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There was a time when, if a man wanted to purchase a boat, it was necessary for him to be able to produce a sizeable amount of cash before he could touch the tiller or wheel.
Since strong nociceptive stimuli produce an experimental neurosis during which the animals fail to eat in the experimental situation, Wolpe thought that he could utilize the feeding-pain antagonism to inhibit the neurotic symptoms through feeding.
All the slaves joined in requesting that they be allowed to delay their departure until the end of the planting season, so that they could get in `` their own little produce ''.
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.
There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out, Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation ( a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes ).
Stuart had been laid off at the produce company and had to go back to sitting in his father's office, taking what salary his father could hand out to him.
At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16, 000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.
Because the ancients could not produce temperatures high enough to melt iron fully, the production of steel in decent quantities did not occur until the introduction of blister steel during the Middle Ages.
However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
The language was fast enough that an extension called AMOS 3D could produce playable 3D games even on plain 7MHz Amigas.
By channeling a large electric current through the compressed carbon granules in the microphone, a small sound signal could produce a much larger electric signal.
But this universal agent, whilst it is not univocal, nevertheless is not altogether equivocal, otherwise it could not produce its own likeness, but rather it is to be called an analogical agent, as all univocal predications are reduced to one first non-univocal analogical predication, which is being.
It once was generally believed that life and its materials had some essential property or substance distinct from any found in non-living matter, and it was thought that only living beings could produce the molecules of life.
It was based on the belief that if every coach, at every level, taught the game the same way, the organization could produce " replacement parts " that could be substituted seamlessly into the big league club with little or no adjustment.
The cloning of Dolly made it apparent to many that the techniques used to produce her could someday be used to clone human beings.
The filmmaker was hurt by this failure — he had long wanted to produce a dramatic film and was proud of the result — and withdrew A Woman of Paris from circulation as soon as he could.
These printers were also referred to as letter-quality printers because, during their heyday, they could produce text which was as clear and crisp as a typewriter, though they were nowhere near the quality of printing presses.
One of the most common objections to rule-consequentialism is that it is incoherent, because it is based on the consequentialist principle that what we should be concerned with is maximizing the good, but then it tells us not to act to maximize the good, but to follow rules ( even in cases where we know that breaking the rule could produce better results ).
As early as 1886 he saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits ; the same idea as was used decades later to produce digital computers.
The factory could produce mining robots to collect raw materials, construction robots to put new machines together, and repair robots to maintain itself against wear and tear, all without human intervention or direction.
Searle could receive Chinese characters through a slot in the door, process them according to the program's instructions, and produce Chinese characters as output.
With this arrangement, a nine button keyboard with three rows of three hexagonal buttons could be fitted onto a telephone and could produce up to 33 different symbols.

could and carefully
Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.
Though Watson carefully ignored the man, he could not deny his presence.
I picked him up, and the length of him arched very carefully and gracefully and only a little wildly, and I could feel the coolness of that radiant, fire-colored body, like splendid ice, and I knew that he had eaten only recently because there were two whole and solid little lumps in the forepart of him, like fieldmice swallowed whole might make.
The piles could also be joined together by mortise and tenon, or large holes cut to carefully accept specially shaped timbers designed to interlock together and provide structural rigidity.
He could not leave Crete by sea, as the king kept strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched.
The case must also be inspected carefully to make sure the anvil has not been damaged, because this could result in a failure to fire.
Others, notably former State Secretary Prince Bernard von Bülow, shared Neurath's contempt: " Bülow could not regard as a serious competitor a man who had no formal training in diplomacy, who could not write a report in correct German, who did not listen carefully enough to the remarks of foreign statesmen to interpret them correctly, and who insisted upon seeing possibilities of alliance Britain where none existed ".
This was a temporary measure until they could consider the details more carefully.
In addition, the overland routes taken by armies on the move could easily destroy a carefully planted field, preventing a crop the following season.
Silver Ravenwolf, for instance, believes that although acting to restrain a wrong-doer is in a sense harming them, failure to act against them could allow greater harm ; this must be carefully weighed up, and preferably a course of action can be found that minimises harm to all parties.
However, by using vector instructions carefully and building useful chains, the system could peak at 250 MFLOPS.
" Gibbs's own framework for statistical mechanics was so carefully constructed that it could be carried over almost intact after the discovery that the microscopic laws of nature obey the rules of quantum mechanics, rather than the classical mechanics known to Gibbs and to his contemporaries.
The Bimetallic Committee carefully planned to take control of every aspect of the convention, eliminating any threat that the minority gold faction could take power.
Saints who suffered stigmata were carefully watched day and night so that tampering with the wounds could not be performed.
Ultimately, the parlement de Paris agreed that " all traditional observances should be carefully maintained to avoid the impression that the Estates-General could make things up as it went along.
Because he could not afford a typewriter, he carefully wrote in ink on legal-sized paper, occasionally crossing through or overlying a word.
Cracks in drying, but when carefully treated could be successfully used for furniture.
On the coins minted by him he carefully avoided placing any symbols which could offend the people's religious sentiment.
In the long run, the vast output of popular fiction could no longer be ignored, and literary critics — gradually, carefully and tentatively — started questioning and assessing the complete notion of the perceived gap between " high art " ( or " serious literature ") and " popular art " ( in America often referred to as " pulp fiction ", often verging on " smut and filth ").
The Librarian's name has never been given in any of the books ; he is always simply ‘ the Librarian .’ If the Librarian's true name were known, he could be changed back into a human, and he has since The Last Continent carefully excised his name from the records of the University.
A skilled typist, by carefully counting letters on each line, could even produce fully justified layouts on the Executive.
Nevertheless, between 120, 000 and 140, 000 people were able to pass by the open casket and then the bell, carefully placed at Lincoln's head so mourners could read the inscription, " Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

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