Nelson ordered the fleet to slow down at 16: 00 to allow his ships to rig " springs " on their anchor cables, a system of attaching the bow anchor that increased stability and allowed his ships to swing their broadsides to face an enemy while stationary.

Moreover, the view that mankind was making slow and steady moral progress came to seem ridiculous in the face of the senseless slaughter.

* Counting fast whenever the face wrestler is being pinned, while counting slow, or even refusing to count at all, when the heel wrestler is being pinned.

Modern computers face similar limiting factors: main memories are slow compared to the CPU and the fast cache memories employed to overcome this are limited in size.

Due to the slow pace of road reconstruction, inhabitants of Abuja face hours on hours in traffic trying to get to work each day.

Wearing thick glasses, Elmore's face always had an expressive and dramatic look, especially when he was real gone on the slow blues.

Checking objects with complex geometry against each other in the obvious way, by checking each face against each other face, is itself quite slow.

As he comes out of the warehouse " load-point ", the camera zooms in to Neo at normal speed but as it gets closer to Neo's face, time seems to slow down, foreshadowing the manipulation of time itself within the Matrix later in the movie.

As he comes out of the warehouse " load-point ", the camera zooms into Neo at normal speed but as it gets closer to Neo's face, time seems to slow down, perhaps visually accentuating Neo pausing and reflecting a moment, and perhaps alluding to future manipulation of time itself within the Matrix later on in the movie.

The transformation was slow and suffered from screaming, hair and nails grow, the woman's face stretched into that of a hungry wolf meat and leaving room for animal instinct.

After a cut to black ( a device used throughout the film ) a slow look of understanding crosses Mick's face.

Enjoying high approval ratings initially, continuous disputes and rivalries among the coalition partners, a general sensation of inaction in the face of recession, and a failure to tackle corruption, as well as de la Rúa's own lack of charisma and slow demeanor ( perceived as stupor ), hurt his public image.

In the face of the steady disintegration of its rival, the fledgling American Federation of Labor struggled to maintain itself, with the group showing very slow and incremental growth in its first years, only cracking the 250, 000 member mark in 1892.

However, the biggest threats we face nowadays are rarely sudden events, but slow, gradual processes, such as environmental changes.

Herodianus writes that " Pannonians are tall and strong always ready for a fight and to face danger but slow witted ".

The transformation was slow and subjects suffered from screaming, hair and nail growth and the woman's face stretched into that of a hungry wolf.

Salisbury was part of two parliamentary deputations which called on the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, in the autumn of 1936 to remonstrate with them about the slow pace of British rearmament in the face of the growing threat from Nazi Germany.

Waldron became something of an unsung legend for his uncanny ability to play very slow, deep and even disturbing ballads bordering on sorrow, while he himself would sit perfectly motionless, stoic and stolid at the piano, his face devoid of all emotion.

Wounded and surrounded, Caledor jumped into the sea in full armour, choosing a quick death by drowning, rather than face the long, slow, torturous end Malekith would inflict on him if captured.

In modern wrestling steel / metal folding chairs are used with the strike being performed with the flat face of the chair to slow the swing and distribute the impact, to prevent injury.

The first several Mysorean outposts surrendered in the face of the large army, and it made steady if slow progress until it reached Darwar in September.

To change back, as she showed in one episode to her sister Drusilla, she merely does a slow about face spin with her arms extended and is instantly Diana, with no special effect.

As the car speeds away Harold is silent, but in his face we see a full range of emotions ; at first astonishment which gives way to anger and then a slow realization that he is powerless and finally resignation to the fact that he is moments from death.

Then, abandoning the studies in the face of their promising outlook for all concerned, B. & O. entered on-again-off-again negotiations with C. & O. which resulted in the present situation.

Then in 1538, as Henry began diplomatic negotiations with Lutheran princes, Cranmer came face to face with a Lutheran embassy.

A major one is that money wages are set by bilateral negotiations under partial bilateral monopoly: as the unemployment rate rises, all else constant worker bargaining power falls, so that workers are less able to increase their wages in the face of employer resistance.

However, psychological evaluations conclude that Kim Jong-il's antisocial features, such as his fearlessness in the face of sanctions and punishment, served to make negotiations extraordinarily difficult.

However, from a non-Catholic perspective ( NOT an anti-Catholic perspective ), this poses certain concerns regarding religious freedom, such as: 1 ) Concordats give to the Church a privileged position that other religious groups are denied ( European history in numerous books reveals this fact ), 2 ) Concordats are not " the same as treaties " because they are entered into by an entity that is BOTH religious and political in nature, viz., the Catholic Church, whereas any other treaty is between two sovereign entities on a horizontal level, i. e., purely political in nature, and 3 ) depending on the negotiations agreed upon in the Concordat, some religious groups face the threat of being marginalized ( example: in Spain, although the Constitution guarantees religious freedom ( theoretically ), yet in practice, the Church is mentioned by name and holds a pre-eminent position among other religious groups.

There were no battles or skirmishes fought in the face of the vast host brought into Wales ; rather, Owain and Gruffydd entered into truce negotiations.

After various negotiations with the mayor and the deputy mayor and the involvement of various delegations, the mayor gave an ultimatum for the crowd to disperse by 5 p. m. or face fire-brigade water cannons.

Marie famously declared that " Romania needs a face, and I will be that face ," astutely calculating that the international press was growing tired of the endless negotiations and would be unable to resist the glamour of a Royal visit.

Almost as quickly, the negotiations were abandoned in the face of opposition from the Students ' Union.

Brady Bond negotiations generally involved some form of " haircut " – meaning that the value of the bonds resulting from the restructurings was less than the face value of the claims before the restructurings.

Proximity talks are similar to shuttle diplomacy, in being a form of indirect negotiations in which the parties do not meet each other face to face but communicate only via a mediator going back and forth and passing proposals and counter-proposals.

After the Munich Agreement in September 1938 and the passivity of outside powers in the face of German occupation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 it was shown that the Western Powers were not prepared to engage in collective security against aggression by the Axis Powers together with the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign policy was revised and Litvinov was replaced as foreign minister in early May 1939, in order to facilitate the negotiations that led to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, signed by Litvinov's successor, Vyacheslav Molotov, on August 23 of that year.

In the face of continually dragging and seemingly hopeless negotiations with Great Britain and France, a new cynicism and hardness entered Soviet foreign relations when Litvinov was replaced by Vyacheslav Molotov in May 1939.

He subsequently played a major role in the negotiations that ended the civil war, presenting himself as the conciliatory face of the ERP.

In the face of opposition, which paralysed the work of the parliament, the Széll government proved impotent and, so on 23 May 1903 King Francis Joseph authorised Károly Khuen-Héderváry, ban of Croatia, to initiate negotiations among the Hungarian politicians about the prospects of forming a new government.

As she was in negotiations with CBS at the time for her new TV series, Garland paid rather than face the adverse publicity and potentially damaging the deal's prospects.

Bert Brown explains the importance of both personal and national face in international negotiations:

In the face of reports of abuses against Missouri Unionists, and continued negotiations between Governor Jackson and the Confederate Government, Lincoln approved Harney's replacement as Commander of the Western District by newly promoted Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon.