And his relatively small hands and feet gave him an almost delicate appearance.

On the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

Instead of relatively small sales to many accounts, there are now larger sales to or through fewer accounts.

This relatively high value is probably due to the small fiber diameters increasing the number of internal reflections.

Since we are considering here relatively small diameter ( 1 - 1.5 inches ) fiber plates, their average thickness can be kept below 1/4 inch and their internal losses may be assumed as 15 percent ( per plate ).

Naturally, enterprises of the size of General Electric are in a position to structure their prices in such a way that the relatively small competitors can be forced to the wall in a very short time.

Under the circumstances, the only protection for the relatively small manufacturers is to engage in exactly the kind of conspiracy with the giants for which the latter were convicted.

In particular, this applies where large numbers of amateur astronomers with small telescopes are more effective than the relatively small number of large telescopes that are available to professional astronomers.

Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as " lurking " — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could " hide " at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

Alpha decay is the most likely cluster decay because of the combined extremely high binding energy and relatively small mass of the helium-4 product nucleus ( the alpha particle ).

This results in several MeV being deposited in a relatively small volume of material.

Abalones reach maturity at a relatively small size.

Spiders, for instance, being relatively small, don ’ t fit the usual criterion for a threat in the animal kingdom where size is a factor, but nearly all species are venomous, and although rarely dangerous to humans, some species are dangerous.

Due to the length of these routes and the small number of airlines flying to the islands, fares have traditionally been relatively expensive, although cheaper for locals than visitors.

Many antibacterial compounds are relatively small molecules with a molecular weight of less than 2000 atomic mass units.

Alberta has a small internal market and is relatively distant from major world markets, despite good transportation links to the rest of Canada and to the United States to the south.

There is a relatively small addition of flow in the Indian Ocean, with the transport south of Tasmania reaching around 147 Sv, at which point the current is probably the largest on the planet.

Through this period, Macs had about 2 to 3 times as many clients connected to the Internet as any other platform, despite the relatively small overall marketshare.

Some immigrated to France, where they formed a large Jewish community, that outnumbered Jews in the United States, but relatively small compared to European Jews.

Particularly famous for its apple crop, the valley hosts in excess of 1, 000 farms of various types, the majority being relatively small family-owned operations.

The relatively small number of atomic absorption lines ( compared to atomic emission lines ) and their narrow width ( a few pm ) make spectral overlap rare ; there are only very few examples known that an absorption line from one element will overlap with another.

This might sound complex, but first of all the number of di-atomic molecules that can exist at the temperatures of the atomizers used in AAS is relatively small, and second, the correction is performed by the computer within a few seconds.

Although this is a relatively small value, it was well within the observational capability of the instruments available in the early eighteenth century.

Although the Brandywine population is still predominantly rural, `` there are indications of a consistent and a statistically significant trend away from the older and relatively isolated rural communities.

) Given the exclusionary and ancestral conception of citizenship held by Greek city-states, a relatively large portion of the population took part in the government of Athens and of other radical democracies like it.

Due to the high population density, operations are relatively profitable, so tickets are cheap and the frequency of services is high.

Londinium was a relatively new settlement, founded after the conquest of 43AD, but it had grown to be a thriving commercial centre with a population of travellers, traders, and, probably, Roman officials.

According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus of raw materials to support trade and a relatively large population.

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

Cluster sampling is a sampling technique used when " natural " but relatively homogeneous groupings are evident in a statistical population.

Canis lupus is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN, as its relatively widespread range and stable population trend mean that the species, at global level, does not meet, or nearly meet, any of the criteria for the threatened categories.

Major parts in the spread ( and thus more durable growth ) of the population were played by monastical ' pioneering ' ( especially by the Benedictine and Commercial orders ) and some feudal lords ' recruiting farmers to settle ( and become tax payers ) by offering relatively good legal and fiscal conditions.

A complementary theory suggests that the relatively small numbers of bacteria inside each insect decrease the efficiency of natural selection in ' purging ' deleterious mutations and small mutations from the population, resulting in a loss of genes over many millions of years.

A particularly dangerous form of slow earthquake is the tsunami earthquake, observed where the relatively low felt intensities, caused by the slow propagation speed of some great earthquakes, fail to alert the population of the neighbouring coast, as in the 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake.

Current research has established that humans are genetically highly homogenous ; that is, the DNA of individuals is more alike than usual for most species, which may have resulted from their relatively recent evolution or the possibility of a population bottleneck resulting from cataclysmic natural events such as the Toba catastrophe.

There are no railways on the Faroe Islands due to the difficult landscape, small population and the relatively short distances.

Fairmount is still relatively prosperous despite the ill fortunes of nearby industrial cities and a steady loss of population.

Even so, Al-Andalus remained vastly superior to all the northern kingdoms combined in population, economy and military might ; and internal conflict between the Christian kingdoms contributed to keep them relatively harmless.

Overall unemployment has been exacerbated by an influx of refugees from the wars in neighboring countries, attracted to Honduras, ironically, by its relatively low population density and relative peace.

* The general population prefers to keep its wealth in non-monetary assets or in a relatively stable foreign currency.

* The general population regards monetary amounts not in terms of the local currency but in terms of a relatively stable foreign currency.

It was the erosion of this tradition coupled with increased brutality and centralization that played a large part in the dynasty's downfall after Aurangzeb, who unlike previous emperors, imposed relatively non-pluralistic policies on the general population, which often inflamed the majority Hindu population.

Ireland has, throughout most of its history, had a relatively small population ; until the 19th century this was comparable to other regions of similar area in Europe.

About 68 % of Italian population is classified as urban, a relatively low figure among developed countries.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

As a result, the number of native Masurians remaining in Masuria was initially relatively high, while most of the population was subsequently expelled.

The government also restricts and monitors migration to cities and ensures a relatively balanced distribution of population in provincial centers in relation to P ' yongyang.