From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

`` Life '' points out that `` everybody uses this path '', and starts to ride on.

If the decision goes wrong, it may be -- as Mr. Stevenson fears -- `` the first step on the slippery path downhill '' to a U.N. without operational responsibilities and without effective meaning.

Troopers said the child ran into the path of a passing car a half-mile north of Calvary on Georgia 111 in Grady County.

Here I took my leave of my learned friends to step out on another path, to which we might give the modern name of Pragmatism, or the thing that works.

In Old Babylonian astronomy, Ea was the ruler of the southernmost quarter of the Sun's path, the " Way of Ea ", corresponding to the period of 45 days on either side of winter solstice.

The strategy of the anti-slavery forces was to stop the expansion and thus put slavery on a path to gradual extinction.

Steiner's stated prerequisites to beginning on a spiritual path include a willingness to take up serious cognitive studies, a respect for factual evidence, and a responsible attitude.

Central to progress on the path itself is a harmonious cultivation of the following qualities:

The Struthion Pool lay in the path of the northern decumanus, so Hadrian placed vaulting over it, added a large pavement on top, and turned it into a secondary Forum ; the pavement can still be seen under the Convent of the Sisters of Zion.

At the instant of any observation of an object, the apparent position of the object is displaced from its true position by an amount which depends solely upon the transverse component of the velocity of the observer, with respect to the vector of the incoming beam of light ( i. e., the line actually taken by the light on its path to the observer ).

Nevertheless, these financially troubled leagues, by beginning the practice of selling players to the more affluent National and American leagues, embarked on a path that eventually led to the loss of their independent status.

In later Theravāda literature, the term " bodhisatta " is used fairly frequently in the sense of someone on the path to liberation.

Bodhisattvas take bodhisattva vows in order to progress on the spiritual path towards buddhahood.

According to some Mahāyāna sources a bodhisattva is someone on the path to full Buddhahood.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

However, on 14 May, with considerable skill Marshal Tallard managed to bring 10, 000 reinforcements and vast supplies and munitions through the difficult terrain, whilst outmanoeuvring Baron Thüngen, the Imperial general who sought to block his path.

A bowl may curve outside the rink boundary on its path, but must come to rest within the rink boundary to remain in play.

The Bahá ' í teachings state that the attributes which are applied to God are used to translate Godliness into human terms and also to help individuals concentrate on their own attributes in worshipping God to develop their potentialities on their spiritual path.

* A node p is an ancestor of a node q if it exists on the path from the root to node q.

On Freeview channel 301, interactivity does not permit users to submit data ( such as answering questions in a quiz or requesting video on demand ), as the platform does not provide a return path.

She stood quite still, trying to focus upon a direction in which to turn, a path to follow, a clue to guide her.

She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

For, if so, the path leads through a complex process of parliamentary diplomacy which adds still another dimension to the problem.

there is no one point in a man's career at which he must select either the technical or the managerial path upward.

But even before that, Picasso had glimpsed and entered, for a moment, a certain revolutionary path in which no one had preceded him.

The deceased will find the bright light of wisdom, which shows a straightforward path to move upward and leave the cycle of reincarnation.

* The alternating crack path type which occurs if the cracks jump from one interface to the other.

The anthroposophic path of esoteric training articulates three further stages of supersensory knowledge, which do not necessarily follow strictly sequentially in any single individual's spiritual progress.

Theseus decided to go to Athens and had the choice of going by sea, which was the safe way, or by land, following a dangerous path with thieves and bandits all the way.

It is one of the five Yamas ( restraints ) which make up the code of conduct, the first of the eight limbs of which this path consists.

The spatial resolution is given by the path length between transducers, which is typically 10 to 20 cm.

A nearly parallel path toward autonomy has been to start with a concern for environmental impacts, which cause disadvantages.

Thus for an ion which traverses a 1 m flight path, across a time of 2000 ns, given an initial accelerating voltage of 5000 V and noting that one amu is 1 × 10 < sup >− 27 </ sup > kg, the mass-to-charge ratio ( more correctly the mass-to-ionisation value ratio ) becomes Z amu / charge.

The program also takes part in the Space Activities National Program ( PNAE ) which objective is to lead the country toward the autonomy of this technology, vital in a path to sustainable development.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

Bowls are designed to travel a curved path because of a weight bias which was originally produced by inserting weights in one side of the bowl.

In these sutras the perfection of the wisdom of not-self is stated to be the true self ; the ultimate goal of the path is then characterized using a range of positive language that had been used previously in Indian philosophy by essentialist philosophers, but which was now transmuted into a new Buddhist vocabulary to describe a being who has successfully completed the Buddhist path.

Scholar Andy Orchard posits that Bifröst may mean " shimmering path.