The first modern production technology for armour plating was used by navies in the construction of the Ironclad warship, reaching its pinnacle of development with the battleship.

Virgil was seen as the pinnacle of Latin literature, and Latin was the dominant literary language of England at the time, therefore making Virgilian influence highly likely.

The royal sarcophagus at Frogmore was probably the pinnacle of its work, and at 30 tons one of the largest.

Traditionally, the monarch was the pinnacle of the state.

Rajat Gupta, who reached the pinnacle of corporate America as managing partner of McKinsey & Co. and director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( GS ) and Procter & Gamble Co. ( PG ), was convicted by a federal jury of leaking inside information to hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime ; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries.

The 1950s and 1960s was the pinnacle of the motel industry in the United States and Canada.

The pinnacle of the rivalry came on August 17, 1969 when both the Jets and Giants met for the first time, in a preseason game which was viewed as a " turf war " by both opponents.

By the time Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, Vince Foster was at the pinnacle of the Arkansas legal establishment,

This was, in his eyes, the pinnacle of the series.

It was widely held to be the pinnacle of Latin literature, much in the same way that the Iliad was seen to be supreme in Greek literature.

The annual event was moved to Holmenkollen from 1892, and Holmenkollen has remained the pinnacle of ski jumping venues.

The pinnacle of this effort was the introduction of the Challenger sports coupe and convertible ( Dodge's entry into the " pony car " class ) in 1970, which offered everything from mild economy engines up to the wild race-ready Hemi V8 in the same package.

The emperor was at the pinnacle of Han society.

The first general circulation climate model that combined both oceanic and atmospheric processes was developed in the late 1960s at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory AOGCMs represent the pinnacle of complexity in climate models and internalise as many processes as possible.

Porky's post at the pinnacle of the Warners ' pantheon was short-lived however.

He appealed with all the credit of his name, that of France's national hero: Napoleon I, who in popular memory was credited with raising the nation to its pinnacle of military greatness and establishing social stability after the turmoil of the French Revolution.

The pinnacle of development for pre-revolutionary Omsk came with the lavish Siberian Exposition of Agriculture and Industry in 1910, for which a complex of buildings and fountains was constructed.

In 1987, the WWF produced what was considered to be the pinnacle of the 1980s wrestling boom, WrestleMania III.

In 1624, he reached a pinnacle of notoriety when his dramatic allegory A Game at Chess was staged by the King's Men.

Additionally in 1981, Shooter was recognized as one of six " New Yorkers of the Year " by the New York chapter of the JayCees, for his " contributions toward revitalizing the comics industry and helping Marvel Comics achieve a new pinnacle of success.

The engine was the pinnacle of Pontiac engine development and was a very strong performer that included a few race-specific features, such as provisions for dry-sump oiling.

The 9th-10th century master of the religious system known as " the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir " ( or " Kashmir Shaivism ") and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries on the Dhvanyāloka, the Dhvanyāloka-locana ( translated by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992 ) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Nātyashāstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and Patwardhan.

* 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by and become the World's tallest highrise.

Kadamba shikara ( tower ) with Kalasa ( pinnacle ) on top at Doddagaddavalli

Contracts naturally do not usually touch on criminal matters as the above, but marriage contracts do specify death by strangling, drowning, precipitation from a tower or pinnacle of the temple, or by the iron sword, for a wife's repudiation of her husband.

It is unique among the surviving crosses in having a triangular plan, and a taller and more slender profile with a lower tier entirely covered with diapering, instead of the arch-and-gable motif with tracery which appears on both the others ; and canopied statues surmounted by a slender hexagonal pinnacle.

Professional sailing in France is centred on singlehanded and shorthanded ocean racing with the pinnacle of this branch of the sport being the Vendee Globe singlehanded around the world race which starts every 4 years from the French Atlantic coast.

1984 ( released on January 9, 1984 ) was their commercial pinnacle.

In 1949 he reached the pinnacle of his acting career when he was cast as Willie Stark, a character based on Louisiana politician Huey Long, in All the King's Men, a film based on the popular novel of the day by Robert Penn Warren.

However, while species like the Borg have reached the pinnacle of technological achievement through assimilation, Species 8472 has established dominance based on its biological superiority.

In Bandung, the West Java Governor's office is popularly called Gedung Sate () to refer the satay-like pinnacle on its roof.

Through this treaty, the Hanseatic League reached its pinnacle of power in the region with a virtual monopoly on lucrative trade.

He has written extensively on the interaction between illness and politics, with a particular emphasis on the ' hubris syndrome ', a condition affecting those at the pinnacle of power.

Jones went on to reach the pinnacle of the railroad profession as a crack locomotive engineer for the I. C.

Canadian women set a new pinnacle of success, in terms financial, critical and in their immediate and strong influence on their respective genres.

Whilst all seems fair at first, it is quickly discovered that the three menaces had no intent on fair play when it comes to treasure and it is revealed that Roger had in fact tied Danny's catapult to a piece of string thus yanking it away at a pinnacle moment.

" He went on to contrast Gates, at the " pinnacle of military glory ", to Washington, who had been " outgeneraled and twice beaten.

Gaming Age called both games " the pinnacle of good graphics on the Game Boy Color system ".

Perched on the pinnacle of a knight's stall is his helm, decorated with a mantling and topped by his crest.

* Gendarme ( mountaineering ), an isolated pinnacle of rock on a mountain peak or ridge.