the air was thick with smoke, empty bottles were in evidence, and several of the guests were somewhat the worse for liquor.

In somewhat recent years it has been learned that Gesar, the Savior of Tibet, at the end, chants on a mountain top and his clothes fall empty to the ground.

" A prominent Tudor courtier, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, described Thomas Seymour as " hardy, wise and liberal ... fierce in courage, courtly in fashion, in personage stately, in voice magnificent, but somewhat empty of matter.

The novel ends on a somewhat optimistic note when Virginia, again alone in the empty house in Dinwiddie, receives a letter from her son telling her that he is going to leave Oxford before he has completed his two-year course at the university in order to come back and stay with his mother.

The last series were thus left somewhat empty of familiar characters, often with only Bergerac himself and Charlie Hungerford remaining.

These are somewhat more effective than empty chambers, but less effective than wet designs.

One can imagine it would have been a somewhat empty existence after all he had been through.

A somewhat recurring theme of early Miami Vice episodes was thugs and drug addicts barricading themselves in utterly run-down, almost ruin-like empty buildings.

Though some buildings are somewhat empty, others have displays showing the history of the building and period, period furniture, and other displays.

When the Council does not immediately fill the vacant seat of Dom Turstane following his death in 916, Jebediah ( somewhat jokingly ) suggests that the empty seat provides Saint Camber with a place to observe and guide their meetings.

" Jerusalem is indeed the center of the inhabited world latitudinally, though longitudinally it is somewhat to the west, but since the western portion is more thickly populated by reason of Europe, therefore Jerusalem is also the center longitudinally if we regard not empty space but the density of population ".

The distinction between " endocentric " digraphs and empty letters is somewhat arbitrary.

The monocoque aluminum coaches were particularly noteworthy ; they weighted empty, about one-third less than CN's existing fleet, and were somewhat lighter than the Amfleet coaches being introduced at the same time in the U. S. They were built around two aluminum girders running the length of the car, providing them with the high strength needed to meet the more stringent North American crash standards, while still being competitive with similar designs from Europe.

It is one of the card games touted as " Freecell without cells " because its game play is somewhat akin to the popular solitaire computer game but without extra empty spaces to maneuver.

A prairie lake is a somewhat shallow lake that will empty naturally during dry periods allowing a variety of land plants to flourish in the rich nutrients on the lake bottom.

The debate between proponents of Prasangika and Svatantrika somewhat resembles the debates of proponents of shentong ( empty of other ) and rangtong ( empty of self ) views but they are separate distinctions.

Audiences generally appeared to find the music somewhat more sterile and less engaging than that of its conceptually more cohesive predecessor, Computer World.

The Mix was created entirely digitally, albeit during a period when the technology had yet to reach its maturity, and thus featured a sound which many listeners tend to find somewhat " sterile " compared to the analogue electronics employed on most of Kraftwerk's previous recordings of these songs.

Others say that the albinos are practically blind and that the males are somewhat sterile, although this may be due to extensive inbreeding.

Spikelets 3 – 4 mm long, densely arranged on branches, ovoid, awnless, but move often long-awned, pale green to dull purple, short-bristly along veins ; racemes spreading, ascending or appressed, the lower somewhat distant, as much as 10 cm long, sometimes branched ; glumes and lower lemma minutely hairy on surface with longer more rigid hairs on veins ; first glume about two-fifths as long as spikelet, deltoid, the second as long as the spikelet, short-awned ; sterile lemma membranous, with a straight scabrous awn, 2 – 4 cm long or awnless ; fertile lemma ovate-elliptic, acute, pale yellow, lustrous, smooth, 3-3. 5 mm long.

crusgalli has long, somewhat spreading papillose cilia at the summits of the internodes and bases of the branches in the inflorescence and short, very thick papillose cilia along the lateral nerves of the 2nd glume, sterile lemma, and somewhat spreading spikes ", and sterile lemmas with awns 0 – 10 mm long.

( The book hints that the future human race has evolved to be somewhat different from ourselves, and that the six sterile drone-like sisters are uncommon only in their preparation for this particular mission.

Although a somewhat technical subject, it has important political implications as the above discussion of the voting system indicated.

It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides ; the most detailed accounts are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system.

A recent, somewhat experimental solar heating system " Annualized geo solar heating " is practical even in regions that get little or no sunlight in winter.

A somewhat anachronistic yet still widely used system of ferry boats links the two shores.

Henry II's creation of a powerful and unified court system, which curbed somewhat the power of canonical ( church ) courts, brought him ( and England ) into conflict with the church, most famously with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Nevertheless, all of these systems can also be described without requiring the concept of centrifugal force, in terms of motions and forces in a stationary frame, at the cost of taking somewhat more care in the consideration of forces and motions within the system.

Placing a somewhat closed right hand on the plane with the thumb pointing up, the fingers point from the x-axis to the y-axis, in a positively oriented coordinate system.

Written Danish and Norwegian Bokmål are particularly close, though the phonology ( that is, the system of relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of the language ) and the prosody ( the patterns of stress and intonation ) differ somewhat.

The system outlined above provides a somewhat simplified scenario.

However, this approach has been only somewhat more effective than the harmonization approach: while states are not as concerned about having foreign traditions of corporate governance imposed on their companies, which the harmonization approach could well entail ; they also wish to ensure that the EU-wide system would be palatable to the traditions of their national companies, so that they will not be put at a disadvantage compared to the other member states.

Another similar system used to write the Greek language was the Cypriot syllabary ( also a descendant of Linear A via the intermediate Cypro-Minoan syllabary ), which is closely related to Linear B but uses somewhat different syllabic conventions to represent phoneme sequences.

In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee created ENQUIRE, an early hypertext database system somewhat like a wiki but without hypertext punctuation, which was not invented until 1987.

The system is somewhat analogous to a system of pennant numbers the Royal Navy and some European and Commonwealth navies ( 19 in total ) use.

In 2004, Italian professor Bruno Fabbiani claimed that examination of the 42-line Bible revealed an overlapping of letters, suggesting that Gutenberg did not in fact use movable type ( individual cast characters ) but rather used whole plates made from a system somewhat like a modern typewriter, whereby the letters were stamped successively into the plate and then printed.

This job can also be performed somewhat crudely by a human operator who can see the target and the missile, and guides it using either cable or radio based remote-control, or by an automatic system that can simultaneously track the target and the missile.

Biological evolution proceeds by random variation in ensemble averages of organisms combined with culling of the less-successful variants and reproduction of the more-successful variants, and macroscale engineering design also proceeds by a process of design evolution from simplicity to complexity as set forth somewhat satirically by John Gall: " A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

A project to convert the gauge of the system to 1435 mm has also somewhat stalled.

The new government of Puerto Rico, organized under the Foraker Act of 1900, was a mixture of the British and the American system, somewhat similar to that established for the territory of Orleans after the Louisiana Purchase.

Therefore, the absence of life in Venus, with a somewhat similar composition to Earth's primitive conditions or the absence of life on Mars, given the proposed " resilience " of life in space, damages the panspermia theory, at least based on observations of our own Solar System-the theory suggests that life would be more abundant in the Solar system.

The UK category system does, however, class such degrees as Information technology and Game design as ' computer science ', somewhat inflating the actual figure.

Eastern Europe was influenced little by the jurisprudence of the Corpus Juris Civilis, though somewhat by the " Farmer's Law " of the medieval Byzantine legal system.

The Cronquist system of 1981 used a somewhat different circumscription, including the following families:

Slovakia is a developed Central European country with a well developed rail network ( 3, 662 km ) and a somewhat underdeveloped highway system ( 225. 25 km ).