Alfred set up a system of defensive strong points ( Burhs ); in order to maintain these settlements, he granted them a degree of autonomy.

The Soviet Union supported a strong Vietnam to maintain a second front against China in case of hostilities and to prevent further Chinese expansion.

( After Odo originally fled, the Muslims became overconfident and failed to maintain strong outer defenses and continuous scouting.

* Keeping peripherals on-chip also reduces power consumption as external GPIO ports typically require buffering so that they can source or sink the relatively high current loads that are required to maintain a strong signal outside of the chip.

He promised to maintain a strong commitment against Communism while avoiding the topic of NATO ; finally, he stressed a corruption-free, frugal administration at home.

Some diaspora communities maintain strong political ties with their homeland.

Müller's work relies specifically on theoretical assumptions that are very similar to Haeckel's and reflects the German practice to maintain strong connections between empirical research and the philosophical framework of science.

President Portillo pledged to maintain strong ties to the United States, further enhance Guatemala's growing cooperation with Mexico, and participate actively in the integration process in Central America and the Western Hemisphere.

Most significantly, the trauma of the exile experience led to the development of a strong sense of identity as a people distinct from other peoples, and increased emphasis on symbols such as circumcision and Sabbath-observance to maintain that separation.

) To prevent this, the developer is responsible for cleaning up references after use, typically by setting the reference to null once it is no longer needed and, if necessary, by deregistering any event listeners that maintain strong references to the object.

Between 1901 and 1937, the United States military maintained a strong presence in China to maintain Far East trade interests and to pursue a permanent alliance with the Republic of China, after long diplomatic difficulties with the Chinese Empire.

In the 20th century, complex economic challenges arising from the Great Depression triggered a reevaluation in both Congress and the Supreme Court of the use of Commerce Clause powers to maintain a strong national economy.

In its later years, as part of the network's desire to maintain its own unique identity with its own unique shows, UPN had a policy of " not picking up other networks ' scraps ", which was a strong argument when fan pressure was generated in 2004 for them to pick up Angel, the spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which had been dropped from The WB.

Buoyed by a strong oil sector in the 1960s and 1970s, Venezuela's governments were able to maintain social harmony by spending fairly large amounts on public programs including health care, education, transport, and food subsidies.

Character: An extremely violent character, strong sense of combat allowed him to be the Commando leader and it seems he is able to maintain friendship with all of his comrades.

In the thirteenth century they made a stout resistance to the Mongol conquerors, and though driven into the mountains they long continued their forays on the tracts subjected to the Tartar dynasty that settled on the Wolga, so that the Mongols had to maintain posts with strong garrisons to keep them in check.

They are most commonly seen as orographic mountain-wave clouds, but can occur anywhere in the troposphere where there is strong wind shear combined with sufficient airmass stability to maintain a generally flat cloud structure.

He was the foremost proponent of the American System, fighting for an increase in tariffs to foster industry in the United States, the use of federal funding to build and maintain infrastructure, and a strong national bank.

Turks in Germany maintain strong connections to their homeland while constructing local Turkish networks through the conduits of globalization ; Turkish language mass media is salient in Berlin.

After the war, Lawrence sought to maintain strong government and military ties at his lab, which became incorporated into the new system of Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) ( now Department of Energy ( DOE )) National Laboratories, but in the early 1950s set out that the lab's purpose would be primarily non-classified research.

His intent was to maintain unity of the Empire, making this idea bear a strong resemblance with the Tetrarchy of Diocletian.

However, the omission of the geopolitical reality in ignoring the free hand Japan had been granted by the Treaty ( of Shimonoseki ) with respect to Korea and Japan was short-sighted of Russia with respect to its strategic goals ; to get to and maintain a strong point in Port Arthur Russia would have to dominate and control many additional hundreds of miles of Eastern Manchuria ( the Fengtian province of Imperial China, modern Jilin and Heilongjiang ) up to Harbin.

Its strong Watch and the presence of the powerful Flaming Fist mercenary company maintain order within the city.

They seek to promote a strong and vibrant defense-industrial base that can develop and provide technologies that will enable the United States to maintain its military superiority.

Playfair maintain a strong friendly relationship throughout the film-which represented the norm in what was then the Irish Free State.

Let them be candidly reviewed under a sense of the difficulty of combining in one system the various sentiments and interests of a continent divided into so many sovereign and independent communities, under a conviction of the absolute necessity of uniting all our councils and all our strength, to maintain and defend our common liberties ...

If deliberate, it may also have been used to maintain a sense of community.

The literal sense of the Greek translation, " Member of the Assembly ," approaches " Preacher ," using the root ekklesia for " assembly ," or " church ," to maintain similarity with Qoheleth.

In this sense, it can have a negative connotation of using inelegant kludges to accomplish programming tasks that are quick, but ugly, inelegant, difficult to extend, hard to maintain and inefficient.

Similarly, the Greek ( hippeus ) is commonly translated " knight "; at least in its sense of the highest of the four Athenian social classes, those who could afford to maintain a warhorse in the state service.

While a democratic nation espousing civil liberties may claim a sense of higher moral ground than other regimes, an act of terrorism within such a state may cause a dilemma: whether to maintain its civil liberties and thus risk being perceived as ineffective in dealing with the problem ; or alternatively to restrict its civil liberties and thus risk delegitimizing its claim of supporting civil liberties.

It is in some sense, a strange inversion that BSD Unix, where Joy's vi codebase began, no longer uses it, and the AT & T-derived Unixes, which in the early days lacked Joy's editor, are the ones that now use and maintain modified versions of his code.

" The day of the drop, October 20, was marked by " stony-faced traders whose sense of humor had abandoned them and in the exhaustion of stock exchange employees struggling to maintain orderly trading.

As those on lower incomes cannot hire others to maintain public space such as security guards or grounds keepers, and because no individual feels personally responsible, there was a general deterioration of public space leading to a sense of alienation and social disorder.

He knows he is facing imminent death, but tries to maintain decency, grace, and a sense of humor.

Some robotic lawn mowers will adapt their programming by detecting the speed in which grass grows as needed to maintain a perfect cut lawn, and some vacuum cleaning robots have dirt detectors that sense how much dirt is being picked up and use this information to tell them to stay in one area longer.

An occupational therapist provides various means to these patients to restore or maintain their deteriorating performance components by using their residual capacities and capabilities to give them a sense of self-importance and a measure of confidence.

( See Germans, German language, and German as a minority language for more extensive numbers and a better sense of where Germans maintain German culture and have official recognition.

Pilate is described as an ordinary, cynical politician whose primary concern is to keep the local population content and maintain social order, rather than particular sense of rightness.

During their time spent at Darlington Hall, Stevens chose to maintain a sense of distance born from his personal understanding of dignity, as opposed to searching and discovering the feelings that existed between himself and Miss Kenton.

This confusion resulted in several new methods practiced by the Supreme Court when overturning a previous ruling to maintain the “... impersonal qualities of the judicial process ...” and keep the sense that legal system is without feeling or prejudice and simply applies justice to those who come before it.

Individuals may participate in professional development because of an interest in lifelong learning, a sense of moral obligation, to maintain and improve professional competence, enhance career progression, keep abreast of new technology and practice, or to comply with professional regulatory organizations.

Nearly all cells from animals, plants and fungi function as batteries, in the sense that they maintain a voltage difference between the interior and the exterior of the cell, with the interior being the negative pole of the battery.

Finally, to " have shame " means to maintain a sense of restraint against offending others ( as with modesty, humility, and deference ) while to " have no shame " is to behave without such restraint ( as with excessive pride or hubris ).

It featured a wealth of material that criticized the violent, careless direction that hip hop was heading in at the time, though it still managed to maintain a light, absurd sense of humor.

Sometimes they become a city park or a square, and manage to maintain a sense of place.

As it has been many decades since two industrialized great powers engaged in direct warfare, the concept of the " airborne gun " allowing a paratrooper unit to maintain an airhead against an armored force is in that sense non-functional, but currently, all three of the U. S. Army's howitzers ( for example ), are air-mobile.

A key question in continental philosophy is in what sense we can maintain the modern conception of identity, while realizing many of our prior assumptions about the world are incorrect.