The U. S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense ( GMD ; previously known as National Missile Defense – NMD ) system has recently reached initial operational capability.

Most parts of Alaska that are off the road system can only be reached by small airplane.

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

After the barrier has been reached, the system will relax into the next state of lowest energy again.

In a Hamiltonian system not all possible configurations of position and momentum can be reached from an initial condition.

SSS's version of the game, which reached the market in 2003, used the d20 Modern system, and mimicked D & Ds " three core book " model with three hardcover manuals:

The guild system reached a mature state in Germany circa 1300 and held on in the German cities into the 19th century, with some special privileges for certain occupations remaining today.

Although a decision was yet to be reached, on 13 July 2007 EU countries discussed cutting € 548m ($ 755m, £ 370m ) from the union's competitiveness budget for the following year and shifting some of that cash to other parts of the financing pot, a move that could meet part of the cost of the union's Galileo satellite navigation system.

The system did help modernize the parts of rural France it reached, but it did not help create local industrial centers.

Instead, assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity, not yet having reached the limit, the resources should be invested in designing a better propulsion system.

The Indian numeral system is commonly referred to in the West as the Hindu-Arabic numeral system or just Arabic numerals, since it reached Europe through the Arabs.

Mail had been carried in locked pouches aboard trains prior to Armstrong's involvement with the system, but there had been no organized system of sorting mail en route, to have mail prepared for delivery when the mail pouches reached their destination city.

This material flowed down the rivers, progressively eroding into finer and finer sediment, until it reached the bay system.

The networks reached its peak in 1941, but was abandoned in favor of cars and the development of a subway system in 1968.

The law allows a given internal energy of a system to be reached by any combination of heat and work.

The remote areas of the country are reached by a domestic satellite system, while the number of subscribers to mobile-cellular telephone service is growing rapidly.

Consider the system at the point it has reached equilibrium.

In any case, prices had not reached equilibrium by the time of the Great Depression, which served only to kill off the system completely.

They also installed a closed-circuit television system and radio network that reached 41 countries, with many other forms of expensive high-tech electronic equipment.

Note: Distortion-limited operation is reached when the system distorts the shape of the waveform beyond specified limits.

He maintained contact with these other monasteries above all through his prodigious literary output ( letters as well as catechisms ), which reached a quantitative peak at this time, and developed a system of messengers that was so elaborate as to resemble a private postal service.

It is inherent that no coding can begin until a sufficient level of detail has been reached in the design of at least some part of the system.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

by the same token, we reject any Soviet attempt to impose its system on us or other peoples by force or subversion.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

The amount paid by the oil company to Tri-State for the use of its oil distribution system and the privilege of supplying all the homes, is subject to negotiation but naturally must be profitable to both parties.

What does Tri-State actually want to do, now that it has the meters under franchise and certain phases of its piping system in the `` patent applied for '' stage??

It may also work in one other way -- by licensing its system patents and supplying the meters, letting the oil company or even the builder install the facilities.

Moreover, the dominance in parasympathetic action ( with reciprocal inhibition of the sympathetic ) at the hypothalamic level induces, by its peripheral action, the autonomic symptoms of sleep and, by its action on the cortex, a lessening in the reactivity of the sensory and motor apparatus of the somatic nervous system.

Institutionalization Though undoubtedly all six processes are operative within the whole social system and its subsystems, two processes that are of crucial importance to this study will be singled out for particular emphasis.

'' The external pattern or external system can be considered as `` group behavior that enables the group to survive in its environment.

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

The lack of adequate data on the aerated lagoon system prompted the developer to construct an aerated lagoon pilot plant to determine its feasibility for treating domestic sewage.

The Republicans must hold a primary under the county unit system -- a system which the party opposes in its platform.

Mr. Reama told the Rotary Club of Providence at its luncheon at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel that about half of the people in the country want the `` welfare '' type of government and the other half want a free enterprise system.

The local community maintains responsibility for the financial support of its own library program, facilities, and services, but wider resources and additional services become available through membership in a system.

This system, by virtue of its variety and size, offers an inclusive view of the plan in operation.

The Nassau system recognizes that its major task it to broaden reference service, what with the constant expansion of education and knowledge, and the pressure of population growth in a metropolitan area.

The system passes on these savings to its members.

The system well understands that one of its primary responsibilities is to bring children and books together ; ;

Headquarters of the Nassau system is an increasingly busy place these days, threatening to expand beyond its boundaries.