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points and up
Just as the Negro situation points up the gradual and abrupt changes affecting Southern life, it also points up the non-representation of urbanism in Southern literature.
The Rio Grande KC is also considering having their Junior Classes set up so that Juniors can qualify with points for Westminster.
A flight originating in Florida picked up guests on the East Coast and Midwest and a plane left from Seattle taking on passengers at West Coast points.
: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.
Carlo Willmann points out that as, on its own terms, anthroposophical methodology offers no possibility of being falsified except through its own procedures of spiritual investigation, no intersubjective validation is possible by conventional scientific methods ; it thus cannot stand up to positivistic science's criticism.
If the score reaches 20-all, then the game continues until one side gains a two point lead ( such as 24 – 22 ), up to a maximum of 30 points ( 30 – 29 is a winning score ).
He started the next season with the Kansas City Blues of the Central Hockey League and was leading the league in points when he was called up mid-season to play 31 games with St. Louis.
This figure continues doubling for each bubble dropped, up to 17 or more bubbles which scores 1, 310, 720 points.
When a player decides to double the opponent, the value is then a double of whatever face value is shown ( e. g. if two automatic doubles have occurred putting the cube up to 4, the first in-game double will be for 8 points ).
God then points out: " Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
Duplex embossing requires lining up the dots so they do not overlap ( called " interpoint " because the points on the other side are placed in between the points on the first side ).
Alfred set up a system of defensive strong points ( Burhs ); in order to maintain these settlements, he granted them a degree of autonomy.
Strong points armed with heavy machine guns were set up around the island, particularly around the island's two airports.
Charlton's relegation from the Championship was all but confirmed on Easter Monday ( 13 April ) when, despite picking up a point in a 0 – 0 draw at Coventry, they found themselves 12 points from safety with four games remaining.
The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light ... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me.
:" And if a king shall stand up from among the House of David, studying Torah and indulging in commandments like his father David, according to the written and oral Torah, and he will coerce all Israel to follow it and to strengthen its weak points, and will fight The Lord's wars, this one is to be treated as if he were the anointed one.
The standard orientation, where the xy-plane is horizontal and the z-axis points up ( and the x-and the y-axis form a positively oriented two-dimensional coordinate system in the xy-plane if observed from above the xy-plane ) is called right-handed or positive.
Earnhardt was very consistent, scoring four wins, and after Ernie Irvan was sidelined due to a near-deadly crash at Michigan ( the two were neck-and-neck at the top of the points up until the crash ), won title by over 400 points over Mark Martin.
When the process feed has a diverse composition, as in distilling crude oil, liquid outlets at intervals up the column allow for the withdrawal of different fractions or products having different boiling points or boiling ranges.

points and irony
In agreement with Johnson, Donald C. Baker points out the similarity between both authors ' tones and use of irony.
Cyril Bailey notes that Leucippus is the first to say that a thing ( the void ) might be real without being a body and points out the irony that this comes from a materialistic atomist.
She points out further irony by drawing attention to merchandising produced in order to promote Adbusters ' Buy Nothing Day, an example of the recuperation of détournement if ever there was one.
" Thoreau also points out the irony of The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, labeling Brown's actions as misguided.
Sears also points out the supposed irony: " data analysis ... shows that in spite of the fact that the American public has dramatically cut back on the amount of fat consumed, the country has experienced an epidemic rise in obesity.
" But Myers also points out that DeLillo uses a slippery sense of irony in his writing: " As so often with DeLillo's musings, the ' conclusion ' is phrased as a rhetorical question.
During the 2007 Greek forest fires, the strip " black observational humour perchance " was created, in which the orange Bunny points out the irony between the event and the recent Olympic torch lighting for the 2004 Summer Olympics, which was held in Athens.

points and most
It made no difference that most evidence points to an opposite conclusion.
Morrison points out that since our country is more urbanized than the Soviet Union or Red China, it is the most vulnerable of the great powers -- Europe of course must be written off out of hand.
The scientists, in and out of government, do not agree on some of the most vital points, at least publicly.
In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.
" Alternate History " looks at " what if " scenarios from some of history's most pivotal turning points and presents a completely different version, sometimes based on science and fact, but often based on conjecture.
Both the aberration of axis points, and the deviation from the sine condition, rapidly increase in most ( uncorrected ) systems with the aperture.
Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).
* The optic tectum allows actions to be directed toward points in space, most commonly in response to visual input.
The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.
The award goes to the player who receives the most overall points.
The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time ( overtime ) may be issued when the game ends with a draw.
Whichever team got the most points won the game .< ref >
In rubber bridge, two partnerships participate in the game at one table and the objective is to score the most points in the play of several hands.
The side which has accumulated the most points and wins the rubber may or may not be the side to have won two games.
The winner of the game is the player with the most points.
The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.
But most historians now make a distinction between medical lancing ( or bloodletting ) and acupuncture in the narrower sense of using metal needles to treat illnesses by stimulating specific points along circulation channels (" meridians ") in accordance with theories related to the circulation of Qi.
Such weak intermolecular bonds give organic molecular substances, such as waxes and oils, their soft bulk character, and their low melting points ( in liquids, molecules must cease most structured or oriented contact with each other ).
Placekicker Kevin Butler holds the club record for scoring the most points in his ten-year Bear career.
In the " hop across ", the most popular variation, each player puts his / her own colored pieces on one of the six points or corners of the star and attempts to race them all " home " to the opposite corner.
The UNJLC also points out that the pre-Second Congo War network no longer exists, and is dependent upon 20, 000 bridges and 325 ferries, most of which are in need of repair or replacement.
The Declaration made a number of much-debated rhetorical points: that Scotland had always been independent, indeed for longer than England ; that Edward I of England had unjustly attacked Scotland and perpetrated atrocities ; that Robert the Bruce had delivered the Scottish nation from this peril ; and, most controversially, that the independence of Scotland was the prerogative of the Scottish people, rather than the King of Scots.
Practically only a very small percentage of addresses is kept as initial reference points ( which also requires storage ), and most of the database data is accessed by indirection using displacement calculations ( distance in bits from the reference points ) and data structures which define access paths ( using pointers ) to all needed data in effective manner, optimized for the needed data access operations.

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