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elaborate and scheme
Downer said that he intended to elaborate further on Australian Prime Minister John Howard's promise of a seven-year extension of the SPARTECA – TCF scheme, which assists Fiji's textile, clothing, and footwear industry.
Without the repeater, the range of the telegraph was limited to two miles ( 3 km ), and the inventors had pulled two miles ( 3 km ) of wires inside the factory house through an elaborate scheme.
In reality, Streeter orchestrated an elaborate scheme to steal valuable shoreline property.
Over the succeeding centuries a general consensus arose regarding what constitutes a fever, the distinction between fever as a symptom and fever as a disease, an elaborate classification scheme for multiple types of fever, hypotheses as to the causes of fever and various methods for diagnosing and treating fevers.
The Clark government introduced Bill C-15, the Freedom of Information Act, which established a broad right of access to government records, an elaborate scheme of exemptions, and a two-stage review process.
In the season five ( 2001 ) episode " Scott Tenorman Must Die ", Cartman, feeling cheated out of $ 16. 12 by a local eighth-grader named Scott Tenorman, successfully executes an elaborate scheme to publicly humiliate Scott in front of his favorite band Radiohead, by tricking Scott's parents into getting murdered and then tricking Scott into eating them.
The pair devised a scheme in which an elaborate fake crab was constructed and hid it deep in a canyon.
This was part of an elaborate land grab scheme devised by Tower and his partner, Alfred Munson of Utica, NY.
Descent introduced an elaborate static lighting scheme as well as simple dynamic lighting, where the environment could be lit with flares — another advancement compared to Doom.
As late as April 2001, before the company's collapse, Enron executives participated in an elaborate scheme of pump and dump in addition to other illegal practices that fooled even the most experienced analysts on Wall Street.
He will often help Doug plan elaborate schemes to fool Carrie, but rarely likes to get involved in the scheme himself.
In many cases, these schemes would not have worked as well as they did if it were not for the Knights simultaneously attempting an equally elaborate scheme to profit from a situation.
Minkow raised money by factoring his accounts receivable for work under contract, as well as floating funds through several banks in an elaborate check kiting scheme.
On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy.
Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic speculated that the alternate persona and elaborate marketing scheme backfired, writing, " When Brooks ' new persona and his album were revealed to the public, they were unforgiving-they didn't think he was playing a role, they simply thought he'd lost his mind.
Bleicher, posing as an anti-Nazi colonel, convinced Marsac that he wished to defect, and the pair concocted an elaborate scheme involving the co-operation of Marsac's assistant Roger Bardet, who was persuaded by letter to visit Marsac in prison.
He carried an elaborate scheme for handing over the payment of naval and military pensions to contractors, who would be paid a fixed annual sum for forty-five years ; but no one was found willing to undertake this contract, although a modified plan on the same lines was afterwards adopted.
In order to preserve his life, he concocted an elaborate scheme by having an agent of his, a Coluan named Prin Vnok, use a time machine to travel to the End of Time itself and retrieve Doomsday, who had been left there by Superman and Waverider to ensure that he would never be a threat again, and use Doomsday as a new host body.
This elaborate money laundering and land fraud scheme was only the beginning.
An elaborate storyline in the title Captain Marvel showcases Thanos ' scheme to conquer the universe, as the character becomes determined to prove his love for Death by destroying all life.
Both the South Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railway companies ' locomotives were painted black each with their own style of lining but, when taken over by the South Eastern and Chatham Railways Managing Committee ( SE & CR ), dark green was adopted with an elaborate lining scheme.
Later numbered SP 6800, it became a goodwill ambassador for the railroad in 1976 when it was painted in an elaborate red, white, and blue color scheme in celebration of the nation's bicentennial ; it was later renumbered and repainted in standard SP livery and was donated to the museum.
In the May 2008 issue, Jack discovered that a local shopkeeper had devised an elaborate scheme to steal all the townspeople's toilet paper.
* Upon discovering that Pete Doherty has moved into the area and then wondering why Meg's drug dealing business had not improved considerably, Jack and Silver investigate and find that the boat keeper in the local park is a rival dealer who is supplying Doherty's needs by way of an elaborate scheme involving the park pedal boats, a submarine and a fog machine.

elaborate and prevent
For large and elaborate arrangements, special blockages ( also known as firebreaks ) are employed at regular distances to prevent a premature toppling from undoing more than a section of the dominoes while still being able to be removed without damage.
In this stratum we elaborate a " pure grammar " or a logical syntax, and he would call its rules " laws to prevent non-sense ", which would be similar to what logic calls today " formation rules ".
Some pubs offer elaborate hot and cold snacks free to customers on Sunday lunchtimes to prevent them getting hungry and leaving for their lunch at home.
Predatory species generally use elaborate courtship rituals to prevent males from being eaten before they can mate.
In order to prevent public access to the websites, CRS has erected an elaborate firewall to keep the public out.
The imperial troops spent several days constructing an elaborate system of ditches, walls and obstacles to prevent another breakout.
According to the art historian Lawrence Stone ( writing before the discovery of the Derrynaflan Hoard ): " Here the Irish artist has shown a capacity for classical restraint by a deliberate decision to prevent the ornamentation from spreading so copiously as to blur the proportions ... contrasting markedly with the lavish ornamental spread of the almost contemporary Tara Brooch and the still more elaborate systems of the later period.
In order to elaborate an effective legal regime to prevent and punish international terrorism, rather than only working on a single, all-encompassing, comprehensive definition of terrorism, the international community has also adopted a "' sectoral ' approach aimed at identifying offences seen as belonging to the activities of terrorists and working out treaties in order to deal with specific categories thereof ".
There are elaborate mechanisms to prevent unwanted oxidation.
Regimental Medical Officers were learning that neither elaborate selection methods nor extensive training could prevent a considerable number of combat soldiers from breaking down.
With other types of transmitter, the carrier could not be controlled so easily, and they required elaborate measures to modulate the carrier and to prevent transmitter leakage from de-sensitizing the receiver.
The imperial troops spent several days constructing an elaborate system of ditches, walls and obstacles to prevent another breakout.
Hollow concrete structures float ( see WWII concrete ships ), so a box caisson must be ballasted or anchored to prevent this phenomenon until it can be filled with concrete ( indeed, elaborate anchoring systems may be required in tidal zones ); adjustable anchoring systems, combined with a GPS survey, allow engineers to position a box caisson with pinpoint accuracy.
Moreover, Gaea has erected magical screens, reinforced over millennia by human sorcerers, which prevent him from traveling to Earth unless he undertakes highly elaborate preparations.
Le Chiffre attempts to distract Tremble by performing elaborate magic tricks, but fails to prevent Tremble from winning.
These rugged terrains prevent people from having an elaborate commercial agriculture.

elaborate and passage
* The Delani / Sonnabend Halls-recalling the intertwining story of an ill-fated opera singer, Madalena Delani, with a theoretician of memory, Geoffrey Sonnabend, whose 3-part work Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter suggests that memory is an elaborate construction that humankind has created, " to buffer ourselves against the intolerable knowledge of the irreversible passage of time and the irretrievability of its moments and events.
For instance, both homilies clearly follow the same pattern: 1. statement of theme, 2. announcement of the text from the New Testament, 3. discussion of another passage from the New Testament in elucidation of that text, 4. and elaborate paraphrase of exemplum or exempla, from the Old Testament.
Rome lacked the elaborate female puberty rituals of ancient Greece, and for girls the wedding ceremony was in part a rite of passage for the bride.
It included elaborate acting and dancing ceremonies in traditional costume, an annual mourning ceremony, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world, and an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms.
Kuksu included elaborate acting and dancing ceremonies in traditional costume, an annual mourning ceremony, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world and an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms.
Older cultures had elaborate myths activated by rites of passage, which helped men along this path, and " men's societie ", where older men would teach young boys on these gender-specific issues.
" Some possible such affinities are as follows: # 1 shares the terse, elliptical expression of the first movement of the Piano Sonata Opus 101 ; # 3 shares the style of elaborate, high-register elaboration of a slow melody in triple time, seen in the slow movement of the " Hammerklavier " Sonata Opus 106 ; and the final Bagatelle opens with a chaotic passage reminiscent of the opening of the finale of the Ninth Symphony.
This included elaborate acting and dancing ceremonies in traditional costume, an annual mourning ceremony, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world and an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms.
The Kuksu religion ( dubbed the Kuksu Cult by early historians ) included a cycle of elaborate dancing ceremonies, each with its own group of actors and distinctive feather-decorated regalia, an all-male society that met in subterranean dance rooms, puberty rites of passage, shamanic intervention with the spirit world, and, in some areas, an annual mourning ceremony.
In October he was arrested by the local authorities before he could arrange passage to Antwerp, wearing an elaborate disguise.
* Third movement ( Vivace-Presto ): apart from Ian Paice's drum solo, the music is so tightly knit that the distinction between the group and the orchestra is almost lifted: in a way the group becomes part of an extended orchestra, with one elaborate " solo " passage, by an instrument that is no soloist throughout the movement, giving a concerto touch: this is more or less what is understood by the Concerto for Orchestra genre.
An interpretation of a passage from the Christian Bible, "... every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head ...", has led to the tradition of wearing elaborate Sunday hats, sometimes known as " crowns.
In keeping with this system, when a person passes, there is an elaborate ceremony with ritual washing, dressing the dead in fine clothes and gold jewelry, and a mourning period allowing the family to show respect for departed and to allow a safe passage and welcome for the deceased into the spirit world.
An elaborate passage describes how the Italian Gulielmis were transformed into English Wilsons " during a wave of anti-Italian feeling occasioned by alleged ice-cream poisoning in the 1890s in the Lancashire coastal resorts of Blackpool, Cleveleys, Bispham and Fleetwood ".
At the front of the enclosure, the passage widens into a quadrangular area with an elaborate cell at the end.

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