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agile and two
Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation.
Despite their usual slow movements, European bison are surprisingly agile and can clear three metre wide streams or two metre high fences from a standing start.
In 1726, he also visited Parma and Milan, where Johann Joachim Quantz heard him and commented: " Farinelli had a penetrating, full, rich, bright and well-modulated soprano voice, with a range at that time from the A below middle C to the D two octaves above middle C. ... His intonation was pure, his trill beautiful, his breath control extraordinary and his throat very agile, so that he performed the widest intervals quickly and with the greatest ease and certainty.
The siamang occurs sympatrically with other gibbons ; its two ranges are entirely within the combined ranges of the agile gibbon and the lar gibbon.
It is very agile and frequently makes breath-taking leaps of up to 6 meters ( 20 feet ), leaping with its arms outstretched over its head, pushing off with its legs and landing on two feet.
Dextre resembles a headless torso fitted with two extremely agile, arms.
The key difference between the two is like between a thin and an athletic person, agile being the latter.
It had one bench with 25 oars on each side, while in the late ages of the Roman Republic, it became a smaller version of a trireme, but with two banks of oars ( a bireme ), faster, lighter, and more agile than biremes and triremes.
While the two larger ones share a heavy build and a calm temperament, the two smaller ones are more agile.

agile and three
In northern and central Sardinia, the dance is lively and animated with leaps and agile movements and usually accompanied by a choir of three or more singers in the center of the circle.
She is somewhat weaker than the other characters but is the most agile of the three as she can jump the highest and move about more quickly.
One of the three heroines, she is an agile and powerful warrior who retains her identity, hence her substitute name after her role as a member of the Saber class.
It has three agile robotic pigeons to aid in attacking its opponents.
Allison Stewart of The Washington Post commented that she has a " reedy, agile voice, capable of conveying the only three emotions ( sexy, sassy, sad ) an R & B singer needs.
It is a fresh new start, integrating successful practices sourced from the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile software development camp and the process improvement camp.
Master Xin Shan Quan ( 心山拳老師, Shinzanken-roushi, Xīn Shān ​ Quán ​- lǎo ​ shī ​​) is an old kung-fu master seeking to pass on his art before he dies ; his three pupils are an obese yet agile man named Sammo Hakka ( サモ ・ ハッカ Samo Hakka ), a female bandit named Lei Kuugo ( レイ ・ クウゴ Rei Kuugo ), and a boy named Yuan Jou ( ユン ・ ジョウ Yun Jou ) who stood up to the local gangsters.
The three different forms are a samurai warrior, an armour-clad wolf and a more agile ninja.
As a last resort, Cárdenas finally commanded the three lightest and most agile men of his group to climb down by themselves ( their names are given as Pablo de Melgosa, Juan Galeras, and an unknown, third soldier ).
The light class is the quickest and most agile of the three classes that a player can choose from but is also the weakest.

agile and helped
It has also helped incubate a number of related topics, including design patterns, refactoring, aspect-oriented programming, model-driven engineering, agile software development, and domain specific languages.

agile and health
As the karateka grows older, more emphasis is placed on the health benefits of practicing kata, promoting fitness while keeping the body soft, supple, and agile.

agile and men
The slow firing arquebusers being protected by pikemen and the cumbersome pikemen in turn protected by agile sword and buckler men.
Although aged 16 at best, Feodor was known to be physically strong and agile and apparently it took four men to overpower him.
With the development of newer brush system and the end of child labour, the occupation changed its image to one of agile and good natured men, the chief example being in the book series Mary Poppins by P. L.
The Galwegians Galloway in South-West Scotland-described by a later chronicler as " men agile, unclothed, remarkable for much baldness ; arming their left side with knives formidable to any armed men, having a hand most skillful at throwing spears and directing them from a distance ; raising their long lance as a standard when they advance into battle "-were in the first line.
She countered that she was in better shape and more agile than most of the men working on the tunnel.
Its members were often smaller, more agile men with high shooting ability and capability of using initiative.

agile and who
By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.
Wrestlers in Mexico are traditionally more agile and perform more aerial maneuvers than professional wrestlers in the U. S. who, more often, rely on power moves and strikes to subdue their opponents.
" Elsewhere in the garden, Alice meets the Red Queen ( now human-sized ), who impresses Alice with her ability to run at breathtaking speeds — a reference to the chess rule that queens are able to move any number of vacant squares at once, in any direction, making them the most " agile " of the pieces.
Janet Maslin in The New York Times said Spacey was at his " wittiest and most agile " to date, and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a man who " does reckless and foolish things who doesn't deceive himself ".
The mission of SAMS is to " educate the future leaders of the Armed Forces, Allies and the Interagency at the graduate level to be agile and adaptive leaders who think critically at the strategic and operational levels to solve complex ambiguous problems ".
Algeria provided arms and Land Rover jeeps to Sahrawi guerrillas, who successfully used them in long-range desert raids against the less agile conventional armies of their opponents, recalling Sahrawi tribal raids ( ghazzis ) of the pre-colonial period.
Coloratura contraltos — who have light, agile voices ranging very high for the classification and atypically extensive coloratura and high sustaining notes — specialize in florid passages and leaps.
The specialized Rennzeug was developed on the request of Maximilian, who desired a return to a more agile form of joust compared to the heavily armoured " full contact " Stechen.
For the last point about stance and footwork: it is often taught that a karateka who wishes to be fast and agile while competing in Kumite should always be ' pulsing '.
The specialized Rennzeug was developed on the request of Maximilian, who desired a return to a more agile form of joust compared to the heavily armoured " full contact " Stechen.
The bosses of this installment consist of Black Color ( Black Ninja in later versions ), an experimental drug-enhanced space ninja ( who is revealed to be Schneider from the original Metal Gear ); Running Man, an agile mercenary ; Red Blaster, a grenade throwing expert ; Ultra Box ( the Four Horsemen in later version ), an assassination squad specializing in confined spaces ; Predator ( Jungle Evil in later versions ), a jungle warfare expert ; and Night Sight ( Night Fright in later versions ), an assassin who uses a state of the art stealth suit that renders him invisible.
Harley Earl, who had been hired by the Cadillac General Manager, Lawrence P. Fisher, conceived the LaSalle not as a junior Cadillac, but as something more agile and stylish.
George Vecsey, in The New York Times wrote: " Roger Connor was a complete player — a deft first baseman and an agile base runner who hit 233 triples and stole 244 bases despite his size ( 6 feet 3 inches and 200 pounds ).
The great Hollywood swordsman, Basil Rathbone, who starred with him in The Mark of Zorro, commented, " Power was the most agile man with a sword I ’ ve ever faced before a camera.
Often considered one of leading players of his generation, Kopa was a free-role playmaker who was quick, agile and known for his love of dribbling.
Schalk was a small, agile man who caught with the energy and mobility of a fifth infielder.
Yet Doreau is a tough, agile cop who can handle a gun and deliver a well-timed karate kick when necessary.
Its creator, Stan Mangum, was already a patented inventor who was working to develop a small agile bumper car.
The pill essentially acts as a steroid making anyone who uses it more agile, stronger, etc.
The expression Illiniwek ( meaning " the complete human being-the strong, agile human body, and the indomitable human spirit ") was first used in conjunction with the University of Illinois football team by football coach Bob Zuppke, referring to the Illinois Confederation of Native Americans who historically had inhabited much of present-day Illinois.
The gas and the chemicals react strangely as Ryder survives, but is transformed into an extraordinarily strong and agile maniac with lemon-yellow skin, green hair, and a rictus grin, who helps Batman and Robin apprehend the Joker and his gang, both in revenge for what Joker did, and also because he develops an intense attraction to Harley Quinn.

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