" The use of a drill to create an " ampulla " of sorts and prevent the propagation of cracks through an important material is also used to protect airplane surfaces.

Disk Operating System ( specifically ) and disk operating system ( generically ), most often abbreviated as DOS, refer to an operating system software used in most computers that provides the abstraction and management of secondary storage devices and the information on them ( e. g., file systems for organizing files of all sorts ).

Some fatwās have drawn a great deal of attention in Western media, giving rise to the term fatwā being used loosely for statements by non-Muslims that advocate an extreme religious or political position, and loosely or as slang for other sorts of decrees, for example:

However, as different lines of research converged, it became clear that some of the same signaling proteins the hematopoietic and immune systems used were also being used by all sorts of other cells and tissues, during development and in the mature organism.

After casting, the sorts are arranged into type-cases, and used to make up pages which are inked and printed, a procedure which can be repeated hundreds, or thousands, of times.

Minced or crumpled nori and flakes of aonori are seaweeds used as an herb of sorts.

Some sorts of lute were still used for some time in Germany, Sweden, Ukraine.

Hundreds of arrows of various sorts are used to indicate movement of the hands through space.

( For example, oil was a factor in Japan's decision to go to war against the United States in 1941, and the oil cartel, OPEC, used an oil embargo of sorts in the wake of the Yom Kippur War in the 1970s ).

* In several English-speaking countries, " Niggerhead " or " nigger head " was used as a name for all sorts of things, including commercial products, places, plants and animals, as well as a colloquial technical term in industry, mining and seafaring.

Other sorts of foxhounds may also be used for hunting stags ( deer ) or mink.

Typically one character is printed per keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing.

When the terms are used in a scientific context, holism and reductionism refer primarily to what sorts of models or theories offer valid explanations of the natural world ; the scientific method of falsifying hypotheses, checking empirical data against theory, is largely unchanged, but the approach guides which theories are considered.

These sorts of techniques are now commonly used in the ' multi-media ' instructions of current processors.

He invented also other grinding and polishing machines, and introduced many improvements into the manufacture of the different kinds of glass used for optical instruments, and which he found to be always injured by flaws and irregularities of various sorts.

( In both sorts of system, a specially designed lamp, whose exposure to the film is determined by the audio input, is used to record sound photographically as a series of minuscule lines.

Because other sorts of generators may also be used by different machine builders, the parameters that may actually be set on a particular machine will depend on the generator manufacturer.

Wire is versatile, and wire clothes hangers are often used as cheap sources of semi-tough wire, more available than baling wire for all sorts of home projects.

In the 19th century much brickearth-type land in west Middlesex, including in Heathrow, was used for orchards of fruit trees, often several sorts mixed in one orchard.

Verniers are common on sextants used in navigation, scientific instruments used to conduct experiments, machinists ' measuring tools ( all sorts, but especially calipers and micrometers ) used to work materials to fine tolerances and on theodolites used in surveying.

A comeback of sorts was seen during the 1960s and 1970s, but it was not until 1981, when the Liberals allied with the newly formed SDP to form the SDP-Liberal Alliance, that the party enjoyed significant electoral success.

With the conscript based system during mid 1995, Sweden consisted of 15 maneuver brigades and, in addition, 100 battalions of various sorts ( artillery, engineers, rangers, air defense, amphibious, security, surveillance etc.

A report in The New York Times described that the flushness of money and growth during these years had spawned a drug culture of sorts, with a rampant acceptance of cocaine use although the overall percent of actual users was most likely small.

Ch ' i Chung-fu, a Chinese gynecologist writing early in the thirteenth century, for example, wrote that in addition to five sorts of falling frenzy classified according to their causative factors, there were also four types of other frenzies distinguished by the sounds and movements given off by the victim during his seizure: cow, horse, pig, and dog frenzies.

One strip, during the school dance, hinted he had a crush of sorts on the only girl Toots, however, she quickly rejected him.

The team was known as the New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets and had adopted a split personality of sorts, wearing ' OKC neutral ' home jerseys ( with an OKC patch of sorts over an H-alternate jersey ) and ' New Orleans ' jerseys during away games.

It was not densely populated, being distant from the capital and occasionally harassed by the Corsairs of Umbar ; the regiments sent to Minas Tirith during the War of the Ring consisted of " men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages, scantly equipped save for the household of Golasgil their lord ".</ div >

She becomes a leader figure of sorts during the flooding of the castle and hunt for Steerpike, but once the threat has passed she retreats back into her own world of isolation.

Formerly a crossroads of sorts, travelers would stop to rest at the heart of what is now Marlborough center during colonial times, and eventually a petition was filed to the Colonial Government to form an Ecclesiastical Society in 1747.

Lycoming Creek which begins to the north of Lewis Township in McNett Township also served as a highway of sorts during the colonial era of Pennsylvania's history.

The financial sector in the U. S. has evolved a great deal in recent decades, during which there have been some regulatory changes and the creation of new financial products such as the securitization of loan obligations of various sorts and credit default swaps.

That album, 2011's Fly From Here, is a reunion of sorts for Horn's former bandmate Geoff Downes ; not only is Downes a member of the band's current incarnation, but the album also takes its title from a song written by Horn and Downes during their original stint with Yes in the 1980s.

They are made to live and work as ponies, pulling all sorts of carts and drawing plows in the fields during the daytime, and having homosexual orgies with other human ponies at night.

From 1789 to 1795 he played all sorts of parts ; he worked as a scene painter at Liverpool in 1791 ; and during this period he composed more than 1, 000 songs.

" Emil Jurado of the Manila Standard reported as early as 1999 about a PR demolition work designed to embarrass Estrada " by attributing to his administration all sorts of perceived faults and scams with the end in view of covering up anomalies and scams also committed during the Ramos administration.

However, Modernisme did have a revival of sorts during the Second Spanish Republic, with avant-garde writers such as Futurist Joan-Salvat Papasseit earning comparisons to Joan Maragall, and the spirit of Surrealists such as Josep Vicent Foix or Salvador Dalí being clearly similar to the rebellion of the Modernistes, what with Dalí proclaiming that Catalan Romanticist Àngel Guimerà was a putrefact pervert.

He published some of his most important works during this time: " Dominican Social Composition ", " Brief History of the Oligarchy in Santo Domingo ", " From Christopher Columbus to Fidel Castro ", and numerous articles of different sorts.

The AFL reached a zenith of sorts during the administration of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

Besides its early manifestation as a sawmill town, Pacific Beach has always been a resort destination of sorts, ever since a man named Henry J. Blodget first settled that part of the coast during the mid-19th century.

Blues writer Bruce Eder says that Jackson achieved " a musical peak of sorts in September of 1929 when he got to record with his longtime idol, Blind ( Arthur ) Blake, often known as the king of ragtime guitar during this period.

While no artifacts or deposits relating to the building of the tower were found during these excavations, the project uncovered numerous interesting aspects of the park during its existence, especially the change in landscape and what sorts of events were transpiring there.