Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

Ampère claimed that " at eighteen years he found three culminating points in his life, his First Communion, the reading of Antoine Leonard Thomas's " Eulogy of Descartes ", and the Taking of the Bastille.

Taking advantage of this feature, some languages ( like FORTRAN 77 ) specify that array indices begin at 1, as in mathematical tradition ; while other languages ( like Fortran 90, Pascal and Algol ) let the user choose the minimum value for each index.

Taking one of the abandoned upper rooms of the Academy as a working space, he spent $ 200 – which at the time he felt to be a lot of money – to produce Six Men Getting Sick.

Taking in Europe and North America, the tour opened at London's annual Meltdown festival, for which Bowie was that year appointed artistic director.

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by Canadian author Naomi Klein.

The subtitle, " Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies ", was dropped in some later editions.

No LOGO: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies ( New York: Picador ).

Taking these into account, one must weigh them up and adopt the course of action that is most likely to maximise the interests of those affected ; utilitarianism has been arrived at.

Taking command of the combined fleet, now 19 ships, Graves sailed south, and arrived at the mouth of the Chesapeake on 5 September.

Taking the waters at Marienbad in 1845 he began reading Georg Gottfried Gervinus ’ History of German Literature.

Taking the " forklift upgrade " approach to networking, it specified eliminating all existing protocols and replacing them with new ones at all layers of the stack.

Taking THD measurements at different output levels would expose whether the distortion is clipping ( which increases with level ) or crossover ( which decreases with level ).

Taking a wright, the most able workman there, he ordered him to saw the plank in two at the mid streit stretch, so that no-one might walk over it.

Taking losses and worried about the loyalty of some of his governors, Basil lifted the siege and headed back for Thrace but fell into an ambush and suffered a serious defeat at the Battle of the Gates of Trajan.

The first movie Forman realized in United States, Taking Off was rewarded at Cannes Film Festival.

Taking place about a decade later, most likely in the summer of 722, the victory at Covadonga assured the survival of a Christian stronghold in northern Iberia, and today is regarded as the beginning of the Reconquista.

Taking to the seas at the age of 18, Bering travelled extensively over the next eight years, as well as taking naval training at Amsterdam.

Taking up residence at Rotherhithe in London, Haakon was an important national symbol in the Norwegian resistance.

Taking advantage, Henry V of England led an invasion which culminated in October when the French army was defeated at the Battle of Agincourt.

Taking many of his achievements into consideration, Mehmed is widely known as the " second founder " of the Ottoman Empire.

Taking the water of many rivers into his mouth, he extinguished the protective fire the gods had thrown up.

Taking the opposing view, it is argued by many U. S. Senators and legal scholars that, since for any treaty to be enforceable in the United States, it must strictly conform to the terms of ratification issued by the Senate ; and, that no term of any treaty which is subject to the Senate's reservation ( s ) can be interpreted to have been confirmed, lawful or enforceable in the United States, according to the sovereign operation of the Constitution.

Taking advantage of its many creeks, the inhabitants erected many mills.

Taking the SAT or its competitor, the ACT, is required for freshman entry to many, but not all, universities in the United States.

Taking multiple interventions artificially inflates the duration of a speech, and is seen by many as a tactic to prolong a speech.

Taking advantage of the many internal court rivalries of the Joseon Dynasty, the Japanese devised a plan.

Taking place many years in the future in colonized space, military scientists have disposed of countless, defective military droids on an un-colonized terrestrial planet called Ryxx.

He became a familiar face as a supporting actor in many 1980s Hollywood comedies, including Midnight Run, Taking Care of Business, Seems Like Old Times, The Great Muppet Caper, The Woman in Red, The Lonely Guy, Ishtar and The Couch Trip.

Taking an interest in questions relating to the treatment of criminal offenders, he publicly aired opinions which were the means of introducing many important reforms in the methods of dealing with crime, drawing notably upon the theories of the Scottish penal reformer, Alexander Maconochie.

Taking the eye as an example, Darwin was able to show many stages of light sensitivity and eye development in the animal kingdom as proof of the utility of less than perfect sight ( argument by intermediate stages ).

Actor Casting Calls for Universal Studios ; Filming Schedules for ABC TV ; Athlete Scheduling for the 1985 Summer Olympics ; " The Talking Bouquet for Florafax ; Order Taking for Quervo Gold advertisements ; and many more.

Iterating countably many times results in a closure operator Taking an arbitrary subset such that, and having defined one can see that also is an elementary substructure of by the Tarski – Vaught test.

Taking entirely pre-recorded music had many advantages over sequencing for sound quality.

Taking part in such practices is seen mostly as informal activity, but in many cities where inadequate, unreliable, and irregular access to food is a recurring problem, urban agriculture has been a positive response to tackling food concerns.

Taking this idea further, in many cases the sum or integral of the prior values may not even need to be finite to get sensible answers for the posterior probabilities.

Taking the view that airplane like operations do not translate to airplane-like appearance, many TSTOs have first stages that operate as VTOL or VTOHL aircraft.

Taking in consideration that the Conan character was created almost 50 years prior to the development of the He-Man franchise, it is likely that the Masters of the Universe borrowed many aspects from Conan, but it appears that it was not intended to be a toyline for the film after legal agreements were dissolved.

His upbeat " Taking Off " instrumental is an excellent example of his Jack Teagarden-inspired solos ; a towering inspiration to many Western swing, country and even rock guitarists in the years to follow.

Taking sections is necessarily destructive of part of the artefact, and thus discouraged by many museums.

Taking personal command late in the decade, he captured many of the fortified cities along the northern front.

Taking the OAS into a more active role in Latin America's economic development than had been the case before, Orfila facilitated the Inter-American Development Bank as a means to provide these governments an alternative to the high-interest credit markets in the world's financial capitals, a policy that backfired somewhat after many of these nations entered a debt repayments crisis in 1981.

Taking advantage of the rail junction Riverina Stock Feeds operated a packing plant opposite the Wallangarra railway station for many years until 1995.