`` This deal at Las Putas Buenas where the two knife-men jumped you '', said Rourke with interest, `` that sounds like it was set up with malice aforethought by the luscious Mrs. Peralta, doesn't it ''??

In duplicate bridge, the cards held by each player in each deal are preserved so that each partnership plays the same set of hands as their East-West or North-South counterparts at other tables and with the scoring based upon relative performance, thus emphasizing skill over chance.

The great utility in creating CPUs that deal with vectors of data lies in optimizing tasks that tend to require the same operation ( for example, a sum or a dot product ) to be performed on a large set of data.

Early Christians found themselves confronted with a set of new concepts and ideas relating to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, as well the notions of salvation and redemption, and had to use a new set of terms, images and ideas to deal with them.

He set to work on a sequel to Looking Backward entitled Equality, attempting to deal with the ideal society of the post-revolutionary future in greater detail.

This set marked the first time in history that a musician had signed an exclusive music distribution deal with a single retailer .< ref name =" newman "> The set sold more than 500, 000 physical copies on its issue date, proving that Brooks still had a large fan base.

Cukor liked leading lady Marilyn Monroe but found it difficult to deal with her erratic work habits, frequent absences from the set, and the constant presence of her acting coach, Paula Strasberg.

He set up 32 committees to deal with social and economic problems, ranging from juvenile delinquency to sheep farming.

He set up the Chalcedon tribunal to deal with the corruption of the previous administration under the supervision of magister militum Arbitio.

This deal sparked a great deal of controversy in the National Council of Monaco, as there was no precedent yet set.

To deal with this, the standard includes the concept of " profiles " and " levels ", allowing a specific set of capabilities to be defined in a manner appropriate for a subset of applications.

Syntactic non-standard analysis requires a great deal of care in applying the principle of set formation ( formally known as the axiom of comprehension ) which mathematicians usually take for granted.

A great deal of research in programming languages has been aimed at blurring the distinction between a program as a set of instructions and a program as an assertion about the desired answer, which is the main feature of declarative programming.

The one decision made by every poker player on every deal of every game is whether to continue playing that hand after seeing that first set of cards.

The session of the local congregation has a great deal of freedom in the style and ordering of worship within the guidelines set forth in the Directory for Worship section of the Book of Order.

The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a spaghetti western set in America's Deep South ; Tarantino has called the proposed style " a southern ", stating that he wanted " to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies.

One important way in which religious beliefs accomplish this is by providing a set of ideas about how and why the world is put together that allows people to accommodate anxieties and deal with misfortune.

Tibetan Buddhism has developed a unique ' science ' of death and rebirth, a good deal of which is set down in what is popularly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

An example of a temporary commission set up to deal with a matter involving the work of several departments of the Roman Curia was the Interdicasterial Commission for the Catechism of the Catholic Church instituted in 1993 to prepare the definitive text in Latin of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

To dampen competitive pressures, three of these companies signed an interconnectivity deal in 2005 that allows them to set prices and expand their networks.

The conference collapsed over the insistence by Henry and the clergy that they should set the terms of any peace deal, which Stephen found unacceptable.

`` Okay '', I said to the attendant, `` I'll let you know if I close the deal on the office in this building ''.

Generally it is impossible to close two or three transactions at the same instant ; therefore, there is the possibility that when one part of the deal is closed, a quick shift in prices makes it impossible to close the other at a profitable price.

A great deal of strategy and teamwork goes into choosing the ideal path and placement of a stone for each situation, and the skills of the curlers determine how close to the desired result the stone will achieve.

Scottish actor Gerard Butler was close to signing a deal where he would play Snake Plissken in a remake of Carpenter's movie.

The ongoing dispute has not prevented the two countries from enjoying close trade links and investment levels ( especially from Greece ), but it has generated a great deal of political and academic debate on both sides.

The first such library was freeglut, which aims to be a reasonably close reproduction, though introducing a small number of new functions to deal with GLUT's limitations.

On January 6, 2010, GM CEO Ed Whitacre said he hopes to close the deal with Tengzhong by the end of January 2010.

Arithmetic coding achieves compression rates close to the best possible for a particular statistical model, which is given by the information entropy, whereas Huffman compression is simpler and faster but produces poor results for models that deal with symbol probabilities close to 1.

The ensuing discussion of a potential political deal between Germany and the Soviet Union had to be channeled into the framework of economic negotiations between the two countries, because close military and diplomatic connections, as was the case before mid-1930s, had afterward been largely severed.

In other words, each time the offer goes to a decision maker, that decision maker asks to add another concession in order to close the deal.

Clemens chose to come out of retirement, signing a one-year deal with his adopted hometown Houston Astros on January 12,, joining close friend and former Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte.

One arguing from the theory of suspension of disbelief would contend that while Superman's abilities and vulnerabilities are the foundational premises the audience accepted as their part of the initial deal ; they did not accept a persistent inability for otherwise normal characters to recognize a close colleague solely because of minor changes in clothing.

In 2008, Chicago agreed to lease its parking meter system to an operating company created by Morgan Stanley in a 75-year, $ 1. 16 billion deal as it struggled to close a yawning budget deficit.

Ball remained involved throughout production ; he had signed a television show development deal, so had to get permission from his producers to take a year off to be close to American Beauty.

Thanks to his close relationship with the Nixon administration, Thurmond found himself in a position to deliver a great deal of federal money, appointments and projects to his state.

Take Tin Ice-Pots, fill them with any Sort of Cream you like, either plain or sweeten ’ d, or Fruit in it ; shut your Pots very close ; to six Pots you must allow eighteen or twenty Pound of Ice, breaking the Ice very small ; there will be some great Pieces, which lay at the Bottom and Top: You must have a Pail, and lay some Straw at the Bottom ; then lay in your Ice, and put in amongst it a Pound of Bay-Salt ; set in your Pots of Cream, and 93 lay Ice and Salt between every Pot, that they may not touch ; but the Ice must lie round them on every Side ; lay a good deal of Ice on the Top, cover the Pail with Straw, set it in a Cellar where no Sun or Light comes, it will be froze in four Hours, but it may stand longer ; then take it out just as you use it ; hold it in your Hand and it will slip out.

This time, the chosen victim went to the police before Lustig could close the deal, but Lustig and Collins managed to evade arrest.

A great deal of Star Trek spin-off fiction, in particular the novel The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, has stated that the leader of the Vulcan-Romulan migration was a close follower of Surak's named S ' Task.

Many archaic Hobbit names bear similarities to Rohirric, since the ancestors of the Shire hobbits lived on the upper reaches of the Anduin, close to the ancestors of the Rohirrim, and there was apparently a good deal of linguistic cross-fertilization.

Now separated, Jean's con team urges her to close the deal, saying she's got him over a barrel and can make a killing in a settlement.

Llorente, however, failed to secure such a deal and remained an Athletic player at the close of the transfer window, in spite of the bad blood which had developed between him and the club management over the situation.

They " up-turned tables " after a mystery overseas consortium announced that they were close to a deal after lawyers were in negotiations for the club.