite faction from 1953-69.

Gustav Horn af Björneborg was captured, his army was destroyed, and the remainder of the Protestants who successfully fled to Heilbronn were only a remnant of those engaged.

The only remnant of the SE was the stripe across the front panel ( bezel ) for the floppy drive ; the distinctive front bezel lines of the SE were not used on the Classic, and the vertical lines around its base were replaced by four horizontal vent lines, more reminiscent of the original design.

After the period of questing, only a remnant of the Round Table returns to Camelot.

Due to overfishing to serve the expanding regional population, the fishing industry declined with diminishing catches, such that by 1939 only a remnant of the earlier fishing fleet continued to exist, and the catch mostly supported the local population from that point onward.

Dennett and his eliminative materialist supporters, however, respond that the aforementioned " subjective aspect " of conscious minds is nonexistent, an unscientific remnant of commonsense " folk psychology ," and that his alleged redefinition is the only coherent description of consciousness.

This was probably the last time Caerleon castle was ruined, though the walls were still standing in 1537 and the castle ruins only finally collapsed in 1739-their most obvious remnant is the Round Tower at the Hanbury Arms public house.

Its only remnant in New Boston is a granite slab in a traffic island that celebrates the foundation's " active research for antigravity and a partial gravity insulator.

Sometimes these occur just beyond bluffs or cliffs at the end of a ridge ; sometimes they are the only rock formation remnant on top of a ridge or even in fairly level ground.

The narrow alley in which it stands is the only remnant of the riverside village of Hammersmith, the bulk of which was demolished in the 1930s.

Two main strata exist in the rite, those places that have inherited the traditions of the Russian Church which had been given only the monastic Sabbaite typicon which she uses to this day in parishes and cathedrals as well as in monasteries, and everywhere else where some remnant of the cathedral rite remained in use ; therefore, the rite as practiced in monasteries everywhere resembles the Russian recension, while non-Russian non-monastic customs differs significantly.

* In the Crab Nebula, another supernova remnant, Chandra showed a never-before-seen ring around the central pulsar and jets that had only been partially seen by earlier telescopes.

Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

The old Belasco Theater, over which many people had grown sentimental, was only a shell of its former self after arduous years as a USO Center.

All Israel and Judah flocked to his side, and David, attended only by the Cherethites and Pelethites and his former body guard that had followed him from Gath, found it expedient to flee.

Agesilaus, the former passive lover of Lysander, would have nothing of this, and reminded Lysander ( who was only a Spartan general ) who was king.

He is the only former president to serve in the Senate after serving as president.

He very reluctantly joins the ranks of his former students, only to be grilled and taunted by Mittelstädt, one of the students he had earlier persuaded to enlist.

Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.

The 8051 microcontroller has two, a primary accumulator and a secondary accumulator, where the second is used by instructions only when multiplying ( MUL AB ) or dividing ( DIV AB ); the former splits the 16-bit result between the two 8-bit accumulators, whereas the latter stores the quotient on the primary accumulator A and the remainder in the secondary accumulator B.

In the area, the former seabed is only gently sloped, leading to large areas of land being reclaimed in, geologically speaking, relatively short periods ( decades and centuries ).

The former found himself isolated in a hostile country with only 22, 000 men and short of provisions, while on the other side of the

As a former British privateer, Hornigold attacked only his old enemies, but for his crew, the sight of British vessels filled with valuable cargo passing by unharmed became too much, and at some point toward the end of 1717 he was demoted.

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.

The battle closed with the celebrated stand of Reginald of Boulogne, a former vassal of King Philip, who formed a ring of seven hundred Brabançon pikemen, and not only defied every attack of the French cavalry, but himself made repeated charges or sorties with his small force of knights.

But under orders of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, he was arrested there, attracting worldwide attention, not only because of the history of Chile and South America, but also because this was one of the first arrests of a former president based on the universal jurisdiction principle.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

In former times, it was customary to have a portrait in Confucius Temples ; however, during the reign of Hongwu Emperor ( Taizu ) of the Ming dynasty it was decided that the only proper portrait of Confucius should be in the temple in his hometown, Qufu.

Therefore, The Cottagers have had 12 grounds overall ( including a temporary stay at Loftus Road ), meaning that only their former ' landlords ' and rivals QPR have had more home grounds ( 14 ) in British football.

The former warlord Yan Xishan, who had fled to Nanking only one month before, quickly insinuated himself within the Li-Chiang rivalry, attempting to have Li and Chiang reconcile their differences in the effort to resist the Communists.

Many former members of the Rump continued to regard themselves as England's only legitimate constitutional authority.

Commodore UK was the only subsidiary to survive the bankruptcy and even placed a bid to buy out the rest of the operation, or at least the former parent company.