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

The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.

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.

the bringing together around it of the secret liaison between indolent, mindless sensuality and sharp, shrewd talent, cleverness with an occasional touch of genius ( which, however, does not know `` how to attack the problem of suffering '' ) ; ;

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.

But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

There the community, faced with the need to formulate policy on the level of absolute justice, can find the answer to its problem in the absolute truth which it holds as partially experienced.

All of which brings up another problem in the use of psychoanalytic insight in a literary work.

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 ''.

We must, therefore, have a look at the new archaeological material and re-examine the literary and place-name evidence which bears upon the problem.

The problem of NATO is not one of machinery, of which there is an abundance, but of the will to use it.

For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.

Meanwhile he has been thinking about the facts surrounding the problem, facts which he knows can never be complete, and the general background, much of which has already been lost to history.

For, if so, the path leads through a complex process of parliamentary diplomacy which adds still another dimension to the problem.

The problem in the policy officer's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors -- political, military, economic, financial, legal, legislative, procedural, administrative -- to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control.

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.

But during nighttime hours the skywave radiations are reflected from the ionosphere, thereby creating the possibility of one station's rendering service, via skywave, at a much greater distance than it can through its groundwave signal, and at the same time vastly complicating the interference problem because of the still greater distance over which these skywave signals may cause interference to the signals of stations on the same and closely adjacent frequencies.

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.

The problem of efficient production in textiles is complicated by the fact that the industry serves large markets which shift quickly with changes of fashion in apparel or home decoration.

Here then is our problem: aircraft are vital to winning a war today because they can perform those missions which a missile is totally incapable of performing ; ;

A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.

The problem is confounded by the dangers of trawling, which damages seamount surface communities, and the fact that many seamounts are located in international waters, making proper monitoring difficult.

The problem was further confounded with threats surfacing from the FLQ ( Front de libération du Québec ) against St. Catharines players.

Stations which have a particular problem include Camden Town station, Chancery Lane and Covent Garden, which accordingly have access restrictions at certain times.

Again, the backlog became a problem, particularly since the Lord Chancellor was distracted with the appellate cases through the Court of Appeal in Chancery and the House of Lords, leaving a maximum of three Chancery judges who were available to hear cases.

However, by the nineteenth century proceedings before the Court of Chancery often dragged on and on, with cases not being decided for years at a time ( a problem that was parodied by Charles Dickens in the fictional case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Bleak House ).

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.

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

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

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

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.