He could not manage the former or expect the latter ; ;

The diminutive Jarry could just manage to stand up in the place, but guests had to bend or crouch.

On November 13, 1977, Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to declining health.

Expertise in the Confucian classics did not guarantee competent bureaucrats who could manage public works or prepare a budget.

While rival Dell Computer had 55 % growth in U. S. PC sales in the first quarter of 1999, Compaq could only manage 10 %.

Many fans and media were beginning to blame Jerry Jones for the team's ills, noting that he refused to hire a strong coach or general manager, preferring to hire coaches who did not want to be involved with personnel duties so that Jones himself, as GM, could manage them.

Furthermore, engineering costs could potentially decrease because less time would be spent on designing wiring installations, late changes in an aircraft's design would be easier to manage, etc.

Submerged, the ship could manage 50sm at 5 knots using battery electric propulsion.

While his father placed the Christmas tree in the front parlor behind closed drapes, Frank would decorate the tree and talk to them from behind the drapes, although they never could manage to see him.

However, they could not manage to finish as high as second in their division until 1979.

Rather than merely providing an environment for program windows ( such as the Program Manager ), the Workplace Shell provided an environment in which a user could manage programs, files and devices by manipulating objects on the screen.

In the late 19th century, knowledge was increasing of the mechanisms by which living organisms become infected, how they manage infection once it has begun and, most importantly in the case of penicillin, the effect that natural and man-made agents could have on the progress of infection.

Honorius tried to manage as best he could the rivalries of the different princes and high-ranking ecclesiastics that were destabilising the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

An example of delivering a project to requirements could be agreeing on a project to deliver a computer system to process staff data with the requirement to manage payroll, holiday and staff personnel records.

The Persian Emperor Cambyses II upon conquering Ancient Egypt sent ambassadors to Macrobia bringing luxury gifts for the Macrobian king to entice his submission, but instead the Macrobian ruler replied with a challenge for the Persian ruler in the form of an unstrung bow, that if the Persians could manage to string, they would have the right to invade his country, but until then they should thank the gods that the Macrobians never decided to invade their empire.

After one year of exerting full force he could not yet manage to gain a result over the sultanate.

Soon, fans were writing letters directly to each other, and meeting in person when they lived close together, or when one of them could manage a trip.

" In 1977, he sent manager Dave Bristol on a " scouting trip " so Turner could manage the Braves ; he ran the team for one game ( a loss ) before National League president Chub Feeney told him managers are forbidden to own financial interest in their club.

* Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs: The office of Undersecretary of Global Affairs was created by the Clinton Administration to manage diplomatic efforts on emerging worldwide issues, such as the environment, that could not be addressed at the bilateral or regional level.

As Amelia's adored son George grows up, his grandfather relents and takes him from poor Amelia, who knows the rich and bitter old man will give him a much better start in life than she or her family could ever manage.

For an unamplified telephone line, a twisted pair cable could only manage a maximum distance of 30 km.

Telecommunications services that are used to maintain a state of readiness or to respond to and manage any event or crisis ( local, national, or international ) that causes or could cause injury or harm to the population, damage to or loss of property, or degrade or threaten the national security or emergency preparedness posture of the United States.

Collins took a generally less cynical view of the justice system than Gould — Tracy came to accept its limitations and requirements as a normal part of the process he could manage.

Statistically, Jakovich held Carey to fewer disposals and goals than any other player could consistently manage.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

And he could no longer think of face-saving, of honor, but only of escape.

So far as he knew, only his father could be there.

With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

These could be met only by considering the dynamical elements of several planets at one time.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

The countrywide success of `` Lazybones '' and `` And The Angels Sing '' could only lead to Hollywood, where, besides Harold Arlen, Mercer collaborated with Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Richard Whiting, Walter Donaldson, Jerome Kern, and Arthur Schwartz.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

The fall of Rome, the discovery of precious metals, and the Protestant Reformation were all links and could only be explained and understood by comprehending the links that preceded and those that followed.