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Repeated applications of Premise 2 ( each time starting with one fewer grains ), eventually forces one to accept the conclusion that a heap may be composed of just one grain of sand ( and consequently, if one grain of sand is still a heap, then removing that one grain of sand to leave no grains at all still leaves a heap of sand ; indeed a negative number of grains must also form a heap ).
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; 1881 – 1884, 1903 – 1906, 1914-1921: Repeated waves of pogroms swept Russia, propelling mass Jewish emigration ( more than 2 million Russian Jews emigrated in the period 1881-1920 ).
Repeated structural failures of aircraft types occurred in 1954, when 2 de Havilland Comet C1 jet airliners crashed due to decompression caused by metal fatigue, and in 1963-4, when the vertical stabilizer on 4 Boeing B-52 bombers broke off in mid-air.
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* Repeated measures ANOVA is used when the same subjects are used for each treatment ( e. g., in a longitudinal study ).
Repeated effusions may require chemical ( talc, bleomycin, tetracycline / doxycycline ), or surgical pleurodesis, in which the two pleural surfaces are scarred to each other so that no fluid can accumulate between them.
Repeated breaches tire the animal, so that less of the body clears the water each time.
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Repeated over time, these behaviours may be internalized as " me "— that is, gender does not feel like a performance or an accomplishment to the actor, it just feels like her or his " natural " way of behaving.
Repeated freeze-thaw cycles weaken the rocks which, over time, break up along the joints into angular pieces.
Repeated entrants Peter, Sue and Marc returned for the fourth time, after 1971, 1976 and 1979.
Repeated visits over an extended period of time can actually kill the tree.
Repeated accounts of dead bodies marked with pustules consistent with smallpox began being reported around Sydney Harbour around this time.
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Repeated use of this policy will progressively identify errors, starting with the smallest ( and presumably most likely ) errors.
Repeated monotonously for long periods, starting with a subdued tuk and building up to an even volume and tempo, the latter varying from 108 to 121 per minute and can continue with as many as 204 notes.
Repeated petitions against the practice of billeting, starting in the 16th century, culminated in its outlawing in 1689 as an extension of a section of the Petition of Right 1563.
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Repeated efforts -- beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 -- were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action.
Repeated hat-raising was impractical if heavy helmets or hats with chinstraps ( such as shakos and bearskins ) were worn, so from about 1745 the gesture was stylised to a mere hand movement.
Repeated occasions of dynastic strife in Georgia combined with the efforts of regional successors of the Great Seljuq Empire, such as the Ildenizid atabegs of Azerbaijan, Shirvanshahs, and the Ahlatshahs, had slowed down the dynamic of the Georgians achieved during the reigns of Tamar's great-grandfather, David IV, and her father, George III.
Repeated inquiries attempting to analyze his exact experiences were not too successful with the exception of his vivid reference to ' thinking about going up on the tower with a deer rifle and start shooting people '.
Repeated human intrusion into nesting areas often results in nest failure, with abandonment of eggs or chicks.
Repeated bombing of Bremen in World War II resulted in the mass-production plants being moved to eastern Germany and Poland, with AGO Flugzeugwerke of Oschersleben as a major subcontractor for the Fw 190.
Repeated attempts were made to remove it from the speech, but Reagan overruled them, wishing to communicate not only with West Berliners but with East Germans on the other side of the wall.
Repeated outbreaks of European infectious diseases such as influenza, measles and smallpox ( to which they had no natural immunity ), combined with other effects of European contact, resulted in a forty to eighty percent aboriginal population decrease post-contact.
Repeated approaches were made to the British government seeking financial assistance and in late 1846 the company accepted an offer for a £ 236, 000 advance with strict conditions on, and oversight of, future company operations.
Repeated attacks by native Scots failed against the onslaught from the English archers, with losses of up to 12, 000 Scots.
Repeated reflections produce standing waves with one or more nodes, or points, that experience no vertical motion.
Repeated polling has found that a majority of Americans believe the constitution ensures their right to own a gun, with less than 40 percent of Americans favoring stricter gun laws.
Repeated bursts by a Taser can be lethal as evidenced by the death of the Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in the Vancouver, BC airport where he died after the RCMP officer, in spite of his training, repeatedly stunned him with a Taser.
Repeated attempts to gain an appointment with Rabb were unsuccessful, leading Bigelow to conclude that other measures must be taken.
* Repeated attempts to offer captured British weaponry to de Valera if he would side with the Germans.
Repeated outbreaks of European infectious diseases such as influenza, measles and smallpox ( to which they had no natural immunity ), combined with other effects of European contact, resulted in a twenty-five percent to eighty percent Aboriginal population decrease post-contact.
Repeated use of the shape-memory effect may lead to a shift of the characteristic transformation temperatures ( this effect is known as functional fatigue, as it is closely related with a change of microstructural and functional properties of the material ).
Repeated attempts by the Somalis to overrun American positions were beaten back with heavy small arms fire accompanied by strafing and rocket fire from helicopters.
* Major Greenwood and G. Udny Yule ( 1920 ), " An Inquiry into the Nature of Frequency Distributions Representative of Multiple Happenings with Particular Reference to the Occurrence of Multiple Attacks of Disease or of Repeated Accidents ".
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Repeated cuts can be made to reduce the entire sheet to one size of pages without wasted paper.
Repeated actuation of the rotary solenoid advances the snap-switch forward one position.
Repeated training in some subjects has led to long-term improvement, and in one exceptional case, even to the complete elimination of the phantom limb between the hand and the shoulder ( so that the phantom hand was dangling from the shoulder ).
Repeated atheroma rupture and healing is one of the mechanisms, perhaps the dominant one, which creates artery stenosis.
Repeated attempts by James to subdue the fortress by siege failed, and on one occasion Angus's men captured the royal artillery.
Repeated medals are harder to earn than the first one.
* voted for Vehicle Laws – Repeated Drunk and Drugged Driving Offenses – Suspension of License ( HB 293 ), strengthening Maryland ’ s drunk driving laws by imposing a mandatory one year license suspension for a person convicted of drunk driving more than once in five years, 2009
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