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either and case
In either case, they do not appreciate the private detective's zeal.
How in the world had he formerly found time to build up a business, raise a family, be on half a dozen boards, work actively on committees and either go out in the evening or plow through the contents of a bulging brief case??
For if such were the case, either the plane of the two lines would meet **zg in more than K points or, alternatively, the order of the image regulus of the pencil determined by the two lines would be too high.
Tonal morphophonemics, in a common case, can do nothing but either raise or lower the tone.
In virtually every case the transferor corporation is liquidated, and its former stockholders either own outright, or have a continuing stock interest in, the assets which gave rise to the tax.
In the only sense in which badness is involved at all, whatever was bad in the first case is still present in its entirety, since all that is expressed in either case is a state of feeling, and that feeling is still there.
But in either event he was the wrong man for the kind of case outlined by Ben Gurion and set forth in the indictment.
It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).
But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.
We may now take up for consideration a hard case which seems to require either no action employing economic pressure or else action that would seem to violate the principles set forth above.
In either case, it could call a special session of the Legislature later in 1961 to make another stab at raising additional revenues through a tax raiser.
Thus, if what is at issue is whether `` All S is P '', it is indifferent whether `` Some S is not P '' or `` No S is P '', since in either case the judgment in question is false.
The male grasps the female tightly with his forelimbs either behind her arms or in front of her back legs, or in the case of Epipedobates tricolor, around her neck.
The appellant in the new case can be either the plaintiff ( or claimant ), defendant, third-party intervenor, or respondent ( appellee ) from the lower case, depending on who was the losing party.
In tort, equity, or other civil matters either party to a previous case may file an appeal.
The pleading in the criminal case, which is entered on the record in open court, is usually either guilty or not guilty.
In other types of alphabet either the vowels are not indicated at all, as was the case in the Phoenician alphabet ( such systems are known as abjads ), or else the vowels are shown by diacritics or modification of consonants, as in the devanagari used in India and Nepal ( these systems are known as abugidas or alphasyllabaries ).
Some linguists believe the case for either interpretation is about equally strong ; they have been called the " skeptics ".
Later he lies freely in order to gain the confidences of other characters, either inventing his own reason for being interested in the case or a family excuse for pursuing a line of questioning.
It is therefore better to assume that Christie provided no authoritative chronology for Poirot's retirement, but assumed that he could either be an active detective, a consulting detective or a retired detective as the needs of the immediate case required.
In either case the earth becomes weakened by its cracks and hills collapse, causing earthquakes.
With the descendents of Charles I thus either childless ( in the case of William III and Anne ) or Catholic, consideration then fell to the descendants of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the only other child of James I to have reached adulthood.

either and pitching
The batsman may wrongly assume that the flipper will drop and loop like a normal overspinning delivery, resulting in the ball pitching under the bat and going on to either hit the stumps or result in leg before wicket.
A natural right-hander, by 1986 he could throw well enough with his left hand that he felt capable of pitching with either hand in a game.
Beginning players typically receive a series of lessons, in either a group or individual setting, covering the fundamentals of the golf swing and aspects of pitching, chipping, and putting.
In London especially, the aged ale would take on a tart note from a secondary fermentation with brettanomyces yeast which was present either in the pitching yeast or in the wooden equipment.
Also called the triple-option, this base formation allows three basic running options: the fullback receiving the handoff, the quarterback pitching to either halfback, or the quarterback running the ball himself.
After not pitching in the 2010 season, Looper was a non-roster invitee of the Chicago Cubs to spring training as a candidate to be either a starter or reliever on the team.
In, Mitre started off on Triple-A Iowa's roster, and on May 10,, he was recalled from Iowa, only to be sent down after two games and not pitching in either.
Gap wedges are loosely defined, but typically have the loft between that of a pitching wedge and sand wedge, between 50 and 54 degrees, but at the extremes there is redundancy with either the sand or pitching wedge.
Being on the cusp between numbered irons and wedges, the pitching wedge has generally-accepted uses falling into either class.
As a testament to Crandall's pitch calling skills, between 1953 and 1959, the Braves ' pitching staff finished either first or second in the National League in team earned run average every year except 1955.
The batsman may wrongly assume that the flipper will drop and loop like a normal overspinning delivery, resulting in the ball pitching under the bat and going on to either hit the stumps or result in leg before wicket.
Until Carlos Zambrano no-hit the Houston Astros on September 14, 2008, Pappas ' had been the last no-hitter the Cubs had been involved in — either pitching it or having it pitched against them.
The quarterback receives the snap and runs out to the flanker side, the flanker in turn makes a deep arc into the backfield behind the quarterback, and then there is an exchange either by handoff or by pitching the ball to the flanker.

either and rocking
Steam just above atmospheric pressure ( all that the boiler could stand ) was introduced into the lower half of the cylinder beneath the piston during the gravity-induced upstroke ; the steam was then condensed by a jet of cold water injected into the steam space to produce a partial vacuum ; the pressure differential between the atmosphere and the vacuum on either side of the piston displaced it downwards into the cylinder, raising the opposite end of a rocking beam to which was attached a gang of gravity-actuated reciprocating force pumps housed in the mineshaft.
Vocal fold length and tension can be controlled by rocking the thyroid cartilage forward and backward on the cricoid cartilage ( either directly by contracting the cricothyroids or indirectly by changing the vertical position of the larynx ), by manipulating the tension of the muscles within the vocal folds, and by moving the arytenoids forward or backward.
This tends to happen when the subject believes he or she is in a particular position, whereas his or her actual body is either rocking in a cradle actively, or still lying down.
The man – and the camera following him from behind – survey its contents: a dog and a cat share a basket, a caged parrot and a goldfish in its bowl sit atop a small table ; the walls are bare apart from a mirror and an unframed picture of “ the face of God the Father ” pinned to the wall ; there is a couch with a pillow, some blankets and a rug on it, a rocking chair with a “ curiously carved headrest ” and there is a window with a tattered roller blind with full-length net curtains to either side.
Steam just above atmospheric pressure ( all that the boiler could stand ) was introduced into the lower half of the cylinder beneath the piston during the gravity-induced upstroke ; the steam was then condensed by a jet of cold water injected into the steam space to produce a partial vacuum ; the pressure differential between the atmosphere and the vacuum on either side of the piston displaced it downwards into the cylinder, raising the opposite end of a rocking beam to which was attached a gang of gravity-actuated reciprocating force pumps housed in the mineshaft.
It was fitted either with a simple two-leaf rocking sight ( on rifles issued to the rank and file ) or with a tangent-leaf on rifles issued to snipers.
Other ways to add motion to a rattleback include tapping by pressing down momentarily on either of its ends, and rocking by pressing down repeatedly on either of its ends.

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