Such low rising structures required massive abutments, which at the Venetian Rialto bridge and the Fleischbrücke in Nuremberg ( span-to-rise ratio 6. 4: 1 ) were founded on thousands of wooden piles, partly rammed obliquely into the grounds to counteract more effectively the lateral thrust.

The rising water level will counteract the low atmospheric pressure such that the total pressure at some plane beneath the water surface remains constant.

Many taiko are not tunable, and a drum with high head tension would counteract the slacking effects of humidity.

An additional function of the plate is to counteract the pull of more than 20 tons of the string tension.

To counteract this increase in tension there must be a transport of atoms to the surface keeping the GB tension constant.

The father, Rafael Guastavino, innovated with the use of Portland cement as the mortar, rather than the traditional lime and gypsum mortars, which allowed mild steel bar to be used to counteract tension forces.

Alternatively, some rifles such as the Dragunov or Walther WA2000 provide structures at the fore-end to provide tension on the barrel in order to counteract barrel drop and other alterations in barrel shape.

Rimé was initially intended to counteract the novel growing suspicion and tension building between the different traditions, which at the time had, in many places, gone so far as to forbid studying one another's scriptures.

To counteract this, some aircraft have the front of the fin ( vertical stabilizer ) slightly offset from the centreline so as to provide an opposing force that cancels out the one produced by the slipstream, albeit only at one particular ( usually cruising ) speed, an example being the Hawker Hurricane fighter from World War II.

The resulting photographs may have been intended to offset the general aversion of the British people to an unpopular war and to counteract the occasionally critical reporting of correspondent William Howard Russell of The Times.

Ference's association with environmentalist David Suzuki while in Calgary led him to create a carbon-neutral program for the NHL, which now includes over 500 players who purchase carbon offset credits to counteract the negative environmental impact of professional sports.

To counteract the disaster, a charter was bestowed by the king Władysław IV in 1646, confirming that the town was allowed for two fairs a year and, in addition, ensuring every merchant willing to attend the fairs of special personal protection given for granted by the soldiers of the king.

They are quite rare — only a few dozen in a galaxy as big as ours — and they flirt with disaster near the Eddington limit, i. e., the outward pressure of their radiation is almost strong enough to counteract gravity.

Britain saw Mubarak's desire for an alliance as an opportunity to counteract German influence in the region and so agreed.

Especially during the Fourth Century BC, after the restoration of democracy from oligarchical coups, the Athenians used the drawing of lots for selecting government officers in order to counteract what the Athenians acutely saw as a tendency toward oligarchy in government if a professional governing class were allowed to use their skills for their own benefit.

The craft also involved learning how to hammer a saw, whereby a saw is deformed with a hammer and anvil to counteract the forces of heat and cutting.

In February 1790, a group of activists came together not only to oppose the interests of the Dissenters but also to counteract what they saw as the undesirable importation of French Revolutionary ideals.

Benching involves the simultaneous solution of multiple deformations introduced to the saw to counteract the predicted stresses of the saw in operation.

Troubled by what he saw on Christian television, Shelton was inspired to " build the television and radio networks that would reach the world with the undiluted three angels ' messages of Revelation 14-the networks that would counteract the counterfeit.

The low pressure above this pocket will cause the flaps to deploy, and counteract some of the lift generated by the car, making it more resistant to coming out of contact with the ground.

To counteract this, the Small Order Execution System ( SOES ) was established, which provides an electronic method for dealers to enter their trades.

Small half-autonomous groups of people try to counteract elusive flocks of adaptants.

The shooter must have very good accuracy ( much higher than when releasing a regular jump shot ) and must use more strength ( to counteract the backwards momentum ) in a relatively short amount of time.

Only one woman, who has diabetes, is able to counteract the drugs and fight off her locked-in syndrome.

Lawler, who was at ringside with Ross to counteract Swagger's being at ringside for Cole, got in after being attacked by Swagger on the outside of the ring earlier and took out Swagger after Cole whipped Ross ' back with his belt, which Swagger took off of him before putting him in the Ankle Lock.

" He also discovers that the other campers have smuggled in enough junk food to easily stave off the hunger pangs and probably counteract any weight loss that the camp programs cause.

These are similar to the antibodies that the human immune system uses to fight off bacteria and viruses, but they are " custom-designed " ( using hybridoma technology or other methods ) and can therefore be made specifically to counteract or block any given substance in the body, or to target any specific cell type ; examples of such monoclonal antibodies for use in various diseases are given in the table below.

Historically, support for modern multiculturalism stems from the changes in Western societies after World War II, in what Susanne Wessendorf calls the " human rights revolution ", in which the horrors of institutionalized racism and ethnic cleansing became almost impossible to ignore in the wake of the Holocaust ; with the collapse of the European colonial system, as colonized nations in Africa and Asia successfully fought for their independence and pointed out the racist underpinnings of the colonial system ; and, in the United States in particular, with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, which criticized ideals of assimilation that often led to prejudices against those who did not act according to Anglo-American standards and which led to the development of academic ethnic studies programs as a way to counteract the neglect of contributions by racial minorities in classrooms.

In 1948, Gold hypothesized that the ear operates by " regeneration ", in that electromechanical action occurs when electrical energy is used to counteract the effects of damping.

This phenomenon of cognitive bias is also sometimes described as mental inertia, " groupthink ", or a " paradigm ", and it is often difficult to counteract its effects upon analysis and decision making processes.

If the spacecraft is meant to be able to return to its point of launch " on command ", then some sort of maneuvering will be required to counteract the fact that the Earth is turning under the spacecraft as it flies.

In about 1930 Switzerland began to use " grilled gum ", a light grill applied along the gum to counteract the tendency for gummed stamps to curl.

For example, there was a case in Sao Paulo in Brazil of a quota imposed on the São Paulo Fashion Week to require that " at least 10 percent of the models to be black or indigenous ", as a coercive measure to counteract a " longstanding bias towards white models.

The two iron balls on each side of a magnetic compass, used to balance out and counteract magnetic variations based on a ship's location, are traditionally called " Lamberts ", in his honor.

* Home Brand – basic needs at low prices-recently marketed as " take it home with pride ", to counteract with the low quality, low class stereotype commonly associated with Home Brand.

But in order to counteract the influence of Ibn Gabirol the philosopher, he wrote an Arabic book, translated into Hebrew under the title " Emunah Ramah ", in which he reproaches Gabirol with having philosophized without any regard to the requirements of the Jewish religious position, and bitterly accuses him of mistaking a number of poor reasons for one good one.

To counteract the effects of Klatchian coffee, in Klatch it is drunk with Orakh ( a very violent alcoholic beverage made by mixing scorpion venom and cactus sap and fermenting it in the sun for several weeks ), possibly referring to Italian " espresso " coffee which is often drunk with " grappa ", a very strong, often homemade, alcohol ( although the name " Orakh " is presumably a reference to arak ).

On the one hand, the declaration rebuked Puritans and other " precise persons ", and was issued to counteract the growing Puritan calls for strict abstinence on the Christian Sabbath ( Sabbatarianism ).

In " Death Knell ", Samantha Carter and Selmak develop a prototype weapon designed to counteract the energy animating the Kull Warriors.

In his monograph entitled, " The Future of Man's World ", he describes how he developed these sciences to counteract " the economic materialism of Marx, the psychological materialism of Freud, and the technological materialism " of our modern industrial age.

Skilling responds by calling McLean " unethical ", and accusing Fortune of publishing her reporting to counteract a positive BusinessWeek piece on Enron.