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end and professional
The British Army is purely a professional force since National service came to an end.
The AAFC was to compete with the dominant National Football League once it began operations at the end of World War II, which had forced many professional teams to curtail activity, merge or go on hiatus as their players served in the U. S. military.
" In the end, Douglass grew to accept inoculation, but he stood his ground on the need for professional standards.
For the next two years Eugene continued to perform with distinction on campaign, and establish himself as a dedicated, professional soldier ; by the end of 1685, still only 22 years old, he was made a Major-General.
Nowadays, for player safety reasons, almost all goal posts in the professional and collegiate levels of American football are T-shaped, and reside just outside the rear of both end zones.
Most professional and collegiate teams have their logo, team name, or both painted on the surface of the end zone, with team colors filling the background.
Many championship and bowl games at college and professional level are commemorated by the names of the opposing teams each being painted in one of the opposite end zones.
The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.
But from 1866, his professional writing career can be said to have come to an end.
As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades.
Robinson's major league debut brought an end to approximately sixty years of segregation in professional baseball, known as the baseball color line.
Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord ( professional head of the Royal Navy ), but he was removed at the end of 1917 because of differences over policy regarding the war against the U-Boats and his perceived pessimism about Britain's ability to carry on the war.
From the beginning of the republic and in the majority of civil cases towards the end of the empire, there were tribunals with the characteristics of the jury, the Roman judges being civilian, lay and not professional.
Though the team would bounce back with winning records during the next several years, the disastrous season would symbolically come to mark the beginning of the end of Kansas City's relevance in professional baseball.
A professional wrestling match can end in a draw.
At the end of the 2nd century BC, Gaius Marius reformed the previously ephemeral legions as a professional force drawing from the poorest classes, enabling Rome to field larger armies and providing employment for jobless citizens of the city of Rome.
Even when in the end the New Model Army — a regular professional army — developed the original decision-compelling spirit permeated the whole organisation as was seen when pitched against regular professional continental troops the Battle of the Dunes during the Interregnum.
They also played defense, as indicated by their professional football record 49 pass interceptions in 1961, and featured AFL Rookie of the Year defensive end Earl Faison.
They end with a vocational leaving examination and allow pupils to study at vocational or professional colleges.
" To this end, the UAE officially supports the Puntland Maritime Police Force, a locally-recruited, professional maritime security force primarily aimed at fighting piracy, safeguarding Somalia's marine resources, and providing logistics support to humanitarian operations.
Signing Robinson opened the door to the integration of Major League Baseball finally putting an end to the professional discrimination that had characterized the sport since the 19th century.
The end of the century witnessed the reforming of the Roman Army from a citizen army to a voluntary professional force, under the guidance of the great general and statesman Gaius Marius —( Marian Reforms ).
At the season's end the top 50 bands are invited to compete in the US Scholastic Band Championship, which is hosted at a college or professional stadium.

end and sound
The concept being measured over the circuit, whether sound, light, pressure, temperature, or an exceeded limit, remains from end to end.
Toward the end of the 1920s, the introduction of sound into movies made possible dramatic new film styles and the use of verbal humour.
" And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Through the construction of a glass tube filled with mercury and plugged at each end with a quartz crystal, delay lines could store bits of information within the quartz and transfer it through sound waves propagating through mercury.
The game is also highly customizable on the player's end, allowing the user to install or even create their own custom skins, HUDs, sprites, and sound effects, given the proper tools.
" In Wales it is declared to be a favourite lurking-place of the fairies, who are said to occasion a snapping sound when children, holding one end of the digitalis bell, suddenly strike the other on the hand to hear the clap of fairy thunder, with which the indignant fairy makes her escape from her injured retreat.
For instance, the digraph ⟨ gh ⟩ represents the sound at the end of some words, such as rough.
However, it also makes an end blown flute or transverse flute considerably more difficult for a beginner to produce a full sound on than a ducted flute, such as the recorder.
By the end of 1929, Hollywood was almost all-talkie, with several competing sound systems ( soon to be standardized ).
* Trev ( Stephen Curry ) appears as Jase's replacement as the sound recorder towards the end of the third series.
The fundamental frequency of a sound wave in a tube with a single CLOSED end can be found using the following equation:
Typically the Quadravalve / PD-05 signal makes up the low end while a balance of the U5 and RBI make up the high end, with the RBI providing the " top end " distortion in Lee's sound.
Then, to the regular sound of a metronome, and with the same voice inflection, he would read out the syllables, and attempt to recall them at the end of the procedure.
In the studio, for example, percussion legend Emil Richards used mallets made of wood that had a curve in which to place the fingers, sometimes wrapping cotton or silk string around the beating end to soften the sound.
Towards the end of their recording career, they moved to a more mellow and progressive sound, dominated by Jones ' keyboard motifs.
The sustain at the bottom end is particularly striking, and by routing the two outputs from the stereo " Rick-O-Sound " output, the brighter bridge pick up through a guitar rig and the bassier neck pickup through a bass setup, a particularly distinctive bass sound is produced.
During the 15th century the sound of full triads became common, and towards the end of the 16th century the system of church modes began to break down entirely, giving way to the functional tonality which was to dominate western art music for the next three centuries.
" And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Other cuts included the reduction of multiple gunshot impacts into Gamble's feet in the morgue down to a single hit ; a close-up of his screaming face as the air conditioner falls onto him ; a sound cut to Mason snapping a Marine's neck and two bloody gunshot wounds ( to Hummel and Baxter ), both near the end of the film.
During the late Middle Ages, two forms of " v " developed, which were both used for its ancestor u and modern v. The pointed form " v " was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form " u " was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound.
In particular, French words that end in a silent e ( a schwa, eu, such as femme ) and words that end in a pronounced consonant and which usually have an e muet added at the end ( such as flic ) retain the sound of the e muet in verlan.

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