The Society has over 20 topical sections and seven regional chapters, reflecting the breadth of interests and activities of its members.

The breadth of his interests, ranging over pure and applied science, economic and practical problems, and psychical research, made him a well-known personality, and he received many public and academic honours.

Despite Binet's extensive research interests and wide breadth of publications, today he is most widely known for his contributions to intelligence.

: Its sheer breadth is so discontinuous with the reasons offered for it that the amendment seems inexplicable by anything but animus toward the class that it affects ; it lacks a rational relationship to legitimate state interests.

Norton was widely admired for the breadth of his intellectual interests, remarkable scholarship and interest in the common good.

Students can choose subjects across the six faculties to suit their interests and career objectives, adding the breadth and depth they want to personalise their degree through a combination of major and minor studies.

" But the magazine was unable to find anyone with both professional credentials and the breadth of scientific interests necessary to recapture the popularity the column enjoyed under Stong and Ingalls.

* When losing an outdoor game, feigning a deep, informed and more than amateur interest in e. g. botany or ornithology, in order to convey a breadth of interests and suggest to the opponent that losing is not of concern.

Nevertheless, he goes on to comment that " Potter's achievement is in translating to film something of the breadth of Woolf's remarkable range of interests, not only in language and literature, but also in history, nature, weather, animals, the relation of the sexes and the very nature of the sexes.

The breadth of his interests, abilities and character are determined from his writings that remain and from the testimonials of friends who survived.

Applications to the school are reviewed on the basis of character, intellectual ability, emotional maturity, curiosity, and breadth of interests.

The whole continent of North America was one of his special interests and he approved the setting up of provinces, houses, and colleges the length and breadth of that vast territory.

As a reaction to claims by the British that they were governing with " the true interests of the natives at heart ", Macaulay wrote: " The dimensions of " the true interests of the natives at heart " are algebraically equal to the length, breadth and depth of the whiteman's pocket.

Art Applied to Industry, a series of lectures he gave to the Society of Arts in 1864, illustrates the breadth of his interests, the topics covered including glass, pottery, brass and iron, gold and silver, furniture, the weaver's art and external architectural decoration.

The whole length of Essex bridge is one thousand and thirty feet and its breadth thirty-four.

Living with his watercolors is a vicarious experience of seeing nature distilled through the eyes of a sensitive interpretor, a breath and breadth of the outdoor world to help man honor the Creator of it all.

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It is to be 2½ cubits in length, 1½ in breadth, and 1½ in height ( as, or 4. 29 × 2. 59 × 2. 59 feet ).

The region is almost rectangular with a length of and breadth of up to.

Antiquarian Reynell Johns claimed that until the mid-1850s, Aboriginal people made a " habit of visiting the place annually and retracing the outlines of the figure the bunyip which is about 11 paces long and 4 paces in extreme breadth.

The height is the same as the length and breadth, and although this has led most people to conclude that it is shaped like a cube, it could also be a pyramid.

The field is a new breadth of study in graduate programs, and it integrates elements from all classical areas of chemistry with a focus on fundamental issues that are unique to materials.

While the hosts pepper their call-in sessions with jokes directed at both the caller and at themselves, the depth and breadth of their knowledge of automobiles is extensive, and they are usually able to arrive at a diagnosis and give helpful advice.

The gods too gave us the soul and reason, which is not measured by breadth or depth, but by knowledge and sentiments, and by which we attain to greatness, and may equal even with the gods.

Owing to the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as " Amazing Grace.

It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine "-" I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.

Grimm's scientific character is notable for its combination of breadth and unity.

The breadth of the alluvial region along the Mississippi is from 10 to 60 miles ( 15 to 100 km ), and along the other rivers the alluvial region averages about 10 miles ( 15 km ) across.

The exhibition is described as " the first in Feininger ’ s native country in more than forty-five years, and the first ever to include the full breadth of his art " and as " accompanied by a richly illustrated monograph with a feature essay that provides a broad overview of Feininger ’ s career ..."

Length may be distinguished from height, which is vertical extent, and width or breadth, which are the distance from side to side, measuring across the object at right angles to the length.

Though the Books of Kings and Books of Chronicles talk a great deal about the Assyrian empire, Nineveh itself is not again noticed till the days of Jonah, when it is described ( ff ; ) as an " exceedingly great city of three days journey in breadth ".

" He notes that a tall human is consistent with the figure's height but also notes that for a tall human " he shoulder breadth however would be difficult to achieve without giving an unnatural appearance to the arm swing and shoulder contours.

As Anglicanism represents a broad range of theological opinion, its presbyterate includes priests who consider themselves no different in any respect from those of the Roman Catholic Church, and a minority who prefer to use the title presbyter in order to distance themselves from the more sacrificial theological implications which they associate with the word “ priest .” While priest is the official title of a member of the presbyterate in every Anglican province worldwide, the ordination rite of certain provinces ( including the Church of England ) recognizes the breadth of opinion by adopting the title The Ordination of Priests ( also called Presbyters ).

In economics the Pareto index, named after the Italian economist and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto, is a measure of the breadth of income or wealth distribution.

Drawing on the breadth of Midrashic, Talmudic and Aggadic literature ( including literature that is no longer extant ), as well as his knowledge of grammar, halakhah, and how things work, Rashi clarifies the " simple " meaning of the text so that a bright child of five could understand it.

Largely ignored upon its initial release, The Ballad of Cable Hogue has been rediscovered in recent years and is often held up by critics as exemplary of the breadth of Peckinpah's talents.

It has an apparent breadth of about 200 yards with a bed encumbered by large rocky masses, chiefly of hornblende rock, containing spangles of mica and small garnets.

It will occur to anyone that the teacher must have adequate education, a depth and breadth of knowledge far beyond the immediate necessities of his course plus complete dedication to his subject and to his students.

Milward argued the German Reich could not fight a long war, so it deliberately refrained from arming in depth, to arming in breadth, to enable it to win a series of quick victories.

It was their fear of the spectre of 1914 that emerged victorious in the conflict of goals between armament in breadth for a short war and armament in depth for a feared long war.

Nonetheless, as a practical matter, no civil law legislature can ever address the full spectrum of factual possibilities in the breadth, depth and detail of the case law of the common law courts of even a smaller jurisdiction, and that deeper, more complete body of law provides additional predictability that promotes commerce.

The new 1836 regulations measured depth and breadth with length measured at half midship depth.

The depth and breadth of knowledge that could be preserved and passed soon increased exponentially.

The depth and breadth of the collection may also vary.

* Crystallized intelligence ( Gc ) includes the breadth and depth of a person's acquired knowledge, the ability to communicate one's knowledge, and the ability to reason using previously learned experiences or procedures.

Greenberg argued for the virtues of breadth over depth.

* Coverage, which means the KR covers a breadth and depth of information.

In some universities, a qualifying exam serves to test both the breadth and depth of a student's understanding of mathematics ; the students who pass are permitted to work on a doctoral dissertation.

The depth of concern, and breadth of impact upon the American society and the West cannot be overstated.

According to historian Richard B. Morris, they are an " incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic in political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth by the product of any later American writer.

Starting at 11 o ' clock, Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke first, exhorting each woman in the audience to accept responsibility for her own life, and to " understand the height, the depth, the length, and the breadth of her own degradation.

The two types of courses will usually differ in length ( one to two semesters vs. two to four ), breadth ( many music appreciation courses begin at the late Baroque or classical eras and might omit music after WWII while courses for majors traditionally span the period from the Middle Ages to recent times ), and depth.

In the rainy season, the Orinoco can swell to a breadth of and a depth of.

The international imprint of African-American culture is pronounced in its depth and breadth, in indigenous expressions, as well as in myriad, blatantly mimetic and subtler, more attenuated forms.

Hence the breadth and depth of " understanding " aimed at by a system determine both the complexity of the system ( and the implied challenges ) and the types of applications it can deal with.

Saturated thickness of the Ogallala Aquifer in 1997 after several decades of intensive withdrawals: The breadth and depth of the aquifer generally decrease from north to south.

" No overt pagan could expect a public career during the reign of Justinian, yet the depth and breadth of Agathias ' culture was not Christian " ( Kaldellis ).

Some variety developed within Lithuanian yeshivas to methods of studying Talmud and mussar, for example the contrast between breadth ( beki ' ut ) and depth ( iyyun ), or the place given to pilpul ( the type of casuistic argumentation popular from the 16th to 18th centuries ).