All his life, Postgate was politically outspoken (a conscientious objector in the war, a CND supporter, a New Statesman blogger,) and in his latter days he reserved a quantity of bile for modern children's TV producers.
The delay was caused by a concern that the second stage manoeuvring engines did not have a sufficient quantity of reserve fuel.
Let us suppose that in a region, water supply is based on a given aquifer, from which a quantity of effective reserve can be used without damaging the aquifer, and a long drought is foreseen.
When the Bank of Japan (BoJ) pioneered QE in 2001, its goal was to buy enough securities to create a desired quantity of reserves (hence, "quantitative easing").
To deal with the inability of the existing system to create an adequate quantity of reserves without requiring the United States to run large deficits, a new kind of reserve called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) was devised by the International Monetary Fund.
Findings suggest the presence of a particular quantity of seed reserves in the seed banks of the wetlands; i.e., certain species with persistent seed banks can be used to restore wetland vegetation.
Unless the U.S.Treasury suddenly gained a large quantity of gold reserves, it would be impossible for (U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernankee to print US$6000 billion to purchase long-term debt.
Mai Po Nature Reserve marshes in Hong Kong receive a large quantity of wastewater from the adjacent areas with highly contaminated sediments showing high contents of inorganic and organic nitrogen and heavy metals (Cheung et al. 2003; Liang and Wong 2003; Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology 2009) and an apparent decline of infauna diversity over the last 7 years (Shen et al., 2010).
It is known that a great quantity of oil and gas reserves has migrated from the eroded carbonate to the sandstone reservoirs of these deposits, and has saturated them, up to outcrop on the surface, in the south of Patos and in the east of Kucova.
Recognizing the importance of precise determination of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is a principal step in the attempts to reserve huge quantities of squandered water.
He tells a reasonable quantity of truth.
