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After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.
Seeing this, his colleague at the next desk gave a short, contemptuous laugh, pushed forward his own ash tray, innocent of a single butt, thumped his chest to show his excellent condition, and looked proud.
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ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.
He next sent an army to subdue the areas north of the Hindu Kush and in short order all the different tribes began joining his cause.
If the frame contains areas where nothing has moved, the system simply issues a short command that copies that part of the previous frame, bit-for-bit, into the next one.
Thus, a short path between the hot surface and the cold surface is necessary, typically by suspending a hot plate covered with a film of feed next to a cold plate with a line of sight in between.
The flute, one of several found, was found in the Hohle Fels cavern next to the Venus of Hohle Fels and a short distance from the oldest known human carving.
However, spaces between words are not counted, so for instance " hat " is normally short, but it is long in " hat throw ," due to the " th " in the next word.
On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.
Over the next five years, according to Sayers ' short stories, the Wimseys have three sons: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey ( born in October 1936 in the story " The Haunted Policeman "); Roger Wimsey ( born 1938 ), and Paul Wimsey ( born 1940 ).
He died quietly the next day, nine days short of his 63rd birthday.
Multiprotocol Label Switching ( MPLS ) is a mechanism in high-performance telecommunications networks that directs data from one network node to the next based on short path labels rather than long network addresses, avoiding complex lookups in a routing table.
Alphabetic designation of exchanges was also used for a short period in the Soviet Union in the 1950s, but by the next decade this practice was largely discontinued.
Benaud scored his maiden first-class century, 117 against South Australia, in the next match, two years after falling short of the milestone by seven runs.
Raiders returner Rodger Bird gave them great field position with a 12-yard return to Green Bay's 40-yard line, but Oakland could only gain 1 yard with their next 3 plays and came up empty when George Blanda's 47-yard field goal attempt fell short of the goal posts.
The next time they had the ball, Montana led them on another touchdown drive, scoring on a short pass to Jones.
On the next play, Elway completed a short pass to running back Terrell Davis, who turned it into a 39-yard gain.
It is important that the machine contains a high-quality RNG implementation, because all PRNGs must eventually repeat their number sequence ( see Art of Computer Programming Volume 2 Chapter 3, Random numbers ), and if the period is short, or the PRNG is otherwise flawed, an advanced player may be able to ' predict ' the next result.
Burton's next live-action short, Frankenweenie, was released in 1984.
For the next 23 years, the two nations were at war except for a short period in 1802 – 1803.
Regular plenary sessions of the General Assembly in recent years have initially been scheduled to be held over the course of just three months, however additional work loads have extended these sessions to last on through just short of the next session.
Whenever a back vowel (/ a /, / o / or / u /, whether long or short ) occurred in a syllable and the front vowel / i / or the front glide / j / occurred in the next, the vowel in the first syllable was fronted.
" There are three major kinds of qualities or characteristics: types or kinds ( e. g. mammal ), properties ( e. g. short, strong ), and relations ( e. g. father of, next to ).
The next five years were triumphant, with major successes with his greatest works, La sonnambula, Norma and I puritani, cut short by Bellini's premature death just nine months after the premiere of I puritani.

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It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.
In 1902, Ebbinghaus published his next piece of writing entitled Die Grundzuge der Psychologie ( Fundamentals of Psychology ).
A piece which would have landed on a star instead moves to the next star.
* If both ends of Player A's tessera are open, then Player B will lose on the next move, unless he can capture a piece from Player A's tessera, or win the game himself on the next move.
They resolve to bring a more suitable piece and hang themselves the next day, if Godot fails to arrive.
" The same goes for the next piece, and so on.
* If a piece is pushed right next to the center square, it immediately disappears.
Preminger's next film would be another period piece based on a literary classic, Oscar Wilde's 1897 play Lady Windermere's Fan.
The next two years saw the production of several exquisite works, in particular the epic of Thors Reise til Jotunheim, the charming poem in hexameters called Langelandsreisen, and the bewitching piece of fantasy Aladdin ( 1805 ).
The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.
Those variants of Baroque prohibiting multiple leaps call this piece the Leaper, and restrict it to capturing the first enemy piece it encounters, provided the next space is empty or open.
In addition to the traditional Baroque pieces, Rococo has an Advancer piece that moves like a Queen, but captures the enemy piece it has run up next to, stopping just short of the piece taken.
The pawn is immediately ( before the opposing player's next move ) replaced by the new piece.
Russian Modular or ' next generation ' space stations differ from ' Monolithic ' single piece stations by allowing reconfiguration of the station to suit changing needs.
While all went well for the recording used to produce the album, the debut tour performance at the same venue ground to a halt as the power failed, just as Emerson arrived at the Hammond organ to open the next part of the piece.
When moving the smallest piece, always move it to the next position in the same direction ( to the right if the starting number of pieces is even, to the left if the starting number of pieces is odd ).
As selections were considered, a recording of the piece was located and played back at the next gathering.
The next piece of fabric is sewn through the initial piece and paper.
Bakshi next directed the pilot Hound Town for NBC ; he described the result as " an embarrassing piece of shit ".
In the gaps the magnetic field lines are no longer confined by the core, so they ' bulge ' out beyond the outlines of the core before curving back to enter the next piece of core material, reducing the field strength in the gap.

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