Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

Such as now, when she sat at a table in the coffee shop at the Officers' Club, having coffee and a hamburger to sustain her until dinnertime.

and Nagaoka himself recognized a fundamental defect in the theory even at its conception, namely that a classical charged object cannot sustain orbital motion because it is accelerating and therefore loses energy due to electromagnetic radiation.

The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.

Cyril was clearly held with high regard by many members of the Church and was able to sustain his place in the History of Jerusalem, despite serious charges and punishments that included banish for years at a time from his position and his city of Jerusalem.

A variety of definitions exist: F. Stuart Chapin and coauthors define it as " the application of ecological science to resource management to promote long-term sustainability of ecosystems and the delivery of essential ecosystem goods and services ", while Norman Christensen and coauthors defined it as " management driven by explicit goals, executed by policies, protocols, and practices, and made adaptable by monitoring and research based on our best understanding of the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystem structure and function " and Peter Brussard and colleagues defined it as " managing areas at various scales in such a way that ecosystem services and biological resources are preserved while appropriate human use and options for livelihood are sustained ".

Of note, Botham's first 202 wickets came at 21. 20 per wicket, while his final 181 cost on average 36. 43 apiece ; the first average is one that would make Botham one of the greatest bowlers of the modern era, ranking alongside the West Indian greats Curtly Ambrose ( career average 20. 99 ), Malcolm Marshall ( career average 20. 94 ), and Joel Garner ( career average 20. 97 ), but the second average depicts a player who, as a specialist bowler, would be unable to sustain a place in many Test teams.

Named after the Greek goddess Gaia at the suggestion of novelist William Golding, the hypothesis postulates that the biosphere has a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that acts to sustain life.

DNA may sustain more than 50, 000 damages per cell per day, and some estimates put the number of oxidative adducts per cell generated through reactive reactive oxidative species at 150, 000.

This was the centre of evangelical experience, which women in turn placed at the heart of their work to sustain family life.

In 2004, scientists at the University of Utah and Harvard University hypothesized that the ability of humans to sustain long-distance endurance running may have been instrumental in the evolution of the human form.

Being outnumbered and taking heavy casualties, the Romans refused to engage in an open battle and instead adopted a scorched earth policy which reduced and demoralized the Judean populace, slowly grinding away at the will of the Judeans to sustain the war.

The essence of ‘ sustained yield forestry ’ was described for example by William A. Duerr, a leading American expert on forestry: “ To fulfill our obligations to our descendents and to stabilize our communities, each generation should sustain its resources at a high level and hand them along undiminished.

Opponents of a 100 %- reserve standard consider a 100 %- reserve standard difficult to implement, saying that the quantity of gold in the world is too small to sustain current worldwide economic activity at current gold prices ; implementation would entail a many-fold increase in the price of gold.

" In a speech at Cannes about L ' Avventura, Antonioni said that in the modern age of reason and science, mankind still lives by " a rigid and stereotyped morality which all of us recognize as such and yet sustain out of cowardice and sheer laziness ".

These boats routinely sail at or above wind speeds and can sustain mid-speeds hour after hour.

This provides the rich mixture required to sustain operation at low engine temperatures.

There was even enough interest in Group C to sustain a C2 championship for a few years ; at ' club ' level Modified Sports Car (" ModSports ") and Production Sports Car (" ProdSports ") races remained a feature of most British race meetings into the 1980s, evolving into a " Special GT " series that was essentially Formula Libre for sports or saloon cars.

To maximize the sustain of the bars, the holes are placed at approximately the nodal points of the bar, i. e. the points of minimum amplitude around which the bar is vibrating.

The ability to sustain a lucrative business in bootlegging liquor was largely helped by the minimal police surveillance at the time.

Staphylinids can also tear open the pupal cases of flies, to sustain themselves at a corpse for long periods.

Anything at or below that level does not constitute war potential .” Apparently when the SDF was created, “ since the capability of the SDF was inadequate to sustain a modern war, it was not war potential .” Seemingly, the Japanese government has looked for loopholes in the wording of the peace clause and the “ constitutionality of the Japanese military has been challenged numerous times .” Some Japanese people believe that Japan should be truly pacifist and claim that the SDF is unconstitutional.

But he also praised the achievement of the CCP in bringing economic progress and prosperity ; at one point he even alluded to the Tiananmen Square massacre and take it as an example to sustain his point that freedom should be obtained through " cleverer " means, rather than mass revolutions that could result in numerous deaths.

Aside from the people who climb to form the upper parts of the tower, others are needed to form the pinya, or bottom base of the castell, to sustain its weight.

Page's also has one-piece mahogany necks rather than the current three-piece maple, and has tailpieces positioned near the bottom of the body, reportedly increasing sustain, and Patent No. or T-Top humbucking pickups.

There are also a number of abbreviations and notations used exclusively or almost exclusively in handbell music: LV (" laissez vibrer " or " let vibrate ," similar to a piano's sustain pedal ); R (" ring ," regular ringing or meaning to end the LV ); SK (" shake ," i. e. shaking the bell continuously during the duration of the note ); TD (" thumb damp " — ringing the bell with a thumb on the casting to create a staccato note ); PL (" pluck ," which means to throw down the clapper while the bell lies on the table ); a small, solid triangle (" martellato " — to strike bell against padding of the table, pushing the casting firmly against padding as to quickly dampen sound ); SW (" swing " — to play the bell in a normal position, swing it down to the waist, then bring it back up ); BD (" brush damp ," brushing the rim of the bell against the ringer's chest to cause a quick diminuendo ); and an upward arrow, usually with a curve at the bottom (" echo ," — ringing the bell and then touching it very briefly to the table, creating an echo effect ).

The bottom line of the MA findings is that human actions are depleting Earth ’ s natural capital, putting such strain on the environment that the ability of the planet ’ s ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted.

At the end of the drought, the programs which were implemented during these tough times helped to sustain a positive relationship between America ’ s farmers and the federal government.

Factors for the great population growth include the impact of Dutch colonial rule including the imposed end to civil war in Java, the increase in the area under rice cultivation, and the introduction of food plants such as casava and maize which could sustain populations that could not afford rice.

Mutual confidence will sustain us to the end!

In the story Sesō, Oda described the first months of the occupation period following Japan's surrender to end World War II which were marked by food shortages so severe that government rations were not enough even to sustain life: people were forced to turn to the black market just to procure the food they needed for their own survival.

Brain death is the irreversible end of all brain activity ( including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life ) due to total necrosis of the cerebral neurons following loss of brain oxygenation.

Surprisingly, despite predictable tail winds that blow up the Himalayas ( in the same direction of travel as the geese ), bar-headed geese spurn these winds, waiting for them to die down overnight, when they then undertake the greatest rates of climbing flight ever recorded for a bird, and sustain these climbs rates for hours on end.

President Wilson agreed to this, in the belief that such cooperation would sustain continued good relations with Germany, and that more efficient German-American diplomacy could assist Wilson's goal of a negotiated end to the war.

Footprint values at the end of a survey are categorized for Carbon, Food, Housing, and Goods and Services as well as the total footprint number of Earths needed to sustain the world's population at that level of consumption.

With Russia's ability to sustain the war at an end and the army demoralized, the Russian Provisional Government creates the Women's Battalion of Death in order to boost the soldiers ' morale.

In conclusion, it appears that although there was no industrial revolution in the empire, it did achieve and sustain improving levels of living to its end.

A temporary reprieve, via additional state funding, would sustain service through the end of 2011.

In the end, Hammerstein's high-quality productions were ultimately too expensive to sustain, and by his fourth opera season, he was going bankrupt.

Blair's leadership role in the Iraq War helped him to sustain a strong relationship with Bush through to the end of his time as prime minister, but it was unpopular within his own party and lowered his public approval ratings.

Established in 1946 and based in Milwaukee, ASQ traces its beginnings to the end of World War II, as quality experts and manufacturers sought ways to sustain the many quality-improvement techniques used during wartime.

If Germany had been able to sustain its successes on the battlefield beyond 1943, and been capable of bringing the war to an end favorable to its own terms, Sweden would have had no choice but to join the new order of Europe, a new order under the domination of Nazi Germany.

To sustain interest in the Samba towards the end of its life, PSA launched a few concept and special versions of the model.

The Protectorate of Grayson is desperate for foreign aid to sustain its growing industrial base and technological development, as well as to end their conflict with Masada, a conflict on which diplomacy is impossible.

Regardless of their reasoning, near the end of the thirteenth century its evident that the Anasazi people migrated towards places with more stable and abundant water sources, suggesting that the agricultural land in this area had become unsuitable to sustain the population levels that once inhabited this spectacular cave site.

To sustain the consumptive use of products relying on plastic components and level of manufactured demand for plastic water bottles, the end result is shortages of fossil fuels.

In their short time they created three albums of music, toured with several famous bands, including Mötley Crüe, Heart, Aerosmith, Ronnie James Dio, Van Halen, Bryan Adams, and Whitesnake, but in the end could not sustain their own career.

" I had to sustain a long fight: the forms I suggested were so different from the ones that were generally accepted, that I had to argue in their favour to the end.