I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

I told him you are on orders from the Home Army to get inside Majdanek so you can make a report to the government in exile in London ''.

Telephone orders distort the picture: the suburbanite naturally calls a local rather than a central-city number if both are listed in an advertisement, especially if the local call eliminates city sales tax.

Mail orders are now being received for the series of concerts to be given this season under the auspices of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society.

Now, not only are there considerably more laity as students and professors at Oxford, but there are also numerous houses of religious orders existing in respectable and friendly relations with the non-Catholic members of the University.

The three modern orders of amphibians are Anura ( the frogs and toads ), Caudata / Urodela ( the salamanders ), and Gymnophiona / Apoda ( the caecilians ).

The three modern orders are Anura ( the frogs and toads ), Caudata, alternatively known as Urodela ( the salamanders ), and Gymnophiona ( the caecilians ).

The Lissamphibia, superorder Salientia, are traditionally divided into three orders, but an extinct salamander-like family, the Albanerpetontidae, is now considered part of the Lissamphibia alongside the superorder Salientia.

They are present in the lower Cambrian fossil record along with trilobites from the Redlichiida, Corynexochida, and Ptychopariida orders.

The orders which have been separated from the old Liliales are difficult to characterize.

Other families included in the Alismatates as currently defined are here distributed among ten additional orders, all of which are assigned, with the following exception, to the Subclass Alismatidae.

Once he has received this blessing, the abbot not only becomes father of his monks in a spiritual sense, but their major superior under canon law, and has the additional authority to confer the ministries of acolyte and lector ( formerly, he could confer the minor orders, which are not sacraments, that these ministries have replaced ).

Partial and total orders are antisymmetric by definition.

* 1848 – Camila O ' Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.

Polyenergid oocysts and tissue cysts are found in representatives of the orders Protococcidiida and Eimeriida.

Since Pope Leo XIII issued the bull Apostolicae Curae in 1896, the Catholic Church has insisted that Anglican orders are invalid because of changes in the Anglican ordination rites of the 16th century and divergence in understanding of the theology of priesthood, episcopacy and Eucharist.

There are also other reasons why the Holy See does not recognise the validity of the orders of the Independent clergy:

As with the cars, new models are often exhibited by manufacturers at prestigious industry shows to gain new orders.

Today Benedictine monasticism is fundamentally different from other Western religious orders insofar as its individual communities are not part of a religious order with " Generalates " and " Superiors General ".

The Rule of Saint Benedict is also used by a number of religious orders that began as reforms of the Benedictine tradition such as the Cistercians and Trappists although none of these groups are part of the Benedictine Confederation.

The Treasury has reserve powers to give orders to the committee " if they are required in the public interest and by extreme economic circumstances " but such orders must be endorsed by Parliament within 28 days.

The following year, a few units again arranged ceasefires with their opponents over Christmas, but the truces were not nearly as widespread as in 1914 ; this was, in part, due to strongly worded orders from the high commands of both sides prohibiting such fraternisation.

Hitler held absolute power but did not choose to exercise it very much ; the rival fiefdoms of the Nazi state fought each other and attempted to carry out Hitler's vaguely worded wishes and dimly defined orders by " Working Towards the Führer ".

Generally, an appeal of the judgment will also allow appeal of all other orders or rulings made by the trial court in the course of the case.

Nelson then gave orders for his leading ships to slow down in order to allow the British fleet to approach in a more organised formation.

Brueys may have been hoping that the delay would allow him to slip past the British during the night and thus follow Bonaparte's orders not to engage the British fleet directly if it could be avoided.

Relativistic precession has been observed for all planets that allow for accurate precession measurements ( Mercury, Venus and the Earth ), as well as in binary pulsar systems, where it is larger by five orders of magnitude.

Achilles, moved by Priam's actions and following his mother's orders sent by Zeus, returns Hector's body, and promises Priam a truce of twelve days to allow the Trojans to perform funeral rites for Hector.

The delayed neutrons allow a nuclear reactor to respond several orders of magnitude more slowly than just prompt neutrons would alone.

" She criticizes proponents of the unitary executive for expanding " the many existing uncheckable executive powers – such as executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements – that already allow presidents to enact a good deal of foreign and domestic policy without aid, interference or consent from Congress.

Every person found infected was certified of the fact, removed to a hospital provided ( if his condition allow ), and kept under the orders of the medical officer.

When morning breaks, Kambei orders his forces to allow the remaining bandits in.

; and that there is strong evidence supporting the effectiveness of standing orders, which allow healthcare workers without prescription authority to administer vaccine as a public health intervention aimed at increasing vaccination rates.

Some types of sentences allow for or require different word orders, in particular inversion of the subject and verb.

E. P. Thompson notes that for British workers at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, the " gap in status between a ' servant ,' a hired wage-laborer subject to the orders and discipline of the master, and an artisan, who might ' come and go ' as he pleased, was wide enough for men to shed blood rather than allow themselves to be pushed from one side to the other.

Wireless systems allow orders placed at drive through speakers to be taken by cashiers and cooks.

Drive through and walk through configurations will allow orders to be taken at one register and paid at another.

Section 10 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 1962 introduced " area exemption orders " to allow the sale of alcohol for the special events that occur on the same day.

Perversely, he seems determined to keep her confined, as though he does not want to allow her to make a full recovery ; he even goes so far as to defy the doctor's orders.

" The plan, therefore, was, from the west coast of Africa to sail southward, until the supposed South-land should have been reached, and then " to explore the whole of the coast of Terra Australi as far as the Straits of Magellanes, on the chance of finding an opening that might allow a passage to the South-sea ; and on such opening being found, to run into and through the same, in order to discover whether they could in such manner get into the South-sea ; should such passage to the South-sea have been found, they had orders to return home forthwith, but in case adverse circumstances should prevent them from doing so, they were to run on for the East Indies.

Some titles attempt to merge the two systems: for example, the role-playing game Fallout uses turn-based combat and real-time gameplay, while the real-time strategy games Homeworld, Rise of Nations, and the games of the Total War series allow the player to pause the game and issue orders.

General Gaines had been under orders not to invade Florida, later amended to allow short intrusions into Florida.

In July 2012, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, in response to allegations that the Colorado City government, including law enforcement, was taking orders from the FLDS, announced he was allocating funding to allow the Mohave County Sheriff's Department to take over law enforcement duties in the town.

St Benet's Hall, founded in 1897, is a Benedictine foundation, whose principal historic function was to allow Catholic monks ( primarily Benedictines from Ampleforth Abbey, and members of related orders ) to study for secular degrees as undergraduates within the University.

Popular websites began to use digital printing ( such as Direct to Garment or DTG printing ) to allow customers to design their own T-shirts online with no minimum orders.

Instead, he planned to allow the enemy to move into the Marchfeld, leaving there only the Advance Guard and VI Korps, with orders to delay their deployment, cause disorder and casualties, while gradually moving back.

These new orders meant that Davout could not start his attack right away, as he needed to send a part of his troops east, where he had to bridge the Russbach stream, in order to allow his artillery to cross.