He kept several pet birds and liked cats well enough that if one crept by, he would mew at it in friendly fashion.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

There is only one Hardy style, but in the earlier poems that style is only intermittently evident, and when it is not, the style is the style of another poet, or of the fashion of the time.

Her creations in fashion are from many designers because she doesn't want a complete wardrobe from any one designer any more than she wants `` all of her pictures by one painter ''.

The square root of the frequency of these photons ( x-rays ) increased from one target to the next in a linear fashion.

To set anchors in this way, first one anchor is set in the normal fashion.

However, the classics had not refined his taste, for he was amused by setting itinerant scholars, who swarmed to his court, to abuse one another in the indescribably filthy Latin scolding matches which were then the fashion.

The master chooses which slave device to address ; typically, it switches rapidly from one device to another in a round-robin fashion.

On some occasions, simple weapons employed in an unorthodox fashion have proven advantageous, as with the Swiss pikemen who gained many victories through their ability to transform a traditionally defensive weapon into an offensive one.

Barcelona is today one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair / exhibitions and cultural-sports centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.

The corn would not be planted in rows as it is today, but in a checkerboard / hex fashion across a field, in separate patches of one to four stalks each.

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

Intuitively, for two sets S and T to have the same cardinality means that it is possible to " pair off " elements of S with elements of T in such a fashion that every element of S is paired off with exactly one element of T and vice versa.

Note that for any fixed w the function f ( x ) = F ( w x ) is computable ; thus the universality property states that all computable functions of one variable can be obtained in this fashion.

He called his approach towards Judaism " Positive-Historical ," which meant that one should have a positive attitude towards accepting Jewish law and tradition as normative, yet one should be open to developing the law in the same fashion that it has always historically developed.

However, many common modern bus systems can be used for both ; SATA and the associated eSATA are one example of a system that would formerly be described as internal, while in certain automotive applications use the primarily external IEEE 1394 in a fashion more similar to a system bus.

Chemical kinetics experiments can then be carried out in a " pump-probe " fashion using a laser to initiate the reaction ( for example by preparing one of the reagents by photolysis of a precursor ), followed by observation of that same species ( for example by laser-induced fluorescence ) after a known time delay.

Within his " one party, two factions " model, Li Chen has noted that one should avoid labelling these two groupings with simplistic ideological labels, and that these two groupings do not act in a zero-sum, winner take all fashion.

A live chronicle is where one or more authors add to a chronicle in a regular fashion, recording contemporary events shortly after they occur.

Standard Danish has two genders and the definite form of nouns is formed by the use of suffixes, while Western Jutlandic has only one gender and the definite form of nouns uses an article before the noun itself, in the same fashion as West Germanic languages.

Observers can see a person engaged in spontaneous behavior, and watch him operating in a totalistic fashion.

The builders can make an adobe chimney by stacking simple adobe bricks in a similar fashion as the surrounding walls.

For such an online algorithm, a recurrence relation is required between quantities from which the required statistics can be calculated in a numerically stable fashion.

Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat.

" The offer of salvation through grace does not act irresistibly in a purely cause-effect, deterministic method but rather in an influence-and-response fashion that can be both freely accepted and freely denied.

While a spontaneous or induced genetic mutation in bacteria may confer resistance to antimicrobial drugs, genes that confer resistance can be transferred between bacteria in a horizontal fashion by conjugation, transduction, or transformation.

It can also be used in topics as diverse as mathematics, gastronomy, fashion and website design.

In modern times, southeastern Alaskans can often be identified by their fashion choices, notably

When used in such fashion, beacons can be considered a form of optical telegraphy.

Even this distinction is not completely clear-cut — for example, humans normally walk and run in biped fashion, but almost all can crawl on hands and knees when necessary.

Some viral vectors effect this in a random fashion, which can introduce other problems such as disruption of an endogenous host gene.

Whilst the Bongo EEP can be viewed as having been successful in ensuring survival of this species in Europe, the EEP has not yet become actively involved in the conservation of this species in the wild in a coordinated fashion.

Blackness can be contrasted with " acting white ," where black Americans are said to behave with assumed characteristics of stereotypical white Americans, with regard to fashion, dialect, taste in music, and possibly, from the perspective of a significant number of black youth, academic achievement.

Research suggests that test users can rate the importance or severity of potential software issues in a significantly different fashion than software developers.

A similar approach may be taken with strings representing dates or other items that can be ordered chronologically or in some other natural fashion.

However, more recent experiments have demonstrated that cells whose centrioles have been removed via laser ablation can still progress through the G < sub > 1 </ sub > stage of interphase before centrioles can be synthesized later in a de novo fashion.

Each time slot can be assigned to a different channel in order to exploit advantages of frequency-hopping and to avoid interference from other users in asynchronous fashion.

These mechanisms operate in a fashion consistent with the meaningful encoding principle to provide cues that can later be regenerated to retrieve the stored information efficiently without a lengthy search.

The beginnings of the habit in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of Western fashion in clothing.

Another example where HTTPS is important is connections over Tor ( anonymity network ), as malicious Tor nodes can damage or alter the contents passing through them in an insecure fashion and inject malware into the connection.

However, this does not prove to be a problem: any way of slicing will do ( including no ' slicing ' at all ), provided that the boundary of the object changes in a fashion which can be agreed upon by observers in all reference frames.

If the template image has strong features, a feature-based approach may be considered ; the approach may prove further useful if the match in the search image might be transformed in some fashion.

Rogers, in his first response, refers to "... the stern human rights warning Kissinger delivered directly to Pinochet at their only meeting ... " ( the meeting took place in Santiago June 8, 1976 ), points to "... Kissinger ’ s statement, made in an address to the region ’ s foreign ministers, that the regime's human rights violations ' impaired our relationship with Chile and continue to do so ,'" and that " Kissinger ’ s warning was delivered in robust fashion to the Argentine president – there are cables to prove it ...– and probably to Pinochet ’ s underlings in Santiago ," and claims that Kissinger did not send, and probably did not even see, the " take no further action " cable.

In contrast, Rylands imposed strict liability on those found detrimental in such a fashion without having to prove a duty of care or negligence, which brought the law into line with that relating to public reservoirs and marked a significant doctrinal shift.