Some years later the bank handling the Mercer liquidation received a check for $300,000, enough to clear up the debt.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.

Fishing interest calls for a check of the species found, quantity and size, the season they are available, and the stocking program of the fish commission.

Now, check for leaks in your hoses and hose connections, around the freeze-out plugs, gaskets, water pump seals and heater fittings.

Pels also sent a check for $100 to Russell's widow and had a white marble monument erected on his grave.

Or the frequent need to check and discipline himself to the wisest pace of the consummation can put him off stride and make it impossible for him to be continuously ready for penetration over a long period.

If the house is not wired adequately for electricity or if plumbing or a central heating system must be installed, check into the cost of making these improvements.

When I switched on the lights for her to come and get the check, I had the exact change plus a dollar tip.

Casey watched them go, still frowning absently and then dismissing the matter as he called for his check.

Of course On Thursday, Haney mailed the monthly check for separate maintenance to his wife Lolly, and wished the stranger could do something about her

In all, the Senate signed a check for $46.7 billion, which not only included the extra $3.5 billion requested the week before by President Kennedy, but tacked on $754 million more than the President had asked for.

The wars which attended his accession both in Hungary and in Persia terminated unfavourably for the empire, and its prestige received its first check in the Treaty of Zsitvatorok, signed in 1606, whereby the annual tribute paid by Austria was abolished.

But once the bulk of the Macedonian army had retired, the states of Thessaly feared the return and vengeance of Alexander, and so sent for aid to Thebes, whose policy it was to put a check on any neighbor who might otherwise become too formidable.

He resolved to suppress many abuses, but above all things, to check feudalism and limit the power of the nobles, who were rivals for his throne.

During the second half of the day, John Young and Charlie Duke again entered the Lunar Module to power it up and check its systems, as well as perform housekeeping tasks in preparation for lunar landing.

Only in Israel decompression is used on all luggage to check for pressure sensor detonators.

After inserting a node, it is necessary to check each of the node's ancestors for consistency with the rules of AVL.

This female eastern bongo presents her hindquarters while looking over her shoulder to check for threats at Mt.

The error must be located and rectified and the totals of debit column and credit column recalculated to check for agreement before any further processing can take place.

It is illegal for a player to make a move that would put or leave his own king in check.

To cope with this, additional care must be taken to check for these sorts of conditions and delay a portion of the instruction pipeline if this occurs.

Checking of credible intervals can be done for situations representing no-prior-information but the check involves checking the long-run frequency properties of the procedures.

Any geometry found inside the square representing the Manhattan distance from the corner undergoes an additional check to see if the same geometry lies outside the quarter-circle radius representing the Euclidean distance.

Also in 1999, Eddie Bauer presented American Forests with a check for $ 2. 5 million, representing the 2. 5 million trees planted nationally through Eddie Bauer's " Add a Dollar, Plant a Tree " retail program.

In classical period Islam, Sakk ( sukuk )— which is cognate with the European root " cheque " from Persian '( چک ) pronounced check '— meant any document representing a contract or conveyance of rights, obligations or monies done in conformity with the Shariah.

A matrix H representing a linear function whose kernel is C is called a check matrix of C ( or sometimes a parity check matrix ).

Proceeding in this way up the table we extract the complete optimal policy and, if it is desired, we can check on Af by evaluating Af at the last stage.

Ultrapeers do that check before forwarding a query to a leaf node, and also before forwarding the query to a peer ultra node provided this is the last hop the query can travel.

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.

He spent the last years of his reign in endeavours to secure a Catholic successor, thinking by this step to check the dissemination of Lutheran opinions.

The 1970s were marked by conflicts between the CTW and the federal government ; in 1978, the U. S. Department of Education refused to deliver a $ 2 million check until the last day of CTW's fiscal year.

The last digit is always a check digit, which is obtained by summing all 5, 9 or 11 digits, taking the residue modulo 10 of this sum ( i. e., the remainder after dividing by 10 ) and finally subtracting this from 10.

The last digit < u > R </ u > is an error correcting check digit, allowing some errors in scanning or manual entry to be detected.

The next two digits are chosen at random when the kennitala is allocated, the 9th digit is a check digit, and the last digit indicates the period of one hundred years in which the individual was born ( for instance, ' 9 ' for the period 1900 – 1999 ).

At times, however, his alcoholism would seem to be in check, and among the most powerful works composed during his last 6 years are the four Songs and Dances of Death.

Calls placed on the last day of the month, where the interview is scheduled for the second week of the following month, will result in SSI eligibility being retroactive to the month in which the call was made to set up the appointment, although the first check will not be received until the next month.

Therefore ... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive ; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.

She takes a picture ( the last picture ) of Chester and Woodward's bodies in the courtyard below the window, and begins collecting the day's winnings, planning to check out of the hotel.

In January 1997, Norman won his largest winner's check to date, one million dollars, when he won the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf ( the precursor to the WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship ), making birdie on the last hole to defeat Scott Hoch in the 36-hole final.

The check digit is found by taking the last digit times 1, the previous digit times 2, the previous digit times 3 etc., adding all these up and computing the sum modulo 10.

In early June General Rapp's Army of the Rhine of about 23, 000 men, with a leavening of experienced troops, advanced towards Germersheim to block Schwarzenberg expected advance, but on hearing the news of the French defeat at Waterloo, Rapp withdrew towards Strasbourg turning on 28 June to check the 40, 000 men of General Württenberg's Austrian III Corps at the battle of La Suffel – the last pitched battle of the Napoleonic Wars and a French victory.

The last digit, which may be 0 – 9 or an X, is a check digit.

There even ensues a brief scene of physical violence between the two, but at the very last moment Ratcliffe, whose career would be ruined otherwise, is able to keep his wrath in check.

Running through the log file we check for each entry whether the modified page is in the DPT table and whether the Sequence Number in the DPT is smaller than the Sequence Number of the record ( i. e. whether the change in the log is newer than the last version that was persisted ).

* Italian progressive chess: a check may only be given on the last move of a full series ( for example, on move six, a check can only be given on the sixth move )-- giving a check at any other point in a series is illegal.

" It won't last long ," he said of the check, " because every organization I'm connected with is going bankrupt.

This era in the show's history was marked by conflicts between the CTW and the federal government ; in 1978, the US Department of Education refused to deliver a $ 2 million check until the last day of the CTW's fiscal year.

Draws are codified by various rules of chess including stalemate ( when the player to move has no legal move and is not in check ), threefold repetition ( when the same position occurs three times with the same player to move ), and the fifty-move rule ( when the last fifty successive moves made by both players contain no capture or pawn move ).