The dividend yield of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is obtained from the annual dividends of all 30 companies in the average divided by their cumulative stock price, has also been considered to be an important indicator of the strength of the U. S. stock market.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

Composite clippers had the strength of iron spars with wooden hulls, and copper sheathing could be added to prevent the fouling that occurred on iron hulls.

Faced with this strength, Loudoun returned to New York amid news that a massacre had occurred at Fort William Henry.

The decline of river piracy occurred, over time, as a result of direct military action taken and the combined strength of local law enforcement and regulator-vigilante groups that uprooted and swept out pockets of outlaw resistance.

In any case, no tribal identity is cut in stone, and over the centuries a great deal of intermarriage and tribal re-affiliation has occurred to blur former ethnic / cultural lines ; groups have often seamlessly re-identified to higher status identities, after achieving the military or economic strength to defeat former rulers.

Schmorl's nodes often cause no symptoms, but may simply reflect that " wear and tear " of the spine has occurred over time ; they may also reflect that bone strength was at one time somewhat compromised, perhaps due to a vitamin D deficiency, although this has yet to be confirmed with studies.

Perhaps the most infamous incident occurred in December 1983 when Spain, needing to win by eleven goals to qualify for the Euro 1984 ahead of the Netherlands, defeated Malta by a score of 12-1 on the strength of nine second half goals.

This last occurred on the recommendation of Professor Slocombe, who stated that Jim possessed great strength of belief in his convictions, as demonstrated by him constantly making bets by trusting his instincts even if Bob the Bookie feels he is making a mistake.

The tunnels are mostly lined with segments of extremely high strength concrete but are not protected against spalling, which occurred here and reduced the concrete to a thickness of 50 millimetres.

Meanwhile, the value of patrolling in depth and in sufficient strength to disrupt Viet Cong efforts to concentrate their forces was also emphasised and while no change to the pattern of Australian operations occurred, when a significant engagement was possible patrols would be required to be a minimum of company-size and platoons and companies would be required to operate close enough to reinforce each other rapidly to prevent a sub-unit from becoming isolated.

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The second battalion occurred in February 1943 when the regiment's strength reached 700 men.

There were claims that the Front had sufficient strength to officially register, but no registration occurred.

The bridges design and strength were of releavnt to higher water flow prior to the construction of the pipehead dam, as significant flooding occurred in the early and mid twentieth century.

The last major eruption of Nevado de Toluca occurred in 10. 5 ka BP, as the volcano erupted a total estimated volume of 14 km < sup > 3 </ sup > for a VEI strength of 6 ( comparable to the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo ).

He compares this situation to that of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, where there was initially great resistance to acceptance despite the strength of the evidence.

However, matches involving different weight divisions are often created and are never referred to as unusual or against any rules, despite large differences in height, weight or strength.

Stalin increased mobilization, and by 1 August 1941, despite 46 divisions lost in combat, the Red Army's strength was 401 divisions.

The islands lie outside the hurricane belt ; despite this, Hurricane Flora damaged Tobago in 1963, and Tropical Storm Alma hit Trinidad in 1974, causing damage before obtaining full strength.

Tests carried out on the vertical stabilizers from the accident aircraft, and from another similar aircraft, found that the strength of the composite material had not been compromised, and the NTSB concluded that the material had failed because it had been stressed beyond its design limit, despite ten previous recorded incidents where A300 tail fins had been stressed beyond their design limitation in which none resulted in the separation of the vertical stabilizer in-flight.

In the post – Cold War world of the 21st-century, the French Socialist politician Hubert Védrine describes the USA as a hegemonic hyperpower, while the U. S. political scientists John Mearsheimer and Joseph Nye counter that the USA is not a “ true ” hegemony, because it does not have the resources to impose a proper, formal, global rule ; despite its political and military strength, the USA is economically equal to Europe, thus, cannot rule the international stage.

My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability ".

On the strength of his family name, and despite his extreme nearsightedness and poor health history, he was admitted to the highly selective institution.

" In early 1973, despite mediocre Law School Admission Test scores, Bundy was accepted into the law schools of UPS and the University of Utah on the strength of letters of recommendation from Evans, Davis, and several UW psychology professors.

However, not everyone able to manifest a Stand has the ability to control it ; despite her father Joseph Joestar and her son Jotaro Kujo being powerful Stand users, Holly Kujo, due to her lack of physical strength and resolve, is brought to the brink of death by her Stand, sapping away her lifeforce in an attempt to manifest itself.

Achduke Charles did make considerable efforts to rebuild his army and, despite the slow arrival of reinforcements, by the end of June, it was close to full strength again.

Unlike Varro, he was prudent and cautious, and he believed it was foolish to fight on open ground, despite the Romans ' numerical strength.

Simon Dunstan notes that despite the fact that Israel continued to hold the Bar Lev Line, the war ’ s conclusion " led to a dangerous complacency within the Israeli High Command about the resolve of the Egyptian armed forces and the strength of the Bar-Lev Line.

The album The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, co-produced by Lea and Punter was also released in December but despite the strength of " My Oh My ", had only made number 74 by the end of the year.

In 1939, Rabbi Philip R. Alstat, an early leader of Conservative Judaism, spoke and wrote about the lesson of hope that the festival of Passover could give to the Jewish people, despite the rising power of Nazism in Europe: he counseled hope, and even gratitude, as part of Jewish strength to withstand the pain of events in Europe:

During the mid-and late-1970s, and despite an otherwise sluggish economy, Hardee's saw rapid chain growth and high profits on the strength of its two key sandwiches: the " Big Twin " ( a two-patty burger using a distinctive cheese and sauce combination ) and the " Big Deluxe " ( a single, wide quarter-pound burger with a unique, tangy mayonnaise ).

August was 1. 76 meters ( 5 ’ 9½ ”) tall, above average height for that time, but despite his extraordinary physical strength, he did not look big.

Yet despite the criticism Du Bellay grudgingly gave praise for the respect George Boleyn inspired at the meeting and the strength with which he argued the case.

As Democrats gained overwhelming strength over the years, Martin managed to hold on to his House seat despite ongoing redistricting.

They are portrayed as a type of djinn, and are depicted as especially dim-witted despite their strength, both of which are at odds with the typical mainstream depiction of these entities.

He was known throughout Europe as a strong and able leader, a hearty warrior, and looked to by the Catholic world as a bastion of strength against the English crown, despite his conversion to the Protestant faith.

", reach No. 21 and No. 8 respectively in the UK singles chart despite not even being released in that country – they got there purely on the strength of the huge number of people buying import sales of the German and Dutch single releases.

" Thomas L. Connelly, historian of the Army of Tennessee, wrote that despite the imposing appearance of Lookout Mountain, " the mountain's strength was a myth.

Yet, despite this, his true strength is described as something more primal, more primitive, and animalistic.

Like all ecological interactions, commensalisms vary in strength and duration from intimate, long-lived symbioses to brief, weak interactions through intermediaries.

The factor limiting the strength of electromagnets is the inability to dissipate the enormous waste heat, so more powerful fields, up to 100 T, have been obtained from resistive magnets by sending brief pulses of current through them.

Following a brief interlude by Croatian writer Darko Macan, the series was then taken over by Brian Azzarello, once again hired on the strength of his own series for Vertigo, 100 Bullets.

After a brief refit in Egypt where the Division's battalions were being brought back up to strength, the Division was dispatched to Mesopotamia ( modern day Iraq ), as reinforcements for Anglo-Indian forces attempting to relief the siege of Kut.

" forms the basis for inferring the strength of the response as opposed to a weak, brief " Chomsky ".

Temporary Residence Limited signed the band on the strength of their demo after only half a listen ; the demo was submitted by fellow Austin band The American Analog Set with a brief note saying, " This totally fucking destroys.

Some machines incorporate a feature called two-level claw power, which, when enabled, causes the claw to at first grip at full strength, but then weaken its grip to the normal level after a brief delay.

Formally described, it alternates slow sections in a modal F with faster sections, " Neue Kraft fühlend " ( with renewed strength ), in D. The slow sections each have two elements, ( 1 ) a passage reminiscent of the opening of the first movement in which the instruments overlap each other with a brief motive ; ( 2 ) a chorale, the actual song.

The division's respite was brief as in mid-August, with its battalions restored to about two-thirds strength, it returned to the line on Pozières ridge, relieving the Australian 4th Division and continuing the painful progress towards Mouquet Farm ( the Battle of Mouquet Farm ).

A mile to the west is Boulby Cliff where, for a brief period, alum, a mineral used to improve the strength and permanency of colour when dying cloth, was mined.