`` E '' stands for `` execution '' -- the moment a `` go order '' would unleash an American nuclear strike.

Cardboard noisemakers, substitutes for the unavailable tin models, were being hawked and bought at makeshift stands every few yards along Broadway, and one's ears were continually serenaded by the horns' rasps and bleats.

the attitudes of a U.N. delegate who experiences difficulty in finding adequate housing in New York City, or of a foreign diplomat in similar circumstances in our Capital, can easily be directed against the United States and all that it stands for.

More stands on the margins of modernity for one reason alone -- because he wrote Utopia.

Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.

water is Af and the H stands for hydrogen ; ;

Against this invincible determination to communize the whole world stands a group of nations unable to agree on fundamentals and each refusing to make any sacrifice of sovereignty for the common good of all.

For all practical purposes, the West stands disunited, undedicated, and unprepared for the tasks of world leadership.

Implements of wood and iron are available for close and hasty combat no matter where a man stands.

The others, the ones in the stands, were spellbound, for hearing the mayor was for them like listening to a symphony was for sophisticated folks in New York City.

There was a crowd in the stands for a change and the sun was hot.

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world, movement, and other elements of Aristotelian thought.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

An abjad is a type of writing system where each symbol always or usually stands for a consonant, leaving the reader to supply the appropriate vowel.

Alpha also stands for thermal expansion coefficient of a compound in physical chemistry.

The win-loss ratio in Ashes Tests ( up to and including the 2011 series ) stands at 123 wins for Australia to 100 wins for England, with 87 draws.

Ann Arbor was founded in 1824, with one theory stating that it is named after the spouses of the city's founders and for the stands of trees in the area.

There are various accounts concerning the origin of the settlement's name ; one states that Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of burr oak in the of land they purchased for $ 800 from the federal government at $ 1. 25 per acre.

** The L stands for Linux affinity

The " ST " officially stands for " Sixteen / Thirty-two ", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals.

" Historian and novelist C. S. Forester, writing in 1929, compared the Nile to the great naval actions in history and concluded that " it still only stands rivalled by Tsu-Shima as an example of the annihilation of one fleet by another of approximately equal material force ".

Owing to the favourable soil and climate, the Limburg Basin stands as one of Hesse ’ s richest agricultural regions and moreover, with its convenient Lahn crossing, it has been of great importance to transport since the Middle Ages.

Reality confronts a man with a great many ' must's ', but all of them are conditional: the formula of realistic necessity is: ' you must, if –' and the if stands for man's choice: ' if you want to achieve a certain goal '.

It stands at the east end of the Volga-Don Canal, opened in 1952 to link the two great rivers of Southern Russia.

Fanque also stands out as a black man who achieved great success and enjoyed great admiration among the British public only a few decades after Britain had abolished slavery.

At one of these villages is a spring, where water flows out from under a stone, but in no great abundance ; and it is conducted by a channel, cut in the ground, to a place outside the town ( of Hebron ), where they have constructed a covered tank for collecting the water ... The Sanctuary ( Mashad ), stands on the southern border of the town .... it is enclosed by four walls.

According to an ancient legend, the ground on which Finglas stands had been sanctified by St. Patrick, who is said to have uttered from it a prophecy that a great town would arise at the ford of hurdles in the vale beneath.

Pliny indeed mentions a great calamity which the city had sustained, when ( he tells us ) half of it was swallowed up by the sea, probably from an earthquake having caused the fall of part of the hill on which it stands, but we have no clue to the date of this event ; The Itineraries attest the existence of Tyndaris, apparently still as a considerable place, in the fourth century.

* The Palazzo della Ragione, with its great hall on the upper floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe ; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length, its breadth, and its height ; the walls are covered with allegorical frescoes ; the building stands upon arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the basilica of Vicenza.

Monoculture plantings provide great yields and more efficient harvesting than natural stands of trees.

The vajra is often traditionally employed in tantric rituals in combination with the bell or ghanta ; symbolically, the vajra may represent method as well as great bliss and the bell stands for wisdom, specifically the wisdom realizing emptiness.

Ruth MacDonald argued that “ Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls ’ novel and the family story .” In the 1860s, gendered separation of children ’ s fiction was a newer division in literature.

Amongst the most important monuments of Saumur are the great Château de Saumur itself which stands high above the town, and the nearby Château de Beaulieu which stands just 200 metres from the south bank of the Loire river and which was designed by the architect Jean Drapeau.

The Water Jump was one of the most popular jumps on the course, presenting a great jumping spectacle for those in the stands and was always a major feature in the newsreels ' coverage of the race.

Amongst the most important monuments are the great Château de Saumur itself which stands high overlooking the town, and the nearby Château de Beaulieu which stands just 200 metres from the south bank of the Loire river ; designed by the renowned architect Jean Drapeau, it is recognised for its light and elegant architecture.

A great monument of China to this day, the Great Wall still stands, open to the public to challenge its million steps.

The place stands in a great land in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

Throughout his life, Taylor took public stands on the great issues of his time.

As a poet Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his work has had great influence in a select circle, by its restraint, purity, precision, and delicacy yet strength of expression.

He laid waste to Newstead Abbey, allowing the house to fall into disrepair, cutting down the great stands of timber surrounding it, and killing over 2, 000 deer on the estate.

In the great Underwriting Room of Lloyd's stands the Lutine Bell, which was struck when the fate of a ship “ overdue ” at its destination port became known.

Such offerings were common to heathen nations at that time, but it is noteworthy that Israel stands out among them with this great peculiarity, that human sacrifices were unknown in Israel.