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In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.
The MiG-31M's SBI-16 Zaslon phased array radar is considered to be the world's most powerful fighter radar.
Also, yeasts are easily manipulated and cultured in the laboratory, which has allowed for the development of powerful standard techniques, such as yeast two-hybrid, synthetic genetic array analysis, and tetrad analysis.
Over the next few years he worked on the problem of error-correction, developing an increasingly powerful array of algorithms.
Waylander have inked a deal with Listenable Records and Waylander's new third album, entitled Honour Amongst Chaos, is " more powerful and beautiful than ever, using a vast array of Irish folk instruments and armed with their passion for metal in its truest form ," according to a press release.
However his policies alienated and antagonised the vested interests of an array of groups, which included the small but powerful Burkinabé middle class, the tribal leaders whom he stripped of the long-held traditional right to forced labour and tribute payments, and the foreign financial interests in France and their ally the Ivory Coast.
As secretory cells, monocytes and macrophages are vital to the regulation of immune responses and the development of inflammation ; they produce a wide array of powerful chemical substances ( monokines ) including enzymes, complement proteins, and regulatory factors such as interleukin-1.
Optional equipment included a four-speed manual, Super Turbine 300 two-speed automatic transmission, a more powerful " Tri-Power " carburation rated at, metallic drum brake linings, limited slip differential, heavy-duty cooling, ride and handling package, and the usual array of power and convenience accessories.
The Belgian is equipped with an array of powerful, deep, forehand and backhand shots.
Due to its array of skilled soldiers and its many connections with the outside world, Bregan D ' aerthe is a valued ally of many powerful drow houses.
This seeming embrace of Post Modernism meant that, despite the office's international array of powerful urban assemblages that reconceptualized architectural forms and spaces, this work went rapidly out-of-fashion with the architectural world's revival of modernism.
The complex array of towers, tanks and pipes of the gas works forms a powerful industrial still life ... serving both as a visual focus for the park and as a monument to the city ’ s industrial past.
* 2006: Mike Luckovich of Atlanta Journal-Constitution, " for his powerful cartoons on an array of issues, drawn with a simple but piercing style.
Skeletor possesses an array of mystic powers and is an extremely powerful sorcerer with control over a vast range of dark magical powers, such as the ability to teleport himself and others over vast distances, send telepathic commands to his minions, grow plants, hypnotism, illusions, reflection, freezing rays, open gateways between dimensions, etcetera.
Although now blessed with exponentially-increasing invulnerability and an impressive array of energy-based attacks, the nanites slowly corrupt Rhodes ' mind, eventually destroying his personality and leaving him as little more than a very powerful, humanoid robot.
Although it did not include an assembler, as most " standard " C64 ML monitors did, it included a wide array of powerful debugging tools.
In stepping back from centre stage and turning the spotlight entirely on this devastating array of intersecting lives and deaths, Winter has enacted some of the most powerful storytelling of his career .”
He compiled 101 runs between lunch and tea, producing an array of powerful drives through the off side, while his hooking prompted Denis Compton to compare him to Don Bradman.
The Z machine fires a very powerful electrical discharge ( 20 million amperes over less than 100 nanoseconds ) into an array of thin, parallel tungsten wires called a liner ( pictured here ).
Although smaller at 15. 2 meters tall and 19. 9 tons compared to 18. 5 m and 60 t for the RX-78 the F91 was immensely more powerful, with an array of advanced weaponry, as well as the revolutionary beam shield, which is much more effective than the solid material shields.
In addition to the ability to run from place to place, Joe comes equipped with a new array of moves and techniques, including a mid-air dashkick, the ability to jump-scale walls and a powerful running slash that renders him temporarily invincible.
The Infrared Optical Telescope Array ( IOTA ) began with an agreement in 1988 among five Institutions, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Wyoming, and MIT / Lincoln Laboratory, to build a two-telescope stellar interferometer for the purpose of making fundamental astrophysical observations, and also as a prototype instrument on which we could perfect techniques which could later lead to the development of a larger, more powerful array.
He is renowned for having a seemingly unlimited supply of magical tricks: an eye patch that prevents magical and psionic intrusion and enhances his vision ; a hat with a large feather that can be used to summon a diatryma ( a large flightless bird native to the Underdark ), and is a nondimensional space to hide things ( nondimensional means that he can put items which are many times the size of the hat in ); a many-hued piwafwi that displaces projectiles, thus hindering ranged attacks and makes him invisible on his command ; a varied array of magical wands ; two artifacts ( from a lich named Zhengyi ), which have the power to raise humans from the dead and employ the help of a powerful dracolich, a ring which protects from fire or ice by choice, a dragon figurine that can summon the breath of chromatic dragons, a ring that tells when someone is lying, a necklace which gives him supernatural power and speed, a sword which can control the mind of weak people, and many other unknown magical items.
A powerful high-end computer computes phases for all the elements of the array.

powerful and bowlers
After an indifferent summer against India the decision to take him to the Caribbean in 1959-60 was much criticised, but " Lord Ted " made his name thrashing the fast bowlers Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith with his powerful drives.
On his day he was one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket, but his playing style was also notable for his short-sightedness and poor catching, his powerful throwing arm, his perceived profligacy with the ball and his undoubted ineptitude with the bat.
His ability to swing the ball in and make it gain pace off the ground made him very difficult on anything like a fiery pitch, whilst his powerful physique and consequent stamina made Root respected even on pitches giving bowlers no assistance.
With all the other specialist batsmen dismissed, McCabe was now batting with wicket-keeper Ben Barnett and began to attack the English bowlers with powerful drives and hook shots.

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But such a reaction obscures the powerful efforts made in the past by both NAREB and its local boards for the maintenance of restrictive clauses and practices.
He and his cousin were both grandsons of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa, who had arranged for Elagabalus ' acclamation as emperor by the famed Third Gallic Legion.
Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.
Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.
They use powerful front teeth to cut trees and other plants that they use both for building and for food.
These artillery-based tactics were also decisive in Western Front operations after Operation Overlord and both the British Commonwealth and American armies developed flexible and powerful systems for utilizing artillery support.
The UP also suffered an increasing number of losses during this term ( including the assassination of presidential candidate Bernardo Jaramillo ), which stemmed both from private proto-paramilitary organizations, increasingly powerful drug lords and a number of would-be paramilitary-sympathizers within the armed forces.
Earnhardt swept both races for the year at Talladega, leading most observers to conclude that Earnhardt's talent had become limited to the restrictor plate tracks, which require a unique skill set and an exceptionally powerful car to win.
It became a " powerful instrument of personal and theological transformation both within the Order of Preachers and throughout the wider reaches of Christendom.
Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; both are powerful dystopian novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life.
After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.
The Seleucids adopted a pro-western stance that alienated both the powerful eastern satraps and the Greeks who had migrated to the east.
The Chinese remained disproportionately powerful in Malaysian economic life, but by 2000 the distinction between Chinese and Malay business was fading as many new corporations, particularly in growth sectors such as information technology, were owned and managed by people from both ethnic groups.
For some two centuries, the monarchy was elective both in theory and in practice ; the arrangement, however, did not last, since the powerful House of Habsburg managed to secure succession within their dynasty during the fifteenth century.
Among the more powerful new techniques were anaesthesia, and the development of both antiseptic and aseptic operating theatres.
Led by quarterback Charlie " Gus " Dorais and Rockne, the Notre Dame team attacked the Cadets with an offense that featured both the expected powerful running game but also long and accurate downfield forward passes from Dorais to Rockne.
" Lastly, both plays contain powerful and manipulative female figures: Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth.
The presence of relics was believed to be an important source of supernatural power that served both as a spiritual weapon and a form of defense ; the relics of martyrs were considered by Saint John Chrysostom much more powerful than " walls, trenches, weapons and hosts of soldiers "
With the help of both his treasury he had stolen from his first attempt at the papacy as well as the gold of his Greek followers, he was able to strike relationships with several powerful people.
Because the principle allowing revocation authority for keys is very powerful, the mechanisms used to control it should involve both as many participants as possible ( to guard against malicious attacks of this type ), while at the same time as few as possible ( to ensure that a key can be revoked without dangerous delay ).
Meanwhile Gregory XII stayed with his loyal and powerful protector, the condottiero Carlo I Malatesta, who had come to Pisa in person during the process of the council to support Gregory XII with both sets of cardinals.
After updating the 911 line-up to include both a more powerful 911S and a less expensive 911T, Porsche executives began to feel that the 912 had become redundant, that the 911 platform was sufficiently diverse and that pricing had largely come into line with market expectations.
By the end of the third war, after more than a hundred years and the loss of many hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both sides, Rome had conquered Carthage's empire and completely destroyed the city, becoming the most powerful state of the Western Mediterranean.

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