This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

and according to them, whatever one fancies one feels, what one feels in fact is the opposite.

If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the opposite effect.

Directly opposite is the emperor's door, through which they entered the building.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

If clay is slightly out of shape, square straight sides with guide sticks or rulers pressed against opposite sides, or smooth round pieces with damp fingers.

There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;

Obviously, if colloidal particles bear charges of opposite sign or, if one kind is charged and the other kind is not, the attraction will be intensified and the tendency to agglomerate will be greatly reinforced.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.

It also overlooks the fact that in a rational lexicon, and quite clearly in More's lexicon, the opposite of serious is not gay but frivolous, and the opposite of gay is not serious but solemn.

These will be numbered in the direction opposite to the flow of the process stream, so that stage R is the T stage from the end.

Instead of emotional recrimination, loaded phrases and sloganeering, we need a dispassionate study of the facts, a better understanding of the opposite viewpoint and a more serious effort to extend the areas of agreement until a solution is reached.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Sonar can be used to measure the thickness of the heart by placing small crystal transducers at opposite sides of the heart or blood vessel and exciting one with some pulsed ultrasonic energy.

This is totally spurious, since no matter who measured first the other will measure the opposite spin despite the fact that ( in theory ) the other has a 50 % ' probability ' ( 50: 50 chance ) of measuring the same spin, unless data about the first spin measurement has somehow passed faster than light ( of course TI gets around the light speed limit by having information travel backwards in time instead ).

It involves a great departure from the methods of political action established in this country, where reforms, and especially financial reforms, have always been considerate and even tender ... I do not yet see the ground on which it can be justly held that any one description of property should be more heavily burdened than others, unless moral and social grounds can be shown first: but in this case the reasons drawn from those sources seem rather to verge in the opposite direction, for real property has more of presumptive connection with the discharge of duty that that which is ranked as personal ... the aspect of the measure is not satisfactory to a man of my traditions ( and these traditions lie near the roots of my being )... For the sudden introduction of such change there is I think no precedent in the history of this country.

The simplest way to define the width of a beam is to choose two diametrically opposite points at which the irradiance is a specified fraction of the beam's peak irradiance, and take the distance between them as a measure of the beam's width.

According to ordinary quantum theory, it is not possible to measure the spin or polarization of a particle directly ; instead, the component in one direction is measured ; the outcome from a single particle may be 1, meaning that the particle is aligned with the measuring apparatus, or-1, meaning that it is aligned the opposite way.

There is also a measure known as heat transfer coefficient: the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of a plate of particular thickness when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one kelvin.

By the same measure, departing in this from the policy of the Eastern Empire, Majorian insisted that a marriage without dowry and pre-wedding gifts trade ( the first from the bride's family to the groom, the latter in the opposite direction ) was invalid ; simultaneously ended the practice of requesting pre-wedding gifts of a value considerably higher than the dowry.

The opposite or facing sides of a parallelogram are of equal length and the opposite angles of a parallelogram are of equal measure.

* Two pairs of opposite angles are equal in measure.

Burke and Grattan were anxious that provision should be made for the education of Irish Roman Catholic priests in Ireland, to preserve them from the contagion of Jacobinism in France ; Wolfe Tone, " with an incomparably juster forecast ", as Lecky observes, " advocated the same measure for exactly opposite reasons.

There are 20 feeds, 10 in each direction, from which a radiometer collects a signal ; the measure is the difference in the sky signal from opposite directions.

I entreat honourable Gentlemen opposite not to believe that my feelings on this subject are dictated simply by my hostility on this particular measure, though I object to its most strongly, as the House is aware.

Ciampi chose the Vitruvian man of Leonardo da Vinci, on the symbolic grounds that it represented man as a measure of all things, and in particular of the coin: in this perspective, money was at the service of man, instead of its opposite.

It was therefore a measure of his success as the commander of a scientific expedition that he was recalled in November 1874 to lead a similar but more arduous expedition at the opposite end of the earth.

The third is to measure whether the opposite sides of each viewpoint ignore the other party and only listen to their side ’ s viewpoint.

Therefore, EPR's argument goes, we could measure the position of photon A, and also simultaneously know photon A's momentum by measuring photon B ( since A's momentum must be the opposite of B's ).

Thirdly, the focus of the music was no longer on folklore with the occasional self-composed song tossed in for measure, but was turned around to exactly the opposite, with the two translated folk songs " Krähenfraß " (" The twa Corbies ") and " Carrickfergus " adapted to fit the band's style.

To measure an angle of over 90 °, subtract the number of degrees as indicated on the dial from 180 °, as the dial is graduated from opposite zero marks to 90 ° each way.

This has the advantage of providing the same degree measure regardless of which direction a particular boundary is being followed ; the boundary can be traversed in the opposite direction simply by exchanging N for S and E for W. In other words, " N 42 ° 35 ' W " describes the same boundary as " S 42 ° 35 ' E ", but is traversed in the opposite direction.

It is a measure of the opposition to the flow of that electric current through the tissues, the opposite of electrical conductivity.

The opposite party, however, headed by Leonidas II, Agis ' Agiad co-monarch, who had formed his habits at the luxurious court of Seleucus II Callinicus, got the senate to reject the measure, though only by one vote.

From a studio opposite her house, she manages compositions on a monumental scale — paintings can measure 2 × 4. 5 metres and also paints small pictures, some no larger than 10 cm square.

In cross-section, the fibers run in opposite directions in alternating layers, much like in plywood, assisting in the bone's ability to resist torsion forces.

The ability to understand and repeat songs is usually unaffected, as these are processed by the opposite hemisphere.

There was nothing preceding the act nor during the act to indicate consent, and indeed her actions represent the pure opposite of consent-physical, verbal, and emotional resistance to the best of her ability.

This system worked well when a Hetman had great ability and the monarch was weak, but sometimes produced disastrous results in the opposite case, as illustrated by the actions of Mikołaj Potocki in 1648.

She sang in her role opposite Maurice Chevalier in the Ernst Lubitsch musical The Smiling Lieutenant ( 1931 ), and was admired by critics for her ability to shrewdly play character role opposite the Miriam Hopkins.

A series of controversial interest rate swaps, initiated in 2002 and 2003 by former Commission President Larry Langford ( removed as the mayor of Birmingham after his conviction ), were intended to lower interest payments, but have, in fact, had the opposite effect, increasing the county's indebtedness to the point that officials have issued formal statements doubting the county's ability to meet its financial obligations.

* An appetite for, and the ability to attract, the opposite gender thanks to animal magnetism

By this time Loy was highly regarded for her performances in romantic comedies and she was anxious to demonstrate her dramatic ability, and was cast in the lead female role in The Rains Came ( 1939 ) opposite Tyrone Power.

The opposite of a progressive tax is a regressive tax, where the relative tax rate or burden increases as an individual's ability to pay it decreases.

To clarify this distinction, he coins the term ' evitability ' as the opposite of ' inevitability ', defining it as the ability of an agent to anticipate likely consequences and act to avoid undesirable ones.

These terms refer to the ability of opposite wheels to move independently of each other.

Control signals in a hearing aid on one ear can be sent wirelessly to the control circuitry in the hearing aid on the opposite ear to ensure that the audio in both ears is either matched directly or that the audio contains intentional differences that mimic the differences in normal binaural hearing to preserve spatial hearing ability.

Aptitude and intelligence quotient are related, and in some ways opposite views of human mental ability.

First base is often referred to as " the other hot corner "— the " hot corner " being third base — and therefore, like the third baseman, he must have quick reflexes to field the hardest hit balls down the foul line, mainly by left-handed pull hitters and good right-handed hitters that possess the ability to hit to the opposite field.

Some very high-performance grand tourers, such as Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren make various compromises in the opposite direction while rivalling sports cars in speed, acceleration, and cornering ability, earning them the special designation supercars.

The In-Betweener's other major ( and unique ) ability is to analyze a target and then direct energy towards it in a " polar opposite " form, which is instantly fatal.

There is a saying in Vietnamese, " rau răm, giá sống " (" Vietnamese coriander, raw bean sprouts ") meaning that Vietnamese coriander has the ability to reduce sexual desires, while bean sprouts have the opposite effect.

Auxotrophy is the opposite of prototrophy, which is characterized by the ability to synthesize all the compounds that the parent organism could.

It is defined as the object's ability to do work and is increased as the object is moved in the opposite direction of the direction of the force.

* Simple expansion, a system in steam engines and their accessories where a piston has the ability to both push and pull a connecting rod by applying steam pressure alternately to opposite sides of the piston

Waqar explained his ability to reverse swing by the manipulation of an old ball ; with one side shiny, one side rough, the ball would move in the opposite direction to conventional swing.

However, an opposite, but not statistically significant, trend is observed for the recurrence of previous cases, with an increasingly higher rate as ability level decreases.

Albert Rothenberg coined the term ' Janusian Thinking ', now termed janusian process, to refer to the ability to conceive and use two or more antithetical or opposite thoughts simultaneously, a capacity Rothenberg found to be a component of outstanding creativity.