Stadia Sentence Examples

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  • How can we possibly build the stadia and facilities for the Olympics.

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  • The famous oracle of Amphiaraus was situated in the territory of Oropus, 12 stadia from the city.

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  • Having determined the difference of latitude between Alexandria and Syene which he erroneously believed to lie on the same meridian, and obtained the distance of those places from each other from the surveys made by Egyptian geometers, he concluded that a degree of the meridan measured 700 stadia.'

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  • His map formed a parallelogram measuring 75,800 stadia from Usisama (Ushant island) or Sacrum Promontorium in the west to the mouth of the Ganges and the land of the Coniaci (Comorin) in the east, and 46,000 stadia from Thule in the north to the supposed southern limit of Libya.

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  • It has been identified with the Aginis of Nearchus, 500 stadia from Susa, and occupies the site of what was once an extensive and important city.

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  • In philology he wrote Encyclopaedia philologica sive primae lineae Isagoges in antiquorum stadia (1798; 2nd ed., 1805); Kurze Theorie des lateinischen Stils (1793); Leitfaden der Rhetorik (1802); and an annotated edition of the Satires of Persius.

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  • Pausanias tells us that the Heraeum is 15 stadia from Mycenae.

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  • Should the legislation be extended to sports premises outdoors including stadia?

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  • There should be greater public access to existing stadia, school facilities and open spaces.

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  • The ground itself is different to most newer stadia too.

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  • Among geographers should be mentioned Posidonius (13-551), the head of the Stoic school of Rhodes, who is stated to be responsible for having reduced the length of a degree to 500 stadia; Artemidorus of Ephesus, whose " Geographumena " (c. Ioo B.C.) are based upon his own travels and a study of itineraries, and above all, Strabo, who has already been referred to.

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  • The main reason for this is the reduced capacity levels demanded by the Taylor Report for all seater stadia.

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  • Some prominent soccer stadia outwith Europe are also covered, such as the United States and Japan.

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  • New stadia include the Berlin Olympic stadium, Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and the as yet unfinished Wembley.

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  • Fixed by the Romans at 16 digits (13+1/3 = Roman foot), or its cubit at 1+4/5 Roman feet, it was legally = 13.94 at 123 B.C. (42); and 7+1/2 Philetaerean stadia were = Roman mile (18).

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  • The organizers say the stadia used for the event have all been refurbished and offer state-of-the-art environmental features.

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  • Asia Minor had this unit in early times-in the temples of Ephesus 20.55, Samos 20.62; Hultsch also claims Priene 20.90, and the stadia of Aphrodisias 20.67 and Laodicea 20.94.

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  • From the state of the ground the German explorers inferred that the length of the hippodrome was 770 metres or 4 Olympic stadia.

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  • The ruin of Kerak answers to the description given by Josephus of the city of Taricheae, which lay 30 stadia from Tiberias, the hot baths being between the two cities.

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  • Sennabris was 30 stadia from Tiberias, or about the distance of the ruin now existing.

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  • Dalton Fox produces obsessively accurate scale line drawings of board games and sporting stadia.

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  • Former player, manager and TV pundit Hill successfully campaigned to abolish the maximum wage and was an early advocate of all-seater stadia.

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  • The Sydney Olympics were smoke-free, as are an increasing proportion of major outdoor sports stadia in Australia.

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  • We look at the reasons why many football stadia are being exchanged for a newer model.

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  • Also includes original photographs of other stadia across Europe.

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  • Modern football stadia can be soul-less concrete boxes at the best of times - witness Oxford 's Kassam Stadium.

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  • Stadia Sports is committed to providing goods and services of the highest standard and quality and is approved by many recognized organizations.

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  • Work is in progress to identify the ways in which advancing technology could be best used and integrated into stadia design and management.

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  • During operation, these (numbered) stadia hairs are used to bracket either side of a tree trunk.

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  • New stadia include the Berlin Olympic stadium, Arsenal 's Emirates Stadium and the as yet unfinished Wembley.

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  • There are three stadia, or moments, in this process of nature - (i) the mechanical moment, or matter devoid of individuality; (2) the physical moment, or matter which has particularized itself in bodies - the solar system; and (3) the organic moment, or organic beings, beginning with the geological organism - or the mineral kingdom, plants and animals.

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  • The errors due to an exaggeration of distances were still further increased on account of his assuming a degree to be equal to Soo stadia, as determined by Posidonius, instead of accepting the 700 stadia of Eratosthenes.

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  • An even graver source of error was Ptolemy's acceptance of a degree of Soo instead of 700 stadia.

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  • Strabo, on the other hand, says that the Heraeum was 40 stadia from Argos and 10 from Mycenae.

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  • Both authors underestimate the distance from Mycenae, which is about 25 stadia, or a little more than 3 m., while the distance from Argos is 45 stadia, or a little more than 5 m.

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  • From it proceed, and in it, as their nature, exist, the three persons of the Trinity, conceived as stadia of an eternal self-revealing process.

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  • In Strabo's time the island was still the city, and Palaetyrus on the mainland was distant 30 stadia; modern research, however, indicates an extensive line of suburbs rather than one mainland city that can be identified with Palaetyrus.

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  • He thus found the distance between Syene and Alexandria (known to be 5000 stadia) to correspond to - 5 1 - 6 th of a great circle, and so arrived at 250,000 stadia (which he seefns subsequently to have corrected to 252,000) as the circumference of the earth.

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  • By rights he should be filling stadia by now, such is the quality of his music.

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