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demands and plot
Clara Reeve, best known for her work The Old English Baron ( 1778 ), set out to take Walpole's plot and adapt it to the demands of the time by balancing fantastic elements with 18th-century realism.
Unfortunately, the film is burdened with the kind of plot that demands resolution ... ends in a whimper of sentimentality ...
The Queen described her as good-hearted, generous and pleasant when she chose to be and not one to plot, but also as immature and a " spoiled child ", who hated all demands and was unable to handle any form of representation.
As the plot develops, the Pope demands to see the Vatican accounts and discovers the gun-smuggling and stolen merchandise operations, and confronts the Mob, who decide that the Pope must die.
Nispel blamed the failure on 20th Century Fox's demands to reduce the gore and violence ( requiring digital manipulation of scenes that were already shot ) to earn an " R " rating, and to sacrifice plot development to improve runtime and pacing.
He felt that " Rose has to be stupid to fall in love with Doctor # 2 " because " she's doing what the plot demands, not what she'd demand ".
Her villainous plot in the show was to steal the Dearlys ' farm from them, and using the puppies as a ransom, mainly because the old widow Smedly would not sell it to her and that her mother Malevola demands it.
The Principle of Evil Marksmanship states that, during a fight scene, antagonists in a work of fiction will be as incompetent as the plot demands, despite prior characterization or reputation.
From this initial array of nine different demands a player begins to plot out an initial route which will let him pick up and deliver desired commodities.

demands and required
Since electrical energy cannot easily be stored in quantities large enough to meet demands on a national scale, at all times exactly as much must be produced as is required.
Henry's unsuccessful attempts to persuade his subjects to pay the taxes required to meet Alexander's demands were one of the factors in the conflict between the king and parliament which culminated in the Second Barons ' War.
The amount of over-provisioning in interior links required to replace QoS depends on the number of users and their traffic demands.
As applications got more advanced demands for more core increased and once C became available, memory chunks of indeterminate or large size were required.
To ensure that the government could meet both the current and future demands of its governmental accounts, an additional source of funding was required, " for interest payments on the assumed state debts would begin to fall due at the end of 1791 ... those payments would require $ 788, 333 annually, and ... an additional $ 38, 291 was needed to cover deficiencies in the funds that had been appropriated for existing commitments.
Acrylic is the most common plastic glazing used for dome skylights today ; however, polycarbonate and copolyester materials are also often used as glazing, where additional properties such as impact resistance may be required to meet specific demands.
* Slave – Master-where the slave is required to comply with all demands of the master
However, the integration of DOS into Windows 95 was the masterstroke: not only were the other operating system vendors frozen out, Microsoft could now require computer manufacturers to comply with its demands on pain of higher prices ( as when it required IBM to stop actively marketing OS / 2 or else pay more than twice as much for Windows 95 as its competitor Compaq ) or by withholding " Designed for Windows 95 " endorsement ( which was regarded as an essential hardware marketing tool ).
As slang is often regarded as an ephemeral dialect, a constant supply of new words is required to meet the demands of the rapid change in characteristics.
Morgan and England fear politicians tend to see themselves not as people required to respond to group demands but as people who once elected, may pursue their own agendas.
The nature and demands of the printing process and the application of the printed product determine the fundamental properties required of flexographic inks.
Press reports have noted that some Finnish Defence Forces conscripts were not mature enough to meet the demands of military life, and were required to interrupt or postpone military service for a year.
Christ's infinite atonement was required to satisfy the demands of justice based on eternal law, rendering Him Mediator, Redeemer, and Advocate with the Father.
Kennings are devices ready to supply a standard image to form an alliterating half-line to fit the requirements of dróttkvætt ; but the substantially greater technical demands of skaldic verse required that these devices be multiplied and compounded in order to meet its demands for skill and wordplay.
Shortly after the discontinuance of the second generation RX-7's in 1992, an outright horsepower " arms race " broke out between sports car manufacturers, with higher and higher levels of power required to meet buyer demands.
Berisha refused opposition demands to step down, and Multinational Forces of NATO were required to step in and take the situation under control.
Similarly, they noted that the Yaser Hamdi Supreme Court case ( Hamdi v. Rumsfeld ) upon which the court relied, required a habeas corpus hearing for any alleged enemy combatant who demands one, claiming not to be such a combatant, which would require additional judicial or military tribunal oversight over each such detention.
The Prussians signed a peace reached at Malmo which required the removal of all Prussian troops from the two duchies and agreed to all other Danish demands.
The movement represented a pragmatic response to expectations and demands for the kind of thinking required of the modern workforce.
Both local shipping and long-distance trade are required to meet the resource demands important in maintaining urban areas.
This can place considerable demands on the required analog-to-digital converter and processing power for the Fourier transform, making FFT based spectrum analyzers limited in frequency range.
The material also put new demands on teachers, many of whom were required to teach material they did not fully understand.
Her belief was that if men were not required to declare their ability to meet the demands of their job, it wasn't right that women should do so.

demands and system
The suit, as we have seen, came before the courts when patent attorneys, inventors, and laymen were making mounting demands for reforms in the American patent system.
If the demands of these two sovereigns upon his duty of allegiance come into conflict, those of the United States have the paramount authority in American law ; likewise, those of the foreign land have paramount authority in their legal system.
The vastly increasing demands of imperial expansion, and the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the underfunded, post-Napoleonic Wars British Army, and of the Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteer Force, led to the Cardwell and Childers Reforms of the late 19th century, which gave the British Army its modern shape, and redefined its regimental system.
Advances in technology and new demands on the existing system have now led to efforts to modernize the GPS system and implement the next generation of GPS III satellites and Next Generation Operational Control System ( OCX ).
The source or justification of this system may be thought to be, for instance, human nature, shared vulnerability to suffering, the demands of universal reason, what is common among existing moral codes, or the common mandates of religion ( although it can be argued that the latter is not in fact moral universalism because it may distinguish between Gods and mortals ).
In response to growing demands for multi-party democracy, the Traoré regime allowed some limited political liberalization, but refused to usher in a full-fledged democratic system.
Development of communication and transportation technologies made more efficient administration possible ( and popularly requested ) and democratisation and rationalisation of culture resulted in demands that the new system treat everybody equally.
In contrast, in a typical client – server architecture, clients share only their demands with the system, but not their resources.
The cause of death was said to be pneumonia ; accustomed to working in bed until noon, he may have suffered damage to his health from Christina's demands for early morning study ( the lack of sleep could have severely compromised his immune system ).
A socialist economic system would consist of an organization of production to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs, so that goods and services would be produced directly for use instead of for private profit driven by the accumulation of capital.
When it was no longer possible to rely on design evolution to improve upon a system and the existing tools were not sufficient to meet growing demands, new methods began to be developed that addressed the complexity directly.
In stuttering, the severity of the disorder is seen as likely to increase when demands placed on the person's speech and language system is exceeded by their capacity to deal with these pressures.
High volume batch processing places particularly heavy demands on system and application architectures as well.
The belief in gods as embodiments of power, the heroic outlook inherited from a distant past together with the local chthonic cults, were later fitted into the frame of the city-states and his demands into an elastic system.
Control of the system is returned to the supervisory program frequently enough to ensure that demands on the system are met.
# initiate immediate response to demands that are placed on the system,
With increasing demands on the healthcare system and what could be deemed chronic under-training of doctors ( numbers of doctors per capita compared to other industrialised countries ) during the latter half of the 20th century, medical schools are now facing massive pressure to train as many doctors as possible.
The success of Hitler's bribery system backfired in that some officers, who had proven themselves especially greedy, such as Guderian and Raeder, came to be regarded by Hitler as a serious annoyance because of their endless demands for more money and more free land for their estates.
Railway engineers also work to build a cleaner and safer transportation network by reinvesting and revitalizing the rail system to meet future demands.
These kinds of demands were unheard of for such a young party in a Westminster system.
The former Soviet Union's state enterprise managers were indeed highly skilled at coping with the demands on them under the Soviet system of planned production targets.
They come in many different sizes ranging from 0. 5 farad to well over 100 farads and their intended function is to temporarily cover the short-burst electrical demands of a car audio system that have exceeded the general electrical capabilities of the vehicle.
" He demands that the Queen outlaw it altogether and replace it with a system of free love.

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