There was the possibility that Field might revoke the settlement he had made on his daughter at the time of her first marriage and the new couple would have no means of support.

For example: A fertile couple may have intercourse while using contraception to experience sexual pleasure ( recreational ) and also as a means of emotional intimacy ( relational ), thus deepening their bonding, making their relationship more stable and more capable of sustaining children in the future ( deferred reproductive ).

Christen Pedersen had taken to using the name Rømer, which means that he was from the Danish island of Rømø, to distinguish himself from a couple of other people named Christen Pedersen.

The 2000 Brazilian soap opera O Cravo e a Rosa was also based on the play ( this title means " The Carnation and the Rose " and comes from a children's song about a couple of engaged flowers who had a serious " fight " – which, in Portuguese, may mean either an awful argument or some physical confrontation ).

This means that SMTP had been in use for at least a year using HOSTS. TXT, and then another couple of years using A, MD, and MF, before MX came along.

The word Datta means " Given ", Datta is called so because the divine trinity have " given " themselves in the form of a son to the sage couple Atri and Anasuya.

However, his consulate sine collega ( without a second Consul ) was not recognised by the Eastern court, which nominated two consuls, Iohannes and Varanes: the fact that the two courts did not agree on a couple of consuls but each nominated its own means that, despite Avitus ' actions to receive the recognition of the Eastern Emperor the relationship between the two halves was not optimal.

In Xanthian terms, " summoning the stork " literally means to put out a call to summon a stork which will deliver to the couple a child.

The little sacristan, having secured his audience, … lighted a couple of extra candles and proceeded to remove from above the altar, by means of a crank, a sort of sliding shutter, just as you may see a shop-boy do of a morning at his master's window.

In recent decades season creep has been observed, which means that many phenological signs of spring are occurring earlier in many regions by a couple of days per decade.

* The means used to mechanically couple the traction motors to the driving wheels ( drivers ).

However, its full significance was not to be realized until a couple of decades later, through the period of globalization, in a world where fast communication still had to find the means to meet the twin challenge of ignorance and mis-understanding partly caused by knowledge.

Rudyard Kipling in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of his Jungle Book stories, includes a tailorbird couple, Darzee ( which means " tailor " in Urdu ) and his wife, as two of the key characters.

A principal means of adjusting developed slip angles is to alter the relative roll couple ( the rate at which weight transfers from the inside to the outside wheel in a turn ) front to rear by varying the relative amount of front and rear lateral load transfer.

From this starting position, commonly called Downward Dog in Yoga, one bends the elbows, lowering the head towards the ground and bringing the chest almost to the ground, while his hips are still about a couple of feet in the air then " swoops " forward to a " Cobra Pose ", which means that the head and shoulders are high with unbent elbows but the knees and hips are almost touching the ground.

He concludes by stating that it is legitimate for states to forbid marriages unless the couple can prove that they have " means of supporting a family " through education and other basic necessities.

The endurance bar is located above the player's hitbox ; once it runs out, the Custom Robo gets " downed " which means that it stays fallen for a couple seconds.

Hunt enjoys the solitude of living on her own and finds that being single means she has encounters and experiences that she wouldn't have if she were part of a couple, where others might choose not to intrude and where she would have to coordinate her schedule with another.

McDermott & McGough are a couple of contemporary artists whose work is all about a recreation of life in the nineteenth century: they only use the ultimate technology available, and since they are supposed to live anachronically, this means the use of earlier photographic processes, and maintaining the illusion of a life stuck in the ways of a forgotten era.

where e is the identity of G. Though the f ″ defined a couple of paragraphs back is only defined for G-irreducible representations, and though A ⊗ B is not a G-irreducible representation in general, we claim this argument could be made correct since A ⊗ B is simply the direct sum of copies of Bs, and we have shown that each copy all maps to the same G × G-irreducible subrepresentation of C, we have just showed that as an irreducible G × G-subrepresentation of C is contained in A ⊗ B as another irreducible G × G-subrepresentation of C. Using Schur's lemma again, this means both irreducible representations are the same.

This means that over the span of a couple of floors, the curtain wall will expand and contract some distance, relative to its length and the temperature differential.

An October 2009 opinion poll published by Universidad Diego Portales and covering 85 % of urban areas of Chile found that a majority were against abortion when the pregnant woman or couple did not have the economic means to raise a baby ( 80 %), when the pregnant woman or couple did not want to have a baby ( 68 %), and when the fetus had a " serious defect " ( 51 %).

He calls the representation of the couple " qui desponsari videbantur per fidem " which means, " who were contracting their marriage by marital oath ".

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

The cone's taper means that a given amount of movement of the actuator makes the surfaces approach ( or recede ) much more slowly than in a disc clutch.

While the Germanic peoples were slowly converted to Christianity by varying means, many elements of the pre-Christian culture and indigenous beliefs remained firmly in place after the conversion process, particularly in the more rural and distant regions.

That means that if lithium niobate is exposed to an electric field, light will travel more slowly through it.

Traffic in English is taken from the Arabic word taraffaqa, which means to walk along slowly together.

Amalthea's orbital period is only slightly longer than its parent planet's day ( about 20 % in this case ), which means it would cross Jupiter's sky very slowly.

The instrument section and the spinning tub were slowly tipped to a horizontal position by means of four air jets located at the base of the instrument section.

The wearing away of rock means that the waterfall is slowly moving upstream, leaving a narrow, deep gorge in front of it.

Many of the traditional means of delivering information are being slowly superseded by the increasing pace of modern technological advance.

The name means " walking slowly.

There, it is capable of moving slowly by means of attaching and detaching byssal threads to attain a better life position.

Following the invention of the vulcanization process as a means of curing raw soft rubber into a harder, more useful product, the fire service slowly made the transition from bulky and unreliable leather hose to the unlined linen hose, then to a multi-layer, rubber lined and coated hose with an interior fabric reinforcement.

Fairness and safety are likely to be compromised ( which practically means a program may behave slowly, act erratically, hang or crash ) if even a single process acts incorrectly.

The name is identical with the word sil which means " slowly running and quiet part of a river " ( here meaning the Gudbrandsdalslågen ).

Global thermodynamic equilibrium ( GTE ) means that those intensive parameters are homogeneous throughout the whole system, while local thermodynamic equilibrium ( LTE ) means that those intensive parameters are varying in space and time, but are varying so slowly that, for any point, one can assume thermodynamic equilibrium in some neighborhood about that point.

To achieve high speed across country, glider pilots anticipating strong thermals often load their gliders ( sailplanes ) with water ballast: the increased wing loading means optimum glide ratio at higher airspeed, but at the cost of climbing more slowly in thermals.

This means that even though it seems to be solid at room temperature and can be shattered with a hard impact, it is actually fluid and will flow over time, but extremely slowly.

Feingold and Martin begins to slowly bring cases to court that generalize what it means to be human, hoping that despite his prosthetics Andrew can be regarded as essentially human.

The practice slowly spread among the Russian Orthodox, though it is not by any means a standard service in all parishes, or even most cathedrals or monasteries.

It also has a railway station on the Reading to Taunton line ; a reasonable rail service to Newbury, Reading and London means that the Hungerford has developed into something of a dormitory town which has been slowly expanding since the 1980s.

From the riverbanks, their mines and gunfire steadily reduced the river convoys bringing relief supplies of food, fuel, and ammunition to the slowly starving city ( 90 percent of the Republic's supplies moved by means of the convoys ) from South Vietnam.

In song, Adagio means " slowly ", and in ballet it means slow, enfolding movements, performed with the greatest amount of fluidity and grace as possible.