If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

She knew also that I was unmarried and without a single known relative.

Thru development, the reactor and its steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said.

In announcing Jorda's return, the orchestra also announced that the sale of single tickets for the 50th anniversary season will start at the Sherman Clay box office on Wednesday.

( It follows that the mean is also the best single predictor in the sense of having the lowest root mean squared error.

The effect of a single factor is also called a main effect.

Alkanes ( also known as paraffins or saturated hydrocarbons ) are chemical compounds that consist only of hydrogen and carbon atoms and are bonded exclusively by single bonds ( i. e., they are saturated compounds ) without any cycles ( or loops ; i. e., cyclic structure ).

Saturated hydrocarbons can also combine any of the linear, cyclic ( e. g., polycyclic ) and branching structures, and they are still alkanes ( no general formula ) as long as they are acyclic ( i. e., having no loops ). They also have single covalent bonds between their carbons.

The ll and ch were also considered single letters, but in 1994 the Real Academia Española changed collating order so that ll is between lk and lm in the dictionary and ch is between cg and ci, and in 2010 the tenth congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies changed it so they were no longer letters at all < ref > Real Academia Española.

124-126 .</ ref > While other philosophers also recognized such transitions in states of matter, Anaximenes was the first to associate the quality pairs hot / dry and cold / wet with the density of a single material and add a quantitative dimension to the Milesian monistic system .< ref > Kirk, G. S., J. E.

The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

Cross-resistance to several antibacterials may also occur when a resistance mechanism encoded by a single gene conveys resistance to more than one antibacterial compound.

Lavoisier also contributed to early ideas on composition and chemical changes by stating the radical theory, believing that radicals, which function as a single group in a chemical process, combine with oxygen in reactions.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

Apple also announced that AppleBus networks could be attached to, and would appear to be a single node within, a Token Ring system.

Ethnic crossovers also occur when distinct elements meet in a single recipe.

This double bond is stronger than a single covalent bond ( 611 kJ / mol for C = C vs. 347 kJ / mol for C — C ) and also shorter with an average bond length of 1. 33 Angstroms ( 133 pm ).

It is also used as a quantitive test of unsaturation, expressed as the bromine number of a single compound or mixture.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

In academic use, an arbitrage involves taking advantage of differences in price of a single asset or identical cash-flows ; in common use, it is also used to refer to differences between similar assets ( relative value or convergence trades ), as in merger arbitrage.

The single primordial beryllium isotope < sup > 9 </ sup > Be also undergoes a ( n, 2n ) neutron reaction with neutron energies over about 1. 9 MeV, to produce < sup > 8 </ sup > Be, which almost immediately breaks into two alpha particles.

A single MiG-17F Fresco that was also operated by the FABF did see combat service in the Agacher Strip War in 1985-86, but proved expensive to operate in terms of fuel, maintenance, and pilot training requirements.

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

They are widely known for their hit single " Deeper Shade Of Soul ", which charted at number 21 in the United States on Billboard Hot 100.

A second single, " C ' mon C ' mon ", also charted in the UK Top 20 and an album, Truthdare Doubledare, released in May 1986, peaked at Nº18.

The Supremes, The group that made Ross famous and without which there probably wouldn't be any Diana Ross, scored a handful of hits in the disco clubs without Ross, most notably 1976's " I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking " and, their last charted single before disbanding, 1977's " You're My Driving Wheel ".

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

" Starman ", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song.

Brown continued releasing recordings: in 1993, he issued the album, Universal James, which included Brown's final Billboard charted single, " Can't Get Any Harder ", which peaked at # 76 on the US R & B chart and # 59 on the UK chart.

I'm Back featured Brown's final charted single to date, " Funk On Ah Roll ", which peaked at # 40 in the UK but didn't chart in his native America.

Although four songs were released as singles to promote the album ( lead single " Everything I Need ", " Man With Two Hearts ", " Maria ", and " Hard Luck Story "), only the first song charted in the US, and that only at No. 47.

The single — released the same day as Morrissey ’ s version — charted at # 46 in the UK, providing Sinatra with her first hit for over 30 years.

At first La Folie charted lower than any other Stranglers studio album, and the first single taken from it, " Let Me Introduce You to the Family ", only charted at No. 42.

With only one single released from the album, Rio Grande Mud charted at 104 on the Billboard 200.

In 2010 he announced that he was to release " Shame ", a duet with Take That lead singer songwriter Gary Barlow as the first single from his greatest hits collection In and Out of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990 – 2010 which was certified silver in the UK and charted in 19 countries worldwide.

The single " Green River " charted on Billboard country singles at number eleven.

The album charted as high as No. 3 on the UK charts, with an eight week chart run and produced one hit single (" She's Got Claws ") reaching No. 6.

Though primarily an albums artist, several of Baez ' singles have charted and the first being her 1965 cover of Phil Ochs ' " There but for Fortune ", which became a mid-level chart hit in the U. S. and a top-ten single in the United Kingdom.

Although they had limited commercial success outside the UK while they were still together, and never released a single that charted higher than number 10 in their home country, The Smiths won a significant following, and remain cult and commercial favourites.

The album Emerson Lake & Powell charted reasonably well, with a major single, " Touch and Go " generating some radio and MTV exposure for the trio.

Newton-John released the B-side, " Dancin ' ' Round and ' Round ," of the " Totally Hot " single to Country radio peaking at No. 29 ( as well as No. 82 Pop and No. 25 AC ), becoming her last charted solo Country airplay single to date.

The album's only charted single was the title track ( No. 20 Pop, No. 20 AC ).

Its first single was a re-recording of " I Honestly Love You " produced by David Foster and featuring Kenneth " Babyface " Edmonds on background vocals that charted Pop ( No. 67 ) and AC ( No. 18 ).

It did continue the group's commercial success, however ; lead single " Incommunicado " charted at No. 6 in the UK charts gaining the band an appearance on ' Top of the Pops '.