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figure and stopped
He fell out with Fuji, however, and started home, but, by his own account, was stopped by a dream in which a figure resembling Nagarjuna appeared and said, " Go to Nagpur ".
The original Stretch Armstrong figure was conceived and developed by Bill Armasmith, and was in production from 1976 until 1980 when production was stopped.
As Ryu enters the World of Darkness to destroy the altar, Irene and Robert, while traveling back, are stopped by a shadowy figure that Irene has seen before.
The MCC fast bowlers had bowled short at the 49-year-old Austin ; in retaliation, Constantine bounced the MCC captain, Freddie Calthorpe, and only stopped after James pointed out the diplomatic row which would follow if Calthorpe, a respected figure in the British establishment, was hit by the ball.
I stopped trying to figure her out day one.
In a chapter of Wayside School is Falling Down, when Allison got to school, everybody suddenly stopped noticing her, no matter how hard she tried, and she couldn't figure out why and got stuck on the 19th story for a week but escaped.
Chris and Sheva pursue Excella, but are stopped by Wesker and the hooded figure, later revealed to be Jill, enslaved by a mind-control device on her chest.
Dar ' khan then finds the figure that stopped the Felhound, who proves to be Sylvanas Windrunner, former general of elven forces.
Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don't believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and honestly I don't care.

figure and one
Again, the sufferings and disasters produced by any transgression against the commandment not to love are almost invariably associated in one way or another with childhood, with the figure of a child.
He was all of these rolled into one sturdy figure ; ;
According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.
Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.
The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.
But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.
The advantages and disadvantages of these two types of charting, bar charting and point and figure charting, remain the subject of fairly good-natured litigation among their respective professional advocates, with both methods enjoying in common, one irrevocable merit.
If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.
In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.
But how can one figure symbolize both??
that is a figure one with 27 ciphers, quite a large number.
I figure if I can get any kind of publicity campaign going, I'll land him on TV -- you know, one of those favorite horses for some Western hero.
They had at least two sons, one of whom, Nithard, became a notable figure in the mid-9th century.
Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.
Agrippina is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.
Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a particular context ; the same Greek vase may play a non-artistic function in one context ( carrying wine ), and an artistic function in another context ( helping us to appreciate the beauty of the human figure ).
Adelaide is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.
Abigail is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented in one of the 999 tiles of the Heritage Floor.
For flow through a tube with one inlet ( state 1 ) and exit ( state 2 ) as shown in the figure in this section, the continuity equation may be written and solved as:
While he has been rated as one of the top-50 eminent psychologists of the 20th century, Jensen remains a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions regarding the causes of race-based differences in intelligence.
As one biographer wrote, " found himself almost the only figure on his side capable of putting up the oratorical display essential for a parliamentary leader.
The following figure is a schematic that depicts one possible view of the relationship between the fields:
The per capita income of the CAR is often listed as being around $ 300 a year, said to be one of the lowest in the world, but this figure is based mostly on reported sales of exports and largely ignores the more important but unregistered sale of foods, locally-produced alcohol, diamonds, ivory, bushmeat, and traditional medicines, for example.

figure and hand
`` Not a bit '', I said, `` but she's keeping her figure in hand ''.
In antiquity a bronze figure of Triton on the summit, with a rod in his hand, turned round by the wind, pointed to the quarter from which it blew.
The suggested parallels with Fenrir myths are the binding of an evil being by a ruler figure and the subsequent swallowing of the ruler figure by the evil being ( Odin and Fenrir ), trickery involving the thrusting of a hand into a monster's orifice and the affliction of the inserted limb ( Týr and Fenrir ).
The " square meters " figure of a house in Europe On the other hand, some architects have designed homes in which eating, working and living are brought together.
:" On the other hand, a goddess of death who represents the horrors of slaughter and decay is something well known elsewhere ; the figure of Kali in India is an outstanding example.
Given significant distance from the magnetic poles, one can figure which hand is which using a magnetic compass and the sun.
This figure was positioned in a flying horizontal position holding an open book in one hand and a trumpet in the other.
At times, even seasoned players may need additional time to figure what draws are possible for their hand.
In his composition " Misery ," New Orleans pianist Professor Longhair ( Henry Roeland Byrd ) plays a habanera-like figure in his left hand.
It consisted of a " chorus " figure unique to each dance which was danced alternately with a standard series of up to ten " changes ", which were simple figures such as a right hand moulinet ( star ) common to cotillions in general.
In the series finale, " All Good Things ...", Q gives Picard a " helping hand " in saving humanity by helping him figure out what is causing " anti-time " to flow into the universe which will invariably stop humanity from ever being born.
The figure of Shaka thus remains an ambiguous one in African oral tradition, defying simplistic depictions of the Zulu king as a heroic, protean nation builder on one hand, or a depraved monster on the other.
The figure is shown with long hair, holding a sceptre in his left hand, and with a wolf biting his right.
' On the other hand, there would not have been a figure unless there was a true body.
Zenobia Antoninianus coin reporting her title, Augusta ( honorific ) | Augusta and showing her diademed and draped bust on a crescent with the reverse showing a standing figure of Juno ( mythology ) | Ivno Regina, holding a patera in her right hand, a sceptre in her left, a peacock at her feet, and a brilliant star to the right
In this 1559 anatomical plate by Juan Valverde de Amusco, a figure holds a knife in one hand and his own skin in the other.
Penelope is recognizable in Greek and Roman works, from Attic vase-paintings — the Penelope Painter is recognized by his representations of her — to Roman sculpture copying or improvising upon classical Greek models, by her seated pose, by her reflective gesture of leaning her cheek on her hand, and by her protectively crossed knees, reflecting her long chastity in Odysseus ' absence, an unusual pose in any other figure.
This polypeptide lacks any developed three-dimensional structure ( the left hand side of the neighboring figure ).
Amino acids interact with each other to produce a well-defined three-dimensional structure, the folded protein ( the right hand side of the figure ), known as the native state.
He continued to work up until his death in Fordingbridge, Hampshire in 1961, his last work being a studio mural in three parts, the left hand of which showed a Falstaffian figure of a French peasant in a yellow waistcoat playing a hurdy gurdy while coming down a village street.
In 2004, an activist group cut off the hand of the leftmost Congolese bronze figure, in protest against the Congo atrocities.
John Marshall, another archeologist at Mohenjo-daro, described the figure as " a young girl, her hand on her hip in a half-impudent posture, and legs slightly forward as she beats time to the music with her legs and feet.

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