Captain Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the Bay of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her through the shallow waters.

This material proved to be unsatisfactory, since we could not obtain reproducible results on various portions of the sample.

In this concept, for a given accuracy in measuring a position one could only obtain a range of probable values for momentum, and vice versa.

After the fame surrounding the event, Carrel could not obtain a hospital appointment because of the strong and pervasive anticlericalism in the French University at the time.

Not every plaintiff looks for, or could obtain, such approval.

After the renovation of 1555, control of the church oscillated between the Franciscans and the Orthodox, depending on which community could obtain a favorable firman from the Sublime Porte at a particular time, often through outright bribery, and violent clashes were not uncommon.

He secured none of the posts that were occasionally given to needy men of letters ; he could not even obtain the bare official recognition of merit which was implied by being chosen a member of the Académie française.

The crystal detector in these early crystal radio sets consisted of an adjustable wire point-contact ( the so-called " cat's whisker "), which could be manually moved over the face of the crystal in order to obtain optimum signal.

Using whatever equipment the vassal could obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal was responsible to answer calls to military service on behalf of the lord.

Hall has frequently commented that if he could obtain the rights to Commander Keen, he would immediately develop another Keen title.

A candidature could turn into a bribery competition, without ever knowing exactly how much competitors paid to obtain office.

The inquisitor could keep a defendant in prison for years before the trial to obtain new information, and could return them to prison if he felt that the witness had not fully confessed.

Following the Alvensleben Convention of 1863, the House of Deputies passed a resolution declaring that it could no longer come to terms with Bismarck ; in response, the King dissolved the Diet, accusing it of trying to obtain unconstitutional control over the ministry.

After determining the composition of chosen meteorites, astroecologists performed laboratory experiments that suggest that many colonizing microorganisms and some plants could obtain many of their chemical nutrients from asteroid and cometary materials.

But Paul Menesius, a Scotsman, who was the ambassador, could not obtain the grant or sanction of that title, though he was received with great magnificence and had many precious gifts to carry back to his master.

If someone unknowingly sat on and therefore had control of a $ 10 note on the seat of a train, he or she could obtain possession by becoming aware of the note and forming the intention to possess it.

The inhabitants of Great Britain have been drinking ale since the Bronze Age, but it was with the arrival of the Romans and the establishment of the Roman road network that the first inns called tabernae, in which the traveller could obtain refreshment, began to appear.

A traveller in the early Middle Ages could obtain overnight accommodation in monasteries, but later a demand for hostelries grew with the popularity of pilgrimages and travel.

Because it was so easy to obtain permission and the profits could be huge compared to the low cost of gaining permission, the number of beer houses was continuing to rise and in some towns nearly every other house in a street could be a beer house.

On the surface it would appear that then within a fixed interval of time one could obtain perfect, error free, detection.

He found that if he solved Schrödinger ’ s equation for each side of the junction separately to obtain the wave functions ψ and χ for each electrode, he could obtain the tunnel matrix, M, from the overlap of these two wave functions.

These spectrum analyzers could be grouped together to obtain greater capacity.

The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.

Body parts, pointers, adapted mice, joysticks, or eye tracking could be used, whereas switch access scanning is often used for indirect selection.

By moving the lowest 8 KB of RAM outside of reach of the ULA, the CPU could always access it at 2 MHz.

Routines that needed to be as fast or required direct access to arbitrary functions or data in memory could thus be called from a higher-level interpreted BASIC program.

Because of this dynamism, users could not be expected to access services by specifying their address.

As such, access could be unreliable, and in many cases only one user could be on the system at a time.

Development of this type of database involved not only design issues but the development of complex interfaces whereby researchers could access existing data as well as submit new or revised data.

After the update, users could access information about the programme, schedules, news, sport and weather.

From 2005, Freeview users could access the CBBC Extra video stream.

Bulgaria's policy was that the agreement would limit Serbia's access to Macedonia, while at the same time Bulgaria could take as much as its army could regardless of Greek wishes.

Nevertheless, Constantine identified the site of Byzantium as the right place: a place where an emperor could sit, readily defended, with easy access to the Danube or the Euphrates frontiers, his court supplied from the rich gardens and sophisticated workshops of Roman Asia, his treasuries filled by the wealthiest provinces of the Empire.

The codex holds considerable practical advantages over other book formats, such as compactness, sturdiness, ease of reference ( a codex is random access, as opposed to a scroll, which is sequential access ), and especially economy of materials ; unlike the scroll, both recto and verso could be used for writing.

WCS offered several advantages including the ease of patching the microprogram and, for certain hardware generations, faster access than ROMs could provide.

Larger crannogs could be occupied by extended families or communal groups, and access was either by logboats or coracles while evidence for timber or stone causeways exists on a large number of crannogs.

The 1570 could read and write all single-sided CP / M format disks that the 1571 could access.

This was in contrast to its predecessors, the 1541 and 1570, which could fully utilize such disks only if the user manually flipped them over to access the second side.

DADT was upheld by five of the federal Courts of Appeal, The Supreme Court, in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. ( 2006 ), unanimously held that the federal government could constitutionally withhold funding from universities, no matter what their nondiscrimination policies might be, for refusing to give military recruiters access to school resources.

Such policies were expansionary fiscal policies, of access to housing finance, stimulus packs, and limiting the amount of money reserves banks could keep abroad.

Large collections of " library " software that could be described as being loosely related to engineering and scientific calculations, such as graphics libraries, have been written in C, and therefore access to them presented a portability problem.

Kyoto ( Heian-kyō ) was geopolitically a better seat of government ; with good river access to the sea, it could be reached by land routes from the eastern provinces.

The Mersa defence plan also included an armoured reserve but in its absence Ritchie believed he could organise his infantry to cover the minefields between the defended localities to prevent Axis engineers from having undisturbed access.