Throughout the day, the TACP forward air controllers and Special Forces recce teams that had infiltrated into the area the previous day called in airstrikes from B-1, B-52, F-15, F-18s and F-16 aircraft, inflicting heavy casualties on the Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, but by no means silencing them.

J. N. Adams states that " it was a standard joke to speak of irrumatio as a means of silencing someone.

Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest.

Glitnir is symbolic of the importance of discussion rather than violence as a means of resolution of conflict within the Norse tradition.

The discussion of these " Core Principles " state that " investor protection " in this context means " Investors should be protected from misleading, manipulative or fraudulent practices, including insider trading, front running or trading ahead of customers and the misuse of client assets.

Aristotle moves from this unqualified discussion of justice to a qualified view of political justice, by which he means something close to the subject of modern jurisprudence.

Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest.

All discussion of this teaching by Soto Zen masters falls under the Buddhist concept of skill in means, which is to say, not literally correct, but suitable for leading others to the Truth.

Unlike myth, which is a means of explaining the natural world through means other than logical criticism, scientific tradition was inherited from Socrates, who proposed critical discussion, according to Popper.

Thus far the discussion has focused on the French pierrotistes, but Pierrot's popularity was by no means confined to France.

In the later nineties, the publisher embraced the newly emerging internet as a means of " spreading the word " about a book or author and created one of the first, if not the first, writer-to-fan discussion forums " Baen's Bar " capable of using a mix of technologies to support the overall promotion and interest in reading books for education and entertainment.

These sixteen categories are pramāṇa ( valid means of knowledge ), prameya ( objects of valid knowledge ), saṁśaya ( doubt ), prayojana ( aim ), dṛṣṭānta ( example ), siddhānta ( conclusion ), avayava ( members of syllogism ), tarka ( hypothetical reasoning ), nirṇaya ( settlement ), vāda ( discussion ), jalpa ( wrangling ), vitaṇḍā ( cavilling ), hetvābhāsa ( fallacy ), chala ( quibbling ), jāti ( sophisticated refutation ) and nigrahasthāna ( point of defeat ).

The change to include continental Europeans arose from discussion in 1977 between Jack Nicklaus and the Earl of Derby, who was serving as the President of the Professional Golfers ' Association ; it was suggested by Nicklaus as a means to make the matches more competitive, since the Americans almost always won, often by lopsided margins.

Such debate requires careful consideration of what it means to " learn " or " use " a language ( see animal language for further discussion ).

In it, one of five ruling brothers asks if the suffering caused by war can ever be justified, and then a long discussion ensues between the siblings, establishing criteria like proportionality ( chariots cannot attack cavalry, only other chariots, no attacking people in distress ), just means ( no poisoned or barbed arrows ), just cause ( no attacking out of rage ), and fair treatment of captives and the wounded.

While Xavier advocates non-violence in the struggle for equality, Magneto takes on a more aggressive ' by any means necessary ' stance ; the duo's differing views are the source of much discussion throughout the series.

In Arabic the word means " discussion ", and refers to the Islamic tradition of seeking theological principles through dialectic.

As advancing years compelled him to withdraw from the more exhausting labours of travel and open-air preaching, he sought to influence the discussion of current religious and theological questions by means of the press.

The Locarno discussion arose from exchanges of notes between the British Empire, France and Germany over the summer of 1925 following German foreign minister Gustav Stresemann's 9 February proposal for a reciprocal of his country's western frontiers as established under the unfavourable 1919 Treaty of Versailles, as a means of facilitating Germany's diplomatic rehabilitation among the Western Powers.

In 1611 Galileo was informed by a friend, Cigoli, “ ill-disposed men envious of your virtue and merits metdiscuss ... for any means by which they could damage you .” The number of scholars who disapproved with his Discourse on Floating Bodies, or were simply ill-spirited toward Galileo grew, but other than one letter from Niccolo Lorini there was not much discussion about the issue for the remainder of the year.

: Examples of products created by means of commons-based peer production include Linux, a computer operating system ; Slashdot, a news and announcements website ; Kuro5hin, a discussion site for technology and culture ; Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia ; and Clickworkers, a collaborative scientific work.

For Knight ‘ picturesque ’ means simply ‘ after the manner of painting ’, a point which is important to his further discussion of sensation, which in Knight's view is central to the understanding of painting and music which are ‘ addressed to the organs of sight and hearing ’, while poetry and sculpture appeal ‘ entirely to the imagination and passions .’ The latter must be understood in terms of associations of ideas, while the former rely on the ‘ irritation ’ or friction of sensitive parts of the body.

He maintained good relations with the episcopal court of Mainz and with Hieronymus Aleander of Worms, who applied to him for the purpose of a discussion on the best means of opposing Martin Luther.

It is critical, when considering the examples in this section, to remember the discussion above about what it means to say that a " distribution " is an exponential family, and in particular to keep in mind that the set of parameters that are allowed to vary is critical in determining whether a " distribution " is or is not an exponential family.

There has been discussion about the socio-economic targeting of the advertisement, and the extent to which it may or may not be insulting to the more down-market audience to whom it was presented as an aspirational brand by means of an Italian advertisement dubbed in English, such as this quotation from the New Statesman: " Within this inner sanctum of the smart set, a distinguished manservant glided silently through the moneyed throng, with a pyramid of golden baubles, perched on a silver salver, offering a huge piled plate of the sweets to the guests at an embassy party.

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

In the Manu tongue, `` eromonga '' means manhood -- a quality which the women derisively toasted in weekly feasts at which great quantities of a brew like kava were imbibed.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

By no means would we discourage the production of ideas: they provide raw materials with which to work ; ;

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

One serves society by conducting a business from which a certain number of employees draw their means of subsistence ; ;

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

In addition, the motor has the seal of approval of the Underwriters Laboratories, which means it is safe.

He is a Buddhist, which means that to him peace and the sanctity of human life are not only religious dogma, but a profound and unshakable Weltanschauung.

Continuous low-level lighting may be provided in the shelter by means of a 4-cell hot-shot battery to which is wired a 150-milliampere flashlight-type bulb.

It occurred to me that you might be interested in some thoughts which I expressed privately in recent years, in the hope of clearing up a certain confusion in the public mind about what foreign policy is all about and what it means, and of developing a certain compassion for those who are carrying such responsibilities inside Government.

Control would be limited to those rodents for which economical means of control are known.

Providing these means are about ninety companies which manufactured the estimated 1,800,000 boat trailers now in use.