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George Mannes of The Daily News found the controls to be easy to learn and simple to keep track of in comparison to PC shooters, but said the joystick control could be disorienting: " the only problem is when you look up in the air and make the slightest twitch to the left or the right, you can end up like a tourist staring up at the Empire State Building and whirling like a dervish ," he wrote.

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and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.
Followers of Subh-i-Azal, Bahá ' u ' lláh's half-brother who tried to poison him, engaged in active opposition to Bahá ' ís, and Shoghi Effendi did inform Bahá ' ís that they should avoid contact with his descendants, writing that " No intelligent and loyal Baha ' i would associate with a descendant of Azal, if he traced the slightest breath of criticism of our Faith, in any aspect, from that person.
I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a dachshund to heed my slightest command.
** The Panicky Guy: Elliot would pretend to be an audience member who panics and runs from the studio at the slightest threat of danger ( similar to doomed characters in disaster movies ).
RCA had always insisted their performers stay still as they sang so the microphone would pick up the vocals ; even the slightest tilt of the head would result in missing sound.
As soon as I got the slightest minor change in it, the way would be open for a larger change.
Describing the PIJ suicide bombings, the judge said: " Anyone with even the slightest bit of human compassion would be sickened.
A third character, " Chinito Rivera " ( a flasher that said little and wore a raincoat he was eager to open at the slightest provocation ) would eventually evolve into " El Barbarazo del Amor ", one of his radio characters.
His mobile force under Colonel Stewart then returned to the city after repeated incidents where the 200 or so Egyptian forces under his command would turn and run at the slightest provocation.
Freud wrote that ' Eckstein deliberately treated her patient in such a manner as not to give her the slightest hint of what would emerge from the unconscious and in the process obtained from her ... the identical scenes with the father '.
The Nazis had only allowed Seelenbinder to take part in the Olympics because they thought he would secure them a medal: otherwise, they did not trust him in the slightest.
If we remove the intricate maze of broken pediments, undulating cornices, stucco shells, inverted tapers, and garlands from the rather plain wall it is set against, the building's form would not be affected in the slightest.
She mentions that arrests are constant within the colored community-even for the slightest offenses that a white man would get away with.
The bureaucracy became paralyzed as government administrators feared to make what might prove to be a wrong decision that would displease or anger Amin in the slightest which would result in their immediate arrest and imprisonment or summary execution.
At each corner small wind bells were hung ; the slightest breeze would swing the clapper and cause a melodious tinkling.
None of us would wish to whittle down that principle in the slightest.
She had never been on a roller-coaster, or anything like one, but if she had, she would have recognized the sensations in her breast: they were exciting and frightening at the same time, and she had not the slightest idea why.
In the classical form of combat between masters, each would stand almost entirely motionless until the slightest opening was spotted ; only then would they launch as devastating an attack as they could muster, with the goal of incapacitating their opponent with a single blow.
A little candour and common sense properly applied would make the Post Office authorities understand that nothing short of confusion can be expected from a Department which as the Post Office to the Forces, is sent out in a pitiful state of hopelessness, with a heavy load of responsibility and with no adequate means of labour resources and powers ..." The article then went on to mention the use of soldiers to assist at the Army Post Office " A close and patient enquiry into the details of the Army Post Office has convinced me that not the slightest blame attaches to the two Postmasters Smith and Angell, who are merely victims of circumstances.
He said " it is inconceivable that any member of Shri Mataji's family would tolerate even the slightest disrespect to our National Flag ".
Generally, almost every time that ( the virtually indestructible ) Megatron sustained even the slightest damage in a battle, Starscream would claim that Megatron had " fallen ", and frantically urge the Decepticons to immediately follow himself as their new leader.

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We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.
" EPR appeared to have contrived a means to establish the exact values of either the momentum or the position of B due to measurements made on particle A, without the slightest possibility of particle B being physically disturbed.
He is prone to removing his shirt at the slightest pretext and is said to have had romantic relations with most of the minor female characters who appeared throughout his television career.
He grows frantic when he finds that some people have started to follow him around, with even the slightest unusual occurrence being hailed as a " miracle ".
There may be regulations prohibiting this vociferous practice, but if the radio dealers have anything to say it about it, it will never have the slightest effect along Radio Row ....
While he had accepted responsibility " even for those crimes about which I did not know or about which I did not have the slightest idea " on the theory that he was the head of the " Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites ", he testified that the Bloc did not exist and its members had never met.
The effectiveness reports, carried out in great detail, in full independence and without the slightest regard for political sensitivities, have given the Court of Audita large political influence, even more so than the British National Audit Office.
Costello took the opportunity to reconfirm his beliefs in Catholicism on 12 April 1951, in his speech on Dr. Browne's resignation: " I have no hesitation in saying that we, as a Government, representing a people, the overwhelming majority of whom are of the one faith, who have a special position in the Constitution, when we are given advice or warnings by the authoritative people in the Catholic Church, on matters strictly confined to faith and morals, so long as I am here — and I am sure I speak for my colleagues — will give to their directions, given within that scope — and I have no doubt that they do not desire in the slightest to go one fraction of an inch outside the sphere of faith and morals — our complete obedience and allegiance.
By this arrangement they became the sole masters of the person and residence of the King ; of Paris ... and all the internal and external guard ; of the entire service ... so much so that the Regent did not have even the shadow of the slightest authority and found himself at their mercy.
* Nothing I have ever done is of the slightest practical use.
Deploring the rising death rate from contagious diseases in the poorest parts of the city, in January 1876, Chamberlain forcibly purchased Birmingham's waterworks for a combined sum of £ 1, 350, 000, creating Birmingham Corporation Water Department, having declared to a House of Commons Committee that ' We have not the slightest intention of making profit ... We shall get our profit indirectly in the comfort of the town and in the health of the inhabitants '.
Slag wool was first made in 1840 in Wales by Edward Parry " but no effort appears to have been made to confine the wool after production ; consequently it floated about the works with the slightest breeze, and became so injurious to the men that the process had to be abandoned ".
What it was all about I have not the slightest idea, but evidently if anything was wrong, the letter before me makes everything right.
Only a Russian could have composed it, because it lacks the slightest trace of any stagnant Germanness.
In 1890, Giovanni Morelli wrote, " art connoisseurs say of art historians that they write about what they do not understand ; art historians, on their side, disparage the connoisseurs, and only look upon them as the drudges who collect materials for them, but who personally have not the slightest knowledge of the physiology of art.
Two years after making this statement, Grant met with a representative of the Coca-Cola Company to discuss the church's position on Coca-Cola ; at the conclusion of their second meeting, Grant stated that he was " sure I have not the slightest desire to recommend that the people leave Coca-Cola alone if th amount caffeine in Coca-Cola is absolutely harmless, which they claim it is ".
His wings have superhuman strength, and they have a very flexible skeletal structure that enables him to press them to the back of his torso and legs with only the slightest bulge visible under his clothing.
Judging others by themselves, the English, who are blinded by their loyalty, have always thought that the Germans did not abide by their pledges inscribed in the Versailles Treaty because they had not frankly agreed to them ... We, on the contrary, believe that if Germany, far from making the slightest effort to carry out the treaty of peace, has always tried to escape her obligations, it is because until now she has not been convinced of her defeat ... We are also certain that Germany, as a nation, resigns herself to keep her pledged word only under the impact of necessity.
These throws are found in many wrestling systems that have even the slightest emphasis on throwing the opponent, and can also been seen in shuaijiao.

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