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This successful initiation of a chain-reacting pile was important not only for its help in assessing the properties of fission — needed for understanding the internal workings of an atomic bomb — but also because it would serve as a pilot plant for the massive reactors which would be created in Hanford, Washington, which would then be used to produce the plutonium needed for the bombs used at the Trinity site and Nagasaki.
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Without training in the preliminary practices, the ubiquity of allusions to them in Vajrayāna is meaningless and even successful Vajrayāna initiation becomes impossible.
After a successful initiation in Alexandra, Gauteng | Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, Gogo Michelle of the Tshwane Traditional & Faith Healers Forum welcomes new sangomas ( including a white thwasa )
An access attempt ends either in successful access or in access failure-an unsuccessful access that results in termination of the attempt in any manner other than initiation of user information transfer between the intended source and destination ( sink ) within the specified maximum access time.
Many of these elections were successful, involving candidate debates, formal platforms, and the initiation of secret ballot boxes.
She now carries a staff and wears a cap, items often presented after the successful completion of an initiation ordeal.
successful and pile
The album was so successful that it was quickly followed by My Son, the Celebrity, which ended with " Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other ," fragments of song parodies including Robert Burns ' " Comin ' Thro ' the Rye ": " Do not make a stingy sandwich, pile the cold cuts high ;/ Customers should see salami comin ' thru the rye " and " All day, all night Cary Grant ," a takeoff on " Marianne.
They were not very successful in their operations because there was a pile of human bones, skulls, charred torsos on or under the griddle which must have accounted for many hundreds.
The turn ends, all cards on the table are discarded from play to a discard pile, and play passes to the left: the successful defender opens the next turn as the new attacker.
Two albums and several singles were not successful however, and with Epic ready to pull the plug, Vinton found his first hit single literally sitting in a reject pile.
The reformed company carried over a substantial cash pile from the profitable TRIO ( see below ) days and a successful investment in UMC, a Taiwanese semiconductor foundry.
Although the townspeople's efforts are successful, the boys observe that the work is " gayer than all the men getting in a big pile and having sex with each other ", and with an exclamation of " To the pile!
Caleb Wyatt's first successful backflip was performed over a mulch pile of grass clipping, leaves and bark which was originally intended for the maintenance of the RVMX track.
successful and was
Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.
But, so far as its territorial objectives were concerned, the campaign was successful.
The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.
This voyage was the first successful crossing of the Atlantic under steam propulsion.
Another recent achievement was the successful development of a method for the complete combustion in a bomb calorimeter of a metal in fluorine when the product is relatively non-volatile.
Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.
For example, the importance of the Regulus 2, a very promising aerodynamic ship-to-surface missile designed to be launched by surfaced submarines, was greatly diminished by the successful acceleration of the much more advanced Polaris ballistic missile launched by submerged submarines.
A ballistic missile cannot, today, tell you if it was successful or unsuccessful.
She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).
It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.
My heart was not in it, but, oddly enough, it remains the most financially successful picture of my career.
In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.
The din was successful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant good luck all around.
The event was so successful that the Interior Secretary plans to serve as impresario for similar ones from time to time, hoping thereby to add to the cultural enrichment of the Administration.
Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.
I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.
Mr. Khrushchev was jesting in the expansive mood of the successful banker.
Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.
It was probably man's first successful flight in a missile.
The suit against the union was successful and many workers lost their homes to pay off the judgment.
The teacher thought it was so successful that she asks: `` Wouldn't it be helpful to all age groups if they could participate in a similar confessional of their fears and worries ''??
His second campaign in 1834 was successful.
When the original stories were related ( e. g. The War against the Rull ) this was often successful.
Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.
successful and important
Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.
The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.
The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.
Mark Antony had been the most important and most successful senior officer in Julius Caesar's army ( magister equitum ) and, thanks to his military record, could claim a substantial share of the political support of Caesar's soldiers and veterans.
They also argue that satellite radio will boost Canadian culture by giving vital exposure to independent artists, instead of concentrating just on the country's stars, and point to the CRTC's successful extraction of promises to program 10 % Canadian content on satellite services already operational in the United States as important concessions.
It has been proven that, among all types of therapies, one of the most important factors and best predictors for a successful outcome is the intensity of the therapy.
In 2000 the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America.
The most important of the new film producers at the time was Joe May, who made a series of thrillers and adventure films through the war years, but Ernst Lubitsch also came into prominence with a series of very successful comedies and dramas.
Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of American and European influence.
It would become Capra's last important film and, although he directed five more films over the next 14 years, his successful years were now behind him.
Efforts to revitalize this important part of the city have been undertaken by the municipal government and have been very successful thus far.
They were important allies of the Byzantine Empire, and waged a series of successful wars against the Arab Caliphates.
The most important Cabaret-Event is the Kleines Fest im Großen Garten ( Little Festival in the Great Garden ) which is the most successful Cabaret Festival in Germany.
Character motivations are an important part of successful improv scenes, and improvisers must therefore attempt to act according to the objectives that they believe their character seeks.
Juventus are historically the most successful club in Italian football and one of the most laureated and important globally.
In the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) Kenya became an important British military base for successful campaigns against Italy in the Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia.
In the " Journey to Brundisium ," in 37, Maecenas and Marcus Cocceius Nerva-great-grandfather of the future emperor Nerva-are described as having been sent on an important mission, and they were successful in patching up, by the Treaty of Tarentum, a reconciliation between the two claimants for supreme power.
The Byzantine Emperor, Manuel II, had first secured a stipulation, that Mustafa should, if successful, repay him for his liberation by giving up a large number of important cities.
Public awareness increase, where government should act as a bridge between public and initiative for a successful outcome of the policy is an important element to be considered.
Strategic management of all these resources is a very important factor for a successful acquisition.
In the economic investment arena, the Panamanian Government has been very successful in the enforcement of intellectual property rights and has concluded with the U. S. a very important Bilateral Investment Treaty Amendment and an agreement with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation ( OPIC ).
Compatibility is important for products to be successful ; many devices coming out have USB, Ethernet, or other standard types of connection.
Perhaps the most important criticism of this view is that, even granting its success against the argument from evil, it does nothing to undermine an ' argument from the absence of goodness ' which may be pushed instead, and so the response is only superficially successful.
The soundtrack itself was more successful than the film, and is considered one of the most important movie soundtracks of the 1990s.
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