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In Roman and medieval times, ships tended to dock at small quays in the present-day city of London or Southwark, an area known as the Pool of London.
They also tended to toward stereotyping: typically, a small group of ethnically diverse men would come together but would not be developed much beyond their ethnicity ; the senior officer would often be unreasonable and unyielding ; almost anyone sharing personal information-especially plans for returning home-would die shortly thereafter and anyone acting in a cowardly or unpatriotic manner would convert to heroism or die ( or both, in quick succession ).
Another small-scale industry on the island was kauri gum digging, while dairy farming and sheep farming have tended to play a small role compared to the usual New Zealand practice.
The Italian solo cantata tended, when on a large scale, to become indistinguishable from a scene in an opera, in the same way the church cantata, solo or choral, is indistinguishable from a small oratorio or portion of an oratorio.
Many rural folk and some townspeople tended a small garden which produced vegetables such as asparagus, cucumbers, spinach, lettuce, beans, cabbage, carrots, leeks, and peas, as well as medicinal and flavoring herbs.
Like Ruskin, Arts and Crafts artists tended to oppose the division of labor and to prefer craft production, in which the whole item was made and assembled by an individual or small group.
Large states, as Benjamin Franklin observed, were prone to becoming tyrannies, while small states, correspondingly, tended to become corrupt.
Built-in wall closets were uncommon and where they did exist, they tended to be small and shallow.
In the 2000s, Aykroyd's film appearances have tended to be small character parts in big-budget productions, such as a signals analyst in Pearl Harbor and a neurologist in 50 First Dates.
The US scene tended to feature small MG and Porsche cars in the smaller classes, and imported Jaguar, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Allard and Ferrari cars in the larger classes.
As the French car industry switched from making large powerful cars to small utilitarian ones, French sports cars of the 1950s and early 1960s tended to be small-capacity and highly aerodynamic ( often based on Panhard or Renault components ), aimed at winning the " Index of Performance " at Le Mans and Reims and triumphing in handicap races.
From the Middle Ages many panel paintings took the diptych form, as small portable works for personal use ; large altarpieces tended to be made in triptych form, with two outer panels that could be closed across the main central representation.
This was in no small part influenced by England's Puritan flavour at the time, and resulted in a traditional cuisine which tended to veer from strong flavours, such as garlic, and an avoidance of complex sauces which were commonly associated with Catholic Continental political affiliations.
The Catholic Church had always dealt sternly with heresy, but before the 12th century these tended to centre around individual preachers or small localised sects.
It has a small garden that was tended by Marie Antoinette when she spent her summers in the city.
" Finally, kibbutzim, as small, isolated communities, tended to be places of gossip, exacerbated by lack of privacy and the regimented work and leisure schedules.
Every year a small garden at the base of the cross is lovingly tended by the small town's garden club.
Cherokee tribesmen, who often survived by growing crops, and tended to live in small villages, were in many ways more domesticated than other Native American tribes.
The small landowning deghans were favored over the high nobles because they tended to be more trustworthy and owned their loyalty to the Shah for their position in the bureaucracy.
Reports from passengers tended to confirm the idea that some sort of antimissile defence system had been deployed ; eyewitnesses reported seeing a small explosion above one of the plane's wings, suggesting that decoy flares had been fired.
The small, cone-shaped re-entry vehicles in multiple-warhead ballistic missiles after 1970 tended to have warheads with spherical secondaries, and yields of a few hundred kilotons.
Freud's early paintings, which are mostly very small, are often associated with German Expressionism ( an influence he tended to deny ) and Surrealism in depicting people, plants and animals in unusual juxtapositions.
But, dBase tended to be used for custom internal applications for small and medium companies where the lack of protection against copying, as compared to compiled software, was often less of an issue.

small and fields
Simultaneously we should be underlining the interrelationships of technical progress in various fields, showing how agricultural training can be introduced into education, how health affects labor productivity, how small business can benefit the rural farm community, and, above all, how progress in each field relates to national progress.
It is used in those fields which require a unit for the expression of small angles, such as astronomy, ophthalmology, navigation and marksmanship.
In recent years the Island's residents have been attempting to diversify the area economy by investing in tourism developments, call centres, and small businesses, as well as manufacturing ventures in such fields as auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and window glazings.
This class was small and specialized in fields such as medicine, accounting, etc.
The simple groups of low 2-rank are mostly groups of Lie type of small rank over fields of odd characteristic, together with five alternating and seven characteristic 2 type and nine sporadic groups.
This gives a rather large number of different cases to check: there are not only 26 sporadic groups and 16 families of groups of Lie type and the alternating groups, but also many of the groups of small rank or over small fields behave differently from the general case and have to be treated separately, and the groups of Lie type of even and odd characteristic are also quite different.
The conceptual charge, termed a ' test charge ', must be vanishingly small to prevent its own electric field disturbing the main field and must also be stationary to prevent the effect of magnetic fields.
* Bennington College-a small, liberal arts school with a self-designed baccalaureate program described as the " Plan Process " in which students collaborate with faculty to establish their own requirements, often across many fields.
However, this effect is very weak, because the magnetic fields generated by individual spins are small and the resulting alignment is easily destroyed by thermal fluctuations.
The material can reduce this energy by splitting into many domains pointing in different directions, so the magnetic field is confined to small local fields in the material, reducing the volume of the field.
The use of cadency marks to difference arms within the same family and the use of semy fields are distinctive features of Gallo-British heraldry ( in Scotland the most significant mark of cadency being the bordure, the small brisures playing a very minor role ).
Hall sensors can detect stray magnetic fields easily, including that of Earth, so they work well as electronic compasses: but this also means that such stray fields can hinder accurate measurements of small magnetic fields.
Many other small, rural centres are served by private fields on sugar estates or bauxite mines.
The abbreviation cc is still commonly used in many fields including medical dosage and sizing for small combustion engine displacement, such as those used in motorcycles.
Typically, gravitational fields change only slightly over short distances, and the Earth ’ s field is nearly uniform at all locations on the Earth ’ s surface ; therefore, an object ’ s weight changes only slightly when it is moved from one location to another, and these small changes went unnoticed through much of history.
However, because the writing field in ion-beam lithography is quite small, large area patterns must be created by stitching together the small fields.
Much of the terrain forms a morass, with ponds, marshes and fields as common features, with small forests interspersed.
The Mohist canon of the Mo Jing described various aspects of many fields associated with physical science, and provided a small wealth of information on mathematics as well.
Neodymium magnets appear in products such as microphones, professional loudspeakers, in-ear headphones, guitar and bass guitar pick-ups and computer hard disks where low mass, small volume, or strong magnetic fields are required.
The bocage is a patchwork of small fields with high hedges, typical of western areas.

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