This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Many of the cells and microorganisms which are transparent to visible light, absorb or reflect the much shorter wavelengths of the ultraviolet spectrum.

Among them, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, are: ( 1 ) shorter work weeks, ( 2 ) higher pay, ( 3 ) longer paid vacations, ( 4 ) better transportation, ( 5 ) earlier retirement, and ( 6 ) more education.

In contrast, 20 of the 21 lines in the Completion Profile ( excluding center 5 for boys and 4 for girls ) are bunched and extend over a much shorter period, approximately 30 months for boys and 40 months for girls.

it should be remembered that their lasting qualities are appreciably shorter than those of milk.

The sense of perspective has been created by designing the length of the columns so that those at the far end of the colonnade are much shorter than those in front.

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

The Nicene Creed and the shorter Apostles ' Creed are articles, or professions of Faith said by members of the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

In particular, time intervals measured on the surface of the Earth ( terrestrial time, TT ) are not constant when compared to the motions of the planets: the terrestrial second ( TT ) appears to be longer in Northern Hemisphere winter and shorter in Northern Hemisphere summer when compared to the " planetary second " ( conventionally measured in barycentric dynamical time, TDB ).

The flowers are catkins with elongate male catkins on the same plant as shorter female catkins, often before leaves appear ; they are mainly wind-pollinated, but also visited by bees to a small extent.

Bow hunting differs markedly from hunting with firearms, as the distances between the hunter and the game are much shorter in order to ensure a humane kill.

Also inscribed, on the shorter sides of the four supporting columns, are the names of the major victorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

In competitions, competitors are costumed as would be appropriate for a white tie affair, with full gowns for the ladies and bow tie and tail coats for the men ; though in American Smooth it is now conventional for the men to abandon the tailsuit in favor of shorter tuxedos, vests, and other creative outfits.

There are numerous shorter paths suitable for day walks, as well as mountain biking and cross-country skiing trails.

However, in a cable-stayed bridge, less cable is required and the towers holding the cables are proportionately shorter.

They have six stamens, four of which are longer ( as long as the petals, so relatively short in fact ) and are arranged in a cross like the petals and the other two are shorter ( tetradynamous flower ).

Unlike bioweapons, these midspectrum agents do not reproduce in their host and are typically characterized by shorter incubation periods.

Those assigned to the Sunday office underwent the least revision, although noticeably fewer psalms are recited at Matins, and both Lauds and Compline are slightly shorter due to psalms ( or in the case of Compline the first few verses of a psalm ) being removed.

Two airports are more than 3, 047 meters in length, nine are 2, 438 – 3, 047 meters, 39 are 1, 524 – 2, 437 meters, 38 are 914 – 1, 523 meters, 12 are shorter than 914 meters, and 880 have unpaved runways.

A fourth theory is that the longer Western text came first, but that later, some other redact or abbreviated some of the material, resulting in the shorter Alexandrian text.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the oldest received work of Chinese medical theory, was compiled around the first century BCE on the basis of shorter texts from different medical lineages.

The first option is less logical, but results in shorter marks for most English language libraries.

While the first is far shorter than the second, it sets out the basic themes and provides an interpretive key for understanding the entire book.

The factual content of the work tends to be deemed more credible as it discusses more recent times, as the distance in time between the events described and the composition of the saga was shorter, allowing traditions to be retained in a largely accurate form, and because in the twelfth century the first contemporary written sources begin to emerge in Norway.

Most lossless compression programs do two things in sequence: the first step generates a statistical model for the input data, and the second step uses this model to map input data to bit sequences in such a way that " probable " ( e. g. frequently encountered ) data will produce shorter output than " improbable " data.

The first is to utilize the shorter wavelength of ultraviolet electromagnetic energy to improve the image resolution beyond that of the diffraction limit of standard optical microscopes.

After the Referendum on the Reduction of the Mandate of the President of the French Republic, 2000 ), the length of the term was reduced from 7 to 5 years ; the first election to a shorter term was held in 2002.

Moreover, because of the limited airplay Rush's previous extended-length songs received, Permanent Waves included shorter, more radio-friendly songs such as " The Spirit of Radio " and " Freewill ", two songs that helped Permanent Waves become Rush's first U. S. Top 5 album ; both songs continue to make appearances on classic rock radio stations in Canada and the United States to this day.

It was shorter in length in comparison to the first and a little confusing if the reader is unaware of the social, religious, and economic situation of the community.

The first work, Das Rheingold, is shorter than the other three, running a bit over 3 hours, while all the others are over five.

Jack Andresen patented the first trick ski, a shorter, finless water ski, in 1940.

Population density at the time of first European contact was highest in the south central area of the Bahamas, declining towards the north, reflecting the progressively shorter time of occupation of the northern islands.

The first line was shorter and I could see that I loved writing, I loved images, I was taking a lot of pictures.

The first, shorter one in the Ecclesiastical History promotes the belief that God helped Constantine but does not mention any vision.

Lighter systems with shorter tracks are widely deployed at airports ; the world's first airport people mover was installed in 1971 at Tampa International Airport in the United States.

Later there were releases of two shorter features which rework the material of the first three films.

Because this presents a significant advantage to the team winning the coin toss to decide who receives the first overtime possession, the NFL moved in 2011 to require that if both teams have not had possession of the ball prior to the first score, then the team who does have possession must score a touchdown to end the game, preventing the team winning the coin toss from making a much shorter drive down the field and kicking a " golden goal " without the other team having a chance to touch the ball.

Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m ( 1500 kHz ) which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used for radio communications.

Although operation on wavelengths shorter than 200 meters was technically illegal ( but tolerated as the authorities mistakenly believed at first that such frequencies were useless for commercial or military use ), amateurs began to experiment with those wavelengths using newly available vacuum tubes shortly after World War I.

When it first became popular around the 18th century it was as a shorter, quicker form of dance that was a light relief from the more courtly dances normally danced.

In professionally-built wire-wrap boards, long wires are placed first so that shorter wires mechanically secure the long wires.