The inhibition of the enzyme by very low concentrations of lanthanum ion is probably the strongest known biological effect of rare earth salts.

While the wasted vote effect is strongest when a party wins by narrow margins across multiple districts, gerrymandering narrow margins can be risky when voters are less predictable.

Although she was in the top 20, this had the effect of her being invited less frequently to the strongest tournaments.

Since the strongest teams in men's volleyball at the time belonged to the Eastern Bloc, the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics did not have as great an effect on these events as it had on the women's.

The effect is strongest with smooth surfaces such as water, but reflections from roads and the ground are also reduced.

The placebo effect is highly variable in its magnitude and reliability and is typically strongest in measures of subjective symptoms ( e. g., pain ) and typically weak-to-nonexistent in objective measures of health points ( e. g., blood pressure, infection clearance ).

The diagram illustrates that on all latitudes the effective gravitational acceleration is decreased by the requirement of providing a centripetal force ; the decreasing effect is strongest on the equator.

The cumulative effect is objective, textural and highly controlled, with the strongest possible value contrasts in the medium.

His eloquence was of that nature, in its impassioned appeals to the strongest emotions, that it required for its full effect the highest themes and the most dramatic situations.

/ i / vowel contexts produce the strongest effect, while / a / produces a moderate effect, and / u / has almost no effect.

This analysis found that the effect is strongest when unfamiliar stimuli are presented briefly.

The fraternal birth order effect is the strongest known predictor of sexual orientation, with each older brother increasing a man's odds of being homosexual by approximately 33 %.

# The internal space charge field, via the electro-optic effect, causes the refractive index of the crystal to change in the regions where the field is strongest.

Though many other artists used the same technique, Harunobu is generally regarded as having used it to the strongest effect.

The new psychically-attuned races ' darker impulses had a devastating effect upon the Immaterium: their emotional emissions bled into it, twisting the once peaceful dimension into a violent realm, fueled by their strongest ( and usually darkest ) emotions, giving the Immaterium a new name, the Warp.

Participants who engaged in a gratitude exercise showed increases in their experiences of positive emotion immediately after the exercise, and this effect was strongest for participants who were asked to think about a person for whom they were grateful.

The effect is strongest, however, when the colors are complementary, such as red and green, and blue and orange.

The repeated infusions of feeding enzyme has an addictive effect and bends the victim to the Wraith's will, though only the strongest survive the process.

The catastrophic effects of this policy, and the negative effect it had on Soviet security, was to be fully demonstrated by Adolf Hitler's seizure of power in Germany in 1933, followed by the destruction of the German Communist Party, the strongest in Europe.

The lake effect is usually strongest from mid-fall through mid-winter, when lake waters are warmer and land temperatures are cold enough to support snow.

In 1980, many of the strongest teams in men's volleyball belonged to the Eastern Bloc, so the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics did not have as great an effect on these events as it had on the women's.

They find that a neighborhood effect is the strongest determinant of which countries suffer from contagion.

`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.

Paradoxically the council is weakest in areas that register 4- and 5-to-1 in the party's favor, strongest where Democrats and Republicans compete on a fairly even basis.

Doubt on this point is strongest before /l/ and AAb/ or /r/.

Whitey Herzog, performing in right as the Orioles fielded possibly their strongest team of the spring, worked Keegan for a base on balls.

After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one's self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest.

* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

Bad Ems is in Rhineland-Palatinate, on the northwestern boundary of Alemannic settlement, where Frankish influence would have been strongest.

He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Aegean Greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the Hellespont.

Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.

Each year, hundreds of Collegiate a cappella groups submit their strongest songs in a competition to be on The Best of College A Cappella ( BOCA ), an album compilation of tracks from the best college a cappella groups around the world.

" He later goes on to claim that the anti-globalization movement has failed to attract widespread support from poor and working people from the Third World, and that its " strongest and most uncomprehending critics had always been the workers whose liberation from employment they were trying to secure.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

In both the Olympic and BWF World competitions restrictions on the number of participants from any one country have caused some controversy because they sometimes result in excluding elite world level players from the strongest badminton nations.

The strongest recorded earthquakes in the region occurred on 5 April 1959, with its epicentre at Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye and a recorded intensity of 6. 5 at Barcelonnette, and on 17 February 1947, with its epicentre at Prazzo over the Italian border.

According to the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom in 2012, Chile has the strongest private property rights in Latin America, scoring 90 on a scale of 100.

The setting of Call of Cthulhu is a darker version of our world, based on H. P. Lovecraft's observation ( from his short essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature ) that " The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

" Stating that he had originally been strong and healthy, he continued, " life on a destroyer in winter, with bad food, no comforts, would sap the powers of the strongest men in the long run.

Stoiber, on the other hand favors a more conservative approach to both fiscal and social matters, and while this ensures him the religious vote, strongest in Bavaria, it has weakened his support at the national level.

From June 2007 on, data indicated a moderate La Niña event, which strengthened in early 2008 and weakened before the start of 2009 ; the 2007 – 2008 La Niña event was the strongest since the 1988 – 1989 event.

The historical, continental rationalism expounded by René Descartes is often regarded as antithetical to empiricism, while some contemporary rationalists assert that reason is strongest when it is supported by or consistent with empirical evidence and hence relies heavily on empirical science in analyzing justifications for belief.

The Helsinki Guard, the strongest Red unit with its crucial strategic position in the capital of Finland had already become active on 23 – 25 January, aiming to secure a major power base for the Reds.

The first and strongest, at El Alamein on the coast, had been partly wired and mined by 1st South African Division.

Dodd proposes that historians may mix and match between John and the synoptics on the basis of whichever appears strongest on a particular episode.