AMD's older CPUs could simply be set to run at whatever clock speed the user chose on the motherboard, making it trivial to relabel a CPU and sell it as a faster grade than it was originally intended.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

Detective Comics Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, and the premiere of which introduced Superman ( a character with which Wheeler-Nicholson had no direct involvement ; editor Vin Sullivan chose to run the feature after Sheldon Mayer rescued it from the slush pile ).

At the end of his second term Jacques Chirac chose not to run again at the age of 74.

In 2001, Tranz Rail's long-distance passenger operations, under the guise of Tranz Scenic, became a separate company ; Tranz Rail chose not to bid for the contract to run Auckland's rail services, and the contract was won by Connex ( now Veolia Transport Auckland ).

At that time, there was no limit on the number of terms, so Chirac could have run again, but chose not to.

Pat Buchanan threatened in 1996 to run as the U. S. Taxpayers Party candidate if Bob Dole chose a pro-choice running mate.

The first Presidential election to include neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President on a major party ticket since 1952 came in 2008 when President George W. Bush had already served two terms and Vice President Cheney chose not to run.

Cheney had previously explored the possibility of running for President before serving as Vice President, but chose not to run for President after his two terms as Vice President.

However, cassette Walkman innovation would come to an end as during its 25th Anniversary, Sony chose to not introduce another limited run cassette model but instead, brought out the hard disk based NW-HD1 in 2004 to officially augur the death of the compact cassette.

However, several candidates such as Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas, Jerry Brown, Bob Kerrey, Douglas Wilder and Bill Clinton chose to run.

When Vallas left the post to run for governor, Daley chose the relatively obscure Arne Duncan, now the U. S. Secretary of Education, to lead the district.

In 1906, when Haywood had been on trial for his life in Idaho, Debs had described him as " the Lincoln of Labor " and called for Haywood to run against Theodore Roosevelt for president of the United States., but times had changed and Debs, facing a split in the Party, chose to echo Hillquit's words, accusing the IWW of representing anarchy.

When he chose not to run again in the June 2004 election, he was one of the longest-serving members in the House of Commons, having been elected and re-elected for seven consecutive terms.

He chose not to run for re-election in 1992, citing in a front page cover story in the Sunday New York Times Magazine ( August 9, 1992 ), frustration with the ever increasing role of money in politics to the exclusion of focus on public policy.

" Several of the commissioners who voted for the resolution chose not to run for reelection or were voted out of office.

In the 2010 elections, Roam chose not to run and was replaced by Republican Sue Rapone, who defeated the Democratic nominee, Ted Helms.

Browne did not appear on the 2000 Arizona ballot, however, as the Arizona Libertarian Party instead chose to run L. Neil Smith, whose candidacy was a protest against that of Browne.

A petition to have Wiszowaty run again for the village board was circulated in 1995 by supporters, which likely would have led to another run for Mayor again in 1997, Wiszowaty chose not to seek election to his old seat on the Village Board.

In the April 2011 city election, incumbent Mayor Linda Wilson chose not to run for re-election and was replaced by former Mayor James Morgan, who Wilson defeated two years earlier.

However, she chose not to run for election in November, and left office in January 1984, being succeeded by Dennis Francart.

Fine Gael chose a young Teachta Dála and barrister, Tom O ' Higgins ( nephew of Kevin O ' Higgins ) to run against de Valera.

Some users chose to overclock their Pentium Pro chips, with the 200 MHz version often being run at 233 MHz, the 180 MHZ version often being run at 200 MHZ, and the 150 MHz version often being run at 166 MHz.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

For convenience we chose a stronger pigment, unknown to the early Italians or to Brumidi, titanium oxide, reserving the active lime white for highest lights, put on at the end of the day's stint.

These two, Heritage and Drexel, chose too not to produce the exactly matching design for every piece, but a collection of correlated designs, each of which could stand alone.

They chose four: Jack Casey, who works for Continental Airlines in Houston ; ;

Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.

Traditional Calvinists believe in the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which says that because God chose some unto salvation and actually paid for their particular sins, he keeps them from apostasy and that those who do apostatize were never truly regenerated ( that is, born again ) or saved.

Some convictions triggered an automatic penalty, but where this was not the case the two litigants each proposed a penalty for the convicted defendant and the jury chose between them in a further vote.

But any stepping forward into the democratic limelight was risky and if someone chose ( another citizen initiator ) they could be called to account for their actions and punished.

In August 1825, he passed entrance exams at Harvard University, though when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years which he had successfully challenged by examination, he chose not to attend.

Because of the market success of the NES, companies chose to develop for it first and were thus barred from developing the same games on competing systems for two years.

He travelled to the inner wilderness for three days, until he found a spring of water and some palm trees, and then he chose to settle there.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

In the early 1970s, Sydney Brenner chose it as a model system for studying the way that genes control development.

* FC — Fielder's choice: times reaching base safely because a fielder chose to try for an out on another runner

James Gelvin, a Middle East history professor, cites at least three reasons for why the British government chose to support Zionist aspirations.

Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled Jamaica Inn.

Following its September 1921 release, Chaplin chose to return to England for the first time in almost a decade.

For this reason, the hospital chose to continue the induced hypothermia technique for all of its comatose patients that suffered from cardiac arrest.