Jessica Packard lifted her head and followed the retreating figure, her eyes resting nearly closed on the unself-conscious rise and fall of the rounded hips.

A back pressure was then introduced, and the rise or fall of the material in the manometer indicated which was greater, the normal pressure in the block or the back pressure.

They then point out that with our present lack of knowledge of all the factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics, it is unlikely that a planned episode could be initiated.

It consists of a series of pipes and a pressure-measuring chamber which record the rise and fall of the water surface.

There was a rise at the point of confession, as though the author was stepping out into the open and making a bold declaration, but a corresponding fall when admitting his blindness.

As temperatures rise and fall, this film cracks.

Chapters 40 – 55 fall into two parts, with 40 – 48 dealing with the rise of Cyrus, while 49 – 55 are focused on Zion as the wife whom God has renounced and then taken back.

Friedman believed that deficits would be corrected by free markets as floating currency rates rise or fall with time to encourage or discourage imports in favor of the exports, reversing again in favor of imports as the currency gains strength.

A similar system exists in the ocean, where seawater < sup > 44 </ sup > Ca /< sup > 40 </ sup > Ca tends to rise when the rate of removal of Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > from seawater by mineral precipitation exceeds the input of new calcium into the ocean, and fall when calcium input exceeds mineral precipitation.

Yin and Yang are not antagonistic, they alternate in inverse proportion to one another — like the rise and fall of a wave.

There is no evidence that the character of Claudius ' policies and edicts changed with the rise and fall of the various freedmen, suggesting that he was firmly in control throughout.

According to Aristotle, the four elements rise or fall toward their natural place in concentric layers surrounding the center of the earth and form the terrestrial or sublunary spheres.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

China's traditionalist view of history sees the rise and fall of dynasties as passing the " Mandate of Heaven ".

In contrast to the static levels of Wolfenstein 3D, those in Doom are highly dynamic: platforms can lower and rise, floors can rise sequentially to form staircases, and bridges can rise and fall.

From another perspective, the farmer and the miller both reduce a risk and acquire a risk when they sign the futures contract: the farmer reduces the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract and acquires the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract ( thereby losing additional income that he could have earned ).

The miller, on the other hand, acquires the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract ( thereby paying more in the future than he otherwise would have ) and reduces the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract.

The " Law of Supply " states that, in general, a rise in price leads to an expansion in supply and a fall in price leads to a contraction in supply.

The argument is that if the money supply is constant, increases in the cost of a good or service will decrease the money available for other goods and services, and therefore the price of some those goods will fall and offset the rise in price of those goods whose prices have increased.

Impact from the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, including the annexation and eventual independence of Estonia, has had a major effect on Estonia's ethnic makeup and educational achievement.

The sentiment is summarized in a line from Ovid's Amores I. 1. 27 Sex mihi surgat opus numeris, in quinque residat-" Let my work rise in six steps, fall back in five.

His meteoric rise and fall were clearly the stuff of legend, and few if any players, either before or since, have had such an immense impact over so brief a period.

For example, the Times Literary Supplement refers to " the rise and fall of evangelical fervor within the Socialist movement ".

Just as the Moon's tidal force bends and deforms the Earth's oceans, causing the tides to rise and fall, the galactic tide also bends and distorts the orbits of bodies in the outer Solar System, pulling them towards the galactic centre.

When tides are predicted to rise above 110 centimetres, the pontoons will be filled with air, causing them to float and block the incoming water from the Adriatic Sea.

The gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun give rise to two high tides and two low tides every lunar day, or every 24 hours and 50 minutes.

It is subject to the surge and the rise and fall of tides.

The force of the tides gives rise to overfalls and tidal races which can occur at different stages of the tide.

* 9th century-Al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), an Arab naturalist, writes a treatise on meteorology entitled Risala fi l-Illa al-Failali l-Madd wa l-Fazr ( Treatise on the Efficient Cause of the Flow and Ebb ), in which he presents an argument on tides which " depends on the changes which take place in bodies owing to the rise and fall of temperature.

The tides rise and fall up to and currents are extraordinary and cause large accumulations of ice masses during most of the year, often preventing the passage of watercraft.

Since storm surge is defined as the rise of water beyond what would be expected by the normal movement due to tides, storm surge is measured using tidal predictions, with the assumption that the tide prediction is well-known and only slowly varying in the region subject to the surge.

He's portrayed as a merman who controls the rise and fall of tides with a magical conch shell.

In the other letters written in 1685 and 1686, he asks Flamsteed for information about the orbits of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the rise and fall of the spring and neap tides at the solstices and the equinoxes, about the flattening of Jupiter at the poles ( which, if certain, he says, would conduce much to the stating the reasons of the precession of the equinoxes ), and about the universal application of Kepler's third law.

From John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat: " Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

The water level was said to rise and fall with the tides at sea, and it was claimed that at dusk the waters call out the name of the next parishioner to die ; their face can be seen reflected in the pool at midnight on Midsummer's Eve.

All of us who live here are fortunate to have both the joy and the possibility of adventure in the tides that rise at our front door every morning.

On average, Kaipara tides rise and fall.

The book is titled after the first essay, in which she realizes that a hermit crab she accidentally brought home while beachcombing still times its activity to the rise and fall of the tides, even in an aquarium in Tucson, Arizona where there are no oceans or tides for hundreds of miles.

The wharf ( sometimes called a " slip ") has a ramp, linkspan or " apron ", balanced by weights, that connects the railway proper to the ship, allowing for the water level to rise and fall with the tides.

The wrecks of the submarines lie much closer to the low-water mark than the high-water mark and tides in the bay rise very quickly – those wishing to examine the wrecks should thus take note of the tides and leave plenty of time to return to the shore from the wrecks.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

And when he complained of the lack of time for all he wanted to do, Henrietta advised him to rise at five in the morning as she and Papa did.

To confess with a canvas chair as a prie-dieu, gouging at his heart until a rough and stupid hand bade him rise and go??

Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.

its mass of bright bloom set in a border of snow made my spirits rise every time I looked at it.

, 40-grain bullet is rated at a very hot 2,460 fps, and it's the flattest shooting of any revolver cartridge, with a mid-range rise of about an inch over a 100-yard range.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

The usual U.S. norm would be: Af Middle pitches, slight pause ( juncture ) before mother, slight rise at the end.

Quite other feelings are evidenced by this style: Af Note the drop to pitch 1 ( the lowest ) on mother with no rise at the end of the sentence ; ;

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.

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

In the west, the mountains tend to be low, with elevations from, but they rise in the easterly direction to heights greater than south of Rize, reaching at the Kaçkar Mountains in the Pontic Alps.

The poem is cast in the form of a lament by a person professing the paganism of classical antiquity and lamenting its passing, and expresses regret at the rise of Christianity.

This led to his excommunication by the holy see and possibly precipitated his death, and his son Dom Dinis's premature rise to the throne at only 18 years old.

Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in the Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable ; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols ' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader Genghis Khan with Prester John ; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Mongols ' homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

A period of large trade deficits and improper real estate investment hit Bulgaria hard during the late-2000s recession, resulting in a 5. 5 % GDP decline in that period, a rise in unemployment, and spending at least five quarters in its worst recession since the early 1980s.

In 2011 passenger traffic at Bulgaria's three major airports-Sofia, Varna and Bourgas-grew up to near 10 % on the year to 3. 89 million in the first half of 2011, due to rise of customers using international routes and launch of new destinations.

Its rise in popularity occurred in the late 1980s at the same time as Rock en Español and Latin Pop reached continental-wide audiences.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

Dramatic granite tors rise from the rolling moorland: the best known are Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall at,

These uniforms differentiated them from the Army and the Regular RIC, and gave rise to the force's nickname: Christopher O ' Sullivan wrote in the Limerick Echo on 25 March 1920 that, meeting a group of recruits on a train at Limerick Junction, the attire of one reminded him of the Scarteen Hunt, whose " Black and Tans " nickname derived from the coloration of its Kerry Beagles.

The smaller container, filled with the substance to be heated, fits inside the outer container, filled with the working liquid ( usually water ), and the whole is heated at, or below, the base, causing the temperature of the materials in both containers to rise as needed.

Techniques such as scanning-tunneling microscopy can be used control processes at the nanometre scale, and have given rise to the study of nano-fabrication.