Its purpose is to initialize the Amiga hardware and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk or hard disk drive.

The Radicals ( approximately forty ) included a hard core of Fifth Monarchists who wanted to be rid of Common Law and any state control of religion.

Chemotherapeutic drugs have a hard time penetrating tumors to kill them at their core because these cells may lack a good blood supply.

In the late 1980s the upside down Martini glass that was the tag for punk band Missing Foundation was the most ubiquitous graffito in lower Manhattan, and copied by hard core punk fans throughout the U. S. and West Germany.

Hardcore ( or hard core or hard-core, for many terms ) may refer to:

* hard core, the members of a group or movement who form an intransigent nucleus resistant to change.

* hard core, material such as stones and broken bricks used as the foundation for buildings, roads etc.

* A " hard core " is one kind of semiconductor intellectual property core

So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle but dismounting to fight, providing a hard core for the levy of the infantry warbands.

Neptunium, like protactinium, uranium, plutonium, and americium readily forms a linear dioxo neptunyl core ( NpO < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup > n +</ sup >), in its 5 + and 6 + oxidation states, which readily complexes with hard O-donor ligands such as OH < sup >–</ sup >, NO < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup >–</ sup >, NO < sub > 3 </ sub >< sup >–</ sup >, and SO < sub > 4 </ sub >< sup > 2 –</ sup > to form soluble anionic complexes which tend to be readily mobile with low affinities to soil.

The main part in the PUWP was played by professional politicians, or the so-called " party's hard core ", formed by people who were recommended to manage the main state institutions, social organizations, and trade unions.

At three hundred pounds, Whiteman was huge both physically and culturally —" a man flabby, virile, quick, coarse, untidy and sleek, with a hard core of shrewdness in an envelope of sentimentalism ," according to a 1926 New Yorker profile.

The hard core of the Free State Boers under Christiaan De Wet, accompanied by President Steyn, left the basin early.

He did retain a hard core of supporters however, known as Peelites, and at one point in 1849 was actively courted by the Whig / Radical coalition.

banks, the hard core of the system of imperialism and capitalism, had diverted the people ’ s hatred of money and exploitation away from themselves and on to the Jews.

Sometimes medium to hard rubber mallets, very hard core, or yarn mallets are used for softer effects.

Some mallets, called " two-toned " or " multi-tonal ", have a hard core, loosely wrapped with yarn.

Overall, then, Southern Democrats during the 1840s lost the hard core of their original doughface support.

It also caused the discovery, which some did not expect, that a few journals, such as Nature and Science, were core for all of hard science.

The ball is a hard solid sphere slightly smaller than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together.

The lead and jacket are intended to prevent barrel wear from the hard core materials.

Its hooves have a flexible, rubbery core that allows it to grip smooth rocks, while the hard, sharp rim can lodge into small footholds.

" His figure was that of a robust, large-framed man, worn down by confinement and hard fare ; but he was now recovering his flesh and spirits ; and a suit of blue clothes, with a gold laced hat that had been presented to him by the gentlement of Cork, enabled him to make a very passable appearance for a rebel colonel ...

There was a general consensus that if the slaves were punished too hard or were malnourished, the slaves would start to rebel.

Vice President Andrew Johnson had taken a hard line and spoke of hanging rebel Confederates, but when he succeeded Lincoln as President, Johnson took a much softer line, pardoning many Confederate leaders and former Confederates.

This sets the tone of the strip: Robbie is a rebel who does nothing he is told ( although he occasionally does as he's told if he can make a job hard for his parents or anyone else, for instance scrapping a whole kitchen for a compost heap, when his dad told him to find scraps in the kitchen for the heap ).

" Ma Chao interpreted Peng Yang's statement as: " If you rebel outside Chengdu and I assist you inside, the country is not hard to conquer.

In his tenure in Honduras, Negroponte steered a middle course between State Department and journalistic critics who favored a policy of nonresistance to the militarization of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and its aid to rebel movements in Honduras and El Salvador and ' hard line ' persons within the Reagan administration who would have involved the United States in Central America through actions such as blockades, bombing of Nicaraguan airfields, the provision of offensive weapons, and the installation of permanent military bases.

It is likely that Jemmy and his rebel cohort were such military men, as they fought hard against the militia when they were caught, and were able to kill 20 of them.

H. W. Bartleet wrote: ' Moore won ... on a Michaux bicycle with rubber tyres and ball bearings, the latter made ( against the advice of Michaux ) under Moore's own supervision, the balls being ground circular by prisoners in a Paris prison, who could not rebel at the hard work.

Juan Prim, a perennial rebel against the Isabelline governments, was named chief of the government in 1869 and remarked that " to find a democratic king in Europe is as hard as to find an atheist in Heaven!

Twice a week, Lincoln would meet with his cabinet in the afternoon, and occasionally Mary Lincoln would force him to take a carriage ride because she was concerned he was working too hard.

The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.

Whilst this had the advantage of being usable by untrained users via ' hunt and peck ' typing and requiring one less key switch than a conventional 12 button keypad, it had the disadvantage that some symbols required three times as much force to depress them as others which made it hard to achieve any speed with the device.

Enactment of price controls to prevent discounting the value of paper money relative to gold, silver, hard currency, or commodities, fail to force acceptance of a paper money which lacks intrinsic value.

Otherwise, optimal force would be hard to attain for fear of falling over.

Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30 % of the labor force and provides more than 70 % of hard currency earnings, followed by tuna fishing.

His temper flared when he felt that others did not give their best, but in later reunions they admitted that Lord's hard driving force had made them better actors and made Hawaii Five-O a better show.

See Shannon number for details .</ ref >), it is hard to rule out with mathematical certainty the possibility that the initial position allows either side to force a mate or a threefold repetition after relatively few moves, in which case the search tree might encompass only a very small subset of the set of possible positions.

There's no authority over them, so you can't come down on them hard when they escalate force ...

It is often divided up into the concepts of hard power and soft power, hard power relating primarily to coercive power, such as the use of force, and soft power commonly covering economics, diplomacy and cultural influence.

A Muslim is warned that this world is very insidious and charming and can easily overwhelm and beguile those of weaker character and force them to forget the real reason we ( as human beings ) are here ; that is, to work hard and do the good acts and deeds of worship and charity that would eventually save us on Judgement Day.

Soft hammers of course also do not have as much force behind them as hard hammers do.

The British advance force nipped hard on the heels of the outnumbered and exhausted Continentals as they fled southward.

Prominent bulbs of force generally indicate that a hard hammer percussor ( hammerstone ) was used to detach the flake ; flakes displaying this characteristic are referred to as conchoidal flakes.

Baker himself with a few of his officers succeeded by hard fighting in cutting a way out, but his force was annihilated.

Partners who frequently practice together can exchange hard blows without injuring each other by adhering to the principle of not meeting force with force.

In England, for DNR as for any medical treatment, by default only the patient can give informed consent, if they have capacity as defined under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 ; if they lack capacity relatives will often be asked for their opinion out of respect but it does not have hard legal force on the doctors ' decision.

However, hard weather may force further movement.

" This, too, was at first a mere paper force, but after three months ' hard work it was able to take the field.

When tightening a screw with force, it is important to press the head hard into the screw, again to avoid damaging the screw.

However, according to Lance Hill, author of The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement: “ the hard truth is that these organizations produced few victories in their local projects in the Deep South — if success is measured by the ability to force changes in local government policy and create self-governing and sustainable local organizations that could survive when the national organizations departed ....

This force was usually engaged in wearisome tasks entailing hard marching, outpost work during the evening and little prospect of seeing the enemy.