At the risk of losing my charge-a-plate at Marshall Field and Company, I would like to challenge an old and hallowed stereotype.

As a designer and manufacturer of textile production machinery, Leesona and other companies in its industry have sought to meet this challenge with new or improved equipment and methods that would increase production, yet maintain both quality and flexibility.

They would give one final testimony of their challenge to let the people see their arrogance.

There are stories that it would take 10 men to carry his sword, and that Afonso would want to engage other monarchs in personal combat, but no one would dare accept his challenge.

The dadaists believed those ideas to be a byproduct of bourgeois society, a society so apathetic it would rather fight a war against itself than challenge the status quo.

For example, a firewall designed to meet National Fire Protection Agency, ( NFPA ), 221-09 section A. 5. 7 which indicates an average temperature of 800 ° F, is not designed to withstand higher temperatures such as would be present in higher challenge fires, and as a result would fail in a time less than the wall rating.

Some hunters, however, do their hunting in areas of dense cover where long guns would be awkward, or they relish the increased challenge involved in handgun hunting due to the necessity of approaching the game animal more closely.

They would challenge each other to stick fights, which had to be accepted on pain of dishonor.

A proposed settlement already approved by ICANN's board would resolve VeriSign's challenge to ICANN in exchange for the right to increase pricing on. com domains.

Ehrlich countered with a challenge to bet that temperatures would increase in the future.

Polgár said that for her to consider competing it would have to be a challenge and " if I get an extremely nice offer just to play for the title.

Jahangir would challenge the hegemonic claim over Afghanistan by the Safavid rulers with an eye on Kabul, Peshawar and Kandahar which were important centers of the central Asian trade system that northern India operated within.

The rebel barons suspected that the proposed baronial council would be unacceptable to John and that he would challenge the legality of the charter ; they packed the baronial council with their own hardliners and refused to demobilise their forces or surrender London as agreed.

In another decision, Landis struck down a challenge to the Interstate Commerce Commission's ( ICC ) jurisdiction over rebating, a practice banned by the Elkins Act of 1903 in which railroads and favored customers agreed that the customers would pay less than the posted tariff, which by law was to be the same for all shippers.

At last word, her attorneys were examining a challenge to the Constitutional validity of massive statutory damages, where actual damages would have been $ 24.

Mark Nelson, frustrated over many cranks trying to claim having invented a magic compression algorithm appearing in comp. compression, has constructed a 415, 241 byte binary file () of highly entropic content, and issued a public challenge of $ 100 to anyone to write a program that, together with its input, would be smaller than his provided binary data yet be able to reconstitute (" decompress ") it without error.

The primary preservation challenge is the low-quality paper often used, which would yellow and degrade due to residual acid in the treated pulp from which the paper was made.

It would be only after McEwen announced his retirement that MacMahon would be able to successfully challenge Gorton for the Liberal leadership.

There they proceeded to mock the blind man, prompting Wermund to challenge their king to a duel — but the king stated that he would not fight a blind man.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.

Not only should every educator above the rank of instructor be expected to be a member of one of the professional organizations, but his first qualification for membership as an educator should be so sharply scrutinized that membership would be equivalent to certification to teach the subject.

Professional touring amplifiers often have input and / or output filtering to sharply limit frequency response beyond ; too much of the amplifier's potential output power would otherwise be wasted on infrasonic and ultrasonic frequencies, and the danger of AM radio interference would increase.

If, on the other hand, Mary gave birth to a healthy child, Elizabeth's chances of becoming queen would recede sharply.

Through analysis of this and other of Hayek's works, Block purports, " in making the case against socialism, Hayek was led into making all sort of compromises with what otherwise appeared to be his own philosophical perspective – so much so, that if a system was erected on the basis of them, it would not differ too sharply from what this author explicitly opposed.

The gold standard was abandoned in September, and the pound quickly and sharply depreciated on the foreign-exchange market, as overvaluation of the pound would imply.

The economically orthodox thing to do, in order to maintain the fixed exchange rate functioning ( at 3. 3 pesos per dollar, within a variation band ), would have been to sharply increase interest rates by allowing the monetary base to shrink, as dollars were being withdrawn from the reserves ( Hufbauer & Schott, 2005 ).

In 1964, Syria attempted construction of a Headwater Diversion Plan that would have blocked the flow of water into the Sea of Galilee, sharply reducing the water flow into the lake.

She particularly singled out for praise that all the characters were heading " to very different paths in life, based on their economic prospects ", giving the show an ambiguous end ; " finale is a bit of a classic: a sharply funny exploration of social class most teen films would render, well, cartoonish.

Thus as this portion of the signal decreases in amplitude, the higher frequencies are progressively more sharply attenuated, which also filters out the constant background noise on the tape when and where it would be most noticeable.

Brice Smith, a graduate student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics, said in The Tech in 2001 that " he first strip, taken alone, would have been a brilliant use of sarcasm that very sharply points out the need for such events ", but that the second strip " mocks the women ’ s demands to feel safe and to be free from rape, and then follows this up with the men brutally attacking the women, killing many quite graphically [...]" Brice Smith argued that " One almost does not even know where to begin addressing this kind of hate-filled message.

Oudinot had encountered the Guard cavalry deputy commander, General Louis Lepic, who sharply refused to commit his men, saying that he only recognised the Duke of Istria ( Bessières ) as commander and that without explicit orders from its commander, the Guard Horse Grenadiers and Dragoons would not draw their swords.

At a July 13, 2004, Senate Banking Committee hearing on the effects of the GLBA five years after passage, the Legislative Director of the Consumer Federation cited Roger Ferguson ’ s 2003 speech and stated the “ extravagant promises ” of universal banking had “ proven to be mostly hype .” He noted that advocates of repealing Sections 20 and 32 had said “ anks, securities firms, and insurance companies would merge into financial services supermarkets ” and, after five years, some mergers had occurred “ but mostly within the banking industry, not across sectors .” Within the banking industry, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress in 2004 that commercial bank consolidation had “ slowed sharply in the past five years .”

Thus, with the alternative cost approach, if house prices are rising fast the cost can be negative and then become sharply positive once house prices start to fall, so such an index would be very volatile.

They would then pull up sharply and start firing when the nose of the bomber appeared in the gunsight.

If you were to drive a car along a great circle you would hold the steering wheel in the centre, but to follow a rhumb line you would have to turn the wheel, turning it more sharply as the poles are approached.

The axle is raised below six miles per hour to allow better maneuvering: Were the axle to remain down, turning sharply, as is done at low speeds, would drag the tires of the tag axle sideways across the pavement as the coach pivoted on the drive wheels, just in front of that axle.

The " notch " breakthrough would soon after evolve into a " step ", with the rear section of the lower hull sharply recessed above the forward lower hull section, and that characteristic became a feature of both flying boat hulls and seaplane floats.

When trying to evade someone tailing him or when otherwise cornered, Rockford would shift into reverse, speed up backwards in a straight line and sharply turn his wheels.

Afterwards he moved sharply to the right and formed the French Popular Party, which would be one of the most collaborationist parties during Vichy France.

If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

:" It was believed that the hold of the brainwashing over the cognitive processes of a cult member needed to be broken – or " snapped " as some termed it – by means that would shock or frighten the cultist into thinking again.

Over the years, the film would be a cult classic and was reworked and parodied on YouTube and other media.

In what appears to be a 7th century indication of the survival of cult practices of this general sort, Saint Eligius, in his Sermo warns the sick among his recently converted flock in Flanders against putting " devilish charms at springs or trees or crossroads ", and, according to Saint Ouen would urge them " No Christian should make or render any devotion to the deities of the trivium, where three roads meet ...".

When Constantine converted to Christianity the majority of his subjects were still pagans and the Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional burning of candles and the offering of incense to the emperor ’ s image, was tolerated for a period because it would have been politically dangerous to attempt to suppress it.

At first his body was laid in state, but since so many people came to see it, the reformers were afraid that they would be accused of fostering a new saint's cult.

He had always had a personality cult from 1949 onward, and by the 1970s it would reach unprecedented dimensions.

This would subsequently create a cult following of the film, in which audience participation became a standardized practice at its screens.

* May 15 – The date predicted by Pana-Wave Laboratory, a Japanese cult, on which a close encounter with an unknown planet would result in the extinction of most of humankind.

After the loss of her temple, her cult may have been transferred to Sol's temple on the dividing barrier, or one beside it ; both would have been open to the sky.

Such a cult once superseded on the Mount would have been taken up and preserved by the Iulii, private citizens bound to the sacra Albana by their Alban origin.

Everybody else on the planet would perish and the members of the cult would be there to rebuild civilization, and thus inherit the earth.

In private, Raeder was prepared to admit that Tirpitz had made mistakes, but to do so publicly was anathema to him as would mean damaging the mystique of the " Tirpitz cult " that Raeder believed essential to maintain the prestige of the Navy.

The government promised not to hurt those who would leave xiéjiào ( 邪教 ), translated as an " evil cult / religion " or a " heretical organization ".

Because the body of Cuthbert was buried in Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne became an important pilgrimage destination in the 7th and 8th centuries and the Lindisfarne Gospels would have contributed to the cult of Saint Cuthbert ( BBC Tyne 2012 ).

He enacted laws, named ministers and developed the bureaucracy, religious cult, and political culture that would characterize Dahomey.

He explains that worship of Athena was retained as a cult because it was too strong to be suppressed, but she was recast as a child of Zeus in new myths, even given the previously incomprehensible role of justifying what would have been a horrific crime against the old religious customs.

That Poseidon and Erechtheus were two names at Athens for the same figure ( see below ) was demonstrated in the cult at the Erechtheum, where there was a single altar, a single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, adding " An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic name has been superimposed on an autochthonous, non-Greek name.

The days when the mundus was open are identified in the oldest Roman calendar as C ( omitiales ) ( days when the Comitia met ) but by later authors as dies religiosus, when it would be irreligious to perform any official work: this apparent contradiction has led to the suggestion that the whole mundus ritual was not contemporary with Rome's early calendar or early Cerean cult, but was a later Greek import.

It would appear from the myth that Poseidon preceded Hera in the heartland of her cult.

This configuration was called the bent axis approach, as anyone entering would make a ninety degree turn to face the cult statue at the end of the central hall.

The instances closest to " ritual killing " in the criminal history of modern society would be pathological serial killers such as the Zodiac Killer, and mass suicides with doomsday cult background, such as the Peoples Temple, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, Order of the Solar Temple or Heaven's Gate incidents.