However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were sent to Brazil, initially to escort shipments of gold and diamonds and to guard the Viceroy who resided in Rio de Janeiro ( 1st Cavalry Regiment – Vice-Roy Guard Squadron ).

Because the principle allowing revocation authority for keys is very powerful, the mechanisms used to control it should involve both as many participants as possible ( to guard against malicious attacks of this type ), while at the same time as few as possible ( to ensure that a key can be revoked without dangerous delay ).

From around the early 14th century the backsword became the first type of European sword to be fitted with a knuckle guard.

The suppression of Artabasdos ' revolt heralded the first significant changes in the Anatolian themes: the over-mighty Opsikion was broken up with the creation of two new themes, the Bucellarian Theme and the Optimates, while the role of imperial guard was assumed by a new type of professional force, the imperial tagmata.

The small sword guard is typically of the " shell " type, sometimes with two lobes that were decorated as clam shells.

In later foils, the lobed type evolved into the " lunette " or figure-8 guard, and the disk became the modern foil " bell " guard, but the guards were still referred to as coquilles.

Small swords with this type of guard normally included other features of the older rapier hilt, including quillons, ricasso, knuckle-bow, and a pas d ' âne, although these were often atrophied beyond the point of usefulness, serving mainly as a decorative element.

The pommel, a type of threaded fastener used to fasten blade, guard, plug, and grip assemblies together, is specific to the type of grip that is used.

The Awn Hair, also known as guard hair, is the third type of fiber.

In larger militaries, such as in the United States military, offshore patrol vessels usually serve in the coast guard, but many smaller nations navies operate these type of ships.

Lever-action is a type of firearm action which uses a lever located around the trigger guard area ( often including the trigger guard itself ) to load fresh cartridges into the chamber of the barrel when the lever is worked.

Aside from generalized predators such as birds, there are also specialist predators such as the Horse guard wasp, a type of Sand wasp that preferentially attacks horse flies.

Within Ritual settings, there are the Thegn, a type of sergeant at arms / guard / watchman, who can also be responsible for the Covenstead ( the meeting place of the Coven ), or guarding a ceremony being performed, and a Scribe / secretary, who keeps most, if not all of the Coven's records.

A mastiff is a type of large dog often used as guard dogs.

Hammond and Admiral Peary of the American navy had worked out plans to develop a type of coast guard along the eastern shores that would operate from the air.

This position can be considered a type of spider guard.

Examples of this type of action would be digging the practitioner's forearms into the inner thigh of the opponent, standing and attempting a can opener neck crank, or in the case of a mixed martial arts setting, to simply strike the opponent until the guard is released.

A rash guard, also known as rash vest or rashie, is a type of water wear, an athletic shirt made of spandex and nylon or polyester.

** God game – a type of life simulation game that casts the player in the position of controlling the game on a large scale, as an entity with divine / supernatural powers, as a great leader, or with no specified character, and places them in charge of a game setting containing autonomous characters to guard and influence.

; Corner guard: A type of guard that is off to the side of the house ; usually employed when a team has the hammer and needs to score multiple points

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

It is not as convenient as the old type toothbrush and the paste tends to shimmy off the bristles.

The rural land use study is being carried out under contract by the University of Rhode Island and identifies all agricultural land uses in the state by type of use.

This type of borrowing can be reduced to a minimum if quarterly installment payment of taxes is instituted and the first payment placed near the opening of the fiscal year.

It indicates the same thing but it is meant to pertain more specifically to establishments designed to cater to smaller type boats such as outboards.

Actually, the engine displacement formula is the standard formula for computing the volume of a cylinder of any type with an added factor that represents the number of cylinders in the engine.

Laguerre Hanover is outstanding in type and conformation -- good body, plenty of heart girth, stands straight on his legs on excellent feet -- and has the smoothest gait.

Fury is upstanding and on the rangy side, and Caper is more the compact type.

Torrid Adios ( Torrid-Adios Molly ) is not so masculine as most of the colts, but I like his type and he certainly is one of the best-gaited pacers on the grounds.

After notching it for the keelson, chines and battens, the half-inch plywood transom is secured to it with glue and the same type nails.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

New to the field is a duplex type butyrate laminate in which the two sheets of the laminate are of different color.

Still another approach to the changeable letter type of sign is a modular unit introduced by Merritt Products, Azusa, Calif..

At the present time, doctors, pharmacists, and codeine-sensitive or allergic patients or sensitive to the amounts of histamine released by its metabolites must choose among rapidly dwindling supplies of the Hycodan-Codiclear-Hydromet type syrups, Tussionex — an extended-release suspension similar to the European products Codipertussin ( codeine hydrochloride ), Paracodin suspension ( dihydrocodeine hydroiodide ), Tusscodin ( nicocodeine hydrochloride ) and others — and a handful of weak dihydrocodeine syrups.

" Even though at first they were thought to be too weak or fragile to do this type of work, after the first few days on which Chinese were on the line, the decision was made to hire as many as could be found in California ( where most were independent gold miners or in service industries such as laundries and kitchens ).

Pavlov extended the definitions of the four temperament types under study at the time: phlegmatic, choleric, sanguine, and melancholic, updating the names to " the strong and impetuous type, the strong equilibrated and quiet type, the strong equilibrated and lively type, and the weak type.

Despite its promising appearance and engineering novelty the Pipit did not fly as well as expected, the elevator being criticised as heavy while the rudder was weak and the type was longitudinally unstable.

Inguinal hernias are further divided into the more common indirect inguinal hernia ( 2 / 3, depicted here ), in which the inguinal canal is entered via a congenital weakness at its entrance ( the internal inguinal ring ), and the direct inguinal hernia type ( 1 / 3 ), where the hernia contents push through a weak spot in the back wall of the inguinal canal.

C ++ ( and Cfront ) was directly responsible for many improvements in Unix linkers and object file formats, as it was the first widely-used language which required link-time type checking, weak symbols, and other similar features.

In entity relationship diagrams a weak entity set is indicated by a bold ( or double-lined ) rectangle ( the entity ) connected by a bold ( or double-lined ) type arrow to a bold ( or double-lined ) diamond ( the relationship ).

Isabelle is generic: it provides a meta-logic ( a weak type theory ), which is used to encode object logics like First-order logic ( FOL ), Higher-order logic ( HOL ) or Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory ( ZFC ).

The mutational chink type of falsetto is considered inefficient and weak, but there is little information available about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the other two types.

One such type of location is a large hospital complex, where cellular coverage is often weak or nonexistent, where radio transmitters are thought to interfere with sensitive medical equipment and where there is a greater need of assurance for a timely delivery of a message.

Robots of the aforementioned last type directly parallel contemporary industrial robotics practice, though real-life robots do contain safety sensors and systems, in a concern for human safety ( a weak form of the First Law ; the robot is a safe tool to use, but has no " judgment ", which is implicit in Asimov's own stories ).

Since the association between the various recovered bones was weak, making the exact number of individual animals represented impossible to determine properly, the type specimen ( YPM 5205 ) of Deinonychus was restricted to the complete left foot and partial right foot that definitely belonged to the same individual.

"</ ref > He'd also seen in several kinds of experiments that no matter whether a gas is a weak absorber of broad-spectrum radiant heat, it will strongly absorb the radiant heat coming from a separate body of the same type of gas.

This forces Black to retreat the bishop to e7 or capture on c3, which transposes to a line of the Sämisch Variation long considered good for White because he will undouble his pawns at some point by playing cxd5, eliminating the weak pawn on c4, then prepare the e4 pawn break, backed by the bishop pair, which will gain force in the more open type of position which will ensue.

The electrostatic binding energy of the nucleus, the energy of weak interactions in the nucleus, and the kinetic energy of electrons in atoms, all contribute to the gravitational mass of an atom, as has been confirmed to high precision in Eötvös type experiments.

Whilst this type of receiver is adequate for reception of local beacons, specialized techniques ( receiver preselectors, noise limiters and filters ) are required for the reception of very weak signals from remote beacons.

The type of government may range from inoperative, to weak governmental authority, to incorporated municipalities.

A type of matchlock was developed called the snap matchlock, in which the serpentine was held in firing position by a weak spring, and released by pressing a button, pulling a trigger, or even pulling a short string passing into the mechanism.

The devils, of which the ruling type are called baatezu (), are lawful evil natives of the Nine Hells of Baator ; they subjugate the weak and rule tyrannically over their domains.

Nietzsche went on to say that mankind, out of fear, has bred a weak, sick type of human.

Typically, where this type of problem is found, the weak story is reinforced to make it stronger than the floors above by adding shear walls or moment frames.