It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

It is a barely controlled skimming of the ground.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

This monitoring is necessary because, on a parade ground, everyone can hear too much, and without monitoring a confused social event would develop.

With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

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 ''.

Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

But when these expectations are once too often ground into the dust, innocence can falter, since its strength is according to the strength of him who possesses it.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Baker took the plan to Wilson who said: `` Baker, this is plainly right on any ground.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

On the ground floor the radiation would be about half what it is outside.

The safest place is the basement corner least exposed to windows and deepest below ground.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

When the therapist came to feel on sufficiently sure ground with him to ask him, `` What is that, Bill -- hello or farewell ''??

What then is the status of such questions as: is society the ground of human existence or a means to an individual goal??

The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, however, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851.

In the three other corners of the ground there are what have been described as large ' filing cabinets ', which are corporate boxes on three levels.

Cacti may also be described as shrubby, with several stems coming from the ground or from branches very low down, such as in Stenocereus thurberi.

* Falling putts ( when the player follows through described above on a putt 10 meters or shorter ) and foot faults ( when a player does not release the disc behind their mark or within the required distance of the mark, when a player has a part of their body touching the ground on release past their mark or when their tee shot is released from off the teeing area ) are penalized in a unique way.

In Australian rules football, the move commonly described as a " tackle " is similar to in rugby and involves wrapping, holding or wrestling a player who has possession of the ball to the ground.

Aggressive head on bumping or " charging " of a player with the ball is often described as " rough play " and is a reportable offence, this is particularly so if a player is deemed to have their head down over the ball in an attempt to picking it up off the ground when the bump is applied or contact is made above the shoulders.

Individual smiths and specialized applications have fostered development of a variety of forges of this type, from the coal forge described above, to simpler constructions amounting to a hole in the ground with a pipe leading into it.

Agricola described and illustrated how ore veins occur in and on the ground, making the work an early contribution to the developing science of geology.

Robinson wrote that, where the Gospel narrative accounts can be checked for consistency with surviving material evidence, the account in the Gospel of John is commonly the more plausible ; that it is generally easier to reconcile the various synoptic accounts within John's narrative framework, than it is to explain John's narrative within the framework of any of the synoptics ; and that, where in the Gospel Jesus and his disciples are described as travelling around identifiable locations, the trips in question can always be plausibly followed on the ground, which he says is not the case for any synoptic Gospel.

The swingout ( the basic step of Lindy ) is danced in a position often described as someone about to sit on a stool, thereby bringing their center point of balance closer to the ground.

The Pompeion and many other buildings in the vicinity of the Sacred Gate were razed to the ground by the marauding army of the Roman dictator Sulla, during his sacking of Athens in 86 BC ; an episode that Plutarch described as a bloodbath.

Initially, atoms are energized from the ground state to the excited state by a process called pumping, described below.

He described his pain thus: " When you see the jailer you abjectly touch the ground with your forehead.

He described the use of orbiting spacecraft for detailed peaceful and military observation of the ground and described how the special conditions of space could be useful for scientific experiments.

The book described geostationary satellites ( first put forward by Tsiolkovsky ) and discussed communication between them and the ground using radio, but fell short of the idea of using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications relays.

Then the leg strikes the ground with the heel and rolls through to the toe in a motion described as an inverted pendulum.

Glasses and other non-crystalline, amorphous solids without long-range order are not thermal equilibrium ground states ; therefore they are described below as nonclassical states of matter.

Execution by hanging is described as follows: " In execution by hanging, the prisoner will be hung on a hanging truss which should look like a cross, while his ( her ) back is toward the cross, and ( s ) he faces the direction of Mecca Saudi Arabia, and his ( her ) legs are vertical and distant from the ground.

One Scottish writer described his Highland countrymen this way: They greatly excel the Lowlanders in all the exercises that require agility ; they are incredibly abstemious, and patient of hunger and fatigue ; so steeled against the weather, that in traveling, even when the ground is covered with snow, they never look for a house, or any other shelter but their plaid, in which they wrap themselves up, and go to sleep under the cope of heaven.

The latter include the Ground in Gamut ( described as ' Mr Byrd's old ground ') by his future pupil Thomas Tomkins, the A minor fantasia and probably the first of Byrd's great series of keyboard pavans and galliards, a composition which was transcribed by Byrd from an original for five-part consort.

The Upper Works described details of the castle above ground, acting as a teaser for the volumes concerning the actual dungeons that would follow.

His classic paper, jointly with Walter Heitler, published in 1937 described how primary cosmic rays from space interact with the upper atmosphere to produce particles observed at the ground level.

In non-competitive performances of classical dressage that involve the " Airs above the ground " ( described below ), the " Baroque " breeds of horses, most notably the Lipizzaner, are seen most often.

A computer simulation of this construction indicated that an earthquake would have caused a cascading failure of the rivets, causing the statue to break up at the joints while still standing instead of breaking after falling to the ground, as described in second hand accounts.