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long and bar
Cut five pieces of Af brass bar stock 3-3/4'' '' long.
Cut the piece about 9/32'' '' or 5/16'' '' long and drive it into the No. 31 hole drilled in the locking bar.
Contractually there is often no bar to a debtor clearing his long term debt with " hyperinflated-cash " nor could a lender simply somehow suspend the loan.
Its antlers consisted of a 2 1 / 2 meter long horizontal bar, with no tines, ending in small palmations.
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole ( which today is usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber ) as an aid to leap over a bar.
Pepys made a long speech at the bar of the Commons on 5 March 1668 defending this practice.
Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional manoeuvres like riding on only two wheels (" wheelie " or " manual "), spinning only on the back wheels ( a " pivot "), high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a " hippie jump ", long jumping from one board to another, ( often over small barrels or fearless teenagers ), or slalom.
A long straight arrow indicates movement from the elbow, a short arrow with a cross bar behind it indicates motion from the wrist, and a simple short arrow indicates a small movement.
Eventually, Damiel meets the trapeze artist Marion at a bar ( during a concert by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ), and they greet each other with familiarity as if they had long known each other.
As a 32-bit program, it supports long filenames, task bar tray icons, unlimited length strings and string lists and the Windows Registry.
That word came from imbarrare, " to block " or " to bar ", which is a combination of in -, " in ", with barra, " bar " ( from the Vulgar Latin barra, which is of unknown origin ).< sup > 11 </ sup > The problem with this theory is that the first known usage of the word in Italian was by Bernardo Davanzati ( 1529 – 1606 ), long after the word had entered Spanish .< sup > 12 </ sup > Thus, modern scholars believe that the Italian word actually came from the Spanish one .< sup > 13 </ sup >
The slashes "/" are translated into start / stop characters ( one long bar ), and each digit is translated into a sequence of two long bars and three short bars.
A rigid bar beneath the center of the instrument is pressed upward by an adjustable spring, and engages a long felt pad against the sharps and the naturals.
It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and ( usually ) events labeled on points where they would have happened.
Lifting order was ‘ rising bar ’ ( this was long before the Rounds system ).
As long as the bar is not so low that it touches the lifter ’ s belt, it is acceptable.
Meteorologists worldwide have for a long time measured atmospheric pressure in bars, which was originally equivalent to the average air pressure on Earth ; the bar was divided into a thousand millibars to provide the precision meteorologists require.
The numeral 5 — In Taiwan, the left vertical bar is extended upwards as a long stem.
They include: peace movements, strikes, labor unions, long hair on men, The Beatles, other modern and popular music (" la musique populaire "), Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Aeschylus, writing that Socrates was homosexual, Eugène Ionesco, Jean-Paul Sartre, Anton Chekhov, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Mark Twain, Samuel Beckett, the bar association, sociology, international encyclopedias, free press, and new math.
The breakstrain is usually 16 bars long, but marches such as The Washington Post and The Interlochen Bowl have 8 bar breakstrains.
A point anchor bolt is a metal bar between 20 mm – 25 mm in diameter, and between 1 m – 4 m long ( the size is determined by the mine's engineering department ).
When the friction bar is sharply pulled out, by means of a lanyard, the composition is ignited and sets fire to the powder in the long tube ; the flash is conveyed through the vent and ignites the gun charge.

long and prefers
In the frost-free, semi-arid areas of Southern California, many Eulophia species, such as E. macra, E. petersii, E. plantaginea, and E. speciosa, can be grown outdoors year-round in well-drained pots with cactus / succulent potting mix ( although E. speciosa prefers being grown in pure white sand ), as long as they are given ample light through the winter and a drier winter resting period.
Dispensing with the long black trenchcoat and black shirt he wears at the conclusion of The Matrix, Neo now prefers a cassock with a high-rise mandarin collar.
The scientific chemical name is often long and unwieldy, and the physician prefers when writing a prescription to use the shorter name under which it is sold by the patentees.
The Songshan Airport closing proposal was deferred under the Taipei City Government which has long been dominated by the Pan-Blue Coalition, who prefers the downtown airport connection concept with Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Stocky body, bulbous forehead, no prominent beak, long flippers sharply pointed at the tip, black or dark grey color, fin set forward on body, fluke raised before deep dive, may float motionless at the surface, frequently seen in very large groups, prefers deep water, may be approached.
The grape prefers a long growing season but should be harvested before the potential alcohol reaches 14 % which would result in the finished wine being out of balance.
It prefers high mountain regions and is 11 – 12 cm long.
Felice prefers to take her chances in order to enjoy the love of her life, though unfortunately not for long, as Felice is captured by the Gestapo.
Elgin prefers an analysis of the language as having no long vowels and a single tone, the high tone ( distinguished from " neutral, baseline pitch "), but she acknowledges that linguists using other formalisms would be justified in saying that there are two tones, high and low ( or unmarked or mid ).
It prefers small slow-moving fishes, and those with long and tapering shapes, such as mormyrids, catfishes, and cichlids.
It prefers to move across thin branches, ascending and descending by long leaps.
The grape prefers warmer environments and a long growing season, but can grow in cooler areas as well.
He also prefers not to kill anyone as long as he can manipulate the person to serve his interests, no matter how small their role might be.
Metaphor, anecdotes, humour, imagination rarely trouble his style ; he prefers the long pedantic plod through Aristotle and Plato, St Paul, Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger ”
He dresses in a hakama and fundoshi, and prefers wearing his hair long and somewhat unevenly cut.
Though its official name has been " Vitthalbhai Patel Marg " for a very long time, everyone in Mumbai still prefers to call it " Linking Road ".

long and evidence
`` It is not necessary that a defendant actually have conpired to use the U.S. mails to defraud as long as there is evidence of a conspiracy, and the mails were then used to carry it out ''.
Achill has a long history of human settlement and there is evidence that Achill was inhabited as many as 5, 000 years ago.
This last scenario has long been discarded because of the lack of any evidence of a permanent army.
In federal courts, such plea may be accepted as long as there is evidence that the defendant is actually guilty.
Mycenae and Tiryns are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric civilization was remarked long ago by the classical Greeks.
But, there is no evidence whatever of a Greek presence on the west coast and the Ionians at Aleria on the east coast had been expelled by the Etruscans long before Roman domination.
Archaeoastronomy has long been seen as an interdisciplinary field that uses written and unwritten evidence to study the astronomies of other cultures.
It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests that the sport may have been imported to England from Flanders .< ref >
Matt Cartmill presents another problem with the Gigantopithecus hypothesis: " The trouble with this account is that Gigantopithecus was not a hominin and maybe not even a crown-group hominoid ; yet the physical evidence implies that Bigfoot is an upright biped with buttocks and a long, stout, permanently adducted hallux.
Endoclitics defy the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis ( Lexicalist Hypothesis ) and so were long claimed to be impossible, but evidence from the Udi language suggests that they do exist.
The superficial consistency of most beetles ' morphology, in particular their possession of elytra, has long suggested that the Coleoptera are monophyletic, but there is growing evidence that this is unjustified, there being arguments for example, in favour of allocating the current suborder Adephaga their own order, or very likely even more than one.
Meanwhile, a human spaceship that was sent out to space long ago when the planetary winter began crashes in some foreign planet and the local civilization buries all evidence of the accident.
Such comic ' evidence ' suggests that Athenians admired Euripides even while they mistrusted his intellectualism, at least during the long war with Sparta.
This extinction event lasted perhaps as long as 20 Ma, and there is evidence for a series of extinction pulses within this period.
Sir Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckyballs commented: " This most exciting breakthrough provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has, as I long suspected, existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our galaxy.
The Hubble Deep Field, an extremely long exposure of a relatively empty part of the sky, provided evidence that there are about 125 billion () galaxies in the universe.
Documentary and archeological evidence indicate that Arab or Indian traders introduced gunpowder, gonnes, muskets, blunderbusses, and cannon to the Javanese, Acehnese, and Batak via long established commercial trade routes around the early to mid 14th century CE.
Archaeological evidence indicates that what was to become England was colonised by humans long before the rest of the British Isles because of its more hospitable climate between and during the various glacial periods of the distant past.
‘ Britain and the Roman Empire: the evidence for regional and long distance trade ’, in Jones, R. F. J.
The archaeologist's natural death so long after the opening of the tomb, despite being the leader of the expedition, is the piece of evidence most commonly put forward by sceptics to refute the idea of a " curse of the pharaohs " plaguing the party that might have " violated " Tutankhamun's tomb.
The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75, 000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500, 000 years ago.
Justinian showed much ambition, and it has been thought that he was functioning as virtual regent long before Justin made him associate Emperor on 1 April 527, although there is no conclusive evidence for this.
Kidneys of various animals show evidence of evolutionary adaptation and have long been studied in ecophysiology and comparative physiology.
Although men participated in pederastic relationships outside of marriage, there is no clear evidence that women were allowed or encouraged to have same-sex relationships before or during marriage as long as their marital obligations were met.

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