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clear and searching
His career as an explorer was spent searching for the Northeast passage, which he reasoned must exist as clear, open water north of Siberia since the sun shone 24 hours a day, which he believed would have melted any potential ice.
The Government of Israel rejects with all vigor the absurd and fantastic allegation that 600 men of the IDF took part in the action ... We have carried out a searching investigation and it is clear beyond doubt that not a single army unit was absent from its base on the night of the attack on Qibya.
While a clear description of the algorithm on computers appeared in 1946 in an article by John Mauchly, the idea of using a sorted list of items to facilitate searching dates back at least as far as Babylonia in 200 BC.
As time passed, and no other " yellows " surfaced despite energetic searching, it became clear that the stamp was not only rare, but quite possibly the only surviving example.
It is immediately clear that this game can be solved in DSPACE ( mn ) by searching the entire game tree.
When law enforcement agents clear a building, they usually work slowly and deliberately, using ballistic shields and mirrors for searching.
It is while searching for evidence to clear his name that Sharpe meets and falls in love with Lucille Castineau ( nee Lassan ), the widow of a French officer killed at Vitoria ( Sharpe's Revenge, Sharpe's Waterloo ).
As a prominent American deconstructionist, Miller defines the movement as searching for " the thread in the text in question which will unravel it all ," and cites that there are multiple layers to any text, both its clear surface and its deep countervailing subtext: On the one hand, the " obvious and univocal reading " always contains the " deconstructive reading " as a parasite encrypted within itself as part of itself.
If an experiment is searching for a sidereal variation of some measurement, and if the measurement is rounded-off by a human who knows the sidereal time of the measurement, and if hundreds of measurements are averaged to extract a " signal " which is smaller than the apparatus ' actual resolution, then it should be clear that this " signal " can come from the non-random round-off, and not from the apparatus itself.
Reno then works as a bounty hunter alongside Sixkiller and his sister Cheyenne ( Kathleen Kinmont ), while searching for Hogg's brother Hound Adams, the one person who can clear his name and bring down Dixon — a witness who, fearing for his own life, will only come forward if Reno kills Dixon, something which he is unwilling to do.
: Instead, he spent thirteen years in the jungles of the Central African Republic searching for diamonds with the intention, he said, of becoming wealthy enough to hire the best lawyers in Israel to prove the Agranat findings mistaken and clear his name.
In the past it has sometimes been possible for men to “ coast along ” without posing to themselves too many searching questions about the way they are accustomed to think and to act — but it is reasonably clear that our age is not one of these.
In the past it has sometimes been possible for men to “ coast along ” without posing to themselves too many searching questions about the way they are accustomed to think and to act — but it is reasonably clear that our age is not one of these.

clear and sweep
the Earl of Clarendon, Englishman, calling himself Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant — General and General Governor of Ireland ," Mitchel stated that the purpose of the journal was to resume the struggle which had been waged by Tone and Emmet, the Holy War to sweep this Island clear of the English name and nation.
There are also some units in turn-based strategy games that are capable of helping to spike on the turtle's guards, such as the MB-5 Rabbit in Nectaris and the Mech in Game Boy Wars 3 or most of the long-range artillery that is able to sweep fortified position either clear of enemies or weaken their defences before crucial assault.
On Eighth Army's far left flank the Canadians continued their wide sweep but it was becoming clear that as German units settled into their new positions in north eastern Sicily the Army would not have sufficient strength to carry the whole front.
Do not sail " by the lee " except for brief durations ( such as to avoid an obstacle ), and only when keeping all crew clear of the boom swing and the arc of the mainsheet sweep.
When sailing directly downwind, unintentional jibes can also occur ; diligent helmsmanship is required to prevent " by the lee " conditions and keeping clear of the boom sweep is advised.
* Spring 1974 – Under an international agreement to clear the Suez Canal of naval mines in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, United States Navy RH-53D Sea Stallion minesweeping helicopters of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 12 ( HM-12 ) operating from the amphibious assault ships and use Mark 105 hydrofoil minesweeping sleds to sweep 120 square miles of water betweeb Port Said and Suez, Egypt, in Operation Nimbus Star.
Oxford Circus station was rapidly evacuated when the fire was discovered, and the fire brigade conducted a sweep of the station which confirmed that all passengers were clear.
The usual tactic would involve a sweep ahead of the bombers by German fighters to clear the skies.
Vladimir asserts that the bombing " must be purely destructive " and that the anarchists who will be implicated as the architects of the explosion " should make it clear that are perfectly determined to make a clean sweep of the whole social creation.
The brand claims to maintain an image of high quality, it has won five of six JD Power Awards in 2005, and was a clear sweep in the 2007 J. D.
" and " To provide a clear area beyond the rumble strip for bicycle travel, highway maintenance agencies should periodically sweep shoulders along identified bicycle routes of high bicycle usage.
The assault companies planned to sweep the area then dismount and commence a detailed search, while the other companies would clear the surrounding features and begin the follow-up.
They were clear of the dangers of floating ice but had reached the dangerous seas of the Drake Passage, where huge rolling waves sweep round the globe, unimpeded by any land.
On a clear day, the views from the top summit reach as far as the Isle of Man, the Wicklow mountains in Ireland and the Lake District, as well as the entire sweep of Cardigan Bay.
Henry Ireton first led a sweep of County Wicklow and the south midlands in September-October 1650 to try to clear it of tory guerrillas.
Above everything, the Star image " shines clear, for a moment between the opposites, between man and woman, between day and night ; fades and returns like the bloom of a flower, as the world's rhythms sweep on " ( Bodkin 1934: 296 ; cited in Shmiefsky 1967: 725 ).

clear and sun
A common mistake users make is to leave the CD-Rs with the " clear " ( recording ) surface upwards, in order to protect it from scratches, as this lets the sun hit the recording surface directly.
The sun shines through the atmosphere with little obstructions from the clear skies making the dry season in Nigeria a period of warm weather conditions.
bringing the first clear evidence that neutrinos oscillate ( i. e. that they can transmute into one another ), as they travel in the sun.
A green flash is more likely to be seen in clear air, when more of the light from the setting sun reaches the observer without being scattered.
Thanks to its clear air and lovely golden sand, this romantic stretch of sand was voted the best place in the UK to watch the sun set ( Country Living magazine 2005 ) and one the top romantic spots in the country ( The Guardian 2007 ).
The sun and moon are visible in clear outline.
Sufficient cooling of the surface typically takes place when it loses more energy by infrared radiation than it receives as solar radiation from the sun, which is especially the case on clear nights.
The 50-foot-high statue, which rotated in order to always face the sun during daylight hours, was removed on August 26, 2010 after Niyazov ’ s successor, current President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, made it clear earlier in the year that the statue was going to be taken out of Ashgabat ’ s parliament square.
In Longyearbyen, the upper part of the sun disc is above the horizon ( provided clear view against the northern horizon ) from April 19 to August 23, and the winter darkness lasts from October 27-February 14.
Some sunglasses with interchangeable lenses have optional clear lenses to protect the eyes during low light or night time activities and a colored lens with UV protection for times where sun protection is needed.
He may also move to the point position later in the afternoon if the setting sun prevents a clear view of the popping crease at his end.
Example: 晴 qíng " clear / fair ( weather )", which is composed of 日 rì " sun ", and 青 qīng " blue / green ", which is used for its pronunciation.
At midday on the Day of the Vow, the sun ( if the weather is clear ) shines straight down onto a stone with the Afrikaans inscription, " Ons vir jou, Suid-Afrika " (" Us for you, South Africa ").
Both residents and tourists come to the slab to bask in the warm sun and swim or wade in the clear water running over the granite.
Red Square, dead square, clear square, under a yellow sun.
The first of these steps is contemplation of a setting sun, until the visualization is clear whether the eyes are open or closed.
For the sun gave forth its light without brightness ... and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear.
Avienus in his ' Ora Maritima ' added that during the summer on Thule night lasted only two hours, a clear reference to the midnight sun.
The sun is less than 6 degrees below the horizon, so that daytime activities, such as reading, are still possible without artificial light on a clear night.
The phrase actually means " There is no need to fear trials and tribulations, for once the sun rises, all things will become clear, the righteous will shine and the wrong will hide in the shadows.
Harte wrote, " Bohemia has never been located geographically, but any clear day when the sun is going down, if you mount Telegraph Hill, you shall see its pleasant valleys and cloud-capped hills glittering in the West ..."
( Most of us probably don't have any clear intuitions regarding the truth conditions of the sentence " If I go out in the sun, I will get sunburned " in situations where I never go out in the sun.

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