Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.

But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

On May 15, a very large increase occurred with Af of mass between Af and Af ; ;

When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

One of the first reactions was to simply increase the guard, creating what at times might seem a small army trailing every leader ; another was to begin clearing large areas whenever a leader was present, to the point where entire sections of a city might be shut down.

This was a large increase with the number of cell phones almost doubling from the 250, 000 in use in 2006.

These usually are not high-value coins, but the interest is in collecting a large volume of them either for the sake of the challenge, as a store of value, or in the hope that the intrinsic metal value will increase.

The CJD prion is dangerous because it promotes refolding of native proteins into the diseased state The number of misfolded protein molecules will increase exponentially and the process leads to a large quantity of insoluble protein in affected cells.

In all but the smallest impacts this increase in temperature is sufficient to melt the impactor, and in larger impacts to vaporize most of it and to melt large volumes of the target.

* The large calorie, kilogram calorie, dietary calorie, nutritionist's calorie or food calorie ( symbol: Cal ) approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 ° C.

Ceramic materials are typically used in heavy applications such as trucks carrying large loads or racing, though the harder ceramic materials increase flywheel and pressure plate wear.

With large spaces of land at a premium in south-west London, Fulham appear to be committed to a gradual increase of the ground's capacity often during the summer between seasons.

* their roots create macropores – large conduits – in the soil that increase infiltration of water ;

Before the development of silicon power rectifier diodes, cuprous oxide and later selenium was used ; its low efficiency gave it a much higher forward voltage drop ( typically 1. 4 to 1. 7 V per " cell ", with multiple cells stacked to increase the peak inverse voltage rating in high voltage rectifiers ), and required a large heat sink ( often an extension of the diode ’ s metal substrate ), much larger than a silicon diode of the same current ratings would require.

The economic boom led to a sharp increase in construction, with large redevelopment projects in the Dublin Docklands and Spencer Dock.

Altogether, Diocletian effected a large increase in the number of bureaucrats at the government's command ; Lactantius was to claim that there were now more men using tax money than there were paying it.

Since petroleum is so important to industrialised economies, a large increase in its price can lead to the increase in the price of most products, raising the inflation rate.

The increased flow of water through local waterways also causes a large increase in the rate of bank erosion.

As of build 1397, released on 17 August 2011, there have been large scale experiment with new load management ( NLM ) to increase throughput and reduce the impact of hostile nodes on the network.

In an effort to increase birthrates, the Italian Fascist government gave financial incentives to women who raised large families, and initiated policies designed to reduce the number of women employed.

Flynn originally took the extreme position that the very large increase indicates that IQ tests do not measure intelligence but only a minor sort of " abstract problem-solving ability " with little practical significance.

Thus, from an evolutionary perspective men may have had more to gain from a large increase in resources than women have had, which may be one explanation for why men, and especially poor men, tend to gamble more than women.

The Thracian helmet had a large visor to further increase protection.

After an agreement was reached with the European Union ( EU ) to increase Honduras's banana quota to the EU, the large banana companies were avid for additional land for increased production to meet the anticipated new demand from Europe.

Also, among the latter a large percentage soon acquire the prevalent Southern attitude on most social problems.

It is this subject matter that has brought Mason a large and enthusiastic following among sportsmen, but it is his exceptional performance with this motif that commends him to artists and discerning collectors.

The popularity of CCD imaging among amateurs has led to large numbers of web sites being written by individuals about their images and equipment.

During Christie and Mallowan's time in the Middle East, along with their time spent among the many tombs, temples, and museums, there was also a large amount of time spent traveling to and from Mallowan's sites.

Agrarian parties advocated land reforms to redistribute land on large estates among those who work it.

Slide rules and nomographs are the simplest, while naval gunfire control computers and large hybrid digital / analog computers were among the most complicated.

The chaotic legal structure and fragmented land ownership combined with a tradition of dividing the land among all the heirs in an inheritance prevented any large scale reforms.

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

In other cases the forces may be distributed among a large number of members, as in a truss, or not clearly discernible to a casual observer as in a box beam.

The U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and Support for Eastern European Democracies ( SEED ) has played a large role in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, including programs in economic development and reform, democratic reform ( media, elections ), infrastructure development, and training programs for Bosnian professionals, among others.

Ernst May, Bruno Taut, and Martin Wagner, among others, built large housing blocks in Frankfurt and Berlin.

* the development of new algorithms ( mathematical formulas ) and statistics with which to assess relationships among members of large data sets.

In 597, following a rebellion against Babylon, Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into captivity by the Babylonians.

The dimensions and the weight of the breast vary among women, ranging approximately 500 – 1, 000 grams ( 1. 1-2. 2 pounds ) each ; thus, a small-to-medium-sized breast weighs 500 grams ( 1. 1 pounds ) or less ; and a large breast weighs approximately 750 – 1, 000 grams ( 1. 7-2. 2 pounds.

To replace them, large numbers of men were taken out of the frigates and distributed among the ships of the line.

They were also among the first in South East Asia to adopt religious ideas and political institutions from India and to establish centralized kingdoms surrounding large territories.

Christopher Hitchens represents conspiracy theories as the " exhaust fumes of democracy ", the unavoidable result of a large amount of information circulating among a large number of people.

Referred to variously as the Confucian hypothesis and as a debated component of the more all-encompassing Asian Development Model, there exists among political scientists and economists a theory that Confucianism plays a large latent role in the ostensibly non-Confucian cultures of modern-day East Asia, in the form of the rigorous work ethic it endowed those cultures with.

A similar flux was seen among the operators of cable systems: franchises were granted to a host of different companies, but a process of consolidation saw the growth of large multiple system operators, until by the early 2000s, virtually the whole industry was in the hands of two companies, NTL and Telewest.

But a large number of anecdotal accounts of clairvoyance are of the spontaneous variety among the general populace.

The large possible variance in time justifies performing query optimization, though finding the exact optimal way to execute a query, among all possibilities, is typically very complex, time consuming by itself, may be too costly, and often practically impossible.

The large possible variance in time justifies performing query optimization, though finding the exact optimal way to execute a query, among all possibilities, is typically very complex, time consuming by itself, may be too costly, and often practically impossible.

In Siam, regional power struggles among several kingdoms in the region led to a large diaspora of ethnic Lao between the 1700s-1800s by Siamese rulers to settle large areas of the Siamese kingdom's northeast region, where Lao ethnicity is still a major factor in 2012.