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Arab opposition increased as the Balfour Declaration and the wave of Jewish settlers to Palestine began to tilt the demographic balance of the area.
Cabinet saws are heavier and offer the following advantages over contractor saws: heavier construction for lower vibration and increased durability ; a cabinet-mounted trunnion ( the mechanism that incorporates the saw blade mount and allows for height and tilt adjustment ); improved dust collection due to the totally enclosed cabinet and common incorporation of a dust collection port.
In 1992 Chris Darke was elected General Secretary and the balance between BA and non BA pilots within the association started to tilt away from BA as the non-BA airlines proliferated and BALPA membership in them increased.
Inefficiencies in the wings also make this line " tilt over " with increased altitude, until it becomes horizontal and no additional speed will result in increased altitude, this maximum altitude is known as the service ceiling ( top limit line in the diagram ), and is often quoted for aircraft performance.

tilt and before
Regardless of the speed and tilt of the Earth's rotation before the impact, it would have experienced a day some five hours long after the impact, and the Earth's equator and the Moon's orbit would have become coplanar in the aftermath of the giant impact.
These had an ERP of 20 kW before switchover and 200 kW after, with considerable beam tilt to the south and east.
David Morier's painting Battle of Culloden | Culloden shows the highlanders still wearing the kilt | plaids which they normally set aside before battle, where they would fire a volley then run full tilt at the enemy with broadsword and targe in the " Highland charge " wearing only their shirts.
* He owned a car for a couple years before realizing it had tilt steering.
A tilt table test is vital to diagnosing POTS, although all symptoms must be considered before a final diagnosis is made.
Tree ring dating confirmed that the trees had originated 10 and 25 years before 1857 and also that the rings began to grow twice as thick on the side in the direction of the tilt ; this is a frequently noted compensation of tree tilt.
In that case, it is also necessary to either rotate the piece along its longitudinal axis or to tilt the saw blade before beveling the second end.

tilt and structure
When these were flooded, the structure sank and settled to rest at an angle of 3 degrees from vertical towards the northeast-a characteristic tilt which is obvious to this day.
The tilting Gateshead Millennium Bridge spanning the River Tyne between Gateshead on the south bank and Newcastle upon Tyne on the north is a pedestrian bridge with two large hydraulic rams at each side that tilt the structure back allowing small watercraft to pass under.
For this surface, we can see that the underlying symbol has both volatility skew ( a tilt along the delta axis ), as well as a volatility term structure indicating an anticipated event in the near future.

tilt and was
While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.
It was shot using a process that von Trier has called Automavision, which involves the director choosing the best possible fixed camera position and then allowing a computer to randomly choose when to tilt, pan or zoom.
The angle added to the elevation by the tilt is known as the obliquity of the ecliptic and at that time was 23 ° 44 ′ 40 ″.
Ambler's Popular Front – period œvre has a left-wing perspective about the personal consequences of " big picture " politics and ideology, which was notable, given spy fiction's usual right-wards tilt in defence of the Establishment attitudes underpinning empire and imperialism.
The standard monitor was a 19 " 60 Hz non-interlaced unit with a tilt / swivel base ; 19 " 30 Hz interlaced and a 15 " 60 Hz non-interlaced ( with tilt / swivel base ) were also available.
A competing theory to explain the presence of ice on the equatorial continents was that the Earth's axial tilt was quite high, in the vicinity of 60 °, which would place the Earth's land in high " latitudes ", although supporting evidence is scarce.
This arrangement was less than perfect, as a particle on the inner portion at one end would not end up at the outer portion at the other, but at some other point rotated from the perfect location due to the tilt of the two ends.
It was, however, considered important to retain the current tilt, due to the role that this element played in promoting the tourism industry of Pisa.
It was found that the tilt was increasing in combination with the softer foundations on the lower side.
For some lenses, including a few long telephotos, lenses mounted on bellows, and perspective-control and tilt / shift lenses, the mechanical linkage was impractical, and automatic aperture control was not provided.
The Democratic tilt was repeated in 2004, when John Kerry won by 181, 000 votes, and in 2008 when Barack Obama won by 204, 000 votes.
Airey Neave was killed on 30 March 1979, when a magnetic car bomb fitted with a ball bearing tilt switch exploded under his Vauxhall Cavalier at 2: 58 p. m. as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park.
The British Advanced Passenger Train ( being operational from 1984 to 1985 ) was the first to successfully implement active tilt increasing speeds significantly on tight rail curves.
It was found that when the cars tilt just at the beginning of the curves instead of while they are making the turns, there was no motion sickness.
For safety and comfort reasons, maximum tilt was reduced to 8 ° from the 13 ° of ETR 450.
The first successful European tilting train design was the Talgo in Spain, developed in the 1950s as a lightweight, fast train using passive tilt.

tilt and gradually
Seismic action gradually took its toll on the breakwaters, causing them to tilt down and settle into the seabed.
The bottoms of the lakes gradually tilt away from the direction of the former ice maximum, such that lake shores on the side of the maximum ( typically north ) recede and the opposite ( southern ) shores sink.

tilt and until
The pan continued to tilt with the weight of the coin until it fell off, at which point a counter-weight would snap the lever back up and turn off the valve.
When a BMP-1 hit the obsolete kind of " tilt-rod " anti-tank land mine, its steeply sloped lower front glacis armour plate allowed the mine's arming rod to tilt with little resistance until the maximum deflection was reached with the mine already well under the chassis.
The pan continued to tilt with the weight of the coin until it fell off, at which point a counterweight snapped the lever up and turned off the valve.
The owners moved their scythe production from Abbeydale Works to Little London on 1935, and the tilt hammers continued to be water-powered until the mid 1950s.
The full load will be transported to a barn ; the whole rear of the stacker will tilt upwards until it is vertical.
If none of these work in lessening tilt, players are advised to leave the game and not return to playing until they have shaken off the results that led to the tilt.

tilt and partially
The most successful active tilt trains of note in operation is the Italian Pendolino ( built and produced by Fiat, bought by Alstom in 2000 ), partially based on the Advanced Passenger Train.
The party, similar in its outlook to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, was created partially in response to the perceived conservative tilt of the state's Democratic Party.

tilt and corrected
In 1752 ( Hōreki 2 ), the large-scale " Restoration of Hōreki " corrected the tilt of the donjon, due to unequal subsidence of its stone wall, and the roofs from the second level up were tiled with copper.
The zenith point is interpolated into the field of imaged stars, and corrected for the exposure time and ( small ) tilt of the telescope axis to yield the direction of the plumb line.

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