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carefully and determined
There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.
He made observations of eclipses and various astronomical objects and published catalogues of carefully determined magnitudes for some 300 stars using his own photometric system ( mean error = 0. 4 mag ).
The Free French, under General Charles de Gaulle, were determined to recover Indochina, though they offered Cambodia and the other Inchochinese protectorates a carefully circumscribed measure of self-government.
The focal-plane shutter operates as close to the film plane as possible and consists of cloth curtains that are pulled across the film plane with a carefully determined gap between the two curtains ( typically running horizontally ) or consisting of a series of metal plates ( typically moving vertically ) just in front of the film plane.
Such methods require the use of injection wells ( often chosen from old production wells in a carefully determined pattern ), and are used when facing problems with reservoir pressure depletion, high oil viscosity, or can even be employed early in a field's life.
The first Avery he ever purchased was Gaspé Landscape, which he bought during a snowstorm and wrapped carefully before going out, determined to keep the painting intact to make the man famous.
The reversal of such chronic and well entrenched bullying behavior in such groups sometimes requires a much more carefully planned, coordinated, determined, and multi-individual response from a would-be target than in a group in which either the " bully mentality " may not ( yet ) prevail, or ideally in a group that may have already taken a pro-active preventative approach towards bullying.
Shewhart developed the " control chart " and the concept of a state of statistical control determined by carefully designed experiments.
It was determined to be carrying film, and BfV agents very carefully disassembled it.
TSS of a water sample is determined by pouring a carefully measured volume of water ( typically one litre ; but less if the particulate density is high, or as much as two or three litres for very clean water ) through a pre-weighed filter of a specified pore size, then weighing the filter again after drying to remove all water.
We conclude that the effect of extreme dilutions of anti-IgE, reported by Davenas et al., needs further clarification and that in this process the reproducibility of results between experimenters should be carefully determined.
The HGS board "... in consultation with independent financial and legal advisors, has carefully reviewed and considered the GSK offer and has determined that the offer does not reflect the value inherent in HGS.
Knowledge of this period must be carefully determined by their civil projects and historical evidence.
Greenblatt described the process in the Renaissance era where a noble man was instructed to dress in the finest clothing he could afford, to be well versed and educated in art, literature, sports, and other culturally determined noble exercises, and to generally compose himself in a carefully intended manner.
Various options were determined to be worthy of consideration and were carefully examined jointly by state and federal authorities, with input from the United States Coast Guard.
As the CIA, he used drugs to make it easier to handle those he tortured, carefully determined how long to keep a prisoner hooded and when to isolate them and other techniques seem as medical torture.
In an interview with The New York Times Weinberg stated that she did not expect to recoup her loss but she was " determined not to make this the centerpiece of my life ", stating that she would " have to budget myself very carefully over the next several years ".
The positions and depths of the holes ( and the amount of explosive each hole receives ) are determined by a carefully constructed pattern, which, together with the correct timing of the individual explosions, will guarantee that the tunnel will have an approximately circular cross-section.
The safety and efficacy of antibiotic therapy for patients meeting the PANDAS criteria needs to be determined in carefully designed trials "; de Oliveira and Pelajo ( 2009 ) say that because most studies to date have " methodologic issues, including small sample size, retrospective reports of the baseline year, and lack of an adequate placebo arm ... it is recommended to treat these patients only with conventional therapy ".

carefully and empty
Whorf described a workplace in which full gasoline drums were stored in one room and empty ones in another ; he said that because of flammable vapor the " empty " drums were more dangerous than those that were full, although workers handled them less carefully to the point that they smoked in the room with " empty " drums, but not in the room with full ones.
Discovered by accident by the Reisner expedition, the burial was intact, though the carefully sealed coffin proved to be empty.
Small amounts of pyrophoric materials and empty containers must be disposed of carefully.
Two days later, on the afternoon of May 22, Brooks confronted Sumner as he sat writing at his desk in the almost empty Senate chamber: " Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully.
Fuel must be carefully managed, as an empty tank results in loss of one of the player lives.
In the original version, the failed Eva prototypes were laid out on a massive empty floor, with what remained of their limbs carefully matched up with their spines and other body parts, and then circled by chalk marks.
Just four days after his Champions League heroics, Drogba scored a late winner in the FA Cup semi-final match against Arsenal after Frank Lampard's superb pass found Drogba and he carefully rounded Arsenal goalkeeper Łukasz Fabiański before slotting into an empty net.
At the moment of discovery, Bender carefully and quietly opens the chair cushion with his knife, but their hopes are dashed as it is found to be, like all eleven before them, completely empty.
If this was found and opened a robber would find himself confronted by an empty passage at a right angle to the passage below, closed by wooden doors, or by a passage parallel to the passage below, carefully filled with mud and stone blocking.

carefully and space
; but by carefully negating some of the movements he can also travel in space within the limits of the planet.
The scene appears to have filled the space with figures carefully arranged to fit the slope and shape available, as with earlier east pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympus.
Weston has carefully retained significant amounts of open space and maintains over 60 miles of hiking and horseback riding trails, playgrounds, ball fields, golf courses and cross-country skiing areas.
He then wrote the date in every other space as well, then drew a line beneath them and carefully added them up.
But if the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with a space station ( such as the International Space Station ) or another vehicle already in an orbit, the launch must be carefully timed to occur around the times that the target vehicle's orbital plane intersects the launch site.
On 24 May 1802 in the Catacombs of Priscilla on the Via Salaria Nova an inscribed loculus ( space hollowed out of the rock ) was found, and on the following day it was carefully examined and opened.
Trails of space debris and artificial satellites were present in the original images, and were carefully removed.
His carefully planned revolt against the gods takes place in stages: " An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time.
In the 1986 book Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov, the ancient robot R. Daneel Olivaw says that over the thousands of years of his existence, every part of him has been replaced several times, including his brain, which he has carefully redesigned six times, replacing it each time with a newly constructed brain having the positronic pathways containing his current memories and skills, along with free space for him to learn more and continue operating for longer.
The definition of a functional derivative may be made more mathematically precise and formal by defining the space of functions more carefully.
It turns out that it is often better to spend CPU time exploring the space, than carefully optimizing from an initial condition.
In order to avoid these pitfalls and explore regions of the search space that would be left unexplored by other local search procedures, tabu search carefully explores the neighborhood of each solution as the search progresses.
He also wrote that the quality of the road would depend on how carefully the stones were spread on the surface over a sizeable space, one shovelful at a time.
One way is to carefully recast all of the above steps in an infinite-dimensional space, being careful to define limits appropriately, etc., in order to make sure that all manipulations are well-defined, convergent, etc.
All of his work-from the carefully detailed memorial Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Museum at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to Kanchanjunga Apartment tower in Mumbai, the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, the planning of Navi Mumbai, MIT ' S Brain and Cognitive Sciences Centre in Boston, and most recently, the Champalimad Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, places special emphasis on prevailing resources, energy and climate as major determinants in the ordering of space.
The space was carefully sculpted to provide optimal sightlines for everyone in the audience.
Locating a SAR in a manned space vehicle may require that the humans carefully remain motionless relative to the vehicle during data collection periods.
" Australians deserve a breathing space so the situation can be carefully assessed before Islamic immigration can be allowed to resume.
The field of view of the sensor must be carefully selected / adjusted so that it responds only to motion in the space served by the controlled lighting.
Descriptions of stereophonic sound tend to stress the ability to localize the position of each instrument in space, but this would only be true in a carefully engineered and installed system, where speaker placement and room acoustics are taken into account.
Under controlled conditions, usually with computers carefully making the movements during and between each frame, some exciting blurred artistic and visual effects can be achieved, especially when the camera is mounted on a tracking system that enables its own movement through space.
Although at first Gods might seem a " jump and run " platformer, it soon becomes evident that while precise and timed jumping are required to progress, planning each move carefully yields better results health-wise than attempting to speedrun a level, and there are some puzzles ( often involving levers and objects ) which require the player to go back and forth in the level, since there's only a three space inventory where objects required to get bonuses ( such as keys ) or to complete a level can be carried.
Boucher structured his scripts carefully so that all the Earth-based scenes would be shot on film on location and all the space scenes would be recorded on video in the studio hoping that the effect would give the space scenes a unique look.

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