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.

He makes a sharp division between a “ religionist ” perspective and an “ empiricist ” one.

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.

It is the force in the universe that makes men love goodness, even when they turn away from it.

When an application makes a request that requires a domain name lookup, such programs send a resolution request to the DNS resolver in the local operating system, which in turn handles the communications required.

This makes ethical naturalism a definist form of moral realism, which is in turn a form of cognitivism.

This makes ethical non-naturalism a non-definist form of moral realism, which is in turn a form of cognitivism.

On making the last pass, each dancer makes a whole turn on the end, bearing right if the last pass was by the right shoulder or left if last pass was by the left, and reenters the figure returning to place.

Insurance brokers help arrange for the insurance coverage that in turn makes a production financially feasible.

The immediate comprehension of Interlingua, in turn, makes it unusually easy to learn.

The Biqa Valley is watered by two rivers that rise in the watershed near Baalbek: the Orontes flowing north ( in Arabic it is called Nahr al Asi, " the Rebel River ", because this direction is unusual ), and the Litani flowing south into the hill region of the southern Biqa Valley, where it makes an abrupt turn to the west in southern Lebanon and is thereafter called the Al Qasmiyah River.

Additionally, both the terms strigoi and moroi are traditionally closely associated with both pricolici and vârcolaci, and while modern fiction makes a clear distinction between the terms ( with strigoi and moroi being in usage more a reference to the vampiric than the lycanthropic, and the latter in turn referring more to " living " as opposed to undead vampires ), older folklore leaves them not always so easily differentiated, especially with regional variants.

This in turn makes him a greater asset to the technological needs and demands of the network ( and the whims of its executives and stars ).

His super-flexible wrist makes him especially potent and guarantees him turn on any surface.

And even to the point where its supposed omnipotence would make it impossible to be omniscient, to which in turn, makes it impossible to be omnipotent due to due to the problem of infinite egress.

Tracing all the way around the polygon makes one full turn, so the sum of the exterior angles must be 360 °.

Some video games can be played in turn-based mode: one makes one's " move ", then play for that player stops, and the turn passes to another player who to makes his or her move in response.

Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality ; this makes television an excellent medium for science fiction, which in turn contributes to its popularity in this form.

When he gets the mission from which he may never return, it is okay with him since it solves his problem with suicide, which in turn makes him a dangerous person for the mission.

This means after separation, the large first stage is at high altitude and headed downrange very fast, which makes it difficult to turn around and get back to the launch point.

The potential for clever play is quite great and most games include in them some turn in which a player makes three interesting words all at once to score a lot of points.

Adding more than one extra riding turn does not add to its security and makes the knot more difficult to tighten evenly.

Some changes included increasing the minimum ski length and also the sidecut which makes the ski turn less tightly. In 2008 ski lengths were increased as it was found by physiotherapists that the shorter skis combined with the constant knee jerking movements were considered unnecessarily harmful to racers knees due to the turning radius of the skis ( especially the slalom skis ) therefore the F. I. S made the minimum ski length for women in slalom 155 cm and men 165 cm.

This in turn makes the average income generally high, making it possible to keep the taxation rate low without compromising the service to the inhabitants.

It is not rare in slow chess games for a player to leave the table, but the clock of the absent player continues to run if it is his turn, or starts to run if his opponent makes a move.

This contributes to their high population numbers, which, in turn, makes commercial fishing relatively easy.

This in turn makes it understandable how in 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.