By prevailing over other claimants for the loyalties of men, the nation-state maintained an adequate measure of certainty and order within its territorial borders.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

`` E '' stands for `` execution '' -- the moment a `` go order '' would unleash an American nuclear strike.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

These began to be apparent in a press conference held during the second illness in order that the consulting specialists might clarify the President's condition for the nation.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

In order to prevent this, Washington hastened to dispatch several units to reinforce the fort, including a force under the Marquis De Lafayette containing some 160 of Morgan's riflemen, all who were fit for duty at this time, the rest having no shoes.

Baker wrote: `` I tooke order with Sr. E. Grevile for the payment of Ceartaine monei beefore his going towardes London.

& 20 more Mr. Peeter Rowswell tooke order with his master to paie for mee ''.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

It is for these reasons that proposals for a `` new world order '', through radical overhaul of the United Nations or through some sort of world federation, are utterly fatuous.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

In order to write with authority either about musicians, or as a musician, Patchen would have to soft pedal his characteristically outspoken anger, and change ( at least for the purposes of this poetry ) from a revolutionary to a victim.

He said it was stupid butchery to order men to make a charge like that, no matter who gave the order and what for.

Generally EOD render safe procedures ( RSP ) are a type of tradecraft protected from public dissemination in order to limit access and knowledge, depriving the enemy of specific technical procedures used to render safe ordnance or an improvised device.

When he returned ( and broke the hitting record with a 28-game streak ) he was wearing an improvised ear flap on his batting helmet in order to protect the injury ; ear flaps have since become standard equipment on batting helmets.

The tenets of the economy were: reduction of imports, self-sufficiency, state-controlled production and commercialization of first order goods, state-funded industry and construction of infrastructure — heavily damaged during the Civil War — through the use of improvised means.

Chauvel successfully improvised a late afternoon assault on Gaza that captured the town despite the barriers of high cactus hedges and fierce enemy opposition, entering it after dark, only to have an out-of-touch Dobell order the mounted troops to withdraw, despite Chauvel's protests.

The 1938 version contains the same order, albeit in a flowing, slightly improvised fashion.

In Romania the ponds drainage located on inferior course of Danube in order to practice agriculture, the accidental death of birds captive in improvised fishing nets, destroying of nests by the professional fishermen in order to protect the fish resources drove to decreasing of number of individuals and including the species on IUCN red list as a vulnerable species.

Essentially unique among classical guitarists, Dyens frequently opens his concerts with an improvised piece, in order to help him get a feel for the hall and the audience.

" However, the phrase itself was being employed in an absurdist and humorous context as early as the 1750s, when it appeared in a well-known piece of nonsense prose improvised by the English dramatist and actor Samuel Foote in order to test the memory of a rival: " So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.

Stage tango can be improvised in parts but in order for the general general choreography to fit the set stage often parts are rehearsed as a set routine.

However, the recited lyrics, delivered by Adrian Belew, are often somewhat improvised both in order and sets of words used.

The improvised flag was made on the order of Negev Brigade commander Nahum Sarig, when it was discovered that the Brigade did not have an Israeli flag on hand.

Each improvised story must contain a beginning, middle, and end, not necessarily in that order.

The order in which the toasts were made was determined before the scene was filmed, although with the exception of that offered by Skye, they were improvised rather than scripted.

Even so, as the officer of rank with the responsibility of maintaining order, from 1965 to 1973 he helped lead American resistance in the North Vietnamese prison complex through the use of improvised messaging techniques (" tap code "), endearing himself to fellow prisoners with his faith and optimism.

In order that casualties might be evacuated, an airstrip was improvised on frozen ground partly outside of the Koto-ri defense perimeter which was continually under enemy attack.

Other new artistic currents including the one of M ' hamed Issiakhem, Mohammed Khadda and Bachir Yelles, appeared on the scene of Algerian painting, abandoning figurative classical painting to find new pictorial ways, in order to adapt Algerian paintings to the new realities of the country through its struggle and its aspirations.

Whereas the first part of the film takes place in society restrained by law and order, the second part, including the flashback scene, occurs in the world of individuals and thus the characters seen in the first part of the film are revealed in their true form.

Another distinction is between image order algorithms, which iterate over pixels of the image plane, and object order algorithms, which iterate over objects in the scene.

Generally object order is more efficient, as there are usually fewer objects in a scene than pixels.

In 1941, Trumbo wrote a novel The Remarkable Andrew, in which, in one scene, the ghost of Andrew Jackson appears in order to caution the United States not to get involved in the war.

The scene in Planet Terror has would-be rapist, " Rapist No. 1 " ( Quentin Tarantino ) order one-legged stripper " Cherry Darlin " ( Rose McGowan ) to get up off the floor and dance.

Today's filmmakers tend to skip the establishing shot in order to move the scene along more quickly.

During the climactic final scene in M, he allegedly threw Peter Lorre down a flight of stairs in order to give more authenticity to Lorre's battered look.

* The scene where Naoko learns her brother is alive ; Goro snaps pictures of them reunited, which angers Naoko because she realizes he only helped her in order to get the scoop.

The scene order is more coherent, without the problems of Q2 and F1 of Hamlet seeming to resolve something in one scene and enter the next drowning in indecision.

He believes that shooting in order, from first scene to last, helps the actors to find a response to their circumstances.

When he returned to Munich, following Eisner's assassination by an anti-semitic nationalist, Count Arco-Valley, he informed Gasparri-using Schioppa's eye-witness testimony of the chaotic scene at the former royal palace as the trio of Max Levien, Eugen Levine, and Towia Axelrod sought power: " the scene was indescribable the confusion totally chaotic in the midst of all this, a gang of young women, of dubious appearance, Jews like the rest of them hanging around the boss of this female rabble was Levien's mistress, a young Russian woman, a Jew and a divorcée and it was to her that the nunciature was obliged to pay homage in order to proceed Levien is a young man, also Russian and a Jew.

In order to liven up a scene that they thought was too heavy on exposition, they added an " effete art-world hanger-on ", known as Knox Harrington, late in the screenwriting process.

Simple triage is usually used in a scene of an accident or " mass-casualty incident " ( MCI ), in order to sort patients into those who need critical attention and immediate transport to the hospital and those with less serious injuries.

The scene ends with Sally casually returning to her meal as a nearby patron ( played by Reiner's mother ) places her order: " I'll have what she's having.

The international political scene in the late 1930s was marked by growing intolerance between the principal figures, by the aggressive attitude of the totalitarian regimes and by the certainty that the order set up after World War I was losing its strongholds and its sponsors were losing their strength.

Neither conflates its meaning with how the term was originally applied to film in the Cahiers de Cinéma, which was expressed in 1960 by critic Fereydoun Hoveyda as follows: " What matters in a film is the desire for order, composition, harmony, the placing of actors and objects, the movements within the frame, the capturing of a moment or look ... Mise en scene is nothing other than the technique invented by each director to express the idea and establish the specific quality of his work.

The painter's algorithm sorts all the polygons in a scene by their depth and then paints them in this order, farthest to closest.

In order for higher functions in the brain ( or in a computer for that matter ) to extract and classify objects such as a dog and a cat, the retina is the first step to separating out the various objects within the scene.

* In a scene of the The Simpsons Movie ( 2007 ), Homer Simpson is shown throat singing with an Inuit woman in order to have an epiphany.