He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a slightly raised central area.

While the hitchpins of these separately suspended Aliquot strings are raised slightly above the level of the usual tri-choir strings, they are not struck by the hammers but rather are damped by attachments of the usual dampers.

When the water in paint media touches parchment's surface, the collagen melts slightly, forming a raised bed for the paint, a quality highly prized by some artists.

At the very bottom of the face, there may be a trough, and further seaward one or more long shore bars: slightly raised, underwater embankments formed where the waves first start to break.

The final solution to prevent the collapse of the tower was to slightly straighten the tower to a safer angle, by removing 38 cubic meters ( 50 cubic yards ) of soil from underneath the raised end.

Compound nevi are slightly raised and brown to black.

Charbroiling, or chargrilling outside North America, refers to grilling on a surface with wide raised ridges, to the point of having the food slightly charred in texture.

Although their form was variable, basilicas often contained interior colonnades that divided the space, giving aisles or arcaded spaces on one or both sides, with an apse at one end ( or less often at each end ), where the magistrates sat, often on a slightly raised dais.

There has been a settlement at Perth since prehistoric times, on a natural mound raised slightly above the flood plain of the Tay, where the river could be crossed at low tide.

Perth's Pictish name, and some archaeological evidence, indicate that there must have been a settlement here from earlier times, probably at a point where a river crossing or crossings coincided with a slightly raised natural mound on the west bank of the Tay ( which at Perth flows north-south ), thus giving some protection for settlement from the frequent flooding.

Most have slightly abnormal liver function tests such as a raised aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase and bilirubin level.

Flea bites generally result in the formation of a slightly raised, swollen itching spot with a single puncture point at the center ( similar to a mosquito bite ).

The Metropolitan's sculpture of a heroically nude helmeted warrior stands on a forward-slanting base, looking down and slightly to his left, with his right arm raised, prepared to strike, would not be identifiable, save by comparison made by Gisela Richter with a torso of the same model and its associated slanting base, schematically carved as the prow of a ship encircled by waves: Protesilaus about to jump ashore.

Doubts have also been raised periodically about whether the entire Life is a forgery, written by a slightly later writer, but it is now almost universally accepted as genuine.

To make a plain piece of cloth, every other warp thread is raised slightly.

Across the nation, black churches raised money to support the boycott and collected new and slightly used shoes to replace the tattered footwear of Montgomery's black citizens, many of whom walked everywhere rather than ride the buses and submit to Jim Crow laws.

To enter, Casey raised his age slightly, adopting his brother's 7 June birthday.

The " I " was raised slightly.

The changes to federal law enacted in 1983 and signed by President Reagan and pursuant to the recommendations of the Greenspan Commission advanced the time frame for previously scheduled payroll tax increases ( though it raised slightly the payroll tax for the self-employed to equal the employer-employee rate ), changed certain benefit calculations, and raised the retirement age to 67 by the year 2027.

The fund raising environment remained stable for the third year running in 2011 with $ 270bn in new funds raised, slightly down on the previous year ’ s total.

The result is a design that is slightly raised on the surface of the paper and covered in ink.

The smooth batter is fried in butter resulting in a slightly raised flat cake.

Matamangos was also on slightly raised ground and was located near a small group of Maya house mounds.

under me the ground quivered slightly.

Then, not long before the finish, the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ), organizers of the Le Mans event, informed Ford that the geographical difference in starting positions would be taken into account at a close finish – meaning that the McLaren / Amon vehicle, which had started perhaps behind the Hulme-Miles car, would have covered slightly more ground over the 24 hours and would therefore be the winner.

The supporting foot touches the ground slightly ahead of the point that lies directly below the body's centre of mass.

Each had clearly been worked with the final visual effect in mind ; the orthostats widen slightly towards the top in order that their perspective remains constant when viewed from the ground, while the lintel stones curve slightly to continue the circular appearance of the earlier monument.

After 1143 the war ground on, but progressing slightly better for Stephen.

A positive voltage slightly lower than the plate ( anode ) voltage was applied to it, and was bypassed ( for high frequencies ) to ground with a capacitor.

By being mainly located slightly above, on or beneath the ground, a mass driver may be easier to maintain compared with many other structures of non-rocket spacelaunch.

* Wait, J. R., " Appendix C: On the theory of ground wave propagation over a slightly roughned curved earth ", Electromagnetic Probing in Geophysics.

Two general types of ground glass joints are fairly commonly used: joints that are slightly conically-tapered and ball and socket joints ( sometimes called spherical joints ).

The Molniya orbit is designed so that the satellite spends the great majority of its time over the far northern latitudes, during which its ground footprint moves only slightly.

When air at ground level is heated, it begins to rise, moving up past steep high mountain ranges, which then cools slightly, sinking back down towards the valley more compressed.

A TTL input signal is defined as " low " when between 0 V and 0. 8 V with respect to the ground terminal, and " high " when between 2. 2 V and 5 V ( precise logic levels vary slightly between sub-types and by temperature ).

Travelling south away from the waterfront, the ground rises: Shooters Hill in the east and the high ground of Blackheath in the west bookend the borough, Eltham to the south of these hills falls away slightly.

After 1143 the war ground on, but progressing slightly better for Stephen.

Herring ’ s machine lifted ever so slightly off the ground and actually flew for seven seconds.

A length of live track left on the ground will curl upward slightly at each end.

It consists of 23 bays with a giant Corinthian order over a rusticated ground floor, the five bays at each end project slightly from the facade.

Spark plugs are typically designed to have a spark gap which can be adjusted by the technician installing the spark plug, by bending the ground electrode slightly.

Herbivorous to slightly omnivorous galliforms, comprising the majority of the group, are typically stoutly built and have short thick bills primarily adapted for foraging on the ground for rootlets or the consumption of other plant material such as heather shoots.

St Neots lies close to the south-western boundary of Huntingdonshire District, in the valley of the River Great Ouse, partly on the flood plain and partly on slightly higher ground a little further from the water.

The ground floor has a blocked gateway and to the right of the gateway is a slightly projecting stair turret.

Unlike the New Mexico segment of the boundary, which depended partly on unknown geography, " in order to preclude all difficulty in tracing upon the ground the limit separating Upper from Lower California ", a straight line was drawn from the mouth of the Gila to one marine league south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego, slightly north of the previous Mexican provincial boundary at Playas de Rosarito.

In a simple wooden wheel, a load on the hub causes the wheel rim to flatten slightly against the ground as the lowermost wooden spoke shortens and compresses.