Now, roaring up in great oily clouds of smoke and flames, the fierce heat quickly drove us to the stern where we huddled like suffocating sheep, not knowing what to do.

He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.

Far from creating fear, as the speaker suggests, preparedness -- knowing what to do in an emergency -- gives people confidence.

For instance -- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly, as if this were the one moment they would ever have together, their one chance of knowing each other??

The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams, 1958 ).

The one way to get around them -- short of knowing exactly what one wants and sticking to it -- is to frequent a single establishment until its wine waiter is persuaded that one is at least as interested in wine as in spending money.

The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.

At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.

Mr. Hawksley said he was not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to assemble in case of an air attack.

Mercer stammered, not knowing what B'dikkat meant, and the two-nosed man answered for him, `` I think he has a nice baby head, but it isn't big enough for you to take yet ''.

Clausewitz acknowledges that friction creates enormous difficulties for the realization of any plan, and the fog of war hinders commanders from knowing what is happening.

It is possible that it was used in the marketplace to allow traders to talk amongst themselves in order to facilitate collusion, without customers knowing what they were saying.

In a passage from the Posterior Analytics, he says that we can know the meaning of a made-up name ( he gives the example ' goat stag '), without knowing what he calls the ' essential nature ' of the thing that the name would denote, if there were such a thing.

In other words, knowing where all the previous electrons appeared on the screen and in what order tells us nothing about where any future electron will hit, even though the probabilities at specific points can be calculated.

* Buddhist author Chogyam Trungpa includes the category " not knowing what you want.

Margaret Mitchell did not originate them and a young novelist can scarcely be faulted for not knowing what the majority of mature, professional historians did not know until many years later.

It was while writing Personal Knowledge that he identified what he calls the " structure of tacit knowing ".

" The song was carried to Appalachia by immigrants from England, where singers, not knowing what the lowland sea refers to, transformed it over generations from " lowland " to " lonesome ".

It was held that, as the defendant had been aware of his actions, he could neither have been in a state of automatism nor insane, and the fact that he believed that God had told him to do this merely provided an explanation of his motive and did not prevent him from knowing that what he was doing was wrong in the legal sense.

In Jewish tradition, Rabbis blame Satan for saturating the vine with intoxicating properties from the blood of certain animals, thus Noah behaved not knowing what he was doing.

The above definitions of omniscience cover what is called propositional knowledge ( knowing that ), as opposed to experiential knowledge ( knowing how ).

Our understanding of the phenomenal world is inevitably “ colored ” by the imperfections, or restrictions, of the knowing apparatus, and this is what he set out to describe in the first part of the 1st Critique.

Thus Kant effects his “ Copernican ” revolution of knowledge by changing our perspective on knowledge from a question of “ what can truly be known ” ( i. e. how can we actually come to know universals ), to a question of “ how does the knowing mind operate .”

However, the meaning of the RTL is more-or-less independent of the target: it would usually be possible to read and understand a piece of RTL without knowing what processor it was generated for.

Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.

For concerning these, the Lord put to shame the Sadducees, and said, ' Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures ' and He reproved the Jews, saying, ' Search the Scriptures, for these are they that testify of ME ".

They do not believe we can be sure of being saved, believing instead that salvation comes as a result of a life of obedience to the commands of Christ After death, believers are in a state of non-existence, knowing nothing until the Resurrection at the return of Christ.

He says that " we do not want to award the title of knowing something to someone who is only meeting the conditions through a defect, flaw, or failure, compared with someone else who is not meeting the conditions .".

... for at the moment that the observer approaches, then they become other ... so that you cannot get any further in knowing their nature or state .... but if that which knows and that which is known exist ever ... then I do not think they can resemble a process or flux ....

Unlike garbage collection, RAII has the advantage of knowing when objects exist and when they do not.

There is a third type of knowledge: practical or procedural knowledge ( knowing how to do ).

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

As Marius writes in his biography of More: " To stand before a man at an inquisition, knowing that he will rejoice when we die, knowing that he will commit us to the stake and its horrors without a moment's hesitation or remorse if we do not satisfy him, is not an experience much less cruel because our inquisitor does not whip us or rack us or shout at us.

As early as the fifth century BC, Protagoras, who is reputed to have been exiled from Athens because of his agnosticism about the existence of the gods, said that " Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

If the management ethos is to reward the number of bugs fixed, then some developers may quickly write sloppy code knowing they can fix the bugs later and be rewarded for it, whereas careful, perhaps " slower " developers do not get rewarded for the bugs that were never there.

" Those who do battle without knowing these will lose.

For example, one could argue that methamphetamine use is so destructive that no sane person, knowing the consequences, would do it.

At this point there was great confusion, with many people not knowing what to do, as Bryant was near the main exit.

do not maintain constant contact with his arms, how can he launch an attack at you without your knowing?

Prima scriptura suggests that ways of knowing or understanding God and his will, that do not originate from canonized scripture, are in a second place, perhaps helpful in interpreting that scripture, but testable by the canon and correctable by it, if they seem to contradict the scriptures.

In addition, up to 20 % of persons infected with the mumps virus do not show symptoms, so it is possible to be infected and spread the virus without knowing it.

Removing the First Law's " inaction " clause solves this problem but creates the possibility of an even greater one: a robot could initiate an action which would harm a human ( dropping a heavy weight and failing to catch it is the example given in the text ), knowing that it was capable of preventing the harm and then decide not to do so.

You can sort of compare general semantics to yoga in that respect ... knowing about yoga is okay, but to benefit from yoga you have to do yoga.

The difficulty with the question stems from the concern that human beings do not in fact fully understand or agree upon the nature of knowledge or knowing, and therefore ( it is often argued ) it is not possible to be certain beyond doubt what is real.