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Under the most favorable circumstances, a total solar eclipse can last for 7 minutes, 31 seconds, and can be viewed along a track that is up to 250 km wide.
Under the program's first phase ( 1983 – 86 ), the government allocated US $ 1. 5 billion, or 36 percent of total investment, for that purpose and an additional US $ 222 million in 1987 for road and rail rehabilitation.
Under the German constitution, a party that wins at least three directly-elected seats is eligible for proportional representation regardless of its nationwide vote total.
* The blood volume of the lungs is about 450 milliliters, about 9 percent of the total blood volume of the entire circulatory system, Under various physiological and pathological conditions, the quantity of blood in the lungs can vary from as little as one-half normal up to twice normal. loss of blood from the systemic circulation by hemorrhage can be partly compensated for by the automatic shift of blood from the lungs into the systemic vessels
Under the two field system, if one has a total of of fertile land, one would only plant 300 acres.
Under Champagne wine regulations, houses that make both vintage and non-vintage wines are allowed to use no more than 80 % of the total vintage's harvest for the production of vintage Champagne.
Under the act, each eligible state received a total of of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860.
The company produces a large proportion of ITV's networked programming ( around 47 %, but previously as high as 66 % according to some reports ), with the rest coming primarily from independent suppliers ( Under the 1990 Broadcasting Act, at least 25 % of ITV's total output must be from independent companies ).
Under no circumstances may a distance card be played that would put the player's total over the race goal of 700 or 1000 km.
Under the terms of the act, as enrolled tribal members, Curtis ( and his three children ) received about 1, 625 acres ( 6. 6 km² ) in total of Kaw land in Oklahoma.
Under the new regulations, smoking rooms are allowed, but are subjected to very strict conditions: they may occupy at most 20 % of the total floor space of the establishment and their size may not be more than 35 m² ; they need to be equipped with separate ventilation which replaces the full volume of air ten times per hour ; the air pressure of the smoking room must constantly be lower than the pressure in the contiguous rooms ; they have doors that close automatically ; no service can be provided in the smoking rooms ; cleaning and maintenance personnel may enter the room only one hour after it was last used for smoking.
Under this heading, the Board made many lesser awards, including some awards in total £ 5, 000 made to John Harrison before he received his main prize, an award of £ 3, 000 to the widow of Tobias Mayer, whose lunar tables were the basis of the lunar data in the early decades of the Nautical Almanac, £ 300 to Leonhard Euler for his ( assumed ) contribution to the work of Mayer, £ 50 each to Richard Dunthorne and Israel Lyons for contributing methods to shorten the calculations connected with lunar distances, and awards made to the designers of improvements in chronometers.
Under the step pyramid is a labyrinth of tunneled chambers and galleries that total nearly 6 km in length and connect to a central shaft 7 m square and 28 m deep.
Under a Regional Contribution Agreement ( RCA ), Marlboro signed an agreement in June 2008 that would have Trenton build or rehabilitate 332 housing units, with Marlboro paying $ 25, 000 per unit, a total of $ 8. 3 million to Trenton for taking on the responsibility for these units.
Under this law Italian taxpayers are able to vote how to partition the 0. 8 % (' eight per thousand ') of the total income tax IRPEF levied by Italy among some specific religious confessions or, alternatively, to a social assistance program run by the Italian State.
Under the Air Training Agreement, Australia undertook to provide 28, 000 aircrew over three years, representing 36 % of the total number trained by the BCATP.
Under this scheme, the SAAF, by September 1941, increased the total number of military aircraft to 1, 709 while the personnel strength had grown to 31, 204, including 956 pilots.
* Under the mixed member proportional representation ( MMP ) or Top-Up ( compensatory ) system, the aim is either for the party's total number of representatives, including constituency representatives, to be proportional to its percentage of the party vote, or for the allocation of additional party seats to offset all or most of the disproportionate result in the constituencies.
Under the EPA Renewable Fuel Standard, targets have been implemented for the biodiesel production plants in order to monitor and document production levels in comparison to total demand.
Under Fiedler's direction, the Boston Pops sold more commercial recordings than any other orchestra in the world, with total sales of albums, singles, tapes, and cassettes exceeding $ 50 million.
( Under VFA rules at the time, only goals were counted to the total team score ).
Under Kuenn, the team went 72-43 (. 626 ), led the Major Leagues in home runs and total bases, and produced the highest team OPS + since the New York Yankees.
Under the current rules, a Council member can request emeritus status upon reaching 70 years of age ; for having served on the council for at least ten consecutive years ; or for having served for three terms in total.
Under conditions of modern warfare, in which armed conflict has largely become a struggle involving the total populations of the contending powers, virtually all commodities are classified by belligerents as absolute contraband.

Under and utility
Under the Mental Health Act, detention is determined by utility and purpose.
Under normal utility voltage conditions, this is not a problem.
Under New York law, written instruments, utility services, and items of unascertainable value have special rules, and for grand larceny in the fourth degree, a motor vehicle must have value of $ 100 or greater.
Under the assumption of economic rationality, it is the utility of its least urgent possible use from the best feasible combination of actions in which its use is included.
Under the special case in which usefulness can be quantified, the change in utility of moving from state to state is
Under the deal, the Barbados utility plans to sell its stake in Barbados ' telecommunications market by spinning off its minority shareholding of TeleBarbados and sub Caribbean fiber-optic cables to Leucadia.
Under this approach, the Euler equations of the utility maximization problem are linearized around the stationary steady state.
Under a BOT contract the private operator signs an agreement with a utility that purchases treated water or wastewater treatment services.
Under this usage, the cardinality of a utility function is simply the mathematical property of uniqueness up to a linear transformation.
* Under cardinal utility theory, the sign of the marginal utility of a good is the same for all the numerical representations of a particular preference structure.
Under Mac OS X, neither FreeMIDI or OMS are used, as those duties are covered by OS X's included Audio MIDI Setup utility.
Under such a view, the actions of states are analyzed by assuming that nations consider all options and act rationally to maximize their utility.
Under Italian law a social enterprise is a private entity that provides social utility goods and services, acting for the common interest and not for profit.
Under Sen's theory of informational broadening, even complete interpersonal comparison of utility would lead to socially suboptimal choices because mental states are malleable.

Under and we
Under that order, we have continued referring workers to the ranch.
Under no circumstances could we mistake one for the other ; ;
Another speaker, William H. Draper, Jr., former Under Secretary of the Army and now with the Palo Alto venture capital firm of Draper, Gaither & Anderson, urged the U.S. to `` throw down the gauntlet of battle to communism and tell Moscow bluntly we won't be pushed around any more ''.
Under such conditions every formula of the form, where ( T ) is a string of quantifiers containing all quantifiers in ( S ) and ( S ') interleaved among themselves in any fashion, but maintaining the relative order inside ( S ) and ( S '), will be equivalent to the original formula Φ '( this is yet another basic result in first-order predicate calculus that we rely on ).
Under these constraints, we would like to maximize the rate of information, or the signal, we can communicate over the channel.
* Minerva is featured on the seals of many schools and colleges: on that of Union College in Schenectady, NY, the motto is ( translated from the French ) " Under the laws of Minerva, we are all brothers.
Under Constantine we hear of the foundation of a Christian church in Capua.
Under the influence of ignorance, we believe objects and persons to be independently real, existing apart from causes and conditions.
Under such condition, we would not progress, it'd only lead to over-saturation of the subject matter.
Under the circumstances presented by this case, we conclude that the defendants are not liable for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement and affirm the district court's partial grant of summary judgment.
Under a change of basis, represented by a matrix A, we have
Under storekeeping we should have the following departments and stores: Departments of issue and receipt, pattern room, armoury department, ordnance or park, harness, saddlery and accoutrements, camp equipment, tools and instruments, engineer store, timber yard, breaking-up store, unserviceable store.
As we were coming thro ’ the Gulf of Florida on the 29th of August, a large ball of fire fell from the Element and split our mast in Ten Thousand Pieces, if it were possible ; split our Main Beam, also Three Planks of the Side, Under Water, and Three of the Deck ; killed one man, another had his Hand carried of, and had it not been for the violent rains, our Sails would have been of a Blast of Fire.
Under this model we assume that the underlying rate is distributed log-normally with volatility.
: Under the headline " It's a Whole New Ballgame for Obama ," it is stated that, " Barack Obama, we all know by now, is not an ideologue.
Under the open world assumption, if a statement cannot be proven to be true with current knowledge, we cannot draw the conclusion that the statement is false.
It may be significant that in Johann Zoffany's portrait of Robert Baddeley as Moses, we find that " Under his arm Moses holds a rolled parchment of the Surface family tree that is used as an auction hammer, and he seems to be ticking off pictures in the catalogue ," although in the play Careless is the auctioneer in the relevant scene ( IV. 1 ) and Moses has a relatively minor role.
Under the Rayleigh approximation, we can write the scattering force as
Under our policies and principles we seek to build up the labor movement, instead of injuring it, and we want all the negroes we can possibly get who will join hands with organized labor.
Under the assumptions of the preceding section, we have

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