their example caused Krim and his friends to put on `` Englishy airs, affect all sorts of impressive scholarship and social-register unnaturalness in order to slip through their narrow transoms and get into their pages ''.

Digitalis is an example of a drug derived from a plant that was formerly used by folklorists and herbalists ; herbalists have largely abandoned its use because of its narrow therapeutic index and the difficulty of determining the amount of active drug in herbal preparations.

There were some towns, where narrow gauge railways were used as tram lines or interurban lines ( for example: Sárospatak, Sátoraljaújhely, Békéscsaba, Békés, Cegléd ).

For example, Jerry Fodor ( 1980 ) argues for narrow content ( although he comes to reject that view in his 1995 ), while David Chalmers ( 2002 ) argues for a two dimensional semantics according to which the contents of mental states can have both wide and narrow content.

For example, the width of roads and small streams are exaggerated when they are too narrow to be shown on the map at true scale ; that is, on a printed map they would be narrower than could be perceived by the naked eye.

The Reversing Falls in Saint John, actually an area of strong rapids, provides one example of the power of these tides ; at every high tide, ocean water is pushed through a narrow gorge in the middle of the city and forces the St. John River to reverse its flow for several hours.

First was font axes ( morphing ), for example allowing fonts to be smoothly adjusted from light to bold or from narrow to extended — competition for Adobe's " multiple master " technology.

In late spring and summer, for example, several hundred thousand Pacific walruses migrate from the Bering Sea into the Chukchi Sea through the relatively narrow Bering Strait.

For example, one can imagine a ' baby ' universe connected to its ' parent ' by a narrow ' umbilicus '.

It is also used for secure wireless, where voice must be digitized, encrypted and sent over a narrow voice channel ; an early example of this is the US government's Navajo I.

For example, it is sometimes possible to use a lock-in amplifier to modulate and confine the signal within a very narrow bandwidth and then filter the detected signal to the narrow band where it resides, thereby eliminating most of the broadband noise.

They allow, for example, the measuring of a narrow o-ring groove.

A good example of this type of strategy is the Battle of Thermopylae, where the narrow terrain of a defile was used to funnel the Persian forces, who were numerically superior, to a point where they could not use their size as an advantage.

Mailing lists of this type are usually topic-oriented ( for example, politics, scientific discussion, joke contests ), and the topic can range from extremely narrow to " whatever you think could interest us ".

For example, boys slapped their balls in narrow alleys and streets ”.

Some classification systems, for example the Cronquist system, treat Fabaceae in a narrow sense, raising Mimisoideae to the rank of family as Mimosaceae.

With the exception of a few streets and squares which allow traffic and are more populated with tourists most of the time, the walkways of this city quarter are fairly narrow, quiet streets, surrounded by a diverse range of interesting buildings, the architecture of which can easily be compared with those in streets of cities such as Florence ( Italy ), for example.

The Scots at the Battle of Stirling Bridge ( 1297 ), for example, utilized the momentum of their charge to overrun an English army while the Englishmen were crossing a narrow bridge.

In the slit emitter, for example, a liquid metal propellant is fed by capillary forces through a narrow channel.

For example, birds visit red flowers with long narrow tubes and lots of nectar, but are not as strongly attracted to wide flowers with little nectar and copious pollen, which are more attractive to beetles.

For example, in one stretch, which is at a high elevation and where the road is narrow and winds, hugging a sheer rock face, signs warn not to stop, danger of landslides.

The building is an example of the tall, narrow and deep commercial buildings commonly found in small American towns.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

The relatively small number of atomic absorption lines ( compared to atomic emission lines ) and their narrow width ( a few pm ) make spectral overlap rare ; there are only very few examples known that an absorption line from one element will overlap with another.

The narrow fringing reef surrounding the island can be a maritime hazard, so there is a day beacon near the old village site.

Investigations of ligand families ( e. g. amino acids or oligo peptides ) proved that there is a fitting of ranges ( amplitudes ; number of responder cells ) and chemotactic activities: chemoattractant moiety is accompanied by wide ranges, while chemorepellent character by narrow ranges.

Caitlin Thomas wrote that he worked " in a fanatically narrow groove, although there was nothing narrow about the depth and understanding of his feelings.

This steam locomotive dating from the 1930s still operates, carrying both freight and tourists. As of 1999, there was a total of 317 kilometres of ( narrow gauge ) rail line in Eritrea.

The Gaia hypothesis states that there is an emergent feedback loop generated by the metabolism of living organisms that maintains the temperature of the Earth and atmospheric conditions within a narrow self-regulating range of tolerance.

Where there is a bend in the coastline, quite often a build up of eroded material occurs forming a long narrow bank ( a spit ).

Most of these islands are small, they are separated by narrow channels, and for nearly a hundred years hermits lived there, coming from our land, Ireland, by boat.

Rushton and Jensen argue against expecting the Flynn Effect to narrow the US black-white IQ gap since they see that gap as mostly genetic in origin and there is evidence from mathematical analyses that what causes the Flynn effect is different from what causes the black-white gap.

above the floor there are two narrow shafts in the north and south walls ( one is now filled by an extractor fan to try to circulate air in the pyramid ).

During the Roman period Britain ’ s continental trade was principally directed across the Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel, focusing on the narrow Strait of Dover, though there were also more limited links via the Atlantic seaways.

A broad gauge of 1600mm ( 5 ft 3in ) was agreed as the standard for the island, although there were also hundreds of kilometres of 914mm ( 3 ft ) narrow gauge railways.

There is no geological evidence of a Krakatoa eruption of this size around that time ; it may describe loss of land which previously joined Java to Sumatra across what is now the narrow east end of the Sunda Strait ; or it may be a mistaken date, referring to a later eruption in 535 AD, for which there is some corroborating historical evidence.

It is used to examine the adhesion of cells to a glass surface, using polarized light of a narrow range of wavelengths to be reflected whenever there is an interface between two substances with different refractive indices.

Just downriver from this, the mountains close in on either side of the Marañón, forming narrow gorges or pongos for a length of, where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than 35 rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which Charles Marie de La Condamine embarked in the 18th century to descend the Amazon.

Under the narrow method, when there are apparently two contradictory meanings to a word used in a legislative provision or it is ambiguous, the least absurd is to be used.

Between two phases in equilibrium there is a narrow region where the properties are not that of either phase.

* " In the literature to date, there appear to be at least two clearly distinguishable definitions of the term ' racial profiling ': a narrow definition and a broad definition ...

Most of the country is made up of rolling hills, but there is a narrow coastal plain that has swampy terrain.

Within the old town there are many narrow winding streets full of historic buildings.

Later cases have undermined Slocum, but generally only when the evidence is overwhelming, or if a specific law provides narrow guidelines by which there can be no reasonable question as to the required outcome, may the court enter " judgment as a matter of law " or otherwise set aside the jury's findings.