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.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

The other four pairs of twins — Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, Elasippus and Mestor, and Azaes and Diaprepes — were also given " rule over many men, and a large territory.

Later, worried that Banquo's descendants and not his own will rule Scotland, Macbeth sends men to kill Banquo and his son Fleance.

From its walls went forth men who carried his rule, together with the Gospel, into France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.

There was no equivalent rule for expelling Dutch men.

As a general rule, since that time, the armed forces have not intervened in politics as a body, rather being tossed and turned as ambitious men have shaken the country.

Bulwer-Lytton's most famous quotation, " the pen is mightier than the sword ", is from his play Richelieu where it appears in the line beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword

Marinetti rejected conventional democracy for based on majority rule and egalitarianism while promoting a new form of democracy, that he described in his work " The Futurist Conception of Democracy " as the following: " We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be — as they are in Germany and Russia — the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive ".

Trained civil servants were recruited from graduates of British universities, and these men set out to rule India.

This informal alliance, known as the First Triumvirate (" rule of three men "), was cemented by the marriage of Pompey to Caesar's daughter Julia.

When colonial rule was established and efficiency was sought, partly because of settler pressure, newly educated younger men were associated with old chiefs in local Native Councils.

Force may be used to eliminate political rivals, to coerce resistant populations, and to purge the community other men strong enough of character to rule, who will inevitably attempt to replace the ruler.

The Norns ( Old Norse: norn, plural: nornir ) in Norse mythology are female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men, a kind of dísir comparable to the Fates in Greek mythology.

During his rule, most of the Æsir die, their bodies are burned, and sacrifices are made by men to them.

The Drevlians sent twenty of their best men to convince Olga to marry their Prince Mal and give up her rule of Kievan Rus.

Bishops may dispense with this rule and ordain men up to one year younger.

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

Radical feminism claimed that a totalising ideology and social formation — patriarchy ( government or rule by fathers ) — dominated women in the interests of men.

In 1641 Lovelace led a group of men to seize and destroy a petition for the abolition of Episcopal rule, which had been signed by fifteen thousand people.

He is said to be a wise Lord, fond of study, and all men hope for good from his rule.

For as the angels were mismanaging the world, owing to their individual lust for rule, he had come to set things straight, and had descended under a changed form, likening himself to the Principalities and Powers through whom he passed, so that among men he appeared as a man, though he was not a man, and was thought to have suffered in Judaea, though he had not suffered.

On March 13, seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw ; four days later the United Kingdom, Russia, Austria and Prussia, members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150, 000 men each into the field to end his rule.

Plutarch's Moralia contains a collection of " Sayings of Spartan Women ", including a laconic quip attributed to Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men, she replied " Because we are the only women who are mothers of men ".