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I waited until my man was coming out of the office with the key to a cabin before I went in to register.
Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.
It is alleged that its chief of staff is a Limerick man and that a number of other key members are from that county.
In a review of The Mismeasure of Man, Bernard Davis, professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, said that Gould erected a straw man argument based upon incorrectly defined key terms — specifically reification — which Gould furthered with a " highly selective " presentation of statistical data, all motivated more by politics than by science.
There, he was called the " Atom Smasher ", and the man who " held the key " to atomic energy.
Norman Walsh and the DocBook Project development team maintain the key application for producing output from DocBook source documents: A set of XSL stylesheets ( as well as a legacy set of DSSSL stylesheets ) that can generate high-quality HTML and print ( FO / PDF ) output, as well as output in other formats, including RTF, man pages and HTML Help.
The central tenets of Focus on the Family and similar organizations, such as the Family Research Council, highlight that issues such as abortion and the man of the house's central role in the family are of key importance.
Other administrative offices, notably the Yovogan ( or white man to negotiate the slave trade ), were created during his administration and became key features of Dahomey political life.
Lee believes the key point is that Mookie was angry at the death of Radio Raheem, and that viewers who question the riot's justification are implicitly valuing white property over the life of a black man.
I crashed in a plane, I really damaged my brain / And then I layed in my bed with all this music in my head ./ The years have rolled by, I've watched the past die / But feelings remained like mercy much strained ./ Like a seed left unsown, like a leaf that was blown / Like a man who was blind, there was a lock on my mind ", but also his 1991 healing: " Then a man came to me and he held out the key / And the lock hinge was blown, I had never been alone ".
For this Hans Frank, disgraced and facing death on the gallows for following Hitler, fabricating such a story might be a cunning way of ensuring his place in history as the one man who gave the world the hidden key to the mystery of Hitler's psyche.
They have included one with a staircase with buttons, with the contestant trying to avoid a " broken " button to win ( this game was relaunched in 2005 with a man in a cherry picker, usually a stunt double, falling out of there if the broken button was pushed ), one with 12 keys with the contestant must choose the key ( with a set number of chances ) that opens the large " vault " containing the car inside ( similar to " The Price Is Right "' s " Master Key " and " Safe Crackers " pricing games ).
At key times he was criticised by de Valera of being the " Church's man " in the cabinet, either deliberately or accidentally leaking information to the Knights of Saint Columbanus.
Catholics, while accepting the biological reality of blood and water as emanating from the pierced heart and body cavity of Christ, also acknowledge the allegorical interpretation: it represents one of the main key teachings / mysteries of the Church, and one of the main themes of the Gospel of Matthew, which is the homoousian interpretation adopted by the First Council of Nicaea, that " Jesus Christ was both true God and true man.
Both films make use of the mystery of the fact that no key was found on the dead man when he was killed by both Kelly and Paltrow's characters, as both their husbands had removed them, in an attempt to pin the crime on their wives.
Contemporary life insurance programs have been extended to include credit and mortgage insurance, key man insurance for small businesses, long term care insurance and health savings accounts.
The Ekeko is depicted as a man with a mustache wearing traditional Andean clothes ( especially the poncho ) and completely loaded with bags and baskets with grain and food, ( compare with the cornucopia of some Greco-Roman deities ), household objects, and currency bills, and basically anything that a person is thought to want or need to have a comfortable and prosperous life ; he is commonly found as a little statue to be put in some place of the house, preferably a comfortable one, but also as an amulet attached to key rings ; modern statues of the god include a circular opening in his mouth in which to place a cigarette for Ekeko's pleasure.
Although Mifune is clearly not playing the same man ( his name is Sassa, and his personality and background are different in many key respects ), the movie's title and some of its content do intend to suggest the image of the two iconic jidaigeki characters confronting each other.
In March 2002, a 47-year old schizophrenic man by the name of Richard Sumner died after handcuffing himself to a tree in the forest and throwing away the key.
This use is commonly known as " key man " or " key person " insurance.
It summarizes key Southern Baptist thought in the areas of the Bible and its authority, the nature of God as expressed by the Trinity, the spiritual condition of man, God's plan of grace and salvation, the purpose of the local church, ordinances, evangelism, Christian education, interaction with society, religious liberty, and the family.
Having found the key by the door, they open it and find Tik-Tok, a round copper mechanical man whom they activate by winding up all three of his clockwork motors ( one each for thinking, motion and speech ) with the key like a wind-up toy.

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Putting the key into the switch, pressing the accelerator with his foot, putting the car into reverse, seemed vast endeavors almost beyond the ability of his shaking body.
Inheritance and a sense of social value fixed for life, two key requirements of any caste system according to Haviland, was a pervasive principle of almost everyone's life.
The weapons are also almost exact functional copies of those from Doom, with the same key bindings.
The election of the pope almost always takes place in the Sistine Chapel, in a sequestered meeting called a " conclave " ( so called because the cardinal electors are theoretically locked in, cum clave, i. e., with key, until they elect a new pope ).
This change was almost certainly due to the trend toward the louder " Rock " sounds of the 1970s, despite the earlier models being credited by Pete Townshend as being key to the development of " the Marshall sound " and his refinement of electric guitar feedback techniques
An almost literal use of the phrase appears in popular fiction within H. G. Wells ' 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, where the protagonist finds a manuscript written in shorthand that provides a key to understanding additional scattered material that is sketched out in both longhand and on typewriter.
The speed discrepancy ( being about 3. 5 % slow ) was brought to Bruce Botnick's attention by a Brigham Young University professor, who noted that all the video and audio live performances of The Doors performing the song, the sheet music, and the statements of band members show the song in a key almost a half step higher than the stereo LP release.
Fraudulent cheques and money orders are key elements in many advance-fee scams, such as auction / classified listing overpayment, lottery scams, inheritance scams, etc., and can be used in almost any scam when a " payment " to the victim is required to gain, regain or further solidify the victim's trust and confidence in the validity of the scheme.
As for any person with neurologic deficits, a multidisciplinary approach is key to improving quality of life ; however, there are particular difficulties in specifying a ' core team ' because people with MS may need help from almost any health profession or service at some point.
As a result, all horn music was written as if for a fundamental pitch of C, but the crooks could make a single instrument a transposing instrument into almost any key.
The quintic was almost proven to have no general solutions by radicals by Paolo Ruffini in 1799, whose key insight was to use permutation groups, not just a single permutation.
The castle remained a key Parisian fortress, but was successfully seized by the Burgundians in 1464, when they convinced royal troops to surrender: once taken, this allowed their faction to make a surprise attack into Paris, almost resulting in the capture of the king.
As in the main picture, Thoth is almost always shown holding a Was ( a wand or rod symbolizing power ) in one hand and an Ankh ( the key of the Nile symbolizing life ) in the other hand.
At this stage in their collaboration, Lennon's and McCartney's songwriting was highly collaborative ; even when songs had a primary author the other would often contribute key parts, as with " No Reply " where McCartney provided a middle-eight for what was otherwise almost entirely a Lennon song.
In almost all cases, the trio modulates to the subdominant key of the march, meaning one flat is added to the key signature.
Enraged, Willie grabs them, places them inside a small jewellery box, with the golden harp, but Mickey manages to escape, and with the help of the singing harp who sings to put Willie to sleep, makes his way into Willie's shirt pocket and steals the key, accidentally landing in a small box of dust and pepper, making him, and Willie sneeze and almost alerting him to his presence in the process.
By his almost 30 years of " selfless service ", Postel created his de facto authority to manage key parts of the Internet infrastructure.
Besides the obvious combination of what are perceived to be good, clean-cut looks and a ubiquitous, almost invasive marketing campaign, one of the key selling points of the " manufactured band " is the " something for everyone " approach, although this strategy has been criticized for being more along the lines of " something for everyone who hasn't had much exposure to music ".
A key to Lord's method is his technique of adopting an unconventional approach to the chronology of the event, " an imaginative approach to time and space in which hours and minutes prove extremely malleable, the ship itself seems almost infinitely complex, and the disaster assumes order and unity from far away.
The issue of the insanity defense was more thoroughly explored in the novel, and a key scene in which Biegler destroys the credibility and professionalism of the prosecution's psychiatric expert for proffering an opinion without examining the subject is watered down in the film almost to insignificance.
Apart from being set in Wyoming and the fact that many of the characters have the names of key figures in the Johnson County War, the plot and the characters themselves have almost no relation to the actual historical people and events.
The piper is also able to switch on and off various drones individually ( applying slightly more pressure to the bag and tapping the end of a drone ), which is generally used to aid in tuning ( a technique used in almost all bagpipes that have drones ) or all of them at the same time using this key.
The ships ride here so close, and as it were, keeping up one another, with their head-fasts on shore, that for half a mile together, they go cross the stream with their bolsprits over the land, their bowes, or heads, touching the very wharf ; so that one may walk from ship to ship as on a floating bridge, all along by the shore-side: The key reaching from the drawbridge almost to the south-gate, is so spacious and wide, that in some places ' tis near one hundred yards from the houses to the wharf.

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