Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly off the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mile away.

or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.

only slightly more, perhaps, than a newspaper account of such an incident would give.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

During a sojourn of slightly more than three months Chamberlain Littlepage could see action on both elements.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

Off-Broadway, where production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly more original.

If the artist would study his work more thoroughly and move certain units in his design, often only slightly, finer pictures would result.

Sixteen panels, each slightly more than 1-1/2 ft. wide, make up the 25-ft. length of the sign.

Preparation began slightly more than a year after independence with the first steps to organize rural communes.

President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.

The Commerce Department said seasonally adjusted sales of retail stores dropped to slightly under $18 billion in April, down 1% from the March level of more than $18.2 billion.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

He was a little more authentic than usual because he smelled slightly of the stables.

One study found that slightly altering photographs so that they more closely resembled the faces of study participants increased the trust the participants expressed regarding depicted persons.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

A slightly more accurate compensated version performs the full naive algorithm on the residuals.

Some details were changed slightly to allow more player choice-for example, players can be full Trump Artists without having walked the Pattern or the Logrus, which Merlin says is impossible ; and players ' psychic abilities are far greater than those shown in the books.

This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.

Across Abydos lies Sestus on the European side, marking one of the narrowest points of the Dardanelles, slightly more than a nautical mile broad ( the narrrowest point is at Çanakkale ).

Modern writers tend to be slightly more critical of Agesilaus ' reputation and achievements, reckoning him an excellent soldier, but one who had a poor understanding of sea power and siegecraft.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

The result is a very balanced tone, comparable to the 00 but with greater volume and dynamic range and slightly more low-end response, without sacrificing the ergonomics of the classical style, making these body styles very popular.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

Nearest and next-nearest neighbors form a distorted octahedral complex, with the three atoms in the same double-layer being slightly closer than the three atoms in the next.

The nearest and next-nearest neighbors form a distorted octahedral complex, with the three atoms in the same double-layer being slightly closer than the three atoms in the next.

In a slightly more complex form a sender and a receiver are linked reciprocally.

Important teeth for carnivorans are the large, slightly recurved canines, used to dispatch prey, and the carnassial complex, used to rend meat from bone and slice it into digestible pieces.

Due to the movement of the Earth around the Earth-Moon barycenter, the apparent path of the Sun wobbles slightly, with a period of about one month ; due to perturbations by the other planets of the Solar System, the Earth-Moon barycenter wobbles slightly around a mean position in a complex fashion.

But he was not satisfied with the complex and still slightly inaccurate result ; at certain points the model differed from the data by up to eight arcminutes.

One such Multiple Kick commonly seen in Taekwondo, is a slightly complex Side Kick where a High Side Kick is followed by a Low Side Kick which is in turn followed by a more powerful Side Kick.

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive ; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.

Later devices were only slightly more complex, filtering out that component entirely and then adding it by examining other portions of the signal.

More complex fonts such as the Roman text fonts in the Computer Modern family use a small pen to trace around the outline of the visual " strokes ", which are then filled ; the result is much like an outline font, but with slightly softened corners defined by the pen shape.

At the extreme opposite are interfaces which can perform very complex tasks with little human intervention but become obsolete if requirements change slightly.

The Earth's axis is also subject to other complex motions which cause the celestial poles to shift slightly over cycles of varying lengths ; see nutation, polar motion and axial tilt.

He presented a slightly more complex equation than the one above ( see History section below ) to explain his experimental results.

Consider a slightly more complex example:

This represents a slightly more complex system for rung 2.

The situation is slightly more complex, if electronic formatting is to be used.

At the core of the city was a high temple complex always sited slightly off of the geographical center.

Protected areas are designated with the objective of conserving biodiversity and providing an indicator for that conservation's progress, but the extent to which they defend resources and ecosystem dynamics from degradation are slightly more complex.

" Live " track is slightly more complex, with each link connected to the next with a bushing that causes the track to bend slightly inward.

Some puzzles also have pieces with non-interlocking sides that are usually slightly curved in complex curves.

The simple Durand – Kerner and the slightly more complicated Aberth method simultaneously finds all the roots using only simple complex number arithmetic.

A more common and slightly more complex cumulative ballot uses a points method.