Well executed they are undoubtedly highly spectacular, but the risk of dropping the ball is so great as to make the practice extremely hazardous and its desirability doubtful.

Some tactics make friendly fire virtually inevitable, such as the practice of dropping barrages of mortars on enemy machine gun posts in the final moments before capture.

Traffic policing is the distinct but related practice of packet dropping and packet marking.

The only change to " Church of Christ " would simply mean dropping the Baptist name from the common practice of that day ( i. e., Philippi Baptist Church of Christ becomes Philippi Church of Christ ).

At this time, new articles of faith were approved, which included dropping the practice of feet washing.

This is the practice of dropping a products's price so low that smaller competitors cannot cover their costs and fail.

This is the practice of dropping prices of a product so much that one's smaller competitors cannot cover their costs and fall out of business.

After dropping out at Indy, Unser crashed in practice at Michigan and broke his leg.

* Air launch, the practice of dropping an aircraft, rocket, or missile from a mothership

" As discussed in Section 7. 8 and Section 7. 9 below, dropping mail without notification of the sender is permitted in practice.

The range provides facilities for RAF and other NATO aircraft to practice dropping bombs and firing their cannon.

The crews acquired these skills by practicing almost daily on practice missions, carried out with other aircraft dropping dummy bombs with chutes attached.

This is often achieved by dropping a felt cloth between the hammers and the strings when the practice pedal is depressed.

Within years the squadron was capable of dropping unguided bombs, cluster munitions TALD decoys, air laid mines, practice bombs, marker flares and various laser guided bombs as the F-14 was reconfigured as a strike fighter.

Brasenose's code of conduct refers to the illicit activity as “ the practice of dropping a coin in a cup to coerce someone to consume the contents.

The daily practice of dropping of the ball continued until 1934, when it was made redundant by radio signals.

Simply dropping unnecessary figures from genealogies was a common practice, and this is also done in several points in the Old Testament.

The station dropped all UPN references on-air soon after and simply called itself " Channel 13 " and later " TV 13 " ( this same practice of stations dropping UPN branding following The CW announcement had become common on UPN affiliates owned by News Corporation's Fox Television Stations ).

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to WellPoint urging the insurer to immediately end their practice of dropping health insurance coverage for the women.

In 1612, the growth of the schools necessitated the purchase of the Torres Palace, and on 25 March 1617, it became an independent congregation, numbering at that time fifteen priests, under Calasanz ( who changed his name to Joseph of the Mother of God, thus inaugurating the practice of dropping the family name on entering the religious life ) as their head ; they received the religious habit.

Ffolkes makes Brindsen practice accidentally dropping cigarettes on the floor, the idea being that the admiral distracts Kramer, giving ffolkes the opportunity to kill him before he sets off the bombs ; his team of commandos will in the meantime take out the guards posted on the vessel.

CamelCase ( or camel case ), also known as medial capitals or Pascal case, is the practice of writing words with some inner uppercase letters, such as compound words or phrases in which the elements are joined without spaces, while each element has a capital letter within the compound.

Each fragment of the comet was denoted by a letter of the alphabet, from " fragment A " through to " fragment W ", a practice already established from previously observed broken-up comets.

Mather then declared, in a letter to Dr. John Woodward of Gresham College in London, that he planned to press Boston's doctors to adopt the practice of inoculation should smallpox reach the colony again.

In practice a groveling letter of apology to the court is sufficient to ward off this possibility, and in any event the warrant is generally ' backed for bail ' i. e. bail will be granted once the arrest has been made and a location where the person can be found in future established.

In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as " Ϝ " or its modern lowercase variant " ϝ ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by " ϛ " ( or, in modern practice in Greece, replaced with " στ ").

After obtaining a doctorate successfully, Dutch doctors may bear either the title dr. ( lower case ) before, or the letter D ( rarely in practice ) behind their name, but not both simultaneously.

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology now recommends the use of the uppercase letter L, a practice that is also widely followed in Canada and Australia.

A letter is often appended to the psi unit to indicate the measurement's zero reference ; psia for absolute, psig for gauge, psid for differential, although this practice is discouraged by the NIST.

Also, courts when dealing with such cases will tend to look to the letter of the law at the time, even in regimes where the law as it was written was generally disregarded in practice by its own authors.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

In contemporary use, the practice and study of typography is very broad, covering all aspects of letter design and application.

Regarding Italy, in a letter to the bishops of Campania, Picenum, and Tuscany ( 443 ) he required the observance of all his precepts and those of his predecessors ; and he sharply rebuked the bishops of Sicily ( 447 ) for their deviation from the Roman custom as to the time of baptism, requiring them to send delegates to the Roman synod to learn the proper practice.

In usual practice, subsequent occurrences of a keyword letter are treated as if the next letter in alphabetical order, e. g., the keyword TOMATO yields a numeric keystring of " 532164.

From the 16th century, following French practice, the apostrophe was used when a vowel letter was omitted either because of incidental elision ( I'm for I am ) or because the letter no longer represented a sound ( lov'd for loved ).

Also, it was common practice to add at the end of the alphabet the "&" sign as the 27th letter, pronounced and.

The numeral 0 — Some writers put a diagonal slash through the numeral 0 ( zero ), a practice that was used on some early, low-resolution computer terminals which displayed a slashed " zero " glyph to distinguish it from the capital letter O.

This practice conflicts with the use of the letter " Ø " in the Danish and Norwegian languages.

Confusion between the numeral 0 and the letter O can be resolved by using a script letter O ( with a loop at the top ), and leaving the numeral 0 without embellishments ; this was a common practice before use of the slashed zero became the norm.

The Commission welcomed the letter, but noted Hubbard did not promise never to re-introduce the practice of disconnection.

The established practice was to run water into the cistern only during months with the letter R in their name, and therefore the gutter was taken down from May through August, the driest months of the year.

Lord Jeffrey Amherst is also infamous for initiating the practice of giving smallpox blankets to Native Americans in a genocidal effort " to Extirpate this Execrable Race " ( as quoted from his letter to Colonel Henry Bouquet on July 16, 1763 ).