There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

About one-third as long, it is less intimate and detailed, but better coordinated, more concise and more dramatic.

Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

There is another side of love, more nearly symbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or better still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

Of the two, The Life Of Bright is incomparably the better biography.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

and it should be far better known than it is.

What is required is the full implementation of Article 2 of the Treaty, which provides: `` The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being.

Brooks Robinson is great, and it is conceivable that he'll do even better in 1961 than he did in 1960.

The man is right, and at this time, indications are that these three are ready for better seasons.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

`` A better position for negotiations is the real point of this speech.

It is conceivable that Broxodent could do a better job than ordinary brushing, especially in those who do not brush their teeth properly.

It is not much better if he meets with old classmates.

This result is plotted along with the 8.6-mm observations of Gibson ( 1958 ) in figure 1, A.

The force required to accomplish removal is plotted, by means of an electronic recorder, against distance of removal.

If the force required to remove the coatings is plotted against film thickness, a graph as illustrated schematically in Fig. 5 may characteristically result.

If the cutting force, Af, is plotted against film thickness, a straight line should result passing through the origin and having slope Af.

In the Qur ' an, Benjamin is referred to as righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph.

: Plotted on the x-axis is the retention time and plotted on the y-axis a signal ( for example obtained by a spectrophotometer, mass spectrometer or a variety of other detectors ) corresponding to the response created by the analytes exiting the system.

The position in 3D space of each crystal face is plotted on a stereographic net, e. g. Wulff net or Lambert net.

In fact, the pole to each face is plotted on the net.

If x and y are real numbers, and if the graph of y is plotted against x, the derivative measures the slope of this graph at each point.

T. S. Eliot said: " It is difficult for us to read that essay without reflecting that if Poe plotted out his poem with such calculation, he might have taken a little more pains over it: the result hardly does credit to the method.

Though it is unlikely that she had plotted with the rebels, some of them were known to have approached her.

The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve is the name of his results which he plotted out and made 2 conclusions.

That denouement plus Alden's engagement with rivaling Indians who plotted to kill newcomers is told elaborately in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish.

The percentage of households is plotted on the x-axis, the percentage of income on the y-axis.

The concept is useful in describing inequality among the size of individuals in ecology, and in studies of biodiversity, where cumulative proportion of species is plotted against cumulative proportion of individuals.

In an isochron dating plot, the Al / Mg ratio plotted is < sup > 27 </ sup > Al /< sup > 24 </ sup > Mg.

When a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is plotted for an open cluster, most stars lie on the main sequence.

The following QFL chart and the sandstone provenance model correspond with each other therefore, when the QFL chart is plotted those points can the be plotted on the sandstone provenance model.

Then, when similar diagram is plotted for a cluster whose distance is not known, the position of the main sequence can be compared to that of the first cluster and the distance estimated.

The temperature of the chamber is monitored either using a thermometer or thermocouple, and the temperature plotted against time to give a graph from which fundamental quantities can be calculated.

It is evident that Grace " plotted " his own omission from the England team by asking C. B.

The < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr ratio for each sample is plotted against its < sup > 87 </ sup > Rb /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr ratio on a graph called an isochron.