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avoid and concentration
Although she moved from Germany to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi persecution, in 1942 she was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died in the gas chamber.
Specifically, it is designed to lessen congestion in streets and to avoid future congestion ; to secure safety from fire and other hazards ; to provide light and air about buildings in which people live ; to prevent overcrowding of land and avoid excessive concentration of population ; to assist in adequately providing transportation, water supply, sewage disposal, schools, parks, and other public requirements.
These may accumulate up to 30 cm deep, killing trees by their chemical concentration ; in smaller amounts, the droppings are, however, beneficial as a fertiliser, and therefore woodland managers may try to move roosts from one area of a wood to another to spread the benefit and avoid large toxic deposits.
Thus, provinces were slowly divided into smaller units to avoid concentration of power and military capacity in the hands of one man.
Hypoglycemia and reactive hypoglycemia are associated with excess insulin ( or insufficient glucagon ), and avoidance of low blood glucose concentration may help to avoid cramps.
This oxaloacetate is then converted to malate and is released into the bundle sheath cells ( site of carbon dioxide fixation by RuBisCO ) where oxygen concentration is low to avoid photorespiration.
Hemodilution is the dilution of the concentration of red blood cells and plasma constituents by partially substituting the blood with colloids or crystalloids and it is a strategy to avoid exposure of patients to the hazards of homologous blood transfusions.
The main derived quantity in which amount of substance enters into the numerator is amount of substance concentration, c. This name is often abbreviated to " amount concentration ", except in clinical chemistry where " substance concentration " is the preferred term ( to avoid any possible ambiguity with mass concentration ).
The concentration of inert gases, such as nitrogen and helium, are planned and checked to avoid nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness.
This also allows station owners, who already usually own multiple stations locally and nationally, to avoid the rulemaking process of changing the table of allotments as would be needed to get a new separately-licensed station, and to avoid exceeding controlling-interest caps intended to prevent the excessive concentration of media ownership.
However, between moving the two light engines onto the down line and accepting the express, the signalman had to deal with two up goods trains and several up light engines, movements which would require all his concentration to avoid delay, and make it easy to forget about the down line.
As part of SuperValu's acquisition of New Albertsons, including its Chicago-based Jewel-Osco stores, SuperValu divested its Chicago-area Cub Foods locations to an investment group headed by Cerberus Capital Management, to avoid market concentration issues.
This institution was intentionally left out of the first Estonian constitution, for its authors tried to avoid the concentration of power in one person's hands by all means possible.
The report of the tour in the 1949 edition of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, stated that Barnes's fielding was as important a factor as his batting in The Invincibles success: Probably a number of batsmen were sufficiently affected by his close attendance to cause them to lose concentration on the bowler running up, but equally important was the fact that the knowledge of his presence influenced opponents to avoid strokes in that direction.
) As another measure to avoid a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of any one person, responsibility for the various branches of the army and its administration were deliberately assigned to different high officials.
On July 1, the shipping lanes in and out of Boston Harbor were rotated to avoid an area with a high concentration of the right whales.
The formation of sodium aluminate ( Na ) requires that solutions of high concentration of sodium hydroxide be used to avoid the formation of aluminium hydroxide, which otherwise would precipitates as bayerite.
In order to avoid deportation of Danes to German concentration camps, Danish authorities suggested, in January 1944, that an internment camp be created in Denmark.
“ The Jews of North Africa were relatively fortunate because their distance from German concentration camps in central and eastern Europe permitted them to avoid the fate of their coreligionists in Europe.

avoid and camps
The reason for leaving refugee camps is to find a job or to avoid the poor living condition of the camp.
In previous agreements, the two groups have negotiated about respecting MILF camps and presence to avoid conflicts in these areas, an agreement that is prone to violation.
The International Committee of the Red Cross was refused entry to the camps, Switzerland was deprived of its status as " protecting power " and POWs were reclassified as " Disarmed Enemy Forces " in order to avoid recognition under the Geneva Convention.
To avoid suspicion, they were camouflaged as police training camps.
A library patron specifically complained about five photos depicting scenes of the Palestinian refugee camps which were immediately removed by the Gallery officials to avoid controversy.
His life started quietly enough, but after describing quite innocuous things such as the summer house during his childhood and his schooldays, Kross moves on to the first Soviet occupation of Estonia, his successful attempt to avoid being drafted for the Waffen-SS during the Nazi German occupation, and a long section covering his experiences of prison and the labour camps.
Many converted just to stay alive ; some pretended to convert in order to remain in their homeland and / or to avoid being sold into slavery ; others converted but relocated at missionary refugee camps that boasted better treatment ; still others migrated to refugiums on land of other Algonquian or Iroquoian peoples.
When several Thailand-based Hmong refugee camps closed due to a lack of financial support in the early 1990s, Hmong refugees in Thailand fled to the temple to avoid repatriation to Laos.
Strucker rounded up the resistance to send them to camps to avoid having to destroy the town, but the Howling Commandos derailed his train, freeing the captives.
The concept of " collective security " forwarded by men such as Michael Joseph Savage, Martin Wight, Immanuel Kant, and Woodrow Wilson, are deemed to apply interests in security in a broad manner, to " avoid grouping powers into opposing camps, and refusing to draw dividing lines that would leave anyone out.
All were executed, were sent to GULAG prison camps, or committed suicide to avoid being repatriated.

avoid and rich
In order to avoid degrading himself, he wrote in the same memo he would retire at age 35 to pursue the practice of philanthropic giving for "... the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
Marcus credits his mother with teaching him " religious piety, simplicity in diet " and how to avoid " the ways of the rich ".
* Song Dynasty Chinese judge and magistrate Bao Qingtian writes a memorial to the throne, warning about governmental corruption and a foreseeable bankruptcy of the Chinese iron industry, if increasingly poorer families continued to be listed on the register for iron-smelting households ( while more rich households avoid being listed for fear of financial calamity ).
It is the first authorised building in the main square which was made of stone to avoid fire incidents. It was built in 1530 in Gothic style, for the rich family Malapert.
The Bene Gesserit avoid appearing too rich or powerful, or revealing the extent of their powers, to prevent being seen as overtly responsible for the rise and fall of governments and empires, and to avoid any organized backlash.
During the Civil War, Dekalb county families, particularly families from mountain terrains such as Sand and Lookout Mountain tended, at first, to avoid fighting, since it was considered a " rich man's war ", and not of particular interest to mountain people.
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.
Using the famous Pickford name, he soon became involved in a scheme that allowed rich young men to pay bribes to avoid military service, as well as reportedly procuring young women for officers.
If the sluggard is rich, he should avoid getting that lazy insensitiveness of the chief people of Zion, that delight themselves in every way possible, and whom the prophet Amos predicted they would become slaves.
Jedediah Ward is a liberal civil rights lawyer who has based his career on helping people avoid being taken for a ride by the rich and powerful ; he's pursued principle at the expense of profit, though he has a bad habit of not following up on his clients after their cases are settled.
The plant gets its common name from the fact that, like the unrelated scurvy-grass, its leaves are rich in vitamin C. Sailors travelling around Cape Horn would consume the leaves to avoid scurvy.
Many economists hold that inflation affects the lower and middle classes more than the rich, as they hold a larger fraction of their income in cash, they are much less likely to receive the newly created monies before the market has adjusted with inflated prices, more often have fixed incomes, wages or pensions, and lack the means to avoid domestic inflation by reallocating assets overseas.
Another reason to use rich black for small areas of black is to avoid trapping issues.
Patients should avoid rapidly absorbable sugars and thus avoid popular soft drinks rich in glucose or sucrose.
The Government said they had wanted to avoid a situation such as that in the United States, where it is virtually impossible for anyone but the very rich to participate in the political process.
In some instances, women with HG may be able to avoid hospitalization by eating a special diet of clear liquids and bland food rich in carbohydrates, and eating before rising in the morning ; while these may be of some assistance, they are unlikely to resolve the disorder on their own.
for that matter ) the cognitive ability test can help rule out, in conjunction with other tests and sources of information, other explanations for problems, uncover co-morbid problems, and be a rich source of information when properly analyzed and care is taken to avoid relying simply on the single summary IQ score ( Sattler, 2008 ).
Documentaries are now included in this section, in order to render the programme more legible and avoid any confusion between different rich and complex sections.
This structural characteristic allows for B. suis to interact with lipid rafts on the surface of macrophages to be internalized, and the formed lipid rich phagosome is able to avoid fusion with lysosomes through this endocytic pathway.

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