The raven created problems, refusing to leave the ark when Noah sent it forth and accusing the patriarch of wishing to destroy its race, but as the commentators pointed out, God wished to save the raven, for its descendants were destined to feed the prophet Elijah.

In 1972, a public interest task force led by Ralph Nader pointed a very public finger at Rep. Quillen, accusing the congressman of using his elected office to "... promote his business interests, specifically insurance sales through Kingsport Development Co., Inc .", a Kingsport based real estate and insurance agency owned by Quillen.

Bluetack also blocked CCC itself, accusing it of doing " anti-P2P work " and being a " threat " to file sharers, while others pointed to the fact that the CCC had been publicly defending P2P for years, and even called for boycotting the music industry to protest its file sharing lawsuits.

A related report and issued by Italian authorities, rather than accusing Lozano of being the sole culprit, pointed to the inappropriate placement of the blocking position ( at the end of a one-way ramp between two highways ) and lack of proper warning signals and / or concertina wire.

Papa pointed a scornful finger at the splashing youth: `` Idle recreation ''!!

Now she kept herself protectively ready to laugh again and sure enough he pointed at her with his index finger and said `` Toot ''!!

If the index finger of the right hand is pointed forward, the middle finger bent inward at a right angle to it, and the thumb placed at a right angle to both, the three fingers indicate the relative directions of the x -, y -, and z-axes in a right-handed system.

The firearm is pointed at the ground and the handler's finger is off the trigger.

While UN investigator Detlev Mehlis has pointed the finger at Syria's intelligence apparatus in Lebanon he has yet to be allowed full access to Syrian officials who are suspected by the UN International Independent Investigation Commission ( UNIIIC ) as being behind the assassination.

He had intended the comments to be private, and ill feeling grew in the Australian camp as speculation about who leaked the incident to the press grew and many of the team privately pointed the finger at Bradman.

( Bradman strenuously denied that he had been responsible to his dying day ; others, including Plum Warner, pointed the finger at Bradman's team-mate and journalist, Jack Fingleton.

The former Chilean Secret Police Chief, Manuel Contreras, who, as previously mentioned, was convicted for his role in the crime in 1993 and later pointed the finger at his boss, claimed that all his orders came from Pinochet.

He for whom Zeus the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune ; but he to whom Zeus sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.

Often, when the mothers disobey the husband ’ s family decision to abort the female fetus and report it to the authorities, the suits are ignored or given a light sentence and the pointed finger targets the mother for bearing girls and disobeying the family ’ s decision to abort the child.

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage, found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes ( mammals and reptiles, including birds ).

The candid approach of the 1971 documentary The Sorrow and the Pity pointed the finger on anti-Semitism in France and disputed the official Résistance ideals.

When King Maelgwn attempted to show the finger to Elffin, he pointed out that his wife cut her fingernails more often than the owner of the finger, had servants to knead dough and never had any under her nails, and her ring was loose on her finger, and that one was tight.

** Inclusion of a reinforcing bolt through the finger groove ( due to the adoption of a 147-grain pointed (' spitzer ') round ).

Mason began working his own fingers into his act and pointed toward Sullivan with his middle finger slightly separated.

Eleven years before Germany's first attempt at democracy really took its last breath, when the Nazis came to power in 1933, in this poem Tucholsky already pointed a finger at those responsible – the poem describes the " mob " living off the republic, sabotaging it and scrawling swastikas on its doors.

After Barère found out Robespierre had condemned him as a terrorist, Barère pointed his finger at Robespierre to have him executed.

Occasionally one hand would strike out, with a pointed finger at the end, to accent a trenchant sentence.

* Tashahhud – The finger should be pointed and not moved, upon mentioning the name of Allah.

* With the thumb, index, and middle fingers at right angles to each other ( with the index finger pointed straight ), the middle finger points in the direction of c when the thumb represents a and the index finger represents b.

He raised the Winchester and pointed it at Wilson's chest.

He shoved Black toward the stall, and pointed his pistol at Jess.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

Another editor pointed despairingly at a bundle of letters that had accumulated for him, saying, `` But Mr. Hearst, what shall I do with this correspondence ''??

From an exercise involving merely raucous, rough-and-tumble comedy, in his hands the performance turned into a revel of wit and word play, indecent at times, but always learned, pointed, and carefully aimed at some individuals present, and at the whole assembly.

Above, the glowing ivory baton of their searchlight pointed at the clouds, diluting the valley's dark to a pallid light.

The chevaux de frise, those sharp stakes and barriers around the fort at the Battery, pointed to a conflict between the town and sea power rolling in glassy swells as the tide came in.

Then, when he had it pointed down the hill, he stopped to gaze at her through the window.

He was going to be sensible and not try to do anything rash with that gun pointed at him.

The man's shoes were too pointed, his overcoat too broad at the shoulders and too narrow at the waist.

When we'd finished our regular rounds, Pete pointed me toward the small ward at the end of the floor.

His tomb was pointed out among the ruins of Mycenae and at Amyclae.

They are fast-growing deciduous trees growing to 25 – 45 m tall, with spreading branches and large ( 40 – 100 cm ) pinnate leaves with 15-41 long pointed leaflets, the terminal leaflet normally present, and the basal pairs of leaflets often lobed at their bases.

The direction that each face down card is pointed indicates which side won each trick, so that at the end of the hand, the number of tricks taken by each side can be determined.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

A new person is pointed at as each word is said.

Two other satellites made observations at the time of the impact: the Ulysses spacecraft, primarily designed for solar observations, was pointed towards Jupiter from its location 2. 6 AU away, and the distant Voyager 2 probe, some 44 AU from Jupiter and on its way out of the Solar System following its encounter with Neptune in 1989, was programmed to look for radio emission in the 1 – 390 kHz range.

* In a diode, it is the negative terminal at the pointed end of the arrow symbol, where current flows out of the device.