There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

An optimal policy is one which in some sense gets the best out of the process as a whole by maximizing the value of the product.

The commercial propagandist, who can't afford to be critical, gets along well with the amateur, from whom he feeds, but he frequently steps on the analyst's toes by refusing to keep his material genuine.

Dominated by the vicious circle of the university promotion system, the analyst looks down on and gets along poorly with the other three groups, although he cannot deny his debt to the collector.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

Maria goes all out as a Druid princess who gets two-timed by a Roman big shot.

The town Oran, which gets afflicted by pestilence and cut off from the outside world, is the equivalent of France.

Herwig Wolfram opens his chapter on the eighth Visigothic king, " Alaric's reign gets no full treatment in the sources, and the little they do contain is overshadowed by his death in the Battle of Vouillé and the downfall of the Toulosan kingdom.

He gets out of cover and takes aim on the flamethrower but misses, and gets hit by enemy fire.

In a glowing review for his " Consumer Guide " column published by The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote: " Before minstrelsy scholar Eric Lott gets too excited about having his title stolen.

In that case, the other team gets home field advantage, because by rule the Wild Card team is never allowed home field advantage in a Division Series or LCS.

The team only gets to choose the schedule ; the opponent is still determined by win-loss records.

The Bastard Operator From Hell ( BOFH ), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users ( often referred to as lusers ), colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who gets in his way.

This is totally spurious, since no matter who measured first the other will measure the opposite spin despite the fact that ( in theory ) the other has a 50 % ' probability ' ( 50: 50 chance ) of measuring the same spin, unless data about the first spin measurement has somehow passed faster than light ( of course TI gets around the light speed limit by having information travel backwards in time instead ).

However, consider the short but never halting algorithm which systematically lists and runs all possible programs ; whenever one of them halts its probability gets added to the output ( initialized by zero ).

Multitasking solves the problem by scheduling which task may be the one running at any given time, and when another waiting task gets a turn.

When the DNS resolver gets a PTR ( reverse-lookup ) request, it begins by querying the root servers ( which point to The American Registry For Internet Numbers ' ( ARIN's ) servers for the < tt > 208. in-addr. arpa </ tt > zone ).

In aquatic systems, the proportion of plant biomass that gets consumed by herbivores is much higher.

If several planets in the same system are discovered at the same time, the closest one to the star gets the next letter, followed by the other planets in order of orbital size.

Jackie Chan's character gets his neck snapped by Bruce Lee

Jackie Chan appears as a guard during the underground lair battle scene and gets his neck snapped by Lee.

After being attacked by the possessed Henrietta, he gets possessed by another spirit.

He never gets home until late, and he has to distance himself from the natural pity that he feels for the victims ; otherwise, he would not be able to go on.

By definition, where a director enters into a transaction with a company, there is a conflict between the director's interest ( to do well for himself out of the transaction ) and his duty to the company ( to ensure that the company gets as much as it can out of the transaction ).

Sancho later gets his comeuppance for this when, as part of one of the duke and duchess's pranks, the two are led to believe that the only method to release Dulcinea from her spell is for Sancho to give himself a surplus of three thousand lashes.

He eventually gets his fix from Trevor and injects himself into a deep slumber.

However, the episode " Flashes Before Your Eyes " suggests that minor changes are possible, unlike the totally fixed timeline postulated by Novikov's principle: in this episode Desmond's consciousness time travels back to a point in his past, where he ends up in a bar, where he remembers ( from his previous experience of this time ) a man named Jimmy Lennon entering and attacking the bartender ; in his attempt to warn the bartender, he himself gets attacked instead.

" which Hergé translates as " Qui s ' y frotte s ' y pique " " Who rubs himself there gets stung " ( in fact, the motto of Nancy, from the Latin non inultus premor, referring to its emblem, the thistle ; in the British edition, the translators rendered the motto " If you gather Thistles, expect Prickles ").

When she finally gets there Jim himself is aggressive towards her for being late.

After an unsuccessful attempt at playing tennis himself, Hammer gets rid of his sleep deficit by spending all day in his room, fast asleep, with " old junior " — his gun — close to him.

In a two part episode " The Golden Goose " Glomgold almost beats Scrooge at being the world's richest duck with the help of the Golden Goose-until he gets turned into gold himself ; in the series finale, Glomgold makes one last attempt to get richer than Scrooge by sending the metal mites to eat whole money from Scrooge's bin.

The film tells the story of a journalist who gets himself committed to a mental hospital in order to track an unsolved murder.

The love interest of the story's main character, Tuxedo Mask, gets a piece of Nehelenia's mirror shard stuck in his eye, and subsequently forgets about his love for Sailor Moon and surrounds himself with mirrors-the same happens to other people around.

He later said of his drug addiction that " It's pretty textbook [...] Guy makes it in rock band, gets very full of himself, starts thinking he's indestructible, and all of a sudden he destroys himself.

However, he does stand-up for himself and sometimes gets over excited.

It contained four plundered tracks: " Don't " by Elvis Presley which included piano accompaniment by Bob Wiseman, " Pocket " by Count Basie, a version of Dolly Parton singing " The Great Pretender " in which " she gets to sing a duet with himself ( sic )", and " Spring ", a version of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Charles Paris is an unhappily separated ( but not divorced, more than 30 years on ), moderately-successful actor with a slight drinking problem who gets entangled in all sorts of crimes, and finds himself in the role of unwilling amateur detective.

Super Megatron subsequently gets an upgrade to Ultra Megatron, and for the final battle, merges with Dark Nova himself, becoming Star Giant.

There is also a tongue-in-cheek reference to zebra crossings in the science-fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by English author Douglas Adams, in reference to Man using the improbable creature called the Babel fish as proof of the non-existence of God, the novel says, " Man then goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing.

Frankie soon gets himself a tryout and asks Sparrow to get him a new suit, but the suit is a stolen one and he ends up back in a cell.

In one sketch, Bert gets dressed and says he is going to a pigeon lovers party, which is obviously hosted by himself.

As Richard gets closer to seizing the crown, he encloses himself within the world of the play ; no longer embodying his facile movement in and out of the dramatic action, he is now stuck firmly within it.

Hiram tries to avoid Archie whenever possible because it seems that whenever Archie visits the Lodge mansion, something ( usually something expensive or Mr. Lodge himself ) gets damaged.

For example, in The High Window, he gets out a bottle of Four Roses, and pours glasses of the bourbon whiskey for himself, for Det.