In the Samudra manthan chapter of the Puranas, Shesha loosens Mount Mandara for it to be used as a churning rod by the Asuras and Devas to churn the ocean of milk in the heavens in order to make Soma ( or Amrita ), the divine elixir of immortality.

She has never seen Vandergroat hurt anyone unless it was in a fair fight but after he loosens Kemp's saddle cinch and tries to push him off a high mountain pass, Lina's sympathies for Kemp grow.

Sometimes the domestic government pays part of the initial cost of factory setup, loosens environmental protections and rules regarding negligence and the treatment of workers, and promises not to ask payment of taxes for the next few years.

The dress code loosens again for the spring term.

Turning the spindle of the chuck in a clockwise direction tightens the drill bit in the chuck and turning in a counter-clockwise direction loosens the bit for removal.

According to him, " The ' remedy which loosens the tongue ' has no taste, no smell, no colour, and no immediate side effects.

In the presence of town elders, the widow loosens the shoe of the brother-in-law, spits upon the ground before him, and recites a prescribed formula.

This act loosens the Mask of the Wraith from the Prince's face and allows him to remove it and return to his normal form.

In a story from the Puranas, Shesha loosens Mount Mandara, to enable it to be used in the churning of the ocean by the devas and asuras.

Grits are produced by soaking raw corn grains in hot water containing calcium hydroxide ( the alkaline salt ), which loosens the grain hulls ( bran ) and increases the nutritional value of the product ( by increasing available niacin and available amino acids ).

Plato believed that the political corruption created by democracy loosens the " natural " hierarchy between social classes, genders and age groups, to the extent that “ anarchy finds a way into the private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them ”.

A direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, where as an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.

Turning the truss rod counter-clockwise loosens it, allowing string tension to act on the neck and creating a forward bow.

For example, pushing or pulling the handle of a wrench connected to a nut or bolt produces a torque ( turning force ) that loosens or tightens the nut or bolt.

On 31 August 1997, Amélie, shocked upon hearing the news of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on television, drops a bottle cap that knocks into a bathroom wall tile and loosens it.

* Plowing loosens and aerates the top layer of soil which can facilitate the planting of the crop.

Primary tillage loosens the soil and mixes in fertilizer and / or plant material, resulting in soil with a rough texture.

The last technique requires the first layer to be a highly diluted consistency of paint ; this paint layer dissolves the surface sizing of the paper and loosens the cellulose tufts in the pulp.

This period is associated with the work of Marshall McLuhan, a philosopher who focused on the results of living in a media culture and argued that participation in a mass media culture both overshadows actual content disseminated and is liberating because it loosens the authority of local social normative standards.

Their monogamous pair bond is strong during the breeding season and loosens over winter ; birds often choose a different mate than the year before.

More downhaul tension loosens the upper part of the leech, " spilling " the wind at the gusts and shifting the center of effort ( strictly, the center of pressure ) of the sail down.

He then presses his right foot against the floor while she loosens the straps with her right hand and, holding his leg in her left hand, takes off the shoe and throws it some distance away.

In subsequent writing ( Frieze and The Face in the Garden ), Lent loosens his aesthetic through the application of lessons taken from Joseph Frank's concept, spatial form, as well as its deconstructive developments — in particular the emphasis on space / place.

Lengthening the housing ( turning the barrel adjuster out ) tightens the cable ; shortening the housing ( turning the barrel adjuster in ) loosens the cable.

** Clearing the throat: Clearing the throat removes or loosens phlegm but the vocal cords hit together causing inflammation and therefore more phlegm.

It loosens the joints in the lower parts of the body, removing rheumatism.

The Apaches attack, and the ensuing shooting and shouting loosens a balanced rock, leading to a massive collapse.

Rather, as the blade spins, it winds up or loosens the twisting of the cord that holds the blade.

Releasing the maillon from these attachment points loosens the harness quickly.

Men wear a heavy knee-length robe tied with a belt, called a gho, folded in such a way to form a pocket in front of the stomach.

* In the cartoon show Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers episode " Double ' O Dale ", which parodies the Bond series, Dale is watching a spy movie, featuring a sidekick called Oddshoe, a small man but not allied with the villain nor sporting a hat and suit, but a Japanese traditional martial arts white robe with a black belt, also in the episode Throw Mummy in the Train, the villain throws his hat.

The garments consisted of a large belt, two all-white wedding robes, a white wedding robe with red stripes at top and bottom, white buckskin leggings and moccasins, a string for tying the hair, and a reed mat in which to wrap the outfit.

Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, including his sword and his bow and his belt.

He dons a suit of fiery red army over a flowery robe, along with a silk belt and a headdress.

He dons a suit of silvery white armour over a white robe, along with a silver belt and a headdress.

She dons a suit of armour over a red robe, a gold helmet and a silk belt.

Under the Driglam Namzha, men wear a heavy knee-length robe tied with a belt, called a gho, folded in such a way to form a pocket in front of the stomach.

According to Eastern Orthodox Sacred Tradition, the apparition of Mary the Theotokos occurred during the 10th century at the Blachernae church in Constantinople ( modern-day Istanbul ) where several of her relics ( her robe, veil, and part of her belt ) were kept.

Introduced in the 17th century by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel to give the Bhutanese a more distinctive identity, it is a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt known as the kera ( Dzongkha: ས ྐེ ད ་ རགས ་; Wylie: sked-rags ).

He and Dean tied and gagged the man, using his belt and shirt for the purpose.

The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

Extending from the Gulf northward for about 150 miles ( 240 km ) is the outer belt of the Coastal Plain, also called the Timber Belt, whose soil is sandy and poor, but responds well to fertilization.

The area around Abensberg, the so-called sand belt between Siegburg, Neustadt an der Donau, Abensberg and Langquaid, is used for the intensive farming of asparagus, due to the optimal soil condition and climate.

The face of the allegorical representation of France calling forth her people on this last was used as the belt buckle for the honorary rank of Marshal of France.

It might be connected to the Germanic word belt, a name used for two of the Danish straits, the Belts, while others claim it to be derived from Latin balteus ( belt ).

They are prohibited from holding the ropes for support when punching, holding an opponent while punching, or ducking below the belt of their opponent ( dropping below the waist of your opponent, no matter the distance between ).

* A bandolier is a belt worn in a similar fashion, used to carry ammunition for firearms.

Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids ; he also called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.

Their semi-major axes show a preference for the middle of the main belt ; arguably, smaller objects close to the limiting resonances have been either captured into resonance or have their orbits modified by Neptune.

Unlike other schemes, this definition includes the objects with major semi-axis less than 39. 4 AU ( 2: 3 resonance ) – named Inner classical belt, or more than 48. 7 ( 1: 2 resonance ) – named Outer classical belt while reserving the term Main classical belt for the orbits between these two resonances.

In Chretien de Troyes's Perceval, Gawain carries Escalibor and it is stated, " for at his belt hung Excalibor, the finest sword that there was, which sliced through iron as through wood " (" Qu ' il avoit cainte Escalibor, la meillor espee qui fust, qu ' ele trenche fer come fust .").

Besides being the first U. S. satellite, it is known for discovering the Van Allen radiation belt.

Carla, who lost her baby son in the crash, struggles with survivor's guilt, punishing herself for not holding onto him tightly enough when his seat belt on the plane malfunctioned.

With this work under his belt, Bessel was able to achieve the feat for which he is best remembered today: he is credited with being the first to use parallax in calculating the distance to a star.

As of 2012 there was extensive exploration for commercially viable copper and gold deposits in the mineral belt in northern Haiti but on operations had begun on the numerous and extensive promising propects.

With success under his belt he withdrew for the winter to Gaul, distributing his forces to protect various towns, and choosing the small town of Senon near Verdun to await the spring.

According to Albert Speer in his book Spandau: The Secret Diaries, Hitler expressed admiration for Adenauer, noting his civic projects, the building of a road circling the city as a bypass, and a " green belt " of parks.

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.

John Spencer, an astronomer on the New Horizons mission team, says that no target for a post-Pluto Kuiper belt encounter has yet been selected, as they are awaiting data from the Pan-STARRS survey project to ensure as wide a field of options as possible.

For some, they are distinct populations ; for others, the scattered disc is part of the Kuiper belt.