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She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
The Navy, on April 25, announced it is bringing back the carrier Shangri-La from the Mediterranean, increasing to four the number of attack carriers in the vicinity of Cuba.
In addition, production machinery must in many cases be designed to handle with equal efficiency both natural fibers and the increasing number of synthetics, as well as blends.
If a wedge-shaped coating of increasing thickness is removed from a substrate by an instrument like the Hesiometer with a knife of constant rake angle, a number of removal mechanisms are often observed which depend upon the thickness of the coating.
This relatively high value is probably due to the small fiber diameters increasing the number of internal reflections.
Knowing the antipathy that existed in Louisiana against increasing the number of free Negroes, Giffen suggested that Palfrey bring them to Boston at once, and then send them on to Liberia.
In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.
An increasing number of people with disabilities are participating in sports, leading to the development of new assistive technology.
In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.
Meanwhile the South of the 1850s saw an increasing number of slaves leave the border states through sale, manumission and escape.
The melting and boiling points of astatine are also expected to follow the trend seen in the halogen series, increasing with atomic number.
It has been revived somewhat in conjunction with the environmental movement, and has been drawing an increasing number of adherents.
As Athens attracted an increasing number of resident aliens ( metics ), this shift in the definition of citizen worked to keep the immigrant population more sharply distinguished politically.
It is also the subject of increasing academic study and a small number of his operas have returned to the stage.
In the course of time and during their development, adhesives have gained a stable position in an increasing number of production processes.
State of origin games also declined in importance, especially after an increasing number of withdrawals by AFL players.
There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.
A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).
There have been a large number of studies of the efficacy of typical antipsychotics, and an increasing number on the more recent atypical antipsychotics.
Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.
An increasing number of commercial buildings use a combined cycle with cogeneration to provide heating, often water heating, from the output of a natural gas reciprocating engine, gas turbine or stirling electric generator.
This method drastically reduced phone data transfers while dramatically increasing the number of message forums.
While most urban and suburban transport in Bulgaria is composed of buses ( using an increasing number of CNG vehicles ), around a dozen cities also have trolley bus networks.
By the 18th century an increasing number of new plants had arrived in Europe from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide and a larger number of plants became available for study.

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While largely left out of the thrust for increasing rights of citizens, as the question was left indeterminate in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, activists such as Pauline Léon and Théroigne de Méricourt agitated for full citizenship for women.
In the late 1990s the foundation, along with the G7, World Bank, World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund, came under heavy criticism by anti-globalisation activists who claimed that capitalism and globalization were increasing poverty and destroying the environment.
Convinced of a crisis devastating the Roman Catholic Church and coming under the increasing influence of sedevacantist activists, Archbishop Thục proceeded to consecrate several bishops without a mandate from the Holy See because he believed he was morally obliged to secure apostolic succession in the Latin Church, considering the reformed rites for the sacrament of Holy Orders of Pope Paul VI to be of doubtful validity.
The PPP activists staged large protests and strikes in different parts of the country, increasing pressure on Ayub to resign.
Yale University was a stronghold of the ZPG activists who believed “ that a constantly increasing population is responsible for many of our problems: pollution, violence, loss of values and of individual privacy .” Founding fathers of the movement were Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, and Thomas Eisner.
The archive was founded in 2001 by Internet activists who were concerned that the unregulated private practice of sending cease-and-desist letters seemed to be increasing and was having an unstudied, but potentially significant, " chilling effect " on speech.
The increasing role of the trade union leadership in the party was unpopular with some activists like MPP Bill Temple.
Some Polish gay activists, such as Robert Biedroń, who had originally said that their fellow countrymen left Poland to escape " increasing persecution ", later corrected their stance, saying that " questions of morals " are of secondary importance and the main reasons are economic.

increasing and provide
In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.
In turn, higher fertility rates for this population provide a means of increasing the numerical quantity of the population, allowing for the possibility of greater stability and unity.
Therefore, the fourth principle of the plan must be that it provide for continuously increasing capabilities in the opponent.
The website and online database of the collection also provide increasing amounts of information.
The increasing influence of institutional investors has led to greater transparency: hedge funds increasingly provide information to investors including valuation methodology, positions and leverage exposure.
The patches have been shown to provide rapid and sustained delivery to underlying tissues without significantly increasing levels of drug concentration in the blood when compared to the traditional oral administration.
The increasing demand and use of computers in universities and research labs in the late 1960s generated the need to provide high-speed interconnections between computer systems.
Bashir II, who had come to power through local politics and nearly fallen from power because of his increasing detachment from them, reached out for allies, allies who looked on the entire area as “ the Orient ” and who could provide trade, weapons and money, without requiring fealty and without, it seemed, being drawn into endless internal squabbles.
Given the increasing number of scientists who study the nervous system, several prominent neuroscience organizations have been formed to provide a forum to all neuroscientists and educators.
Within the airspace, air traffic management, while continuing to have safety as its primary objective, will also be driven by the requirements of the airspace user and the need to provide for increasing air traffic.
In addition, the rapidly increasing population is already too great to provide the constitutionally mandated 8. 25 acre ( 33, 000 m² ) api for each male at age 16.
Whilst a laser on a weather-control satellite is able to supply heat, it is imperative to provide them with filter masks against the increasing carbon dioxide and also with food, air, and medical supplies ( a theme earlier explored in Clarke's novel The Sands of Mars ).
The tall buildings within many urban areas provide multiple surfaces for the reflection and absorption of sunlight, increasing the efficiency with which urban areas are heated.
The principal advantage of Raman amplification is its ability to provide distributed amplification within the transmission fiber, thereby increasing the length of spans between amplifier and regeneration sites.
If it chooses shares, it avoids increasing its debt, and in some cases the new shareholders may also provide non monetary help, such as expertise or useful contacts.
Research and support organizations, first founded in the 1960s and increasing in number, work to increase public awareness, to provide support for individuals and their families, and to promote and facilitate research.
The amount of personal information users are being asked to provide is constantly increasing.
On April 18, 1780, the state capital was moved from the colonial capital of Williamsburg to Richmond, to provide a more centralized location for Virginia's increasing westerly population, as well as to isolate the capital from British attack.
This stone will provide the key to the hieroglyphic, or pictographic writing, of ancient Egypt and the decree on it reveals the increasing influence of Egyptian natives, remitted debts and taxes, released prisoners, pardoned rebels who have surrendered, and granted increased benefactions to the temples.
Besides research conducted in its own facilities, increasing activity can be found at the UdG ’ s Science and Technology Park, which acts as a meeting point where the University, the economy, the environment and society join forces, to provide excellent opportunities for entrepreneurship and encourage the transfer of knowledge and technology.
These included greatly increasing access to health care and education for the general population ; increasing adult literacy and protections for those accused of crimes ; improving training for judges, prohibiting human trafficking, disbanding the Haitian military ( which primarily had been used against the Haitian people ), establishing improved human rights and political freedom ; doubling the minimum wage, instituting land reform and assistance to small farmers, providing boat construction training to fishermen, establishing a food distribution network to provide low cost food to the poor at below market prices, building low-cost housing, and attempting to reduce the level of government corruption.
It reveals a general increasing stability trend for isotopes heavier than < sup > 301 </ sup > Uus, the isotope that has 184 neutrons, considered to be a magic number in physics that is thought to provide extra stability.
The term parallel processing is used to represent a large class of techniques which are used to provide simultaneous data processing tasks for the purpose of increasing the computational speed of a computer system.

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