and, though he repeated, over and over again, the spectacular figures of industrial and agricultural production in 1980, the `` ordinary '' people in Russia are still a little uncertain as to how `` communism '' is really going to work in practice, especially in respect of food.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

The calibration of piezoelectric sensors in terms of the particle parameters is very uncertain.

All information is carefully appraised and uncertain facts are designated by ( '?'.

It is expected to be reported out Tuesday, but this is a little uncertain.

Consequently, it is uncertain after nearly 12 months in office just which direction the Barnett administration will take in the coming year.

Now, the picture is clouded, and even US Sens. James O. Eastland and John C. Stennis, who remained loyal to the ticket, are uncertain of their status.

Naturally, where one or the other of the effects of an action is uncertain, this has to be taken into account.

He is a man of major talent -- but a man of solitary, uncertain impulses.

The etymology of Apollo is uncertain.

The phylogeny of Paleozoic amphibians is uncertain, and Lissamphibia may possibly fall within extinct groups like the Temnospondyli ( traditionally placed in the subclass Labyrinthodontia ), and the Lepospondyli, and in some analysis even the amniotes.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.

The order is thought to have first diverged from other related monocots some 120-130 million years ago ( early in the Cretaceous period ), although given the difficulty in classifying the families involved, estimates are likely to be uncertain.

The derivation of the name ( Latin Aprilis ) is uncertain.

It is uncertain what the actual role and function of Abraxas was in the Basilidian system, as our authorities often show no direct acquaintance with the doctrines of Basilides himself.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

The cause of the conflict is uncertain, as the sources are divided ; the Lombard Paul the Deacon accuses the Gepids, while the Byzantine historian Menander Protector places the blame on Alboin, an interpretation favoured by historian Walter Pohl.

The dating of this is uncertain, as are his enemies ' identity.

It is uncertain how seriously this should be taken ; Asser was more concerned to represent Alfred as a wise ruler than to report actual royal policy.

Alfonso's biological paternity is uncertain: there is speculation that his biological father may have been Enrique Puig y Moltó ( a captain of the guard ), or even an American dental student.

And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.

`` This '', he said, `` is exactly what has been happening between the politically free nations in the postwar world.

But exactly how far it will go toward improving conditions is another question because there is so much that needs doing.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

The effect of the recording is very open and natural, with the frequency emphasis exactly what you would expect from a live performance.

Cylinder volume is determined in exactly the same manner as for the displacement formula: Af.

Even a neat, plastic-covered plunge is not exactly a joy to behold.

We wish to show that the range of Af is exactly the subspace Af.

The major question in this chapter is: What is the probability of exactly X successes in N trials??

In the following paper it is shown that in a certain definite sense, exactly an odd number of squares can be inscribed in every such curve which does not contain an infinite number of inscribed squares.

But Af is just the curve Af translated without rotation through a small arc, for Af is always obtained by rotating C through exactly 90-degrees.

They might, for example, plot it exactly as is, or they might make ten day moving averages of it, or longer moving averages, or they might simply plot the ratio of odd-lot purchases to odd-lot sales.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

But that is not exactly my point.

Perhaps the very important question -- What is, then, exactly the role of kinesthetic sensations in the patient's ability to recognize forms and shapes by means of the tracing movements when he is actually looking at things??

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

This is exactly what happened in the transition from baroque to rococo music.

When the platform is aligned, the reflected image of the crossed hairs can be seen exactly superimposed upon the original crossed hairs.

The one way to get around them -- short of knowing exactly what one wants and sticking to it -- is to frequent a single establishment until its wine waiter is persuaded that one is at least as interested in wine as in spending money.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

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.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.