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In the case of boats under sail, stability serves to hold the vessel upright against the sideways force of the wind on the sails.
In the case of aircraft, those flags are usually painted on, and those are usually to be painted on in the position as if they were blowing in the wind.
In this case, the force produced by the solar wind is beneficial.
Somewhat similar to the mistral wind of France, it occurs when atmospheric pressure over eastern Europe is higher than over the Aegean Sea, as is often the case in winter.
A star also radiates neutrinos, which carry off some energy, about 2 % in case of our Sun, producing a stellar wind and contributing to the star's total luminosity.
In the case of spore-shedding vascular plants such as ferns, wind distribution of very light spores provides great capacity for dispersal.
Secotioid fungi may or may not have opening caps, but in any case they lack the vertical geotropic orientation of the hymenophore needed to allow the spores to be dispersed by wind, and the basidiospores are not forcibly discharged.
The wind often blows the larva to nearby plants where it begins its new case from silk and fecal material before beginning to add leaves and twigs from its host.
" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).
In this case however, the fossils were found exposed in loose sand ; co-discoverer Beauvilain cautions that such sediment can be easily moved by the wind, unlike packed earth.
In the case of a forest where the adjacent land has been cut, creating an open / forest boundary, sunlight and wind penetrate to a much greater extent, drying out the interior of the forest close to the edge and encouraging growth of opportunistic species at the edge.
Water is usually removed by evaporation ( air drying, sun drying, smoking or wind drying ) but, in the case of freeze-drying, food is first frozen and then the water is removed by sublimation.
The wind resistance caused by the craft moving through the air is called drag and is overcome by propulsive thrust except in the case of gliding.
Especially in the case of wind powered mills the turning speed can be irregular.
Two narrow spiral staircases wind their way upwards, in each case between the central building and the adjacent tower.
The jump is guide-cable-controlled to prevent jumpers from colliding with the tower in case of wind gusts.
In the latter case, the windward side is that side of an island subject to the prevailing wind, and is thus the wetter side ( see orographic precipitation ).
In a very simple case where we ignore various complicating factors, the Magnus force from the crosswind would cause an upward or downward force to act on the spinning bullet ( depending on the left or right wind and rotation ), causing an observable deflection in the bullet's flight path up or down, thus changing the point of impact.
In the case of the Santa Ana, for example, the wind can ( but does not always ) become hot by the time it reaches sea level.
In the case of Antarctica, by contrast, the wind is still intensely cold.
Additionally, on the horizontal axis, the world was also split ; in this case by four cardinal points, representing the four wind directions ( north, east, south, west ).
The operator can indicate wind direction to the unit, and in the case of a long range target provide superelevation.
Their ski suits are made from air-tight latex or have a polyurethane coating to reduce wind resistance, with only a mandatory back protector to give some protection in the case of a crash.
The deceased were normally buried in the ground with the exception of children who died prior to the first birthday ; in this case the child's body was wrapped in a cloth or birchbark covering and buried in the tree branches as a " wind burial ".

case and is
This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.
he is very close to being a mental case.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.
There may be a case of this sort, but it is not one we wish to argue, here.
In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;
The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.
Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.
Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
In any case, who ever thought that New York is typical of anything??
American history should clinch the case when Congress is asked to approve.
Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.
The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.
If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.
Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.
In my own case, I submit that such reasonable and fair exercise is woefully lacking.
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in the case of a partnership or corporation, the existence of which has been terminated and on behalf of which an award is made, payment shall be made, except as provided in paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto ; ;

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