He studied the problem for a few seconds and thought of a means by which it might be solved.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

The problem involved military necessity as much as morality, for in pre-penicillin days venereal disease was a crippling disability.

The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

Nikita Khrushchev, however, has created yet another problem for himself.

Lublin was the seed of action for the `` final solution '' of the Jewish problem.

The most realistic way of facing up to this problem would be to have the State take over full responsibility for assessing all taxable property.

The financial problem, where it exists, usually stems from the adoption of a budget for the transitional or adjustment period.

Provision for emergency toilet facilities and disposal of human wastes will be an unfamiliar problem.

The problem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to plan the use of existing space.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

Throughout their careers, both Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe were interested in the problem of setting up standards of measurement for the mechanical trades.

A mathematical formula is nothing more than a pattern for solving a specific problem.

The equation is used for the mathematical process of solving the problem.

For example, for the problem Af, 10 from 25 equals 15, then 6 from 15 equals 9.

It is more than just lack of dance training that is our problem, for just as gymnastics can learn from dance, dance has some very important things to learn from gymnastics.

The riveted mail armour worn by the opposing Sudanese Madhists did not have the same problem but also proved to be relatively useless against the firearms of British forces at the battle of Omdurman.

By 1992 the problem had become so serious that Latvian forestry officials were given the right to carry firearms.

Crimes are seldom committed with firearms, yet knives remain a problem that the government is looking into, especially after the Akihabara massacre.

That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.

The specific analogy to the dilemma of love is the problem of the `` breakthrough '' in the realm of art.

But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

The problem is to remove the accretions and thereby uncover the order that was always there.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

Ptolemy's problem is to forecast where, against the inverted bowl of night, some particular light will be found at future times.

The distances of these points of light is a problem he cannot master, beyond crude conjectures as to the orderings of the planetary orbits viewed outward from earth.

This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.

The problem, in other words, is strictly a chronological one.

The problem of NATO is not one of machinery, of which there is an abundance, but of the will to use it.

Our problem, therefore, is to devise processes more modest in their aspirations, adjusted to the real world of sovereign nation states and diverse and hostile communities.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

Biggest organizational problem, he adds, is setting up CDC units in rock-ribbed Democratic territory.

The new column by Maurice Stans regarding business scandals, is fair and accurate in most respects and his solution to the problem has some merit.

The whole problem of `` peaceful coexistence and peaceful competition '' with the capitalist world is in the very center of this Congress.

But this is not the real problem ; ;