A player who is constantly aggressive and plays many inferior hands is called a " maniac ", and skilled players will take advantage of him by calling him more often, using isolation plays, and by other means.

While early slingshots were most associated with young vandals, they were also capable hunting arms in the hands of a skilled user.

From this moment on, Mazzini was more of a spectator than a protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento, whose reins were now strongly in the hands of the Savoyard monarch Victor Emmanuel II and his skilled prime minister, Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour.

However though both Penni and Giulio were sufficiently skilled that distinguishing between their hands and that of Raphael himself is still sometimes difficult, there is no doubt that many of Raphael's later wall-paintings, and probably some of his easel paintings, are more notable for their design than their execution.

In the hands of any but the most skilled constructors, the constraints of the American-style grid ( in which every letter is checked ) usually require a fair number of answers not to be dictionary words.

He convinces Laodamas to challenge Odysseus, then rebukes him when he refuses to participate, saying " No truly, stranger, nor do I think thee at all like one that is skilled in games, whereof there are many among men, rather art thou such an one as comes and goes in a benched ship, a master of sailors that are merchantmen, one with a memory for his freight, or that hath the charge of a cargo homeward bound, and of greedily gotten gains ; thou seemest not a man of thy hands.

" In the hands of a less skilled writer, the use of a resurrected conversation partner might seem contrived.

However, skilled operators can either maintain pressure with their hands almost stationary vertically ; or, in a movement comparable to floating, can " float " their hands back to the top of the drill.

But in the hands of skilled soldiers, they gave the military a distinct advantage.

Refused employment due to his appearance although he possesses tremendous skill as a watchmaker, the only way he can survive is by turning to theft, using his skilled hands to disable alarms.

In the hands of a skilled practitioner, one 5-foot ( 1. 5 m ) tall wielder could conceivably cover and attack in 484 square feet ( 45 square meters ) of open, level ground with a 5 foot ( 1. 5 m ) shaft, 3 foot ( 0. 9 m ) blade, 3 foot ( 0. 9 m ) reach.

The possibly more elegant, but probably more tricky English technique with a single running noose and a rope so arranged as to whip around into the ideal position, might well have been too error-prone to be satisfactorily reliable in any but highly skilled hands.

A minority of adult people are equally skilled with both hands, and are termed ambidextrous.

In this alternate, futuristic universe, men and women ( at least on Taraak and Mejere ) consider each other to be completely separate species ( Hibiki gains the nickname " Mr. Alien " from Dita Liebely, the female protagonist ), and the three men put up with much abuse at the hands of their female captors, but gradually make their presence accepted: Hibiki as a mecha fighter and technician, Duelo as a skilled doctor and engineer, and Bart as the ship's helmsman and navigator.

Baco noir has the potential in the hands of a skilled winemaker of producing a fine port.

This very free treatment of blank verse was imitated by Shakespeare's contemporaries, and led to general metrical looseness in the hands of less skilled users.

In skilled hands, the illusion is perfect.

Some diagnostic tests are parts of a simple physical examination which require only simple tools in the hands of a skilled practitioner, and can be performed in an office environment.

As under French rule, Loyalist slaves were held in small numbers and were employed as domestic servants, farm hands, and skilled artisans.

The positions of the chains can be adjusted allowing finest control and greatest range of tone in the hands of a skilled percussionist.

To be useful in the hands of a skilled freeman, an axe also needed to be well-balanced, otherwise the handle might break, endangering its user.

In 1837 O ' Connor and George Julian Harney founded the London Democratic Association, which appealed to the " unshaven chin, blistered hands, and fustian jackets " for membership as a counterbalance to the previously founded London Working Men's Association which O ' Connor claimed consisted of skilled mechanics.

However, in the hands of a skilled operator, it is not possible for the game to be won, unless the operator wants the player to win.

Some of his individual songs ( he wrote more than 60 ) were occasionally included in vocal recitals ; referring to " the strange songs of Fritz Delius ", The Times critic expressed regret " that the powers the composer undoubtedly possesses should not be turned to better account or undergo proper development at the hands of some musician competent to train them ".

The actual song " Hands Across America " that was playing while everyone was holding hands was written by Marc Blatte and John Carney for Look and Company ( the Spanish version was written by the composer Marcia Bell ), a music production house in NYC.

The Singspiel became the most popular form of German opera, especially in the hands of the composer Johann Adam Hiller.

When he initially proposed this, Scriabin was of the opinion that at least eight hands would be necessary, and the composer was reportedly somewhat disconcerted when he realized that his piece could be reduced in this way.

Prior to the premiere of the ballet, Stravinsky and several other pianists like Russian composer Nikolai Tcherepnin used a four hands on one piano version for the rehearsals.

These royalties typically pass through the hands of a music publisher before they reach the composer.

The new housemaid behaves strangely, catching rats with her hands, spying on the composer, seducing him and eventually becoming pregnant by him.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

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25 ft in USA ), 38mm ( 1. 5 ") diameter natural fiber rope for speed, starting from a seated position on the floor and using only the hands and arms.

From the British point of view, it was regarded as highly desirable to keep Romania and its oil out of German hands ; since Germany had hardly any natural supplies of oil, the ability of the Royal Navy to successfully impose a blockade represented a British trump card both to deter war, and if necessary, win a war.

" To this end " ( to achieve the previously specified goal ), he wrote, " it is that men give up all their natural power to the society they enter into, and the community put the legislative power into such hands as they think fit, with this trust, that they shall be governed by declared laws, or else their peace, quiet, and property will still be at the same uncertainty as it was in the state of nature.

Kerkyra, the " Door of Venice " during the centuries when the whole Adriatic was the Gulf of Venice, remained in Venetian hands from 1401 until 1797, though several times assailed by Turkish naval and land forces and subjected to four notable sieges in 1537, 1571, 1573 and 1716, in which the great natural strength of the city and its defenders asserted itself time after time.

Asclepius ' death at the hands of Zeus illustrates man's inability to challenge the natural order that separates mortal men from the gods.

It is not entirely natural, having been shaped by human hands at some stage.

After privatization efforts in the 1990s the transport of natural gas and oil was in private hands during the 1990s while the production and refining of materials was part of risk-sharing contracts between the government and private investors.

“ Armed with two natural tools, mind and hands, those tools, which separate him from lower orders of animals, he tries to survive, to secure some water in the desert.

* In the early rounds Vargas used his natural strength ( he fights at a naturally higher weight ) to bully De La Hoya against the ropes and land right hands to the head and body ; however, in the middle and late rounds Vargas fatigued and De La Hoya's hand speed took over.

It is to give up all, and to have my hands and heart in the work, yea, the nearest and dearest friends …. Let others condemn me as being without natural affection, disobedient to parents, or say what they please …. I love my parents and friends, but I love my God better and his service …. And tho ’ I have given up all, I do not repent, for I have found all ”.

He was also in favour of strict economy coupled with the recovery of the royal domains which had fallen into the hands of the nobles, though his natural partiality for his fellow-peers came out clearly enough when in 1655 he was appointed a member of Charles X's land-recovery commission.

A manicure treatment is not only a treatment for the natural nails, but also for the hands.

Bennett attacked the terms under which Alberta had been made a province, especially the clauses that left control of its lands and natural resources in the hands of the federal government and required the continued provincial funding of separate schools.

In this method, the user operates a touchscreen with a stylus, rather than using a finger, which avoids getting the natural oil from one's hands on the screen.

For two years he worked hard in preparing for the army, but, by a singular conjunction of circumstances and at the sacrifice of his own natural bent to his father's wish, he matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, just two weeks before his commission was put into his hands.

It is not entirely natural, having been shaped by human hands at some stage.

In his book The Mentality of Apes, Köhler describes how the apes use their hands by explaining that “ large, powerful and flexible hands are natural links between himself and the world of things, and he attains the necessary amount of muscular force and co-ordination at an earlier age than the human child ” Köhler ( 1925 ).

* It is a natural system: most opening bids, responses and rebids are made with at least 4 cards in the suit bid, and most no trump bids are made with balanced hands.

In La Montagne ( 1868 ), the last of the natural history series, the tricks of staccato style are pushed even farther than by Victor Hugo in his less inspired moments, though — as is inevitable, in the hands of such a master of language as Michelet — the effect is frequently grandiose if not grand.

The regulations of biblical and oral law generally prescribe a form of water-based ritual washing in Judaism for removal of any ritual impurity, sometimes requiring just washing of the hands, and at other times requiring full immersion ; the oral law requires the use of un-drawn water for any ritual full immersion-either a natural river / stream / spring, or a special bath ( a Mikvah ) which contains rain-water.

Flamebird projects flames from her hands, and Nightwing uses " natural tactile telekinesis ".