For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.

For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.

For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).

For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.

For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles the university in its `` pursuit of excellence ''.

For example, in English, a past tense morpheme is-ed.

For example, if inflation has been higher than expected in the past, people would revise expectations for the future.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

For instance, Forbes ranked media mogul and talk show host, Oprah Winfrey as the top earner " Forbes magazine ’ s annual ranking of the most powerful celebrities ", with earnings of $ 290 million in the past year.

For the entire content of the work ... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

" For the past 18 years, China consistently has produced more cement than any other country in the world.

For the past 50 years, water reel type harvesters have been used.

For example, a term used in the past for contamination by radioactive isotopes was Sunshine units .< ref >

For instance, in past years, picture editors dealt only with just that — picture.

For some years past I have managed to make the capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against capitalism.

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For example, two-tense languages such as English and Japanese express past and non-past, this latter covering both present and future in one verb form.

For example, the K ' iche ' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k-and x-to mark incompletive and completive aspect ; Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers-le 了 ,-zhe 着, zài-在, and-guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, and also marks aspect with adverbs ; and English marks the continuous aspect with the verb to be coupled with present participle and the perfect with the verb to have coupled with past participle.

For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").

For example, " وصل ", wasala, " he arrived ", indicates that arrival occurred in the past without saying anything about the present status of the arriver-maybe he stuck around, maybe he turned around and left, etc.

For his first five years in prison, they had shared a cell.

For every rude word of Mr. Banks's the family had five in apology.

For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto.

For the president, a master plan looking ahead five years ( the maximum reach for sound forecasting ), offers several practical advantages.

For the marksman, we study sets of five shots ( Af ) ; ;

For Yokuts, I tabulated these 71 items in five columns, according as they were expressed by 1, 2, 3, 4, and more than 4 stems.

For Athabascan, with a greater range of stems, the first two of five corresponding columns were identical, 1 and 2 stems ; ;

For five days now, they had been in port and that filthy stuff was still in the hold.

For the next five years, the Danes occupied other parts of England.

For the next five years, they were educated at home, largely by their father and aunt.

For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

For example, if the array has five elements, indexed 1 through 5, and the base address B is replaced by B − 30c, then the indices of those same elements will be 31 to 35.

On the Adult Contemporary chart, all five songs were top 10 hits, with two of the five (" Baby Baby " and " That's What Love Is For ") reaching No. 1.

For instance, Jim Devlin in 1876 pitched 66 complete games ( 662 innings pitched ) with a 1. 56 ERA but managed to record only five shutouts.

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

For example, upon rolling a 5-5 that player may move up to four separate checkers forward five spaces each.

:" For those who sail from Skåne ( Sconia ) of the Danes to Birka, the journey takes five days, from Birka to Russia ( Ruzziam ) likewise five days at sea.

For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.

For approximately five days the armies therefore confronted each other across the plain of Marathon, in stalemate.

For example, the complete works of Shakespeare, about 1250 pages in print, can be stored in about five megabytes ( forty million bits ) with one byte per character.

" Slant Magazine also gave the album three out of five stars, saying " It's Marianne Faithfull's substance-ravaged voice that comes to mind most often while listening to songs like " Honey " and " For Once in Your Life.

For example, the atomic weight of chlorine-35 to five significant digits is 34. 969 u and that of chlorine-37 is 36. 966 u.