The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).

Indeed, in the Halma edition of Theon's presentation of The Hypotheses there is a chart setting out ( under six distinct headings ) otherwise unrelated diagrams for describing the planetary motions.

Hence the natural setting of tragedy is the palace gate, the public square, or the court chamber.

Biggest organizational problem, he adds, is setting up CDC units in rock-ribbed Democratic territory.

The basic problem involved is that a college setting up a graduate school must have an entirely separate faculty for the advanced degree.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

We speculate that compulsives in the unstructured schools are under greater strain because of the lack of systemization in their school setting, but that their need to organize ( for comfort ) is so intense that they struggle to induce the phonic rules and achieve in spite of the lack of direction from the environment.

Apparently academic challenge in the structured setting creates an optimum of stress so that the child with high anxiety is able to achieve because he is aroused to an energetic state without becoming confused or panicked.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

He is credited with setting up an annual co-operative fire prevention program in co-operation with the Red Cross and State Department of Education.

And pretty soon gray fox is announcing that he won't have anyone around that's against him, and setting out to break his second territorial treaty with the birds.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

Since the widespread adoption of digital setting circles, any classical engraved setting circle is now specifically identified as an " analog setting circle " ( ASC ).

A computerized setting circle is called a " digital setting circle " ( DSC ).

Unique to this conception of formalized algorithms is the assignment operation, setting the value of a variable.

The most general setting in which these words have meaning is an abstract branch of mathematics called category theory.

* A similar setting is used by Sydney Padua in the webcomic The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.

The Genius ( mythology ) | genius of Aeneas is shown ascendant, looking into the light of the future, while that of Turnus is setting, shrouded in darkness.

Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Editor Farnsworth Wright subsequently prompted Howard to write an 8, 000 word essay for personal use detailing " the Hyborian Age ," the fictional setting for Conan.

The first book, Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One ( 1932 – 1933 ) ( 2003 ; published in the US as The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ) includes Howard's notes on his fictional setting, as well as letters and poems concerning the genesis of his ideas.

Typically, each player controls only a single character, which represents an individual in a fictional setting.

Although the Fortune Deck resembles ( and can be used as ) a fortune-telling device, Everway treats the Deck only as a storytelling device and an element of the fictional setting.

The feelies pioneered by text adventure company Infocom include many examples, such as blueprints, maps, documents, and publications designed within the context of each game's fictional setting.

* Ket ( Greyhawk ), a fictional nation in the Dungeons and Dragons World of Greyhawk campaign setting

The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by the real world, while interacting with each other in character.

After the war he was ill for many months, recovering at the family's ancestral home in Duke's Denver, a fictional setting — as is the Duchy of Denver — about 15 miles ( 24 km ) beyond the real Denver in Norfolk, on the A10 near Downham Market.

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

* Mode magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series Ugly Betty

There are fictional entities, in the same sense in which, setting aside philosophical disputes, there are people, Mondays, numbers and planets.

The Marvel Universe was also notable for setting its central titles in New York City ; by contrast, many DC heroes live in fictional cities.

* Norsca ( Warhammer ), a fictional land in the Warhammer Fantasy game setting

A role-playing game ( RPG and sometimes roleplaying game ) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

Players are often costumed as their characters and use appropriate props, and the venue may be decorated to resemble the fictional setting.

One common feature of many RPGs is the role of gamemaster, a participant who has special duties to present the fictional setting, arbitrate the results of character actions, and maintain the narrative flow.

The fictional Taft University, where Susan teaches, was also a primary setting for the Spenser novel Playmates, and the non-Spenser novel Love and Glory.

Carrickstown is the fictional setting of the series.

The Enterprise or USS Enterprise ( often referred to as the " Starship Enterprise ") is the name of several fictional spacecraft, some of which are the main setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek franchise.

The show's name came from its setting, a small, fictional Washington town.

For the weekend the Town of Langley turns into the setting of a fictional murder mystery.

The games also support commands to the game directly ( rather than taking actions within the fictional setting of the game ) such as " save " and " restore ", " script " and " unscript " ( which begin and end a text transcript of the game text ), " restart ", and " quit ".

That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the main characters tend to be fictional.

Many films have been created which attempt to use a historic event or setting as a backdrop and actors portray fictional or historical figures set in these events.