And though a few run-of-the-river hydroelectric schemes are being built upstream on the Tsangpo, none of these could change the river's course.
To destroy the exponentially larger and better-protected "Starkiller Base" in The Force Awakens, all that was needed was a janitor with no special skills, a few run-of-the-mill handheld explosives, a couple not very difficult X-wing blaster strikes, and some moxie.
He added: "Last year we went on a few runs of winning the odd three or four games.
"We were indebted to Graham Napier for his first-innings contribution with the bat that got us to within a few runs of the Kent score.
Too few runs of a single model have been made, he explains, to do more than hint at how a volcanic cooling could become locked in for centuries.
The surrogate model is trained using a few runs of high-fidelity 3D simulations and predicts the evolution of a non-planar crack front under a given multi-axial, variable amplitude load history.
The basic idea is to compute first a required quantity with an approximate method and then to evaluate a correction to the first approximation with just a few runs of a precise code in representative spectral channels.
Four years later during Carey's Angels Advocate Tour in 2010, she had not performed the song on the first few runs of the tour.
