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In order to keep it from spinning while in the gun due to the rifling, a small " key " fit into a straight groove in the rifled gun.
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The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.
They are putting strong pressure on their police departments to keep order.
But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.
So Mr. Crombie sat on a wooden box and talked in order to keep Mr. Blatz's mind from funny things.
Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.
Stations programing to Negro listeners are having to upgrade their shows in order to keep pace with rising educational, economic, and cultural levels.
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.
Military action was heavily influenced by the Russian military, which inspired and manipulated the rivalry between the two neighbouring nations in order to keep both under control.
* 1898 – Spanish – American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
Administrator Webb realized that in order to keep Apollo costs under control, he had to develop greater project management skills in his organization, so he recruited Dr. George E. Mueller for a high management job.
* 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ( present-day Sri Lanka ) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
In order to keep the cytotoxic cells from killing cells just for presenting self-proteins, self-reactive T cells are deleted from the repertoire as a result of tolerance ( also known as negative selection ).
He gave away most of his fortunes to various peace-keeping agencies in order to keep them growing.
In order to combine these image elements correctly, it is necessary to keep an associated matte for each element.
The Tokyo Convention states in Article 11, defining the so-called unlawful takeover of an aircraft, that the parties signing the agreement are obliged, in case of hijacking or a threat of it, to take all the necessary measures in order to regain or keep control over an aircraft.
In order to keep track of its position within the display, the Electron maintains an internal display address counter.
Such songs were also very rhythmic in order to keep the rowers together.
It brought about the decision to clear the 30, 000 square metres of land in order to keep future fires from getting into inner Tokyo city.
However, in order to remain competitive they must keep margins usually quite low.
:“ I never thought that spreading ignorance has any advantage, except for those who are in a position of power and want to deprive others of their rights and spread ignorance in order to keep them underlings .”
Nowadays, electric buses often carry their own battery, which is sometimes recharged on stops / stations in order to keep the size of the battery small / lightweight.
A few animals commonly stand on their hind legs, in order to reach food, to keep watch, to threaten a competitor or predator, or to pose in courtship, but do not move bipedally.
If a house or car is above a certain value, the bankrupt can buy the interest back from the estate in order to keep the asset.
The caver's primary light source is usually mounted on the helmet in order to keep the hands free.
When the traversal encounters an atom through which the current path has already passed, a ghost atom is generated in order to keep the tree finite.
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No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
He hung around the schoolhouse, watching through a window from outside while Miss Langford straightened desks and put the room in order.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
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 ).
For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.
For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.
Thus with regard to the loss of tradition, in the change from order to disorder the metaphysics of change works itself out as a disruption of the individual soul, a change in which man continues as an objective ontological existent, but no longer as a man.
The stars constitute an order of existence different from what we encounter on earth.
In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.
Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.
They order the manifold levels of reality and moral value along an axis of being which extends from brute matter to the immaculate stars.
Small wonder that Milton later boasted of how well his work had been received there, since he attained a rank in the order of commencing bachelors higher than that of any other inceptor from Christ's of that year.
Arriving just in time to stop men from turning their planet into a radioactive wasteland, the Overlords unite earth into one world in which justice, order, and benevolence prevail and ignorance, poverty, and fear have ceased to exist.
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.
Apologies are in order from anybody who said, `` Are you sure you're not making a mistake ''??
Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.
( A wry sidelight on this is that most of my students have deferments from the draft in order to attend my classes.
He opened it a crack and in doing so made as much shuffling, coughing, and scraping noise as possible in order to drown emanations from the hen who had begun to protest.
If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.
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