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words and manipulation
These are objects that can be evacuated or used for a kind of thinking that depends on manipulation of what are felt to be things in themselves as if to substitute such manipulations for words or ideas ... Alpha-function transforms sense impressions into alpha-elements which resemble, and may in fact be identical with, the visual images with which we are familiar in dreams, namely, the elements that Freud regards as yielding their latent content when the analyst has interpreted them.
The rites of past and present societies have typically involved special gestures and words, recitation of fixed texts, performance of special music, songs or dances, processions, manipulation of certain objects, use of special dresses, consumption of special food, drink, or drugs, and much more.
In the dialogue for Automatic Writing, the words themselves were not necessarily the primary source of meaning — especially not after the kind of audio manipulation Ashley used to modify them.
Ross outlines an array of nonviolent behavior which can be considered " indirect bullying ", at least in some instances, such as name calling, the silent treatment, arguing others into submission, manipulation, gossip / false gossip, lies, rumors / false rumors, staring, giggling, laughing at the victim, saying certain words that trigger a reaction from a past event, and mocking.
The Spectrum's video display allowed the background and foreground colours to be exchanged automatically without software attention and the " animated " load screen appears to swap the words Manic and Miner through clever manipulation of this feature.
Such words are magic not because of their effect on people ( If they were, this would be simple manipulation, not etiquette ) but because they make others feel better in context of the situation.
This is important because it is often assumed in cognitive science that rules and algorithms are essentially the same: in other words, the theory that cognition is rule bound is often believed to imply that thought ( cognition ) is essentially the manipulation of algorithms, and this is one of the key assumptions of some varieties of artificial intelligence.
Poor decoders have not acquired the basic knowledge of sound-letter correspondence rules, specifically phonological skills ( skills that include identifying and manipulation of words, syllables, onsets, rimes, and phonemes-individual sounds ).
In other words, the machine just plays back digital samples with no other manipulation and appears unable to do traditional music synthesis.
* From the fact that logos is Greek for " word ", Stuart Chase concluded in his book The Tyranny of Words that logic was mere manipulation of words.
It is to be noted a link to mentalism and mass manipulation is referenced upon the compact disc itself of said release with the words " mind-control disc " subtly placed under band and album name.
"; the waveform editor colour cycles the words " Dead cool " above the waveform display, and the event sequencer displays an icon of a camel smoking a cigarette ; and the image manipulation tool has a series of icons used to indicate how long the current operation is going to take: " Make the tea ", " Have a fag ", " Go to bed ", " Go to sleep ", " Go on holiday ", " Go to Peru for six months ", and " RIP "; and the scripting language command to set the length of drawn lines is " LLAMA ".
After the master performs a body clone manipulation skill, he utters two words.

words and lying
Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.
In Gandhi ’ s thought, ahimsa precludes not only the act of inflicting a physical injury, but also mental states like evil thoughts and hatred, unkind behavior such as harsh words, dishonesty and lying, all of which he saw as manifestations of violence incompatible with ahimsa. Gandhi believed ahimsa to be a creative energy force, encompassing all interactions leading one's self to find satya, " Divine Truth ".
Dil unties him, saying that, even if he is lying, it is still nice to hear his words.
In Darius's words, he had killed a total of eight " lying kings " through the quelling of revolutions.
In one of his seminal works, On the Genealogy of Morals, he describes the poet as a ' mouthpiece ' of the Greek nobility: Theognis represents superior virtues as traits of the aristocracy and thus distinguishes ( in Nietzsche's own words ) the " truthful " aristocrat from the " lying common man ".
" Some significance can be given to Parnell's penultimate words when lying on his deathbed, he invoked not Mother Ireland, but rather ' the Conservative party '.
It is a case in which words that are literally true are used to convey a false impression ; analysis of whether or when such behavior constitutes lying is a long-standing issue in ethics.
Its activation occurs when the parser comes across a syntactic violation such as The broker persuaded to sell the stock or when parses synthesizes an unsatisfactory disambiguation on a ambiguous string of words such as The Doctor Charged the patient was lying.
It is also possible for person A to use winking in order to secretly imply to person B that the words or actions of some third party should not be taken seriously ( for example, because the third party is joking or lying ).
A consequence of the privilege of free speech is that legislators in Westminster systems are forbidden by conventions of their House from uttering certain words, or implying that another member is lying.
Here to be a global norm means to be an element k of K such that there is an element l of L with ; in other words k is a relative norm of some element of the extension field L. To be a local norm means that for some prime p of K and some prime P of L lying over K, then k is a norm from L < sub > P </ sub >; here the " prime " p can be an archimedean valuation, and the theorem is a statement about completions in all valuations, archimedean and non-archimedean.
The word " Holme " comes from the Old English and Old Norse words for a small island or low lying land by a river.
In more detail, given a list of words, and a single word, we define a tangle from to to be a disk D in the plane, with points around its circumference labelled in order by the letters of, with internal disks removed, indexed 1 through k, with the i-th internal disk having points around its circumference labelled in order by the letters of, and finally, with a collection of oriented non-intersecting curves lying in the remaining portion of the disk, with each component being labelled by an element of the label set, such that the set of end points of these curves coincide exactly with the labelled points on the internal and external circumferences, and at the initial points of the curves, the label on the curves coincides with the label on the circumference, while at the final points, the label on the curve coincides with the involute of the label on the circumference.
Unni's innocent words made Variyar furious, as he believed the boy had eaten the offering himself and was lying.
According to Murray S. Waas in the American Prospect of February 12, 2004, the CIA source warned Novak several times against the publication: two " administration officials " spoke to the FBI and challenged Novak's account about not receiving warnings not to publish Plame's name ; according to one of the officials, " At best, he is parsing words ... At worst, he is lying to his readers and the public.
In the game's manual, you are told that the wise old woman ( and former Ol-zhaan high priestess ) D ' ol Falla has a vision, in which she heard these words: " The Spirit fades, in Darkness lying.

words and was
Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.
His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.
Milton was to act as the archfool, the supreme wit, the lightly bantering pater, Pater Liber, who could at once trip lightly over that which deserved such treatment, or could at will annihilate the common enemies of the college gathering, and with words alone.
Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.
You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??
In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.
In other words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.
Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.
There were no words to say this but there was no need.
but, in Senator Gore's words, it was `` not a very encouraging '' situation that would confront John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day.

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