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being and forced
Although they were forced to maintain a sharper watch, this activity enabled them to ride in and rack their broncs without any particular attention being paid them.
And still another witness, one who had crawled out from under a heap of corpses, had to tell how the victims had been forced to lay themselves head to foot one on top of the other before being shot.
`` He is wrong to inject Eisenhower into this campaign '', he said, `` because the primary is being waged on state issues and I will not be forced into re-arguing an old national campaign ''.
Although the Administration's program cut crop acreage to the lowest point since 1934, farmers, with the help of extra fertilizer and good weather, are getting such high yields per acre that many are being forced to buy new harvesting machines.
In such a situation, it may be incumbent on the individual to abjure one of his citizenships to avoid possibly being forced into situations where countervailing duties are required of him, such as might occur in the event of war.
The pieces are carefully heated with exclusion of air and then compressed into a uniform mass by intense hydraulic pressure ; the softened amber being forced through holes in a metal plate.
* 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
But they were met by a large force under the three great ealdormen of Mercia, Wiltshire and Somerset, and forced to head off to the northwest, being finally overtaken and blockaded at Buttington.
Peasant farmers who once practiced subsistence farming are being forced to farm what is best for foreign trade, mostly wine and oil.
After being defeated, Naxos is believed ( based on similar, later revolts ) to have been forced to tear down its walls, and lost its fleet and its vote in the League.
And guilty defendants who are in denial should be empowered to use these pleas instead of being forced to stand trial.
Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.
In 1887, the stolen base was given its own individual statistical column in the box score, and was defined for purposes of scoring: "... every base made after first base has been reached by a base runner, except for those made by reason of or with the aid of a battery error ( wild pitch or passed ball ), or by batting, balks or by being forced off.
Because badminton players have to cover a short distance as quickly as possible, the purpose of many advanced strokes is to deceive the opponent, so that either he is tricked into believing that a different stroke is being played, or he is forced to delay his movement until he actually sees the shuttle's direction.
Yet, with the money still being withheld by Petty and with rent due, Buddy was forced to go back on the road.
Then for fear of being surrounded, Antony was forced to give the word to attack.
The surviving indigenous groups fled to the mountains or the small surrounding islands before being captured and forced into reservations.
Suetonius reports that other senators were degraded by being forced to wait on him and run beside his chariot.
Therefore, despite being very fast clock by clock, the 6x86 and MII were forced to compete at the low-end of the market as AMD K6 and Intel P6 Pentium II were always ahead on clock speed.
Its importance in physics is the result of its being the solution to the differential equation describing forced resonance.
Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).
If students believe that concepts are being forced upon them, they might become uncomfortable and fearful.
On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.
The year after he wrote Das Deutschlandlied, Hoffmann von Fallersleben lost his job as a librarian and professor in Breslau, Prussia, because of this and other revolutionary works, and was forced into hiding until being pardoned after the revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
During the 1990s, the English football club Wimbledon, based in London, expressed interest in relocating to the city after being forced to leave their Plough Lane stadium and ground-share with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.

being and bend
From 1419, he fought alongside his father, soon gaining fame for being able to bend metal bars with his bare hands.
The SOIC ( Small Outline IC ), a surface-mount package which is currently very popular, particularly in consumer electronics and personal computers, is essentially a shrunk version of the standard IC PDIP, the fundamental difference which makes it an SMT device being a second bend in the leads to flatten them parallel to the bottom plane of the plastic housing.
This introduces a perceptual distortion wherein the straight lines of the non-Euclidean geometry are being represented by Euclidean curves which visually bend.
It is the westernmost point in Iowa, this being due to a bend in the Big Sioux River.
* The bend angle of the joint, or angle of the axles with respect to each other, with zero being parallel or straight through.
The Austrian troops advanced from Alessandria eastwards across the Bormida river by two bridges debouching in a narrow bend of the river ( the river being not easily crossed elsewhere ).
They are often U-shaped, or have a U-shaped bend, to keep the held stitches from falling off while the primary needle is being used.
* Rag doll act ( also called: Golliwog act )-Circus act in which a contortionist, dressed in a loose-fitting clown costume, gives the appearance of being a limp, life-sized doll, as one or two assistants bend, roll, carry and pose the " doll " and then stuff him / her into a small box.
Despite being praised by some sources as a nearly ideal bend knot, it is not very well known ; Clifford Ashley, author of The Ashley Book of Knots, was apparently unaware of this bend.
The objective of this motion is to " load " ( bend ) the rod tip with stored energy, then transmit that energy to the line, resulting in the fly line ( and the attached fly ) being cast for an appreciable distance.
This resulted in the road being rerouted through pasture to the east of the original road, taking a right hand bend about south of The Old Mill, taking a 5. 5 % gradient, and rejoining the original road north of The Kell.
They are hard to open and close because the zipper anvil must bend apart teeth that are being held under tension.
Luckner was extremely strong and was noted for his ability to bend coins between his thumb, index and middle finger of his right hand and to tear up telephone directories ( the thickest being that of New York ) with his bare hands.
There are several possible explanations for the name " Carrick " being associated with this bend.
Unfortunately, with so many permutations, the Carrick bend is prone to being tied incorrectly.
The regime deliberately fostered this sense of ubiquity, believing that the fear of being watched was sufficient to bend the people to Ceausescu's will.
Detective Chief Superintendent Maynon ( Morris Perry ) appears occasionally as a superior officer, and is seen as being more willing than Haskins to bend the rules in order to get a result in the episode " Queen's Pawn ".
The natural magnetic waves that bend around and pin the superconductor in mid space also break into millions of ultra-thin lines and each one carries a flux quantum caused from the superconductor being so sensitive to magnetic waves.
Physical forms include being forced to wear some sign such as donkey ears ( simulated in paper, as a sign one is — or at least behaved — proverbially stupid ), wearing a Dunce cap, having to stand, kneel or bend over in a corner, or repeatedly write something on a blackboard (" I will not spread rumors ", for example ).
At the Helsinki Olympic Games of 1952, in the 5000 metres final, after being passed on the last bend by the Czech long distance runner, Emil Zátopek, France's Alain Mimoun, and West Germany's Herbert Schade, Chataway's foot brushed the curb and he crashed headlong to the ground.
The cottise ( the spelling varies — sometimes only one t and sometimes c instead of the s ) originated as an alternative name to cost ( see above ) and so as a diminutive of the bend, most commonly found in pairs on either side of a bend, with the bend being blazoned either as between two cottises or as cottised.

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