Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

The Serge Prokofieff whom we knew in the United States of America was gay, witty, mercurial, full of pranks and bonheur -- and very capable as a professional musician.

Though the slightest yank was frequently capable of producin' results, many men assured success through a turn of the tail 'bout the saddle horn, supplemented sometimes, in the case of cattle, by a downward heave of the rider's leg upon the strainin' tail.

for he was created not exactly immortal, nor yet exactly mortal, but capable of immortality as well as of mortality.

Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was intended to be part of the process of time.

Proper ritual observance at any level of society was capable of generating power for use in the spirit world ; ;

These inwardly dramatic moments showed the kind of `` opera style '' of which Beethoven was genuinely capable, but which did not take so kindly to the mechanics of staging.

It was made capable of making war and peace, negotiating diplomatic and commercial agreements with foreign countries, and deciding disputes between the states, including their additional and contested western territories.

There was to be a store ( that is, a memory ) capable of holding 1, 000 numbers of 40 decimal digits each ( ca.

Table-sized instead of room-sized, the device was capable of calculating tables but imperfectly.

However, since it is capable of being greatly altered and even discharged by heat, the color was believed by some authorities to be from an organic source.

One downside was that the new democracy was less capable of rapid response.

Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.

Anthemius was also a capable mathematician.

She was not empowered to inflict punishment, and when she complained about their behaviour received no support, but was criticised for not being capable.

It was capable of basic graphics, and could display onto either a television set, a colour ( RGB ) monitor or a " green screen " monitor.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.

Laura was sitting in an easy chair about eight feet away.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.

Mrs. B. compared her feelings of weakness to her feelings of weakness and helplessness at the time of her mother's death when she was eight, as well as her subsequent anger at her father for remarrying.

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

Shot six or eight times the body was draped with Russell's pistol, belt, and cartridges.

When she reached port, she was found to have on board only eight men, all near starvation.

He was standing at the end of the bar enjoying a slug of cognac when Rourke came in six or eight minutes later.

Actually it was no more than eight or ten minutes, and the sum of his reasoning came to this:

Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

Nischwitz was working on a 3-hitter when the Indians bunched three of their eight hits for two runs in the sixth.

Attorneys for the eight other defendants said only that there was no proof of their clients' guilt.

The NLRB said that of 11 potentially eligible voters eight voted against the union, two voted for it, and one vote was challenged.

One of the eight defendants was freed on a directed verdict of acquittal.

Django Reinhardt, the ill-fated gypsy, was a true artist, one who demonstrated conclusively the power of art to renew itself and flow into many channels.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

In 2009 radio market share in the Dutch speaking region was 63. 08 % for the VRT channels ( Radio 1, Radio 2, MNM, Studio Brussel and Klara, 23. 13 % for the VMMa channels ( Q-Music and Joe FM ) and 2. 65 % for the Corelio / Concentra joint venture channel ( Radio Nostalgie ).

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels.

This was a return to having a dedicated Controller for the channel in the same way as the rest of the BBC's domestic television channels.

This was compounded by mass flooding of the Yellow River ; silt buildup caused it to split into two channels and displaced large numbers of farmers.

In any case, Goldoni was deeply interested in theatre from his earliest years, and all attempts to direct his activity into other channels were of no avail ; his toys were puppets, and his books, plays.

While breath channels ( nāḍis ) of yogic practices had already been discussed in the classical Upanishads, it was not until the eighth-century Buddhist Hevajra Tantra and Caryāgiti, that hierarchies of chakras were introduced.

By law, these cable systems were restricted to the relay of the public broadcast channels, which meant that as the transmitter network became more comprehensive, the incentive to subscribe to cable was reduced and they began to lose customers.

The result was that cable systems were permitted to carry as many new television channels as they liked, as well as providing a telephone service and interactive services of many kinds ( as since made familiar by the Internet ).

Until better out-of-band signaling equipment was developed in the 1990s, fast, unacknowledged, and loud DTMF tone sequences could be heard during the commercial breaks of cable channels in the United States and elsewhere.

This action was taken in response to an appeal obtained from the governor general and to a request for assistance from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, without consulting the island's head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, Commonwealth institutions or other usual diplomatic channels ( as had been done in Anguilla ).

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was soon abused by people who set up servers to sabotage other users, channels, or servers.

In July 2001, after a string of DDoS attacks a service called CHANFIX ( originally JUPES ) was created, which is designed to give back ops to channels which have lost ops or been taken over.

It was around this time that DALnet closed many of their channels that were dedicated to serving content such as MP3 files and movies.

For example the 2. 4000 – 2. 4835 GHz band is divided into 13 channels spaced 5 MHz apart, with channel 1 centered on 2. 412 GHz and 13 on 2. 472 GHz ( to which Japan added a 14th channel 12 MHz above channel 13 which was only allowed for 802. 11b ).

The existence of ion channels was confirmed in the 1970s by Bernard Katz and Ricardo Miledi using noise analysis.

In 1978 an experimental broadcast satellite with two color television channels was launched.