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second and way
The second argument applies the method in the reverse way.
His rage had built up as he made his way here from the second floor, helped by the quantity of champagne he had consumed.
The second and much more formidable host of crusaders gradually made its way to Constantinople, led in sections by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemond of Taranto, Raymond IV of Toulouse and other important members of the western nobility.
The terms mulatto and colored were widely used until the second quarter of the 20th century, when they were considered outmoded and generally gave way to the use of negro.
Note that, although rarely occurring, if a runner tags and advances from second base ( or, theoretically, from first base ) all the way to home and scores ( without an intervening error ) the batter is credited with a sacrifice fly.
With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.
This second attitude of communication, referred to as the constitutive model or constructionist view, focuses on how an individual communicates as the determining factor of the way the message will be interpreted.
Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.
A group homomorphism between two groups " preserves the group structure " in a precise sense – it is a " process " taking one group to another, in a way that carries along information about the structure of the first group into the second group.
The " thousand years " is an expression, a way of referring to the entire period from the first coming of Christ, two thousand years ago, until the future second coming.
One of these, Itō's lemma, expresses the composite of an Itō process ( or more generally a semimartingale ) dX < sub > t </ sub > with a twice-differentiable function f. In Itō's lemma, the derivative of the composite function depends not only on dX < sub > t </ sub > and the derivative of f but also on the second derivative of f. The dependence on the second derivative is a consequence of the non-zero quadratic variation of the stochastic process, which broadly speaking means that the process can move up and down in a very rough way.
The usual way of orienting the axes, with the positive x-axis pointing right and the positive y-axis pointing up ( and the x-axis being the " first " and the y-axis the " second " axis ) is considered the positive or standard orientation, also called the right-handed orientation.
The second point cannot in any reasonable way be combined with the first point, as long as the axiom system is genuinely finitary.
Processing times of a same query may have large variance, from a fraction of a second to hours, depending on the way selected.
Processing times of a same query may have large variance, from a fraction of a second to hours, depending on the way selected.
Thus, the Dhrystone score counts only the number of program iteration completions per second, allowing individual machines to perform this calculation in a machine-specific way.
His theory substantially comprised two statements: first, that animal organs and behaviour can change according to the way they are used ; and second, that those characteristics can transmit from one generation to the next ( the example of the giraffe whose neck becomes longer while trying to reach the upper leaves of a tree is well-known ).
In this way, decisions made by the original designers of ephemeris time influenced the length of today's standard SI second, and in turn, this has a continuing influence on the number of leap seconds which have been needed for insertion into current broadcast time scales, to keep them approximately in step with mean solar time.
Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.
He leaps around in a way that is made balloon-like by cranking the camera much faster than 16 frames per second.
Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice ( after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way ); when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
Two loops can be combined together in an obvious way: travel along the first loop, then along the second.
* 1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation ( the Electoral Act of 1856 ) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.

second and decrease
The second law of thermodynamics states that in general the total entropy of any system will not decrease other than by increasing the entropy of some other system.
It follows from the second law of thermodynamics that the entropy of a system that is not isolated may decrease.
Then, with the dramatic decrease of oil prices that took place in the second half of 2008 plus the manifest bursting of the real estate bubble, concerns quickly shifted over to the risk of deflation, as Spain recorded in January 2009 its lowest inflation rate in 40 years, followed shortly afterwards, in March 2009 by a negative inflation rate for the first time since the gathering of these statistics started.
More precisely, considerable spin – orbit interactions between the 7p electrons with the inert 7s < sup > 2 </ sup > electrons, effectively lead to a second valence shell closing at flerovium, and a significant decrease in stabilization of the closed shell of element 118.
If particles of a second phase which are insoluble in the matrix phase are added to the powder in the form of a much finer powder than this will decrease grain boundary movement.
In the second phase we therefore decrease the number of roots by successively linking together roots of the same degree.
The paradox allows for the entropy of closed systems to decrease, violating the second law of thermodynamics.
While the second law of thermodynamics predicts that the entropy of an isolated system should tend to increase until it reaches equilibrium, it became apparent after the discovery of statistical mechanics that the second law is only a statistical one, suggesting that there should always be some nonzero probability that the entropy of an isolated system might spontaneously decrease ; the fluctuation theorem precisely quantifies this probability.
The second law of thermodynamics, which predicts that the entropy of an isolated system out of equilibrium should tend to increase rather than decrease or stay constant, stands in apparent contradiction with the time-reversible equations of motion for classical and quantum systems.
However, this version violates the second law of thermodynamics by matter losing ( its ) entropy as it falls in, giving a decrease in entropy.
With the stark decrease of tuberculosis in the second half of the 20th century, scrofula became a very rare disease.
Columbia River stream flows at the Project averaged 73, 700 cubic feet per second ( 2090 m³ / s ), a decrease of 37 % from 2000 and 63 % of the 20 year average of 116, 700 cubic feet per second ( 3305 m³ / s ).
The second is suffocation due to LPG displacing air, causing a decrease in oxygen concentration.
The second method is to decrease the length and cross-section of the moving object as much as is practicable.
Over 2008, competition with other cable channels increased, evident in the second season ratings for less successful series, Dirt and The Riches, which had ratings decrease significantly since their first seasons.
As key sizes increase by n, RSA's operations / second decrease at n < sup > 3 </ sup > whereas NTRU's decrease at n < sup > 2 </ sup >.
However, Leech retained the seat for the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 General Election, with 44. 6 % of the vote ( an increase of 2. 4 % over 2005 ); Powell came second with 40. 5 % of the vote ( a decrease of 0. 4 %).
Consumer and business-to-business promotional spending did not increase in 2010, declining for the second year in a row — although the drop of 3. 3 percent was an improvement from the decrease of 7. 1 percent in 2009, according to the Communications Industry Forecast 2010-2014 published by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
By Morial's second term the city's economy was slowing and increased conflict with the City Council led to a decrease in the ability of the Morial administration to govern effectively.
With the second half of the 19th century there was a gradual decrease in the holdings of the Three Affiliated Tribes ( the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara ).
The fireball continuing to cool down, the amount of light eventually starts to decrease, causing the second peak observed by the bhangmeter.

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