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 %.

The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

When later authors described the period, this is what they emphasized: Ammianus has Constantius II admonish Julian for disobedience by appealing to the example in submission set by Diocletian's lesser colleagues ; Julian himself would compare the Diocletianic tetrarchs to a chorus surrounding a leader, speaking in unison under his command.

A geometrically appealing example of one-point compactification is given by the inverse stereographic projection.

For example, adult mammals ( especially humans ) are generally attracted to baby mammal faces and find them appealing across species.

Such a labelling would occur, for example, when opposition expressed by a business involved in urban development is challenged by activists – causing the business to in turn protest and appealing for support from fellow businesses lest they also find themselves challenged where they seek urban development.

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, for example, a more junior member of the hawza during Hakim's time, sought a series of reforms to the hawza to make it more politically palatable and appealing to the Shi ' i masses who were proving susceptible to Communism.

It is corrected by appealing to the fact that Ignorance is a defect, and argues that there is no defect in not knowing what cannot be known by any intelligence ( for example, that two and two make five ), and therefore there can be an ignorance only of that of which there can be a knowledge, that is, of some-object-plus-some-subject.

In other words, by appealing to the Platonic distinction between the material and the ideal, Paul showed how the spirit of Christ could provide all people a way to worship God — the God who had previously been worshipped only by Jews, and Jewish Proselytes, although Jews claimed that He was the one and only God of all ( see, for example, Romans 8: 1-4 ; II Corinthians 3: 3 ; Galatians 3: 14 ; Philippians 3: 3 ).

The New York Times reviewer Mordaunt Hall called it " an example of delicacy and restraint, a picture filled with gentle humor and appealing pathos.

* The authorities can use the election laws to their advantage, for example, by creating a pretext for appealing the results later if the unfavourable candidate is winning.

The most appealing characteristic of the Siemens regenerative furnace is the rapid production of large quantities of basic steel, used for example to construct high-rise buildings.

Much of the advertising focused on appealing to the general public, rather than just hardcore fans of the game ; for example, some 7-Eleven stores advertised Halo 3 and sold specialty cups and copies of the game.

For example, non-veteran employees in the excepted service are generally barred from appealing adverse agency personnel decisions to the United States Merit Systems Protection Board ( MSPB ) or to the Federal courts.

The Horse Protection Act ( public Law 91-929 ) was passed in 1970 and protected horses against various damaging practices designed to produce aesthetically appealing horses, for example, " soring " the ankles to produce a high-stepping gait.

While explaining his proposal for the library at Washington University, Kahn had used the example of the cloistered carrels at the monastic library at Dunham, England, to explain his " desire to find a space construction system in which the carrels were inherent in the support which harbored them ... Wall-bearing masonry construction with its niches and vaults has the appealing structural order to provide naturally such spaces.

After their acceptance into the China Inland Mission, the seven toured England and Scotland, preaching and appealing to their listeners to follow their example and follow Christ.

For example, the following arguments fit the slippery slope scheme with the inductive interpretation:

Also in 1961, Davis made the film Seduction of the Innocent, targeting teenagers with the message that marijuana use leads to heroin addiction, a message that many marijuana activists dispute as an example of a slippery slope fallacy.

For example, defensive coordinators may favor a tendency to play a less aggressive containment style zone coverage during wet or slippery field conditions to avoid problems associated with over-pursuit ( when a defender takes a poor angle on a ball carrier and cannot redirect in time due to poor footing ).

This may happen, for example, when skidding during emergency evasive swerves, understeer or oversteer during poorly judged turns on slippery roads, or hydroplaning.

One of the more frequently mentioned ones, for example, was " slippy-slidey ice worlds "-levels in platform games with slippery, ice-covered floors, thus making progress haphazard.

This was an often criticised project, for example for the amount of glare that the tiles gave off in dry weather conditions, or the tiles being slippery when wet.

For example, he said, " the president ’ s claim of executive authority based on Article II would put our system on a slippery slope.