It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.

Not discussed here are some military problems of modern times such as undersea warfare, where the surveillance, sending, transmitting, and receiving are all so inadequate that networks and decision making are not the bottlenecks.

A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

However, despite the insight of many of his observations, his own conclusions are open to suspicion because of his failure to employ at all times the correct research methods.

History has demonstrated many times that concerts of nations based solely on the negative spur of common danger are unlikely to survive when the external danger ceases to be dramatically urgent.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

At times, three ships a day from the Soviet bloc are unloading in Cuban ports.

Our objectives, as we have stated many times, are -- ( 1 )

It has been suggested many times that a Class be set up for the Juniors who are overage and cannot enter the Junior Classes.

Their friends and ours are welcome to share the pool, but on our terms and at our times.

There are, of course, certain times during the 24-hour daily cycle when most of these conditions will be met.

Let N be a positive integer and let V be the space of all N times continuously differentiable functions F on the real line which satisfy the differential equation Af where Af are some fixed constants.

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;

Pope Pius the Sixth, at Rome, in April, 1778, wrote the following: `` The faithful should be excited to the reading of the Holy Scriptures: For these are the most abundant sources which ought to be left open to everyone, to draw from them purity of morals and of doctrine, to eradicate errors which are so widely disseminated in these corrupt times ''.

There are times when one suspects that the songs that are dropped from musical shows before they reach Broadway may really be better than many of those that are left in.

Going, he saw as often before some queer, hideous yellow face over his head, shining and weird like the old images which had invested him at other times like those that appear sometimes near the eyeballs when they are perhaps pressed by the thumbs.

The works of the Sanusi family in pre-colonial times, and of Emir Abdelkader and Sheikh Ben Badis in colonial times, are widely noted.

Until fairly recently, about the end of the Second World War, such weapons were characterized by a barrel length 15 to 25 times the caliber of the gun.

While writing that the series fulfills the norms of mass-market fiction, as mentioned above, magazine writer Michelle Goldberg characterized the books as an attack on Judaism and liberal secularism, and suggested that the near-future " end times " in which the books are set seem to reflect the actual worldview of millions of Americans, including many prominent conservative leaders.

Firstly, the urge to transcend one ’ s self is universal through times and cultures ( and was characterized by H. G.

Observations are revealing a growing number of recurrent X-ray transients, characterized by short outbursts with very fast rise times ( tens of minutes ) and typical durations of a few hours that are associated with OB supergiants and hence define a new class of massive X-ray binaries: Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients ( SFXTs ).

A claim of " matriarchy " in the ancient Near East is also found in The Cambridge Ancient History ( 1975 ): " the predominance of a supreme goddess is probably a reflection from the practice of matriarchy which at all times characterized Elamite civilization to a greater or lesser degree ".

In the Rigveda, the term Ṛta appears as many as 390 times, and has been characterized as " the one concept which pervades the whole of Ṛgvedic thought ".

Some figures characterized at varying times as exponents of pop psychology include:

Power trios have at times been characterized as loud and bombastic, often embarking on long improvised jams that would highlight the virtuosity of the individual musicians.

Consonance is a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in " pitter patter " or in " all mammals named Sam are clammy ".

Traffic congestion is a condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.

LEDs are characterized by Δλ ≈ 50 nm, and tungsten filament lights exhibit Δλ ≈ 600 nm, so these sources have shorter coherence times than the most monochromatic lasers.

He later characterized his experience on the shoot as " one of the greatest personal times in my life ".

Tourism in Albania is characterized by archaeological heritage from Greek, Roman and Ottoman times, unspoiled beaches, mountainous topography, delicious traditional Albanian cuisine, Cold War era artifacts, unique traditions and hospitality, and the wild and peculiar atmosphere of the countryside.

Her mother, whom Marjory characterized as " high strung ", was committed to a mental sanitarium in Providence several times.

It tended to be relatively simple but characterized by what he called " snaketime " and described as " a slithery rhythm, in times that are not ordinary [...] I'm not gonna die in 4 / 4 time ".

This new format brought an end to the usually gritty and, at times, racy material and instead made way for more representation of the love stories and lost loves that characterized the show in its infancy ( This was also partially due to being aired in a more family-oriented timeslot ).

Although he is characterized as " innocent " by his friends ( and, indeed, proving to be very naive at times ), he often surprises them with coments ridden with cynism, pedantry, and even sociopathy.

" Although often characterized as conservative the League has at times been at odds with conservative figures and organizations.

In Roman times, Torre del Greco was probably a suburb of Herculaneum, characterized by patricians villas.

It is characterized by very rapid movements and a fast metabolism, eating about 1. 5 – 2 times its own body weight per day.

Perhaps more significantly, Russian acceptance of the treaty required a relaxation of what had been, in Ming ( the former dynasty ) times, an iron rule of Chinese diplomacy, requiring the non-Chinese party to accept language which characterized the foreigner as an inferior or tributary.

Centered around the topic of " horrible times in horrible lives " as well as Stewart's personal frustrations with then-U. S. President George W. Bush, La Forêt is characterized by an altogether different sound – layered by mandolin, harmonium, clarinet, cello, autoharp, and tuba.

It is especially known for its old, beautiful picturesque port, characterized by its houses with slate-covered frontages, painted many times by artists, including in particular Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind, forming the école de Honfleur ( Honfleur school ) which contributed to the appearance of the Impressionist movement.

Musth or must () is a periodic condition in bull elephants, characterized by highly aggressive behavior, accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones – testosterone levels in an elephant in musth can be as much as 60 times greater than in the same elephant at other times.