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first and assignment
It will not, however, be used for symbolic assignment until all other index words or electronic switches have been assigned for the first time.
After signing a motion-picture contract, she came to America and had `` Goodbye, Mr. Chips '' as her first assignment after a year's wait.
His first combat assignment was to lead the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps of the Army of Virginia during the Northern Virginia Campaign.
His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.
For example, an anxious patient may be asked to talk to a stranger as a homework assignment, but if that is too difficult, he or she can work out an easier assignment first.
His first Broadway assignment, in November 1938, was as a dancer in Cole Porter's Leave It to Me!
In the same year he received his first assignment as a Broadway choreographer, for Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe.
Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.
He arrived in Hollywood in February 1929, and his first assignment was to coach the cast of River of Romance to speak with an acceptable Southern accent.
His first assignment is to transport the company men up-river to the company's innermost station, so that they can relieve its chief manager Kurtz, who has become very ill.
His first assignment was aboard the collier Freelove, and he spent several years on this and various other coasters, sailing between the Tyne and London.
In this assignment, his first commander was John McCain, then a U. S. Navy captain.
In the first part of his assignment, Ribbentrop was partly successful, but in the second part he more than fulfilled Hitler's expectations.
Notice that became a constant after the first argument assignment.
His first assignment was Second Officer on the Boeing 727.
Morita's methods lead his ' students ' through experiments, and in each assignment, the lesson is not explained by a master, but learned first hand, through the doing or ' taiken ', that knowledge gained by direct experience.
The first browser that used advanced mouse gestures ( in 2002 ) was Maxthon, in which a highly customizable interface allowed the assignment of almost every action to one of 52 mouse gestures and few mouse chords.
Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song " Public Enemy Number One " Rubin had heard from Andre " Doctor Dré " Brown.
He received his first assignment as a curate at Chiesa Nuova.
Her first assignment in the FBI was serving on a special task force investigating satanic rituals.
Admiral Clark's first flag assignment was at the United States Transportation Command ( TRANSCOM ) where he was Director of Plans and Policy ( J5 ) and Financial Management and Analysis ( J8 ).
On 21 March 1966, he received his first spaceflight assignment as Pilot for the first manned Apollo flight, AS-204, along with Command Pilot Grissom and Senior Pilot White.
; Dead store elimination: removal of assignments to variables that are not subsequently read, either because the lifetime of the variable ends or because of a subsequent assignment that will overwrite the first value.

first and attaches
A clitic syntactically functions above the word level, on the phrase or clause level, and attaches only phonetically to the first, last, or only word in the phrase or clause, whichever part of speech the word belongs to.
Jeopardy " attaches " when the jury is empanelled, the first witness is sworn, or a plea is accepted.
The first carbon atom after the carbon that attaches to the functional group is called the alpha carbon ; the second, beta carbon, the third, gamma carbon, etc.
* Length of delay: A delay of a year or more from the date on which the speedy trial right " attaches " ( the date of arrest or indictment, whichever first occurs ) was termed " presumptively prejudicial ," but the Court has never explicitly ruled that any absolute time limit applies.
The archenteron initially forms, and the mesoderm splits into two layers: the first attaches to the body wall or ectoderm, forming the parietal layer and the second surrounds the endoderm forming the visceral layer or alimentary canal.
Much the way the first seven ribs articulate with the sternum, the cartilage in the celiac plexus joins on the xiphoid process, reinforcing it, and indirectly attaches the costal cartilage to the sternum.
There are three types of drainage bags: The first is a leg bag, a smaller drainage device that attaches by elastic bands to the leg.
Special interest attaches to the first edition, because a copy in British Library bears the signature of Shakespeare, long accepted as genuine but now supposed to be in an 18th century hand.
During mating one animal attaches itself to the substrate ( female ) the other crawls over the visceral hump, so that the penile aperture is in level with the common genital aperture of the first animal.
In the case of a bench trial ( trial by the judge only ), jeopardy attaches when the first witness in the case is sworn.
Each such call first checks to see if a holder array has been allocated to store results, and if not, attaches that array.
This is called a trip line, and attaches to the rear of the anchor, allowing it to be pulled in back first, shedding water rather than filling.
These first mishaps and the fact that Nina has shared her secret with Ayu, Nina attaches herself to Ayu as a friend and does everything she can to help Ayu with getting the attention of the boy she loves.
Boo is a demented rabbit with very strong Aura powers who attaches himself to Ai as Ai's " Master ", believing Ai to be one of the next great " Aura Masters ", and it is through " Master Boo's " training and help that Ai first starts to discover how to use some of his own Aura power, and learn it rather quickly and expertly.
The alpha carbon in organic chemistry refers to the first carbon that attaches to a functional group ( the carbon is attached at the first, or alpha, position ).

first and himself
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??
He did not think himself to be firing the first shot of an intellectual revolution.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
From the very first he regarded himself as Mr. Hearst's disciple, defender, and afterward his prime minister, self-ordained.
`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.
Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.
He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.
How, for example, could a Voltaire understand the strange predicament in which a Rousseau would find himself when, soon after the furor of his first Discourse, he acquired still another title to fame??
Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
In the best tradition, he first taught himself to see, then to draw with accuracy and assurance, and then to paint.
At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.
The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.
In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.
Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911, when he glued a piece of imitation-caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas.
The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.
Mrs. Marr is the first contact a Skid Row figure talks to after he decides he wants to pick himself up.
From the outset of his first term, he established himself as one of the guiding spirits of the House of Delegates.
The Old Man's son threw himself down, belly first, upon a concrete step, taking in the coolness of it, and dreaming of the day he would be rich.
In three arduous campaigns, the first two of which were conducted by the emperor himself while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenos ( great-uncle of Emperor Manuel Comnenos ), the Turks were defeated in detail in 1070 and driven across the Euphrates.
The New Testament has God declaring himself to be the " Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.
Alboin first distinguished himself on the battlefield in a clash with the Gepids.

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