In Mommsen's view it was important that the ancients should come down to earth from the Olympian heights upon which they appeared to the mass of the public.
Standing second in the table as Christmas approaches, only two points behind the leaders, they are showing genuine signs of climbing back towards the heights upon which they once made their home.
Of World War I, President Wilson said that it showed America marching to heights "upon which there rests nothing but the pure light of the justice of God," reflecting the "glimmer of light which came at Calvary, that first dawn which came with the Christian era".
William of Malmesbury does not refer to Arthur's tomb but elaborates on the pyramids of varying height, upon which were statues with inscriptions "Her Sexi, and Bliserh... Pencrest, Bantomp, Pinepegn, etc".
Due to the self-reporting of height and weight, upon which we relied without collecting actual measurement, the reliability of the BMI data is questionable [ 31].
Darwin's old chair, which he had fixed with bedframe legs so that he could, at his great height, comfortably spin and pivot, and upon which he had sat to write his treatises, remained still amongst a panoply of papers, pillboxes, tomes, and scientific paraphernalia.
At higher elevations pressure itself is used to define the reference surface upon which contours of the height above sea level are drawn; dynamically, the height contours of a constant pressure surface are completely analogous to the isobars of a constant-height surface.
Such domes are often larger in diameter than the drum upon which they sit, and their height usually exceeds their width.
Both must be equally strong for the bird to fly: "Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.
"This is the Big Boy," Mr. Clarke said, pointing to a 10-foot-tall half-pipe — imagine a U-shaped valley upon which a skater can propel himself back and forth, gaining momentum and height — that was the centerpiece of the park when it opened.
Lorey's height, used recently in a global tropical biomass mapping project [6], was the GLAS derivative upon which subsequent modeling and estimation were based.
