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The catastrophic and the spectacular, unearthed in the railway's construction, have become a feature of its ongoing progress.
His great speculation, so close to resulting in a spectacular financial as well as scientific success, was on the brink of failure.
The agreement is not spectacular, but it is likely that the disappearance of amalgamation of peaks in a near-field microphone signal does represent vortex coalescence.
A spectacular example of this problem is illustrated by various stories of flooding and\\or land sinking which were related to white settlers by aborigines.
A distinction must be drawn, however, between spectacular networks of exchange and more mundane but nevertheless significant trading relationships.
The acceleration of the quiescent air is much more spectacular than the deceleration of the uniform stream.
The triple-product 2 (figure 9) shows the first really spectacular difference between zonal averages.
Despite infrequently recognized problems, the special design standard is the foundation of the spectacular successes of modern medicine.
The first chapters on systematics and biogeography introduce these spectacular inhabitants of now widely separated countries, with regional overviews.
A rather spectacular example is the development of an elaborate system in which tense and evidentiality categories are fused.
Many spectacular novel results have emerged in recent years.
By this definition, spectacular events such as tempests and sommeils, though associated with divertissements, are not restricted to them.
We recover not a unified body of performance but witness a spectacular staging of the modern division of the senses.
The location was spectacular, with the performers on top of, or half-way up, a cliff which drops to a lagoon.
In the context of the classical recording industry such figures are spectacular.
The reader cannot fail to be impressed by the list of spectacular deep surveys.
The book is spectacular in its combination of range and cogency.
The spectacular growth of the car trade is therefore embedded in the deregulation of commodity and money markets and in the removal of trade barriers.
The ornaments, although not spectacular, may have been enough to mark their group affiliation.
In particular, they have achieved spectacular success in the area of retrenchment.
At the fourth and final stage, the nearest end of the continuum covering recent centuries, less spectacular results have been achieved.
Much more pervasive but less spectacular was the series of personal connections that musicians used to acquire material support, most frequently an apartment.
Basically all regional varieties of the language have witnessed one particular - and spectacular - change.
The arrangements were truly spectacular, and the response from the attendees was equally enthusiastic.
The parachute valve is one of the most common,12'13 and most spectacular causes of mitral valvar stenosis.
The results show highly spectacular differences between the conditional averages for the different regions.
The incident's graphic violence provided a spectacular enactment of colonial vulnerability and guilt.
They were expensive and their use did not lead to any spectacular increases in oil production.
Overall, associations in this category showed a spectacular increase, from 2,002 in 1951 to 16,224 in 1996.
Therefore, evolutionary processes did not have sufficient time for spectacular specialisation.
How, then, had such a state enjoyed such spectacular success in war, overseas expansion, and economic growth in the following century and a half ?
Upon cooling the track was covered with a thin layer of glass with spectacular colours.
The bonus, of course, is fresh exposures and not infrequently spectacular fossil discoveries.
The first is obvious, in as much as the fossil record may not be spectacular but it is still important.
Every culture has given a form to its own spectacular eloquence according to its own styles.
A performance produced by these processes should be refined, complete, and spectacular: not a copy of life but a sensational re-creation of life.
The results achieved by public sanitation during this time period were spectacular while there were no substantial changes in the dietary habits of the population.
Though it often proved to be spectacular, the universe was not simply a spectacle to be admired passively.
The first round of his fight against essentialism has been a spectacular success for the cause of non-essentialism, but the fight has not yet ended.
Through spectacular marches and successful negotiations with the government they enjoyed a number of achievements during the 1990s.
Of other less spectacular but therefore perhaps more ubiquitous liminal figures one catches glimpses throughout the frontier record.
Where does such a spectacular procedure come from?
The agencies' spectacular expansion since the 1970s has, again, effectively mirrored the growth in private capital flows over recent decades.
In fact, such a ferry ride was possible at that time, though unfortunately discontinued today, given the spectacular approach to the city which it offered.
The impact of inflations during the two world wars was quite spectacular, and it had nothing to do with tariff policy.
Their spectacular renunciation and self-mortification, following the mendicant example, brought them prestige and even political influence.
Despite the spectacular landscape, this is the aesthetics of engagement rather than of display.
In fact, the popular as a political concept has suffered a spectacular fall from grace since its heyday of the 1980s.
A spectacular calving just after they had passed caused some excitement.
The free-standing golden umbrellas (known as spectaculars in the lighting industry) stood over 80 ft tall and when installed in 1983, were revolutionary designs.
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