They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

`` What were they doing here ''??

We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.

He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.

Unconsciously, governments or races or institutions may enter into some undertaking without fully realizing why they are doing so.

By political, economic, geographic and natural standards, they were justified in doing so.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

`` What are they doing here ''??

`` They can be going along, doing little damage, then bang, bang -- they can hit a couple of passes on you for touchdowns and put you in trouble ''.

Housewives are finding literally hundreds of ways of getting the maximum use out of traditional designs, says Mr. Alden and they are doing it largely because Colonial craftsmen had `` an innate sense of the practical ''.

He intimated that they weren't doing the country much good in the Cold War.

He was good and they knew that what he was doing for them he would do all over the United States some day.

What are they doing on Mars ''??

Such explanations do not imply that humans are always consciously calculating how to increase their inclusive fitness when they are doing altruistic acts.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

" " Managing upward " is the concept of a subordinate finding ways to subtly " manage " superiors in order to limit the damage that they end up doing.

King responded later that day, saying, " That a right-wing-blog would impugn my patriotism because I said children should learn to read, and could get better jobs by doing so, is beneath contempt ... I live in a national guard town, and I support our troops, but I don ’ t support either the war or educational policies that limit the options of young men and women to any one career — military or otherwise.

The reason for doing this according to the U. S. National Electrical Code ( NEC ), is to limit the voltage imposed by lightning, line surges, and contact with higher voltage lines.

He himself was authorized to invest money up to a limit in the business but was prevented from doing so by family troubles.

** See more fully the discussion in Dennis J. Baker, The Right Not to be Criminalized: Demarcating Criminal Law's Authority ( Ashgate, 2011 < http :// www. ashgate. com / isbn / 9781409427650 >) where Professor Baker argues ( in chapter 5 ) that there is a limit to consensual harm doing — but that the threshold of harm has to be reasonably high.

While this was a major factor in the decision, after a coupe version was caught doing during a test run, a then-recent spate of accidents under foggy conditions also helped the introduction of the limit.

The Dilbert principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management ( generally middle management ), in order to limit the amount of damage they are capable of doing.

Merchant's Ophelia describes a series of women throughout time — women who dared question the patriarchal status quo and who were often castigated for doing so — and is a cry for women's rights and for more understanding of female archetypes beyond the scope of the " mother " and the " whore ", both of which severely limit women and attempt to turn them into little more than chattel.

If we limit to a single mode for simplicity ( doing so we formally describe a mere harmonic oscillator ), a Fock state is of the type with n an integer value.

I am doing everything in my power to limit his time frame, and I am really thinking of returning to Russia after Putin collapses, which he will.

The angles of movement are left and right and into the depth ( while still capable of doing so technically, this game did not allow making a U-turn or going into reverse, therefore moving out of the depth, as this did not make sense to the high-speed game play and tense time limit ).

In doing so he appears to limit the discussion to Christian marriages and to preclude the possibility that love affairs might lead to marriage.

For example, in a coal-supply agreement, the mining company may seek to have " geological risk " included as a force majeure event ; however, the mining company should be doing extensive exploration and analysis of its geological reserves and should not even be negotiating a coal-supply agreement if it cannot take the risk that there may be a geological limit to its coal supply from time to time.

The reason for this limit is that the government believes that doing more than 16 hours affects the Jobseeker's ability to find employment.

Because they are not emotionally troubled by pain or physical exhaustion, a Parasite can push its host body to the limit, performing much better than the host may have originally been capable of doing.

When doing so, the result is called the classical limit.

The driver being tailgated might not wish to comply, especially if doing so would involve breaking the law, such as by increasing speed beyond the speed limit or changing lanes without due regard for safety.

Bogey times were usually calculated to be impossible, or just barely possible to achieve, and in doing so, would require speeds vastly in excess of the speed limit.

For this promise to be properly realised, ways must be found to limit the vast damage that is now being done by tobacco and to bring home, not only to the many millions of people in developed countries but also the far larger populations elsewhere, the extent to which those who continue to smoke are shortening their expectation of life by so doing.

The contestants learn about his multi-billion-dollar venture capital firm IOCOR, and in any episode, he or a member of his ' family ' could usually be found doing something to unsettle the contestants or to test the limit of their blindness to truth.

Other sources point out that BNP Paribas is doing badly ; share price that day passed the limit of € 30, downwards, as the market assumed that if BNP Paribas cannot fortify its capital position by taking over Fortis Bank it needs to attract capital from another source.

Temporary skills are carried out until given another order, just like continuous skills, but also have an upper limit on how long the lemming will keep doing the skill.

When non-group members, or outsiders, are considered or potentially labeled as less valuable without basis for stated group-supported and group-reinforced prejudice, group members may have a tendency to then consider themselves as intellectually superior, which can limit alternate points of view, thus becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy in which group members automatically begin to devalue others and the intellect of others that are separate from their group, without logical rationale for doing so.

It was reported that he was doing about 150 mph, 100 mph over the speed limit.