At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.

No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.

Another example is his very infrequent use of the large amount of data from surveys designed to discover what and how people actually do feel and think on a broad range of topics: he cites such survey-type findings just three times.

When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.

The battle of the Naktong River is just one example of how the battle cry and the spirit of The Fighting Seventh have paid off.

He cited, as an example, how the American camera industry has been able to meet successfully the competition of Japan despite lower Japanese labor costs, by improving its production know-how and technology.

For example, early in my life, when one of my editorial workers wanted to find out how churches and philanthropic organizations met the needs of New York's down-and-outers, he didn't just ask questions.

For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.

Stone gives an example of this: when computing the roots of a quadratic equation the computor must know how to take a square root.

After several revisions, for example, he deemed the essay " Psyche " ( Alcott's account of how he educated his daughters ) unpublishable.

Bertha and Angilbert are an example of how resistance to the idea of a sacramental marriage could coincide with holding church offices.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

Different combinations of woods and construction elements ( for example, how the top is braced ) affect the timbre or " tone " of the guitar.

For example, if 95 % of the program can be parallelized, the theoretical maximum speedup using parallel computing would be 20 × as shown in the diagram, no matter how many processors are used.

For example, if a program needs 20 hours using a single processor core, and a particular portion of 1 hour cannot be parallelized, while the remaining promising portion of 19 hours ( 95 %) can be parallelized, then regardless of how many processors we devote to a parallelized execution of this program, the minimum execution time cannot be less than that critical 1 hour.

As an example, if P is 90 %, then ( 1 − P ) is 10 %, and the problem can be sped up by a maximum of a factor of 10, no matter how large the value of N used.

The ANZAC Day clash is one example of how the war continues to be remembered in the football community.

Some of this knowledge is in the form of facts that can be explicitly represented, but some knowledge is unconscious and closely tied to the human body: for example, the machine may need to understand how an ocean makes one feel to accurately translate a specific metaphor in the text.

For example, there are differences between African, East Asian and Indo-racial groups in how they metabolize alcohol.

Learning how to ride a bicycle is an example of a type of neural plasticity that may take place largely within the cerebellum.

The user can adjust how far the blade extends from the handle, so that, for example, the knife can be used to cut the tape sealing a package without damaging the contents of the package.

Botanists also study how plants produce food we can eat and how to increase yields and therefore their work is important in mankind's ability to feed the world and provide food security for future generations, for example, through plant breeding.

Another example of text from the last chapter or epilogue of Job can be found in the book The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, showing examples of how fragments of The Book of Job found among the scrolls differ from the text as now known.

As an example of how this functions, the Bank of Canada sets a target overnight rate, and a band of plus or minus 0. 25 %.

Although the Greeks were allowed to settle in St. Augustine as free persons, many had already died and two of their leaders were hanged by the English as an example to other indentured servants and slaves.

For example, the cost of indentured labor rose by nearly 60 percent throughout the 1680s in some colonial regions.

France, for example, negotiated with Britain leading to Act XLVI of 1860, whereby large numbers of Indian indentured labourers were brought for harsh sugarcane plantation work in French colonies in the Caribbean region.

Monck garrisoned forts all over the Highlands — for example at Inverness, and finally put an end to Royalist resistance when he began deporting prisoners to the West Indies as indentured labourers.

* civil ( legal ) status: the worker could for example be a free citizen, an indentured labourer, the subject of forced labour ( including some prison or army labour ); a worker could be assigned by the political authorities to a task, he could be a semi-slave or a serf bound to the land who is hired out part of the time.

Both the Jewish Bible and the New Testament also contain passages some have interpreted as describing same-sex relationships, for example David and Jonathan or the centurion and his servant ; these are likewise the subject of scholarly debate, with most arguing that the relationships depicted are platonic.

He dictated the manual of Regulations for State Officials, containing 35 chapters and 297 paragraphs in which every public servant in Prussia could find his duties precisely set out: a minister or councillor failing to attend a committee meeting, for example, would lose six months ' pay ; if he absented himself a second time, he would be discharged from the royal service.

* A seer, based at Ramah, and seemingly known scarcely beyond the immediate neighbourhood of Ramah ( Saul, for example, not having heard of him, with his servant informing him of his existence instead ).

Arlecchino, for example, was more representative of a jester than an ordinary servant and was frequently depicted as very acrobatic.

For example, the severity of punishment was different when a servant or nephew killed a master or an uncle than when a master or uncle killed a servant or nephew.

For example, early versions depicted the Pirate King as the servant of the pirate band, and the words of the opening chorus were, " Pour, O King, the pirate sherry ".

He kept her son Charles Dupuy as a personal servant, frequently citing him as an example of how well he treated his slaves.

Some of the story elements in Philosopher's Stone resembled parts of Dahl's stories ; for example, the hero of James and the Giant Peach lost his parents and had to live with a pair of unpleasant aunts — one fat and one thin rather like Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, who treated Harry as a servant.

There was a concern ( illustrated in C. P. Snow ’ s Strangers and Brothers series of novels ) that technical and scientific expertise was mushrooming, to a point at which the " good all-rounder " culture of the administrative civil servant with a classics or other arts degree could no longer properly engage with it: as late as 1963, for example, the Treasury had just 19 trained economists.

Whilst Secretary of State, he was served by the Welsh lawyer ( and former student of Jesus College ) Owen Wynne, who has been called " an early example of the permanent civil servant.

For example, in Lebanon and Egypt, AbdelMassih ( servant of Christ ) is commonly used as a Christian last name.

In 1931, for example, all public servant salaries were cut by 10 %.

Timon acknowledges that he has had one true friend in Flavius, a shining example of an otherwise diseased and impure race, but laments that this man is a mere servant.

In the novel, Sima Yi was portrayed as the dedicated servant of Cao Cao, obsessed with his ideals even to the point of honing his example of usurping power against a weak ruler and using it to bring down Cao Cao's own descendants.

" For example, Mohandas Gandhi's first name, Mohandas, means servant of Mohan or Krishna.

The novel is an example of a bildungsroman, following the life of a distinguished member of the Castalian Order, Joseph Knecht, whose surname translates as " servant " but can also mean " squire.

It paints Buckingham, an old enemy of Dryden's ( see The Rehearsal for one example ), into Zimri, the unfaithful servant.

" A notable example of this use is Samuel Pepys's diary description of his servant girl as " an admirable slut " who " pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others and deserves wages better " ( February 1664 ).

It is tempting to say that a mand " describes its reinforcer " which it sometimes does, but mands may have no correspondence to the reinforcer, for example a loud knock may be a mand " open the door " and a servant may be called by a hand clap as much as a child might " ask for milk ".

Deitch states that, being a member of the UPA, he has always had a personal dislike of Tom and Jerry, citing them as the " primary bad example of senseless violence-humor based on pain-attack and revenge-to say nothing of the tasteless use of a headless black woman stereotype house servant.

For example, in the Healing the Centurion's servant, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke narrate how Jesus healed the servant of a Roman Centurion in Capernaum at a distance.