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is and barely
It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.
Impressive as this enumeration is, it barely hints at the diverse perceptions of Jews, collectively or individually, that have been attested by their Gentile environment.
In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.
For example, to move ( as the score requires ) from the lowest F-major register up to a barely audible N minor in four seconds, not skipping, at the same time, even one of the 407 fingerings, seems a feat too absurd to consider, and it is to the flautist's credit that he remained silent throughout the passage.
Anne was barely a year old when her mother became ill of what is believed to have been uterine cancer.
The lowland anoa ( Bubalus depressicornis ) is a small bovid, standing barely over at the shoulder.
Beavis is hypnotized by it and can barely say " Fire.
This is barely noticeable at low frequencies but is quite evident at frequencies close to the Nyquist frequency.
* Jeremiah Gottwald from Code Geass becomes a cyborg when he barely survives the Battle of Narita and is turned into one when a team of government scientists operate on him experimentally.
" " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " is particularly interesting because it is a barely fictionalized account based on Poe's theory of what happened to the real-life Mary Cecilia Rogers.
Rainfall is scarcely per year in the northern part of the Dead Sea and barely in the southern part.
James was not a fantasy player and barely acknowledged fantasy baseball in his annual Abstract, but fantasy baseball interest is credited with his strong sales.
The car itself has over 550 hp and a jet-engine that can be used if wanted, but due to EU restrictions the vehicle is barely permitted to be used at all save for exclusive TV cameos.
The horizon is a boundary defined by lightlike geodesics ; it is those light rays that are just barely unable to escape.
Vortigern responds that it is not in his power to appoint Hengist to these positions, reasoning that Hengist is a pagan, that he barely knows Hengist, that Hengist's people are strangers and that Vortigern's nobles would not accept the appointment.
Iron in its natural form is barely harder than bronze, and is not useful for tools unless combined with carbon to make steel.
* According to The Economist, however, IKEA's charitable giving is meager, " barely a rounding error in the foundation's assets.

is and controlled
The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons located where the index finger and thumb are placed when holding the motor.
If the temperature is controlled properly, the avocado will delay its ripening until needed.
The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.
Gradual, controlled expansion of the world's textile trade is what President Kennedy wants.
If the voice is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful instrument, controlled and flexible.
As a result of having an actuator controlled precisely with air pressure via a servosystem, the movement is very fluid and there is very little noise.
With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.
The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.
It was shown that sorghum's aluminium tolerance is controlled by a single gene, as for wheat.
Copyright law has been amended time and time again since the inception of the law to extend the length of this fixed period where the work is exclusively controlled by the copyright holder.
According to the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.
During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.
< http :// find. galegroup. com /‌ gtx /‌ start. do? prodId = EAIM .>.</ ref > Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions, and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish.
A systematic 2003 review of controlled clinical trials related to the Alexander Technique found two reputable studies suggesting the Alexander Technique is effective in reducing the disability of patients suffering from Parkinson ’ s disease and improving pain behaviour and disability in patients with back pain, and concluded that the evidence supporting the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique is encouraging but not convincing.
Astrology is a pseudoscience that has not demonstrated its effectiveness in controlled studies and has no scientific validity.
While ecologically sparse, the habitat's climate is controlled by complex machinery in the lower levels.
* 1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
The cultivation of plants from which psychotropic substances are obtained is not controlled by the Vienna Convention.
The process of apoptosis is controlled by a diverse range of cell signals, which may originate either extracellularly ( extrinsic inducers ) or intracellularly ( intrinsic inducers ).

is and skimming
In the chapter where Epistemon is listing the inhabitants of hell and their occupations, he says that Boniface was ( in one translation ) " skimming the scum off soup pots ".
Tolkien, however, is not simply skimming historical sources for effect: linguistic styles, especially the relationship between the modern and ancient, has been seen to be one of the major themes explored by the story.
Water skiing is a sport in which an individual is typically pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface.
A clearer broth is achieved by skimming the film of congealed fat off the top of the soup as it is cooking, first bringing the chicken to boil from a pot of cold water and discarding the water before continuing, or straining it through a strainer or cheesecloth.
Embezzling should not be confused with skimming which is under-reporting income and pocketing the difference.
Jack is not only skimming hundreds of thousand dollars off the top of his employer's profits ( that he has been hired to keep complete track of-or else ), but is also keeping the FBI informed as to the mob's second set of books ( the first set being for income tax purposes ).
In effect, a boat which is planing is skimming along the surface, rising up on its own bow wave.
This will allow a price skimming strategy, where it is possible to capture the consumer surplus over time.
Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first, then lowers the price over time.
Price skimming is sometimes referred to as riding down the demand curve.
The objective of a price skimming strategy is to capture the consumer surplus.
* Price skimming is a product pricing strategy by which a firm charges the highest initial price that customers will pay.
* There is not enough demand amongst consumers to make price skimming work.
However, historians acknowledge that there are serious logical errors inherent in Evagrius ’ s surviving work, which is common for its epoch, namely the problematic chronological sequencing and skimming over of undeniably notable events such as major wars and other secular events.
Snowmobile skipping, snowmobile watercross, snowmobile skimming, or water skipping is a sport and / or exhibition where snowmobile racers hydroplane their sleds across lakes or rivers.
The practice of " skimming " is illegal in Minnesota and New Hampshire.
In Wisconsin, there are places where skimming is encouraged, and some businesses rely on it to attract customers, for example at Bauers Dam in Conover, Wisconsin.
Price skimming is a common way of recapturing the cost of development.
Critic Brooks Atkinson, in his review for The New York Times wrote of the original 1949 Broadway production that Maxwell Anderson and Mr. Weill had encountered " obvious difficulty " in transforming " so thoroughly a work of literary art " into theatre, and was sometimes " skimming and literal where the novel is rich and allusive.
Another form of skimming is that commonly employed by readers on the Web.

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