However nothing on four legs was supposed to be faster than a lion over a short distance, unless it was a cheetah.

Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.

He cautioned not to use penicillin unless there was a properly diagnosed reason for it to be used, and that if it were used, never to use too little, or for too short a period, since these are the circumstances under which bacterial resistance to antibiotics develops.

Disraeli's term as Prime Minister would therefore be fairly short, unless the Conservatives won the general election.

Since these stock additions retain the short pistol barrel ( as short as 100 mm ( 4 inches )) they are highly restricted under the NFA unless the shoulder stocks are of original manufacture for the gun and the gun has been " delisted " as outlined in links 1 & 2 in the paragraph above, as is the case with so-equipped " Broomhandle " Mausers and Lugers.

According to this theory, short term memory ( STM ) can only retain information for a limited amount of time, around 15 to 30 seconds unless it is rehearsed.

In addition, Coronal mass ejections from the Sun are highly dangerous, and are fatal within a very short timescale to humans unless they are protected by massive shielding.

It is impossible to imagine a man, the argument goes, unless one has in mind a very specific picture of one who is either tall or short, European or Asian, blue-eyed or brown-eyed, et cetera.

This is a typical work kitchen, too, unless the two other cabinet rows are short enough to place a table at the fourth wall.

The " long-and-short haul " clause of the original Interstate Commerce Act ( 1887 ) was strengthened to prohibit railroads from charging passengers more for a short distance trip, compared to a longer distance ride, over the same route, unless specifically approved by the ICC.

A number of short and isolated lines were originally operated by horse, unless connected to the main system and converted to locomotive operation.

Almost no secular music by Schütz has survived, save for a few domestic songs ( arien ) and no purely instrumental music at all ( unless one counts the short instrumental movement entitled " sinfonia " that encloses the dialogue of Die sieben Worte ), even though he had a reputation as one of the finest organists in Germany.

Skull fractures are usually not life threatening unless the fracture is depressed and impinges on the brain beneath and bone fractures usually heal over a relatively short period.

If the reissued cartoon was a Merrie Melodies short originally released between late 1941 and early 1945, then the opening music would have been the same from the original release ( unless the reissue had the 1945 music ), but in other cases, the opening music is different from the original.

The conjugations are as follow ( note: according to classical Arabic, the last short vowel in each word is not pronounced unless it is followed by another word ):

In short, a defendant might be justified in running away from police attempting an unlawful arrest ; but, almost certainly will not be considered justified in shooting police who attempt to do so ( unless the defendant can somehow prove self-defense ).

* Excessively short identifiers: the name of a variable should reflect its function unless the function is obvious.

Dive times are short, around 15 to 20 seconds, with recovery times on the surface of 5 to 10 seconds unless prey are being swallowed.

The first subsong component is often inaudible unless the listener is close, and consists of two to six short, low-pitched notes such as bup, bup, bup.

In short, unless an inscription is discovered, Herodian ’ s place of birth will never be known for certain.

Informed observers feel that such advocates have the greatest likelihood of success in jurisdictions which have initiative and referendum and can be put on the ballot directly by voters, at least in the short term, as legislators are very unlikely to be willing to give up such control over the power of the purse unless voters overwhelmingly demand it.

In practice, the distance is so short that this rarely happens unless one team has a fall.

In short, an antimatter weapon would have to be actively kept from exploding ; a nuclear weapon will not explode unless active measures are taken to make it do so.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

Citing FBI crime statistics, they assert firearms are the only reasonable means of self-protection, especially for women, people of short stature, people with disabilities, and the elderly.

In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.

His much vaunted " short, sharp shock " policy, whereby convicted young offenders were detained in secure units and subjected to quasi-military discipline won approval from the public but proved expensive to implement and largely ineffectual in stemming burgeoning crime rates.

" Devaney has also said, " Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of Interior.

The 1942 short story " Talboys ", the very last Wimsey fiction produced by Sayers, is both a sequel to the present book, in having the same location and some of the same village characters, and an antithesis in being lighthearted and having no crime worse the theft of some peaches from a neighbour's garden.

One of the most unusual, and possibly unique, features of the book is that, while it appears at first sight to be an expanded version of Berkeley's short story " The Avenging Chance ", the eventual solution of the crime in the full-length novel is quite different from that in the short story.

2009 saw Hawke appear in two features: New York, I Love You, a romance movie comprising 12 short films, and Staten Island, a crime drama co-starring Vincent D ' Onofrio and Seymour Cassel.

In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays.

The king made it a capital crime for peasants to carry weapons longer than a short knife.

1. It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective ( either professional or amateur ) investigates and solves a crime mystery.

The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel ( she previously had a role in the Parker Pyne short story The Case of the Discontented Soldier ).

The plot also shows some parallels with an earlier murder mystery story by the English novelist Sarah Burney The Hermitage ( 1839 ): the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it, for instance but The Moonstone introduces in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form, a number of elements that were to become classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story:

However, still short of cash, he was forced to get a loan from Jack Catain, a Los Angeles businessman who had ties to organized crime.

The defendant Miller had been arrested for possession of an unregistered short double-barreled shotgun, and for " unlawfully ... transporting in interstate commerce from Claremore, Oklahoma to Siloam Springs, Arkansas " which perfected the crime.

The short concurring opinion by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger emphasized historical negative attitudes toward homosexual sex, quoting Sir William Blackstone's characterization of sodomy as " a crime not fit to be named.

After minor roles in British television, including a two-year stint in the Granada TV soap opera Families and the leading role in the BFI / Channel 4 short The Crane, Law had his breakthrough with the British crime drama Shopping, which also featured his future wife, Sadie Frost.

The crime itself is dealt with in a short play, A Yorkshire Tragedy of uncertain authorship.

John-Jules ' film career began in 1975 playing ' Frog ' in the short film Seven Green Bottles, which was produced in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police and warned of the dangers and consequences of juvenile crime.

He wrote short stories in the horror, fantasy, science fiction and crime genres for the pulp magazine market.

An example of an early crime / revenge story is the American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe's ( 1809 – 1849 ) tale " The Cask of Amontillado ", published in 1846.

The Perainos and some other major players connected to organized crime received short prison sentences.