The man then directs his ejaculate ( semen ) away from his partner's vagina in an effort to avoid insemination.

Erasmus preferred to live the life of an independent scholar and made a conscious effort to avoid any actions or formal ties that might inhibit his freedom of intellect and literary expression.

The essential distinction between the frequentists and the non-frequentists is, I think, that the former, in an effort to avoid anything savouring of matters of opinion, seek to define probability in terms of the objective properties of a population, real or hypothetical, whereas the latter do not.

In an effort to avoid territorial disputes, another diamond-shaped Divided Zone of 5, 790 square kilometers directly south of Kuwait was established.

Acceptable overtriage rates have been typically up to 50 % in an effort to avoid undertriage.

From the 1830s, colonial governments established the now controversial offices of the Protector of Aborigines in an effort to avoid mistreatment of Indigenous peoples and conduct government policy towards them.

Both sanity tests and smoke tests are ways to avoid wasting time and effort by quickly determining whether an application is too flawed to merit any rigorous testing.

In an effort to avoid unnecessary load on hosts that do not participate in routing, RIPv2 multicasts the entire routing table to all adjacent routers at the address 224. 0. 0. 9, as opposed to RIPv1 which uses broadcast.

Arrests were made in an effort to avoid bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 alleged penis snatchers were beaten to death by mobs.

A succession of Anglophile ministers were appointed in Spain including José de Carvajal and Ricardo Wall – all of whom were on good terms with the British Ambassador Benjamin Keene in an effort to avoid a repeat of the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

For combat each character has an Offensive Bonus ( OB ), which takes into account one's natural physical adeptness, weapon skill, and other factors, and a Defensive Bonus ( DB ), which takes into account natural agility, the use of shields and " Adrenal Defense ", the ability of martial artists to avoid blows seemingly without effort.

* A rare convention is to use xy for the product and x ⊕ y for the ring sum, in an effort to avoid the ambiguity of +.

While many Aboriginal people made a determined effort to avoid contact with the people the stock route brought into their Country, the route became a path out of the desert for others.

Because many people eliminate whole categories of food in an effort to reduce symptoms, a complete review of the patient's diet may be needed to avoid nutritional deficiencies.

Not much is known about Cuzcatlán, as it was abandoned by its inhabitants in an effort to avoid Spanish rule.

The cryptic plumage and inconspicuous locations adopted are an effort to avoid predators and mobbing by small birds.

Algebraic notation is more concise and requires less effort to avoid ambiguity ; however much older literature uses descriptive notation.

Some people with trichotillomania wear hats, wigs, false eyelashes, eyebrow pencil, or style their hair in an effort to avoid such attention.

Artemus, in an effort to avoid the Shearwater Project being tainted with violent death, seeks out and locates ex-governor Clinton Tyree, who vanished about 20 years ago after a short and unsuccessful ( but honest ) term of office and is said to be hiding out somewhere in the remaining wilderness of Florida.

Since the 1980s there had been talk of attempts to ban the party, which resulted in Batasuna frequently changing its name as part of the effort to avoid this, from the original Herri Batasuna, then becoming part of the Euskal Herritarrok coalition in the 1990s and, finally, Batasuna.

In the media, an effort has been made by the BBC to avoid the phrases " terrorist " or " freedom fighter ", except in attributed quotes, in favor of neutral terms such as " militant ", " guerrilla ", " assassin ", " insurgent ", " paramilitary " or " militia ".

She is therefore often referred to as " Gentle Annie ", in an effort to avoid offense, a tactic which is similar to referring to the fairies as " The Good People ".

Alba and Grand Bay Middle are the focal point of bus routes for all school buses for Bryant High, those buses shared in grades 6-12 as a cost-saving effort to avoid overlapping routes for the separate schools.

In 1926, in an effort to avoid selling land to stave off insolvency, Rhoda May Rindge created a small ceramic tile factory.

In the 1960s Oak Parkers began a concerted effort to avoid the destructive racial housing practices occurring in nearby communities.

PVPs and PVCs, though conceptually simple, require significant effort in large networks.

Because the earthworms grind and uniformly mix minerals in simple forms, plants need only minimal effort to obtain them.

While Drexler, Merkle and others have created designs of simple parts, no comprehensive design effort for anything approaching the complexity of a Model T Ford has been attempted.

" The OSS was also focused on the battle for hearts and minds during wartime ; " the very practice of simple sabotage by natives in enemy or occupied territory may make these individuals identify themselves actively with the United Nations War effort, and encourage them to assist openly in periods of Allied invasion and occupation.

The UNL is an effort to achieve a simple basis for representing the most central aspects of information and meaning in a machine-and human-language-independent form.

However, the character set included some simple block-based graphics glyphs, allowing crude graphics to be accomplished, with some effort.

Non-revolutionary civil disobedience is a simple disobedience of laws on the grounds that they are judged " wrong " by an individual conscience, or as part of an effort to render certain laws ineffective, to cause their repeal, or to exert pressure to get one's political wishes on some other issue.

In a huge collaborative effort, the classification of finite simple groups was declared accomplished in 1983 by Daniel Gorenstein, though some problems surfaced ( specifically in the classification of quasithin groups, which were plugged in 2004 ).

The original version was limited by the 18-bit word address of the PDP-10, and considerable effort was expended in keeping the implementation lean and simple.

When the brain is led to believe that the saccades it is generating are too large or too small ( by an experimental manipulation in which a saccade-target steps backwards or forwards contingent on the eye movement made to acquire it ), saccade amplitude gradually decreases ( or increases ), an adaptation ( also termed gain adaptation ) widely seen as a simple form of motor learning, possibly driven by an effort to correct visual error.

The simple farmstead of Betty and Gershom Frazee, a type of structure that rarely survives the centuries, is today the object of a restoration effort by local organizations.

A simple form of this used in some amateur-built aircraft uses rigid expanded foam plastic as the core, with a fiberglass covering, eliminating the necessity of fabricating molds, but requiring more effort in finishing ( see the Rutan VariEze ).

In an effort to get the two to make amends to each other, George made a simple suggestion: " How about a hug?

They joined forces with the simple concept of merging their talents in an effort to deliver the new entertainment of music and manga in an innovative way.

The cognitive miser perspective makes people want to justify things in a simple way in order to reduce the effort they put into cognition.

The original researchers note that, in an effort to keep the theory simple, existing theories to integrate were selected based on their shared attributes, and that these theories are still of value, as TMT does not contain the same depth of detail as each individual theory.

Lowery and DeFleur argue the book was much more than a simple research report: it was an effort to interpret the authors ' research within a framework of conceptual schemes, theoretical issues, and research findings drawn broadly from the scientific study of small groups Unlike the hypodermic needle model, which considers mass media effects to be direct, the two-step flow model stresses human agency.

In the second half of the 18th century, English and French sailors were using simple chants to coordinate a few shipboard tasks that required unanimous effort.

By contrast, the unassisted triple play is essentially always a matter of luck: a combination of the right circumstances with the relatively simple effort of catching the ball and running in the right direction with it.

Hussite troops with flails on the march However, these weapons often featured anti-personnel studs or spikes embedded in the striking end, so they were not always simple agricultural tools snatched up in a hurry by rural insurrectionists: turning these implements into weapons required some effort and skill.

In physics, resistance force is the force which an effort force must overcome in order to do work on an object via a simple machine.

Possibly the highest figure for starting tractive effort ever recorded was for the Virginian Railway's 2-8-8-8-4 Triplex locomotive, which in simple expansion mode had a starting T. E.

simple: Tractive effort

There was a concerted effort on the part of officialdom to make clear to managers that simple political compliance — adequate to ensure one's employment in the early 1970s — would have to be accompanied by efficiency in production in the 1980s.

He described American propaganda by saying " Our effort was educational and informative throughout, for we had such confidence in our case as to feel that no other argument was needed than the simple, straightforward presentation of facts.