Despite its military strength, the Qin Dynasty did not last long.

After a period of increasingly exhaustive warfare, Qi, Qin, Jin and Chu met at a disarmament conference in 579 BC and agreed to declare a truce to limit their military strength.

The Qin managed to breach the defences once but did not have the strength or equipment to exploit it ; nonetheless, the Qin refused to leave.

At the beginning of the Warring States Period, Zhao was one of the weakest states but gained strength during the reign of King Wuling of Zhao: by the end of the period, Zhao was the only state strong enough to oppose the mighty Qin.

In 579 the four great powers of Qin ( west ), Jin ( center ), Chu ( south ) and Qi ( east ) met to declare a truce and limit their military strength.

As the years went by, Liu Yu gradually concentrated more and more power in his hands, destroying rivals including Liu Yi ( 劉毅 ), Zhuge Zhangmin ( 諸葛長民 ), and Sima Xiuzhi ( 司馬休之 ), while greatly showing his strength in campaigns destroying rival states Southern Yan, Western Shu, and Later Qin.

The Chu armies, led by Xiang Yan, used their full strength to launch an offensive on the Qin camp but failed.

During Huiwen's reign, Qin became very powerful in terms of its military strength, and constantly invaded neighbouring states as part of its expansionism policy.

Sima Cuo proposed that Qin should use its superior army to annex Shu, develop its resources and use the added strength for a later attack eastward.

As the movement began to gain popularity, the Partisans gained strength from Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Slovenes, and Macedonians who believed in a unified, but federal, Yugoslav state.

NIST guidelines state that ECC keys should be twice the length of equivalent strength symmetric key algorithms.

The central uplift is not the result of elastic rebound, which is a process in which a material with elastic strength attempts to return to its original geometry ; rather the collapse is a process in which a material with little or no strength attempts to return to a state of gravitational equilibrium.

The state provides these forms because it has an interest in the strength of the companies that provide jobs and services therein, but also has an interest in monitoring and regulating their behavior.

In 19th century Europe, the length of civil wars fell significantly, largely due to the nature of the conflicts as battles for the power center of the state, the strength of centralized governments, and the normally quick and decisive intervention by other states to support the government.

At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

After gaining the purple, Julian started a religious reformation of the state, which was intended to restore the lost strength of the Roman state.

The occurrence of such a change from an aligned to a deformed state is called a Freedericksz transition and can also be produced by the application of a magnetic field of sufficient strength.

Although developmental debates took place within the Workers ' Party of Korea in the 1950s, North Korea, like all the postwar communist states, undertook massive state investment in heavy industry, state infrastructure and military strength, neglecting the production of consumer goods.

Western Australia's one-vote-one-value reforms will cut the number of rural seats in the state assembly to reflect the rural population level: this, coupled with the Liberals ' strength in country areas has put the Nationals under significant pressure.

It was in charge of demographics concerns and of empowering the population, which, according to mercantilist theory, was to be the main strength of the state.

At one time VB sold twice as much as any other full strength beer and was the only Australian beer brand that is in the top 3 sellers in every state.

Weak is a generic adjective pertaining to a general state of feebleness, a lack of strength, durability, or vigor.

In many countries, the Head of government is commissioned by the Head of state to form a government, on the basis of the strength of party support in the lower house, in some other states directly elected by parliament.

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

Lakoff argues that the differences in opinions between liberals and conservatives follow from the fact that they subscribe with different strength to two different metaphors about the relationship of the state to its citizens.

A number of factors have been shown by Arvind and Stirton to have had a determinative role in the decision by the German states to receive the Code, including territorial concerns, Napoleonic control and influence, the strength of central state institutions, a feudal economy and society, rule by liberal ( enlightened despotism ) rulers, nativism ( local patriotism ) among the governing elites, and popular anti-French sentiment.

God has given us strength to stand out against this storm ; we have finally surmounted the waves and made our port of safety ,— peace for our state.

The strength of hydrogen bonds depends on their environment, thus H-bonds enveloped in a hydrophobic core contribute more than H-bonds exposed to the aqueous environment to the stability of the native state.

Originally a state fair was just a competitive exhibition of livestock in various competitions, the display of farm products which were not necessarily for sale, and the competition among various fair goers and participants in such categories as handicrafts, baked goods, jams and jellies, etc., but has since been expanded to include carnival amusement rides and games, music, races, tests of strength and skill, etc.

He had strength in his six-foot frame, but it was like the tensile steel in a rapier.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

He was a loud-voiced man, once vigorous but for many years now declining in strength and ability.

It was recognized that skywave signals, because of their reflected nature, are of great variability and subject to wide fluctuations in strength.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

These dosages could have been increased by increasing the source strength which was small in this case.

Paper electrophoresis was carried out on the concentrated samples in a Spinco model R cell using barbital buffer, pH 8.6, ionic strength 0.075, at room temperature on Whatman 3MM filter paper.

Since the strength of the Mexicans had been underrated, too small a posse had been collected, and since the deputy had not been provided with search warrants, MacPherson and his men decided it was much wiser to withdraw.

Captain Chandler saw that it was building up strength.

Taking precedence over all other legislation on Capitol Hill last week was the military strength of the nation.

Each subject center library was chosen because of its demonstrated strength in a particular area, which headquarters could then build upon.

My message, today, is the same as it was 15 years ago: that there is goodness in people, and strength and love in God.

One item in this unhappy scheme was to have Germany policed exclusively by its continental neighbors, among whom only the Soviet Union possessed real military strength.

Maggie couldn't seem to get her strength back or catch up with herself with all she had to do: there was the big basket of clothes to be coaxed through the rackety old washer and lugged out and lugged back ; ;

He mumbled at her but let himself be led off inside the house, shuffling mightily to make it clear how weak and aged he was and how he was buffeted about by those who still had their wicked strength.

The day's sun was gathering its strength in gold, and she wished she had brought her parasol, if only to shade Doaty's flowers.

Or, what was worse, she prayed for him out loud at bedtime: `` Please, Lord Gord, please give my brother the strength to go swimming like he promised ''.

It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.

" Splendid it is ," was the travelers reply, " but methinks not it confers much strength.

More than six feet tall ( about 1. 9 m ), he was also noted for his immense physical strength.

The father of Abu Bakr asked him to for why doesn't he liberate strong and young slaves who could be a source of strength for him, Abu Bakr replied that he was freeing the slaves for the sake of God, and not for his own sake.

In Sparta, Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical strength and military intelligence was unrivaled.