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He is a versatile rider with qualities that include decent sprinting, decent time trials and some good skills in the mountains.
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Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.
Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.
It is among the most versatile and fearsome weapons on the battlefield, valued for its shock action against other troops and high survivability, although it can be still be vulnerable to anti-tank weapons.
Capoeira is a fast and versatile martial art which is historically focused on fighting outnumbered or in technological disadvantage.
The concepts of hybridization are so versatile, and the variability in bonding in most organic compounds is so modest, that valence bond theory remains an integral part of the vocabulary of organic chemistry.
For these reasons, rasterization is usually the approach of choice when interactive rendering is required ; however, the pixel-by-pixel approach can often produce higher-quality images and is more versatile because it does not depend on as many assumptions about the image as rasterization.
Matthew, the youngest, is a versatile cellist with an impressive list of composing and performance credits.
Another versatile extension becoming increasingly common is the use of some electronic drums in a mainly conventional kit.
Glenn A. Baker, author of Monkeemania: The True Story of the Monkees, commented in 1986 that " for an artist as versatile and confident as Jones, the relative failure of his post-Monkees activities is puzzling.
The battery is a versatile and very common power source which is ideally suited to many applications, but its energy storage is finite, and once discharged it must be disposed of or recharged.
With its eight faculties and 57 departments, the University of Gothenburg is also one of the most wide-ranging and versatile universities in Sweden.
A more versatile method is quartering, division of the field by both vertical and horizontal lines.
* Jadavpur University Music Club: It is one of the oldest clubs in the university and has produced some of the most versatile classical singers in Bengal.
The distinctive oboe tone is versatile, and has been described as " bright ".
Pasta is generally a simple dish, but comes in large varieties because it is a versatile food item.
However, en route, the convoy is ambushed by Omutan-hired blackhawks, a type of living starship and variant of the voidhawk which is far more versatile in combat than its conventional opponents.
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This steering is usually provided by the rider, but under certain conditions may be provided by the bicycle itself.
This lean is induced by a method known as countersteering, which can be performed by the rider turning the handlebars directly with the hands or indirectly by leaning the bicycle.
From a mechanical viewpoint, up to 99 % of the energy delivered by the rider into the pedals is transmitted to the wheels, although the use of gearing mechanisms may reduce this by 10 – 15 %.
If the rider is sitting upright, the rider's body creates about 75 % of the total drag of the bicycle / rider combination.
For racing bikes where the rider is bent over, weight is more evenly distributed between the handlebars and saddle, the hips are flexed, and a narrower and harder saddle is more efficient.
Suspension is especially important on recumbent bicycles, since while an upright bicycle rider can stand on the pedals to achieve some of the benefits of suspension, a recumbent rider cannot.
As the rider does so, an " inside " rail fin sinks deeper and its angle of attack is increased, as is its lift-induced drag.
The other major issue leading to rail fins ' use is the fact that a rider can use the lift near the rail to increase speed and performance on smaller waves due to the above effects and abilities of these foils.
The German word for English " knight " is Ritter, the Dutch ridder, the Swedish riddare, which is the cognate of English " rider "-but which carries vast social implications absent from the English word.
This type of hearse is either a motorcycle with a special sidecar built to carry a casket or an urn at the side of the rider, or it is a trike that carries the casket behind the rider.
The downward slope may indicate that the rider is traveling towards the realm of the dead and the woman with the scepter may be a female ruler of that realm, corresponding to Hel.
It is important that the saddle be comfortable for both the rider and the horse as an improperly fitting saddle may create pressure points on the horse's back muscle ( Latissimus dorsi ) and cause the horse pain and can lead to the horse, rider, or both getting injured.
If a rider is thrown from a horse but has a foot caught in the stirrup, they could be dragged if the horse runs away.
In the southwest, near Quick Step, is the district known as the " Land of Look Behind ," so named because Spanish horsemen venturing into this region of hostile runaway slaves were said to have ridden two to a mount, one rider facing to the rear to keep a precautionary watch.
Land Speed is where a single rider accelerates over a 1 to long straight track ( usually on dry lake beds ) and is timed for top speed through a trap at the end of the run.
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Clayton is with him, takin him out of the valley.
His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.
`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me '', he'd blandly announce.
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.
One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.
It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
That place is crawling with Bill Doolin and his gang ''.
The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.
`` What is with this vow jazz ''??
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.
He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.
They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.
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