The dry season, which is characterized by the cold and hazy harmattan (the North East trade winds) weather, starts from early November and ends in the latter part of March when the hot weather begins with intensity and ends only with the onset of the early rainfall in April.
A wave of suicide bombings has hit Pakistan in recent months, beginning with particular intensity in July after the siege of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, when government troops stormed a complex where militants supporting the Taliban were holed up.
The participants pedalled a bicycle ergometer beginning with an intensity of 60% of heart rate reserve; that is, [0.6 × (Heart Ratemax − Heart Raterest) + Heart Raterest] for 20 minutes [ 21].
It begins with brutal intensity, bringing a lump to the throat within minutes.
"Ajax began with more intensity than us and we paid the price," Martino, who took over from the ailing Tito Vilanova in the close season, said at a news conference.
With Yaya Toure back from the Africa Cup of Nations to add authority to their midfield and new £25m striker Wilfried Bony starting on the bench, City began with an intensity lacking from their recent performances at Etihad Stadium.
With Chelsea having already secured the title and West Brom safely ensconced in mid-table, the result had no major significance for either side, but the game began with an intensity that belied the meaningless nature of the contest.
The calls for price controls to combat high sticker prices, increased regulation, and the need to provide greater access will likely begin with renewed intensity early next year.
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The participants were introduced to the intervention exercises in a structured way such that they began with lighter-intensity exercise and gradually increased the intensity level over the first 2 3 weeks of the intervention.
For the frisking duets, the music complemented the intensity, beginning with a relentless tribal percussiveness and then slowing and dropping out altogether when the central couple, Masek and Maria Kolegova, spotlit at center stage, became more tender with each other.
