The petticoat ( s ), if sufficiently full or stiff, would hold the overskirt out in a pleasingly domed shape and give the impression of a smaller waist than the wearer actually had.

The performances were assured, communicative and pleasingly informal.

Other poems produced in the following years, especially On the Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount, are pleasingly descriptive verses, showing sensibility but no true poetic imagination.

* a written presentation for external stakeholders-a detailed, well written, and pleasingly formatted plan targeted at external stakeholders.

… The resultant liquid tastes somewhat like a pleasingly alcoholic buttermilk and is most refreshing.

Confronted by his onetime friend Herbert, Stevenson confesses that he finds modern society to be pleasingly violent.

They reduced the complicated pondering of an American woman's first go at love with a middle-aged merchant of Venice to pleasingly elemental terms.

: Mr Thrale's Sobriety, & the Decency of his Conversation being wholly free from all Oaths Ribaldry and Profaneness make him a Man exceedingly comfortable to live with, while the easiness of his Temper and slowness to take Offence add greatly to his Value as a domestic Man: Yet I think his Servants do not much love him, and I am not sure that his Children feel much Affection for him: low People almost all indeed agree to abhorr him, as he has none of that officious & cordial Manner which is universally required by them-nor any Skill to dissemble his dislike of their Coarseness-with Regard to his Wife, tho ' little tender of her Person, he is very partial to her Understanding ,-but he is obliging to nobody ; & confers a Favour less pleasingly than many a Man refuses to confer one.

All visitors are encouraged to rub the fragrant or pleasingly textured leaves of the plants between their fingers.

It is easily carved, taking a good polish, and is said to have a pleasingly greasy feel.

This was not planned as on SA-4 but, pleasingly for engineers, the rocket compensated perfectly and burned the first stage for 2. 7 more seconds than planned.

The parish is situated on the road from Cork to Tracton, and contains 14, 254 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £ 16, 606 per annum -; the surface is pleasingly undulated, and the soil is fertile ; a considerable part is under an improved system of tillage, and the remainder is in demesne, meadow, or pasture land.

Some have been attributed to pre-human hominines applying significance to pleasingly shaped natural objects such as the Makapansgat pebble, as well as to later societies.

Its principal, north face has a central break front with a pleasingly modelled entrance and the Hall's name in raised relief in a stone fascia above.

Second, the theory had a pleasingly intuitive structure: the form of a sentence was quite literally derived from its meaning via transformations.

While critics hailed it as " pleasingly old-fashioned adventure ," it was her performance that won the most admiration and earn her two nominations: Best Lead Actress in Television from the Australian Film Institute and Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series from the Logie Awards.

Additionally, the player may draw a serendipitous contract calling for the load to be delivered with little additional travel.

The French finally acquired the islands through a cunning mixture of strategies, including the policy of ' divide and conquer ', chequebook politics and a serendipitous affair between a sultana and a French trader that was put to good use by the French, who kept control of the islands, quelling unrest and the occasional uprising.

The comet was thus a serendipitous discovery, but one that quickly overshadowed the results from their main observing program.

The CMB's serendipitous discovery in 1964 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s, and earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize.

Although early examples of organic reactions and applications were often serendipitous, the latter half of the 19th century witnessed highly systematic studies of organic compounds.

This serendipitous observation began the modern era of antibiotic discovery.

M. E. Graebner describes serendipitous value in the context of the acquisition of a business as " windfalls that were not anticipated by the buyer prior to the deal ": i. e., unexpected advantages or benefits incurred due to positive synergy effects of the merger.

It describes the suppression of serendipitous discoveries or research results by powerful individuals.

* Accidental Genius Book – anecdotes of serendipitous scientific discoveries.

* ACM Paper on Creating serendipitous encounters in a geographically distributed community.

The serendipitous discovery of a spring during the subterranean retreat's excavations enabled it to be filled with the relaxing sound of trickling water, which would quietly echo around the chambers.

This may provide a serendipitous benefit to a host that also suffers from autoimmune disease.

* The " Old Mission Peninsula Cruise " is considered to be a " serendipitous " adventure for road bike riders.

Weissman and Koe recalled that the group did not set up to produce an antidepressant of the SSRI type — in that sense their inquiry was not " very goal driven ", and the discovery of the sertraline molecule was serendipitous.

Traditionally, the mint leaves were used as a preservative, this practice arising from the serendipitous discovery that Halloumi kept better and was fresher and more flavoursome when wrapped with mint leaves.

Due to the serendipitous nature of Thornley's choice of literary subject matter, he was called to testify before the Warren Commission in Washington, D. C. on May 18, 1964.

The era of radio telescopes ( along with radio astronomy ) was born with Karl Guthe Jansky's serendipitous discovery of an astronomical radio source in 1931.

Drafted 133rd overall in the 6th round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, Alfredsson was a serendipitous pick by the Senators.

One of the serendipitous highlights of his work in the late forties was the recording of his Cuban-influenced song " Repetition " using a big band and string orchestra, for an anthology album called The Jazz Scene intended to showcase the best jazz artists around at that time.

This serendipitous event allowed more crossings to occur without inbreeding too closely.

Two members of his expedition returned to London, where they published the anonymous pamphlet The True Report of Sir Anthony Shirley's Journey, which, additionally spurred by the actor Will Kempe's meeting with Sir Anthony in Rome, evoked two references to " the Sophy "— the Shah — in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ( 1601-02 ).

His initial meeting with Crerar went poorly ( possibly strained by Simonds ' illness ), and relations further deteriorated when Simonds ejected an officer sent by Crerar to measure his headquarters caravan.

The caravan members anticipated meeting with United States Congress leaders about related issues ; but government officials, most notably Harrison Loesch, the Interior Department Assistant Secretary responsible for the Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ), refused to meet with delegates.

It disrupted a meeting of Londonderry Corporation in March 1968 and in May blocked traffic by placing a caravan that was home to a family of four in the middle of the Lecky Road in the Bogside and staging a sit-down protest at the opening of the second deck of the Craigavon Bridge.

We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.

Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.

Aspects of combinatorics include counting the structures of a given kind and size ( enumerative combinatorics ), deciding when certain criteria can be met, and constructing and analyzing objects meeting the criteria ( as in combinatorial designs and matroid theory ), finding " largest ", " smallest ", or " optimal " objects ( extremal combinatorics and combinatorial optimization ), and studying combinatorial structures arising in an algebraic context, or applying algebraic techniques to combinatorial problems ( algebraic combinatorics ).

On 19 March 1970 the East and West German Chancellors Willi Stoph and Willy Brandt met in Erfurt, the first such meeting since the division of Germany.

Douglass had met with Auld's daughter, Amanda Auld Sears, some years prior ; she had requested the meeting and had subsequently attended and cheered one of Douglass ' speeches.

* 1968 A group of six Gibraltarian lawyers and businessmen, calling themselves the palomos or ' doves ', advocated a political settlement with Spain in a letter published in the Gibraltar Chronicle, and met with Spanish Foreign Office officials ( a meeting was even held with the Spanish

His cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.

In October 2011, Crane met personally with MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, in a meeting that was described as " constructive ".

Initially, it met quarterly, but from 1991, it has been meeting 3 times a year.

While attending the Milton Boarding School, Booth met a Gypsy fortune-teller who read his palm and pronounced a grim destiny, telling Booth that he would have a grand but short life, doomed to die young and " meeting a bad end ".

There were reports that Weaver and / or Seldin had met secretly with Johnson in South Florida ( one report placing the meeting on a boat in the Everglades ), and the NFL officially warned the Jaguars front office that contact with Johnson would be forbidden without Jerry Jones ' permission, which Jones refused to give.

During his visits, Ribbentrop met with Simon and Benito Mussolini, and asked them to postpone the next meeting of the Bureau of Disarmament, in exchange for which Ribbentrop offered nothing in return other than promising better relations with Berlin.

The Barthou-Ribbentrop meeting infuriated Neurath because the two had met without bothering to inform the Foreign Office beforehand.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

As a result of having read this book Gilbert, two years later, journeyed to England with three of his slaves and there in at drawing room meeting arranged in Wandsworth on 15 January 1759, met the preacher John Wesley.

However, this dating was disputed by Hypatius of Ephesus, who met the monophysite party during the 532 meeting with Emperor Justinian I ; Hypatius denied its authenticity on the grounds that none of the Fathers or Councils ever cited or referred to it.

While at the show, they met Quinn again, and, a few days later, set up a meeting with him to obtain a sales order.

In 1943 an international panel met to consider " the question of the Permanent Court of International Justice ", meeting from 20 March to 10 February 1944.

In mid-January 1199, the two kings met for a final meeting, Richard, standing on the deck of a boat, Philip, standing on the banks of the Seine River.

Her initial meeting with Scott was brief, but when they met again later that year, the mutual attraction was obvious.

Thus, the goal of a hard real-time system is to ensure that all deadlines are met, but for soft real-time systems the goal becomes meeting a certain subset of deadlines in order to optimize some application specific criteria.

The particular criteria optimized depends on the application, but some typical examples include maximizing the number of deadlines met, minimizing the lateness of tasks and maximizing the number of high priority tasks meeting their deadlines.

In January 2002 the presidents of Suriname and Guyana met in Suriname and agreed to resume negotiations, establishing the Suriname-Guyana border commission to begin meeting in May 2002.

The teams have only met twice in the regular season with the first meeting occurring in 2002 at the old Yankee Stadium.

U. S. ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie met with Saddam in an emergency meeting on 25 July 1990, where the Iraqi leader stated his intention to give negotiations only ... one more brief chance before forcing Iraq's claims on Kuwait.