Players with a blackjack may also take insurance, and in taking maximum insurance they commit themselves to winning an amount exactly equal to their main wager, regardless of the dealer's outcome.

However the insurance outcome is strongly anti-correlated with that of the main wager, and if the player's priority is to reduce variation, it is reasonable to pay for this.

Armoured cavalry such as the Byzantine cataphract were used as shock troops — they would charge the main body of the enemy and, in many cases, their actions decided the outcome of the battle, hence the later term " battle cavalry ".

Opinion polls at the time show that the difference between the two main contenders had been too close to make any accurate prediction as to the outcome of the elections.

The logical outcome of this tendency is the historical novel with Pytheas as the main character and the celebration of Pytheas in poetry beginning as far back as Virgil.

The depictions of proletarian life, immorality and lawlessness, and the tragic outcome in which the main character dies on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial.

Published in 1969, this volume was Foucault's main excursion into methodology, written as an outcome of discussions with the French Circle of Epistemology.

Although all three of the leaders present arrived with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies.

Its outcome is sealed as early as March 15 when the Duke of Nemours arrested some of the main conspirators.

The Johannesburg Declaration was the main outcome of the Summit ; however, there were several other international agreements.

The point of climax is the turning point of the story, where the main character makes the single big decision that defines the outcome of their story and who they are as a person.

If we were examining the effect of two variables, gender and premature birth, on health outcomes, we would describe any difference in health outcome scores between genders as a main effect.

Frederick William was dissatisfied by this outcome, and the acquisition of the whole Duchy of Pomerania was to become one of the main goals of his foreign policy.

Its main character, Ma ' ertai Ruoxi ( Zhang Xiao ), a time traveler from the 21st century, aware the princes ' feud would leads to a tragic outcome.

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.

The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome of World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for Germany's defeat.

With 106 participants, they investigated two main questions: if two cues are learned as predictors of the same outcome ( one after the other ), would the second-cue outcome association be retarded?

The main difference between sorting networks and comparison sorting algorithms is that with a sorting network the sequence of comparisons is set in advance, regardless of the outcome of previous comparisons.

The idea of introducing additional games that can be used to affect the outcome of the main game came from Burm's childhood, when he and his brother would " race " cars around a rug.

The proposal of the emperor Alexander I to establish a " universal union of guarantee " on the broad basis of the Holy Alliance, after much debate, broke down on the uncompromising opposition of Britain ; and the main outcome of the congress was the signature, on 15 November, of two instruments: a secret protocol confirming and renewing the Quadruple Alliance established by the treaties of Chaumont and Paris ( of 20 November 1815 ) against France, and a public " declaration " of the intention of the powers to maintain their intimate union, " strengthened by the ties of Christian brotherhood ," of which the object was the preservation of peace on the basis of respect for treaties.

The main storyline is told chronologically, but the author frequently mentions the outcome of future events ( referring to 1985 as being one million years in the past ).

To support the main argument, Suvorov argues that Stalin perceived the outcome of World War II as a loss.

These are the following main categories of refinancing operations that can be employed depending on the desired outcome:

The main destinations for Chilean exports were the Americas ( US $ 39 billion ), Asia ( US $ 27. 8 billion ) and Europe ( US $ 22. 2 billion ).

Mercosur members were the main suppliers of imports to Chile at US $ 9. 1 billion, followed by the United States with US $ 5. 5 billion and the European Union with US $ 5. 2 billion.

The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

In the city, BUS US 131 is named Mitchell Street, after George Mitchell, but may be referred to as main street.

I-70, US 63, and US 40 are the main freeways used for travel to and from Columbia.

There are several conflicting views concerning the US availability of cough preparations containing ethylmorphine ( also called dionine or codethyline )— Feco Syrup and its equivalents were first marketed circa 1895 and still in common use in the 1940s and 1950s, and the main ingredient is treated like codeine under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

Returning to the challenge of the East Building of the US National Gallery, Pei worked to combine a modernist approach with a classical main structure.

In 1935 he sailed from Takoradi, the Gold Coast's main port, to Liverpool in England, and made his way to London where he obtained his student visa from the US Embassy.

The “ liberal arts college experience ” in the US is characterized by three main aspects that demarcate it from undergraduate experiences in other countries:

* Exports-valued at US $ 25. 3 million ( 1991 ), mainly phosphates, main partners are New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, US ( 2000 )

* Imports-valued at US $ 21. 1 million ( 1991 ), mainly food, fuel, manufactures, building materials, machinery, main partners are Australia, USA, UK, Indonesia, India

The US Secret Service was founded in 1865 and was for some time the main investigative body for the federal government.

One of the main characters in US soap opera Passions is Tabitha Lenox, a 300-year-old witch.

In practice, the main concerns in recent years have been relations with the US, the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, Iraq, the perceived threat from Iran, the effect of oil pricing, and increasing the influence in the Muslim world of the Wahhabi form of Islam through overseas donations.

He then notes that it is ridiculous and weird that there are intensities of treatment by the scientists and press, in particular, that he was " much less badly treated ," when in fact he had been the main target of US press, specifically The New York Times, where his obituary ten years later would mock deconstruction and not consider Jacques Derrida, the person, in the face of those grieving his death.

Houses are made in many different architectural styles which may be of European, American and International architecture and which vary in size, although the main difference with the US and Canada is that houses are mainly constructed with bricks and concrete instead of wood ; thus houses tend to last much longer, approximately 50 years.

* Mifflin Hall ( the main building at the US Army Quartermaster Center and School at Fort Lee, Virginia Decommissioned July 30, 2010 )

There are three main branches – the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force.

He portrays Sam Axe, a beer-chugging, womanizing former Navy SEAL now working as an unlicensed private investigator and occasional mercenary with his old friend Michael Westen, the show's main character.

During the Cold War, the main role of the CVBG in case of conflict with the Soviet Union would have been to protect Atlantic supply routes between the United States and Europe, while the role of the Soviet Navy would have been to interrupt these sea lanes, a fundamentally easier task.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

Navy headquarters and the main operational and training base are located at Ras el Tin near Alexandria.

Scotland's Scapa Flow was the main base for the Royal Navy in the 20th century.

Initially the main task of the new Imperial Navy was coastal protection, with France and Russia seen as Germany's most likely future enemies.

The German Navy purchased 14 Zeppelins, named L1 to L14 ; the main use of the airships was in reconnaissance over the North Sea and the Baltic, where the endurance of the craft led German warships to a number of Allied vessels.

The armed forces comprise three main branches: the Pakistan Army, the Pakistan Navy ( including the Pakistan Marines ) and the Pakistan Air Force, together with a number of paramilitary forces.

The new designs incorporate a new accent color, " Wolf Grey ", and the main colors are " College Navy " and " Action Green ".

In 1958, as part of Operation Argus, the United States Navy exploded an atomic bomb high in the upper atmosphere, southeast of the main island.

The V bombers were to carry the GAM-87 Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile, to update their strike potential as new innovations in the Cold War made their early style of operation less viable ; however Skybolt was cancelled by the US and the Royal Navy became Britain's main provider of the nuclear deterrent, using UGM-27 Polaris intercontinental ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines in the 1970s.

The main street of Oslo, Karl Johans gate, was named after him in 1852-and the main base for the Royal Norwegian Navy, Karljohansvern, was named after him in 1854.

Raeder's strategy which was a modified version of the " double pole " strategy he had devised before the war called for the Panzerschiffe, auxiliary cruisers and submarines to attack British merchantmen all over the world to force the Royal Navy to divert its strength while at the same time the main surface ships would make frequent raids into the North Sea to gradually reduce the Royal Navy's strength.

With the land border with Scotland safe, the main burden of defence would fall upon the Royal Navy, Cecil proposed to strengthen and revitalise the Navy, making it the centerpiece of English power.

In Ernest Hemingway's novel Islands in the Stream the main character Thomas Hudson captains a Q-ship for the US Navy around Cuba as he hunts the survivors of a sunken German U-boat.

The city served as the main port for the Texas Navy during the Texas Revolution and later served as the capital of the Republic of Texas.

The main national commemoration is held at Whitehall, in Central London, for dignitaries, the public, and ceremonial detachments from the armed forces and civilian uniformed services such as the Merchant Navy and Her Majesty's Coastguard.

The two communities grew together and flourished while the docks were the main administrative centre of the Royal Navy, and a few grand houses like Sayes Court, home to diarist John Evelyn, and Stone House on Lewisham Way were erected.

Originally it was an area characterised by villages clustered around the City walls or along the main roads, surrounded by farmland, with marshes and small communities by the River, serving the needs of shipping and the Royal Navy.

During World War II, the Newton airport was taken over by the US Navy as a secondary Naval Air Station, and the main runway was extended to over.

The Tuckerton Radio Station was assigned to the US Navy which used it primarily to back-up the communications of the US Navy's main transatlantic radio station in New Brunswick, New Jersey.