Perhaps this would be sufficient to justify an economic boycott of an entire national chain in order, by threatening potential injury to its entire economy, to effect an alteration of the policy of its local stores in the matter of segregation.

Tweek's father then enters the room, offering the boys a propagandist speech against " Harbucks ", a national chain of coffee houses threatening his business.

Toxic chemicals banned decades ago in Washington continue to linger in the environment and concentrate in the food chain, threatening people and the environment, according to three recent studies by the Washington state Department of Ecology.

The famous High Street in the town is also home to a number of chain stores ( such as Co-op ) and a small supermarket chain ( Budgens ), however, the owners of these and other stores have fought to prevent larger chains from threatening their businesses and, they argue, the character of the town.

A new chain supermarket has opened, threatening the small Lamson's Grocery store where Gilbert works, as well as threatening all the other small-time businesses in Endora.

The term ' gazundering ' has been coined for the opposite practice whereby the buyer waits until everybody is poised to exchange contracts before lowering the offer on the property, threatening the collapse of a whole chain of house sales waiting for the deal to go through.

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" This followed Whole Foods Market, the biggest grocery chain in natural stores, threatening to stop selling their products, initiated by the PETA campaign.

This chain reaction occurs when faced with a threatening situation.

Other types of chain letters are viewed as a general nuisance in that frequently multiplying letters clog up the postal system and do not function as correspondence mail, but rather, a game.

However, it is often difficult to distinguish chain letters from genuine correspondence.

# Though the experiment went through several variations, Milgram typically chose individuals in the U. S. cities of Omaha, Nebraska and Wichita, Kansas to be the starting points and Boston, Massachusetts to be the end point of a chain of correspondence.

The homotopy groups of simplicial abelian groups can be computed by making use of the Dold-Kan correspondence which yields an equivalence of categories between simplicial abelian groups and bounded chain complexes and is given by functors

Benedict Arnold claimed in correspondence with the British that " a well-loaded ship could break the chain.

Hill, frustrated with the lack of positive response from Generals Patrick and Fechet, moved up the chain of command and passed on the correspondence he had with General Fechet to Secretary of War Dwight Davis, Assistant Secretary of War for Air F. Trubee Davidson, and Army Chief of Staff Charles P. Summerall.

Years of uncertainty ensued for the Connecticut settlers in the Wyoming Valley, until in April 1799, Pennsylvania passed the Compromise Act allowing settlers ( in those townships which had been created and settled before the Trenton Decree of 1782 ) to prove their chain of title and pay a fee in return for certification of their title.

In the public outrage that ensued, officials up the chain of command, including Premier Tang, tendered their resignations.

The achievement of the desegregation of certain lunch counters not only by wise action by local community leaders but by voluntary action following consultation between Attorney General Rogers and the heads of certain national chain stores should, of course, be applauded.

If a tile is placed between two hotel chains of the same size, the individual player who places the tile decides which hotel chain remains on the board and which is acquired.

If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.

These are generated by bond formation between one of the hydroxyl groups of the sugar chain with the carbon of the aldehyde or keto group to form a hemiacetal bond.

Some, mainly utility, bicycles use hub gears with between 3 and 14 ratios, but most use the generally more efficient dérailleur system, by which the chain is moved between different cogs called chainrings and sprockets in order to select a ratio.

Mudguards, or fenders, protect the cyclist and moving parts from spray when riding through wet areas and chainguards protect clothes from oil on the chain while preventing clothing from being caught between the chain and crankset teeth.

The peptide or ester bonds between monomers can be hydrolysed by acid catalysts or bacterial enzymes breaking the polymer chain into smaller pieces.

At low pressure, there was enough space between the gas atoms that the ions could accelerate to high enough speeds that when they struck another atom they knocked electrons off of it, creating more positive ions and free electrons in a chain reaction.

Finally, weight of the chain is represented by ( 0, − λgs ) where λ is the mass per unit length, g is the acceleration of gravity and s is the length of chain between c and r.

λgs is proportional to the length of chain between the r and the vertex.

Second, let G = G ( s ) be the external force per unit length acting on a small segment of a chain as a function of s. The forces acting on the segment of the chain between s and s + Δs are the force of tension T ( s + Δs ) at one end of the segment, the nearly opposite force − T ( s ) at the other end, and the external force acting on the segment which is

* Catenary curve derived – The shape of a catenary is derived, plus examples of a chain hanging between 2 points of unequal height, including C program to calculate the curve.

Alvin Goldman writes in his Causal Theory of Knowing that in order for knowledge to truly exist there must be a causal chain between the proposition and the belief of that proposition.

Right: An expanded three link energy food chain ( 1. plants, 2. herbivores, 3. carnivores ) illustrating the relationship between food flow diagrams and energy transformity.

* 1502 10 July – By a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo by Isabella I of Castile, Gibraltar was granted its coat of arms: " An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured ".

Frequent ferry services cross the straits between nearby islands, especially in the chain of islands stretching from Sumatra through Java to the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula.

" The chain was set up as a link between his people and Jahangir himself.

When a key is pressed, the foil tightly clings to the surface of the PC board, forming a daisy chain of two capacitors between contact pads and itself separated with thin soldermask, and thus " shorting " the contact pads with an easily detectable drop of capacitive reactance between them.

On 23 January 2012, The Financial Post reported that Richard Baker ( owner of NDRC and governor of Hudson Bay's Company ) had dissolved Hudson ’ s Bay Trading Company and that the Hudson's Bay Company would now also operate the Lord & Taylor chain.

Power is supplied to the governor from the engine's output shaft by ( in this instance ) a belt or chain ( not shown ) connected to the lower belt wheel.

On October 2, 1851, that chain was passed on to mayor Charles Wilson at a ceremony presided over by Lord Elgin, governor general of Canada.

All persons in the chain, except for the supreme ruler or his governor, bore the title qadi.

The words in red mark the catena (= chain ) of words that extends from the root of the displaced constituent to the governor of that constituent.

He was sent by governor Vaudreuil in July 1717 to establish a chain of three posts from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods, but he was able only to re-establish a fur trading post, Fort Kaministiquia, on the Kaministiquia River.

He served as the 55th governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, although he may be best known for building Kentucky Fried Chicken ( KFC ) into a multi-million dollar restaurant chain.

And finally, the story also accused Serbian Interior Minister Dragan Jočić of stopping the police investigation from climbing up the chain of command and thus preventing the arrests of NBS governor Radovan Jelašić and the above mentioned Dušan Lalić, as well as SPS ' Ivica Dačić who was present in the mentioned apartment minutes before the police stormed in.