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• He stood cautious, on the defensive; and in this capacity is admitted to have shown skilful management But Philipsburg being taken, there is no longer the least event to be spoken of; the Campaign passed into a series of advancings, retreatings, facing, and then right-about facings,--painful manoeuvrings, on both sides of the Rhine and of the Neckar,-- without result farther to the French, without memorability to either side. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• Minor improvements would no doubt be made, but so far as we could see we had a perfect plant and our capacity was then fifty thousand tons per month of pig iron. —  Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
• However, a major difficulty in understanding how IGFBP5 functions in this capacity is the paradoxical observation that ectopic overexpression of IGFBP5 in breast cancer cell lines results in suppressed cellular proliferation. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
• "All of our capacity has been awarded to companies that plan to develop new wind farms in north central Montana," says Bob Williams, the vice president of regulatory affairs for the Montana Alberta Tie Ltd (MATL), the company building the line. —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
• We feel that our capacity is about 1000 people, so we're going to shut the doors since we are getting close to that number, so we can ensure the first group of students finish the program around the same time and so we can make technical changes to the system. —  Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

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