Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.

Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.

Since the complicated process of establishing new communes and reviewing the rudimentary plan left by the French did not even begin until the fall of 1957, this goal appears somewhat ambitious.

Since the time of Catherine II the ranks of Abbot and Archimandrite have been given as honorary titles in the Russian Church, and may be given to any monastic, even if he does not in fact serve as the superior of a monastery.

Since archaeoastronomers disagree so widely on the characterization of the discipline, they even dispute its name.

Since helium remains a liquid even at absolute zero at atmospheric pressure, it has only a boiling point, and not a melting point, in conventional presentations.

Since water that flows through a cave eventually comes out in streams and rivers, any pollution may ultimately end up in someone's drinking water, and can even seriously affect the surface environment, as well.

Since it is time-consuming to calculate the energy for a molecule, it is even more time-consuming to calculate them for the entire list of points in the Brillouin zone.

Since then Mao's peasant revolutionary vision and so-called " continued revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat " stipulated that class enemies continued to exist even though the socialist revolution seemed to be complete, giving way to the Cultural Revolution.

Since 2008, however, racism has become an even more pressing concern.

Since the great majority of people who first attempted to transcribe Chinese were not linguists ( and even if they were, the principles of modern phonemics were not discovered for another two centuries ), their endeavour was marred by a lack of systematic approach and many contemporary European misconceptions about language.

Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

Since the turn of the 21st century, many aspects of animal communication, animal emotions, animal culture, learning, and even sexual conduct that experts long thought they understood, have been reexamined, and new conclusions reached.

Since then the Court has appeared to be more open to finding states guilty of torture and has even ruled that since the Convention is a " living instrument ", treatment which it had previously characterised as inhuman or degrading treatment might in future be regarded as torture.

Since 2002, the new Afghan government has engaged in cordial relations with both Iran and the United States, even as relations between Iran and the United States have grown strained due to American objections to Iran's nuclear program.

Since the release of the film the town of Åmål has even tried to embrace the publicity generated, despite the fact that the town's name is missing from the English title.

Since CERT and the vendors were aware of the holes, but attempted to keep them secret even to the administrators of machines being hacked in the field, it was felt that CERT's policies were a manifestation of an impractical, " ivory tower " attitude.

Since the 1990s a growing number of artists are switching to non-permanent paints for a variety of reasons — but primarily because is it difficult for the police to apprehend and for the courts to sentence or even convict a person for a protest that is as fleeting and less intrusive than marching in the streets.

Since King Kong was seen as the bigger draw ( at the time, he was even more popular in Japan than Godzilla ), and since Godzilla was still a villain at this point in the series, it led to the decision to not only give King Kong top billing, but also to present him as the winner of the climactic fight.

Since such substances may affect a person's judgment even after consuming relatively small amounts, zero tolerance is advocated by gun safety teachers.

Beyond its first verse, which is consistent, it has many historic and extant versions: Since its first publication, different verses have been added and taken away and, even today, different publications include various selections of verses in various orders.

Since NC contains NL, it is also unknown whether a space-efficient algorithm for computing the GCD exists, even for nondeterministic Turing machines.

Since Galileo was designed to provide the highest possible precision ( possibly even greater than GPS ) to anyone, the US was concerned that an enemy could use Galileo signals in military strikes against the US and its allies ( some weapons like missiles use GNSS systems for guidance ).

Since then, and even in recent years, public spokesmen in Haiti as well as international academics and statesmen have denounced this event as the payment of an illegitimate debt, in several cases calling on the French government to repay it ( the French government has never been willing to repay it, though there was a hoax following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake involving a fake website purporting to offer reparation payment on behalf of the French Government ).

Since iodine is picked more readily ( though not exclusively ) by thyroid cells, and ( more important ) is picked up even more readily by over-active thyroid cells, the destruction is local, and there are no widespread side-effects with this therapy.

Since the Byzantine army was still holding on after this defeat the sultan thought it was time to set up his secret weapon, a huge mobile tower.

Since most of Fuchs ' work on the bomb, including a 1946 patent on a particular model for the weapon, are still classified in the United States, it has been difficult for scholars to fully assess these conclusions.

Since a medieval spear required only a small amount of steel along the sharpened edges ( most of the spear-tip was wrought iron ), it was an economical weapon.

Since a dirty bomb is unlikely to cause many deaths, many do not consider this to be a weapon of mass destruction.

Since then, both Koopas and Paratroopas have appeared, either playable or not, in a vast number of spin-off games in the series, and Koopa shells have become popularized as a weapon by the Mario Kart series ( often mistakenly referred to as " turtle shells ").

Since the weapon is seen as simply an extension of the body, the same angles and footwork are used either with or without a weapon.

Since then, the weapon has sometimes been mistakenly referred to in English as a " Bundi dagger ".

Since a weapon is clicked in this example, the screen shows controls for firing and related functions.

Since explosives detonate at typically 7 – 8 kilometers per second, or 7 – 8 meters per millisecond, a one millisecond delay in detonation from one side of a nuclear weapon to the other would be longer than the time the detonation would take to cross the weapon.

Since the mission commander Major Charles Sweeney had orders to only drop the bomb if the target was sighted, he proceeded to the secondary target of Nagasaki, where the weapon was dropped.

Allan Brownfeld writes that Forster and Epstein's new definition of antisemitism trivialized the concept by turning it into " a form of political blackmail " and " a weapon with which to silence any criticism of either Israel or U. S. policy in the Middle East ," while Edward S. Shapiro, in " A Time for Healing: American Jewry Since World War II ," has written that " Forster and Epstein implied that the new anti-Semitism was the inability of Gentiles to love Jews and Israel enough.

Since Degra's ship is faster than the weapon, they are able to catch up to it as it approaches Earth.

Since the fixed sights do not allow for any elevation adjustment, it is clear that this weapon is meant for combat accuracy ( 6 " at 100 meters ) at short / urban ranges only and not meant to be a precision sniping tool.

Since then he keeps possessing the Star Saber until he hears about the new formidable Mini-Con weapon, the Requiem Blaster, and watches it in action.

Since World War II the garrote has been regularly employed as a weapon by soldiers as a silent means of eliminating sentries and other enemy personnel.

: 2: Since about 1900, a term used exclusively for a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it.

Since rotaries, which need some form of fuel to power the blades, also cost more to operate than fixed-blade plows, they are now generally considered to be a " weapon of last resort " for the railroads that own them ; they are only used when snow is too deep or heavy for fixed-blade plows.

Since 1999, a modified version of the weapon has been used as a surface-to-air missile ( SAM ) as part of the Yugoslav M55A3B1 towed anti-aircraft artillery system.

Since the projectile follows a ballistic trajectory, the weapon could be described as a recoilless gun.

Since the weapon and light are not attached to each other, the light may be used to illuminate areas that may or may not contain a target, without pointing the weapon at the area.

Since then, Libya constructed what is believed to be the largest chemical weapon production facility in the developing world in the Rabta industrial complex.