He was referring not only to the general college situation but more especially to the preparatory schools.

A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.

That was a very absurd and annoying situation in which I was placed by W. M.'s curious methods of handling me.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

This was the negative side of the situation.

But put them before a situation which they are forced to depict '', -- he was speaking of the Spanish civil war, -- `` and they have no hesitation ; ;

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

The situation with regard to the Southern Pacific was therefore a special one and not necessarily applicable to other situations in other industries.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual.

But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated.

But this situation of Kent House was more subtle.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

She was enjoying the situation.

Getting drunk every night was the only way I could handle the situation.

It was a ridiculous situation and Rector knew it, for Hino, frankly partisan, openly gregarious, would make a poor espionage agent.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

They were not free to be themselves in this situation, an interpersonal one, where there was an observer of their reactions and they had no guide for acceptable behavior.

When this situation exists, the address Af will equal Af which was produced from Af.

as long as she could do nothing constructive about the situation she was in, she would think about something else.

The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.

There was a moral of sorts in the Laotian situation that said much about all other cold-war fronts.

but, in Senator Gore's words, it was `` not a very encouraging '' situation that would confront John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day.

By reminding ourselves of these factors in the situation, we should, I am sure, come to a fresh realization, however painful it be, that the battle between Parker and his neighbors was fought in earnest.

In instances where both of these are persons or firms with integrity, the situation is ideal.

`` Even on the basis of 154 games, this is the ideal situation '', insists Hank Greenberg, now vice-president of the Chicago White Sox.

A great deal of strategy and teamwork goes into choosing the ideal path and placement of a stone for each situation, and the skills of the curlers determine how close to the desired result the stone will achieve.

The ideal situation, of course, is to have an unbiased estimator with low variance, and also try to limit the number of samples where the error is extreme ( that is, have few outliers ).

Habermas maintains that truth is what would be agreed upon in an ideal speech situation.

In an ideal situation, since assets held by the trust are not owned by the trustees or the beneficiaries, the creditors of trustees or beneficiaries can have no claim against the trust ( there are exceptions ).

The ideal situation is to sweep the voltage at a frequency above the fluctuation frequency but still below the ion cyclotron frequency.

" He explains that the ideal situation is when one grasps that a " relation holds between the terms, which would allow for absolute, universal certainty.

Thus, if popular fashion says that a ‘ blouse ’ is ideal for a certain situation or ensemble, this idea is immediately naturalized and accepted as truth, even though the actual sign could just as easily be interchangeable with ‘ skirt ’, ‘ vest ’ or any number of combinations.

In viticulture, the two main components in growing Riesling grapes are to keep it " Long & Low " meaning that the ideal situation for Riesling is a climate that allows for a long, slow ripening and proper pruning to keep the yield low and the flavour concentrated.

Perfect social equality is considered by Liberals to be an ideal situation that, for various reasons, does not exist in any society in the world today.

Typically, the interventions aim to improve the situation of less advanced civilizations, and to get them closer to the Culture ideal.

In an ideal situation having on-line corrosion information that is accurate and real-time will allow conditions that cause high corrosion rates to be identified and reduced.

An ideal goal should present a situation where the time between the initiation of behavior and the end state is close.

This does not mean that the ideal of a participative style in any situation is to be enforced, but that the focus of management responsibilities is the promotion of performance and satisfaction of employees.

This creates a family style situation which is considered ideal.

Having " nowhere to run ", this pressurized situation was ideal for the fast repartee of the lead actors.

The ideal Ethic is the course of action taken in a given situation by an omnipotent, omniscient being.

Most often, such a situation represents an unwanted deviation from the ideal, such as a manufacturing error, however, there are a number of components where such longitudinal variations are deliberately introduced as part of the function of the component.

With the movement of HSBC Group's headquarters from Hong Kong to London in 1993, the firm decided that having thousands of employees scattered across the City of London was not an ideal situation.

Its fast growth makes it ideal for landscapes and forestry ; in a good situation, P. radiata can reach its full height in 40 years or so.

Aristotle thought of drama as being " an imitation of an action " and of tragedy as " falling from a higher to a lower estate " and so being removed to a less ideal situation in more tragic circumstances than before.

These requirements are almost always of a significantly higher level that the minimum requirements, and represent the ideal situation in which to run the software.

Pragmatic sanctions tend to be issued at times in which the theoretically ideal situation is untenable, and a change of the rules is called for.