Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Since these duties fit neatly with those of the proposed presidential aide, one person, with adequate staff assistance, could fill both jobs.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

He could not see objects as unified, self-contained, and organized figures, as a person does with normal vision.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

Lucien is not the only person in this house who could have put opium in that coffee.

In my person they would always remember that last long time of me alone with her, so if they told themselves that I could have prevented it, I can understand that by now and love them still, because everyone must justify, have a scapegoat for what is not to be borne.

At first, Johnnie hadn't understood -- how could he, not being a religious person like me??

In that sense it represents the feudal liege homage, which could be due only to one lord, while simple homage might be due to every lord under whom the person in question held land.

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

As Wozniak was the only person who could answer most customer support questions about the computer, the company offered Apple I owners discounts and trade-ins for Apple IIs to persuade them to return their computers, contributing to their scarcity.

It extended citizenship to every person born in the United States ( except Indians on reservations ), penalized states that did not give the vote to freedmen, and most importantly, created new federal civil rights that could be protected by federal courts.

This was almost inevitable since, with the notable exception of the generals ( strategoi ), each office could be held by the same person only once.

They could possibly be the same person.

As a result of the tokenizing process, programmers could not use any variable name that had the name of one of the BASIC commands ( e. g. a person could not use the name " SCORE " because the " OR " would invoke a disjunction operator, and " BACKGROUND " could similarly not be used because " GR " would invoke the low-resolution graphics system ; both would create syntax errors ).

When a hypothetical dilemma was given to 24 people and according to the dilemma they had the capability of pushing a stranger in front of a train so they could rescue five people, individuals who had taken selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were not as likely to support the idea of pushing the person.

A person may in certain cases be convicted as an abettor in the commission of an offence in which he or she could not be a principal, e. g. a woman or boy under fourteen years of age in aiding rape, or a solvent person in aiding and abetting a bankrupt to commit offences against the bankruptcy laws.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.

Also, a therapist might choose to have the subject partake in what is called " exposure therapy " where the person is exposed to virtual spiders and then eventually live spiders little by little until they have overcome the phobia.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

These persons are then made up, and in some cases altered to look like the target, with the body double then taking the place of the person in high risk situations.

It was once fatal before the CT era, now, if the abscess is treated before the person goes into a coma, then the death rate has been estimated from 5 % to 20 % although it is greater in cases of multiple abscesses, when raised intracranial pressure is observed and depending on the level of neurological dysfunction on presentation.

" A formal defection of this kind was then noted in the register of the person's baptism, an annotation that, like those of marriage or ordination, was independent of the fact of the baptism and was not an actual " debaptism ", even if the person who formally defected from the Catholic Church had also defected from the Christian religion.

The insects then act as a vector, infecting any person or animal they might bite.

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Alpine French dialect prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common ( see below ); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then spread more widely in popular English as a markedly derogatory term for a person who behaves stupidly.

If a person has one or both parents who are citizens of a given state, then the person is normally a citizen of that state as well.

A person could be born outside of the physical territory of a country, but if his or her parents are citizens, then the child is a citizen as well.

Under Federal Court Rules, Rules 466, and Rule 467 a person who is accused of Contempt needs to be first served with a contempt order and then appear in court to answer the charges.

If a person is to be punished criminally, then the contempt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but once the charge is proven, then punishment ( such as a fine or, in more serious cases, imprisonment ) is imposed unconditionally.

ToxT then directly activates expression of virulence genes that produce the toxins, causing diarrhea in the infected person and allowing the bacteria to colonize the intestine.

Former Pope Gregory XII was then created titular Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Ruffina by the Council, with rank immediately below the Pope ( which made him the highest-ranking person in the Church, since, due to his abdication, the See of Peter was vacant ).

Professor Xavier then informs him that he now understands Cain as a person and that he will not attempt to get in his way or reform him again.

The lawyer may then ask the court to declare the person he or she has called to the stand a hostile witness.

For example, if a person dies at the age of 65 from a disease, and would probably have lived until age 80 without that disease, then that disease has caused a loss of 15 years of potential life.

Augustine of Hippo marks the beginning of a system of thought that denies free will ( with respect to salvation ) and affirms that salvation needs an initial input by God in the life of every person.

Each person using a networked terminal has the ability to interact with the display with any type of user input device.

A graphics tablet or digitizer is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images and graphics, similar to the way a person draws images with a pencil and paper.

English psychologist Susan Blackmore and others suggest that an OBE begins when a person loses contact with sensory input from the body while remaining conscious.

The individual's awareness of first, second, and third person perspectives, and of each one's input needs and output needs, moves through a general pattern that is basically the same as Maslow's described pattern.

If this were to happen to a large number of connections, the person undergoing the transplant might end up with a body which transmitted sensory input to the wrong destination, making it incomprehensible and potentially requiring many years of rehabilitation.

Brennan's system implemented this idea in a partially automated fashion as follows: the operator was required to input a frontal drawing of the desired person having a standardized topology ( the number and ordering of lines for every face ).

The process has been streamlined and now requires the person who needs clearance to input the information online using E-qip.

A person in an elevator, with essentially constant visual input, will feel she is descending as the elevator starts to descend.

A person presses the program button and a numbered button to input commands, such as changing the firing rate of the A and B buttons.

The only person seen using Cerebro effectively in the films is Xavier ; Jean Grey successfully used the device to locate Magneto in the original film, but the input overwhelmed her nascent telepathic power and left her stunned.

All players would play with input delayed by the network latency of the person with the worst connection, allowing all computers to independently simulate the game world with identical results.

Roy states ( Clements and Roberts, 1983 ) that " just as the person as an adaptive system has input, output.

Like an autistic person, she grew up with difficulty processing sensory input, in her case because her cerebral cortex can't pick up the information fast enough.

However, the same input to the standing foot cannot cause the foot to lift or the person would collapse.

These files are then processed without the need for a person to input the data ( except at the originating agency's initial filing of the report into their computer system ).