`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

Commonly used statistics with their abbreviations are explained here.

In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.

Because of the mechanics of progress cards explained below, one of the two white dice used in Settlers is replaced by a red die.

In a 1984 interview Bill Joy explained that, at Sun, he used an early desktop publishing program, called Interleaf ;

It is most often written in hiragana, though katakana is used in certain special cases explained later in the article.

Most geologists today accept that a combination of these phenomena can be used to explain granite intrusions, and that not all granites can be explained entirely by one or another mechanism.

In addition to the purpose explained above, blinds are also used to control how long the tournament will last.

If they both used the Attic stadion of about 185 meters, then the older estimate is 1 / 6 too large, and Ptolemy's value is 1 / 6 too small, a difference explained as due to ancient scientists ' use of simple methods of measuring the earth, which were corrupted either high or low by a factor of 5 / 6, due to air's bending of horizontal light rays by 1 / 6 of the Earth's curvature.

* Seven Dirty Words-a comedy routine by George Carlin, from 1972, in which he explained the seven words that must never be used in a television broadcast.

Dial impulses are explained already, but the Dial Off Normal contact is used to short circuit the telephone transmitter circuit out of the telephone loop making the pulsing more distinct and also to remove impulsive clicking on the caller's earpiece.

Abdullahi Mohammed Hussein of Telecom Somalia explained this by stating that " the government post and telecoms company used to have a monopoly but after the regime was toppled, we were free to set up our own business ", The Economist cited the telephone industry in anarchic Somalia as " a vivid illustration of the way in which governments … can often be more of a hindrance than a help.

She used the name of a former student Monsieur Antoine-August Le Blanc, “ fearing ,” as she later explained to Gauss, “ the ridicule attached to a female scientist.

However, Foster stated that she was present during the setup and staging of the special effects used during the scene ; the entire process was explained and demonstrated for her, step by step.

In a later interview, Weymouth recalled how the group chose the name Talking Heads: " A friend had found the name in the TV Guide, which explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking as'all content, no action.

Neutrinos interact with the other particles of the Standard Model, and Andrew Cohen and Sheldon Glashow recently used this to argue that the Neutrino anomaly cannot be explained by making neutrinos propagate faster than light, and must instead be due to an error in the experiment.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., writing for the Court, explained that " the question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Although the term " Unicode " had previously been used for other purposes, such as the name of a programming language developed for the UNIVAC in the late 1950s, and most notably a universal telegraphic phrase-book that was first published in 1889, Becker may not have been aware of these earlier usages, and he explained that " he name ' Unicode ' is intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding ".

If one used Planck's energy quanta, and demanded that electromagnetic radiation at a given frequency could only transfer energy to matter in integer multiples of an energy quantum hν, then the photoelectric effect could be explained very simply.

However, " he himself most often used the abbreviation Z. or the form Zachris, even in official contexts ", as explained in the National Biography of Finland.

As the U. S. Supreme Court has explained, a due process requirement in Britain was not " essential to the idea of due process of law in the prosecution and punishment of crimes, but was only mentioned as an example and illustration of due process of law as it actually existed in cases in which it was customarily used.

Z-transform analysis can be used to get the pitches and decay times of the harmonics more precisely, as explained in the 1983 paper that introduced the algorithm.

Nasser and Chehab met at the Lebanese-Syrian border and the former explained to Chehab that he never wanted unity with Lebanon, but only that the country not be used as a base against the UAR.

The introduction is explained and justified by the unique characteristics of competence ( often used only knowledge ).

At the beginning of the first episode of the first season Penn pointed out that the series would contain more obscenity and profanity than one would expect in a series dealing with scientific and critical inquiry, but explained that this was a legal tactic because, " if one calls people liars and quacks one can be sued ... but ' assholes ' is pretty safe.

Her skimpy costume was eventually explained as a deliberate tactic to distract her usually male foes.

Afghan Defense Minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, explained that the operation will " help eliminate the insurgents before they struck in areas along the troubled frontier ".

Nazi-sponsored Croatia had a notable Serb community, roughly two million strong, which the Croatian Ustaše sought to eliminate through genocide: In the Croats ' political programme it was explained that " ⅓ of the Serbs were to be killed, ⅓ were to be expelled and ⅓ were to be forcibly converted to Catholicism " ( see World War II persecution of Serbs ).

From his childhood and throughout the years of his leadership, the Rebbe explained that his goal was to " make the world a better place ," and to eliminate suffering.

The prologue of Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 started from the end of the last battle in the One Year War, and explained the situation in the same world 3 years after the War, with rogue forces of the remnants of Zeon still lurking around and the Earth Federation still wanted to eliminate them.

Lerner explained that people use strategies to eliminate threats to their belief in a just world.

In an interview he has explained that his role as a diplomat made it impossible to declare himself as homosexual in public, but that his superiors and others were informed to eliminate the possibility of him being blackmailed by foreign agents.

There have been several attempts to produce a true implementation of the relational database model as originally defined by Codd and explained by Date, Darwen and others, but none have been popular successes so far.

Milbourne Christopher in his book Search for the Soul ( 1979 ) explained that none of the attempts by parapsychologists have yet succeeded.

Made in Germany during the Weimar Period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city's ruler, and Maria, whose background is not fully explained in the film, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classist nature of their city.

Columbus reported seeing scars on the bodies of some of the men, which were explained to him as resulting from attempts by men from other islands to capture them.

Part of Christian's appeal to the common people may be explained by the fact that he allowed Danish commoners into state service, but his attempts to curtail the influence of the nobility also meant continuing his father's drive toward absolutism.

After several unsuccessful attempts at walking, the pair left the arena in tears, both mother and daughter visibly upset at being turned aside and crying as they explained to the undercover reporters that all Grace had wanted was for Benny to pray for her, but the staffers rushed them out of the line when they found out Grace had not been healed.

Lanzmann has disagreed, sometimes angrily, with attempts to understand the why of Hitler, stating that the evil of Hitler cannot or should not be explained and that to do so is immoral and an obscenity.

Because these paintings are prehistoric they could be explained a number of ways, such as the artist simply changing their mind about the leg ’ s position with no means of erasing, but it ’ s very likely that they are early attempts to convey motion.

Looking back in 1902, Debussy explained the protracted genesis of his only finished opera: " For a long time I had been striving to write music for the theatre, but the form in which I wanted it to be was so unusual that after several attempts I had given up on the idea.

* In 1966 he appeared on William Frank Buckley, Jr .' s Firing Line, where he explained his views on poverty, while also engaging Buckley in debate regarding government attempts to address poverty and its consequences.

Henchard attempts to return them, but Lucetta misses the appointment owing to a family emergency that is not explained until later in the book.

She did not make many literary attempts, as she explained to her friend Jane Williams:

The Council of Turkish Canadians released a statement where it explained its unwillingness to participate in the event by Karygiannis's " past attempts to promote ethnic division and intolerance against Canadians of different national origin ", particularly Turks, Azeris and Macedonians.

It is explained to Jane that the Grand Duchess is the target of assassination attempts by the people who overthrew and slaughtered her family and that they want Jane to act as a decoy for her during the next two weeks when she is in Britain and has to attend several charitable events.

This can be explained by the mountainous nature of Mani's terrain, which enabled them to escape the attempts of the Eastern Roman Empire to Christianize Greece by force.