Finding it difficult to bombard with catapults, he ordered the construction of a platform where his siege weapons could be mounted to greater effect, and cut the water supply.

Surrounded by the vizier Said ibn al-Mundhir who had ordered the construction of bastions around the city, he resisted the siege for six months, until he surrendered, having his life spared ( 928 ).

The elector Clemens August ( ruled 1723-1761 ) ordered the construction of a series of Baroque buildings which still give the city its character.

) The FCC ordered comparative hearings, and in 1969 a competing applicant, Boston Broadcasters, Inc. was granted a construction permit to replace WHDH-TV on channel 5.

To memorialize the military triumphs of the Flavian family, he ordered the construction of the Templum Divorum and the Templum Fortuna Redux, and completed the Arch of Titus.

" And all the construction of the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished, and the children of Israel did according to everything that God had commanded Moses ", and from that time God dwelt in the Tabernacle and ordered the travels of the Hebrews.

La Guardia ordered construction of the airport after his TWA flight arrived at Newark, New Jersey.

To speed up the construction works, the Polish government in November 1924 signed a contract with the French-Polish Consortium for Gdynia Seaport Construction, which by the end of 1925 had built a small seven-metre-deep harbour, the south pier, part of the north pier, a railway, and had also ordered the trans-shipment equipment.

But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808.

An ardent admirer of Greece, he sought to make Athens the cultural capital of the Empire and ordered the construction of many opulent temples in the city.

Three light cruisers commenced construction in German yards in 1912 – 1913 ordered by the Russian Navy, costing around 9 million GM.

The 9th century Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil of Iraq, ordered the construction of a " zawiyat qurra " – an enclosure for readers which was " lavishly furnished and equipped ".

Louis the Pious ordered the construction of a North Sea fleet and the sending of missi dominici into Frisia to establish Frankish sovereignty there.

He ordered the construction of a cathedral and became the first Prince-Bishop of Livonia.

Colonel Rüdiger, head of the CW section, ordered the construction of new laboratories for the further investigation of tabun and other organophosphate compounds and Schrader soon moved to a new laboratory at Wuppertal-Elberfeld in the Ruhr valley to continue his research in secret throughout World War II.

He also ordered the construction of the Palais des Papes in Avignon.

Katherine Rinne said in her book Waters of Rome that Pius IV also ordered public construction to improve water supply of the Rome city.

In November 1938, Walther von Brauchitsch ordered construction of an A-4 Production Plant at Peenemünde, and in January 1939, Walter Dornberger created a subsection of Wa Pruf 11 for planning the Peenemünde Production Plant project, headed by G. Schubert, a senior Army civil servant.

He began granting his family members high-ranking positions in the region and increased Sunni influence in Cairo ; he ordered the construction of a college for the Maliki branch of Sunni Islam in the city, as well as one for the Shafi ' i denomination to which he belonged in al-Fustat.

During this same 10th century and in the first years of the 11th century Viking riders tried to assault it — Galicia is known in the Nordic sagas as Jackobsland or Gallizaland — and bishop Sisenand II, who was killed in battle against them in 968, ordered the construction of a walled fortress to protect the sacred place.

Challenger itself was replaced by the, which first launched in May 1992 and was constructed from structural spares that had been ordered by NASA as part of the construction contracts for Discovery and Atlantis.

By the 8th century, a navigable canal existed between Old Cairo and the Red Sea, but accounts vary as to who ordered its construction — either Trajan or ' Amr ibn al -' As, or Omar the Great.

To construct V ⊗ W, one begins with the set of ordered pairs in the Cartesian product V × W. For the purposes of this construction, regard this Cartesian product as a set rather than a vector space.

In 1254, the sheriffs were ordered to subsidise the construction of an elephant house at the Tower.

In a properly ordered society the massive force of public law performs the function which in natural law theory ineptly is left altogether to a small voice so often still.

In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").

Herbert, worried that they might try to scuttle the steamer, ordered his men to open fire with small arms, killing all in the water.

A number of small patrol boats have been acquired or ordered from France.

Almagro, who was not yet satisfied to go forward, had ordered Juan de Saavedra to advance with one hundred men that, at a distance of thirty leagues, would establish a small town that would wait for the rest with food and natives that would be captured to serve them.

He ordered a small group to go forward on the way and search for help among the indigenous population.

Like every partially ordered set, Open ( X ) forms a small category by adding a single arrow U → V if and only if.

# Evolution is gradual: small genetic changes, recombination ordered by natural selection.

Any partially ordered set I can be considered as a small category where the morphisms consist of arrows i → j if and only if i ≤ j.

Kearny ordered his men to dig in on top of a small hill.

If the list is stored as an ordered array, then binary search is almost always more efficient than linear search as with n > 8, say, unless there is some reason to suppose that most searches will be for the small elements near the start of the sorted list.

Now Olga gave to each soldier in her army a pigeon or a sparrow, and ordered them to attach by thread to each pigeon and sparrow a piece of sulfur bound with small pieces of cloth.

A month later, on 18 November, the Communist authorities in the east ordered its destruction using a catapult made from a compressed air hose loaded with pebbles and small pieces of metal.

After a series of high-profile guerrilla actions, including the hijacking of an aircraft, the attack on several small towns and cities, the arrest of the Irish Colombia Three ( see below ) and the alleged training of FARC-EP militants in bomb making by them, and the kidnapping of several political figures, Pastrana ended the peace talks on 21 February 2002 and ordered the armed forces to start retaking the FARC-EP controlled zone, beginning at midnight.

After regaining his health, the king ordered that taverns would not be allowed to serve wine to customers unless it was accompanied by a small snack or " tapa ".

Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973 ; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms ' destruction order.

At the outset of the war, the French government ordered a blockade of the North German coasts, which the relatively small North German navy ( Norddeutsche Bundesmarine ) could do little to oppose.

Aware that Lee had blocked the O & A, McClellan considered a route through Fredericksburg and ordered a small group of cavalrymen commanded by Capt.

Ideally the class of all embedded subobjects of a given object, up to isomorphism, should also be small, and thus an ordered set.

By the same argument, any partially ordered set and any equivalence relation can be seen as a small category.

The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.

Initially ordered to take his command to the Rhineland for rest and reinforcements, Chill disregarded the order and moved his forces to the Albert Canal, linking up with the 719th ; he also had ' reception centres ' set up at the bridges crossing the Albert Canal, where small groups of retreating troops were picked up and turned into ' ad hoc ' units.

The new queen ordered the construction near the River Lambro of an oraculum, a sort of small church, that today is part of the basilica of Saint John.