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One and first
The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.
One must first detect a fleeting mobile or moving target, decide that it is worthy of destruction, select the missile to be fired against the target, compute ballistics for the flight, and prepare the missile for firing.
One finds, for example, that a terse and stereotyped verbal expression, seeming at first to be a mere hollow convention, reveals itself over the months of therapy as the vehicle for expressing the most varied and intense feelings, and the most unconventional of meanings.
One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.
One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.
One of the vexatious problems to first confront President Kennedy was the property lying just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
One of the first things he would do, he said, would be to organize classes in first aid.
One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.
One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.
One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.
One of his first acts as Emperor was to persuade the Senate to grant divine honours to Hadrian, which they had at first refused ; his efforts to persuade the Senate to grant these honours is the most likely reason given for his title of Pius ( dutiful in affection ; compare pietas ).
One of the primary characteristics of this technique is the use of a swivel as follows: the first anchor is set normally, and the vessel drops back to the limit of anchor cable.
One of the first to discuss the possibility of an absolute minimal temperature was Robert Boyle.
* 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval / air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.
One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.
One of the first actors is believed to be an ancient Greek called Thespis of Icaria.
One of his most celebrated achievements is the discovery of the first arithmetic Weil cohomology theory: the ℓ-adic étale cohomology.
AA's name derived from its first book, informally called " The Big Book ", originally titled Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism
" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.
One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.
On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.
The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

One and convicts
One of the known actual results is that fewer convicts escape during temporary release.
The expedition consisted of 402 people: 5 Government officials, 9 officers of marines, 2 drummers, and 39 privates, 5 soldiers ' wives, and a child, 307 convicts, 17 convicts ' wives, and 7 children One of the children was the eleven year old John Pascoe Fawkner, later a founder of Melbourne, who accompanied his convicted father and mother.
One day the boy spots a group of convicts working, and he leans up against a fence to watch them, looking for his father.
One account states that on the voyage out to Botany Bay a conspiracy was hatched by the convicts on board to seize the ship.
One of the escaped convicts was never recaptured.
One guard died by the hands of the rioting convicts in the early stages of the riot.
One of the convicts, Louisa Wogan, proves to be an American spy and also a friend of Diana Villiers.
In June, Kingston starred as the lead character Ellie Lagden, one of four former convicts in the BBC One drama series Hope Springs until its cancellation in July.
One day its walls were blown down, but soon re-erected by the convicts.
One of his first tasks was sit on the court of enquiry in May 1797 into the treatment of convicts on the Britannia.
One of his first duties was to arrange for the trial of 26 convicts alleged to have been involved in murders during the revolt of July 1846 at the end of Childs ' administration.
One in three convicts transported after 1798 was Irish, about a fifth of whom were transported in connection with the political and agrarian disturbances common in Ireland at the time.

One and transported
Another more recent story involving travel to the future is Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L ' An 2440, rêve s ' il en fût jamais (" The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Were One "), a utopian novel in which the main character is transported to the year 2440.
One action causes the dopamine molecules to be released from inside the vesicles into the cytoplasm of the nerve terminal, which are then transported outside by the mesolimbic dopamine pathway to the nucleus accumbens.
One other romantic reason often given is their seeds being unwittingly transported on the animals brought there from all corners of the empire.
What could I do now ?…" At Andrews, he and his family boarded Air Force One to El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in California, and then were transported to his home in San Clemente.
One of the centerpieces of the collection is a partial recreation of the 17th-century ostrog ( fortress ) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ostrog in the mid-1970s, to which an exact modern copy of another tower of the ostrog and the Southern wall of the fortress were added in the early 2000s.
Draped in a blue-velvet cloth inscribed with the Musketeers ' motto: " Un pour tous, tous pour un " (" One for all, all for one ,") the remains had been transported from their original interment site in the Cimetière de Villers-Cotterêts in Aisne, France.
One theory, of sufficient popularity to serve as an example of folk etymology, is that the term horse latitudes originates from when the Spanish transported horses by ship to their colonies in the West Indies and Americas.
One account describes how corpses would be transported by a two-man team.
One of the most distinctive landmarks left from the operation are the ruins of the jetty used to load the shingle on to boats so it could be transported across the country.
One ally the climber has is a pink " Lucky Balloon "; if he is able to grab it, the climber is transported up 8 stories to a window.
One theory is that these giant andesite stones, which weigh over 40 tons were transported some 90 kilometers across Lake Titicaca on reed boats, then laboriously dragged another 10 kilometers to the city.
One of his sons, A. Benedict Tolbert, was killed in the aftermath of the coup: he had taken refuge in the French Embassy but was arrested by members of Doe's security force who violated diplomatic immunity, and reportedly he was thrown out of a military aircraft while being transported to a prison in Lofa County.
One was that the Kwantung Army had a strong reserve force that could be transported by railway from Korea, which was a Japanese colony, directly adjacent to Manchuria.
One species, Dysdera crocata ( the woodlouse hunter ), has been transported over much of the planet together with its preferred foods-woodlice.
On the night of 22 / 23 January, the patrol were transported into Iraqi airspace by a RAF Chinook helicopter, along with Bravo One Zero and their Land Rover 110 vehicles.
One of Legion's split personalities revealed that when Bishop used Legion's psychic blade, David was transported to the Age of Apocalypse timeline where he was caught and made a slave, but it didn't reveal how Legion managed to return to the present timeline.
For example, in one instance where a Bungalow Head was transported back to Victorian London, he had to ask for more from characters like " Jack The Let One Ripper ", " Florence Nightingale ", " Victorian Barry Manilow " and " Queen Victoria " ( who made him king ).
One of the injured was transported to hospital by air ambulance.
One of the Johns most remembered initiatives during his early state Senate years was to build a new, portable electric chair to be transported by truck with an electric generator and set up in a jail or a courthouse where the convicted was sentenced.
Raistlin's spirit also assisted the gods to find Krynn at the conclusion of the War of Souls, after Takhisis who was claiming to be the " One God " stole Krynn and transported it to another part of the galaxy.
One of the major stories of the series centers around a girl named Yoko Nakajima from Japan, who is suddenly transported to the world of the Twelve Kingdoms and searches for her destiny.
One such abducted man alleged that while he was being transported, from his workplace in Colombo, his abduction vehicle came across Army checkpoints but was not rescued.
One part of it, consisting of 1, 261 crates containing 82, 403 kg of gold, was loaded aboard a commercial ship in the port of Constanţa, and transported to Western Europe.
One day, when he returns home from school, he gets kicked into his bathtub by Kirie Kojima, his neighbor, and is transported to, a mysterious world with a mostly female population.

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