On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.

The blade consists of ( 3 ) the point – the end of the knife used for piercing ; ( 4 ) the edge – the cutting surface of the knife extending from the point to the heel ; ( 5 ), the grind, the cross section shape of the blade ; ( 6 ) the spine – the thickest section of the blade ; ( 7 ), the fuller, the groove added to lighten the blade ; ( 8 ) the ricasso, the flat section of the blade located at the junction of the blade and the knife's bolster or guard ; ( 9 ) the guard, the barrier between the blade and the handle which prevents the hand from slipping forward onto the blade ( 10 ) the end of the handle, or butt.

The ricasso or shoulder identifies a short section of blade immediately below the guard that is left completely unsharpened.

* May 25 – A bomb explodes in the security section of Northwestern University, wounding a security guard ( the first Unabomber attack ).

The NTI dental guard is technically also a biofeedback device ( translating physical bite force into an uncomfortable feeling in the front teeth ), so it is mentioned here as well as above in the section on dental guards and splints.

A simple section break is insufficient to guard against this as the pantograph briefly connects both sections.

The section of blade closest to the guard is called the jiàngen or root, and is mainly used for defensive actions ; on some late period jian, the base of the blade was made into an unsharpened ricasso.

The new arrangement left many senior Prussian generals with serious misgivings about leading diverse military forces to guard a pre-war frontier that, except for the northernmost section was part of two other states of the new Empire – Baden and Bavaria.

The Red Army took advantage of the German army's poor preparation for winter, and that its forces in the southern Soviet Union were overstretched near Stalingrad, using weaker Romanian troops to guard their flanks ; the offensives ' starting points were established along the section of the front directly opposite Romanian forces.

( b ) This section shall only apply to a gated community which is staffed, at the time service of process is attempted, by a guard or other ... personnel assigned to control access ... it does not apply to a private residence that has posted no trespassing signs

Standing patrols are usually small ( half section / section ) static patrols intended to provide early warning, security or to guard some geographical feature, such as dead ground.

John Powell of Canadian Online Explorer's professional wrestling section noted that " The changing of the guard that many people expected came with a whimper instead of a bang.

Important among these is Waterloo Village, a restored canal town in Sussex County, which contains many features of the canal, including the remains of an inclined plane, a guard lock, a watered section of the canal, a canal store, and other period buildings.

This game is played with one hunter, who must guard a designated " homefree " section of the playing field.

One SA section ( originally called Stosstrupp ) was created as Hitler's personal body guard and would develop into the Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

The goal of the safeguards section of the agreement is to lay out an agreed upon structure to guard against severe adverse effects to each countries domestic industries during the transition period after lifting tariffs.

See also the separate section on the frontier guard Carabineros of the Spanish Army below.

No. 1 division was closed in 1992 and was demolished in 1996 ( a small section of what was " C5 " and guard tower still remain ).

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

Although it is in some ways comparable to a voluntary sale of assets for cash, to which section 203 quite clearly applies, the courts and Treasury have held that acquiring corporations in several types of non-taxable reorganizations may sue for refund of taxes paid by transferors.

When this is the case, the appropriate section of this manual will indicate that `` Continuation Cards '' may be used.

Since by the principle of optimality the remaining stages use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to Af, we may enter section Af of the table at this state Af and read off the optimal policy for stage Af and the resulting state Af.

Arrange a reserved section in the sanctuary where all new members may sit together.

For flow through a tube with one inlet ( state 1 ) and exit ( state 2 ) as shown in the figure in this section, the continuity equation may be written and solved as:

Specific charities may exist to fund and operate bus transport, usually using specially modified mobility buses or otherwise accessible buses ( See Accessibility section ).

A column with a cross section that lacks symmetry may suffer torsional buckling ( sudden twisting ) before, or in combination with, lateral buckling.

The tension at c is tangent to the curve at c and is therefore horizontal, and it pulls the section to the left so it may be written (− T < sub > 0 </ sub >, 0 ) where T < sub > 0 </ sub > is the magnitude of the force.

The tension at r is parallel to the curve at r and pulls the section to the right, so it may be written Tu =( Tcos φ, Tsin φ ), where T is the magnitude of the force and φ is the is the angle between the curve at r and the x-axis ( see tangential angle ).

The thickness of the yarn may vary along its length ; a slub is a much thicker section in which a mass of fibers is incorporated into the yarn.

The Belgic Confession, used in Reformed churches, devotes a section ( Article 6 ) to " The difference between the canonical and apocryphal books " and asserts that " All which the Church may read and take instruction from, so far as they agree with the canonical books ; but they are far from having such power and efficacy as that we may from their testimony confirm any point of faith or of the Christian religion ; much less to detract from the authority of the other sacred books.

When a door has more than one movable section, one of the sections may be called a leaf.

Similar services may also be provided at the embassy ( to serve the region of the capital ) in what is sometimes called a consular section.

Some scholars think that The porisms may have actually been a section of Arithmetica that is now lost.

Furthermore it is believed that the Eritrean section of the Danakil Depression was a major player in terms of human evolution and may " document the entire evolution of Homo erectus up to the transition to anatomically modern humans.

Similarly, section 7482 of the Internal Revenue Code provides that the U. S. Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeals may impose penalties where the taxpayer's appeal of a U. S. Tax Court decision was " maintained primarily for delay " or where " the taxpayer's position in the appeal is frivolous or groundless.

Congress has enacted section 1912 of title 28 of the United States Code providing that in the United States Supreme Court and in the various courts of appeals where litigation by the losing party has caused damage to the prevailing party, the court may impose a requirement that the losing party pay the prevailing party for those damages.

section 714 establish that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve banks may be audited by the Government Accountability Office ( GAO ).

Rarely are videogame FAQs in a question-and-answer format, although they may contain a short section of questions and answers.

However, the Norwegian Competition Act section 10 prohibits cooperation which may prevent, limit or diminish the competition.

However in some languages a multigraph may be treated as a single unit for the purposes of collation ; for example, in a Czech dictionary, the section for words that start with ⟨ ch ⟩ comes after that for ⟨ h ⟩.

For example, formulations like " as explained in the previous section " are problematic, because the transcluded section may appear in a different context, causing confusion.