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The strong bond between jacket and core created by the electroplating process makes expanding bullets hold together very well, and the Gold Dot line is now in use by many police departments.
In close collaboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in perfecting his steam engine, which incorporated a series of radical improvements, notably the closing off of the upper part of the cylinder thereby making the low pressure steam drive the top of the piston instead of the atmosphere, use of a steam jacket and the celebrated separate steam condenser chamber.
Maxim's other great innovation was the use of water cooling ( via a water jacket around the barrel ) to reduce overheating.
Several of the author's illustrations ( including the dwarven map, the frontispiece and the dust jacket ) make use of Anglo-Saxon runes.
** Black tie (" dinner jacket " in the UK ; often referred to as a " tuxedo " in the US ; traditionally appropriate only for use after 6: 00 p. m., but also seen in daytime, especially in the United States )
A barefoot water skier should use a wetsuit instead of a life jacket because the wetsuit covers more of the body in case of a fall at high speed.
The use of a blazer or suit-like jacket for either gender is also fairly common, especially in countries with relatively cold weather.
At rifle velocities, a hollow point is not needed for reliable expansion and most rifle ammunition makes use of tapered jacket designs to achieve the mushrooming effect.
The association of synthpop with an alternative sexuality was reinforced by the images projected by synthpop stars, who were seen as gender bending, including Phil Oakey's asymmetric hair and use of eyeliner, Marc Almond's " pervy " leather jacket, skirt wearing by figures including Martin Gore of Depeche Mode and the early " dominatrix " image of Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics.
The sleeves of the jacket are typically sewn shut at the ends — a significant restraint in itself because it restrains the use of the hands.
Based on research done in the 1950s by the U. S. Air Force, in which it was discovered that bullets are more stable in flight for longer distances and more resistant to crosswinds if the center of gravity is somewhat to the rear of the center of pressure, the MatchKing bullet ( which is still in wide use and holds many records ) is a hollow point design with a tiny aperture in the jacket at the point of the bullet and a hollow air space under the point of the bullet, where previous conventional bullets had had a lead core that went all the way up to the point.
In 1990, the U. S. Army Adjutant General's Office issued a legal opinion holding that the Sierra MatchKing bullet, despite being an open-tip design, is not designed specifically to cause greater damage or suffering in a human target, and in fact normally does not create a wound readily distinguishable from wounds caused by conventional full metal jacket bullets, and is therefore in their opinion legal under the Hague Convention for use in war.
* Publishers begin the use of a paper jacket to wrap book covers
The Mark IV was successful enough in its first use at Omdurman that British soldiers issued with the standard Mark II bullets began to remove the top of the jacket, converting the Mark II bullets into improvised Dum-dum types.
The Hague Convention of 1899, Declaration III, prohibits the use in international warfare of bullets which easily expand or flatten in the body, giving as example a bullet with a jacket with incisions or one that does not fully cover the core.
For the first half of the show, Gabriel dressed as Rael in a leather jacket, T-shirt and jeans, while relying on lighting and dramatic expression without the use of props or costumes.
Dolichovespula species ( for example, the aerial yellow jacket, Dolichovespula arenaria, and the bald-faced hornet, Dolichovespula maculata ) tend to create exposed aerial nests ( a feature shared with true hornets, which has led to some confusion as to the use of the name " hornet ").
By the eighteenth century, overcoats had begun to supplant capes and cloaks as outer wear, and by the mid-twentieth century the terms jacket and coat became confused for recent styles ; the difference in use is still maintained for older garments.
The Diallo shooting led to a review of police training policy and the use of full metal jacket ( FMJ ) bullets.
During the series he is shown to use cooking fat, a toilet bowl, a cigarette, a fork and his jacket all as weapons ; he is also shown using a coat hanger as a makeshift measuring device.
It was eliminated in 1940 as a costly use of leather and was replaced by an unlined leather or cloth waistbelt that was sewn to the officer's jacket.
The use of steel plates sewn into flak jacket dates to World War II, replaced by more modern materials such as fibre-reinforced plastic since the 1950s.
One bullet designed for safer use in indoor ranges is constructed as a reverse of the full metal jacket design.
When called upon by Casey Stengel to relieve, he wouldn't use the gate, but preferred to hop the fence with one hand and begin a slow walk to the mound with his blue Yankee warm-up jacket covering his pitching arm ; he followed this routine even on the hottest days.

use and is
But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.
But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
Only the President is permitted to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.
The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights.
Part of the ritual of sex is the use of marijuana.
Holmes is addicted to the use of cocaine and other refreshing stimulants ; ;
But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.
`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.
for if this can be proved we shall surely be the gainers -- I mean, if there is a use in poetry as well as a delight ''.
It is even true that some among them use the sheer fact of conformity -- `` everyone does it '' -- as a criterion for conduct.
Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.
Often the historian must consider the use of intuition or instinct by those individuals or nations which he is studying.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;
And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

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