Not a single Southern author, major or minor, has made the urban problems of an urban South his primary source material.

More recently, it has extended those efforts to controls on conflict diamonds, the primary source of revenue for UNITA.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

The typical amateur astronomer is one who does not depend on the field of astronomy as a primary source of income or support, and does not have a professional degree or advanced academic training in the subject.

The ideal grade is called " Deep Siberian " and has a primary purple hue of around 75 – 80 %, with 15 – 20 % blue and ( depending on the light source ) red secondary hues.

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

Nonetheless he is an interesting primary source for the events of the years 1190 – 1192 in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

* The Papal Schism between Liberius and Felix ( a primary source )

Another source of background absorption, particularly in ET AAS, is scattering of the primary radiation at particles that are generated in the atomization stage, when the matrix could not be removed sufficiently in the pyrolysis stage.

* The primary source relating to the origin of Purim is the Megillat Esther ( Book of Esther ), which became the last of the 24 books of the Tanakh to be canonized by the Sages of the Great Assembly.

* On The Hundred Years War, a primary source written by Jean Froissart

After Mary's death in 1558, it became the primary source for the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, with subtle if significant changes only.

Judge-made common law operated as the primary source of law for several hundred years, before Parliament acquired legislative powers to create statutory law.

Large beaks were found on the islands where the primary source of food for the finches are nuts and therefore the large beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for opening the nuts and staying well nourished.

The caver's primary light source is usually mounted on the helmet in order to keep the hands free.

Evolving in the Cenozoic, the variety of snakes increased tremendously, resulting in many colubrids, following the evolution of their current primary prey source, the rodents.

Broadly speaking, Christian eschatology is the study of the destiny of mankind as it is revealed in the Bible, which is the primary source for all Christian eschatology studies.

Bethe's original calculations suggested the CN-cycle was the Sun's primary source of energy, owing to the belief at the time that the Sun's composition was 10 % nitrogen ; the solar abundance of nitrogen is now known to be less than half a percent.

The city was the second-largest in the empire, behind only Constantinople, and, although migration was not the primary source of Cairo's growth, twenty percent of its population at the end of the 18th century consisted of religious minorities and foreigners from around the Mediterranean.

* The Cheka-Spartacus Schoolnet collection of primary source extracts relating to the Cheka

The MGH is a vast series ( it runs to hundreds of volumes and is still publishing ) of edited primary source material essential for scholarly work on late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The clitoris is the human female's most sensitive erogenous zone and the primary source of female sexual pleasure.

While raising Chicago, and at first improving the health of the city, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, then into Lake Michigan, polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city.

In addition to the realization that there are major gaps in our knowledge of Chinese history is the equal realization that there are tremendous quantities of primary source material that have not yet been analyzed.

Photographic elements may be incorporated into such works, but they are not the primary basis or source for them.

His technical assignments have included: backup T-38 chase pilot for STS-1 ; support crew and backup entry spacecraft communicator ( CAPCOM ) for STS-2 ; support crew and primary entry CAPCOM for STS-3 ; software verification at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory ( SAIL ) and the Flight Simulation Laboratory ( FSL ); representing the Astronaut Office in the development of a crew escape system for the Space Shuttle ; Acting Chief of the Astronaut Office.

As the sophistication of biology and chemistry became more understood, the primary purpose for total synthesis changed, although some total synthesis continues to be a tool for biological verification, for example if a compound contains ambiguous stereochemistry or to create analogs (" chemical mutations ") to directly assess or improve the mechanism of biological activity.

This radar was built in 1976 and brought on-line in 1977 for the primary mission of intelligence gathering in support of verification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT ) II agreement.

Its primary mission of intelligence gathering in support of verification of the SALT II arms limitation agreement.

There were two primary explanations put forth for the expansion of the universe.

The primary aim of jihad as warfare is not the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam by force, but rather the expansion and defense of the Islamic state.

It was a primary transportation route for pioneers during the westward expansion of the early U. S. The Ohio flows through or along the border of six states, and its drainage basin includes all, or part of, 14 states.

The front end of the nerve tube is expanded by a thickening of the walls and expansion of the central canal of spinal cord into three primary brain vesicles: The prosencephalon ( forebrain ), mesencephalon ( midbrain ) and rhombencephalon ( hindbrain ), further differentiated in the various vertebrate groups.

The conflict over the expansion of British settlement into the Allegheny Valley and the surrounding Ohio Country was a primary cause of the French and Indian War in the 1750s.

It has many important buildings, foremost among them the Center Building, designed according to the principles of the Kirkbride Plan by Thomas U. Walter ( 1804 – 1887 ), who is better known as the primary architect of the expansion of the U. S. Capitol that was begun in 1851.

Exports generated in the first quarter of 2001 were worth US $ 85. 3, the primary factor for the 172 % expansion in Mozambique ’ s exports for the period.

Domestic telephones use a primary trunk system, which is undergoing expansion.

The latter could then take as their primary objective ensuring a stable value of currency by controlling monetary expansion and thus limiting inflation.

A new and evolving role for paramedics involves the expansion of their practice into the provision of relatively basic primary health care and assessment services.

The primary purpose of an expansion card is to provide or expand on features not offered by the motherboard.

The county ’ s primary economic development organization, the Perry County Development Corporation, has worked to further enhance the business climate by assisting companies with a variety of activities including new facilities, expansion projects and training opportunities.

Long a tiny farming community, Daleville saw significant expansion during the mid-to-late twentieth century with the establishment and enlargement of Fort Rucker, the U. S. Army's primary aviation training post.

Inwood School, now Inwood Primary School, opened in 1926 and in 1970 became a primary school with the expansion of schools in southern Berkeley County.

In virtually all modern PCs, from consumer laptops and desktops to enterprise data servers, the PCIe bus serves as the primary motherboard-level interconnect, connecting the host system processor with both integrated-peripherals ( surface mounted ICs ) and add-on peripherals ( expansion cards.

In 1997 John T. Koch suggested the conflation of a probable primary form * Bernech with the native form * Brïγent for the old civitas Brigantum as a result of Anglian expansion in that territory during the 7th century.

The total pyroelectric coefficient measured at constant stress is the sum of the pyroelectric coefficients at constant strain ( primary pyroelectric effect ) and the piezoelectric contribution from thermal expansion ( secondary pyroelectric effect ).

Josephus ' account is the only primary source covering the history of the Hasmonean dynasty during the period of its expansion and independence between 110 to 63 BCE.

The modern schooling system relates directly to the teachings of the Great Learning as educational institutions represent the primary sites for the expansion of knowledge and the investigation of " things.

The primary threats to the goa in China are loss of habitat, due to encroachment on their natural ranges by pastoralists and the expansion of agriculture in the western provinces.

The main threat to the species, and the primary reason for its decline in the Western Palearctic, comes from habitat loss and degradation, as a result of dam construction, urbanisation, agricultural expansion, and drainage of wetlands.

Lyminster existed before the reorganisation as an infant school, and has now begun a phased expansion to become a primary school.

Tshekedi Khama's regency as acting chief of the Bamangwato is best remembered for his expansion of the mephato regiments for the building of primary schools, grain silos, and water reticulation systems ; for his frequent confrontations with the British colonial authorities over the administration of justice in Ngwato country ; and for his efforts to deal with a major split in the tribe after Seretse married a white woman, Ruth Williams, while studying law in Britain.