Since cyclists ' legs are most efficient over a narrow range of pedaling speeds ( cadence ), a variable gear ratio helps a cyclist to maintain an optimum pedalling speed while covering varied terrain.

The terrain is quite varied, and is thus divided into several areas based on geomorphology.

The island's terrain is varied.

From north to south, the country ranges from the northern tip of the Russian Arctic islands at Franz Josef Land to the southern tip of the Republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea, spanning about of extremely varied, often inhospitable terrain.

The depth varied according to terrain.

The method varied according to geographic locality, materials available and terrain, but the plan, or ideal at which the architect aimed was always the same.

Though it has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and climate conditions, the foot is still vulnerable to environmental hazards such as sharp rocks and hot ground, against which shoes can protect.

The terrain of the two republics is extremely varied, with much of Serbia comprising plains and low hills ( except in the more mountainous region of Kosovo and Metohija ) and much of Montenegro consisting of high mountains.

Because armies and terrain can be combined in all possible ways, miniatures wargaming is generally more varied and flexible than other forms of wargaming.

To cover the vast and varied terrain under their jurisdiction, they use Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors, special service SUVs, horses, K-9 units, helicopters, snowmobiles, dirt bikes and boats.

The Sierra has 200 – 250 sunny days each year, warm summers, fierce winters, and varied terrain, a rare combination of rugged variety and pleasant weather.

The terrain of the county is varied.

The relatively varied topography of the city provides a sharp contrast to the flatter terrain more typical of other portions of Indiana.

The geography is a varied terrain, covered with part forests, part mountains, part plains and part lakes and streams.

These parts of Scania are notable for a varied terrain of leaf woods, farming areas and small lakes.

It is considered a scenic place because the forests are not as dense as in the rest of Småland and the terrain is more varied.

The terrain is varied, but mostly level with rolling hills.

This is a 300 acre park for motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs, and Jeeps to roam over trails through varied terrain.

-This theory arises from the fact that the southern African landscape in general, and the Zimbabwean landscape specifically, is an extremely varied and diverse terrain, where a true sighthound would be severely handicapped in its finding ability in the game producing cover of the bushveldt, thornveldt, and kopjes.

Focusing on freedom of travel and efficiency over varied surfaces, mixed terrain bicycle travel has a storied past.

Towards inland, the terrain becomes more varied.

The strength of the defensive line in an area varied according to how rapidly an attacking force could progress in the terrain that was being defended — both the terrain the defensive line was built on and the ground behind it that an attacker might hope to break out into.

About north to south and east to west ( at its widest ), Raasay's terrain is varied.

Throughout all the varied stories and time the terrain over which the War of Wrath is fought remains remarkably the same, in particular, the River Sirion.

Buddhism was also spread and encouraged throughout the empire, uniting the varied peoples and cultures of China.

This made it an ideal legal tool for the central governance of widely varied populations which is why we find it in Turkey as the legacy of the Uthmaniyya Khilafa and in the sub-continent where it is inherited from the Moghul empire.

The name varied over the years, becoming The Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences ( Императорская Академия наук и художеств ; 1747 – 1803 ), The Imperial Academy of Sciences ( Императорская Академия Наук ; 1803 — 1836 ), and finally, The Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences ( Императорская Санкт-Петербургская Академия Наук, from 1836 and until the end of the empire in 1917 ).

Its value varied, but it was standardized in the late empire as 1. 2829 kilograms.

Further more, it is unlikely that there was sufficient national consciousness among the varied people of the Mauryan empire.

The kingdom of the Chandels of Khajuraho were always a part of this large empire of the Gurjara Pratiharas, the extent of which varied with the fortunes of the kings.

The persecution varied in intensity across the empire — weakest in Gaul and Britain, where only the first edict was applied, and strongest in the Eastern provinces.

Persecutory policies varied in intensity across the empire.

Darwin said that, far from being constant, the difficulty in producing hybrids of related species, and the viability and fertility of the hybrids, varied greatly, especially among plants.

The actual difficulty of performance is considerably varied amongst marches.

The Shredder Challenge consists of five separate puzzles in which the number of documents, the document subject matter and the method of shredding will be varied to present challenges of increasing difficulty.

The essential difficulty was this: given that Marx derived profit, in the form of surplus value, from direct labour inputs, and that the ratio of direct labour input to capital input varied widely between commodities, how could he reconcile this with tendency to an average rate of profit on all capital invested?

To investigate the mechanisms underlying this effect, the processing resources available for an incidental encoding task were varied by manipulating secondary task difficulty.

There is some difficulty in doing this, particularly in varied strata ( e. g., boring through a region where the upper portion of the tunnel face is wet sand and the lower portion is hard rock ).

The Germans increased the difficulty of decrypting Enigma messages by decreasing the interval between changes in the order of the rotors from quarterly, initially, to monthly in February 1936, then daily in October of that year, when they also increased the number of plugboard leads from six to a number that varied between five and eight.

Finally, Tempest was one of the first video games to sport a progressive level design in which the levels themselves varied rather than giving the player the same level with increasing difficulty levels.

Activities assigned by a Physical Therapist or Occupational Therapist to an individual who has suffered from a stroke are selected based on functional relevance and are varied in terms of difficulty and the environment in which they are performed.

Its varied gameplay, intricate story and unique graphics were praised, but criticised for its lack of difficulty and length when compared to other platformers.

Each campaign has ten levels to play through each with varied levels of difficulty.