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The Struthion Pool lay in the path of the northern decumanus, so Hadrian placed vaulting over it, added a large pavement on top, and turned it into a secondary Forum ; the pavement can still be seen under the Convent of the Sisters of Zion.
The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.
Years later, Dada artists described the movement as " a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path ... was a systematic work of destruction and demoralization ...
Bree lay at the junction of the Great East Road and the Greenway ( a path leading south ), and had a small amount of commercial traffic as a consequence.
In the centre of the 5th Army front lay the Mignano Gap, which because of the marshy conditions on the coastal plain represented the only realistic path to the mouth of the Liri valley.
Advancement lay along that path.
Monnet believed that the only path to an Allied victory lay in the merging of France and Britain's war efforts and he reflected on a concept that would co-ordinate war resources.
I am free to confess that in my joy I did not then perceive that ... dozens of other difficulties lay in the path ... but I was convinced a vera causa cause had been found ... and I never doubted for one moment, then nor since, that we had one of the grandest discoveries of the age — a discovery all the more grand because it was so simple.
A new on-site rail station opened 18 July 2011, ( the official opening by Minister for Transport Theresa Villiers MP was on 21 September 2011 ), and a new road opened on 1 September 2011, replacing Eastwoodbury Lane that lay in the path required for a runway extension to the south-west.
Samuel L. Jackson's character in the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction recites a creed spuriously attributed to Ezekiel 25: 17, beginning, " The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men ," and ending, "... and you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
In their path lay not only the German front line, but just beyond it, the intermediate line within which was the Schwaben Redoubt.
The road ran northeastwards from the old Ifield Road and was named Smalls Mead ; it lay near the path of one section of the ancient trackway, which had historically been called Smalls Lane.
It lay directly in the path of the Trent and Mersey Canal of which Wedgwood was a promoter.
The Siddhanta tradition, like Kashmir Shaivism and Kaula, differs from the Vedic and Puranic worship of Shiva and also from the ancient Pasupati tradition by its adherence to texts called Agamas or Tantras, which lay down rites that may be performed by men of the first four varnas ( women in these varnas played marginal roles ) and describe a progressive, fourfold spiritual path of virtuous and moral living ( charya ), ritual ( kriya ), individual practice ( yoga ) and knowledge ( jnana, vidya ).
The Vorlons believed that the best way to teach the younger races was through order, law, and discipline, while the Shadows believed that the best path to teaching younger races lay through chaos, conflict, and strife.
However, the BTC were not convinced that the future of diesel traction lay down the hydraulic transmission path of the Western Region, and began looking at various diesel-electric designs.
Houses, rivers, haystacks and other obstacles were travelled straight over, and footprints appeared on the tops of snow-covered roofs and high walls which lay in the footprints ' path, as well as leading up to and exiting various drain pipes of as small as a four-inch diameter.
Robert I of Scotland reacted to the English invasion of 1322 by launching punitive and diversionary chevauchées into north-west England, then retreating to Culross, burning as he went the Scottish lands which lay in the path of the English army.
The plan was that the Crusaders who used the machina would be ex-communicated ; then when the Operation was a disaster any survivors would come to the conclusion that the only path to destroy Sin lay in the teachings ( using forbidden machina clearly didn ’ t work ), and that any path that deviated from Yevon would lead to ruin.
As Julia Foulkes pointed out, " Dunham's path to success lay in making high art in the United States from African and Caribbean sources, capitalizing on a heritage of dance within the African Diaspora, and raising perceptions of African American capabilities.
Those groups who were immediate neighbours to the warring Fulbe, such as the Vute and Gbaya, dislodged others who lay in their path, such as Cameroon's Bantu peoples.
Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's path lay in its traditional spirituality.
The main fortifications, forts Stalin, Molotov and Maxim Gorky which lay in the path of LIV Corps, remained active.

path and up
And he ignored him, skirting the parked cars and walking up the path to the Skopas house.
Maybe an entire scene comes into consciousness, with action and motion, or a static view: `` a house under a pine tree, with a little stone path going up to the door ''.
Sometimes she took the path that winds up around my cottage to the walk at the edge of the cliff.
Cathy is tired, Lucy thought, watching them come slowly up the path.
He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by his recalcitrant insubordination.
After deletion, retrace the path back up the tree ( parent of the replacement ) to the root, adjusting the balance factors as needed.
Steiner's stated prerequisites to beginning on a spiritual path include a willingness to take up serious cognitive studies, a respect for factual evidence, and a responsible attitude.
It is one of the five Yamas ( restraints ) which make up the code of conduct, the first of the eight limbs of which this path consists.
Although there are many ethical tenets in Buddhism that differ depending on whether one is a monk or a layman, and depending on individual schools, the Buddhist system of ethics can be summed up in the eightfold path:
The tomb lies on the line of several cairns that marked the east-west route of the ancient Monks ' Path between Buckfast Abbey and Tavistock Abbey and it was no doubt erected here as part of that route: it would have been particularly useful in this part of the moor with few landmarks where a traveller straying from the path could easily end up in Foxtor Mires.
For non-circular orbits or trajectories, only the component of gravitational force directed orthogonal to the path ( toward the center of the osculating circle ) is termed centripetal ; the remaining component acts to speed up or slow down the satellite in its orbit.
* 1704 11 November – A notable incident during the siege: 500 Spanish volunteer grenadiers tried to surprise the garrison after being led up a concealed path to the top of The Rock by a Spanish goatherd from Gibraltar, Simón Susarte.
Each nerve cell in this path begins in the brainstem and passes down the neck along the vagus nerve, then branches off into the recurrent laryngeal nerve which passes back up the neck to the larynx.
He believed in the unity of opposites, stating that " the path up and down are one and the same ", all existing entities being characterized by pairs of contrary properties.
All parts of the hierarchy which are not linked vertically to one another nevertheless can be " horizontally " linked through a path by traveling up the hierarchy to find a common direct or indirect superior, and then down again.
The path of violence and military struggle was then taken up by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981.
Monroe was not particularly interested in legal theory or practice, but chose to take it up because he thought that it offered " the most immediate rewards " and could ease his path to wealth, social standing, and political influence.
Only a few souls that reach Arihant status become Thirthankars who take a leadership role in assisting the other souls to move up on the spiritual path.
Equal transit-time states that because of the longer path of the upper surface of an airfoil, the air going over the top must go faster in order to catch up with the air flowing around the bottom, i. e. the parcels of air that are divided at the leading edge and travel above and below an airfoil must rejoin when they reach the trailing edge.
Several other experiments followed, with André-Marie Ampère, who in 1820 discovered that the magnetic field circulating in a closed-path was related to the current flowing through the perimeter of the path ; Carl Friedrich Gauss ; Jean-Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart, both of which in 1820 came up with the Biot-Savart Law giving an equation for the magnetic field from a current-carrying wire ; Michael Faraday, who in 1831 found that a time-varying magnetic flux through a loop of wire induced a voltage, and others finding further links between magnetism and electricity.
For example, a layer that provides error-free communications across a network provides the path needed by applications above it, while it calls the next lower layer to send and receive packets that make up the contents of that path.
In contrast to the exclusivist who maintains that there is a single path " up the mountain of God ," the pluralist recognizes many paths as valid.
They were a peace-loving pro-religious people who migrated up the same path from the Orinoco.
The physical act of the salute is best described as the right arm taking the path of the longest way up and then the shortest way down.

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