He studied the problem for a few seconds and thought of a means by which it might be solved.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

The problem involved military necessity as much as morality, for in pre-penicillin days venereal disease was a crippling disability.

The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

Nikita Khrushchev, however, has created yet another problem for himself.

Lublin was the seed of action for the `` final solution '' of the Jewish problem.

The most realistic way of facing up to this problem would be to have the State take over full responsibility for assessing all taxable property.

The financial problem, where it exists, usually stems from the adoption of a budget for the transitional or adjustment period.

Provision for emergency toilet facilities and disposal of human wastes will be an unfamiliar problem.

The problem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to plan the use of existing space.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

Throughout their careers, both Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe were interested in the problem of setting up standards of measurement for the mechanical trades.

A mathematical formula is nothing more than a pattern for solving a specific problem.

The equation is used for the mathematical process of solving the problem.

For example, for the problem Af, 10 from 25 equals 15, then 6 from 15 equals 9.

It is more than just lack of dance training that is our problem, for just as gymnastics can learn from dance, dance has some very important things to learn from gymnastics.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

The problem is to remove the accretions and thereby uncover the order that was always there.

`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.

`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.

At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.

In 1861, Mr. Brown's attention was called to yet another basic production problem -- the manufacture of twist drills.

The child of this problem was Mr. Brown's famous Serial No. 1 Universal Milling Machine, the archtype from which is descended today's universal knee-type milling machine used throughout the world.

I realized that Hamlet was faced with an entirely different problem, but his agony could have been no greater.

He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.

We may say that his problem was diagnosed but that he refused treatment.

How this was accomplished may be described, since this sometimes is a crucial problem.

Centrally, however, the administrative problem was more complex and the sheer prestige of office was very likely an unfair advantage.

With the development of the Red Bridge Subdivision south of Kansas City, Missouri, the developer was faced with the problem of providing adequate sewage disposal.

It was proposed that aerated lagoons be used to eliminate the problem at the existing oxidation ponds and to provide the necessary treatment for the additional development.

It was approximately one month before the belt problem was noticed and corrected, but at no time was there a deficiency of dissolved oxygen.

The closed molding of flexible urethane foams has been a problem ever since the introduction of the material ( molding in open molds was more feasible ).

To solve the problem of the wheat grains spilling on the floor and getting underfoot, a ball of maple syrup boiled to candy consistency was invented to hold the grains.

If he foresaw any problem because of the quality of the hymen, it was recommended that simple procedures be undertaken at once to incise the hymen or, preferably, to dilate it.

Once the question of emancipation was settled to Palfrey's satisfaction, he faced a real problem in placing the freedmen in suitable homes as servants.