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Usage examples of expansion.

When we run the cosmic film in reverse, rapid accelerating expansion turns into rapid decelerating contraction.

Dorraine of Agora, a planet settled early in the human expansion to the stars, was taller than her husband.

That war and its resulting policy of extra-territorial expansion, so far from hindering the process of domestic amelioration, availed, from the sheer force of the national aspirations it aroused, to give a tremendous impulse to the work of national reform.

I feel, however, that in view of the expansion and the growing importance of the administrative sphere of the Cause, the general sentiments and tendencies prevailing among the friends, and the signs of increasing interdependence among the National Spiritual Assemblies throughout the world, the assembled accredited representatives of the American believers should exercise not only the vital and responsible right of electing the National Assembly, but should also fulfill the functions of an enlightened, consultative and cooperative body that will enrich the experience, enhance the prestige, support the authority, and assist the deliberations of the National Spiritual Assembly.

The Spacing Guild, which established its monopoly on interstellar transport soon after the Butlerian Jihad, likewise uses mind expansion techniques.

Then, through the standard expansion of ordinary big bang cosmology, this patch can account for the whole of the universe with which we are familiar.

They had gone back to an even earlier stage, a crude expansion of the cyclotron principle.

This expansion, which began about 4,000 years ago, is linked to the concept of Lapita culture, which, in addition to its sailing ability, was able to carry and cultivate the necessary domestic plants and animals to make these rather depauperate islands productive enough to support human populations.

We seemed to hang over the Solar System, the inner planets bright points marked by armillaries of coordinates, references for descriptor bases, expansions of arrays for major effects on Mars.

The complaint of discontented people in the Southern States was that there had been too great an expansion of popular rights, too large an extension of the elective franchise.

Court to dismiss its fears of upsetting the balance in the distribution of powers under the Federal System and to enlarge its own supervisory powers over state legislation were the appeals more and more addressed to it for adequate protection of property rights against the remedial social legislation which the States were increasingly enacting in the wake of industrial expansion.

Esolesy Ki the Lishcyn but not the Esen of my core, warming the surrounding air slightly with the exothermic result, exulting in the expansion of sensation and relief of effort as my molecular self assumed its true configuration: the teardrop web-form of my kind.

This is the fave beverage of me and my crew, so this is practically the best news to cruise down the pike since the Diablo Expansion Pack!

By expansion, for one thing, including a land purchase that gave the Feen its own tubetrain station, complete with some rather sophisticated security gates and a short siding track to accommodate its newly purchased cargo cars.

In the increasing fragmentation of mankind, the shock of the Poole wormhole incursion faded - despite the ominous warnings of Superet - and it remained a time of optimism, of hope, of expansion into an unlimited future.