We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

The relative forces can be calculated from the various radii of curvature if we assume: ( A ) The surface tension is uniform on the surface of the drop.

Such pseudo-questions assume that answers of concrete significance can be supplied to statements involving undefined universals.

It is now harder to assume telepathy as a basis for the statements -- though research still does not know how far afield ESP can range.

One can assume that some of the brightest boys are out of town.

And yet this is exactly the risk we run when we assume, as we too often do, that we can continue to preach the gospel in a form that makes it seem incredible and irrelevant to cultured men.

Indeed, one can assume that exactly one parallel through a point outside a line exists, or that infinitely many exist.

Consider the assembly of a car: assume that certain steps in the assembly line are to install the engine, install the hood, and install the wheels ( in that order, with arbitrary interstitial steps ); only one of these steps can be done at a time.

The gas is now compressed to a 100cc volume ( we will assume this happens quickly enough that no heat can enter or leave the gas ).

In a situation, when he has justification to assume, that a given person committed or is attempting to commit an act regulated by the convention, he can apply towards that person “ reasonable measures ” including restraint, under a condition that they do not break the rules enumerated in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Tokyo Convention.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

For given nonzero integers a and b there is a nonzero integer of minimal absolute value among all those of the form ax + by with x and y integers ; one can assume d > 0 by changing the signs of both s and t if necessary.

UTF-16 or UTF-32, which can be used for all languages as well, are less widely used because they can be harder to handle in programming languages that assume a byte-oriented ASCII superset encoding, and they are less efficient for text with a high frequency of ASCII characters, which is usually the case for HTML documents.

If we assume the controller C, the plant P, and the sensor F are linear and time-invariant ( i. e., elements of their transfer function C ( s ), P ( s ), and F ( s ) do not depend on time ), the systems above can be analysed using the Laplace transform on the variables.

Phrased another way: young males ( who make up the vast majority of combatants in civil wars ) are less likely to join a rebellion if they are getting an education and / or have a comfortable salary, and can reasonably assume that they will prosper in the future.

In fact the same formula is valid for uncompressed video because in that case one can assume that the " compression " factor is 1 and that the average bits per pixel equal the color depth.

Set prior to Remembrance of the Daleks in Davros's timeline, but after in the timeline of the Doctor, the latter, accompanied by Bernice Summerfield, together with help from the Sixth Doctor, ensures that Davros will survive the wrath of the Daleks so that he can assume the title of Emperor, allowing history to take its course.

In a sense we can assume ' that fear was a big influence on things such as morality.

We then assume that the following three conditions hold for all positive properties ( which can be summarized by saying " the positive properties form a principal ultrafilter "):

For the sake of simplicity, we might assume that the weights are normalized so that they sum up to 1 ( which can be easily done by dividing each weight by their sum ), thus allowing some terms in the above formulae to be omitted:

Marlow does not provide the name of the river that he is to pilot the steamer on, but we can assume it is ( the Congo River ) located within the centre of Africa.

These theories assume that an effective leader can accurately " read " a situation and skillfully employ a leadership style that meets the needs of the individuals involved and the task at hand.

As in the Marvel Universe, he generates ice and can assume a physical ice form.

The Buddhist canon states that bodhisattvas can assume whatsoever gender and form is needed to liberate beings from ignorance and dukkha.

And when you get off this job tonight, well, you can gimme something to eat ''.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

But now we can keep it out no longer, because we have come into a time when `` it invades our experience at every moment.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

But when these expectations are once too often ground into the dust, innocence can falter, since its strength is according to the strength of him who possesses it.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

In my experience the assurance of forgiveness comes only when I have confessed to the wronged one and have made as full reparation as I can devise.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

And again, `` how can you write when you haven't yet read ' Bartleby The Scrivener ' ''??

) when Krim says mine was as severe a critical-intellectual, environment as can be imagined, he is off his rocker.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

`` I can fix him something later in the afternoon when we get home ''.

`` There can be no compromise when souls are in jeopardy ''.

As the President has said, `` only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed ''.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.