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heavy and arms
She was so heavy that Maggie's arms shook from lifting her and taking care of her.
Ecuador became a relatively heavy importer of arms in the late 1970s and early 1980s, averaging US $ 150 million annually and reaching a peak of US $ 280 million in 1982.
Most IFVs are resistant against heavy machine guns, artillery fragments, and small arms.
Small arms reported in service included TT pistol, Browning Hi-Power, Beretta M12, FN P90, FN FAL, SKS, AK-47, AKM and AK-103 assault rifles, the FN F2000, Soviet RPD machine gun, RPK machine gun, PK machine guns, DShK heavy machine gun, KPV heavy machine guns, SG-43 Goryunov, and a number of RPG-type and anti-aircraft missile systems: RPG-2, RPG-7, 9K32 Strela-2.
They have wormlike bodies of 3 to 4 meters in length with two tentacular arms that end in fine tentacles for manipulation and two tentacles that end in paddles that can be used for heavy lifting ( including acting as " legs ", lifting the front of the creature off the ground in a humanoid-like stance ).
In the U. S. military, small arms refer to handguns or other firearms less than 20 mm in caliber, and including heavy machine guns ( typically. 50 caliber or 12. 7 mm in U. S. service ).
Tungsten, usually alloyed with nickel and iron or cobalt to form heavy alloys, is used in kinetic energy penetrators as an alternative to depleted uranium, in applications where uranium's additional pyrophoric properties are not required ( for example, in ordinary small arms bullets designed to penetrate body armor ).
This distinguishes between small arms ( revolvers and self-loading pistols, rifles and carbines, submachine guns, assault rifles, and light machine guns ), which are weapons designed for personal use, and light weapons ( heavy machine guns, hand-held under-barrel and mounted grenade launchers, portable anti-aircraft guns, portable anti-tanks guns, recoilless rifles, portable launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, and mortars of calibres less than 100 mm ), which are designed for use by several persons serving as a unit.
TF Hammer's attack stalled short of entering the valley, due to unexpected heavy small arms and mortar fire, combined with the lack of expected close air support.
Assata Shakur, with gunshot wounds in both arms and a shoulder was moved to Middlesex General Hospital, under " heavy guard ", and was reported to be in " serious condition "; Trooper Harper was wounded in the left shoulder, in " good " condition, and given a protective guard at the hospital.
Noailles blocked the outlet and had posts all around, but the allied troops forced their way through and inflicted heavy losses on the French, and the Battle of Dettingen is justly reckoned as a notable victory of Anglo-Austrian-Hanovarian arms ( 27 June ).
Most sections had to brave the full weight of fire from small arms, mortars, artillery, and interlocking fields of heavy machine gun fire.
Philip II of Macedon greatly improved upon the limited combined arms tactics of the Greek city-states and combined the newly created Macedonian Phalanx with heavy cavalry and other forces.
The classic example of a Lance, as in the royal French and their opposing Burgundian forces, featured one noble heavy cavalryman, commonly known as a Knight, supported by at least two Sergeants ( professional soldiers, as opposed to gentry, who carried similar arms as knights, only lighter and cheaper ), two mounted archers, and between two and six valets or squires, non-combatant support troops in the service of the knight.
According to the rendering Daphne prays for help either to the river god Peneus or to Gaia, and is transformed into a laurel ( Laurus nobilis ): " a heavy numbness seized her limbs, thin bark closed over her breasts, her hair turned into leaves, her arms into branches, her feet so swift a moment ago stuck fast in slow-growing roots, her face was lost in the canopy.
In the debate Charles Townshend said, "... and now will these Americans, children planted by our care, nourished up by our Indulgence until they are grown to a degree of strength and opulence, and protected by our arms, will they grudge to contribute their mite to relieve us from heavy weight of the burden which we lie under?
Each form features unique abilities: Deku Link can perform a spin attack, shoot bubbles from his mouth, skip on water, and fly for a short time by launching from Deku Flowers ; Goron Link can roll at high speeds ( and grow spikes at higher speeds ), punch with deadly force, stomp the ground with his massive, rock-like body, walk in lava without taking damage, and weigh down heavy switches ; Zora Link can swim rapidly, throw boomerang-like fins from his arms, generate a force field, and walk on the bottoms of bodies of water.
Nevertheless, a serifed version similar to his koppa was adopted as the reference glyph for the Unicode code charts, along with a lowercase form with heavy curved arms and pointed angles x16px.
The heavy and light chain variable regions come together to form antigen binding sites at the end of the two symmetrical arms of the antibody.
Despite its unattractive design and heavy weight — it resembled " a cross between a World War II field radio and a shrunken instrument panel of a DC-3 ", and Felstenstein confessed that carrying two units four blocks to a trade show " nearly pulled my arms out of their sockets "— in the first eight months after April 1981, when the Osborne 1 was announced, the company sold 11, 000 units.
Much like in the 18th and 19th century, because the enemy is not a powerful military force with the heavy weaponry required to destroy fortifications, walls of gabion, sandbag or even simple mud can provide protection against small arms and anti-tank weapons-although such fortifications are still vulnerable to mortar and artillery fire.
One of Hill's soldiers wrote after the war, " The name was applicable, for we often marched without coats, blankets, knapsacks, or any other burdens except our arms and haversacks, which were never heavy and sometimes empty.
Russian Soviet air supply continued, bringing in heavy weapons to supplement the light arms previously delivered.

heavy and expenditures
The 1992 peace accords committed the government to heavy expenditures for transition programs and social services.
These two objectives require heavy expenditures for social welfare, defense spending at rates considered high by Western European standards ( currently around 2. 2 % of GNP ), and close attention to foreign trade opportunities and world economic cooperation.
Using documentary evidence obtained, Wallace brought to light lavish secret expenditures, conflict of interest insider deals, posh homes and lifestyles in the higher ranks, and the heavy involvement of Stanley Rader in financial manipulation.
" Meanwhile, the Soviets could neither stop bloody clashes between Soviet and Chinese troops along their common border nor bolster a Soviet economy declining, in part, because of heavy military expenditures.
Meanwhile, Brezhnev attempted to revive the Soviet economy, which was declining in part because of heavy military expenditures.
Chōshi was a center of industrial unrest in the early 20th century ; there were numerous strikes and labor disputes at the soy sauce factories, and residents attacked the government offices in 1930 over heavy taxation and unaccounted expenditures by municipal authorities.
During the Good Parliament ( 1376 ), the Presiding Officer of the lower chamber, Sir Peter de la Mare, complained of heavy taxes, demanded an accounting of the royal expenditures, and criticised the king's management of the military.
For months at a time he would live outside the Forbidden City or travel around the country with heavy expenditures being paid from the empire's coffer.
Almond led a coalition of opponents to the proposal, and despite heavy advertising expenditures by Harrah's, the proposal was defeated.

heavy and constant
Second it is likely that over the lifetime of a vehicle ( in constant service and heavy traffic ) that it will get minor damage now and again, and to be able easily to replace a body panel or window etc.
Motörhead have since gone on to become one of the most influential bands in the heavy metal music genre and although Lemmy is the only constant member, are still performing and releasing records to this day.
Porous Asphalt Concrete has some downsides, including the initial construction costs, PAC is two to three times more expensive than regular surface materials, and needs constant maintenance, especially with heavy traffic.
While the constant temperature of the Atlantic Ocean moderates the climate of the south and east coasts of Nova Scotia, heavy ice build-up in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence makes winters colder in northern Nova Scotia ; the shallowness of the Gulf's waters mean that they warm up more than the Atlantic Ocean in the summer, warming the summers in northern Nova Scotia.
Costlier turntables made from heavy aluminium castings have greater balanced mass and inertia, helping minimize vibration at the stylus, and maintaining constant speed without wow or flutter, even if the motor exhibits cogging effects.
To address this, manufacturers fit heavy flywheels which supply constant inertia to the crank.
For example, the first 15 digits of the mathematical constant pi ( 3. 14159265358979 ) can be encoded as " Now I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics ".
With the constant size change and re-formatting, logo designers are shifting to a more bold and simple approach, with heavy lines and shapes, and solid colors.
Day time flow is constant ( truck and vehicle ) with very heavy loads and serious backups on Fridays and holiday weekends.
Flow is constant ( truck and vehicle ) with very heavy loads and backups on Fridays ( especially in the afternoon ) and holiday weekends.
Early 2012: Sweeny is once again flooded by heavy downpours, with several roads shut down and water in some residences, although work is being done to alleviate the constant flood problems.
The main wheel attached to the crank was large and heavy, serving as a fly wheel which, once set in motion, by its momentum maintained a constant power and smoothed the action of the alternating strokes.
On the other hand, some critics found the score lacked cohesion, and that the constant heavy action lent itself to annoying repetition.
Fortunately it is also not necessary in those applications, where heavy cuts, aggressive speeds and feeds, and constant, all-day cutting are not vital.
Thus while Tycho acknowledged that the daily rising and setting of the sun and stars could be explained by the Earth's rotation, as Copernicus had said, still such a fast motion could not belong to the earth, a body very heavy and dense and opaque, but rather belongs to the sky itself whose form and subtle and constant matter are better suited to a perpetual motion, however fast.
As well as heavy use of leading British actors, other features were Arthur's constant rhyming slang and other misquoted sayings ( one being " the world is your lobster "), the derelict sites used as locations, and the episode titles, which contained references to films ( e. g. " Gunfight at the O. K.
However, where summer rain falls as short, heavy storms, winter rain falls mostly as cold drizzle, so that the amount of rainy days is fairly constant.
The German, Austrian and Ottoman attack on Mount Royston was checked to the north by the 3rd and 6th Light Horse Regiments ( 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades ), and under constant bombardment from the horse artillery and the infantry's heavy artillery of the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division.
The book — written in the aftermath of the Democrats ' heavy losses in the 1938 mid-term elections — assumes that by 1938 – 39 Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal had failed due to the constant attacks by his opponents, that in the 1940 elections Roosevelt would prove unelectable, that his downfall would drag the Democratic Party to ruin and that a sharp drift to the Right would culminate in an extreme-right dictatorship in the late 1940s — which would, however, prove short-lived and after which the pendulum would swing sharply to the Left again.
Among the latter would be: having to fight, having to pay the costs of war from their own resources, having painfully to repair the devastation war leaves behind, and, to fill up the measure of evils, load themselves with a heavy national debt that would embitter peace itself and that can never be liquidated on account of constant wars in the future "
In the Disney version, Quasimodo displays an immense amount of physical strength ( most likely due to twenty years of pulling the ropes on heavy bells at an almost constant rate ), being able to easily lift a full grown man with one hand, throw a stone with enough weight to destroy a chariot of metal, and break free of heavy chains with extreme effort.
" Mainstreaming is the blurring, blending, and bending process by which heavy TV viewers from disparate groups develop a common outlook on the world through constant exposure to the same images and labels on TV.
" He thought that through constant exposure to the same images and labels, heavy viewers develop a commonality of outlook that doesn ’ t happen with the radio.

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