The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.

This makes it certain that Federal expenditures for military preparedness and foreign economic aid are likely to rise further in the next several years.

It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

* In both versions of the movie Bad News Bears, coach Buttermaker makes use of several unorthodox tactics during the season final.

* Constantinople, as seen under the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II, makes several on-screen appearances in the television miniseries " Attila " as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Orthodox Judaism deliberately makes it very difficult to convert and become a Jew, and requires a significant and full-time effort in living, study, righteousness, and conduct over several years.

As global interconnectedness makes legitimate suspense more difficult to achieve, several writers — including Elizabeth Peters, P. C. Doherty, Steven Saylor, and Lindsey Davis — have eschewed fabricating convoluted plots in order to manufacture tension, instead opting to set their characters in some former period.

There were several V-type models and horizontally opposed two-and four-cylinder makes too.

* The comic book limited series Watchmen makes extensive use of the technique, including one character's autobiography, magazine interviews with several characters, psychiatric reports and even a fictional comic book within the comic book.

This is combined with time domain statistical multiplexing ; i. e., packet mode communication, which makes it possible for several users to share the same frequency channel.

However, at several points Alton appears to address the viewer rather than Inspector Warren, and the unclear role of the Scientist as narrator makes things even more confusing.

The English diarist Samuel Pepys makes mention of his " tryangle " several times.

Although this model is conceptually helpful, its mathematical formulation makes several assumptions that limit its applicability to real systems.

A technology created by one of their slave races was the stasis field, which makes its contents impervious to harm and provides indefinite suspended animation, which has figured in several Known Space stories.

* In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the mandrake root is cultivated by Professor Sprout to cure the petrification of several characters who had looked indirectly into the eyes of the Basilisk ; the author makes use of the legend of the mandrake's scream ( see above ), and anyone tending mandrakes wears earmuffs to dull the sound of the scream, if the plant must be transplanted.

Primes are used in several routines in information technology, such as public-key cryptography, which makes use of properties such as the difficulty of factoring large numbers into their prime factors.

** A faster, fully hardware-based multiplier makes instructions such as MUL and IMUL several times as fast ( and more predictable ) than in the 80486 ; the execution time is reduced from 13 ~ 42 clock cycles down to 10 ~ 11 for 32-bit operands.

Qt uses standard C ++ but makes extensive use of a special code generator ( called the Meta Object Compiler, or moc ) together with several macros to enrich the language.

Epiphanius of Salamis also makes Simon speak in the first person in several places in his Panarion, and the inference is that he is quoting from a version of it, though perhaps not verbatim.

* Christy Moore sang a song about Biko called " Biko Drum " which makes several references to the South African hero.

Single-stage-to-orbit has been achieved from the Moon by both the Apollo program's Lunar Module and several robotic spacecraft of the Soviet Luna programme ; the lower lunar gravity and absence of any significant atmosphere makes this much easier than from Earth.

The river makes a few large meanders in Skopje and is crossed by several bridges, five in the centre of the city.

Because of its " graphic " nature, this tale has at times been translated incompletely, as in John Payne's translation, where Alibech's sexual awakening is left untranslated and is accompanied with this footnote: " The translators regret that the disuse into which magic has fallen, makes it impossible to render the technicalities of that mysterious art into tolerable English ; they have therefore found it necessary to insert several passages in the original Italian.

The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).

Once the accounts balance, the accountant makes a number of adjustments and changes the balance amounts of some of the accounts.

Jewish Usenet Newsgroup FAQ ) The Conservative movement makes a conscious effort to use historical sources to determine what kind of changes to Jewish tradition have occurred, how and why they occurred, and in what historical context.

What makes disc golf unique is the utilization of natural elements, using trees and shrubs as obstacles and elevation changes to make the course challenging.

* Encapsulation ( object-oriented programming ), enclosing objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes

There is even a device available that will detect changes in jacket thickness and internal voids in jacketed rifle bullets, though its high cost makes it prohibitively expensive for all but the most dedicated shooters.

After the last retreat of the ice sea level changes and the isostatic rise of land makes charting post glacial coastlines a complex task but the resultant clifflines behind raised beaches are a prominent feature of the entire coastline.

In effect from 1 March, 2002, all the member states of the EU except Denmark accepted Council Regulation ( EC ) 44 / 2001, which makes major changes to the Brussels Convention and is directly effective in the member states.

In contrast to natural selection, which makes gene variants more common or less common depending on their reproductive success, the changes due to genetic drift are not driven by environmental or adaptive pressures, and may be beneficial, neutral, or detrimental to reproductive success.

At the same time, it makes recommendations to the Council concerning all changes to degree rules, and all proposals for new awards.

Characteristics of a circuit using an op-amp are set by external components with little dependence on temperature changes or manufacturing variations in the op-amp itself, which makes op-amps popular building blocks for circuit design.

Federigo degli Alberighi, who loves but is not loved in return, spends all the money he has in courtship and is left with only a falcon, which, since he has nothing else to give her, he offers to his lady to eat when she visits his home ; then she, learning of this, changes her mind, takes him for her husband, and makes him rich.

The absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, makes all locations vulnerable to high winds and rapid changes in weather as fronts or storms sweep across the country.

Examples of other changes are " truly I tell you " becomes " I tell you the truth ;" " fellow workers " becomes " coworkers ;" " the Jews ," particularly in John's Gospel, often becomes " Jewish leaders " when the context makes the statement's real meaning apparent ; and " miracles ," especially in John, become the more literal " signs ," " miraculous signs ," or " works.

* In 2007, the International Bible Society released The Books of the Bible, which makes several changes in formatting the text.

Some changes included increasing the minimum ski length and also the sidecut which makes the ski turn less tightly. In 2008 ski lengths were increased as it was found by physiotherapists that the shorter skis combined with the constant knee jerking movements were considered unnecessarily harmful to racers knees due to the turning radius of the skis ( especially the slalom skis ) therefore the F. I. S made the minimum ski length for women in slalom 155 cm and men 165 cm.

Once the changes have been identified, the replication process makes all the databases look the same.

Choosing a value α close to 1 makes the weighted average immune to changes that last a short time ( e. g., a single segment that encounters long delay ).

Choosing a value for α close to 0 makes the weighted average respond to changes in delay very quickly.

The 1993 children's book The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig inverts the cast and makes a few changes to the plot: the wolves build a brick house, then a concrete house, then a steel house, and finally a house of flowers.

The new Titanic Games version of Kill Doctor Lucky makes two changes to the original rules.

In addition, a number of changes have been made to recent editions, such as provisions dealing with videoconferences, teleconferences, and email, which now makes these editions more than merely codifications of the " present-day general parliamentary law " as existed at the time Robert was originally writing.

Sometimes such a feature ( for example, the ability to change the switch character in MS-DOS, usually to a hyphen ) is included for compatibility ( in this case with Unix utilities ) or future-expansion reasons, but the software provider changes their mind or goes out of business ; the absence of documentation makes it easier to justify the feature's removal.

This process makes it difficult for the NGO to respond to immediate changes in funding needs.