Their lack of sight does not hinder their ability to get any and all food before it hits the bottom.

Their small size, adaptable metabolism, and ability to move to more favorable habitats were key factors in their survivability during the late Cretaceous and early Paleocene.

Their ability to coexist with freight or intercity services in the same right-of-way can drastically reduce system construction costs.

Their survival is aided by their ability to breed rapidly.

Their crystalline biology apparently gives them the ability to send and receive hyperwave transmissions.

Their activity is regulated by factors that control their ability to bind to and hydrolyze guanosine triphosphate ( GTP ) to guanosine diphosphate ( GDP ).

Their ability to attract members was largely due to their pragmatic stance, especially their rejection of extremism, and to their growing independence from Moscow ( see Eurocommunism ).

Their use is restricted in eliciting testimony in court, to reduce the ability of the examiner to direct or influence the evidence presented.

Their ability to spread efficiently enough to cause a pandemic is limited, however, as transmission of these viruses requires close contact with the infected vector, and the vector only has a short time before death or serious illness.

Their ability to recognize pain may be blunted by illness or the use of multiple prescription drugs.

Their patents included two other major interrelated innovations: one concerning the use of parallel connected, instead of series connected, utilization loads, the other concerning the ability to have high turns ratio transformers such that the supply network voltage could be much higher ( initially 1, 400 to 2, 000 V ) than the voltage of utilization loads ( 100 V initially preferred ).

Their effect is due to their ability to bind to intracellular receptors, modulating the gene expression, and subsequently regulating protein synthesis.

Their greatest power is often the ability to force a government to reveal certain pieces of information.

Their affordability and ability to run on personal computers also allowed engineers to do their own drafting work, eliminating the need for entire departments.

Their lifespans depend on temperature, humidity, and their ability to successfully obtain a blood meal while avoiding host defenses and predators.

Their ability to influence and participate in the external policies that may exercise jurisdiction over their traditional lands and practices is very frequently limited.

Pointing out the achievement given the conditions, he further stated, " Their ability to replicate that exact point — what they did was phenomenal, what they did was spot on.

Their ability to run swiftly has also led to their association with the wind, such as in the Rig Veda, as the steeds of the Maruts and the wind god Vayu.

Their ability to spread further south is restricted as their prey hunting method, pursuit diving, becomes less efficient in warmer waters.

Their influence draws, in part, from grassroots activism as well as their focus on social issues and ability to motivate the electorate around those issues.

Their ability to run at high speeds,, is due to their highly specialised pelvic limb musculature.

Their ability to operate off-road, in deep water and mud makes it easier to access remote areas in emergency situations.

Their purpose was " to transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with, clear up just in the process of life itself.

Their ability to contribute to the economy and family are respected but, they are believed to be less capable than men as managers and their work is looked upon as insignificant.

Their coercive power arose from the ability, on authority of the crown, to hold a violator in contempt, and take away his or her freedom ( or money ) until he or she purged himself or herself of his or her contumacious behavior.

Their aim was to classify artifacts, like biological organisms, according to families, genera, and species.

Their exact relation is difficult to determine from the sparse evidence of runic inscriptions, and they remained mutually intelligible to some degree during the Migration Period, so that some individual varieties are difficult to classify.

Their exact relation is difficult to determine from the sparse evidence of runic inscriptions, and they remained mutually intelligible throughout the Migration Period, so that some individual varieties are difficult to classify.

Their chronological overlap with older structures makes it difficult to classify them as a coherent tradition.

Their music, hard to classify, has been described as " what you might expect if you managed to merge Pere Ubu and Pixies with a touch of Kraftwerk ".

Their soft bodies make them difficult to classify.

Their early garage incarnation was a lot easier to classify and won fans easily, but the band evolved away from these roots from the late 1980s into more cerebral and accomplished directions.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.

Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.

Their vivid anecdotal qualities have made favorites some of them of painters since the Renaissance, so that they stand out more prominently in the modern imagination.

Their portraits showed them of larger size than mere mortals and at some distance from their retainers.

Their logo of the anchor and dolphin is represented today in the symbols and names used by some modern publishers such as Doubleday.

Their offices were compatible with other offices, i. e. they can hold two benefices or offices at one and the same time, some conferred by the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, others by the Holy Father.

Their origin is a matter of some controversy.

Their clothing was found in the creek, some of it twisted around sticks that had been thrust into the muddy ditch bed.

Their record was produced by Bob Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh ; Mark also co-wrote some of the songs.

Their role is to manipulate an Actor's on-screen appearance whether it makes them look more youthful, larger, older, or in some cases monstrous.

Their cohabitation before marriage was regarded as scandalous in some of the places they lived, but Verdi and Giuseppina married on 29 August 1859 at Collonges-sous-Salève, near Geneva.

Their withdrawal from Afghanistan was seen as an ideological victory in America, which had backed some Mujahideen factions through three U. S. presidential administrations to counter Soviet influence in the vicinity of the oil-rich Persian Gulf.

Their rule in part of Albania was briefly interrupted in the 15th century, when George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, an Albanian who had served as an Ottoman military officer, renounced Ottoman service, allied with some Albanian chiefs and fought off Turkish rule from 1443-1478.

Their disappearance left some distinctive sound combinations in Proto-Italic.

Their web page includes most of Aasens ' texts numerous other examples of Nynorsk literature ( in Nettbiblioteket ), and some articles, also in English, about language history in Norway.

Their rise has also been attributed to administrative functions ; control of the harbor required administration and also increased the Shaikh's power by giving him access to resources independent of the desert, hence some independence from tribal alliances.

Their fortitude was the basis for recriminations against some sections of NKVD that were in charge of the " labor settlements " ( трудовые поселения ) in 1938-1939, as they were considered to have permitted " kulakization " ( окулачивание ) of the " labor settlers " ( трудопоселенцев ).

Their land, which had probably been part of Great Moravia, and Bohemia, was annexed by Mieszko I some time in late 10th century.

Their decadent lifestyles almost shattered the band, until managers Thaler and McGhee pulled an intervention, and refused to allow the band to tour in Europe, fearing that " some them would come back in bodybags ".

Their causative role has been established in some of these diseases but not all.

Their pay was high, and their pride soon caused their sovereign some anxiety.

Their skin varies in colour depending on the subspecies, with some having light or dark gray skin and others having pinkish or even reddish skin.

Their accomplishments defying the odds were some of the most inspiring of ancient Greek athletics and they served as inspiration to the Hellenic world for centuries, as Pausanias, the ancient traveller and writer indicates when he re-tells these stories in his narrative of his travels around Greece.

Their work deals with similar steps and dances, though some evolution can be seen.