These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

These poles and zone-lines, whilst inducing fluctuations in data density in the reconstructed datasets, which can prove problematic during post-analysis, are critical for determining information such as angular magnification, as the crystallographic relationships between features are typically well known.

These experiments are used to prove, verify, and reinforce laws and theorems such as Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, etc.

These Norse-Gaels had intermarried with the local Gaelic speaking people in Britain, a feature that is still visible in the Faroese genes today, which prove to be mixed Scandinavian-British.

These qualities were alleged against him as defects, and to prove that his style was not the result of want of power, he painted the magnificent figure of the St. Mark Evangelist ( ranked as his masterpiece ), and the undraped figure of Saint Sebastian.

These explore various ideas regarding the ways one can prove certain claims.

These arguments are hard to prove.

These had their own signature and that of a witness and scribe in order to prove in court ( if necessary ) that their claim to property was legitimate.

These ' Disinherited ' were hungry for their old lands and would prove to be the undoing of the peace.

These same misfits, who don't fit the image of heroes, nevertheless come through as men who do their duty when the chips are down and prove they will fight for their country even though it's not necessarily for patriotic reasons.

These factors would prove to be important for the Norwegian fight against the attacking German forces.

These are rumoured to be poisonous but no further scientific tests have been done to prove this rumor true or false.

These attempts have included efforts to fit in comic book superheroes and supervillains, whose published exploits, by their very nature, often prove difficult to reconcile with Farmer's original framework.

These set theories cannot prove their own Gödel sentences – provided that they are consistent, which is generally believed.

These commanders had been made aware that Generals Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston had already capitulated and that continued hostilities would prove pointless.

These timber castles, including Tomen y Rhodwydd, Tomen y Faerdre and Gaer Penrhôs, were of equivalent quality to the Norman fortifications in the area and it can prove difficult to distinguish the builders of some sites from the archaeological evidence alone.

These do not provide a resolution to Hilbert's second question, however, because someone who doubts the consistency of Peano arithmetic is unlikely to accept the axioms of set theory ( which is much stronger ) to prove its consistency.

These people stole files out of 4 Boston Draft Boards in order to prove that the State of Mass was drafting mostly Puerto Ricans and poor whites to fill their quotas.

These exercises helped prove the effectiveness of mechanical doctrine.

These poets turned to French models rather than either the New Country poets or English-language modernism, and their work was to prove of importance to later English experimental poets as it broadened the scope of the English avant-garde tradition.

These works ( particularly the one published in 1778 ), and most specifically the accurate copies of the cuneiform inscriptions found at Persepolis, were to prove to be extremely important to the decipherment of cuneiform writing.

These ideas were to prove a heavy influence on the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan in his creation of the Blue Mosque, also in Constantinople.

These results are in disagreement with other molecular and morphological studies, and are best interpreted to prove an extraordinary amount of molecular convergent evolution between the terns and these waders, or as retention of an ancient genotype.

These excavations have dug about of tunnels inside the pyramid, which began with two in 1931 to prove that the hill was an archeological find.

These Kakure Kirishitan ( hidden Christians ) were tried at every step, forced to step on fumi-e (" trample pictures ", images of the Virgin Mary and saints ) to prove that they were non-Christian.

These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.

These are fluids which one would expect to be less viscoelastic or more Newtonian because of their lower molecular weight.

These extrapolated fluxes are about an order of magnitude less than the values from the satellite data and the figures in Whipple's table.

These changes were most marked in the gastrocnemius and biceps and less evident in the pectoralis, diaphragm, and transversus.

These conjugates Af had much less nonspecific staining than the previous conjugate ( with 50 mg FITC per gram of globulin ) while the specific staining was similar in both cases.

These minimum costs may come to $1 per month, more or less, for residential and small commercial customers, although they are substantially higher for large industrial users, who require more costly connections and metering devices.

These stateless societies are not less evolved than societies with states, but chose to conjure the institution of authority as a separate function from society.

These lay abbacies were not merely a question of overlordship, but implied the concentration in lay hands of all the rights, immunities and jurisdiction of the foundations, i. e. the more or less complete secularization of spiritual institutions.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

These names make it evident that the American broccoli, carrot, and onion are not indigenous to China and therefore are less common in the cuisines of China.

These flat-top, steel-string guitars are constructed and voiced more for classical-like fingerpicking and less for chordal accompaniment ( strumming ).

These drugs ( such as rofecoxib, celecoxib and etoricoxib ) are equally effective analgesics when compared with NSAIDs, but cause less gastrointestinal hemorrhage in particular.

These decoys would appear as warheads to ABM, effectively requiring engagement of 50 times more targets than before and rendering defense even less effective.

These generals were being replaced by colonels who had entered the army in the early 1970s and whose view of the world had been shaped less by ideology and more by pragmatism.

These axons transmit signals in the form of electrochemical pulses called action potentials, which last less than a thousandth of a second and travel along the axon at speeds of 1 – 100 meters per second.

These animals would be less able to adapt to a dynamic environment.

These disorders range from bipolar I disorder, featuring full-blown manic episodes, to cyclothymia, featuring less prominent hypomanic episodes, to " subsyndromal " conditions where only some of the criteria for mania or hypomania are met.

These symptoms include delusions or, less commonly, hallucinations, usually unpleasant.

These observations led him to suspect that the flea might be an intermediary factor in the transmission of plague, since people acquired plague only if they were in contact with recently dead rats, who had died less than 24 hours before.

These primary industries are increasingly becoming less important to the overall economy.

These films have much less tensile stress, but worse electrical properties ( resistivity 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > to 10 < sup > 15 </ sup > Ω · cm, and dielectric strength 1 to 5 MV / cm ).

These range in diameter from a few tens of meters up to about 300 km, and they range in age from recent times ( e. g. the Sikhote-Alin craters in Russia whose creation were witnessed in 1947 ) to more than two billion years, though most are less than 500 million years old because geological processes tend to obliterate older craters.

These were determined to be less than ideal, as the recoil of full-power rifle cartridges caused the weapon to be uncontrollable in full-automatic fire.

These and other policies made socialism seem less desirable to the average German family, and propelled Bismarck to high renown during his lifetime.

These are more compliant with Unix terminal standards and user interface conventions than the Cygwin console, but are less suited for running Windows console programs.