Eliminating side effects can make it much easier to understand and predict the behavior of a program, which is one of the key motivations for the development of functional programming.

Eliminating multiple viruses or initiating chain reactions can cause additional capsules to fall onto the opponent's playing field.

Eliminating the need to power the pen means that such tablets may listen for pen signals constantly, as they do not have to alternate between transmit and receive modes, which can result in less jitter.

Eliminating a significant part of a nation ’ s work force on the sole basis of gender can have detrimental effects on the economy of that nation.

Eliminating the first equation, we find that, which can be substituted into the second to find.

Eliminating this effect is difficult, but it can be reduced by lowering the weight of the locomotive, or eliminating the locomotive entirely and distributing the motive power throughout the train.

( Eliminating the trusted third-party avoids the problem of trying to determine whether the third party can be trusted or not, and may also reduce the resources required.

Eliminating the turret also allowed the vehicle to carry thicker armor than would otherwise be the case, although sometimes there was no roof ( or merely a strip of canvas ) to keep the overall weight down to the limit that the chassis could bear.

Eliminating all risk, if even possible, would be extremely difficult and very expensive.

Eliminating the half-step velocity, this algorithm may be shortened to

In September 2004, he said: " Eliminating the fear of deportation will be an incentive.

Eliminating each of these possible explanations individually would be time-consuming and difficult.

Eliminating this belief and creating parks that were meant to be enjoyed by all became one of Cleveland's most important endeavors.

The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities ( 1998 ) is a book by American philosopher and mathematician William A. Dembski, a proponent of intelligent design, which sets out to establish approaches by which evidence of intelligent agency could be inferred in natural and social situations.

Eliminating cell phones, the 617-5xxx numbers in each area code apply to the following New England cities: Rochester, NY, Rome, NY, Perkasie, PA, and Philadelphia, PA.

Intelligence, as used herein, will include information on possible opponents and on the environment which can affect operations.

Lifts, where the shuttlecock is hit upwards to the back of the opponents ' court, can be played from all parts of the court.

When the shuttlecock is near to net height, players can hit drives, which travel flat and rapidly over the net into the opponents ' rear midcourt and rearcourt.

For most players, many calls ( bids, doubles and redoubles, and sometimes even passes ) are not made with the intention that they become the final contract, but to describe the strength and distribution of the player's hand, so that the partnership can reach an informed conclusion on their best contract, and / or to obstruct the opponents ' bidding.

With such conflicting perspectives, it can be argued that a certain polarization between both supporters and opponents of President Uribe seems to be forming both inside and outside the country.

Although these guidelines have been widely implemented, opponents argue that even when a diagnostic criteria set is accepted across different cultures, it does not necessarily indicate that the underlying constructs have any validity within those cultures ; even reliable application can only demonstrate consistency, not legitimacy.

The snapper is not, however, allowed to make motions simulating part of the snap action ; therefore their opponents can be confident the first motion of the ball or the snapper's hands is the beginning of the snap.

While its supporters argue that only a free market can create healthy competition and therefore more business and reasonable prices, opponents say that a free market in its purest form may result in the opposite.

Likewise, grappling sports have been devised so that their participants can compete using full physical effort without injuring their opponents.

Even with his bare hands, he can fell nine or ten opponents.

This is to prevent a side playing two top-class bowlers with extremely good stamina who can bowl throughout their opponents ' innings.

If a player is not aggressive with his weaker hands, the opponents can safely fold whenever the player does bet or raise.

The appropriate amount of aggression can be computed using game theory, and depends on the game being played and the tendencies of the opponents.

When the National Assembly is controlled by his opponents, however, the president can find himself marginalized with the opposition party prime minister exercising most of the power.

Unlike truly random selection methods, however, rock-paper-scissors can be played with a degree of skill by recognizing and exploiting non-random behavior in opponents.

These are seen as important by the Department of Justice because they believe that terrorists can exploit wiretap orders by rapidly changing locations and communication devices such as cell phones, while opponents see it as violating the particularity clause of the Fourth Amendment.

They aim for second touch and their main responsibility is to place the ball in the air where the attackers can place the ball into the opponents ' court for a point.

This often takes place during riots but can also happen as a stand alone event, e. g. by animal rights activists destroying property owned by farmers, biotech companies and research facilities and setting free animals ( which is sometimes referred to as eco-terrorism by opponents ).

Finally, with the development of artificial intelligence, computers can actually serve as opponents, and thus provide opportunities for solitaire gaming.

This shot can have confusing bounces which can frustrate opponents.

In the case of Checkers and Chess, for example, players can only move their own pieces, not their opponents.

The purpose of bidding is to exchange information with your partner so that you can arrive at an optimal contract, while preventing the opponents from finding their optimal contract.

For defence, some species roll themselves reflexively into a spiral, while they can also fight off smaller opponents by ejecting slime.

Although both players start with one queen each, a player can promote a pawn to any of several types of pieces, including a queen, when the pawn is moved to the player's furthest rank ( the opponents first rank ).

And while he had headed Batista's anti-Communist section, the Batista regime did not disturb the Communists so much as more open opponents who were alleged to be Communists.

Historically, it was of particular relevance to sailing warships which used them to outmaneuver opponents when the wind had dropped but might be used by any vessel in confined, shoal water to place it in a more desirable position, provided she had enough manpower.

Alternatively, a coin may be tossed, with the winners choosing whether to serve or receive first, or choosing which end of the court to occupy, and their opponents making the leftover the remaining choice.

After a successful drive or push, the opponents will often be forced to lift the shuttlecock.

In doubles, a lift is the safest option but it usually allows the opponents to continue smashing ; blocks and drives are counter-attacking strokes, but may be intercepted by the smasher's partner.

In addition to establishing the level and denomination of the final contract, the final contract may be doubled ( by the opponents ) or redoubled ( by the declaring side after the opponents had already doubled ), in which case the score for the hand is increased, whether the contract is made or defeated.

The set of agreements used by a partnership about the meaning of each call is referred to as a bidding system, full details of which must be made available to the opponents ; ' secret ' systems are not allowed.

Shielded as they were from observation by a slight fold in the land, their commander, Brigadier-General Van Pallandt, ordered the regimental colours to be left in place on the edge of the plateau to convince their opponents they were still in their initial position.

The draw may stand, or the opponents may be required to play an extra end to decide the winner.

Teams " holding shot " with the closest bowl will often make their subsequent shots not with the goal of placing the bowl near the jack, but in positions to make it difficult for opponents to get their bowls into the head, or to places where the jack might be deflected to if the opponent attempts to disturb the head.

One branch of the ritualistic movement argued that both ' Romanisers ' ( by imitating the Church of Rome ) and their Evangelical opponents ( by imitating Reformed churches ) transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559, ' that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth '.

G. Maximoff ) In response to the anarchists ' resistance, the Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government, in what came to be known as " Red Terror ".

Conclusions about Cathar ideology continue to be fiercely debated with commentators regularly accusing their opponents of speculation, distortion and bias.

Freeway opponents fear that upgrading Highway 84 will encourage more people to live in southern Alameda County ( where housing is more affordable ) and commute to jobs in the mid-Peninsula area ( where businesses wish to be located in order to be close to Silicon Valley ), thus increasing traffic in their neighborhoods to the south and west of U. S. 101.

The opponents against whom Ignatius of Antioch inveighs are often taken to be Monophysite docetists.

As a result, it is often also used as a term of abuse for political opponents. The term has also come to be associated with megalomania.

However, Christos Evangeliou has contended that Plotinus ’ opponents might be better described as simply “ Christian Gnostics ”, arguing that several of Plotinus ’ criticisms are as applicable to orthodox Christian doctrine as well.

Organizations like the Boy Scouts of America rose, even amidst concerns by opponents of the progressive movement in the United States, because some people felt that social welfare of young men should be maintained through education alone.

Details of the individual episodes may be found in the article on the Labours of Heracles, but Hera was connected with all of the opponents Heracles had to overcome.