For example, the traditional common law rule through most of the 19th century was that a plaintiff could not recover for a defendant's negligent production or distribution of a harmful instrumentality unless the two were in privity of contract.

Thus, only the immediate purchaser could recover for a product defect, and if a part was built up out of parts from parts manufacturers, the ultimate buyer could not recover for injury caused by a defect in the part.

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

Therefore, a high heat treatment could remove the visual evidence of patterning associated with carbides but did not remove the underlying patterning of the carbide forming elements ; a subsequent lower-temperature heat treatment, at a temperature at which the carbides were again stable, could recover the structure by the binding of carbon by those elements.

Patients who recover go on to say that they knew what they wanted to say but could not express themselves.

Richard defeated Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf in 1191 and the Battle of Jaffa in 1192, recovering most of the coast, but could not recover Jerusalem or any of the inland territory of the kingdom.

When the Dominion forces suddenly withdrew into Cardassian territory, the Allies realized that they were withdrawing in order to gain time to recover from their battle wounds, so that they could come back stronger a few years later.

Running back Pete Banaszak tried to recover the ball on the 12-yard line, but could not keep his footing, and the ball was pushed even closer to the end zone.

Medical technology was also advanced — characters could recover quickly from wounds with appropriate medical attention and a dead character could be " frozen " and revived later.

The Bengals managed to score their final touchdown with 20 seconds left, but could not recover the ensuing onside kick.

The Redskins jumped to a 24 – 0 lead early in the third quarter of Super Bowl XXVI, from which the Bills could never recover.

Aided by quarterback John Elway's 80-yard touchdown pass to receiver Rod Smith, Denver scored 17 unanswered points to build a 17-3 lead in the second quarter that Atlanta could not recover from.

* Gáe Buide and Gáe Derg, spears of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne which could inflict wounds that none can recover from

The Hearing Aid worm is designed to scramble network traffic if attacked, but Nick realizes that it could be destroyed if the authorities were prepared for the effects and ready to recover from them.

Street Fighter II was also responsible for popularizing the combo mechanic, which came about when skilled players learned that they could combine several attacks that left no time for the opponent to recover if they timed them correctly.

After reaching Saltillo, the army halted for two weeks so that Santa Anna could recover from an illness.

We are also very happy we could help the government recover the money it was erroneously billed by Medco, and that Medco agreed to execute a Corporate Integrity Agreement which will govern their conduct in the future.

In 977 Vladimir fled to his kinsman Haakon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, collecting as many of the Norse warriors as he could to assist him to recover Novgorod, and on his return the next year marched against Yaropolk.

These reforms included reducing taxes, temporary remissions of taxes, granting loans and providing landless peasants temporary lodging and work in agricultural colonies until they could recover from their debts.

The result of this breach of treaty was that Damascus would never trust the Crusader states again, and the loss of a sympathetic Muslim state was a blow from which later monarchs of Jerusalem could not recover.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.

The presence of the two exhaust fans seemed to indicate that the hall could become crowded for air.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

Their roar, like the swelling volume of a hundred tornadoes could be heard for miles.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??

An' that could mean trouble with a fella that's workin' for crooks.

Dan could hear Clayton Burnside and Eben Jackson summing up their final reckoning for rental on the oxen.

there he could shave and scrub himself up for the evening.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

By then Hez could see for himself, and so could the others.

A hell of an altitude for a barrel roll, but it could be done.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

He could use your clothes for a costume and a heavy veil for a mask.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` Karipo's women then named this place ' Eromonga ' -- manhood -- for just the strongest men could stay here.

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.