That is, months reflect the lunar cycle, but then intercalary months ( e. g. " second Adar " in the Hebrew calendar ) are added to bring the calendar year into synchronisation with the solar year.

He was set to work on astronomical and calendar studies, a project which was intended to bring the year back into synchronization with the seasons.

Numa reformed the Roman calendar by adjusting it for the solar and lunar year as well as by adding the months of January and February to bring the total number of months to twelve.

* Chinese scientist Zhang Heng corrects the calendar to bring it into line with the four seasons.

Scholars are not in agreement about whether the calendars used by the Jews before the Babylonian captivity were solar ( based on the return of the same relative position between the sun and the earth ) or lunisolar ( based on months that corresponded to the cycle of the moon, with periodic additional months to bring the calendar back into agreement with the solar cycle ) like the present-day Hebrew calendar.

They are also going to bring out an official calendar for 2013.

Starner is also researching dual-purpose speech, where a wearable computer will be able to interpret certain speech patterns and bring up appropriate programs, such as a calendar for scheduling appointments.

There is little hard evidence to suggest that the ancient Mesoamericans used any intercalary days to bring their calendar back into alignment.

From 2003 to 2005 Wizards of the Coast made an effort to bring the Pro Tour seasons in accordance with the calendar year instead of having the seasons last from August to August the next year.

His Historia de diis gentium ( 1548 ) marked a distinctly forward step in the systematic study of classical mythology ; and by his treatises De annis et mensibus, and on the Calendarium Romanum et Graecum, he contributed to bring about the reform of the calendar, which was ultimately effected by Pope Gregory XIII.

On the side of the Loggia, there is a Latin inscription from 1750 commemorating the change of the Florentine calendar in 1749 to bring it into line with the Roman calendar.

But the enmities it will incur, the isolation into which it will descend, and the internal moral and spiritual softness that will be engendered, will, in the long term, bring it to economic and political disaster.

The I. A. P. A. found itself driven from journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro Government and the return of the Cuban press to the freedom it knew before Batista's dictatorship began in 1952.

What I do is to try to bring him into contact with reality as much as possible.

it cannot bring them into actual play.

Two things have happened in recent months to bring the Council into perspective: each provides a basis for renewed hope and joy.

On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

it would needlessly bring badness into the world ; ;

it would bring goodness into the world.

If pressed by the sitter for more detail, she may be able to bring the picture more into focus and see more sharply, almost as if she were physically going closer.

In deciding how much land you want, take into account the amount you'll need to bring in the income you expect.

But it coupled with this a requirement that Indians must bring their pelts to Mobile and thus save all costs of transportation into and out of the Indian country.

He leaned on the wheel, clutching it, staring into the sunlight, and tried to bring order into his thoughts.

Walnut, wormy chestnut, pecan, three varieties of burl, hand-woven Philippine cane, ceramic tiles, marble are used to emphasize the feeling of texture and of permanence, the furniture to fit into rooms with tiled floors, brick or paneled walls, windows that bring in the outdoors.

Time and again in counseling and teaching, one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious.

The royal ritual generated power into the other world: it also provided the living with a way to control the spirits, and bring their powers directly to bear on the everyday affairs of the world.

They say it helps them bring back into schools the spiritual and moral values on which this country was built.

Pleasure boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water -- ocean, lake and reservoir.

`` We are going to bring the Somers into New York harbor safe and sound ''.

Yes, he would bring the Somers safely into New York harbor but at a price.

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.

Steven Harper states " Wesley does not place the substitionary element primarily within a legal framework ... Rather doctrine seeks to bring into proper relationship the ' justice ' between God's love for persons and God's hatred of sin ... it is not the satisfaction of a legal demand for justice so much as it is an act of mediated reconciliation.

Writer Harriet Martineau, for example, wrote dubiously that, " the master presupposes his little pupils possessed of all truth ; and that his business is to bring it out into expression ".

E. Chantre in 1894 picked up lustreless ware, like that of Hissariik, in central Phtygia and at Pteria, and the English archaeological expeditions, sent subsequently into north-western Anatolia, have never failed to bring back ceramic specimens of Aegean appearance from the valleys of the Rhyndncus, Sangarius and Halys.

Because of their size and durability, flanged units can be used to bring shafts into alignment before they are joined together.

# Rotate the top net oppositely to how it was oriented before, to bring it back into alignment with the bottom net.

Crushing devices hold material between two parallel or tangent solid surfaces, and apply sufficient force to bring the surfaces together to generate enough energy within the material being crushed so that its molecules separate from ( fracturing ), or change alignment in relation to ( deformation ), each other.

Conservative and Reform Judaism have altered the text to varying degrees to bring it into alignment with their view of modern needs and sensibilities.

Stunting itself is viewed as a coping mechanism, designed to bring body size into alignment with the calories available during adulthood in the location where the child is born.

As shown in Figure 1, feedback at this stage would move via Feedback Loop A and would have the effect of altering previous planning to bring the learning activities of the client system into better alignment with change objectives.

One solution to dealing with this limit is to bring the forces generated by the sail and the underwater foil into alignment, canceling as much of the torque as possible and thus reducing the amount of heeling.

As shown in Figure 1, feedback at this stage would move via Feedback Loop A and would have the effect of altering previous planning to bring the learning activities of the client system into better alignment with change objectives.

Of key importance in Feri are practices which are intended to bring these souls into alignment so they may communicate freely, granting the practitioner a more holistic sense of self, and deeper communion with the Goddess.

Blunt aimed to modernise the NPA and bring it into closer alignment with the Liberal Party, particularly on issues of economic deregulation.

The Georgian authorities have seized the opportunity, since the 4 January presidential election, to further bring Georgia's election process in closer alignment with European standards for democratic elections, including OSCE commitments and Council of Europe standards ," the report said.

Goerdeler wrote that " I can well imagine that we will have to bring certain issues ... into a greater degree of alignment with the imponderable attitudes of other peoples, not in substance, but in the manner of dealing with them ".

Through our freedom, particular self-governing capabilities can be installed in order to bring our own ways of conducting and evaluating ourselves into alignment with political objectives 1996: 155.

On 31 January 2012, Wave Telecom was rebranded as “ JT ” to bring it into alignment with the other JT companies.

The spelling of some plural words the singular form of which ended in D and T was modified to reinsert this mute consonant, so as to bring the plural in morphological alignment with the singular.

( Where anti-parallel alignment would bring them closer-working to reduce the wall thickness.

The curve is required to bring the alignment to that of the existing ground-level approach road.

Ido ( 1907 ), the foremost of the Esperantidos, sought to bring Esperanto into closer alignment with Western European expectations of an ideal language, based on familiarity with French, English, and Italian.

' Nobody has done more over the past thirty years to bring Scottish historiography into rigorous and unsentimental alignment with developments elsewhere than Tom Devine.