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Spin is induced by gun barrels having rifling which engages a soft metal band around the projectile, called a " driving band " ( UK ) or " rotating band " ( U. S .).
Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.
According to an interview conducted in 1989, he explained the reason he wasn't handcuffed was that the policeman driving the car used to be a drummer in a semi-professional band which had supported The Yardbirds on one of its US college tours in the late-1960s.
Ash made a point of not inviting David J, the driving force in their previous bands, because he wanted a band he could control.
Vavasseur devised the plan of fitting by hydraulic pressure a copper " driving band " into a groove cut around the body of the projectile.
Armor piercing shell of the APBC 1 Light weight ballistic cap 2 Steel alloy piercing shell 3 Desensitized bursting explosive charge | charge ( trinitrotoluene | TNT, Picric acid | Trinitrophenol, RDX ...) 4 fuse ( explosives ) | Fuse ( set with delay to explode inside the target ) 5 Bourrelet ( front ) and driving band ( rear )
Russian 122 mm shrapnel shell ( which has been fired ) showing rifling marks on the copper alloy driving band around its base
Normally artillery shells are sealed into the rifling by a driving band of soft metal like copper, which demands that the shell be shaped so that it balances at its widest point, where the band is located.
Bull solved this problem by using an additional set of nub " fins " near the front of the shell to keep it centered in the barrel, allowing the driving band to be greatly reduced in size, and located wherever was convenient.
Stylistically, music journalist J. D. Considine credits the band for anticipating and driving the late 1990s revival of vintage analog instruments among indie rock bands.
In 1980, Huruoma and Ry Cooder, an American musician, collaborated on a rock album with Shoukichi Kina, driving force behind the aforementioned Okinawan band Champloose.
Through a long and distinguished career, the band became known for its driving hard-rock sound, intense live performances and political activism, particularly in aid of anti-nuclear, environmentalist and indigenous causes.
Although the band has had a high turnover rate throughout their history, the driving force behind the band has always been brothers Chris and Rich Robinson.
Edwards joined the band on guitar and often made contributions to lyrics with Wire, designing record sleeves and other artwork, and driving the band to and from gigs.
As a result, the band stopped working together and Hill started driving couples to their weddings in his own Rolls-Royce, just to make money to provide for his family.
The band gained fame for their high-calibre musicianship — in particular that of Mark King, whose percussive slap-bass guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits.
The band achieved rapid success, and Rhodes was a driving force throughout.
Numan was the driving force of the band, writing the material and producing the recordings.

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For example, suppose a man wearing a $200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk, `` What time is it ''??
Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.
For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.
A valid American driving license is accepted in all countries except Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.
And there are now many millions of workers for whom the factory with the big parking lot, which can be reached by driving across or against the usual pattern of rush hour traffic and grille-route bus lines, is actually more convenient than the walk-to factory.
Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.
Mrs. Lavaughn Huntley is accused of driving the getaway car used in a robbery of the Woodyard Bros.' Grocery, 2825 E. Burnside St., in April of 1959.
The logic of that is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a fool being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife, when everybody knows I have a big car and am capable of driving myself.
the Briton Stirling Moss, one of the greatest virtuosi of all time, believes that ultra-fast road-circuit driving is an art form related to ballet.
Abraxas is an important figure in Carl Jung's 1916 book Seven Sermons to the Dead, a representation of the driving force of individuation ( synthesis, maturity, oneness ), referred with the figures for the driving forces of differentiation ( emergence of consciousness and opposites ), Helios God-the-Sun, and the Devil.
*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.
Drivers unused to dirt roads should be especially cautious – it is recommended that drivers reduce their speed, drive with extra care, and avoid driving at night because animals can stray on to roads.
For drivers, the main route through the region is the rapid A 5 ( E35 ) motorway, but a variety of sign-posted scenic routes such as the Schwarzwaldhochstraße (, Baden-Baden to Freudenstadt ), Schwarzwald Tälerstraße (, the Murg and Kinzig valleys ) or Badische Weinstraße ( Baden Wine Street,, a wine route from Baden-Baden to Weil am Rhein ) offers calmer driving along high roads.
The bogie pivot is located off-centre, so more than half the weight rests on the driving axle.
Another result is impairment of driving skills and increased likelihood of road traffic accidents.
Typical of his satire and cynical humour, the book included a discourse on Parkinson's Law of Triviality ( debates about expenses for a nuclear plant, a bicycle shed, and refreshments ), a note on why driving on the left side of the road ( see road transport ) is natural, and suggested that the Royal Navy would eventually have more admirals than ships.
A major driving force in the theoretical linguistic field is discovering the nature that language must have in the abstract in order to be learned in such a fashion.
Some of the driving research questions in studying how the brain itself processes language include: ( 1 ) To what extent is linguistic knowledge innate or learned ?, ( 2 ) Why is it more difficult for adults to acquire a second-language than it is for infants to acquire their first-language ?, and ( 3 ) How are humans able to understand novel sentences?

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Commuter rail trains are usually composed of multiple units, which are self-propelled, bidirectional, articulated passenger rail cars with driving motors on each ( or every other ) bogie.
A clutch is a mechanical device that provides for the transmission of power ( and therefore usually motion ) from one component ( the driving member ) to another ( the driven member ) when engaged, but can be disengaged.
The duo, usually led by Ray, are known for rants on the evils of the internal combustion engine, people who talk on cell phones while driving, Peugeots, women named Donna who always seem to drive Camaros, lawyers, the clever use of the English language, and practically anything else, including themselves.
Metro and tramway services are not thought of as trains and usually follow road traffic in driving on the right ( except the Lyon Metro ).
Bridles usually have a bit attached to reins and are used for riding and driving horses.
A longe line is sometimes called a " longe rein ," but it is actually a flat line about long, usually made of nylon or cotton web, about one inch wide, thus longer and wider than even a driving rein.
These people can usually normally perform daily activities such as driving according to signs and navigating according to a map, but will often take a wrong turn when told to turn left or right and may have difficulties performing actions that require precise understanding of directional commands, such as ballroom dancing.
This effect results from the fact that the driving force for mixing is usually entropy, not interaction energy.
A turbopump is a propellant pump that comprises basically two main components: a rotodynamic pump and a driving gas turbine, usually both mounted on the same shaft, or sometimes geared together.
A V12 engine is a V engine with 12 cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of six cylinders, usually but not always at a 60 ° angle to each other, with all 12 pistons driving a common crankshaft.
A V6 engine is a V engine with six cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of three cylinders, usually set at either a right angle or an acute angle to each other, with all six pistons driving a common crankshaft.
One of these theories states that all of the victims ( with the exception of John May ) were dressed in their best clothes, which would not have been suitable for unloading a large shipment of whiskey crates and driving it away – even though this is how they, and other gangsters, were usually dressed at the time.
The engines driving the propellers are usually directly attached to the gondola, and in some models are partly steerable.
15 % to 20 % of the power generated by a supercharged engine is usually required to do the work of driving the supercharger, which compresses the intake charge ( also known as boost ).
The most common components are a radio receiver / tuner usually with AM and FM bands, and a small amplifier for driving an audio signal to speakers.
In Europe it is more common for the driving age to be higher ( usually 18 ) while the drinking age is lower than that of the US ( usually 16 or 18 ).
While not as large as some vultures, Golden Eagles are usually considerably more aggressive and are capable of driving vultures ( including much larger-bodied species ) and other raptors from carrion or kills.
The specific criminal offense is usually called driving under the influence ( DUI ), and in some states ' driving while intoxicated ' ( DWI ), ' operating while impaired ' ( OWI ), or ' operating a vehicle under the influence ' ( OVI ).
A second criminal offense of driving " under the influence " or " while impaired " is also usually charged in most states, with a permissive presumption of guilt where the person's BAC is 0. 08 % or greater ( units of milligrams per deciliter, representing 8 g of alcohol in 10 liters of blood ).
Further similarities between the victims were noted, however: The disappearances all took place at night, usually near ongoing construction work, within a week of midterm or final exams ; all of the victims were wearing slacks or blue jeans ; and at most crime scenes there were sightings of a man wearing a cast or a sling, and driving a brown or tan Volkswagen Beetle.
The steam locomotives were very simple, usually made in brass, with a pair of simple oscillating cylinders driving the main wheels.
A relatively recent development is the replacement of wheels or steel crawler-type tracks with flexible, steel-reinforced rubber tracks, usually powered by hydrostatic or completely hydraulic driving mechanisms.

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