Among the policy makers, generals, physicists, psychologists and others charged with controlling the actions of the button pushers and their `` hardware '', the answers to my questions varied partly according to a man's flair for what the professionals in this field call `` scenarios ''.

For example, on the first night, some scenarios call for returning first after three minutes, then after five minutes, and thereafter each ten minutes, until the baby is asleep.

The challenge of the game is to not only come up with the horrific scenarios but find the advantages and disadvantages of each scenario and make a judgment call on which seems like the lesser of two horrors.

Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

It is appropriate to call attention to certain thermodynamic properties of an ideal gas that are analogous to rubber-like deformation.

I must add at once that these animals are what we call `` queens '', young females that have mated in the previous summer or autumn.

We should spread the view that planning and national development are serious matters which call for effort as well as enthusiasm.

Telephone orders distort the picture: the suburbanite naturally calls a local rather than a central-city number if both are listed in an advertisement, especially if the local call eliminates city sales tax.

If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.

Timothy Rourke gulped down the whiskey hastily and joined him, asking, `` Who are we going to call on in the Northeast section ''??

There are many who predict that should Barnett decide to call the Legislature back into special session, it will really throw his administration into a scramble.

about 30 per cent call themselves Christians in order to keep up appearances and be considered respectable, and only the last 10 per cent are genuine Christians and believers in democracy.

Frequently interspersed throughout the folded mountains, and also situated on the Anatolian Plateau, are well-defined basins, which the Turks call " ova ".

Jesus will call to life all those who are unrighteous.

In his sermons on capital sins, Alain argued that sodomy and homicide are the most serious sins, since they call forth the wrath of God, which led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Volta also studied what we now call electrical capacitance, developing separate means to study both electrical potential ( V ) and charge ( Q ), and discovering that for a given object, they are proportional.

Numbers within this block are used for various test utilities such as a ringback number ( to test the ringer when installing telephone sets ), milliwatt tone ( a number simply answers with a continuous test tone ) and a loop around ( which connects a call to another inbound call to the same or another test number ).

They are used in order for the agent in the call center to confirm the phone the customer is calling from, so that a computer can automatically display the customer's account on a " screen pop " for the next available customer service representative ; they are distinct from purpose-made toll-free ANAC numbers.

If the assets used are not identical ( so a price divergence makes the trade temporarily lose money ), or the margin treatment is not identical, and the trader is accordingly required to post margin ( faces a margin call ), the trader may run out of capital ( if they run out of cash and cannot borrow more ) and go bankrupt even though the trades may be expected to ultimately make money.

And words whereby we conceive nothing but the sound, are those we call Absurd ...." Among Hobbes examples are " round quadrangle ", " immaterial substance ", " free subject.

When they are lit, it is a way for one to call for military aid from the other, as per its historical use in medieval Europe.

The auction continues until there are three consecutive passes not including the dealer's first call.

The set of agreements used by a partnership about the meaning of each call is referred to as a bidding system, full details of which must be made available to the opponents ; ' secret ' systems are not allowed.

Plants are the fundamental base of nearly all food chains because they use the energy from the sun and nutrients from the soil and atmosphere, converting them into a form that can be consumed and utilized by animals ; this is what ecologists call the first trophic level.

Health-related data such as that from hospital computer systems, clinical laboratories, electronic health record systems, medical examiner record-keeping systems, 911 call center computers, and veterinary medical record systems could be of help ; researchers are also considering the utility of data generated by ranching and feedlot operations, food processors, drinking water systems, school attendance recording, and physiologic monitors, among others.

Some InterCityExpress and most InterCity trains call at Bonn Hauptbahnhof whilst the Siegburg / Bonn railway station is situated on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line outside of Bonn and serviced by InterCityExpress trains.

A common nickname for the intentional walk is four-finger salute, since most managers call for an intentional walk by holding up four fingers.

The most common view today accepts Martin Noth's thesis that Kings concludes a unified series of books which reflect the language and theology of the Book of Deuteronomy, and which biblical scholars therefore call the Deuteronomistic history.

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

His 1852 account records " in ... Lake Moodewarri Lake Modewarre as well as in most of the others inland ... is a ... very extraordinary amphibious animal, which the natives call Bunyip.

The clear whistle " bob-WHITE " or " bob-bob-WHITE " call of these birds is most recognizable.

Even though most proposals call for payments of less than the full amount of the debt owing, in most cases, the creditors will accept the deal, because if they do not, the next alternative may be personal bankruptcy, where the creditors will get even less money.

The most common by far, which one could call the " standard tuning " is:

Nine-wicket croquet, sometimes called " backyard croquet ", is played mainly in the United States, and is the game most American casual players call simply " croquet ".

The most common and important call in adults is the " pant-hoot ".

Because most congregations call themselves " Christian Churches ," the chalice has become a simple way to identify Disciples of Christ Churches through signage, letterhead, and other forms of publicity.

Many classes have methods that call their own functions, thereby looking and feeling like most other OO languages.

... this epistle is the principal and most excellent part of the new testament, and most pure evangelion, that is to say glad tidings and what we call the gospel, and also a light and a way in unto the whole scripture ...

In proper history, most historians call Chandragupta Maurya the first samrāṭ ( emperor ) of the Indian subcontinent, because of the huge empire he ruled.

A recent biography of Mendelssohn's grandson, Felix, describes their friendship as one of the most " illuminating metaphors the clarion call of the Enlightenment for religious tolerance ".

As the final against the Germans approached, the media learnt of Greaves ' return to fitness and, while appreciating Hurst's contribution, started to call for the return of England's most prolific centre forward.

It is used primarily to call attention to the fact that computers will unquestioningly process the most nonsensical of input data (" garbage in ") and produce nonsensical output (" garbage out ").

This area of river valleys and coastal plains, which most Honduras call " the north coast ," or simply " the coast ," has traditionally been Honduras's most exploited region.

" In most aspects what some would call impressionist music is indistinguishable from late Romantic music.

According to Kevin Carson ( himself a mutualist ), " most people who call themselves " individualist anarchists " today are followers of Murray Rothbard's Austrian economics.

Le Corbusier visited MIT in, an occasion which powerfully affected Pei: " The two days with Le Corbusier, or ' Corbu ' as we used to call him, were probably the most important days in my architectural education.