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.

Certain Autocoder statements make provision for more parameters than may be contained in the operand ( columns 21 - 75 ) of a single line on the Autocoder coding sheet.

The integration treaties contained commitments to monetary union, equal rights, single citizenship, and a common defence and foreign policy.

It is unlikely that this would all be contained within a single monolithic structure, but would rather be a group of cooperating machines or an automated factory that is capable of manufacturing all of the machines that make it up.

Many applications pack all their data files into a single file called archive file, using internal markers to discern the different types of information contained within.

In 1955, most of the western wing was combined to form a new West Pakistan province ( which contained four provinces and four territories ) while East Bengal became the new province of East Pakistan ( a single provisional state ).

In contrast, the multiregional hypothesis proposed that Homo genus contained only a single interconnected population like it does today ( not separate species ), and that its evolution took place worldwide continuously over the last couple million years.

In 1865 Kekulé published a paper in French ( for he was then still in Francophone Belgium ) suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds.

This album contained Brood anthems like " Dope Sucks ," " Rock & Roll Junkie ," and their first Dutch hit single, " Saturday Night.

Eventually, harpsichords came to be built with just a single case, though an intermediate stage also existed: the " false inner – outer ", which for purely aesthetic reasons was built to look as if the outer case contained an inner one, in the old style.

For Chrétien a grail was a wide, somewhat deep dish or bowl, interesting because it contained not a pike, salmon or lamprey, as the audience may have expected for such a container, but a single Mass wafer which provided sustenance for the Fisher King ’ s crippled father.

) In 1996, these were followed by Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom, a single CD-ROM which contained the works of both collections.

Computer programs typically comprise several parts or modules ; all these parts / modules need not be contained within a single object file, and in such case refer to each other by means of symbols.

The single drum ( example Roneo ) machine could be easily used for multi color work by changing the drum-each of which contained ink of a different color.

The most important group of sources, the biographies contained in the Historia Augusta, claim to be written by a group of authors at the turn of the 4th century, but are in fact written by a single author ( referred to here as " the biographer ") from the later 4th century ( c. 395 ).

A recent book by Galen Wadzinski ( The Ultimate Maze Book ) offers formalized rules for more recent innovations that involve single-directional pathways, 3-D simulating illustrations, " key " and " ordered stop " mazes in which items must be collected or visited in particular orders to add to the difficulties of routing ( such restrictions on pathway traveling and re-use are important in a printed book in which the limited amount of space on a printed page would otherwise place clear limits on the amount of choices and pathways that can be contained within a single maze ).

The album entered the charts at number one in the UK and contained a mix of the acid house influence ( as on " Fine Time ", the opening track ) and a more traditional guitar-bass-drums sound on others ( such as the single " Run 2 ").

The two-disc release was an updated version of the Substance collection and contained every single released from their 1981 debut all the way through to " Waiting for the Sirens ' Call ".

Instead of using a single large pressure vessel as in a PWR, the fuel is contained in hundreds of pressure tubes.

The Japanese release for the PC Engine was split across two game cards ( HuCards ) titled R-Type I and R-Type II and the later North American release for the TurboGrafx 16 contained the entire game on a single card.

The retroposed c-src pre-mRNA still contained a single intron and within RSV is now referred to as v-src gene.

There was also a Site License version, which contained several multiplayer levels, and allowed the game to be played in multiplayer mode in up to 11 different computers in a single network, without each requiring a different copy of the game.

The source code for a particular piece of software may be contained in a single file or many files.

He provides the first historical reference to Saint Ninian, in a passing reference contained in the final part of a single paragraph.

After Strummer's departure, the remaining seven Pogues recorded Waiting for Herb, which contained the band's third and final top twenty single, " Tuesday Morning ", which became their best-selling single internationally.