The challenge of drawing a sword from a stone also appears in the Arthurian legends of Galahad, whose achievement of the task indicates that he is destined to find the Holy Grail.

This was particularly used for printing contours – drawing these was a labour intensive task but having them on a separate layer meant they could be worked on without the other layers to confuse the draughtsman.

A short time later, in May 1952, Nasser received word that Farouk knew the names of the Free Officers and intended to arrest them ; thus, he immediately entrusted Zakaria Mohieddine with the task of drawing up plans for a takeover of the government by army units loyal to the association.

A drawing of Joyce ( with eyepatch ) by Djuna Barnes from 1922, the year in which Joyce began the 17-year task of writing Finnegans Wake

The Lê Dynasty commissioned the drawing of national maps and had Ngô Sĩ Liên continue the task of writing Đại Việt's history up to the time of Lê Lợi.

To make this task easier, he directed Augereau to demonstrate in front of Céret and lure the Spanish into drawing more troops to their left flank.

This practice is epitomized in the cliché " drawing the short straw "— to mean being randomly, unluckily, or unfairly selected to perform a task, at the risk of suffering a penalty.

Thomas Jefferson, who worked alongside President Washington in overseeing the plans for the capital, sent L ' Enfant a letter outlining his task, which was to provide a drawing of suitable sites for the federal city and the public buildings.

The technology allotted the task of drawing the 3D surface of windows to the generally idle graphics processing unit, rather than to the central processing unit.

:" To entrust to an undertaking which markets telephone equipment the task of drawing up specifications for such equipment, of monitoring their application and granting type-approval in respect thereof is tantamount to conferring on it the power to determine at will which equipment can be connected to the public network and thus gives it an obvious advantage over its competitors which is inimical to the equality of chances of traders, without which the existence of an undistorted system of competition cannot be guaranteed.

While the War of Spanish Succession was still being fought, the Duke had entrusted his officials to gather information concerning the structure of the major Italian and foreign universities, and charged the Sicilian jurist Francesco D ' Aguirre with the task of drawing up a reorganization project.

Mr Squiggle was a cheery, scatter-brained character who would often be distracted and would occasionally go for " space-walks ", and his assistant would need to calm him down to get him to focus on the task of drawing.

Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, decreed in 1784 that all the schools of drawing in Florence be combined under one roof, the new founded Accademia di Belle Arti (" Academy of Fine Arts "), while the Academics College of the prestigious medicean institution changed its name to Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, conserving the task of artistic formation and supervision of artistic production of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

In the wake of the Belgian Revolution, when candidatures were considered for the Belgian throne, Sébastiani had the task of undermining support for Auguste de Leuchtenberg and drawing allegiances for the Duke of Nemours.

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Judging from his controversial manner, impresses at least one reader as a Me-for-Dictator type to whom it would be dangerous to entrust the task of drawing any boundary between the domain of freedom and that of necessity or order.

As a delineator, his task was to create a perspective drawing of a building or project.

Other examples of derived tasks which show interference effects may include a drawing with an incongruent caption ( e. g. a drawing of a bird with the name of another animal as caption, the task being naming the drawing ), or the word left in the right of the image ( the task being saying where the word is located ).

In 1866, public works minister Stefano Jacini gave Alfredo Cottrau, an internationally recognised engineer, the task of drawing up plans for a bridge between Calabria and Sicily.

An electric circuit is an interconnection of electric components such that electric charge is made to flow along a closed path ( a circuit ), usually to perform some useful task.

In general, this process of decomposition is undertaken either for the purpose of gaining insight into the identity of the constituent components ( which may reflect individual physical processes of interest, for example ), or for the purpose of obtaining a compressed representation of the global function, a task which is feasible only when the constituent processes possess a certain level of modularity ( i. e., independence or non-interaction ).

* Using solar energy and in-situ resource utilization to avoid or minimize the expensive task of shipping components and fuel up from the Earth's surface, against the Earth's gravity ( see " Using non-terrestrial resources ", below ).

" Behe specifically explained that the " current definition puts the focus on removing a part from an already functioning system ", but the " difficult task facing Darwinian evolution, however, would not be to remove parts from sophisticated pre-existing systems ; it would be to bring together components to make a new system in the first place ".

When boards fail the test, technicians may desolder and replace failed components, a task known as rework.

In communication circuits, a very common task is to separate out or extract signals or components of a signal that are close together in frequency.

In late 1961 Bull visited Murphy and Trudeau at Aberdeen and was able to interest them in the idea using guns to loft missile components for re-entry research, a task that was otherwise very expensive and time-consuming aboard rockets.

The hobbyist faced the daunting task of acquiring all of the integrated circuits and other components.

The IBM task force assembled to develop the PC decided that critical components of the machine, including the operating system, would come from outside vendors.

The term is often used in the computer industry, where a company purchases computer components and builds ( for example ) a fully operational personal computer system usually customized for a specific task ( such as non-linear video editing ).

The basic idea of OpenDoc was to create small, reusable components, responsible for a specific task, such as text editing, bitmap editing or browsing an FTP server.

* How to break down activities into achievable components e. g. sequencing a complex task like cooking a complex meal

First, the self-assembled structure must have a higher order than the isolated components, be it a shape or a particular task that the self-assembled entity may perform.

Including the private economy was necessary because of the " very heavy and very complex task " that lay ahead in order to transform the " nonsocialist components " of the economy to an advanced stage.

* social ability ( agents are able to engage other components through some sort of communication and coordination, they may collaborate on a task )

On behalf of the Pacific Air Forces commander, the 13th AF commander is positioned to command Air Force forces, combined or joint force air components, or a joint task force.

On June 5, 2008, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that he had asked Schlesinger to lead a senior-level task force to recommend improvements in the stewardship and operation of nuclear weapons, delivery vehicles and sensitive components by the US DoD following the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident.

Another task performed at this stage is the sourcing of bought out components, possibly with the aid of procurement systems.

components as the random vector The task is to transform the observed data using a linear static transformation W as into maximally independent components measured by some function of independence.

Finally, tasks required of modern computers often emphasize quite different components, so that resolving a bottleneck for one task may not affect the performance of another.

Sarah eventually runs into the Mutos, the exiled descendants of those mutated by chemical weapons early in the war, but they are then captured by the Thals and used for the dangerous task of manually loading radioactive components into a missile they wish to launch at the Kaled dome.

The sovereign is one of the two components of parliament, but the monarch and viceroy do not participate in the legislative process save for the granting of Royal Assent, which is necessary for a bill to be enacted as law ; either figure or a delegate may perform this task, and the viceroy has the option of deferring assent to the sovereign.

Eager to replicate the Constructicons ’ unique combining ability, the Autobot engineer Grapple succeeded in creating Omega Supreme ; although having fewer components than Devastator, he was immediately given the task of guarding the Ark while the Autobots attempted to acquire more information on the combination process, and successfully fended off a large Decepticon attack, defeating, deactivating, and capturing Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, Buzzsaw, Rumble and Frenzy.