They don't go for bull-like muscle, as a rule.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

I am not easily persuaded that a rule accepted by so many people for so many centuries can be so lightly dismissed.

A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.

( Sometimes I think you need only one rule for cooking: if you can't put garlic in it, put chocolate in it.

Rugged outdoor exercise for an hour and a half every day in all kinds of weather was the rule.

The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

The law which governs home rule charter petitions states that they must be referred to the chairman of the board of canvassers for verification of the signatures within 10 days and Mr. Martinelli happens to hold that post.

Some opposition to the home rule movement started to be heard yesterday, with spokesmen for the town's insurgent Democratic leadership speaking out against the home rule charter in favor of the model municipal league charter.

This rule providing for a blackout of televised baseball 30 minutes before the start of a major or minor league game in any area comes from the game's top rulers.

In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.

In the Olympics, this rule remains in place for boxing.

It took several years for Augustus to develop the framework within which a formally republican state could be led under his sole rule.

* 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.

In propositional logic, associativity is a valid rule of replacement for expressions in logical proofs.

In 790 he was named abbot of Centulum, also called Sancti Richarii monasterium ( Saint-Riquier ) in northern France, where his brilliant rule gained for him later the renown of a saint.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

To help pay for his campaigns, Alexios debased the currency during the first decade of his rule.

However, as Andronikos ' rule went on, the Emperor became increasingly paranoid and violent – in September 1185, Andronikos ordered the execution of all prisoners, exiles and their families for collusion with the invaders – and the Byzantine Empire descended into a terror state.

Approval voting can also be compared to plurality voting, without the rule that discards ballots which vote for more than one candidate.

The Persians found the Ionians difficult to rule, eventually settling for sponsoring a tyrant in each Ionian city.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Arcadius was dominated for the rest of his rule by Anthemius, the Praetorian Prefect, who made peace with Stilicho in the West.

There is a binding rule that saves the fatwā pronouncements from creating judicial havoc, whether within a Muslim country or at the level of the Islamic world in general: it is unanimously agreed that a fatwā is only binding on its author.

The unspoken rule of urban exploring is " take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints ", but because of the rising popularity, many individuals who may have other intentions are creating a concern among many property owners.

Applying this rule of thumb, one can apply " common sense " when creating the duration of a single activity or group of activities necessary to produce a deliverable defined by the WBS.

If the half bet rule were being used, then that raise would count as a genuine raise and the first player would be entitled to re-raise if he chose to ( creating a side pot for the amount of his re-raise and the third player's call, if any ).

Security Council Resolution 1272 established the transitional administration in 1999, and its responsibilities included providing a peacekeeping force to maintain security and order ; facilitating and coordinating relief assistance to East Timorese ; facilitating emergency rehabilitation of physical infrastructure ; administering East Timor and creating structures for sustainable governance and the rule of law ; and assisting in the drafting of a new constitution and conducting elections.

A 3-character guess reveals 6 more characters, which then reveal further characters, creating a cascade effect, allowing us to rule out incorrect guesses quickly.

The First Amendment states that no federal law can be made abridging the freedom of the press, but a few landmark cases in the 20th century had established precedents creating exceptions to that rule.

The British administration installed carefully selected local kings under a program of indirect rule through the local oligarchy, creating a network of British-controlled civil service.

It is sometimes pointed out that the English approach potentially hinders access to justice by increasing the risks of litigation, both by setting up the risk of having to pay both parties ' full costs in the event of losing, and by creating incentives for parties to sink ever increasing resources into their respective cases in order to win the action and avoid paying any fees, a strategy that cannot succeed under the American rule, thereby increasing the overall cost-risk of litigation.

Hugely popular with Atlantic fishermen and with departmental staff, LeBlanc was a key figure in Canada's imposition of a 200-mile fishing zone ; the establishment of a new fisheries licencing system ; the widespread use of quotas and zones that protected Canadian fishermen from overexpansion and competition from trawlers owned by large companies ; the owner-operator rule, requiring licence holders to operate vessels themselves ; the separate-fleet rule, preventing corporations from obtaining licences for an under-65-foot fleet ; and for creating an additional system of advisory committees that permitted fishermen a larger voice in fisheries management.

Some may wish to make the world a better place but go to antagonistic lengths to do so ( such as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2, who commits various crimes in an attempt to complete his goal of creating a cheap, renewable source of energy, and Dr. Horrible in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, who wants to rule the world so that he can solve all of its problems ), or may employ a code of honor in fighting his enemies, even if it is to achieve antagonistic goals.

Emperor Gaozu had previously decreed that no non-imperial clan members could become princes ( not including the vassal kings ), a rule that Lü Zhi herself had a hand in creating.

This rule is commonly and informally referred to " first taught ," the result of players creating another past tense verb for " touch.

We could posit a rule stating that creating the charge required an input of energy E < sub > 1 </ sub >= qV < sub > 1 </ sub > and destroying it released E < sub > 2 </ sub >= qV < sub > 2 </ sub >, which would seem natural since qV measures the extra energy stored in the electric field because of the existence of a charge at a certain point.

" His grandparents and great grandparents had fought against Portuguese colonial rule in the 19th century, so it was not surprising that in 1962 Machel joined the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( FRELIMO ) which was dedicated to creating an independent Mozambique.

Circuit ruled that the FCC had exceeded its authority in creating this rule.

Critics have accused Fomenko of altering the data to improve the fit with his ideas and have noted that he violates a key rule of statistics by selecting matches from the historical record which support his chronology, while ignoring those which do not, creating artificial, better-than-chance correlations, and that these practices undermine Fomenko's statistical arguments.

The party's vision is to establish a peaceful and prosperous social democracy that can unite its disparate races and diverse religions and cultures based on a Malaysian Malaysia concept of forging a Malaysian race grounded on universal moral values, offering equal access and opportunity, upholding democratic governance and the rule of law, creating wealth and distributing it equitably and fighting corruption.

Participants also overcome the rule against touching by creating timed movements, such as when one actor pushes straight out in front of themselves, while their partner pretends to be hit at the same time.

Far from creating powerful, politically motivated people around whom dissatisfied Soviet citizens could gather, the motivation behind exalting the USSR ’ s pilots was twofold: 1 ) to raise the population ’ s morale, and, as a function of that 2 ) to strengthen the legitimacy and strength of rule of the heads of government.

The new rule removed the requirement of revealing the hand to the opponent and made the mulligan a much more strategic part of the game, creating trade-off and risk where before there was none.

The programme popularised the term " Jobsworth " in the United Kingdom by creating " The Jobsworth Award " for any official employee who insisted on applying a daft rule beyond the bounds of reason, such as clamping the car of a woman in labour in a hospital car park ( because they would claim that " it's more than my job's worth not to do it ").

We can't call witnesses and see what the real problems are, can we, in creating this new, substantive rule that we're going to let the courts create?