I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

others were of men doffing their hats to each other, carrying umbrellas with pomp, reading newspapers, or simply showing loaves of bread spread out.

Over these voluntary agencies, in 1917-18, the CTCA served as a co-ordinating body in carrying out what Survey called `` the most stupendous piece of social work in modern times ''.

Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.

I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.

Through trade and travel across the seas the American Merchant Marine is carrying out its historic mission of linking the United States of America with friendly nations across the seas ; ;

The Court adopted this procedure with an appropriate time schedule for carrying it out.

This section prevents the military departments and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization from carrying out certain transactions involving real property unless they come into agreement with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

In carrying out this Agreement, the two Governments will seek to assure, to the extent practicable, conditions of commerce permitting private traders to function effectively and will use their best endeavors to develop and extend continuous market demand for agricultural commodities.

Mr. Sharpe's arrival in the business did indeed provide what Mr. Brown had most coveted -- time for `` tinkering '', and the opportunity of carrying out in the back room those developments in precision graduation which most interested him at that time.

It seemed that I would be the gainer if I accepted the peace and quiet, instead of carrying out my threats.

But specific procedures for carrying out this plan were left to the discretion of the provincial governors.

In carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Secretary is authorized and directed to provide for the giving of notice of strikes or lock-outs to applicants before they are referred to employment.

Eight men were tried together in U.S. District Court in Anniston, Ala., on charges of interfering with interstate transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders.

In carrying out this program science has undoubtedly performed a very considerable service for which it can claim due credit.

but the East would have to show sincerity in carrying it out ''.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

* Dysfunction of the cerebrocerebellum ( lateral hemispheres ) presents as disturbances in carrying out voluntary, planned movements by the extremities ( called appendicular ataxia ).

This is because they were only carrying out the sentence of death that he would have faced had he not been acquitted on a technicality.

Thus we hear of abbots going out to hunt, with their men carrying bows and arrows ; keeping horses, dogs and huntsmen ; and special mention is made of an abbot of Leicester, c. 1360, who was the most skilled of all the nobility in hare hunting.

The decision-making participants are the Consultative Parties and, in addition to the 12 original signatories, include 16 countries that have demonstrated their interest in Antarctica by carrying out substantial scientific activity there.

Police officers and court officials have a general power to use force for the purpose of performing an arrest or generally carrying out their official duties.

In each of the ten " main meetings " ( kuriai ekklesiai ) a year, the question was explicitly raised in the assembly agenda: were the office holders carrying out their duties correctly?

Basic operations of an AVL tree involve carrying out the same actions as would be carried out on an unbalanced binary search tree, but modifications are preceded or followed by one or more operations called tree rotations, which help to restore the height balance of the subtrees.

* Michael Halliday's systemic functional grammar argues that the explanation of how language works " needed to be grounded in a functional analysis, since language had evolved in the process of carrying out certain critical functions as human beings interacted with their ... ' eco-social ' environment ".

Statutes forbade gens de couleur from taking up certain professions, marrying whites, wearing European clothing, carrying swords or firearms in public, or attending social functions where whites were present.

He argues that the explanation of how language works " needed to be grounded in a functional analysis, since language had evolved in the process of carrying out certain critical functions as human beings interacted with their ... ' eco-social ' environment ".

During the 1980s there was an attempt made to separate party and state functions, with the party deciding general policy and the state carrying it out.

The Roman Curia, then, sometimes anglicized as the Court of Rome, as in the 1534 Act of Parliament that forbade appeals to it from England, is the Papal Court, and assists the Pope in carrying out his functions.

However, this new unit, whether called Vigilanza or Gendarmeria, and though carrying out very similar functions to the pre-1970 Gendermeria, is officially classified as a civilian force ( along with the Vatican Fire Brigade ) rather than as a military force, which is the status on the contrary of the Italian Arma dei Carabinieri that regularly patrols Saint Peter's Square.

As an example, the Prime Minister and Cabinet ( as the de facto executive body in the system ) generally must seek the permission of the head of state when carrying out executive functions.

In network management, fault management is the set of functions that detect, isolate, and correct malfunctions in a telecommunications network, compensate for environmental changes, and include maintaining and examining error logs, accepting and acting on error detection notifications, tracing and identifying faults, carrying out sequences of diagnostics tests, correcting faults, reporting error conditions, and localizing and tracing faults by examining and manipulating database information.

An inductively coupled transponder comprises an electronic data carrying device, usually a single microchip, and a large coil that functions as an antenna.

In fact, fiscal federalism is a general normative framework for assignment of functions to the different levels of government and appropriate fiscal instruments for carrying out these functions ( Oates, 1999: 1120-1 ).

While there, Father Sarto expanded his knowledge of theology, studying both Saint Thomas Aquinas and canon law, while carrying out most of the functions of the parish pastor, who was quite ill.

Initially many Greek city-states seem to have been petty kingdoms ; there was often a city official carrying some residual, ceremonial functions of the king ( basileus ), e. g. the archon basileus in Athens.

Seemingly lowly domestic functions — such as making the ruler's bed, bathing him, cutting his hair, carrying him in his litter, or even relaying messages — could in theory give a eunuch " the ruler's ear " and impart de facto power on the formally humble but trusted servant.

Its primary mission was to test the performance of those functions and parts necessary for carrying out subsequent lunar and planetary missions ; a secondary objective was to study the nature of particles and fields in interplanetary space.

The Mayor is responsible for carrying out all Council decisions and for the day to day operation of all functions of the municipality.

Statutes forbade gens de couleur from taking up certain professions, marrying whites, wearing European clothing, carrying swords or firearms in public, or attending social functions where whites were present.

The rami communicantes contain autonomic nerves that serve visceral functions carrying visceral motor and sensory information to and from the visceral organs.

If X is an algebraic variety carrying the Zariski topology, we can define a locally ringed space by taking O < sub > X </ sub >( U ) to be the ring of rational functions defined on the Zariski-open set U which do not blow up ( become infinite ) within U. The important generalization of this example is that of the spectrum of any commutative ring ; these spectra are also locally ringed spaces.

When not serving either of these functions, the primary responsibility of a halfback is to aid the offensive linemen in blocking, either to protect the quarterback or another player carrying the football.

Therefore, the kulintang player functions not only as the one carrying the melody, but also as the conductor of the entire ensemble.

While carrying out these functions the lubricant is constantly replaced from the contact areas either by the relative movement ( hydrodynamics ) or by externally induced forces.

In technical terms, even the more specialised bomb vessels and fireships were classed as sloops-of-war, and in practice these were actually employed in the sloop role when not carrying out their specialized functions.

As over two-thirds of the municipalities have a population of under 3, 000, many of them have found it advantageous to co-operate in providing services and carrying out administrative functions.