" The medical art must consider every disease as an evil which cannot be too soon expelled ; the macrobiotic, on the other hand, shows that many diseases may be the means of prolonging life.

From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource -- cannibalism -- as a means of prolonging existence.

In his extreme old age, he advocated the hypodermic injection of a fluid prepared from the testicles of guinea pigs and dogs, as a means of prolonging human life.

The investigation reveals a startling secret in the Pendergast family, a successful means of prolonging life, and a murderous obsession to achieve the eradication of the mankind ' disease '.

His father, who spoke sixteen languages and embraced travel as the only means of prolonging life, had prematurely abandoned a career in the Austrian diplomatic service that took him to Athens, Constantinople, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo, to devote himself to study and writing.

The player may achieve victory through numerous means, among which are forcing the enemy to retreat, destroying the enemy command unit, outlasting an invading force, or prolonging battle until the opposing force has exhausted its supplies.

When the blade's back is re-flattened after ura-dashi, the hollow is re-established ; thus the hollow acts as a sort of gauge for sharpening as a means of prolonging the life of the thin piece of cutting steel as long as possible.

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

What is commonly referred to as cavalry today utilizes helicopters ( air cavalry ) or armored fighting vehicles ( armored cavalry ) as a means to quickly get soldiers into battle.

For example, Eliade says, the portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar as a dragon in Jeremiah 51: 34 is a case in which the Hebrews " interpreted contemporary events by means of the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a hero and a dragon.

Similarly, during the English Civil War rope-tension drums would be carried by junior officers as a means to relay commands from senior officers over the noise of battle.

Current advances in energy storage allow for energy densities as high as 2. 5 MJ / m³, which means that a battery delivering 32 MJ of energy would require a volume of 12. 8 m³ ; this is not a viable volume for use in a modern main battle tank, especially one designed to be lighter than existing models.

One of the most famous is, " Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language ", which could mean either one of the following:

It is usually fixed to the scabbard of the sword, providing a fast means of drawing the sword in battle.

St. Cornelius ’ s saintly name means " battle horn ", and he is represented in icons by a pope either holding some form of cow's horn or with a cow nearby.

The Mojave call these peaks Huqueamp avi, which means " where the battle took place ," referring to the battle in which the God-son, Mastamho, slew the sea serpent.

Supported by Pisistratus, he defeated the Megarians either by means of a cunning trick or more directly through heroic battle.

The last level of each race's campaign is an " epic battle " which means that the player has to strike down a large number of enemy foes and finally destroy their main base.

His ship was one of nine which escaped the disaster, boldly rushing to Lampsacus where the Spartans had left their sails ( as was typical before a naval battle ) and so preventing any effective means of pursuit.

This means that the world is on the verge of the last stage, where a final battle will take place at Armageddon, followed by Christ's return and 1, 000 year reign.

Telemachus ' name in Greek means " far from battle ", perhaps reflecting his absence from the Trojan War.

The name means " battle of a man ", from ἀνδρός ( andros ) " of a man " and μάχη ( machē ) " battle ".

Appianus tells us Seleucus was 73 years old during the battle, which means 354 BC would be the year of birth.

: As for the Harii, quite apart from their strength, which exceeds that of the other tribes I have just listed, they pander to their innate savagery by skill and timing: with black shields and painted bodies, they choose dark nights to fight, and by means of terror and shadow of a ghostly army they cause panic, since no enemy can bear a sight so unexpected and hellish ; in every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered.

The Old Norse place name Vígríðr means " battle-surge " or " place on which battle surges ".

Val Verde, which means " green valley ", was named for a Civil War battle.

Koch says that the older view that the battle cut the two British areas off from each other is now " generally understood " to be outdated, as Æthelfrith died soon after, and there is " almost no archaeological evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlement within the pagan period in Cheshire or Lancashire ", and in any case the sea would have been the primary means of communication.

Because of this battle, 19-year-old Alexander was given the sobriquet " Nevsky " ( which means of Neva ).

It is a huge gang battle, using well-meaning lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.

The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.

The anode in figure 2 was mounted by means of the anode holder which was attached to a steel plug and disk.

The current was regulated by means of a variable resistor and measured with a 50 mV shunt and millivoltmeter.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

The difference is important, for although the older law of nations did cover relationships among sovereigns, this was by no means its exclusive domain.

It was, too, an optimistic philosophy, and, though it separated law from morality, it was by no means an immoral or amoral one.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

A gentleman of the old school, Mr. Upton possessed intellectual power, ample means, and withal, was a devoted Christian.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.