The scarred, disfigured wrists of Mr. Jaggers' housekeeper are the tell-tale marks of her sinister past, for her master, coolly exhibiting them to his dinner guests, makes a point of the `` force of grip there is in these hands ''.

Furthermore, the researchers found the bacterium creates a hyperinfected state where genes that control biosynthesis of amino acids, iron uptake systems, and formation of periplasmic nitrate reductase complexes were induced just before defecation.

While recognising bureaucracy as the most efficient form of organisation and even indispensable for the modern state, Weber also saw it as a threat to individual freedoms and the ongoing bureaucratisation as leading to a " polar night of icy darkness ", in which increasing rationalisation of human life traps individuals in the aforementioned " iron cage " of bureaucratic, rule-based, rational control.

The simplest of these is a variable power control, much like a light dimmer, which changes the equilibrium temperature of the iron without automatically measuring or regulating the temperature.

A soldering station, invariably temperature-controlled, consists of an electrical power supply, control circuitry with provision for user adjustment of temperature and display, and a soldering iron or soldering head with a tip temperature sensor.

During the 17th century, after winning wars against Denmark, Russia, and Poland, Sweden – Finland ( with scarcely more than 1 million inhabitants ) emerged as a great power by taking direct control of the Baltic region, which was Europe's main source of grain, iron, copper, timber, tar, hemp, and furs.

The heavy moldboard iron plow, also invented during the Han Dynasty, required only one man to control it, two oxen to pull it.

His results prompted Bessemer to try a purer iron obtained from Cumberland hematite, but even with this he had only limited success because the quantity of carbon was difficult to control.

Adequate disease control usually improves anemia of chronic disease, but iron deficiency may require treatment with oral iron supplements.

Adequate disease control usually improves anemia of chronic disease, but iron deficiency may require treatment with oral iron supplements.

The iron industry was a vital part of a strategy designed by a few Portland financiers who strove to control all related entrepreneurial ventures in the late 19th century.

For electrical, hydraulic, and flight control systems, full-size engineering rigs, sometimes called ' iron birds ', are used during the development of the aircraft and its systems.

However, testimony from informants and surveillance showed that Gigante was in full control of his faculties the whole time, and ruled over his Mafia family with an iron fist.

The Law of 22 Prairial, proposed by the Committee of Public Safety and enacted on June 10, 1794, went further in establishing the iron control of the Revolutionary Tribunal and, above it, the Committees of Public Safety and General Security ; the law enumerated various forms of public enemies, made mandatory their denunciation, and severely limited the legal recourse available to those accused.

There are several mechanisms that control human iron metabolism and safeguard against iron deficiency.

Originally bronze, these weapons were made of iron or steel by the time of the late Warring States period as metallurgical knowledge became sufficiently advanced to control the carbon content.

Armorers of the Middle Ages created the first sophisticated prostheses, using strong, heavy, inflexible iron to make limbs that the amputee could scarcely control.

Indeed, thanks to this annexation, the Germans took control of the fortifications of Metz, which was at the time a French-speaking town, and also of most of the iron resources available in the region.

Ney ’ s cavalry also failed to spike enemy cannons ( driving an iron spike into the firing hole ) while they were under French control ( during the cavalry attack, the crews of the cannon retreated into the squares for protection, and then re-manned their pieces as the horsemen receded ).

The civil war turned into an ethnic conflict, with seven factions fighting for control of Liberia's resources ( especially iron ore, diamonds, timber, and rubber ).

Modalities include: diet, parasite control, vitamin A, riboflavin ( B < sub > 2 </ sub >), vitamin C ( for absorption ), folate, vitamin B < sub > 12 </ sub > and multivitamin-multimineral supplements, with or without iron ; potentially avoiding the use of iron only supplements.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

The following year they launched Warrior, which was twice the size and had iron armour over an iron hull.

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

Consequently such meters would normally have a non linear scale, but the iron parts are usually modified in shape to make the scale fairly linear over most of its range.

This is a system by which a steel or iron wire framework is built in the shape of a boat's hull and covered ( trowelled ) over with cement.

At approximately 20: 30, Nelson was struck over his blinded right eye by an iron splinter fired in a langrage shot from Spartiate.

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

The Chinese Cheka detachments stationed in Kiev reportedly would attach an iron tube to the torso of a bound victim and insert a rat in the tube closed off with wire netting, while the tube was held over a flame until the rat began gnawing through the victim's guts in an effort to escape.

The Ming Chinese also mounted over 3, 000 cast bronze and iron cannon on the Great Wall of China, to defend against the Mongols.

His body was gibbeted — right-to hang in an iron cage over the River Thames at Tilbury Point — as a warning to future would-be pirates for three years.

The Ha ' penny Bridge ; an old iron footbridge over the River Liffey is one of the most photographed sights in Dublin and is considered to be one of Dublin's most iconic landmarks.

At a parade in 1850, in which over 2, 000 female soldiers participated, one of them began a speech by saying, " As the blacksmith takes an iron bar and by fire changes its fashion, so we have changed our nature.

In 1857 Nepveu negotiated a contract to build a railway bridge over the river Garonne at Bordeaux, connecting the Paris-Bordeaux line to the lines running to Sète and Bayonne, which involved the construction of a iron girder bridge supported by six pairs of masonry piers on the river bed.

" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.

Once dried, the mixture was mixed with wine and iron salt over a fire to make the final ink.

His firm actions and iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership are generally credited with restoring public confidence in the game.

The Widow Krupp greatly expanded the family's holdings over the decades, acquiring a fulling mill, shares in four coal mines, and ( in 1800 ) an iron forge located on a stream near Essen.

Jamison, in an interview, said she was an " exuberant " person, yet she longed for peace and tranquility ; but in the end, she preferred " tumultuousness coupled to iron discipline " over leading a " stunningly boring life.

Although the locomotive hauled a train of 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers in five wagons over nine miles ( 14 km ), it was too heavy for the cast iron rails used at the time.

Rich in iron ore, the district has been a mining and heavy industrial region since Roman if not earlier times and stretches for over.

Metals are usually inclined to form cations through electron loss, reacting with oxygen in the air to form oxides over changing timescales ( iron rusts over years, while potassium burns in seconds ).