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ten and remaining
In a multi-hand, face-up, single deck game, it is possible to establish whether insurance is a good bet simply by observing the other cards on the table after the deal ; even if there are just 2 player hands exposed, and neither of their two initial cards is a ten, then 16 in 47 of the remaining cards are tens, which is larger than 1 in 3, so insurance is a good bet.
Trabecular bone accounts for the remaining 20 % of total bone mass but has nearly ten times the surface area of compact bone.
Provisional IRA activity also increased across Northern Ireland with thirty British soldiers being killed in the remaining months of 1971, in contrast to the ten soldiers killed during the pre-internment period of the year.
The first ten volumes ( 1819 – 1824 ) were published under the joint editorship of Brewster and Jameson, the remaining four volumes ( 1825 – 1826 ) being edited by Jameson alone.
The first British frigates carried 28 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-four 9-pounder guns ( the remaining four smaller guns were carried on the quarter deck ) but soon developed into fifth-rate ships of 32 or 36 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-six 12-pounder guns, with the remaining six or ten smaller guns carried on the quarter deck and forecastle.
From around 1778, a larger " heavy " frigate was developed with a main battery of twenty-six or twenty-eight 18-pounder guns ( again with the remaining ten smaller guns carried on the quarter deck and forecastle ).
The constitution praised Vincent, and it granted the executive sweeping powers to dissolve the legislature at will, to reorganize the judiciary, to appoint ten of twenty-one senators ( and to recommend the remaining eleven to the lower house ), and to rule by decree when the legislature was not in session.
Mainly because of its prohibition of all forms of artificial contraception, the encyclical was controversial, as it rejected the majority report on the subject, embracing a minority report maintaining the status quo, and Paul VI did not issue any additional encyclicals in the remaining ten years of his pontificate.
The outgoing Board designates the ten members who are the most advanced in atomic energy technology and the remaining three most advanced members from any of the following areas that are not represented by the first ten: North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East and South Asia, South East Asia, the Pacific, and the Far East.
On 26 February 2012, the FARC announced that they would release their remaining ten political hostages.
" For example, Peter Schenkel, while remaining a supporter of SETI projects, has written that " n light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest and to take a more down-to-earth view ... We should quietly admit that the early estimates — that there may be a million, a hundred thousand, or ten thousand advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy — may no longer be tenable.
All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are less than thirty days and the majority of these have half-lives that are less than ten minutes.
The remaining ten links ( of the Dependent Origination ) are its spokes ( i. e. karma formations up to process of becoming ).”
The Conservatives won 49, the newly-formed Progressive Party won 58 ( but declined to form the official Opposition ), and the remaining ten seats went to fringe parties and Independents ; most of these ten supported the Progressives.
Only the first and the second pair emerge from the cerebrum ; the remaining ten pairs emerge from the brainstem.
The Samaritans consider themselves ( and some biblical scholars consider them ) to be the remaining population of the Northern Kingdom of Israel who were not exiled during the ten tribes exile and who joined with the exiled people that the Assyrians brought into the land instead of the exiled Israelite population ( such as the people of Kutha ), forming the Samaritan community.
His partners, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, completed his ten remaining projects, including the St. Louis Arch.
Competing against Bruno Brodd of the Irish American Athletic Club and J. Bredemus of Princeton University, he won seven of the ten events contested and came in second in the remaining three.
Each of the ten bands had four seated chief delegates ; the remaining four chiefs were the principal advisers of the other delegates.
Alternating between second-person narrative chapters of this story are the remaining ( even ) passages, each of which is a first chapter in ten different novels, of widely varying style, genre, and subject-matter.
On October 23, amid reports that four of its remaining ten teams were on the verge of folding, the entire league shut down and the Birmingham Vulcans, with a league-best record of 9-3, were proclaimed league champions.

ten and confused
Although one was launched ten years after the other, and was the subject of a TV movie, they are easily confused ; they had similar careers, looked the same, and met similar fates.
F1 hybrid wheat cultivars should not be confused with the standard method of breeding inbred wheat cultivars by crossing two lines using hand emasculation, then selfing or inbreeding the progeny many ( ten or more ) generations before release selections are identified to be released as a variety or cultivar.
It is not to be confused with the Big 12 Conference, which has only ten schools and represents a different region of the country.
However, the Post Office found that mail was getting confused with mail for Myersville, ten miles to the east, and the name was changed to Potomac ( although residents resented this and didn't accept the change for decades ).
Born at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Revd Dr George Reith, a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland ( later amalgamated with Church of Scotland, and not to be confused with the Free Church of Scotland ).
The 20 main tournaments of the year where shared by a ) Laver, ten titles including the 5 biggest ones, all played on fast courts ( U. S. Pro outside Boston, French Pro, Wembley Pro, Wimbledon Pro, Madison Square Garden, World Pro in Oklahoma, Boston Pro ( not to be confused with the U. S. Pro ), Newport R. R., Johannesburg Ellis Park, Coubertin Pro in April ( not to be confused with the French Pro at Coubertin in October ), b ) Rosewall, six titles ( Los Angeles, Berkeley, U. S. Pro Hardcourt in St Louis, Newport Beach, Durban and Cape Town ), c ) Gimeno, three titles ( Cincinnati, East London, Port Elizabeth ) and d ) Stolle, one tournament ( Transvaal Pro ).
This etymology is sometime confused with the Latin decas ( ten ) and dies ( days ), which is not correct.
After ten years, the investigations were complete, and Fenius created in Bérla tóbaide " the selected language ", taking the best of each of the confused tongues, which he called Goídelc, Goidelic, after Goídel mac Ethéoir.
On July 20, 1847, a Decree ( number 523 ) established the post of President of the Council of Ministers ( not to be confused with the State Council, whose ten members sat for life and which in the late Empire functioned solely as an advising body to the Emperor ) – actually a prime minister chosen by the emperor, who should choose the members of the cabinet, being supported by a parliamentary majority in the General Assembly.
It is not to be confused with ' praedicamenta ', the schoolmen's term for Aristotle's ten Categories.
It is confused about his life around the age of ten whether his mother had died and Clovis married Mary Randall, or if Lowe was sent away to another farm during which time his mother died and his father remarried.
Though the last ten year, her love for him has never wavered and she continues to be an anchor for his confused and terrified soul.
Maron, on the other hand, is confused and does not know what " love " means because her parents abandoned her when she was around ten years old because they were having problems getting along, so no one taught her.
Not to be confused with " Power Ten ," the high ten is ten strokes at a high rating to finish building speed.
" Delta Dawn " is a song written by former child rockabilly star Larry Collins and songwriter Alex Harvey ( who more often goes by the name Alexander Harvey today, and is not to be confused with the late Glaswegian rocker Alex Harvey ), best known as a 1972 top ten C & W hit for Tanya Tucker and a number-one hit for Helen Reddy in 1973.
Although this was Beethoven's first piano concerto to be published, it was, in fact, his third attempt at the genre, following an unpublished piano concerto in E-flat major ( not to be confused with Beethoven's more famous " Emperor " concerto, also in E-flat ) and the Piano Concerto No. 2, published after Piano Concerto No. 1 ( in 1801 ) but composed almost ten years earlier.
A single, " Everything's Beautiful " ( not to be confused with the Ray Stevens song of the same name ), featuring Parton and Nelson, was released and made the country top ten.
The ABC virus is not to be confused with the ABC keylogger trojan, written in 2004 by Jan ten Hove.
Note: Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers is easily confused in historical writings with his father, Marc-Antoine Désaugiers ( b. Fréjus, 1742 – d. Paris, 10 September 1793 ) who was himself a composer of eleven operatic works, mostly comedies, for the stages of Paris, and left ten stage compositions unperformed.

ten and passengers
The team was back in the airport terminal barely ten minutes when the call to reconvene on the plane came, and a number of passengers began to feel nervous.
Near the middle of the bus, her row was directly behind the ten seats reserved for white passengers.
Two passengers, one aircrewman and ten people on the ground are killed.
On a cross-country red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared.
The cutting was the scene of a railway disaster two years later when a goods train ran into a landslip ; ten passengers who were travelling in open trucks were killed.
A line of dialogue in the film has one of the magicians ( all portrayed by the Beatles themselves )-who are keeping an eye on the whereabouts of the bus that is taking its passengers on the journey of the film's title-exclaim: " The bus is ten miles north on the Dewsbury road and they're having a lovely time!
* Another 13 people ( ten passengers, three crew ) were killed on 31 August of that year, when their aircraft, a C-47 registered OO-UBL, crashed near Elizabethville on a flight from Manono, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
According to Ford, each seat would accommodate two people, raising the total seating capacity to ten passengers ; however, these seats were quite narrow in later models and could accommodate only one passenger, limiting the total capacity to eight passengers.
In the typical wide-body economy cabin, passengers are seated seven to ten abreast, allowing a total capacity of 200 to 850 passengers.
Normally a liveaboard operation charters for ten to thirty passengers.
The airport is the second smallest hub out of the ten hubs operated by United Airlines ( busier only than Guam located in the South Pacific Ocean ) and its regional carriers, connecting passengers to destinations across North America.
At the time of the electrification work from 1981 – 82, the former branch to Dun Laoghaire pier used by ferry passengers was disconnected as the main track would have had to have been lowered in order to fit the overhead power cables under road bridges in Dun Laoghaire ; some ten years later a new passenger ferry terminal was built immediately adjacent to the main Dun Laoghaire station.
The first aircraft used was the Farman-Goliath aircraft, a twin-engine plane with space for ten passengers built by the Farman Aviation Works.
None of the passengers appear over ten years old, yet they have been drifting for over two hundred years.
Of the 145 people aboard, the captain and ten passengers died in the crash.
The airline operated more than 200 flights a day and carried over ten million passengers.
They are usually able to board ten passengers and the crew consists of two or three people.
Porters spent roughly ten percent of their time in unpaid " preparatory " and " terminal " set-up and clean-up duties, had to pay for their food, lodging, and uniforms, which might consume half of their wages, and were charged whenever their passengers stole a towel or a water pitcher.
The plane had ten people on board: a U. S. Air Force crew of six and four civilian passengers.
The Ealing rail crash occurred on 19 December 1973 when a train from Paddington to Oxford derailed: ten passengers were killed and 94 injured.
It was then that the empty train began to roll backwards at a speed of ten metres per second, before smashing into the other train, which was carrying passengers.

5.564 seconds.