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extreme and might
Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.
He saw her emerge suddenly, coming in her unhesitant fashion, her back stiff, her head erect, facing with contempt the night and whatever she would encounter, as if in her extreme disdain and indifference she would pass by all the outraged looks of those whom she might approach.
An extreme view might see criminalization as State-sanctioned revenge.
According to Massiter, Newton believed that CND was controlled by extreme left-wing activists and that Bruce Kent might be a crypto-communist, but Massiter found no evidence to support either opinion.
This mythology might be related to the extreme weather events of 535 – 536 which resulted in a notable drop in temperature across northern Europe.
Some scholars go to the extreme of arguing that, in the unlikely scenario Arabs had occupied what is now Ukraine and Russia, the Rus might never have been able to push south and east from the Baltic to establish Russia.
In extreme cases a public library with a small collection might just use a classification system for location of resources but might not use a complicated subject classification system.
An option, especially if and when wavelengths continue to decrease to extreme UV or X-ray, is the free-electron laser ( or one might say xaser for an X-ray device ).
In these extreme situations, any medical care given to people who will die anyway can be considered to be care withdrawn from others who might have survived ( or perhaps suffered less severe disability from their injuries ) had they been treated instead.
As an extreme example of the integration of ex-IWW militants into the mainstream labour movement one might instance the career of Donald Grant, one of the Sydney Twelve sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit arson and other crimes.
In the extreme case, a prisoner who is paranoid might feel certain in his knowledge that the executioner will arrive at noon on Monday, then certain that he will come on Tuesday and so forth, thus ensuring that every day he is not hanged really is a " surprise " to him, but that the day of his hanging he was indeed expecting to be hanged.
An extreme variant of biological determinism might assert that an organism's behavior is determined entirely by biological factors, and that all of these factors are innate to that organism e. g. DNA.
In contrast, an extreme behaviorist linguist would argue that language can only be studied through recordings or transcriptions of actual speech, the role of the linguist being to look for patterns in such observed speech, but not to hypothesize about why such patterns might occur, nor to label particular utterances as either " grammatical " or " ungrammatical.
In rare cases or extreme doses the duration of effects might exceed 24 hours.
) Materialists do not find this a useful way of thinking about the ontology and ontogeny of ideas, but we might say that from a materialist perspective pushed to a logical extreme communicable to an idealist ( an " Away Team " perspective ), ideas are ultimately reducible to a physically communicated, organically, socially and environmentally embedded ' brain-state '.
In times of extreme fire danger the parks service might close the park to ensure visitor safety.
Streicher orchestrated his early campaigns against Jews to make the most extreme possible claims, short of violating a law that might get the paper shut down.
Additionally, the pathological appearance of outliers of a certain form appears in a variety of datasets, indicating that the causative mechanism for the data might differ at the extreme end ( King effect ).
It is not so far north as its extreme Arctic-like conditions might indicate and Mount Waddington and its attendant peaks pose some of the most serious expedition mountaineering to be had in North America — and some of the most extreme relief and spectacular mountain scenery.
However, the quality of code it generates might not be as good as the one that is jitted, for the same reasons why code compiled statically, without profile-guided optimization, cannot be as good as JIT compiled code in the extreme case: the lack of profiling data to drive, for instance, inline caching.
Other people, who had inherited nothing, might, in extreme cases, suppress their family history as a matter of shame.
To give an extreme example ( trading 1000 shares of Google ), an online trader in 2005 might have bought $ 300, 000 of stock at a commission of about $ 10, compared to the $ 3, 000 commission the trader would have paid in 1974.
This might be achieved through diplomatic maneuvers by creating the impression that one is willing to use extreme methods rather than concede.

extreme and maintain
One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).
Using his trademark extreme slow motion, Viola's pieces used actors to portray the metaphorical story behind Wagner's story, seeing for example the first act as an extended ritual of purification in which the characters disrobe and wash themselves before finally plunging headlong into water together ( in Wagner's story, the two characters maintain the facade of being indifferent to each other ( necessary because Isolde is betrothed to Tristan's uncle ) before, mistakenly believing they are going to die anyway, and reveal their true feelings ).
Sorge used the examples of Julius Caesar and Ferdinand Magellan using brutal methods to crush mutinies to argue that great leaders throughout history had always used extreme violence to maintain discipline, and through he emphasized that a good officer should never had to be confronted with the threat of mutiny, but if such a threat did emerge, the best thing that could be done was to follow Hitler ’ s example in 1934, and have all the mutineers ’ summarily executed.
Special reservoirs upstream help to maintain a constant level for the river through the city, but during periods of extreme runoff significant increases in river level may occur.
At one extreme, a completely rigid satellite will maintain its shape until tidal forces break it apart.
Supplies could not be moved to maintain fighting forces in Burma on a large scale, since the ground communications were dreadful, sea communications risky in the extreme ( along with the fact that there was only one other port of any size in Burma besides Rangoon ) and air communications out of the question due to lack of transport aircraft.
Eating disorders ( such as anorexia ) are also very common among jockeys, as they face extreme pressure to maintain unusually low ( and specific ) weights for men, sometimes within a five pound ( 2. 3 kg ) margin.
Nationalists such as Calhoun were forced by the increasing power of such leaders to retreat from their previous positions and adopt, in the words of Ellis, " an even more extreme version of the states ' rights doctrine " in order to maintain political significance within South Carolina.
Conversely, an extreme descriptivist might maintain that there is no such thing as incorrect use.
Organisms may also express specific proteins called heat shock proteins that may act as molecular chaperons and help the cell maintain function under periods of extreme stress.
Although there are numerous well marked boat lanes that have been cleared of stumps and trees, one should use caution even on the boat lanes ; one should use extreme caution when off the boat lanes and maintain a watch for stumps and / or trees as well as floating logs.
: When the fog signal of another vessel is heard, apparently forward of the beam, a vessel should reduce speed to the minimum at which she can maintain her course, or if necessary stop, and navigate with extreme caution until there is no risk of collision.
A newer and perhaps even more extreme example is the Turn 8 at the Istanbul Park circuit, a 190 ° relatively tight 4-apex corner, in which the cars maintain speeds between ( in 2006 ) and experience between 4. 5 g and 5. 5 g for 7 seconds — the longest sustained hard cornering in Formula 1.
As a result of both external repression and a failure to maintain internal unity, the movement did however degenerate into extreme sectarianism.
Whereas Serge is high-strung and straight-edge, Coleman is a drug user who goes to extreme lengths to maintain his buzz.
* Race cars often use locking differentials in order to maintain traction during high speed maneuvers or when accelerating at extreme rates.
The engine's lubrication and sealing system has been adapted for use in wet, dusty conditions and to maintain lubrication at extreme angles in off-road use.
The winning VL-model ' SS Group A SV ' Commodore was able to set a fast pace early on in the race which the turbo Sierras could not maintain, due to the high turbo boost pressures that gave the Sierras their power, but resulted in extreme engine heat that hindered engine reliability.
The economy is based on fishing, tourism, copra, and bird feathers, though Palmerston ’ s extreme remoteness makes a cash market difficult to maintain.
Persons working in extreme heat and / or humidity for long periods must take care to drink and eat in ways that help to maintain electrolyte balance.
He appeared to maintain her innocence of murder throughout his life, claiming that Edith " paid the extreme penalty for her immorality.
The novel states that the Special Weapons Dalek is used only in extreme situations and only the Emperor can maintain complete control over it.
The film's themes include the Eskimos ' survival in the extreme arctic wilderness, as well as their raw existence and struggle to maintain their lifestyle against encroaching civilization.
In extreme situations where the flow from Llyn Celyn is insufficient to maintain the flow, releases of water from Llyn Brenig.

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