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.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, the purely synthetic problem is the rule.

It is not binding upon another Superior Court, which could rule to the contrary.

More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.

as a rule, the earlier general dental treatment is started, the less expensive and more satisfactory it is likely to be.

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 ; ;

Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.

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.

Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.

It is an irritable rule that does baseball more harm than good, especially at the minor league level.

A rule on the Federal deductibility of state taxes is contested.

The difference is not a formal one taxonomically and there are numerous exceptions to this rule.

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

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.

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

* Sequential analysis – evaluation of sampled data as it is collected, until the criterion of a stopping rule is met

The only rule universally accepted is that one should be consistent, and to make this easier, publishers express their preferences in a style guide.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

Within ten years, the Supreme Court interpreted Rule 48 in such a way so that it could apply to absent parties under certain circumstances, but only by ignoring the plain meaning of the rule.

Within twenty-five years of the persecution's inauguration, the Christian Emperor Constantine would rule the empire alone.

Within a few years of independence, Touré led the nation into one-party rule.

Within a few months of John's return, rebel barons in the north and east of England were organising resistance to his rule.

Within a few years, the Dulo " Ten Tribe " Confederation in Atyrau Province allied themselves to the Ashinas forming the Western part of the Gokturk Empire and were able to snatch Phanagoria back from the Avars renaming the Sabirs as Khazars under the rule of Kaghan Kazarig.

And, at the end, when the tyrant is at bay at Dunsinane, Caithness sees him as a man trying in vain to fasten a large garment on him with too small a belt: " He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause / Within the belt of rule " ( V, 2, ll.

Within this context, the definition of an apneic event depends on several factors ( e. g. patient's age ) and account for this variability through a multi-criteria decision rule described in several, sometimes conflicting, guidelines.

Within the last several years, the FEI has decreased the number of refusals resulting in elimination from three to two, and this rule has trickled down from the top levels of FEI competition to all levels of horse shows ( at least in the United States ).

Within the human mind or soul ( psyche ), reason was described by Plato as being the natural monarch which should rule over the other parts, such as spiritedness ( thumos ) and the emotions.

Within a month the Spanish ambassador, Count de Feria, counted Robert Dudley among those three persons who " rule everything ".

Within the book, " Catch-22 " is a military rule, the self-contradictory circular logic that, for example, prevents anyone from avoiding combat missions.

Within a short time, the city falls under the rule of the new tyrant Satyrus, Clearchus ' brother.

Within the 20 years of Ismail's rule, it is estimated 30, 000 people died.

Within this grouping, another faction planned an insurrection against British rule in Ireland, while the War was going on.

Within two years, thousands of public servants were wrongly accused and executed, and numerous commoners were kidnapped or killed under his tyrannical rule.

Within this ordering, instantiations are further sorted on the complexity of the conditions in the rule.

Within Roman Catholicism, a monk is a member of a religious order who lives a communal life in a monastery, abbey, or priory under a monastic rule of life ( such as the Rule of St. Benedict ) and under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Within another year, a final determination ( a final rule ) must be made on whether to list the species.

# " Within the Sotadic Zone the Vice is popular and endemic, held at the worst to be a mere peccadillo, whilst the races to the North and South of the limits here defined practise it only sporadically amid the opprobrium of their fellows who, as a rule, are physically incapable of performing the operation and look upon it with the liveliest disgust.

Within a few short years, he had forcibly brought back under direct Imperial rule the Kingdom of Shewa and the province of Gojjam.

Within the first two centuries of Spanish rule Mesoamerica experienced a dramatic population decline and it is well documented that at several small linguistic groups became completely extinct already during the 16th century.

Within liberalism, there are various streams of thought which compete over the use of the term " liberal " and may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for political liberalism, which encompasses: freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, an individual's right to private property, and a transparent system of government.

Within three months, Saad defeated the Persian army in the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah, effectively ending Sassanid rule west of Persia proper.

Within the first three years of their rule, the Bolsheviks managed to recruit fewer than 10, 000 people into their party, while the Mensheviks still enjoyed significant popularity in Georgia, counting over 60, 000 members in their organizations.