During the war Germany, Italy and Japan were known as the Axis Powers and Britain, France and America were called the Allies.
The increasingly populous and built-up corridor connecting Abu Dhabi and Dubai have inspired many to refer to this core axis as "Abu Dubai, " the unofficial capital of the entire Middle East.
The half-blind cleric--who leads the Nadhlatul Ulama, a moderate Muslim organization with 30 million members--has actually won greater support from a loose coalition of eight Islamic parties known as the Central Axis than from his own PKB, which still claims to back Megawati.
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As a teenager he followed producer brother Glyn into the music industry, landing a job as a tape operator at London's famed Olympic Studios, where he worked on albums including Jimi Hendrix's Axis Bold As Love.
Jennifer Schoenhofer founded Axis Teknologies (Axis) in 2003 as she wanted to make a difference.
U.S. President George W. Bush labeled Iran as a member of the "axis of evil" after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Axis will be included as part of current toolbar bundling deals with Firefox and Internet Explorer that last year resulted in Yahoo shipping over 80 million browsers.
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The vertical axis (Y axis) is the compounded portfolio return and the horizontal axis (X axis) is portfolio risk as measured by the annual standard deviation of return.
That is plotting cigarette tax revenue as a percentage of GDP (vertical axis) against the percentage of the pricer of a packet of cigarettes that is tax (horizontal axis).
Italy finds itself part of a new and potentially powerful grouping in the EU as the traditionally dominant Franco-German axis struggles to combat the threat of isolation which its anti-war stance has brought.
Foreign entities with knowledge of the multi-axis simultaneous control machine tool industry view the U.S. export control policies and requirements as an additional burden to consider when dealing with U.S. multi-axis machine tool manufactures.
Axis is ready and free to use as of today, although Android users won't get their turn until closer to the end of the year.
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To explain the graph a bit more clearly, the X axis is months and years, while the Y axis is the volume of industrial activity as a percentage of the average monthly output of 2009 (which, it should be noted, was depressed as a result of the global financial crisis).
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And, yes, Axis Teknologies, is among the shooting stars as well.
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The 3-axis Photo Image Stabilization mechanically compensates for rotary shift as well as horizontal and vertical angular shift to further enhance still images and eliminate blur.
He said that he believed it was extraterrestrial, as a satellite would have been traveling on a west-east axis, whereas the object traveled in the opposite direction before bursting into flames.
Just as an example, note musical sketch from 2009 where comedy group Axis of Awesome amaze their audience by playing 36 modern pop songs over the same four-chord structure, in one long sequence.
The Geomagnetic pole is the north end of the axis of the geomagnetic field which surrounds the Earth and extends into space as the magnetosphere.
French elections are still three years off, and, as long as President Chirac remains in office, efforts to prop up the Franco-German axis will be firm.
The election of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia late in 2005 and the election of Rafael Correa as President of Ecuador late last year have accelerated the formation of a new Latin American axis which might have serious repercussions for the region in general and also for the United States.
Launching initially as an app for the Apple iPad and iPhone (other mobile platforms will follow), Axis offers a number of novel browsing features.
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The most significant feature of Nevins's garden at Middlefield is the hornbeam room, entered as one moves up a flight of stone-and-grass steps toward a bench set on axis with what is the beating heart of any country house in summer, the well-used and much-loved screened porch.
As a sword-wielding Sephiroth fell on Aerith like an avenging angel, I felt the Earth tilt on its axis.
And, as Euler's successor, Carl Friedrich Gauss, was to discover, if you plot real numbers on one axis of a graph and imaginary ones on the other, you create a plane that represents both sorts of numbers.
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