The military was organized along similar lines to the British and American armed forces of the time, in which a small standing army could quickly augment its strength during emergencies from a reserve militia force (in Brazil, the National Guard).
If, because of Red China's willingness to chance everything, war of some sort should come, it had better come when we are acting in concert with those peoples who share our views & aspirations & who can augment our strength.
The battle was just one of the many occasions in the Second Punic War in which a canny Hannibal used nature, the environment, and knowledge of his enemy to augment the strength of his smaller army.
Various means were used to augment his strength, such as seating him in a hanging chair so that by bracing his legs against the die-holding structure he could pull with his arms and push with his legs.
Nevertheless, such improved notches can be a very good design option to augment the strength of structural components, since they barely affect their global dimensions or weight.
Calcareous aggregates appear to augment the strength enhancement effected during super-critical carbonation by encouraging preferential precipitation of calcite at the binder-aggregate interface.
However, concerns regarding their resistance to degradation have limited their use as vascular prostheses and in order to augment their strength, herein a novel polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane integrated poly(carbonate-urea)urethane (POSS-PCU) nanocomposite was synthesised by our group.
Brake pads are developed with light alloy Aluminium 2014 reinforced with SiC to augment the strength and wear resistance and explore the advantage of low density of the matrix.
Just like the pieces existed for Apple to make computing easy, Google to make the world's knowledge searchable and Tesla to make an electric car popular, the pieces are now in place for roboticists to augment the strength and endurance of the human race.
The intermediate programmes should involve bouts of relatively high-intensity exercise, applied in an intermittent fashion, to augment muscle strength and functional performance.
