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To check the situation on the ground, Bento de Góis, a Portuguese former soldier and explorer who had joined the Jesuits as a Lay Brother in Goa, India, traveled in 1603 – 1605 from India via Afghanistan and one of the routes of the traditional Silk Road ( via Badakhshan, the Pamirs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu.
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Such were the incongruities of the situation that the very police assigned to check up on me were drafted into driving me to the Strasbourg Hospital while World Citizen Jean Babel waved adieu from the `` Line ''!!
They seek cover, where they stand still and alert, facing away from the disturbance and turning their heads from time to time to check on the situation.
This situation led many of the barons to fear that Henry was following in his father's footsteps and therefore also needed to be kept in check.
If a player's move places the opponent's king under attack, that king is said to be in check, and the player in check is required to immediately remedy the situation.
Fighting back tears, he cheerfully appraises the situation before deciding to call home and check up on his wife and children.
In the game of chess, perpetual check is a situation in which one player can force a draw by an unending series of checks.
It is popularly considered that perpetual check – where one player gives a series of checks from which the other player cannot escape – is a draw, but in fact there is no longer a specific rule for this in the laws of chess, because any perpetual check situation will eventually be claimable as a draw under the threefold repetition rule or by the fifty-move rule, or ( more likely ) by agreement.
Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal moves.
Checkmate ( frequently shortened to mate ) is a situation in chess ( and in other boardgames of the chaturanga family ) in which one player's king is threatened with capture ( in check ) and there is no way to meet that threat.
In the late 2010 a monitoring mission of UNESCO was visiting the Kiev Pechersk Lavra to check on situation of the site.
If working with transparency, check the rules in use for your situation.
The de facto leader of the group, he is the voice of reason that keeps the Planeteers in check when the group begins to lose faith in a given situation.
If trained to do so and the situation permits, conduct a secondary survey and check the chest and abdomen for pain, deformity, guarding, discoloration or swelling.
listed CE established by the agency, the agency must check to make sure that no extraordinary circumstances exist that may cause the proposed action to have a significant effect in a particular situation.
Having become a political thorn in the side of the government for over three years, the government concocts ways to eliminate the popularity of Honor and Hamish Alexander, promoting a slime campaign depicting the two as sexual partners, and when that blows up, decides the deteriorating situation in Silesia warrants sending Honor in command of a fleet to check expansionist activity by the Andermani Empire.
If the attacked piece is the king, the situation is referred to as a discovered check.
During the lull Smith walked around the position to gain an understanding of the situation and check the condition of the wounded.
In some turn-based games one tells colonies what percentages of their efforts to put into various activities such as industrial growth, research, and building defenses or combat units ; as colonies grow or the strategic situation changes, one has to check and adjust these ratios.
According to the FAO Avian Influenza Disease Emergency Situation Update, H5N1 pathogenicity is continuing to gradually rise in endemic areas, but the avian influenza disease situation in farmed birds is being held in check by vaccination.
A character's base situation die is + d4 for broad skill or feat check, + d0 for specialty skill or action check.
It seemed the perfect situation for Atlanta with Greg Maddux pitching Game 5 with a chance to clinch the title, but Albert Belle slugged a two-run homer in the first inning, and the Braves lineup was held in check by Cleveland veteran Orel Hershiser who went eight innings, only surrendering two runs.
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He was about to make a gas check on his flight when Todman's voice broke in: `` Sweeneys!!
She had to clean the glass on the display cases in the butcher shop, help her brother scrub the cutting tables with wire brushes, mop the floors, put down new sawdust on the floors and help check the outgoing orders.
The Bathyrans ran a check on Globocnik and had only to conclude that he was in a tug of war with Hans Frank and the civilian administrators.
Whether electricity and public water and sewers are available or not, check the local customs in the use of bottled or L-P gas ( we give you alternatives later on ).
M & R Dietetic Laboratories, Inc., Columbus, gives all its workers a facsimile checkbook -- each check showing the amount the company spends on a particular fringe.
If you run into excess plug fouling on one truck, check to be sure that the rig has a thermostat.
The director helped tailor-make a check list of the district manager's errors by asking various observers to write out sentences commenting on the mistakes they felt he made.
Pels also sent a check for $100 to Russell's widow and had a white marble monument erected on his grave.
Proceeding in this way up the table we extract the complete optimal policy and, if it is desired, we can check on Af by evaluating Af at the last stage.
Police did make an attempt to check on Morse's alibi.
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the motel manager doesn't check the license number on the plates against the license number the tenant writes out.
When I switched on the lights for her to come and get the check, I had the exact change plus a dollar tip.
If I could call in, they could check the story while we were on our way.
Failing to find what was wanted, as was most likely, check out other guests, with special -- but not exclusive -- attention to those with rooms on the street.
`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.
In all, the Senate signed a check for $46.7 billion, which not only included the extra $3.5 billion requested the week before by President Kennedy, but tacked on $754 million more than the President had asked for.
There was a check from his company, and the usual enthusiastic bulletins on new lines they always issued.
Why should I go over at midnight to check on Francie, when her parents didn't care enough to leave a party??
But once the bulk of the Macedonian army had retired, the states of Thessaly feared the return and vengeance of Alexander, and so sent for aid to Thebes, whose policy it was to put a check on any neighbor who might otherwise become too formidable.
Only in Israel decompression is used on all luggage to check for pressure sensor detonators.
In his Swedish paper " Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer " he reports on experiments to check that the freezing point is independent of latitude ( and of atmospheric pressure ).
Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.
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