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Перевод: foci

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Тезаурус:

1. Galileo in a letter to Kepler (who showed that the orbits must be ellipses, not circles with the foci at the Sun) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been "too timid" to say so for fear of ridicule.
2. The circle is a special case of the ellipse, when the two foci are coincident.
3. Keeping the string tight, draw the pencil around the foci.
4. These statutes were ironically among the main foci of opposition during those countries' independence movements.
5. In the New Temple Period, the towns remained important foci for large areas.
6. Whereas country life had before been relatively quiescent, it now became unsettled and the foci of dissatisfaction altered; protests against taxes were regularly staged from about 1540, and after 1550 gave way to larger-scale insurrections such as those at Romans in 1580, in the south west during the 1590s, and, much later, the Camisard rebellion in the Cvennes which began in 1688.
7. In a figure which he was fond of using, Christianity is not a circle with a single centre, but an ellipse with two foci.
8. The different foci reflected the fact that the full-time paid labour force at retiring age was overwhelmingly male, whilst the majority of old people was female.
9. Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration, although not in the way he envisaged in 1936.
10. It emerges that one of the foci around which these criticisms gather is that schools do not reliably, nor for all pupils, inculcate the habits and attitudes of "good learning".
11. The Fairclough report suggests that suitable UK institutions could be offered Faraday Centre status, becoming foci for technologies and expertise of industrial relevance, in which graduate scientists and engineers could work for a higher degree while engaged on contract research before moving into industry.
12. The quota system and its responsibilities stimulated a variety of fund-raising social activities and some branches became unprecedentedly active as community foci which, in turn, led to a new sense of social unity through corporate activities and interests.
13. Fix pins at distance 2 ae apart; these become the foci.