Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

James P. Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below three million a couple of years ago.

The figure was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there.

One drop of each sample was added to one drop of a 2% suspension of group Af or group B red cells in a small Af test tube.

As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary artery and vein, but that increases in bronchial artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary artery pressure.

After blotting out most of the saline around the sections, a drop of Af was layered over each of the sections, allowed to react for 30 minutes, and then washed with PBS for 15 - 30 minutes.

I could get up close to him where there was traffic but had to drop far behind when there wasn't traffic.

Gary Player, the small, trim South African, was the eventual winner, but in all his 25 years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the victory to drop in his lap.

And when she returned from taking her guests back to New York she had said, `` All they talked about was Harvie Harvie this, Harvie that When they know the truth will they drop away from me, will I become a nothing ''??

We'll drop Mr. Rawlings off in Ardmore '', Julia said, and for the merest second George was reminded of her father's tone with servants.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

Along with the change in precipitation patterns, there was a drop in water table levels due to a different cycle unrelated to rainfall.

In 1851, Ann Arbor was chartered as a city, though the city showed a drop in population during the Depression of 1873.

By the late 1940s it was known that the properties of atomic nucleus could not be explained by the then-current models ( such as the liquid drop model developed by Niels Bohr amongst others ).

Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.

After three years of consistent use across different platforms, the BBC began to drop the BBCi brand gradually ; on 6 May 2004, the BBC website was renamed bbc. co. uk, after the main URL used to access the site.

The logo was raised using a heavy black drop shadow, and the body of the lettering and its yellow trim were separated by a subtle 3D groove effect.

This criterion was invoked in the 2007 and 2011 editions with the decision to drop the entries for French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Reunion.

There was also a drop in south polar temperatures ; southern Gondwanaland was glaciated throughout the period, though it is uncertain if the ice sheets were a holdover from the Devonian or not.

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

It was designed to fly below the enemy's radar at speeds above Mach 3 and carry a number of hydrogen bombs that it would drop on its path over enemy territory.

The drop in GDP in 2001 was largely the result of the global economic slowdown and lower oil prices.

The global economic crisis hit the Lesotho economy hard through loss of textile exports and jobs in the sector due largely to the economic slowdown in the United States which is a major export destination, reduced diamond mining and exports, including weak prices for diamonds ; drop in SACU revenues due to the economic slowdown in the South African economy, and reduction in worker remittances due to weakening of the South African economy and contraction of the mining sector and related job losses in South Africa.

Moreover, the fall of communism in eastern Europe in 1989 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 had resulted in a significant drop in communist aid to North Korea, resulting in largely decreased relations with Russia.

This drop was largely the result of the financial crisis in Argentina and the banking collapse in Paraguay.

The vulnerability of the tourist sector was illustrated by the sharp drop in 1991-92 due largely to the Gulf War.

This drop in overall performance is due largely to the much higher " burnout " weight of the engine, and to smaller burn time due to the less-dense fuel.

54 effectives of ' L ' Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade ( largely drawn from the disbanded Layforce ) mounted a night parachute insertion onto two drop zones in Bir Temrad, North Africa on the night of November 16 / 17 1941 in preparation for a stealthy attack on the forward airfields of Gambut and Tmimi in order to destroy the Axis fighter force on the ground before the start of Operation Crusader, a major offensive by the British Eighth Army.

Although the heavy, sustained rainfall associated with these fronts is largely absent during the summer, the relative humidity nears 100 %, and dense, moving squalls frequently drop great quantities of water.

A relative drop in sea level may leave a lagoon largely dry, while a rise in sea level may let the sea breach or destroy barrier islands, and leave reefs too deep under water to protect the lagoon.

Unfortunately, the Great Depression of the 1930s completely eliminated Grandin's lumber industry altogether and is largely responsible for the massive drop in Grandin's population that took place in decades to come.

The recording captures the group deciding to drop the third verse largely because McCartney does not feel the verse is of high enough quality, although he likes the scanning of the word " Pakistani ".

According to the 2010 United States Census, Saipan's population was 48, 220, a drop of 22. 7 % from the 2000 US Census ; the population decrease is largely attributed to working immigrants and their families either returning to their home countries after the collapse of the garment industry or moving to other locations with economic opportunities such as Guam and the United States.

For a handful of heavily populated, impoverished countries, whose economies were largely dependent on oil – including Mexico, Nigeria, Algeria, and Libya – governments and business leaders failed to prepare for a market reversal, the price drop placed them in wrenching, sometimes desperate situations.

The American paratroopers consisted largely of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, making their first combat drop.

His first General Election as party leader in 1950 reduced the party to 9 MPs with barely 9 % of the vote, and in those of 1951 and 1955, the Liberals fell back even further, holding only 6 seats, with 2. 5 % and 2. 7 % of the vote ( although these vote shares were largely attributed to the huge drop in the number of seats the party fought ).

To avoid instabilities such as chugging which is a relatively low speed oscillation the engine must be designed with enough pressure drop across the injectors to render the flow largely independent of the chamber pressure.

While the Black Sea " cleanup " was largely unintentional and involved a drop in hard-to-control fertilizer usage, the U. N. has advocated other cleanups by reducing large industrial emissions.

He skipped the UK Championship to play in the Asian games ( winning two medals there ), and, largely due to the fact that he was affected by a virus, was unable to repeat his World Championship form of the previous year, losing 3 – 10 to Anthony Hamilton in the first round, a defeat that saw Fu start the 2007 / 2008 season ranked 27th in the world – a drop of five places.

This was largely due to the hostile conditions encountered by the drop aircraft.

This is largely due to an increase in internal resistance rather than a drop in the voltage of the equivalent source.

Combined international and domestic cargo figures totaled just 151, 000 tons for the same year, a dramatic drop that can be largely blamed on the substantially weakened manufacturing economy since the fall of 2008 in the Aichi region.

Aldan remains a productive gold and mica mining center, largely avoiding the large drop in population suffered by most other towns in the Russian Far East in the years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

South Africa had got to the semi final largely through the efforts of Jannie de Beer kicking 5 drop goals in their previous match.

The judge noted that SAC Capital Advisors largely owned positions that would profit from a rise – not a drop – in the share price of Fairfax, undermining the very basis for the suit.