They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed up.

If a boxer trails by more than 20 points, the referee stops the fight and the boxer that is leading automatically wins ; bouts which end this way may be noted as " RSC " ( referee stopped contest ) with notations for an outclassed opponent ( RSCO ), outscored opponent ( RSCOS ), injury ( RSCI ) or head injury ( RSCH ).

Once the secondary feedwater pumps stopped, three auxiliary pumps activated automatically.

For the programmer, the transition to the PowerPC was made fairly painless, because the emulator was started and stopped automatically.

A note marked both stopped and loud will be cuivré automatically

* Idle stop-when stopped at traffic light, the engine shuts off automatically, then restarts immediately when the driver takes their foot off the brake, contributing to both greater fuel efficiency and lower emissions.

An idle stop feature shuts off the engine automatically when stopped, then restarts immediately when the driver removes their foot from the brake.

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 provides that paths that are not recorded on the definitive map by 2026 and that were in use prior to 1949 will automatically be stopped up on 1 January 2026.

The all-wheel drive can be inserted via a button on the dash, and a complex and modern electro-pneumatic system that allows, four-wheel drive off, leaving firm transmission shaft and rear axle shafts, the pull is inserted by pressing the button, the engine is running and the car is stopped or at least at speeds below 55 km / h, where the traction was inserted over this speed, the wheel would fit only slowing below 55 km / h and also to prevent accumulation of ice, mud or snow clogging your system actuators of the transmission control, it is automatically inserted by turning off the engine.

Once the length of the mortice had been cut the machine automatically stopped to allow the block to be replaced with a new one.

If a fight has to be stopped because of a headbutt without reaching the required distance, these are automatically declared a technical draw.

Both the swivelling and drawbridge type crossings were automatically linked to signals which stopped any approaching trains ; road traffic was always given priority under this system.

Electronic on-board recorders ( EOBR ) can automatically record, among other things, the time the vehicle is in motion or stopped.

The format is 7 numeric characters ( including leading zeros ), a check character and sometimes a second letter, which if it exists, will normally be a W. This extra letter was used for women-" W " from " wife "-who married and automatically adopted the same number as their husband, though this practice stopped in 1991 chiefly due to equal rights concerns.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

`` There's a body you won't mind looking at '', Benson said and they stopped.

Miriam was stopped at the Taliesin gate, and William Weston, now the estate foreman, came out to parley.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

We stopped first at the amphitheater that lies at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon.

Alfred, leaning on Meltzer, stopped for a minute to look at Tessie.

Both knew that when trains stopped at Texan crossroads bored soldiers would sometimes enter to ask the passengers if they had any reading material to spare, even a newspaper.

Later we realized that the redcoats had stopped their charge at the wall.

Andrei stopped at Litowski Place and looked around quickly at the boundary of civil buildings.

She stopped at the Surcliffes' after dusk, and had a Scotch-and-soda.

Mark stopped the car and switched off the lights and they sat looking at the water, which, there being no moon out, at first could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars.

Then, when he had it pointed down the hill, he stopped to gaze at her through the window.

Blockade runners can be stopped -- by gunfire, if necessary -- searched and held, at least temporarily.

On their way, they stopped at every gas station along the main boulevards to question the attendants.

where, of Costaggini, only some foliage has been washed, at the point where his work stopped.

Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered -- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari.

The thin man stopped his pacing long enough to glance at the clock.

Roberta glanced at him and stopped trembling.

Our man stopped dead and glowered at Felix.

Very suddenly, the driver stopped swearing at them, turned on his heel and went back to his truck.

During one recent day of driving about Los Angeles there were actually a dozen occasions when oncoming drivers stopped an entire lane of traffic to permit me to pull out of an impossible side street.

Looking down the street after her, Adam saw that she had again stopped and again removed one hand from the basket.

Thereafter, street and water communications were severed, rail and barge traffic was stopped and the Soviets initially stopped supplying food to the civilian population in the non-Soviet sectors of Berlin.

Applying this objective test, the Court has held Miranda does not apply to roadside questioning of a stopped motorist or to questioning of a person briefly detained on the street — a Terry stop.

Daguerre took the first ever photo of a person in 1838 when, while taking a daguerreotype of a Paris street, a pedestrian stopped for a shoe shine, long enough to be captured by the long exposure ( several minutes ).

Many parents have since stopped me on the street or in airports to thank me for helping them to raise fine children, and they've often added, " I don't see any instant gratification in Baby and Child Care " I answer that they're right -- I've always advised parents to give their children firm, clear leadership and to ask for cooperation and politeness in return.

Helsinki Watch heard dozens of stories from children, their parents, lawyers, youth workers and political leaders of children being stopped on the street and hit, kicked and abused again and again by police and soldiers.

When I stopped trying to impress musicians and started getting in touch with what the people on the street were listening to, I started writing hits.

At age 19, she was stopped from walking in front of a car on a Manhattan street by the founder of Vogue, Condé Nast, thus launching her modeling career when she appeared on the cover of the March 15, 1927 edition, in an illustration by George Lepape.

In these years I have often been stopped in public by a cop who was polite who knew I was either Huntley or Brinkley, but weren't sure which and so they have asked, so from now on, when somebody stops me in the street and says, " Aren't you Chet Huntley?

This consists of a series of photographs, each showing a member of the public who Wearing had stopped on the street and persuaded to write something on a piece of paper.

Inspectors chased him for five to six blocks, and after he unsuccessfully tried to force his way into a car stopped at a light at an intersection, inspectors tackled him in the street and took him into custody.

On the opposite side of the street the blaze stopped at the Basselin Mansion, both of which still stand there today.

At one street corner they stopped to listen to a gospel preaching team from the Pacific Garden Mission.

In the second incident, he was stopped for driving the wrong way on a one-way street, and a police officer noticed a firearm in his glove compartment.

The gathering takes place at dawn and then, upon nightfall, when young boys collect small bouquets, and later sell them to passersby on the street or to motorists stopped at intersections.

He was often stopped on the street by people who asked if they knew him.

At noon, a horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street in New York City and stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J. P. Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street, on the Financial District's busiest corner.

President Chen and Vice President Lu were standing in the back seat of an open convertible Jeep moving slowly through a crowded street when around 1: 45 PM, a bullet penetrated the windshield of the vehicle, grazed Chen's stomach, and was stopped in his clothes.

In that street, Filipinos have said that Our Lady of Peace appeared unto the tanks and the military personnel that would attack on the quiet protesters in 1986 ( See EDSA Revolution ), and stopped the attack.

It recently stopped being one of the most important city highways, since the new 4-lane exit through Chełm took traffic out of the street.

Dylan stopped Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem in the street one day in early 1962 and insisted on singing a new song he had written to the tune of " Brennan On The Moor ," a song from the eponymous Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem album on Tradition Records.

Victoria Gardens Theatre, when announcing their world premiere of ensemble member Claudia Allen ’ s play Unspoken Prayers, featuring Taylor Miller, stated that Miller " reached into the hearts of millions of viewers as Nina, and to this day, long after she is a daily presence on the show, she is constantly stopped on the street, asked how she is, and engaged in ' best friend ' conversations.