This also makes fire the element with the smallest number of sides, and Plato regarded it as appropriate for the heat of fire, which he felt is sharp and stabbing, ( like one of the points of a tetrahedra ).

The twin full-length edges enable the user to make broad slashes ( cuts ) using either a forehand or backhand arm movement, while the sharp, acutely-pointed tip makes the knife an effective thrusting or stabbing weapon.

Although Rousseau argues that sovereignty ( or the power to make the laws ) should be in the hands of the people, he also makes a sharp distinction between the sovereign and the government.

" as a consequence of the fact that a hypothesis with fewer adjustable parameters will automatically have an enhanced posterior probability, due to the fact that the predictions it makes are sharp ..."

The Topino, cleaving the Apennines with passes that the Via Flaminia and successor roads follow, makes a sharp turn at Foligno to flow NW for a few kilometres before joining the Chiascio below Bettona.

* Boris Spassky vs Robert Fischer, Santa Monica 1966, Grunfeld Defence, Exchange Variation ( D87 ), 1 – 0 Fischer seems to equalize in a sharp game, but he makes a small mistake and Spassky finishes nicely.

Telltale signs of invisible ink, such as pen scratches from a sharp pen, roughness, or changed reflectivity of the paper ( either more dull or more shiny, usually from using undiluted ink ), can be obvious to a careful observer who simply makes use of strong light, a magnifying glass and his or her nose.

The slightest movement of the rib cage causes a sharp increase of pain, which makes it very difficult to breathe, and an attack is therefore quite a frightening experience, although it generally passes off before any actual harm occurs.

It is multiplexed with US 301 and 441 until it reaches Florida SR 492 ( Northwest 10th Street ), then makes a sharp turn onto NW 10th Street then curves northwest through Williston, Perry, Tallahassee, and beyond.

Cramerton is bisected by the South Fork Catawba River, which makes a sharp S-curve around the center of town.

alt = A woman on horseback makes a sharp turn around a white barrel.

The album itself received good reviews, with Billboard writing: " ABBA's auburn-haired songstress makes a bold solo project a stunning success ", while Mark Coleman described the album in the third edition of Rolling Stone Album Guide as " a sharp, rock-oriented, delightfully eclectic album ".

At the tip of the petrous temporal bone it makes a sharp turn forward to enter the cavernous sinus.

At the top of the Upper Hutt floodplain, the river makes a sharp turn against the bedrock at the foot of the cliff at Maoribank to flow down the valley.

US 46 makes a sharp turn to the east away from the Delaware River, widening into a four-lane divided highway again as it bypasses the town of Belvidere and has a few businesses on it.

At this point, US 1 / 9 become concurrent with US 46 and the freeway makes a sharp turn to the north-northeast.

The sharp " clap " noise that the clapperboard makes can be identified easily on the audio track, and the shutting of the clapstick can be identified easily on the separate visual track.

However, in England, the lack of sharp winters and hot summers makes Cornus florida very shy of flowering.

Girlfriend in a Coma has something of the quality of a fairytale, but it contains a sharp realism that makes the book scarily contemporary " ( 15 May 1999 ).

The aircraft flies at speed along the final leg, and makes a sharp, high-G turn above midfield to lose speed and arrive on the downwind leg at pattern altitude and in landing configuation.

The idyllic setting and small town environment makes for a sharp contrast with the booming urban centre next door.

The Tully Monster had a pair of fins not unlike a cuttlefish at the tail end of its body, and possibly vertical fins as well ( though the fidelity of preservation of fossils of its soft body makes this difficult to determine ), and a long proboscis with eight small sharp teeth with which it may have probed actively for small creatures and edible detritus in the muddy bottom.

It has an indistinct blow, but makes a loud, sharp, puffing sound reminiscent of the Harbour Porpoise.

Reuben then makes Beauty gallop over sharp stones injuring Beauty's hoof and causing him to stumble.

The diversity of systems and phenomena available for study makes condensed matter physics the most active field of contemporary physics: one third of all American physicists identify themselves as condensed matter physicists, and The Division of Condensed Matter Physics ( DCMP ) is the largest division of the American Physical Society.

The division of labour makes trade necessary and is the source of economic interdependence.

Xenophon, writing in the fourth century BC, makes a passing reference to division of labour in his ' Cyropaedia ' ( aka Education of Cyrus ).

This makes Horner's method useful for polynomial long division.

The Handbook of Mathematical Logic makes a rough division of contemporary mathematical logic into four areas:

The Brahmaputra River is often considered the natural division between the two subspecies, where it makes a curve around the eastern end of the Himalayas, although some authors suggest A. f. fulgens extends farther eastward, into China.

However, as the division of labor makes the individual seem more important ( a subject that Durkheim treats extensively in his famous Division of Labor in Society ), religious systems increasingly focus on individual salvation and conscience.

Either the fourth-placed Eastern division team or the fifth-placed Western division team, based upon regular season record, also makes the playoffs.

The RUS administrator makes the primary policy and program decisions for the agency and is assisted by a borrower and program support staff that includes a financial services staff, an administrative liaison staff, and a program accounting services division.

However, the size of the division makes such obfuscation rarely necessary.

The division is then done starting from those values so that only a small remainder has to be divided, but the amount of bookkeeping makes this method too slow on most systems.

Pickett continued to command his division ( a division that had been reduced in strength to below that of a brigade ), reporting to Longstreet, but Longstreet makes no mention of Pickett's division in his final report.

This makes Rice codes convenient for use on a computer, since multiplication and division by 2 can be implemented more efficiently in binary arithmetic.

She makes the argument that the difference in speech " reinforces the thematic division between the women's identification with the social group and Richard's individualism ".

The archaeological evidence, combined with the known political division into two kingdoms, makes it likely that the origin of the subkingdoms was the conquest of the western half by the eastern, which would have been the first area settled by the invaders.

While this makes division defined in more cases than usual, subtraction is instead left undefined in many cases, because there are no negative numbers.

The division of comorbidity as per syndromal and nosological principles is mainly preliminary and inaccurate, however it allows us to understand that comorbidity can be connected to a singular cause or common mechanisms of pathogenesis of the conditions, which sometimes explains the similarity in their clinical aspects, which makes it difficult to differentiate between nosologies.

In preparation for cell division, it increases its size and makes a copy of its DNA, which is made during the S phase.

Examples are Numbers 3: 1, where a later ( and incorrect ) chapter division makes this verse a heading for the following chapter instead of interpreting it properly as a colophon or summary for the preceding two chapters, and Genesis 37: 2a, a colophon that concludes the histories ( toledoth ) of Jacob.

This means that there are no pronounced breaks in socioeconomic strata, which makes class division highly subjective and disputable.

This is typically done using coarse wavelength division multiplexing CWDM because the wider 20 nm spacing of the wave bands makes these systems much less susceptible to interference.