In the leafiest part of the tree, straddling a broad horizontal limb, he could see over the meadow.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

The Atlas range, the north-westerly part of the continent, between its seaward and landward heights encloses elevated steppes in places broad.

The study of asymptotes of functions, construed in a broad sense, forms a part of the subject of asymptotic analysis.

Nevertheless, Hiberno-English forms part of the broad British English continuum.

Bambara is classified as part of the larger, very broad Mandé group.

During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.

" Shag " itself ( when used in reference to American social dances ) is a very broad term used to denote a number of swing dances that originated during the early part of the 20th century.

In many institutions electronic engineering is included as part of an electrical award, sometimes explicitly ( such as a of Engineering ( Electrical and Electronic ), in others electrical and electronic engineering are considered sufficiently broad and complex to be considered separately.

The Convention is drafted in broad terms, in a similar ( albeit more modern ) manner to the English Bill of Rights, the American Bill of Rights, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the first part of the German Basic law.

Electrothermal-chemical technology is part of a broad research and development program that encompasses all electric gun technology, such as railguns and coil guns.

Kelly's athleticism gave his moves a distinctive broad, muscular quality, and this was a very deliberate choice on his part, as he explained: " There's a strong link between sports and dancing, and my own dancing springs from my early days as an athlete ... I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

Whatever the original plan might have been, the larger, historical account is often merely a background to a broad range of inquiries and, as Herodotus himself observes, " Digressions are part of my plan.

More generally, it is often as a part of pain in the broad sense, i. e. suffering, that physical pain is dealt with in culture, religion, philosophy, or society.

Supporters of a broad executive war power have sometimes appealed to the Quasi War with France, in the closing years of the eighteenth century, as an example of unilateral warmaking on the part of the president.

Willis drew the contrast that early radical feminism saw itself as part of a broad left politics, whereas much of what succeeded it in the 1970s and early 1980s ( both cultural feminism and liberal feminism ) took the attitude that " left politics were ' male ' and could be safely ignored.

Recent molecular-systematic DNA research also places the red panda into its own family, Ailuridae, which is in turn part of the broad superfamily Musteloidea that also includes the skunk, raccoon, and weasel families.

A broad form of Sunnah was already being practised by the Christians, Jews and the Arab descendants of Ismail, when Muhammad reinstituted this practice as an integral part of Islam.

** Istituto Professionale: it is a manly vocational school which offers a very specialized formation on a specific field for those looking into entering work ; it is generally organized at local level according to the local economy and industry and based on broad national guidelines ; it offers periods of stage in the local firms as a part of their courses.

A very broad issue affecting the neutrality of science concerns the areas over which science chooses to explore, so what part of the world and man is studied by science.

Albury-Wodonga is the broad settlement incorporating the twin Australian cities of Albury and Wodonga, which are separated geographically by the Murray River and politically by a state border: Albury on the north of the river is part of New South Wales while Wodonga on the south bank is in Victoria.

The city of Corfu stands on the broad part of a peninsula, whose termination in the Venetian citadel () is cut off from it by an artificial fosse formed in a natural gully, with a seawater moat at the bottom, that now serves as a marina and is called the Contrafossa.

Much of the county lies in the broad Hagerstown Valley between these two zones ; the valley is part of the Great Appalachian Valley that continues southward into Virginia and West Virginia as the Shenandoah Valley and northward into Pennsylvania as the Cumberland Valley.

* Infundibulopelvic ligament, part of the female pelvis

They are constructed from epithelium, but they have a few muscle fibres in them, namely the vocalis muscle which tightens the front part of the ligament near to the thyroid cartilage.

The muscle may be split into two parts, and one part may be inserted into the fascia lata, the femur, the ligament of the patella or the tendon of the Semitendinosus.

The ulnar collateral ligament of elbow joint gives its origin to part of this muscle.

On the medial part of the root of the coracoid process is a rough impression for the attachment of the conoid ligament ; and running from it obliquely forward and lateralward, on to the upper surface of the horizontal portion, is an elevated ridge for the attachment of the trapezoid ligament.

# Second degree sprain-is a tear of part of a ligament, from a third to almost all its fibers.

The volar surface is concave above, and elevated at its lower and lateral part into a rounded projection, the tubercle, which is directed forward and gives attachment to the transverse carpal ligament and sometimes origin to a few fibers of the Abductor pollicis brevis.

vincula ) is a type of ligament or similar structure that limits the movement of an organ or body part.

It arises from the posterior gluteal line of the inner upper ilium, and the rough portion of bone including the crest, immediately above and behind it ; from the posterior surface of the lower part of the sacrum and the side of the coccyx ; from the aponeurosis of the erector spinae ( lumbodorsal fascia ), the sacrotuberous ligament, and the fascia covering the gluteus medius ( gluteal aponeurosis ).

( The non-patent obliterated part of the artery is the medial umbilical ligament.

*** Le Fort fracture of ankle-a vertical fracture of the antero-medial part of the distal fibula with avulsion of the anterior tibiofibular ligament.

The human arch develops in infancy and early childhood as part of normal muscle, tendon, ligament and bone growth.

It originates from the anterior ( front ) part of the sacrum, the part of the spine in the gluteal region, and from the superior margin of the greater sciatic notch ( as well as the sacroiliac joint capsule and the sacrotuberous ligament ).

Livingston injured almost every part of his knee, tearing the anterior cruciate ligament ( ACL ), the posterior cruciate ligament ( PCL ), and the lateral meniscus, badly spraining his medial collateral ligament ( MCL ), and dislocating his patella and his tibia-femoral joint.

Spillane played no part in the 1983 championship as he was recovering from an operation on his snapped cruciate ligament.

* The upper part of the lacrimal sac is covered by the medial palpabral ligament.

Taylor was out for the best part of a year with a knee ligament injury and was unable to do any aerobic activity.

The remainder of the vesico-urethral portion forms the body of the bladder and part of the prostatic urethra ; its apex is prolonged to the umbilicus as a narrow canal, the urachus, which later is obliterated and becomes the median umbilical ligament of the adult.

A suspensory ligament is a ligament that supports a body part, especially an organ.