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Tacking repeatedly from port to starboard and / or vice versa, called " beating ", is done in order to allow the boat to follow a course into the wind.
The relationship between Cardassians and Bajorans, former enemies turned allies, is charted in " Tacking Into the Wind ", in which Damar and Kira's group abandon prejudice and collaborate to seize a Breen weapon.
Tacking is valid only if the conveyance of the property from one adverse possesser to another is founded upon a written document ( usually an erroneous deed ), indicating " color of title.
Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel ( which is sailing approximately into the wind ) turns its bow through the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side to the other.
Tacking is sometimes confused with beating to windward, which is a process of beating a course upwind and generally implies ( but does not require ) actually coming about.
Tacking and sailing
Tacking and upwind
* Tacking duels: In sailboat racing on an upwind leg of the race course the complex maneuvers of lead and overtaking boats to vie for the aerodynamic advantage of clear air.
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Gowron makes his final appearances in " When It Rains ..." and " Tacking Into the Wind ", where he assumes direct command of Klingon military forces and launches multiple reckless attacks with minimal success.
Tacking Into the Wind ( Release Date: August 5, 2011 ) fifty-four ( 54 ) card virtual expansion contains a ship for almost every affiliation and sub-affiliation, including the debut of the long awaited U. S. S.
Over 20 shipwrecks occurred in the Tacking Point area before a lighthouse was designed by James Barnet and erected there in 1879 by Shepard and Mortley.
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I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.
Hence government must establish greater controls upon corporations so that their activities promote what is deemed essential to the national interest.
There is essential pleasantness in reading the writing of men who are not angry, who can contend without quarreling.
Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
A requirement of reasonably honest administration may be politically uncomfortable in the short run, but it is politically essential in the long run.
The Merchant Marine is the `` Fourth Arm of Defense '', for a strong and effective American Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of our Nation.
The movement of events is so fast, the pace so severe, that an attempt to peer into the future is essential if we are to think accurately about the present.
A substantial increase is estimated in the cost of operating additional communications systems in the air defense program, as well as in all programs where speed and security of communications are essential.
The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.
However, it is essential that the various mathematical symbols used in the equations be understood so that the mathematical processes can be done properly and in their correct order.
In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.
Consultation with architects, clients, real estate men, fabric houses and furniture companies is essential to the proper development of class problems just as in actual work.
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( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.
The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.
It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.
Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
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