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point and broken
From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;
Since all anchors that embed themselves in the bottom require the strain to be along the seabed, anchors can be broken out of the bottom by shortening the rode until the vessel is directly above the anchor ( at this point the anchor chain is " up and down " in naval parlance ).
From that point the spell is broken, and the reader ceases to be immersed in the story and must make a conscious effort to suspend disbelief or else give up on it entirely.
* September 12 – Battle of Vienna: The Ottoman siege of the city is broken with the arrival of a force of 70, 000 Polish, Austrians and Germans under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank ( considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes ).
Some petechiae ( small red spots that do not disappear when the skin is pressed, which are caused by broken capillaries ) can appear at this point, as may some mild bleeding from the mucous membranes of the mouth and nose.
Many analog meters have been instantly broken by connecting to the wrong point in a circuit, or while on the wrong range, or by dropping onto the floor.
The Parmenides shows Parmenides using the Socratic method to point out the flaws in the Platonic theory of the Forms, as presented by Socrates ; it is not the only dialogue in which theories normally expounded by Plato / Socrates are broken down through dialectic.
Stacking penalties at this point can cause much grief to a player who has gleefully placed his last card down and proclaimed ' Mao ', only to discover that he has broken some rule.
The field extension generated by any additional point constructible in this larger field has degree a multiple of a power of two and a power of three, and may be broken into a tower of extensions of degree 2 and 3.
In their panic, military discipline had broken down to the point where troops were refusing to obey any orders.
By moving the guns from point to point during the battle, enemy formations could be broken up to be handled by the infantry wherever they were massing, dramatically increasing the overall effectiveness of the infantry.
In Game 6 in Edmonton, Carolina was soundly defeated 4 – 0 ; the only bright point for the Hurricanes was the return of forward Erik Cole from a broken neck that had sidelined him since March.
A point of order may be raised if the rules appear to have been broken.
The winner is the player whose point total is highest, with any ties typically broken by count of long words.
" In order that this order of battle, this long thin line of guns, may not be injured or broken at some point weaker than the rest, there is at the same time felt the necessity of putting in it only ships which, if not of equal force, have at least equally strong sides.
Several multiple units may run as a single train, then be broken at a junction point into shorter trains for different destinations.
One of the ' powers ' of a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother is her Other Memory: the combined ego and memories of all her female ancestors, passed on through genetic memory, and thus, up to the point where each following ancestor was born and the physical contact with the mother broken.
South of this point, the coast curves outwards and is broken by peninsulas and indentations ; to the north it is concave and bordered in many places by dunes and lagoons.
These dioceses are the result of smaller ethnic jurisdictions joining the OCA at some point in its history, usually after having broken from other bodies.
Also, if two shopkeepers keep their " window " beyond the point where it would maximize their profit, the shopkeeper whose window is broken is forced to make a good investment-increasing his comparative profit, or rather, reducing his comparative loss.
According to the Chronicon Paschale, the point of the lance, which had been broken off, was given in the same year to Nicetas, who took it to Constantinople and deposited it in the church of Hagia Sophia, and later to the Church of the Virgin of the Pharos.
They point to the danger that a jury may choose to convict a defendant who has not broken the letter of the law.

point and window
He seemed to be looking at a point above the little window.
inherits from a single class,, and contains two slots, holding a string for the window title, and holding an X-Y point for a corner of the window.
In defending this view, reliabilists ( and externalists generally ) are apt to point to examples from simple acts of perception: if one sees a bird in the tree outside his window and thereby gains the belief that there is a bird in that tree, he might not at all understand the cognitive processes that account for his successful act of perception ; nevertheless, it is the fact that the processes worked reliably that accounts for why his belief is justified.
Window managers range in sophistication and complexity from the bare-bones ( e. g., twm, the basic window manager supplied with X, or evilwm, an extremely light window manager ) to the more comprehensive desktop environments such as Enlightenment and even to application-specific window managers for vertical markets such as point of sale.
There is also a clear plastic window in front to display the current part of drill being worked on at that point in time.
Automatic digital melting point meter M5000A basic melting point apparatus for the analysis of crystalline solids consists of a oil bath with a transparent window ( most basic design: a Thiele tube ) and a simple magnifier.
From my point of view she ’ s just looking out the window .” Another example of the same phenomenon is recorded in a 1948 article in Time:
At one point the narrator deplores the " newish, three-storied buildings " of Vere Street which are " perfectly flat, without a bow window [...] to break the straightness of the line from one end of the street to the other ".
: By default, when csh runs a command, the command inherits the csh's stdio file handles for stdin, stdout and stderr, which normally all point to the console window where the C shell is running.
) Raising the roof would explain the absence of plaster behind the wainscoting upstairs, floor seams that suggest a different wall configuration at one point, the unusually high window dormers which can only reasonably have been added at the time of the roof raising and porch addition, the clapboard between the stone and roof, and the high ceilings which contain milled beams on the main floor.
In this kind of fracture, a cone of force propagates through the material from the point of impact, eventually removing a full or partial cone ; this result is familiar to anyone who has seen what happens to a plate-glass window when struck by a small object, such as an airgun projectile.
Rimsky-Korsakov relates some of Balakirev's extremes in behavior at this point — how he had " given up eating meat, and ate fish, but ... only those which had died, never the killed variety "; how he would remove his hat and quickly cross himself whenever he passed by a church ; and how his compassion for animals reached the point that whenever an insect was found in a room, he would carefully catch it and release it from a window, saying, " Go thee, deary, in the Lord, go!
As Superman brings Lucy back to the window of her apartment, Ricky is furious, and at one point yells, "... In all of the fifteen years we've been married ..." Then Superman says, " You mean to tell me that you've been married to her for fifteen years?
From a programmer's point of view, a windowing system implements graphical primitives such as rendering fonts or drawing a line on the screen, effectively providing an abstraction of the graphics hardware from higher level elements of the graphical interface like window managers.
* Schematic maps of all tracks, junctionsswitches and platforms in the Netherlands ( point at an area and open detail map in a new window )
Those who believe that Masaryk was murdered called it the Third Defenestration of Prague, and point to the presence of nail marks on the window sill from which Masaryk fell, as well as smearings of feces and Masaryk's stated intention to leave Prague the next day for London.
The book subscribes to the Lakoffian point of view, in that the mind is viewed as a " delusion-generator " rather than a window to true understanding.

point and parable
Similarly, a city has three parts – Socrates uses the parable of the chariot to illustrate his point: a chariot works as a whole because the two horses ’ power is directed by the charioteer.
Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.
Anecdotes functioned as a sort of parable, a brief realistic narrative that embodies a point.
" William C. Placher points out that such debate misinterprets the biblical genre of a parable, which illustrates a moral rather than a historical point: on reading the story, " we are not inclined to check the story against the police blotter for the Jerusalem-Jericho highway patrol.
Like the allegory, the parable uses metaphor to make its point.
But unlike allegory, the parable makes a single, unambiguous point.
* Narrative sermons-which tell a story, often a parable, or a series of stories, to make a moral point.
Lady Psyche warns them that they will face death if the Princess discovers who they are and informs them of the Princess's theories on man, using a parable about an ape who falls in love with a high-born lady to illustrate her point that Darwinian " Man, sprung from an Ape, is Ape at heart " ( A lady fair of lineage high ).
At this point, several members of the community begin to question Jesus's authority, and he responds with yet another parable.
It continues with a parable of a grafted olive tree, the point of which is disputed.
On the other hand, Christian leftists ( not just communists ) – such as John Cort – point out that this was a parable, and parables are by definition not intended to be taken at face value.
In response, anti-communist Christians point out that the price of labor in this parable was agreed upon with each laborer prior to the labor, the amount of labor performed is thus irrelevant ; communism is therefore not related to this parable in any sense.
Christ's point, it says, is often left unsaid in any particular parable or saying, to permit each individual to confront the truth on their own.
For Herzog, the point of the parable is the need to act in solidarity when confronting injustice.
" Like the parable of the Lost Coin, it is a parable about women which immediately follows, and makes the same point as, a preceding parable about men.
For example if the Gospel accounts record this mind's eye view, as related in parable form, to the disciples at some point during the ministry.

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