When disruptive change has penetrated to the third level of social order, the process of disruption rapidly reaches a point of no return.

Such a response, of course, misses the point that in crisis order is going out of existence.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

conduct engineering research and technical development work to determine, by laboratory and pilot plant testing, the results of the research and studies aforesaid in order to develop processes and plant designs to the point where they can be demonstrated on a large and practical scale ; ;

The order of this congruence is Af, since Af secants of a curve of symbol ( B ) on a quadric surface pass through an arbitrary point.

But if this is the case, then an arbitrary pencil of lines having a point, P, of **zg as vertex is transformed into a ruled surface of order Af having Af generators concurrent at P.

Since a ruled surface of order N with N concurrent generators is necessarily a cone, it follows finally that every line through a point, P, of **zg meets its image at P, as asserted.

From an economic point of view, the order Asparagales is second in importance within the monocots to the order Poales ( which includes grasses and cereals ).

Christie made a point of having Poirot supply false or misleading information about himself or his background in order to assist him in obtaining information relevant to a particular case.

It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.

At some point an unknown reaction called baryogenesis violated the conservation of baryon number, leading to a very small excess of quarks and leptons over antiquarks and antileptons — of the order of one part in 30 million.

If a player is one point away from winning a match, that player's opponent will always want to double as early as possible in order to catch up.

The act of creation is the bringing of order from disorder, and in many of these cultures it is believed that at some point the forces preserving order and form will weaken and the world will once again be engulfed into the abyss.

Archimedes used to demand just one firm and immovable point in order to shift the entire earth ; so I too can hope for great things if I manage to find just one thing, however slight, that is certain and unshakable.

Said more simply, areas with a higher density and repetition of atom order tend to reflect more light toward one point in space when compared to those areas with fewer atoms and less repetition.

Riemannian geometry generalizes Euclidean geometry to spaces that are not necessarily flat, although they still resemble the Euclidean space at each point " infinitesimally ", i. e. in the first order of approximation.

This was done primarily because the blade point frequently had to penetrate or push apart an opponent's steel chain mail or plate armor in order to inflict an injury.

This one sure point provided him with what he would call his Archimedean point, in order to further develop his foundation for knowledge.

" If we cannot move on to point B until we have proved point A, and if in order to prove point A we must establish it with absolute certainty, then it looks as though we will have a very hard time proving any point at all.

The seat stays connect the top of the seat tube ( at or near the same point as the top tube ) to the rear fork ends.

Intuitively, the process can be pictured as follows: first shrink the real line to the open interval (- π, π ) on the x-axis ; then bend the ends of this interval upwards ( in positive y-direction ) and move them towards each other, until you get a circle with one point ( the topmost one ) missing.

It is not well-defined at what point on the temperature scale refrigeration ends and cryogenics begins, but most scientists assume it starts at or below-150 ° C or 123 K ( about-240 ° F ).

Epigrams are also thought of as having a " point " that is, the poem ends in a punchline or satirical twist.

From that point on, the game will run until it ends or is terminated ; the server can never get back into pre-game state.

The story ends with Mattie Storin looking for Urquhart at the point when it looks like his victory is certain.

Nonetheless, some argue against this stance because straighter hair ends tend to point downward while fiber optics requires that light be transmitted at a high angle to the normal of the inner reflective surface.

A second potential difficulty is that the knitted piece will slide off the tapered end of the needles when unattended ; this is prevented by " point protectors " that cap the tapered ends.

If a player ends his stone with a point move he gets a " free turn ".

The history of the Ancient Near East begins in the Lower Paleolithic period, and ends with either the arrival of the Achaemenid Empire in the late 6th century BC, or with the Arab Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and the establishment of the Caliphate in the late 7th century AD, from which point the region came to be known as Iraq.

The rod ends allow the input and output cranks of the RSSR linkage to be misaligned to the point that they lie in different planes, which causes the coupler link to move in a general spatial movement.

If the work done moving along a path which starts and ends in the same location is zero, then the force is said to be conservative and it is possible to define a numerical value of potential associated with every point in space.

This latter ends in the critical point where the difference between gas and liquid disappears.

In United states high school soccer, most states use a mercy rule that ends the game whenever one team is ahead by 10 or more goals at any point from halftime onward.

This arrangement was less than perfect, as a particle on the inner portion at one end would not end up at the outer portion at the other, but at some other point rotated from the perfect location due to the tilt of the two ends.

In chapter one, we are basically in the middle of the story, while the plot of the last Anarres-chapter ( i. e., the penultimate chapter, or, chapter twelve ) ends at a point before the plot of the first chapter begins.

Octavian's ascension to total power as the emperor Augustus is considered to mark the point in history where the Roman Republic ends and the Roman Empire begins.

However, the episode " Flashes Before Your Eyes " suggests that minor changes are possible, unlike the totally fixed timeline postulated by Novikov's principle: in this episode Desmond's consciousness time travels back to a point in his past, where he ends up in a bar, where he remembers ( from his previous experience of this time ) a man named Jimmy Lennon entering and attacking the bartender ; in his attempt to warn the bartender, he himself gets attacked instead.

* Loop ( topology ), a path that starts and ends at the same point

He turned to the audience and announced: " Qui finisce l ' opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto " (" Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died ").

Folklorists have attempted to determine the origin by internal evidence, which can not always be clear ; Joseph Jacobs, comparing the Scottish tale The Ridere of Riddles with the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, The Riddle, noted that in The Ridere of Riddles one hero ends up polygamously married, which might point to an ancient custom, but in The Riddle, the simpler riddle might argue greater antiquity.

If one considers the flux of the electric field vector, E, for a tube near a point charge in the field the charge but not containing it with sides formed by lines tangent to the field, the flux for the sides is zero and there is an equal and opposite flux at both ends of the tube.

Thereafter the royal house of Wessex, who became the kings of England, made a point of devotion to Cuthbert, which also had a useful political message, as they came from opposite ends of the united English kingdom.

It continues down to the point where it ends at the Flint River ( the confluence of the two forming Florida's Apalachicola River ), and goes almost due east and very slightly south, in a straight line to the origin of the St. Mary's River, which then forms the remainder of the boundary back to the ocean.

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