He wrote that " Dollis Hill comes nearer to being a paradise than any other home I ever occupied.

As the star comes nearer and the magic on the Discworld becomes weaker, Trymon tries to put the seven spells still in the Octavo into his mind, in an attempt to save the world and gain ultimate power.

Barely heard at first, the music seems to grow nearer and louder until it sounds as though it comes directly under foot.

Lirael comes to terms with her lack of the Sight by becoming busy in the Library, going nearer and nearer to her birthright as the Remembrancer, and, eventually, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting.

As their travels bring them nearer to the Dark Tower, Susannah comes to the conclusion that Roland needs to complete his journey without her.

The opponent becomes an easy target when he comes nearer as Zhang Qing will attack him with the stones and then kill him.

Marvell's long poem on the beauties of Nunappleton, Upon Appleton House, comes nearer to the type.

The region of the north, in proportion as it is removed from the heat of the sun and is chilled with snow and frost, is so much the more healthful to the bodies of men and fitted for the propagation of nations, just as, on the other hand, every southern region, the nearer it is to the heat of the sun, the more it abounds in diseases and is less fitted for the bringing up of the human race.

The number of communists killed was in reality considerably less than the Party's figure of 75, 000, and it is now estimated that nearer to 30, 000 Frenchmen of all political movements combined were shot, of whom only a few thousand were communists.

Produce was taken to the Covent Garden market, or by smaller growers to Brentford market, which was nearer but less profitable.

Crowland is nearer to the outskirts of Peterborough than Spalding, and ( similar to other settlements of the Welland ) is less than north of the Lincolnshire boundary with the City of Peterborough.

Instead, they'll stay nearer to home and create jobs in grocery delivery and small organic grocers, spending substantially less money on gasoline and car operation costs even if they pay more for food.

In addition, blood vessels of the cheek are wider in diameter, are nearer the surface, and visibility is less diminished by tissue fluid.

Patrick could have sent his daughter to a less costly school in Keighley nearer home but Miss Wooler and her sisters had a good reputation and he remembered the building which he passed when strolling around the parishes of Kirklees, Dewsbury, and Hartshead-cum-Clifton where he was vicar.

Genes whose loci are nearer to each other are less likely to be separated onto different chromatids during chromosomal crossover, and are therefore said to be genetically linked.

* = function of generalized travel cost ( so that nearer or less expensive places are weighted more than farther or more expensive places ).

Stereopsis is merely relative because a greater or lesser disparity for nearby objects could either mean that those objects differ more or less substantially in relative depth or that the foveated object is nearer or further away ( the further away a scene is, the smaller is the retinal disparity indicating the same depth difference ).

In ancient Rome, salt on the table was a mark of a rich patron ( and those who sat nearer the host were above the salt, and those less favored were " below the salt ").

Meromictic lakes stratify because they have denser ( usually saline ) water in the bottom and less dense ( usually freshwater ) nearer the surface.

The exact history of each such mergers is unknown, although the areas nearer to the Rhine appear to have had larger scale immigration while the Tungri are often suspected of being less changed in their make-up by this process.

Conversely, a high PRR / PRF can enhance target discrimination of nearer objects such as a periscope or fast moving missile leading to practices of employing low PRRs for search radar, and very high PRFs for fire control radars, with many dual-purpose and navigation radars, especially naval designs having variable PRRs which might allow a skilled operator to also use a PRR adjustment to enhance and clarify a unclear radar picture, for example in bad sea states where wave action generates false returns, and in general for less clutter, or perhaps a better return signal off a prominent landscape feature ( e. g. a cliff ).

Additionally, stations may sometimes be resited along the route of the line to new premises-examples of this include opening a replacement station nearer to the centre of population, or building a larger station on a less restricted site to cope with high passenger numbers.

The larger the opening the more conspicuous would be the notch in the roof which is so greatly objected to ; in this respect Jacques Hittorf would seem to be nearer the truth when, in his conjectural restoration of Temple R. at Selinus, he shows an opaion about half the relative size shown in Cockerells of that at Aegina, the coping on the side elevation being much less noticeable.

If the ILS beam could be tracked to a lower height then clearly the aircraft would be nearer to the runway when it reached the limit of ILS usability, and nearer to the runway less visibility would be required to see sufficient cues to confirm the aircraft position and trajectory.

What distinguishes the Sicilian School from the troubadours, however, is the introduction of a kinder, gentler type of woman than that found in their French models ; one who was nearer to Dante's madonnas and Petrarch's Laura, though much less characterised psychologically.

This placed the brake caliper nearer the axle center-line, requiring slightly less effort to steer.

Freehub style hubs are inherently stronger than screw on sprocket and freewheel set ups because it allows the bearings on the drive side of the hub to sit nearer to the end of the hub axle, reducing bending in the axle caused by chain tension and rider weight, a significant problem leading to fatigue failure in many axles as 6 and 7 speed blocks were introduced.

Forced against his will into war with Russia, Ahmed III came nearer than any Ottoman sovereign before or since to breaking the power of his northern rival, whose armies his grand vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha succeeded in completely surrounding at the Pruth River Campaign in 1711.

The portions of the walls ‘ furthest ’ from the view point will appear to be shorter than the nearer areas due to perspective.

On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

If the master plan is successful, many commuters will travel to work in a core area nearer their homes, and the downtown area's daytime population will decrease.

Good performance for a splay tree depends on the fact that it is self-optimizing, in that frequently accessed nodes will move nearer to the root where they can be accessed more quickly.

It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231.

In his acceptance speech a week after the convention ended, Secretary Hoover said: " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of this land ... We shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this land.

A telephone line running alongside a power line for many miles will inevitably have more interference induced in one leg than the other since one of them will be nearer to the power line.

They pointed out that Penshurst was nearer to Hever and the move had been Henry VIII's will.

Coarse materials, because of the high energy needed to move them, tend to be found nearer the source ( mountain fronts or rivers ), whereas the fine-grained material will make it farther from the source ( to the flatter parts of the basin or overbank areas-sometimes called the pressure area ).

When the nearer object appears larger than the farther one, it will completely obscure its smaller companion ; this is called an occultation.

Older rocks will be found further away from the spreading zone while younger rocks will be found nearer to the spreading zone.

To resist fore and aft movement, the wing will usually be fitted with a second smaller drag-spar nearer the trailing edge, tied to the main spar with structural elements or a stressed skin.

Based upon the philosophical system developed above, and after the exposition of the doctrine of faith, the problem of human free will and its relation to faith in a divine providence, or predestination, may be regarded as much nearer its solution.

It will be noticeable that as she recovered she had a much younger look, corresponding indeed to her age, twenty-one ; whilst the photographs, taken when she was seventeen, give her the appearance of being nearer thirty.

Pupils living in the Barnhill Area will most likely go to Barnhill Primary School, pupils living in central Broughty Ferry will most likely go to Eastern Primary School and pupils living nearer Dundee will most likely go to Forthill Primary School.

The more closely a system is able to adhere to them, the nearer it will be to the ideal, though in reality all systems must make compromises.

If the cylinder valves are left open for longer the value of c will rise nearer to 1.

Many children will adjust well during childhood and adolescence, although disability is more likely nearer the limits of viability.