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course and rays
The course graphics were then created by a ray tracing program that traced the path of light rays, using the heightmap to determine the appearance of the course on screen.
But these seemed very great difficulties, and I have almost thought them insuperable, when I further considered, that every irregularity in a reflecting superficies makes the rays stray 5 or 6 times more out of their due course, than the like irregularities in a refracting one ; so that a much greater curiosity would be here requisite, than in figuring glasses for refraction.
Some rays travel a twisted course, like ray 1 at left.
* Many of the characteristics of nuclear weapons themselves have played on ages-old human themes and tropes ( penetrating rays, persistent contamination, virility, and, of course, apocalypse ), giving their standing in popular culture and politics a particularly emotional valence ( both positive and negative ).

course and section
Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.
Today this section is called Alte Potsdamer Straße, a pedestrianised cul-de-sac severed by post-World War II developments and subsequently by-passed by a new section-the Neue Potsdamer Straße, leading due west and then curving southwards to rejoin its old course at the Potsdam Bridge, over the Landwehrkanal.
The offence of handling stolen goods, contrary to section 22 ( 1 ) of the Theft Act 1968, can only be committed " otherwise than in the course of stealing ".
The other section of Celebration Boulevard lies on the other side of the golf course, closer to the Celebration Water Tower in the North Village.
It can also be used to isolate a worn section of rope, where the knot is tied such that the worn section is isolated in the loop ( which of course does not receive a carabiner nor bear any loads in this case ).
The top section of its course leads through a hilly region called the Weserbergland.
This ‘ Middle Canal ’ section runs from Huai ' an to Weishan Lake, passing through Luoma Lake and following more than one course, the result of the impact of centuries of Yellow River flooding.
The fifth section of the canal extends from Linqing to Tianjin, following the course of the canalised Wei River.
A stage is a shorter section of a much longer course or a time trial.
" It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, knowingly to induce or receive a discrimination in price which is prohibited by this section.
Stone asked Lipper to design a six-week course that would expose Charlie Sheen to a cross section of young Wall Street business people.
In the last section of Iliad, Moira is the " mighty fate " ( μοίρα κραταιά: moira krataia ) who leads destiny and the course of events.
The northern section is centered around the famous Sun Valley Lodge, Inn, and the " village " complex of shops, condominiums, and original 18-hole golf course ( 27 holes by 2008 ), which winds its way up the Trail Creek valley to the northeast.
In one section of the new resurvey Sulivane changed the course of the road that constitutes the southern portion of the main street from its current intersection ( Md.
The southern section of the main island is separated from the northern section by the Thorofare Canal, which runs on a diagonal course from east to west connecting the main channel of the Detroit River with the Trenton Channel of the river.
Since the 1800s, this section of the Mississippi has abandoned its bends to oxbow lakes and straightened its course, and levees have been constructed.
The central section of the community, another mile to the east, includes a park and lake (" The Marina "), and an 18-hole golf course and clubhouse.
In the Oceanview section of the resort community, there was formerly a 9-hole golf course, bathing beach, and a small amusement park.
Modern day Clifton Springs offers an excellent school system, modern hospital, YMCA, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and numerous other organizations, country club / golf course, national bank, library, senior citizen community, volunteer fire department, a park area, tennis courts, a skate park, shaded streets, a large manufacturing firm, and an active business section.
On April 20, 1900, the entire business section of the town was swept away by a tremendous fire that, in the course of but two hours, consumed every business structure in the village with the exception of Christ Buck's little office building, one elevator and the mill.
In the southwest section is the New Albany Country Club, much of the club's golf course ( designed by Jack Nicklaus ), and Market Square.
The south-central section contains the remainder of the golf course, with the rest mostly residential.

course and is
Part of it is, of course.
The answer is, of course, yes.
What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.
Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.
Such a response, of course, misses the point that in crisis order is going out of existence.
That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.
In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;
What is the probable course of future developments??
I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.
Whether or not Danchin is correct in suggesting that Thompson's resumption of the opium habit also dates from this period is, of course, a matter of conjecture.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
There is, of course, the doctrine of original sin, which asserts that each of us as individuals partakes of the guilt of our first ancestor.
Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.
True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;
One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.
Of course it is.
Now Richards, of course, is known as a deep thinker as baseball managers go.
`` I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, though of course I realize he is far from that at present.

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