Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

The scope of the Department of Asia is extremely broad, its collections of over 75, 000 objects covers the material culture of the whole Asian continent ( from East, South, Central and South-East Asia ) and from the Neolithic up to the present day.

Haydn, having worked for over a decade as the music director for a prince, had far more resources and scope for composing than most and also the ability to shape the forces that would play his music.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.

This arises because firearm manufacturers point out that while they have some influence and scope for redress with ammunition manufacturers, they have no such influence over the actions of incompetent or overly ambitious individuals who assemble ammunition.

Most libertarian socialists believe that when power is exercised, as exemplified by the economic, social, or physical dominance of one individual over another, the burden of proof is always on the authoritarian to justify their action as legitimate when taken against its effect of narrowing the scope of human freedom.

There were committee battles over the scope of Scott's responsibilities, with the Royal Society pressing to put a scientist in charge of the expedition's programme while Scott merely commanded the ship.

That particular way of definition of entropy is largely beyond the scope of the present article, but here it may be said that it is entirely derived from the concepts of classical thermodynamics ; in particular, neither flow rates nor changes over time are admitted into the definition of the entropy of the small local region.

Ludi ranged in duration and scope from one-day or even half-day events to spectacular multi-venue celebrations held over several days, with religious ceremonies and public feasts, horse and chariot racing, athletics, plays and recitals, beast-hunts and gladiator contests.

When the logical system is equipped with this order, it is possible to restrict the scope of a generalization such as " All ravens are black " so that it applies to ravens only and not to non-black things, since the order privileges ravens over non-black things.

While classical in scope, the opening section of the setting demonstrates Pergolesi's mastery of the Italian baroque durezze e ligature style, characterized by numerous suspensions over a faster, conjunct bassline.

The horse does not have to possess perfect jumping form, but should be safe over fences and have good scope.

Some copyright owners use EULAs in an effort to circumvent limitations the applicable copyright law places on their copyrights ( such as the limitations in sections 107-122 of the United States Copyright Act ), or to expand the scope of control over the work into areas for which copyright protection is denied by law ( such as attempting to charge for, regulate or prevent private performances of a work beyond a certain number of performances or beyond a certain period of time ).

* France: Lead Infrastructure and Rolling Stock Maintainer – The scope of SNCF ’ s maintenance duties is staggering: it maintains of track, 26, 500 main sets of points and crossings, 2, 300 signal boxes, 80, 000 track circuits, over 1 million relays, etc.

While enthusiasm for multinational federalism in Europe incrementally led, over the following decades, to the formation of the European Union, the onset of the Cold War ( 1946 – 1991 ) eliminated the prospects of any progress towards federation with a more global scope.

The scope and complexity of the accident became clear over the course of five days, as employees of Met Ed, Pennsylvania state officials, and members of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) tried to understand the problem, communicate the situation to the press and local community, decide whether the accident required an emergency evacuation, and ultimately end the crisis.

The proposal was rejected over the scope of the planned city was too broad for many residents.

In the shadow of the port, the city took shape mirroring in its scope the rapid development of 19th century Chicago, growing from a small fishing village of 1, 300 in 1921 into a full blown city with a population over 126, 000 less than 20 years later.

In the following months, as more information emerged about the scope of the TIA project, civil libertarians became concerned over what they saw as the potential for the development of an Orwellian mass surveillance system.

Nonetheless, the NSF's scope has expanded over the years to include many areas that were not in its initial portfolio, including the social and behavioral sciences, engineering, and science and mathematics education.

The discrepancy may have been due to scope, as the current total drop in river level over the series of dams is 76 ft ( 23 m ).

In IPv4, the multicast address is < tt > 239. 255. 255. 250 </ tt > and SSDP over IPv6 uses the address set < tt > ff0X :: c </ tt > for all scope ranges indicated by < tt > X </ tt >.

The musical canvas and emotional scope of the work, which lasts over an hour, are huge.

Positioning the tripod and instrument precisely over an indicated mark on the ground or benchmark requires techniques that are beyond the scope of this article.

In the shadow of the port, the city took shape mirroring in its scope the rapid development of 19th century Chicago, growing from a small fishing village of 1, 300 in 1921 into a full blown city with a population over 126, 000 less than 20 years later.

Chile's financial sector has grown quickly in recent years, with a banking reform law approved in 1997 that broadened the scope of permissible foreign activity for Chilean banks.

A French translation of Chambers ' work inspired the Encyclopédie, perhaps the most famous early encyclopedia, notable for its scope, the quality of some contributions, and its political and cultural impact in the years leading up to the French revolution.

That said, the sport's scope has expanded significantly during recent years and an increasing number of Grands Prix are held on other continents.

For a number of years this volunteer led festival has concentrated mostly around film but, starting in the Year of Highland Culture-Highland 2007, its scope was widened, and it dropped the ' film ' from its title.

The scope of the test is largely that of the first three years of a standard

The scope of parapsychology expanded during these years.

" Five years after the publication of Hitler's Pope, Cornwell stated: " I would now argue, in the light of the debates and evidence following Hitler's Pope, that Pius XII had so little scope of action that it is impossible to judge the motives for his silence during the war, while Rome was under the heel of Mussolini and later occupied by Germany ".

Only in recent years have the Swiss broadened the scope of activities in which they feel able to participate without compromising their neutrality.

# It is impossible to accept that R ' Moshe De Leon managed to forge a work of the scope of the Zohar ( 1700 pages ) within a period of six years as Scholem claims.

And really there is scope enough: for the lives of the Patriarchs may as reasonably be extended to 5000 or 50000 years apiece as the days of Creation to as many thousand millions of years.

While Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 To Be or Not To Be dealt with similar themes ( even including another mistaken-identity Hitler figure ), after the scope of Nazi atrocities became apparent it took nearly twenty years before any other films dared to satirize the era.

* The passage of a law to reform employee savings schemes The main purpose of this legislation was to increase the duration and scope of employee savings schemes, by extending them to employees of small and medium-sized businesses and increasing the ' lock-in ' period for employee savings from 5 to 10 years.

The Master's comprises seminar-and coursework-based theoretical and practical training, and a dissertation of limited scope, and is ( in most cases ) two years in duration.

Nine years later the Press issued the first volumes of the freshly edited complete works of Shakespeare, a project of nearly equal scope that was not finished until 1966.

Some years earlier in Crotty v. An Taoiseach, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that changes to the " essential scope or objectives " of then European Communities required such an amendment but it is not entirely clear how it was thought the Nice treaty did so.

It is during Part III that she physiologically and technologically evolves ( as predicted by the author ) as the years go by, to the point that by the year 2099 ( the farthest point in the author's scope ), she has shed all biological matter and has become a dynamic, conscious sub-entity within a larger, singular entity, all within a machine ( a Spiritual Machine, as it were ).

The scope of Strategic military planning can span weeks, but is more often months or even years.

Over the following years Project Socrates's scope broadened to include monitoring of foreign advanced technology as a whole.

" John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism ( 1946 ), and pointed out that a " subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period "— Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse — was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements derived from Impressionism and confined to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He accordingly limited the Messianic age to forty years, as being within the scope of a man's life — similar to the reigns of David and Solomon — against the usual conception of a millennium ( Midr.

In recent years a number of new innovations have meant an increased scope of use for scaffolding, such as ladderbeams for spanning spaces that cannot accomodate standards and the increased used of sheeting and structure to create temporary roofs.