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Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.
Now imagine that you start to walk.
The idea that specifically the interdependence between parts would have implications for the origins of living things was raised by writers starting with Pierre Gassendi in the mid 17th century and John Wilkins, who wrote ( citing Galen ), " Now to imagine, that all these things, according to their several kinds, could be brought into this regular frame and order, to which such an infinite number of Intentions are required, without the contrivance of some wise Agent, must needs be irrational in the highest degree.
Now, we may be able to imagine this, in a way ; but the question is whether we really are imagining a mind creating a tree out of nothing.
Now imagine that you wish to perform some process on each of these digits, for example, adding the number two to each digit.
Now, imagine the strong chain is broken, and the jet and the piston aircraft start to move.
Now referring again to the illustration, imagine the center of the circle just described, traveling along the axis from the front to the back.
Now imagine that the inputs are driven not by an m-bit address, but by m independent logic signals.
" At the official dedication of the new town, state WPA director Jennings remarked that in 1937 " it would have taken an extravagant sense of optimism to imagine the scene which lies before us here today ... Now that it is all over ...
Now imagine someone else comes along and wants to sit down.
:" Now the letter rho, as I was saying, appeared to the imposer of names an excellent instrument for the expression of motion ; and he frequently uses the letter for this purpose: for example, in the actual words rein and roe he represents motion by rho ; also in the words tromos ( trembling ), trachus ( rugged ); and again, in words such as krouein ( strike ), thrauein ( crush ), ereikein ( bruise ), thruptein ( break ), kermatixein ( crumble ), rumbein ( whirl ): of all these sorts of movements he generally finds an expression in the letter R, because, as I imagine, he had observed that the tongue was most agitated and least at rest in the pronunciation of this letter, which he therefore used in order to express motion "-Cratylus.
Now imagine what it must be like to spend every day surrounded by people who don't know how to use the ATM.
Now imagine the opposite: a cold room exposed to warm outside air.
Now imagine five organisms, one of which is altruistic in regards to this trait, and the rest of which are selfish.
Now imagine that the power dissipation in the transistor causes it to heat up.
Now, let's imagine the future.
Now experimenters find themselves creating scenarios that were impossible to imagine fifteen years ago.
Now imagine a drug B that acts on another organ, which increases the amount of substance S. If both drugs are taken simultaneously it is possible that drug A could cause an adverse reaction in the organism as its effect will be indirectly increased by the action of drug B.
Now, imagine two processes are running incrementing a single, shared memory location:
Now imagine giving the ball a push, which is an approximation to a Dirac delta impulse.
Now imagine the spheres are flat surfaces, superconductors, one of them a coil or O-ring.
Now imagine if the paddle in box T1 was in a much hotter environment than the gear in box T2 ; it would be expected that the kinetic energy of the gas molecules ( red circles ) hitting the paddle in T1 would be much higher than the gas molecules hitting the gear at T2.
Now, imagine starting at the bottom left corner of the phase diagram, in the vacuum where μ = T = 0.
Now, imagine process 1 sends a message to the disk asking for access to write, and then sends a message to process 2 asking it to read.

Now and more
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.
Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.
Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.
Now there was more to do.
Now, the machine has been improved to a point where it is generally more economical than oil heat at temperatures down to 15 degrees.
Now Welch had a pet theory that everyone is guilty of breaking more laws than he ever gets caught at.
Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.
Now Dylan Thomas and Charlie Parker have a great deal more in common than the same disastrous end.
Now, at this moment, there should be none unless skin diving was much more dangerous than he had been led to believe.
Now, not only are there considerably more laity as students and professors at Oxford, but there are also numerous houses of religious orders existing in respectable and friendly relations with the non-Catholic members of the University.
Now, the more modern concept of doing something " under someone's aegis " means doing something under the protection of a powerful, knowledgeable, or benevolent source.
Now, Szilárd proposed to use neutrons theoretically-produced from certain nuclear reactions in lighter isotopes, to induce further reactions in light isotopes that produced more neutrons.
" and " We've Got a Bigger Problem Now " placed the Dead Kennedys as the spokesmen of social protest, while " Dog Bite ", a cover version of Rawhide and various joke introductions showed a much more whimsical side.
The band followed up with Duty Now for the Future in 1979, which moved the band more towards electronic instrumentation.
Now more than 85 % of the Faroese population is accessible by automobile.
Now, Hitchcock is more or less universally lauded, his films dissected shot-by-shot, his work celebrated as being that of a master.
Carver replied in writing, " Now to be branded as a liar and party to such hellish deception it is more than I can bear, and if your committee feel that I have willfully lied or party to such lies as were told my resignation is at your disposal.
Now with an investor in charge, the Astros would be more likely to compete in the free agent market.
Now, let us say that the purpose is not legal entitlement, but rather, the following situation: The admiral of the fleet believes that captains and crews who have fought alongside each other are more effective than captains and crews who are strangers to each other.
Now with more complex service requirements this is less of an option.
Later commenting on A Razor for a Goat, Richard Kieckhefer noted that when the book was first published " it was recognised as a biting critique of the views of Margaret Murray … Now, forty years later, Rose's book may perhaps seem more of a revisionist work within Murray's school of interpretation.
In a country of 180 million, only about 60 outlets are allowed to sell alcohol and there used to be only one legal brewery, Murree Brewery in Rawalpindi, Now there are more.
Now draw another circle or oval inside that, more or less concentric with gap of one or two centimetres between the two.
Now with 8 tracks of recording, 100, 000 note capacity, real-time track muting and more.

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