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A poor horseshoer can also make mistakes in the shoeing process itself, not only quicking a horse, but also putting shoe on crooked, using the wrong type of shoe for the job at hand, shaping the shoe improperly, or setting it on too far forward or back.
Both teams entered the game with the best defenses in the league ( the Cowboys only allowed 107. 6 rushing yards per game while the Steelers only allowed 107. 8 ), and each side took advantage of the other team's mistakes throughout the game.
Energy and torque are entirely different concepts, so the practice of using different unit names ( i. e., reserving newton metres for torque and using only joules for energy ) helps avoid mistakes and misunderstandings.
Like traditional square dancing, recovering from occasional mistakes is often part of the fun, but dancers are usually encouraged to dance only those programs at which they are reasonably proficient.
*" The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical.
Appellate courts in the United States, unlike their civil law counterparts, are generally not permitted to correct mistakes concerning the facts of the case on appeal, only mistakes of law, or findings of fact with no support in the trial court record.
Midway was not only the Allies ' first clear major victory against the Japanese, it significantly reduced the offensive capability of Japan's carrier forces, but did not change their offensive mindset for several crucial months in which they compounded mistakes by moving ahead with brash, even brazen decisions, such as the attempt to assault Port Moresby over the Kokoda Trail.
The only things that show up are a hungry stray dog named Prince that starts feeding on Gerald's body and a terrifying, deformed apparition that may or may not be real, whom Jessie first mistakes for the ghost of her long dead father but dismisses it later.
Tiresias responds that because of Creon's mistakes, he will lose " a son of own loins " for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied and putting Antigone into the earth ( he does not say that Antigone should not be condemned to death, only that it is improper to keep a living body underneath the earth ).
# Placing blame on workforces who are only responsible for 15 % of mistakes where the system designed by management is responsible for 85 % of the unintended consequences
The reason was that Majorian understood that one of the mistakes of his predecessor was to promote and trust only the senatorial aristocracy of Gaul, the region he come from, favouring it over the senatorial aristocracy of Italy.
" At Tobolsk, she wrote a melancholy theme for her English tutor, filled with spelling mistakes, about Evelyn Hope, a poem by Robert Browning about a young girl: " When she died she was only sixteen years old ," Anastasia wrote.
Because of his past mistakes, amongst other factors, Mao was reluctant to designate any more successors, which only clouded the political situation further.
Hu Shih's work fell into disrepute in mainland China until a 1986 article, written by Ji Xianlin, " A Few Words for Hu Shi ", advocated acknowledging not only Hu Shih's mistakes, but also his contributions to modern Chinese literature.
To the extent that anyone made anything happen in history, it was only through their mistakes.
This can be very expensive and is only practically worthwhile if the cost of mistakes is extremely high ( e. g., in critical parts of microprocessor design ).
* One Night In New York ( US ROIR – cassette only release in 1987, CD issued in 1993 – CD reissue in 1999 re-titled " A Night In New York " with bonus track but mistakes in track listing )
" He went on to say, with spelling mistakes, " Monica is the only girl I have liked in my life.
Thus, only mistakes relating to the factual basis of what is being attempted can form this defense and, in the majority of situations, it will only offer limited benefit to a defendant of ordinary capacity since the state owes no general duty to save citizens from the effects of their own ignorance or stupidity.
However, the persistence of metaphysics is connected not only with logical mistakes but also with " social and economical struggles ".
While still only pope-elect, John, with the other bishops of the Catholic Church, wrote to the clergy of the North of Ireland to tell them of the mistakes they were making with regard to the time of keeping Easter, and exhort them to be on their guard against the Pelagian heresy.

only and she
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
The only way to describe Paula Sandburg is to say she is beautiful in a Grecian sense.
`` The place had no sink or washbasin, only a bathtub '', his mother discovered when she visited him.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.
When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.
If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.
she, too, prayed only to God.
that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.
The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.
With only two aboard, Hotei does better than 27 mph -- and she gives a comfortable ride at this speed even in a three-foot chop.
Another patient, a paranoid woman, for many months infuriated not only me but the ward-personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building, as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met.

only and makes
He will not curb his instinctual desires but release the energy within him that makes him feel truly and fully alive, even if it is only for this brief moment before the apocalypse of annihilation explodes on earth.
A man in a novel who is defeated in his childhood and condemned by unconscious forces within him to tiredly repeat his earliest failure in love, only makes us a little weary of man ; ;
Dance teachers can respond to President Kennedy's request not only through their regular dance work, but also through the kind of basic gymnastic work that makes for strength and flexibility.
It makes materials handling the only construction cost that ( like earthmoving and roadbuilding ) should be lower today than in 1929.
As a restatement it makes only a small contribution to knowledge of Igbo.
Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.
Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.
The language used itself often makes very clear that this is only another form of struggle for victory ( perhaps to be chosen above all others ).
but the rest of the year only one boat is needed, which ties up at the mainland nights and makes the trip down to Nantucket in the daytime.
Rudy Vallee, who shares star billing with Mr. Morse, makes only two appearances.
And most of all it is not having the only man you could love, whether he drives a bread truck or delivers the mail or checks the berry crates down at the sheds, or owns seventeen oil wells and six diamond mines, for if you are anybody what he is or does makes no difference if he is the one.
Its domain is the powerset of A ( with the empty set removed ), and so makes sense for any set A, whereas with the definition used elsewhere in this article, the domain of a choice function on a collection of sets is that collection, and so only makes sense for sets of sets.
When one attempts to solve problems in this class, it makes no difference whether ZF or ZFC is employed if the only question is the existence of a proof.
He thinks only of his own personal happiness and the unfairness of the situation in which he has been placed but gradually comes to recognize his membership in a larger human community, which makes demands on him that he cannot ignore.
Often, the fact that sometimes only a thin surface layer of violet color is present in the stone or that the color is not homogeneous makes for a difficult cutting.
In the later play Frogs, Aristophanes softens his criticisms, but even so it may be only for the sake of punning on Agathon's name ( ἁγαθός = " good ") that he makes Dionysus call him a " good poet ".
The inscription on Aeschylus's gravestone makes no mention of his theatrical renown, commemorating only his military achievements:
The one New Testament reference to the city of Armageddon found in Revelation 16: 16 in fact also makes no specific mention of any armies being predicted to one day gather in this city, but instead seems to predict only that " they ( will gather ) the kings together to .... Armageddon.
This makes the Bakassi area a very fertile fishing ground, comparable only to Newfoundland in North America and Scandinavia in Western Europe.
However, BSI makes standards available to these libraries only under licence restrictions which forbid loan, inter-library loan, open-shelf access, and copying of more than 10 % of a document by library users.
The bonding between the two atoms is relatively weak ( only 242. 580 ± 0. 004 kJ / mol ), which makes the Cl < sub > 2 </ sub > molecule highly reactive.
It is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 ° C ( 82 ° F ), which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at ( or near ) room temperature.

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