The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.

He advised the poor woman not to appear in court as what she was charged with was not in violation of law.

He had not because he was both poor and ambitious.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.

It was a ridiculous situation and Rector knew it, for Hino, frankly partisan, openly gregarious, would make a poor espionage agent.

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.

Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

I was amazed at the very poor hospital facilities accompanying the medical school.

The industry has said 1960 was a poor year.

So, too, was the insistence on the relativity of the external world, and the ideas that language and things perceived by consciousness were poor substitutes indeed for immediate perception by pure, indwelling spirit: the opposition of pure consciousness to ratiocinating consciousness.

Arlene Saunders was charming as poor Gontran.

It was safe to assume that Papa, sighing heavily, had said many times to his remaining daughter, `` Thank God your poor mother was spared this '', and indeed it might be true that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with her hand in Charles' hand, just because her `` poor mother '' was gone already and would never know.

This process was more difficult, so that " throttling back ", especially when landing, was often accomplished by temporarily cutting the ignition using the blip switch.

Critics, however, have suggested this was just another Netflix attempt at throttling.

In August 2010 he was convicted of physically assaulting his ex girlfriend, Monica Ward with whom Berry has a son, by throttling and threatening to kill her.

The control system was primarily based on differential throttling of the engines, the outer ring for pitch and yaw, the inner six on gimballing mounts for roll.

GM was interested in throttling the intake valves in order to reduce emissions.

The engine did not gimbal ; instead, the vehicle was steered by throttling one side's CRPUs versus the opposite side.

Thus, the engine was simply built into the tube walls, with the only mechanisms being the throttling valves.

The CEO said that TM Net has only recently imposed a " traffic management " program on Streamyx users that involves blanket throttling of all international connections and websites when he was asked by the host of the radio show, although users have been complaining about slow speeds on local forums and blogs for years.

Sammartino then entered the ring and began throttling the still-prone Zbyszko until he was dragged away.

The microprocessor was capable of throttling its clock frequency to reduce power consumption and heat.

It was revealed that they practiced throttling.

He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary artery and vein, but that increases in bronchial artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary artery pressure.

There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.

The government was most anxious that there be a respectable response.

And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.

Alec expected an indignant denial, but there was no response at all.

The response from London, Paris and Bonn was favorable.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

Part of this publication was the famous Five points of Calvinism in response to the five articles of Remonstrance.

Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.

Kennedy, however, was circumspect in his response to the news, refusing to make a commitment on America's response to the Soviets.

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