In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

For example, farm equipment shipments of International Harvester in August climbed about 5% above a year earlier, Mr. Keeler reports.

The Debate between sheep and grain is an example of an even earlier form of ex nihilo creation myth from ancient Sumer.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

Automotive alternators are a common example, where the diode, which rectifies the AC into DC, provides better performance than the commutator or earlier, dynamo.

For example, a year earlier, he had traded Sawchuk to Boston ; while he managed to get Sawchuk back two years later, he had to trade up-and-coming Johnny Bucyk to do it.

Although there were earlier works of similar nature, by Marcus Terentius Varro for example, Pliny's was the only one to survive the Dark Ages.

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

While it is possible to identify earlier legal structures that would today fall into the " environmental " law metric-for example the common law recognition of private and public rights to protect interests in land, such as nuisance, or post-industrial revolution human health protections-the concept of " environmental law " as a separate and distinct body of law is a 20th Century development.

For example, if the last player to draw wants three replacements but there are only two cards remaining in the deck, the dealer gives the player the one top card he can give, then shuffles together the bottom card of the deck, the burn card, and the earlier players ' discards ( but not the player's own discards ), and finally deals two more replacements to the last player.

Impalement replaced the earlier dimidiation – combining the dexter half of one coat with the sinister half of another – because dimidiation can create ambiguity between, for example, a bend and a chevron.

For example, John Ericsson developed an external heated engine running on a cycle very much like the earlier Diesel cycle.

The fifth finger may also have been used on earlier, more lightly strung modern harps: Madame de Genlis, for example, in her Méthode, published in Paris in the early nineteenth century, promotes the use of all five fingers, while Roslyn Rensch suggests that Mlle de Guînes, the harpist for whom Mozart wrote his Concerto for Flute and Harp, might occasionally have used all five fingers when playing the harp.

The town received its charter in 1238, although there is evidence of earlier settlement-for example, a record of a chapel in 1177, and some indications of a possible Roman presence.

An example at Monamore on Arran has been dated to 3160 BC, although it was almost certainly built earlier than that, possibly c. 4000BC.

To use an earlier example, a good response to the question " Do you still beat your wife?

The Norse had a strong sense of naval architecture, and during the early medieval period they were advanced for their time, compared to other European nations ( earlier shipbuilding techniques, for example those of Mediterranean peoples, such as ancient Greece and Rome, were far more sophisticated and varied, especially in terms of joinery ).

As a result of NHC's forecasts there had been a massive evacuation of New Orleans amid warnings ( for example from the city's mayor, Ray Nagin ) that this would be the “ storm of the century ”, potentially more devastating than Katrina almost exactly three years earlier, but these fears were not realised.

For example, the delay in asserting the claim may have caused a great increase in the potential damages to be awarded, or assets that could earlier have been used to satisfy the claim may have been distributed in the meantime, or the property in question may already have been sold, or evidence or testimony may no longer be available to defend against the claim.

He came out of detention to an altered political scene — the Muslim League for example, which a few years earlier had appeared marginal, " now occupied the centre of the political stage " and the topic of Jinnah's campaign for Pakistan was a major talking point.

* No unified object handles ( OS / 2 v2. 11 and earlier ): The availability of threads probably led system designers to overlook mechanisms which allow a single thread to wait for different types of asynchronous events at the same time, for example the keyboard and the mouse in a " console " program.

For example, in England, the High Court and the Court of Appeal are each bound by their own previous decisions, but the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is able deviate from its earlier decisions, although in practice it rarely does so.

Some languages are defined by a specification document ( for example, the C programming language is specified by an ISO Standard ), while other languages, such as Perl 5 and earlier, have a dominant implementation that is used as a reference.

An earlier example has been suggested in Tertullian < u > De Corona Militis xi </ u >, " Apud hunc Christum tam miles est paganus fidelis quam paganus est miles infidelis ," but here the word paganus may be interpreted in the sense " civilian " rather than " heathen ".

Of course, some of the credit for the sale boost must be given to improvement in the weather and to the fact that Easter comes more than two weeks earlier than in 1960.

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

* 2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.

The word chemistry comes from the word alchemy, an earlier set of practices that encompassed elements of chemistry, metallurgy, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, mysticism and medicine ; it is commonly thought of as the quest to turn lead or another common starting material into gold.

The first set – from the earlier Shang period – comes from sources at Erligang, Zhengzhou, and Shangcheng.

The string whose first letter appears earlier in the alphabet comes first in alphabetical order.

The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin draconem ( nominative draco ) meaning " huge serpent, dragon ," from the Greek word δράκων, drakon ( genitive drakontos, δράκοντος ) " serpent, giant seafish ", which is believed to have come from an earlier stem drak -, a stem of derkesthai, " to see clearly ," from Proto-Indo-European derk-" to see " or " the one with the ( deadly ) glance.

Modern use in football comes from the earlier sport of rugby, where the word was used in the 19th century.

The earlier, longer and more complete passage comes from a stoic philosopher called Antipater of Tarsus in a moral tract known as On Marriage ( c. 150 BC ).

Other evidence comes from experimental studies showing that some manipulations ( e. g., a distractor task, such as repeatedly subtracting a single-digit number from a larger number following learning ; cf Brown-Peterson procedure ) impair memory for the 3 to 5 most recently learned words of a list ( it is presumed, still held in short-term memory ), while leaving recall for words from earlier in the list ( it is presumed, stored in long-term memory ) unaffected ; other manipulations ( e. g., semantic similarity of the words ) affect only memory for earlier list words, but do not affect memory for the last few words in a list.

" Another ( possibly earlier ) midrash, Ta ' ame Haserot Viyterot, states that this section actually comes from the book of prophecy of Eldad and Medad.

It should be noted that the " s " in the Finnic second person pronoun " sinä " is a result of the ti → si sound law, and comes from earlier form * tinä, as in the plural form " te " and the Hungarian pronoun " te ".

This comes as a shock to Jerusalem's court, who had earlier forced the possible future Queen into promising that should she become so, she would not appoint him the title.

This no-longer-used type of bonus gave three ( or some other number ) discrete clues in order of decreasing difficulty ; with the decreasing difficulty comes decreased point value, providing an incentive to answer the earlier clue.

Type 1 diabetes usually comes on abruptly, although the damage to the beta cells may begin much earlier.

The name Arnhem comes from Arneym, much earlier Arentheem, and originally derived from Latin Arenacum.

The name Proterozoic comes from Greek and means " earlier life ".

Shortly afterward, his earlier self comes through.

After five days and hundreds of miles, the Walk eventually comes down to Garraty and Stebbins, who revealed to Garraty and McVries earlier that day, that he is the illegitimate son of the Major.

Termination of a grant cannot be effective until 35 years after the execution of the grant or, if the grant covers the right of publication, no earlier than 40 years after the execution of the grant or 35 years after publication under the grant ( whichever comes first ).

Tessio comes in with the cake, and they discuss the attack on Pearl Harbor earlier in the month.

For example, if a testator mistakenly believes that an earlier will can be revived by the revocation of a later will, the court will ignore the later revocation if the later will comes closer to fulfilling the testator's intent than not having a will at all.

The vehicle comes to a screeching halt over the bridge demolished earlier in the game, and after a final conflict, Ripburger falls to his death.

Marmelo in turn derives from Latin melimelum, " honey apple ", which in turn comes from the earlier Greek μελίμηλον ( melímēlon ), from " μέλι " ( meli ), " honey " + " μήλον " ( mēlon ), " apple ".