`` There ain't nothin' faster, or lonelier, or more direct than a cannonball freight when you wanna go someplace '', Feathertop would say.

Attorney General Palmer made a series of raids that sent more than 4,000 so-called radicals to the jails, in direct violation of their constitutional rights.

Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at `` bureaucracy '' and would enable `` the people '' to take a more direct and active part in running the country.

In addition to direct protection measures, more intensive management of timber resources will assist in reduction of losses from insects and disease.

The pulmonary vein, however, without the limiting supportive tissue septa as in type 1,, follows a more direct path to the hilum and does not maintain this close relationship ( figs. 8, 22 ).

Here the pulmonary vein, as in type 2,, is noted to draw away from the bronchus, and to follow a more direct, independent course to the hilum ( figs. 23, 24 ).

Since the details of the elections were settled the change of government had no direct effect on the technical aspects of the elections, and may have been more important as an indication of royal displeasure with the U.N.F.P.

Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.

But even more important than this is the fact that the direct search by simultaneously varying all operating conditions has produced only one optimal policy, namely, that for the given feed state and R stages.

Then the dynamic program would require about a minute whereas the direct search would take more than three millennia!!

In the second place, a large number of writers, making a more direct claim than Frost to being `` folk writers '' of one sort or another, clearly make no distinctions between genuine and bogus material.

Stilts, a more direct cat, leaped from the bed and trotted briskly toward the kitchen.

`` Negro-appeal radio is more important to the Negro today, because it provides a direct and powerful mirror in which the Negro can hear and see his ambitions, achievements and desires.

Unlike bony fish, there is no direct control of the pigment cells by the nervous system, and this results in the colour change taking place more slowly than happens in fish.

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.

Although over the past years more emphasis has been given to the construction of grassroots alternatives to ( capitalist ) globalization, the movement's largest and most visible mode of organizing remains mass decentralized campaigns of direct action and civil disobedience.

Parties that gain more than 5 % of the second votes or win at least 3 direct mandates are allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion to the number of votes it has received ( d ' Hondt method until 1987, largest remainder method until the 2005 election, now Sainte-Laguë method ).

If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

* 泡沫紅茶 (): " foam red tea ", by direct translation, is the drink that is more appropriate for the more literal name of " bubble tea "; however, the English name, foam tea, is not used much throughout Asia.

Marlborough now had to turn his attention from the fleeing enemy to direct Churchill to detach more infantry to storm Blenheim.

Last, climbers often have one or more spotters, who work to direct the climber's body toward the crash pad during a fall, while protecting the climber's head from hazards.

Today, direct engagements between aircraft are rare-the most modern fighter-interceptors carry much more extensive bombing payloads, and are used to bomb precision land targets, rather than to fight other aircraft.

Admiral Chester Nimitz favored a more direct strategy of bypassing the Philippines, but seizing Okinawa and Taiwan as staging areas to an attack on the Chinese mainland, followed by the future invasion of Japan's southernmost islands.

In 1976, she disbanded the Travlin ' Family Band, in order to form a new band, Gypsy Fever, composed of seasoned musicians who had more of a rock sensibility, in order to support her impending crossover.

Errors in crossover are especially likely when similar sequences cause partner chromosomes to adopt a mistaken alignment ; this makes some regions in genomes more prone to mutating in this way.

Variable length representations may also be used, but crossover implementation is more complex in this case.

Different types of distortion ( like crossover distortion ) are more audible than others ( like soft clipping ) even if the THD measurements are identical.

For instance, crossover distortion at a given THD is much more audible than clipping distortion at the same THD, since the harmonics produced are at higher frequencies.

Articolo 31 started out as a mainly East Coast rap-inspired hip hop duo, but changed to a more commercial style during their career and eventually evolved into a punk / pop / crossover group.

( Some animals, with laterally positioned eyes, have little binocular vision, so there is a more complete crossover of visual signals.

This event heralded more generally the concept of the DC Comics Multiverse, a decades-long recurring theme of the DC Comics universe, allowing old and new heroes to co-exist and crossover.

A fictional crossover occurs when two or more fictional characters, series or universes cross over with one another, usually in the context of a character created by one author or owned by one company meeting a character created or owned by another.

This means that an active crossover based system will often cost more than a passive crossover based system.

A first-order crossover allows more signals of unwanted frequencies to get through in the LPF and HPF sections than do higher order configurations.

It was because of these basic needs that the community became more than a crossover on the bayou trail between Opelousas and St. Martinville, the two early trading posts in the region.

The track " Shame on You " received more airplay on adult alternative, top 40 and adult top 40 radio stations than any of their previous singles, although this seemed to be a peak in their crossover success.

" The Motown Record Corporation of Detroit, Michigan became highly successful during the early and mid 1960s by releasing soul recordings with heavy pop influences to make them palatable to white audiences, allowing black artists to more easily crossover to white audiences.

Fortuitously, however, the new sound made them a crossover pop-R & B-rock sensation, bringing them even more fans and chart presence.

A type of fictional crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters into the context of a single story.

The writers, scripts, adventures and director had some crossover between the radio and TV incarnations however ; the radio broadcasts were not limited by the studio sets and became more expansive in scope and story than the television versions.

For instance, crossover distortion at a given THD is much more audible than clipping distortion at the same THD, since the harmonics produced are at higher frequencies.

Selena Quintanilla helped bring the genre more attention in the 90's with one of the first Spanish to English crossover hits ever, adding influences from Mexican cumbia to the R & B trend of the day. San Angelo band Los Lonely Boys fuse Tejano with contemporary blues and jazz.

In the early years of the decade, while sub-genres like heavy metal music continued to develop separately, there was a considerable crossover between rock and more commercial popular music, with a large number of more " serious " bands, like The Police and UB40, enjoying considerable single chart success.

There is even more crossover here, since there were records which were in this style before the term " drum and bass " even existed, and " jump-up jungle " previously was not a genre but referred to those jungle records which changed style mid-record.

Even more popular among blacks and with more crossover appeal, was album-oriented soul in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which revolutionized African-American music with intelligent and introspective-lyrics, often with a socially aware tone.