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Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.
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Taking and aim
Taking aim at intermediate distances is done with a ramp sight graduated between 400 and 800 meters.
Taking this approach, Aristotle begins by saying that the highest good for humans, the highest aim of all human practical thinking, is eudaimonia, a Greek word often translated as well-being or happiness.
Taking Fenn's work as a basis, the aim of the new editor was to include all the letters which had come to light since this publication, and in his careful and accurate work in three volumes ( London, 1872 – 1875 ) he printed over four hundred letters for the first time.
Taking center stage in the discussion was the " travel planning process ", a complex analysis and decision-making procedure with the aim of designating appropriate roads and trails.
* " Taking Pulse " joins NAAF with industry to present career options in specific growth sectors through a series of short documentaries and supporting curriculum materials with the aim of recruiting First Nations, Inuit & Métis youth.
Taking and at
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 a swipe at many of the negative reviews circulating at the time, Evans writes: " The easiest way to deal with the book would be [...] to write off Mr. Joyce's latest volume as the work of a charlatan.
Taking and man's
Taking the bread out of a man's mouth ".
Taking and face
Taking advantage of the precarious situation of the remains of the Empire in the face of rising Greek power, he obtained confirmation of his possession of Corfu, the suzerain rights over Achaea, and sovereignty over most of the Aegean islands.
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 someone at face value is assuming another person's suggestion, offer, or proposal is sincere, rather than a bargaining ploy.
Taking influence from Japanese comics " The 8 Man " and the first Tokusatsu Metal Hero " Uchuu Keiji Gavan ( Space Sheriff Gavan )" from Toei, Rob, Paul Verhoeven, and Edward Neumeier came up with the concept of the suit being more of an outer shell, with only very little of the actor's actual face being visible.
Taking Geilenkirchen, as part of Operation Clipper on 19 November, the division pushed forward to take Beeck ( Geilenkirchen ) and Lindern in the face of heavy enemy resistance, 29 November.
Taking a bath sponge to the police station in a Gladstone bag, Holmes washes Boone's still-dirty face, causing his face to be revealed — the face of Neville St. Clair!
The programme was produced and screened as part of the BBC's Taking Care season, a strand of programmes across their various radio and television services examining the life children in care face in the UK.
Taking a standard 52-card deck of playing cards ( without Jokers ), three cards are drawn from the bottom of the deck and placed face up in a line on the table laid out in the order they were drawn so the faces can be read.
Taking over 300mg of caffeine daily over a long period of time will overstimulate the nervous system and produce nervousness, a flushed face, muscle twitching, irregular and / or rapid heart beat ( tacchycardia ), rambling thoughts and speech.
Taking this formula at face value, we see that in relativity, mass is simply energy by another name ( and measured in different units ).
Taking and squeezed
Taking pity on her, Karna took the soil mixed with ghee in his fist and squeezed it with all his might, so that the ghee dripped back into the pot.
Taking and up
Taking up and " communing with " ( Merleau-Ponty's phrase ) the sensible qualities it encounters, the body as incarnated subjectivity intentionally elaborates things within an ever-present world frame, through use of its pre-conscious, prepredicative understanding of the world's makeup.
Taking up the examples of professionals such as jewellers, physicians and lawyers, he said,
Taking advantage of someone ’ s competitive nature can drive up the price.
Taking an oath for Muslims can be a grave act ; one study of courts in Morocco found that lying litigants would often " maintain their testimony ' right up to the moment of oath-taking and then to stop, refuse the oath, and surrender the case.
Taking advantage of their second chance, the Vikings ended up with a 12-play, 68-yard drive and scored on an 8-yard pass from Tarkenton to receiver Sammy White to cut their deficit to 19 – 7.
Taking the ratio of the two equations for V < sub > s </ sub > and V < sub > p </ sub > gives the basic equation for stepping up or stepping down the voltage
Taking up a job as a clerk, Dillinger found that, in a large metropolis like Chicago, he was able to lead an anonymous existence for a while.
Taking up writing again after the war, Wallace published his first novel in 1873.
Taking the water of many rivers into his mouth, he extinguished the protective fire the gods had thrown up.
Taking a fraction of a pill so as to not immediately return to his own time, Eric again ends up one year in his own future where the ' Starmen have occupied Earth after learning of the Terrans ' defection to the Reegs.
Taking advantage of this, he manages to trick the two into breaking up.
Taking up his father's legacy with great zeal, by the age of 21 Hunt had published his compendious work, " Stammering and Stuttering, Their Nature and Treatment ".
Taking custody of James he refused to give him up, exercising full power on his behalf for a period of three years.
Taking up the land between the Wellsville and Bear River Mountains is Cache Valley, a relatively flat valley traversed by the Bear River and dotted with small farm towns in the west and the larger, more urban, and faster-growing areas in the east, along the benches of the Bear River Mountains.
Taking the idea back to basics, he left the James Bond pastiche idea behind and ended up thinking more of The Shadow ; " suddenly I was engaged and enthusiastic about the idea ".
* Mark O ' Connell, drummer of the band Taking Back Sunday, grew up in Rockville Centre and attended South Side High School.
Taking up a position on a nearby seastack, now known as Battle Rock, the settlers were attacked by a band of more than 100 Qua-to-mahs.
Taking up the civil law, he became Doctor in 1692, and was admitted an advocate at Doctors ' Commons.
Taking the advice of Priscus Attalus — the former emperor whom Alaric had set up at Rome in opposition to Honorius at Ravenna, and who had remained with the Visigoths after he'd been deposed — Ataulf led his followers out of Italy.
Taking up the offensive in a two-prong attack in February 1951, the division repulsed a powerful Chinese counter-offensive in the epic battles of Chipyong-ni and Wonju.
Taking up the idea of a divine education of the human race, and firmly believing that to each of the leading nations of antiquity a special task had been providentially assigned, Ewald felt no difficulty about Israel's place in universal history, or about the problem which that race had been called upon to solve.
Taking advantage of such resources can also be called " scaling up ", such as expanding the number of Apache daemon processes currently running.
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