Chinese artefacts adorn every surface, a portrait of her mother hangs on one wall, and imposing volumes on the history of the Chinese Communist party, fat with tiny Post-it notes, line the floor.
However powerful Rome may once have appeared, it failed to sustain the civic values that had produced greatness in the first place, and in six imposing volumes titled "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Gibbon recounted how this dominant civilization proved incapable of resisting barbarian invasion and the spread of militant Christianity.
Even in a raw-edged state, it is an imposing volume.
A NATION CHALLENGED: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath (The New York Times/Callaway, $34.95) is a glossier, bulkier, more imposing volume.
Changing the elemental properties in the finite element model of the microstructure is performed based on this sensitivity analyses and by imposing volume constraints on the constituent phases.
That's the imposing volume of the Museum of Modern Art's second-floor lobby atrium, which since the museum's reopening has been a space more suited to corporate functions than to art.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it would consider imposing volume limits on trading of energy futures by purely financial investors and that it already has adopted tougher information requirements aimed at identifying the role of hedge funds and traders who swap contracts outside of regulated exchanges like the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Patrik Cerwall, the head of strategic marketing and intelligence at Ericsson, which is based in Stockholm, Sweden, said most operators were beginning to look for ways to make their networks more efficient, whether by dumping data quickly into a fixed-line network, imposing volume limits on customers or installing miniature base stations at congestion points.
Patrik Cerwall, the head of strategic marketing and intelligence at Ericsson, which is based in Stockholm, said most operators were beginning to look for ways to make their networks more efficient, whether by dumping data quickly into a fixed-line network, imposing volume limits on customers or installing mini base stations at congestion points.
In the high suction range, the water content was not influenced by the imposed volume constraints.
The new contracts under CRS-2 will now impose both mass and volume requirements for the resupply vehicles, whereas CRS-1 only imposed volume requirements.
