Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.

Their preferred tactic was to avoid an open field battle, and to fight from the cover of a huge fortified camp.

The two books were printed separately to avoid a British law requiring copies of all publications with text to be deposited in Crown libraries, a huge financial burden for the self-published Audubon.

Other television shows such as seaQuest DSV and Babylon 5 had previously used CGI exclusively to avoid the huge expense of models, but the Star Trek television department continued using models, because they felt models provided better realism.

However the SLD could not avoid from suffering a huge defeat in the 2005 parliamentary election, SLD only won 11. 3 % of the vote.

This had a huge impact on Taiwan, the turning over of the island to Imperial Japan marking the end of 200 years of Qing control despite an attempt to avoid annexation by Qing loyalists.

They are cast with complex patterned and zoomorphic decoration, but avoid the human figure, unlike the huge figures only recently discovered at Sanxingdui.

At the outbreak of the First World War, boys as young as 13 were caught up in the overwhelming tide of patriotism and in huge numbers cheerfully enlisted for active service others to avoid the harsh and dreary lives they had working in British industry.

Even while she lies dying in the next room, Saccard ( in a brilliant scene of breathtaking callousness ) is already making arrangements to marry rich country girl Renée, who is pregnant with the child of a local labourer and whose family wishes to avoid scandal by offering a huge dowry to any man who will marry her and claim the baby as his own.

Both the British and US also developed radio control systems for similar tasks, in order to avoid the huge anti-aircraft batteries set up around German targets.

In recent years, they have admitted that, during their hey-day of huge popularity in the 1980s, they were barely on speaking terms and would avoid each other completely when not on stage or rehearsing.

There is also a huge interest in learning to avoid any unintentional gesture that might leave a negative impression on the onlookers.

Later they had to pay a huge amount of tribute to avoid collective punishment.

Hyacinth frequently invites people to her ' candlelight suppers ', however these are disliked by her guests, who go to huge lengths to avoid them.

It is somewhat slow to remove the page table entries of a process ; the OS may avoid reusing per-process identifier values to delay facing this or it may elect to suffer the huge waste of memory associated with preallocated ( necessary because of fragmentation ) per-process hash tables.

It was a huge success and to avoid confusion with the English Brighton, it became known as Brighton-Le-Sands.

Inflicting huge losses on the Allied forces, they ultimately retreated from their positions only to avoid being outflanked.

To avoid falling into the hand of his enemies, Sardanapalus had a huge funeral pyre created for himself on which were piled " all his gold, silver and royal apparel ".

The charity status of the foundation allowed Hughes Aircraft to avoid taxes on its huge income.

Roberts hid out in Epping Forest to avoid the huge manhunt.

The steel mill was nearly closed in the mid-1970s, but it remained nominally operational primarily to avoid the huge costs it would have required to remediate the soil contamination present after years of operation.

At one point during the trip, the group arrives at a venue where they had a show booked and go out of their way to avoid discrimination by climbing up a fire escape and going in the back door in order to avoid the huge biker-looking men in the front of the club.

This avoids sprinters being penalised for accidents that do not accurately reflect their performance on the stage as a whole given that crashes in the final kilometre can be huge pileups that are hard to avoid for a rider farther back in the peloton.

The Argonauts were able to avoid both dangers because they were guided by Thetis, one of the Nereids.

In the fully developed afterlife beliefs of the New Kingdom, the soul had to avoid a variety of supernatural dangers in the Duat, before undergoing a final judgment known as the " Weighing of the Heart ".

" Autism researcher Mitzi Waltz states that there may be inherent dangers to these beliefs, leading parents to deny the existence of impairments, avoid proven treatments and spend considerable money on unhelpful interventions.

Later, without disclosing names or private details, one of the elders gives a separate talk ensuring that the congregation understands the sin, its dangers, and how to avoid it.

Local communities in the region believe that these strange hovering marsh-lights are in fact Ghost-lights representing the ghosts of fisherman who died fishing, some times they confuse the fishermen and some times they help them avoid future dangers.

There are a number of obstacles and dangers to avoid including:

By writing about a subject that was rejected by both social extremes of thought, Barthes felt he could avoid the dangers of the limiting language of the Doxa.

Popularly nicknamed " St. Michael in peril of the sea " by medieval pilgrims making their way across the flats, the mount can still pose dangers for visitors who avoid the causeway and attempt the hazardous walk across the sands from the neighbouring coast.

According to Schauer, the CWA's stance on sex education intends to teach children the " dangers of sex outside of marriage and give them the tools to avoid promiscuity.

The Italian Alpine Club published a book in 1889 entitled Fiorio e Ratti – The dangers of mountaineering and rules to avoid them, which recommended ice axes as among " the inseparable companions of the mountaineer ".

* Educate people about the dangers of swimming and how to avoid them

Their speed, coupled with their innate intelligence, allows them to avoid almost all dangers if carefully introduced to an outdoor world very early in life.

Gas cylinders which fail are normally destroyed as part of the testing protocol to avoid the dangers inherent in them being subsequently used.

In the case of detachable leads, the appliance end of the power cord has a socket rather than a plug to link it to the appliance, to avoid the dangers from having a live protruding pin.

* Trimix is a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen and helium and is often used at depth in technical diving and commercial diving instead of air to reduce nitrogen narcosis and to avoid the dangers of oxygen toxicity.

:( b ) In construing and complying with these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision and to any special circumstances, including the limitations of the vessels involved, which may make a departure from these rules necessary to avoid immediate danger

The plan was to lure the Shu forces into poisonous marshes around the caves of King Duosi, but Zhuge Liang was forewarned of the dangers by Meng Huo's older brother, Meng Jie, and managed to avoid the marshes all together.

Very often the cat leashes are replaced with harnesses because they avoid the dangers of the leash which include escaping and running away or choking.

If it is desired to light a roadway ( perhaps due to heavy and fast multi-lane traffic ), to avoid the dangers of casual placement of street lights it should not be lit intermittently, as this requires repeated eye readjustment which implies eyestrain and temporary blindness when entering and leaving light pools.

But the tower itself speaks to Psyche and tells her the route that will allow her to enter the Underworld alive and return again, as well as telling her how to get past Cerberus ( by giving the three-headed dog a small cake ); how to avoid other dangers on the way there and back ; and most importantly, to eat nothing but coarse bread in the underworld, as eating anything else would trap her there forever.

He believed that people needed to be educated in order to avoid the dangers of the old ways of thinking.

Its approach was to educate the world about the dangers of old-world thinking to avoid possible future economic and political disasters.

Using this, fire fighters can locate and avoid potential dangers such as hazardous material ( hazmat ) storage areas and flammable chemicals.

By requiring adolescents to experience the rigors and dangers of life on a colony planet, the Ships hope to avoid stagnation and ensure that those who survive are skilled enough to contribute significantly to Ship life.