He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.

If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

However, a witness with a high level of empathic concern is likely to assume personal responsibility entirely regardless of the number of bystanders.

It was William's only personal foundation — he was buried before the high altar of the church in 1214.

Authors Martin Walker and Bob Woodward state Clinton's innovative use of sound bite-ready dialogue, personal charisma, and public perception-oriented campaigning was a major factor in his high public approval ratings.

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances ( using short-wavelength radio transmissions in the ISM band from 2400 – 2480 MHz ) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks ( PANs ) with high levels of security.

The Independent Women's Forum continued on with a goal of remaining a high profile group of women to advocate for economic and political freedom and personal responsibility.

Due to the low wounding power of a single round, personal defense weapons depend on high volumes of fire for effectiveness.

During her long productive life as an artist, she maintained her personal aesthetic and high standards against all distractions and countervailing forces.

His work, as important as it was in its own right, was a part of a continuum of progress in communications and electronics that since his time has brought forward color television, the personal computer, the Internet, cable and satellite radio and TV, personal mobile phones, audio, video and computing, digital stereo radio on both the medium wave and VHF-FM bands, and digital high definition television on VHF, UHF, cable and satellite.

Typical cache " treasures " are not high in monetary value but may hold personal value to the finder.

He did so either out of concern " that the accidental killing and stranding of so many Italian soldiers could cause a serious political rupture in the Axis high command ," and / or from personal humanitarian considerations.

Bujold presents issues of technological obsolescence and the high rate of failure of R & D projects in personal terms, via bioengineering.

The obiter dicta is usually translated as " other things said ", but due to the high number of judges and several personal decisions, it is often hard to distinguish from the ratio decidendi ( reason for the decision ).

* Biometric methods promise authentication based on unalterable personal characteristics, but currently ( 2008 ) have high error rates and require additional hardware to scan, for example, fingerprints, irises, etc.

* Lowering of asset prices, such as homes and financial assets, or high personal and corporate debt levels.

With the exception of personal phones belonging to high government officials, doctors and midwives, telephones in private flats were placed at the disposal of ' house committees ', to be made available for ' general use ' free of charge.

Despite the high level of integration with word processing in general personal computing.

Historians generally agree that the middle classes held high personal moral standards ( and usually followed them ), but have debated whether the working classes followed suit.

The album was nonetheless a personal high point for Partridge, who ranks songs such as "( The Everyday Story of ) Smalltown " and " Train Running Low on Soul Coal " amongst his best work.

Historians generally agree that the middle classes held high personal moral standards and rejected cohabitation.

Unfortunately for New England Digital, the Synclavier became a victim of the early 1990s economic downturn, the high prices ( albeit justified as the Synclavier system components were almost entirely military and aviation spec ), and the rapidly increasing capabilities of personal computers, MIDI-enabled synthesizers and low-cost digital samplers.

* Aide-de-camp, a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.

And even more complex items can be interpreted to conform to one's own point of view, which is by nature so personal.

Further, proponents of the necessity of the personal apostolic succession of bishops within the Church point to the universal practice of the undivided early Church ( up to AD 431 ), before being divided into the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

More specifically in regards to the Mets, critics point out that with Selig's personal relationship with Wilpon has allowed him to stall any possible removal of Wilpon as that club's principal owner.

Indeed, he tries to reinvent these notions from a personal point of view and to introduce them into human relationships.

( Since there is no citation for this exegesis, readers will need to analyse for themselves whether the " exact parallel " is addressed elsewhere and is generally accepted, or might represent a personal point of view, and readers will also need to discern for themselves what exactly is the " illumination ".

On the other hand, prominent distributists such as Dorothy Day and those involved in the Catholic Worker movement were / are strict pacifists even to the point of condemning involvement in the Second World War at much personal cost.

While critics point to the common practice of pseudonymous writing in the ancient world, they usually fail to point out that this practice, though common in the culture, was not common in personal letters, and was categorically rejected by the early church ( cf.

It was not until the launch of the Intel i486 in 1989 that general-purpose personal computers had floating point capability in hardware as standard.

As the 1980s began, hard disk drives were a rare and very expensive additional feature on personal computers ( PCs ); however by the late ' 80s, their cost had been reduced to the point where they were standard on all but the cheapest PC.

Working alongside military commander Andrei Zhdanov as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerable personal bravery, prancing around in defiance of heavy shelling at Ivanovskoye ; at one point he rallied retreating troops and personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol.

As an extension of this, Anarcho-communists counter-argue that decentralized, stateless collective federations are sufficient to give both power to workers and preserve personal freedom and point to the fact that no socialist state has ever showed signs of " withering away ".

* Lyric poetry is a form of poetry that expresses a subjective, personal point of view

These machines replaced Apple's Quadra series of personal computers, and were housed in cases very similar to systems sold by Apple up to that point.

Secondly, it recognizes that risk is an inevitable and ever present element throughout life: from conception through to the point at the end of life when we finally lose our personal battle with life threatening risk.

The heart of BETA's processing capability consisted of 63 dedicated fast Fourier transform ( FFT ) engines, each capable of performing a 2 < sup > 22 </ sup >- point complex FFTs in two seconds, and 21 general-purpose personal computers equipped with custom digital signal processing boards.

For every point above 12 possessed in each of these attributes, the character receives a one-point bonus to his personal adds.

Forney forged ahead with an editorial reviewing Grant's record with the recommendation for his nomination ; he made a point of getting Grant's personal review before publication.

Kagan suggests that such a procedure might be justified on the grounds that, “ a general requirement to promote the good would lack the motivational underpinning necessary for genuine moral requirements ” and, secondly, that personal independence is necessary for the existence of commitments and close personal relations and that “ the value of such commitments yields a positive reason for preserving within moral theory at least some moral independence for the personal point of view .”

From a psychological point of view, different karmic actions contribute to one's metaphorical existence in different realms, or rather, different actions reinforce personal characteristics described by the realms.