Captain West advanced to meet me, and before our outstretched hands touched, before his face broke from repose to greeting and the lips moved to speech, I got the first astonishing impact of his personality.
The Swiss now began to move forward into the plain, eager to try the effect of the impact of their phalanx on the Burgundian line.
So tremendous was their impact that the legions and cohorts were pushed together in helpless confusion.
The front ranks of the knights, wedged so tightly together by the impact of the enemy that they could not lay their lances in rest, much less spur their horses to the charge, fought and died.
Vigorous impact and not stability was the quality at which the king should have aimed.
The other was capable of driving before him far superior numbers by the irresistible impact and steady pressure of his solid column with its serried hedge of spear-points.
Finally, we should not forget the impact of natural phenomena, including climatic changes and vulcanism.
All of these pollutants increase the adverse effects of offshore oil production, and when potential spills are also considered, the ultimate impact on the marine ecosystem may be substantial.
Conclusions Predictability of the impact of resource development on marine birds in northern waters is limited by our relative ignorance of these birds and their ecology.
Indexes relating the impact of man upon each North American species could have broad uses in the field of conservation.
Nevertheless, environmental impact statements on proposed developmental programs in the North still raise more questions than are being answered.
Although numerous records of livestock introductions are available, few provide information relating to the effects of these animals on the habitat and their fauna unless the impact has been severe.
However, it must be admitted that the impact of man on the environment is enormous, especially in a country like Denmark, which possesses no raw materials, and where agriculture has transformed the whole country.
While the Trans-Alaska Pipeline impact statement had provided shock therapy, it was not the only influential event on the horizon.
The impact of oil development on waterfowl populations in Alaska.
It is hard to dismiss the evidence pointing to the impact of human activities on seabird populations during the last 3 centuries.
Discussion Impactof Human Activity Direct Exploitation According to Norwegian laws, all seabirds, with the exception (for some odd reason) of the gannet and fulmar, can be hunted from 21 August to 1 March.
The impact of human activity on bird mortality varies from species to species.
For example, predation by gulls and ravens may have a disastrous effect on a seabird colony at low colony density but have progressively less impact as the colony size and density increase.
Such cold, stony bodies might have come together at so slow a rate that the heat caused by their impact would not raise sensibly the temperature of the growing planet.
Rolling along the bottom they have been worn round byimpact and friction as they rubbed against one another and the rocky bed of the stream.
Under the impact of the storm the ice was evidently crushing southward and bearing us with it.
As it was, the shock of the impactjarred things considerably.
Then, too, when the ship was butting the ice, the shock of the impact would have made Morpheus himself sit up and rub his eyes every few minutes.
One of our berg pieces was carried away by the flood tide, and we were obliged to shift our position to the inner side of the other one; but there were other grounded bergs outside us to take the impact of the larger floes.
They do not reflect the impact of priority emergency recovery efforts and expedient alternatives that are available, some within hours, to aid in restoration of transportation capacity.
In addition, a good case can be made in that community systems experiencing impact may be more efficient and rational than they are in "normal" circumstances.
For the purposes of this subdivision, the term disaster refers to all natural hazards which could have impact on public safety.
Similarly, the resulting impact of possible damage to national production has not been adequately analyzed.
The scenarios depict expectable earthquakes that could severely impact on the major population centers of California.
So violent had been the impact that the sailor in the hammock near the side where the ship was struck was pitched over three others.
The impact of the vessel had broken the creature's back.
He had seen that the animal's skin was ruined by the impact of the hydroplane.
These are concerned with the relations between the social groups of the Basin and those of the Plains and the impact of the ecology of either region upon the social structures of the native population.
Less research has been devoted to the impact of equestrian life and the pursuit of the buffalo on the social structure of the people of the Intermountain area.
When a shell bursts, its fragments strike the ground obliquely, with a forward movement; therefore our comparative safety behind our rock, which often shook from the terrific impact of missiles on its outer side.
At the awful point of impact there was on our side a tall, handsome brigadier, whose black eyes glowed like coals.
Have the students prepare a research paper of changes in the culture of the country then and now and their impact on families and individuals.
More significant than the economic impact was the political impactof the Currency Act on Virginia politics and the political fortunes of key Virginians.
Have student research information on Indian tribes, their location, and their impact of life in Virginia.
What impact did writers have on the American Revolution?
In what ways can one account for the impact of the Declaration of Independence on modern day political thought?
They will love the bitterly ironic and obscene outrage at the government's failure, the double standards of the press, and the disproportionate and callously disregardedimpact on the poor and black.
It would mean assessing the impact of rules on both proprietary and nonproprietary production.
This makes his impact slow, his campaigns unscientific.
Rontgen of Munich made in 1896 his remarkable discovery of the so-called X or Rontgen rays, a class of radiation produced by the impact of the cathode particles against an impervious metallic screen or anticathode placed in the vacuum tube.
The results stated in S 72 have been applied to give an account of the nature of the actions concerned in the impact of two solid bodies.
Though the impact of electric waves generally produces a diminution of resistance with these loose contacts, yet there are exceptions to the rule.
The heavy wind caught them without warning almost, and its impact soon pressed the lorcha over.
His attending physician said that between salt water and sun he had been literally flayed, and the flesh torn into ribbons and gouged by the impact of the boat.
But he knew at once that it was only a glancing wound, and that the effects, caused by the impact of the bullet upon the skull, were passing.
He remembered now the light impact as if a pebble had struck him, and he knew that the wound had been caused by a bullet.
The impact of Henry's body knocked Girty to his knees and, as he fell, the youth made a sweeping blow at him with the captured club.
Commodities account for 57% of the value of total exports, so that a downturn in world commodity prices can have a big impact on the economy.
The war has intensified the impact of such basic problems as an uncertain legal framework, corruption, raging inflation, and lack of openness in government economic policy and financial operations.
Yet these efforts could not offset the impact of political and economic difficulties, both internal and regional.
In recent years, Gibraltar has seen major structural change from a public to a private sector economy, but changes in government spending still have a major impact on the level of employment.
Maldivian authorities worry about the impact of erosion and possible global warming on their low-lying country; 80% of the area is one meter or less above sea level.
Guam faces the problem of building up the civilian economic sector to offset the impact of military downsizing.
France's leaders remain committed to a capitalism in which they maintain social equity by means of laws, tax policies, and social spending that reduce income disparity and the impact of free markets on public health and welfare.
In 1998, El Nino's impact on agriculture, the financial crisis in Asia, and instability in Brazilian markets undercut growth.
In the moment when he reached earth, on his back, flung there by his impact with the calculated screwing thrust of Jan's massive shoulder, Sourdough knew that his day was over.
Then she would be always at hand, and the spring of the bell would be turned aside from the impact of the opening door.
The pace was terrific, and when at last Omar gave the signal for which his men were waiting, the crackling reverberation of their rifles had not died away when the impact came.
The death he sought was the death he had always hoped for--the crashing clamour of the battlefield, the wild tumultuous impact of contending forces, with the whining scream of flying bullets in his ears.
With a cry, the man nearest the bed dropped his arm and a pistol clattered to the floor--the barrel still singing from the impact of the policeman's bullet.
As there is a unity of the fallen Adam, a force of evil which impact only gives, so much more is there a unity of the Second Adam, which is not a collection of individuals, but a Body with its Head.
He struck this with a terrific impact and shot forward off his saddle into a clumsy entanglement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impact" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
