The lightness of modern racquets allows players to use a very short hitting action for many strokes, thereby maintaining the option to hit a powerful or a soft stroke until the last possible moment.

Judaism has a great many teachings about peace and compromise, and its teachings make physical violence the last possible option.

The last versions of the Auto-Union 1000S also had disc brakes as option, an early development for this technology.

The use of guns for self-defense is only allowed if the gun is a last resort option.

The " Next Header " field of the last option, points to the upper-layer protocol that is carried in the packet's payload.

Violence is the last option only to be used to protect religion and one's own life in extreme situations of persecution.

Poorly designed systems often don't last, both because they wear out and because their reliability or usability are low enough that no one is inclined to make an effort to extend their term of service when replacement is an option.

This last option, which is now Yarra Park, had been used by Aborigines until 1835.

This option has almost never been entertained in Canada, the last time being in 1925.

Usually the first two degrees of education ( eight years ) are always included, while the last one ( two years ) gives option for the students to pursue vocational or specialized educations.

In most western countries, women began to exercise the option of keeping their maiden names after marriage ; in Canada, legislation was enacted to end the practice of automatically changing a woman's last name upon marriage.

The tiebreaker was the same as the previous versions except that the player who has won the most games, most squares overall or won the last game played ( whichever came first ) had the option to play the question or pass it to his / her opponent, with a miss by either player giving their opponent the win by default.

During this season, Philadelphia acquired Chris Webber in a trade with the Sacramento Kings, with the hopes that the team had at long last found a consistent second scoring option to compliment Iverson.

In Gaelic Ireland, Lughnasadh was also a favored time for handfastings — trial marriages that would generally last a year and a day, with the option of ending the contract before the new year, or formalizing it as a lasting marriage.

1969 was the last year for the GT option.

The last condition gives the value of the option at the time that the option matures.

In his last season, Smith became the oldest player in NFL history ever to throw his first touchdown pass, throwing a 21-yard touchdown strike on a halfback option play.

Nine months later, after all attempts to save the fresco were explored – including relocating it to Abby's Museum of Modern Art – it was destroyed as a last option.

Choice of treatment is often determined by whether the patient ( or doctor ) views circumcision as an option of last resort to be avoided or as the preferred course.

# The bid / ask price is more relevant in ascertaining the value of the option than the last price since options are not frequently traded.

Surgical option is usually the last resort, and can involve, lobectomy or pneumonectomy.

As a market of “ last resort ”, industry can use the LME ’ s delivery option to sell excess stock in times of oversupply and as a source of material in times of extreme shortage.

In games where a time limit in such screens is not included, campers can take advantage of the situation and stop playing, leaving their opponents also waiting with no other choice than to wait indefinitely or quit from the game, the last option resulting in an absolute win for the camper.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.