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bulks and its
When it has caught and eaten that prey, it closes its right aortic arch and uses its left aortic arch to flush blood loaded with carbon dioxide from its muscles directly to its stomach ; the resulting excess acidity in its blood supply makes it much easier for the stomach lining to secrete more stomach acid to quickly dissolve bulks of swallowed prey flesh and bone.

bulks and .
Each finger may move independently of the others, though the muscle bulks that move each finger may be partly blended, and the tendons may be attached to each other by a net of fibrous tissue, preventing completely free movement.
For example, if Wario eats a piece of food from a certain enemy, he bulks up to twice his size, giving him the ability to break strong blocks and extra protection against attacks.
Even today Army is the largest employer for Hamirpuris, who form large bulks of Dogra, Granadiers, Jakrif regiments as well as paramilitary forces especially Assam Rifles.
Major exports are wheat, soda ash, potash, and hay ; major imports are automobiles, steel, machinery, mineral bulks and other varied products.

under and veil
It served as the uniform of the Almoravids, and under their rule, sumptuary laws forbade anybody else from wearing the veil, thereby making it the distinctive dress of the ruling class ( the later Almohads made a point of mocking the Almoravid veil as symbolic of effeminacy and decadence.
For that he must pass from representing a single figure to several together ; history and myth must be depicted ; great events must be represented as by historians, or like the poets, subjects that will please, and climbing still higher, he must have the skill to cover under the veil of myth the virtues of great men in allegories, and the mysteries they reveal ".
In these commentaries he presents his own philosophical system as a faithful interpretation of Plato, and in this he did not differ from other Neoplatonists, as he considered the Platonic texts to be divinely inspired ( ho theios Platon -- The divine Plato, inspired by God ) and therefore that they spoke often of things under a veil, hiding the truth from the philosophically uninitiate.
Saint Veronica or Berenice, according to the " Acta Sanctorum " published by the Bollandists ( under February 4 ), was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity as Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha, gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead.
John Rawls ( 1921 – 2002 ) proposed a contractarian approach that has a decidedly Kantian flavour, in A Theory of Justice ( 1971 ), whereby rational people in a hypothetical " original position ", setting aside their individual preferences and capacities under a " veil of ignorance ", would agree to certain general principles of justice and legal organization.
His main impact upon Roman politics was his ability to veil his tyranny and make it appear that he was working under a constitutional government.
At various times governments indiscriminately granted authorization for privateering to a variety of ships, so much so that would-be pirates could easily operate under a veil of legitimacy.
Likewise the notorious Lafitte brothers in New Orleans cruised under letters of marque secured by bribery from corrupt officials of tenuous Central American governments, or the briefly sovereign nation of Texas, to cloak plunder with a thin veil of legality.
By 1080, one year after Władysław ascended to the Polish throne, Przecława either died or was sent away ; it's believed by some sources that after she was dismissed by the Duke, Przecława took the veil under the name of Christina () and died around 1092.
The reason that the least well off member gets benefited is that it is assumed that under the veil of ignorance, under original position, people will be risk averse.
Squashing an enemy's attack before it starts by using a form of charging and then attacking under the veil of gunpowder smoke, and arrow fire, the initial attacks used when starting battles can be highly effective.
Behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvelous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed.
In many ways resurgent Judaic practices mirrored indigenous peoples ' maintaining their traditions practiced loosely under Roman Catholic veil.
It was last cleaned in 1984 under the supervision of the American conservator John Brealey, to remove a " yellow veil " of dust that had gathered since the previous restoration in the 19th century.
The doctrine of “ piercing the corporate veil ” is applied under those circumstances.
Exhibitions display a look inside a tea house and a Turkmen tent called yurt, or under an Afghan veil ( chadri ).
People in the original position have no society and are under a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing how they may benefit from society.
The princess wrote Aventures de la cour de Perse, in which, under the veil of fictitious scenes and names, she tells the history of her own time.
She suffered from toothaches which she refused to have treated locally, and took extensive measures to shelter herself from the harsh sun, not only spending much of her time under a large parasol but wearing large sunglasses and wrapping her face in a white gauze veil, to the point that her appearance was compared to a Star Wars stormtrooper.
For that he must pass from representing a single figure to several together ; history and myth must be depicted ; great events must be represented as by historians, or like the poets, subjects that will please, and climbing still higher, he must have the skill to cover under the veil of myth the virtues of great men in allegories, and the mysteries they reveal ".
* 31 March: The Regents second surviving daughter Louise Adélaïde takes the veil and becomes a nun under the name of Sœur Sainte-Bathilde ; her parents were not impressed ;
They planned to impose a communist regime under the veil of the existing coalition government.

under and thin
Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
If there is refraction at a collective spherical surface, or through a thin positive lens, O ' 2 will lie in front of O ' 1 so long as the angle u2 is greater than u1 ( under correction ); and conversely with a dispersive surface or lenses ( over correction ).
These stones were initially sold under the names " Emerita " and " Symeralds ", and they were grown as a thin layer of emerald on top of natural colorless beryl stones.
The key experiment behind this announcement happened in 1910 at the University of Manchester, as Ernest Rutherford's team performed a remarkable experiment in which Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden under his supervision fired alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) at a thin film of gold foil.
As with Nanook, Man of Aran showed human beings ' efforts to survive under extreme conditions: in this case, an island whose soils were so thin that the inhabitants carried seaweed up from the sea to construct fields for cultivation.
Silver is used to make solder and brazing alloys, and as a thin layer on bearing surfaces can provide a significant increase in galling resistance and reduce wear under heavy load, particularly against steel.
Usually this involves collection of hand specimens, which may be cut to provide petrographic thin sections which are analysed under a petrographic microscope.
The delta function is sometimes thought of as an infinitely high, infinitely thin spike at the origin, with total area one under the spike, and physically represents an idealized point mass or point charge.
Smoked meats such as pork exhibit what is known as a smoke ring: a thin pink layer just under the surface which is the result of the nitric oxide in the smoke interacting with the myoglobin in the meat.
This new " transorbital " lobotomy involved lifting the upper eyelid and placing the point of a thin surgical instrument ( often called an orbitoclast or leucotome, although quite different from the wire loop leucotome described above ) under the eyelid and against the top of the eyesocket.
The forme is mounted on a printing press, a thin coating of viscous ink is applied and impressions made on paper under great pressure in the press.
This means that a thin electrode is placed into the cochlea and is stimulated electrically through a small microprocessor under the skin behind that ear.
In such cases, a thin section of the mineral is used and examined under polarized transmitted light with a petrographic microscope.
" Undercut " occurs when etchant attacks the thin edge of copper under the resist ; this can reduce conductor widths and cause open-circuits.
* Thoracic diaphragm, a thin sheet of muscle under the lungs
Its dome-shaped roof is the thoracic diaphragm ( a thin sheet of muscle under the lungs ), and its oblique floor is the pelvic inlet ( the superior opening of the pelvis ).
They mine under the thin periderm of young trees up to 10 years old, while the stem bark is still smooth.
Early thin monoplane wings, on the other hand, tended to be liable to twist under aerodynamic loads, rendering proper lateral control very difficult, or breaking.
Malleability, a similar property, is a material's ability to deform under compressive stress ; this is often characterized by the material's ability to form a thin sheet by hammering or rolling.
He examined ( under a coarse, compound microscope ) very thin slices of cork and saw a multitude of tiny pores that he remarked looked like the walled compartments a monk would live in.
Below Trent Falls, the Humber passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the confluence of the River Ancholme on the south shore ; between North Ferriby and South Ferriby and under the Humber Bridge ; between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Kingston upon Hull on the North bank ( where the River Hull joins ), then meets the North Sea between Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire side and the long and thin ( but rapidly changing ) headland of Spurn Head to the North.
Houchard was probably aware that an enveloping attack against York's communications would be the most effective strategy, but under pressure from the Representatives, it was resolved instead to launch a direct attack on Freytag's thin line, spread out in detachments south of Dunkirk.
While the patient is subdued under general anesthesia, long thin scissors and scalpels are used to remove the nodules, or CO2 surgical lasers might be used which are very effective in such cases.

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