In 1982, having looked into a wide variety of faiths and religious movements, she became a Christian and began to distance herself from a past she considered to be sinful.

The wide sandy beach, one section of which is designated for use by naturists, runs for approximately 18 kilometres to Scheveningen and for most of this distance is backed by extensive sand dunes through which there are foot and cycle paths.

The fairly wide ranges of temperature during a twenty-four-hour period are greatest during the summer months and have a tendency to increase with higher elevation and distance from the Mediterranean seacoast.

Instead of being confined to a circle, javelin throwers are provided with a runway wide and at least in length, ending in a curved arc from which their throw will be measured ; athletes typically use this distance to gain momentum in a " run-up " to their throw.

Depending on how the connections are established and secured in a LAN, and the distance involved, a LAN may also be classified as a metropolitan area network ( MAN ) or a wide area network ( WAN ).

Surrounding the mound, at a distance of to is a ditch up to wide.

The distance between the island and mainland Italy by the Strait of Messina is about wide in the north, and about in the south of the Strait.

However, Appalachia did offer a wide variety of wild game, with venison and squirrel particularly common, thus helping compensate for distance from major cities and transportation networks.

The S-shaped country has a north-to-south distance of 1, 650 kilometers and is about 50 kilometers wide at the narrowest point.

A wedge can be so wide that it appears to be a block of dark clouds, wider than the distance from the cloud base to the ground.

More traditional events include gelandesprung jumping ( ski jumping for distance on Alpine equipment ), and " powder 8 " contests ; among the more recent introductions are " big mountain " or " extreme skiing " contests, in which athletes start at the top of a mountain and ski a route down that involves wide, fast turns as well as cliff drops.

" When the distance is wide, the attacking opponent requires some sort of preparation.

Since Argentina is almost 4, 000 kilometres long and more than 1, 000 km wide, long distance transportation is of great importance.

Between May and November 1829, he, together with his chosen associates, Gustav Rose and C. G. Ehrenberg, traversed the wide expanse of the Russian empire from the Neva to the Yenesei, accomplishing in twenty-five weeks a distance of.

American Thoroughbred races are run at a wide variety of distances, most commonly from ; with this in mind, breeders of Thoroughbred race horses attempt to breed horses that excel at a particular distance ( see Dosage Index ).

In the dark it will be the same at first, but will approach the maximum distance for a wide pupil 4 to 9 mm.

What begins as a small difference in apparent distance several frames at a time expands to extreme closeups and wide shots jumping back and forth.

Inspired by the Wide Street Commission's work in Dublin, they planned a new town to be built along a tree lined boulevard 135 feet wide which would connect the Killymoon Demesne with Oldtown, a distance of over a mile and a quarter.

Short punt formations ( so called because the distance between the snapper and the ostensible punter is shorter than in long punt formation ) do not usually have as much emphasis on wide receivers.

Each of the two piers is part of a boardwalk that stretches for, which offers many family-friendly attractions ranging from arcades, to games of chance, to beaches, to the wide variety of foods and desserts, all within walking distance.

The area is ideal for walking and a wide variety of wildlife and flowers can be found within a short distance of the station.

When the car motors are accelerating, they actually lift the car off the track an extremely small distance, repelling against the wide aluminum plate in the centre of the track.

The distance depends on how wide the scene is to be filmed, and on the field of view ( FOV ) of the camera lens.

By many measures it is the largest ski resort in North America ; it is 50 % larger than its nearest competitor in terms of size, has the greatest uphill lift capacity, and until 2009, had the highest vertical skiable distance by a wide margin.

Note another piece of wood six inches wide is fastened to the transom between these pieces.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

His demands were certainly grand: the concession of a block of territory 200 miles long by 150 wide between the Danube and the Gulf of Venice ( to be held probably on some terms of nominal dependence on the Empire ) and the title of commander-in-chief of the imperial army.

Weaponry varies by a very wide degree between AFVs-lighter vehicles for infantry carrying, reconnaissance or specialist roles may have only a machine gun for self-defence ( or no armament at all ), whereas heavy self propelled artillery will carry large guns, mortars or rocket launchers.

Hot adhesives, also known as hot melt adhesives, are thermoplastics applied in molten form ( in the 65-180 ° C range ) which solidify on cooling to form strong bonds between a wide range of materials.

The archipelago of the Azores is located in the middle of the northern hemisphere of the Atlantic Ocean and extends along a west-northwest to east-southeast orientation ( between 36. 5 °– 40 ° North latitudes and 24. 5 °– 31. 5 ° West longitudes ) in an area approximately 600 km wide.

The relationship between brain size, body size and other variables has been studied across a wide range of vertebrate species.

Off-road tires are usually between 38 and 64 millimeters wide, and have treads for gripping in muddy conditions or metal studs for ice.

A large open plain, just over 1 mile (~ 2 km ) wide, lay between Taviers and Ramillies, but unlike Blenheim, there was no stream to hinder the cavalry.

The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

Another concern is that certain sectors of society are not sufficiently benefiting from the PRC's economic development ; one example of this is the wide gap between urban and rural areas.

Impulses originating from or below the His bundle, also known as ventricular, will produce a wide QRS complex with heart rates between 20 and 40 bpm.

Mahoré, geologically the oldest of the four islands, is thirty-nine kilometers long and twenty-two kilometers wide, totaling 375 square kilometers, and its highest points are between 500 and 600 meters above sea level.

Most of the city's residential streets also tend to have a wide patch of grass and / or trees between the street and the sidewalk itself.

In wide ranging negotiations between the Fatimids and the Byzantine Empire in 1027-8 an agreement was reached whereby the new Caliph Ali az-Zahir ( Al-Hakim's son ) agreed to allowing the rebuilding and redecoration of the Church.

According to Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions, the negation operator in a singular sentence can take either wide or narrow scope: we distinguish between " some S is not P " ( where negation takes " narrow scope ") and " it is not the case that ' some S is P '" ( where negation takes " wide scope ").

Depending on the fashion at the time of construction it is either a single standard carriageway road, usually wide, or a 2 + 1 road, a wide road with two lanes in one direction and one in the other with a steel wire barrier in between, or sometimes a motorway with two lanes in each direction.

Traditionally, " chips " in the British Isles ( and Australia and New Zealand ), are cut much thicker, i. e., are " chipped " from the potatoes and described in some recipes as " chipped potatoes " not simply " chips ", and are typically between 10 and 15 mm ( 3 / 8 – 1 / 2 inches ) wide.

The floor of the Grand Gallery consists of a shelf or step on either side, wide, leaving a lower ramp wide between them.

The land inhabited by the Afghan tribes ( i. e. ancestors of Pashtuns ) was called Afghanistan, which loosely covered a wide area between the Hindu Kush and the Indus River, principally around the Sulaiman Mountains.

Starting with the unification of Italy in 1861, a wide and increasing economic divide has been noticeably growing between the northern provinces and the southern half of the Italian state.