In describing longer time periods, English needs context to maintain the distinction between the habitual (" I called him often in the past "-a habit that has no point of completion ) and perfective (" I called him once "-an action completed ), although the construct " used to " marks both habitual aspect and past tense and can be used if the aspectual distinction otherwise is not clear.

He marks the commencement of that vast change in the movement of English politics by which it has come about that the sentiment of the great mass of the people now tells effectively on the action of the government from day to day – almost from hour to hour.

And, McKellen argues, Lowry " often marks the limits of the street scene with curbstones or a pavement that feel like the edge of the stage where the footlights illuminate the action.

For the literal translation, please note that Wolof does not have tenses in the sense of the Indo-European languages ; rather, Wolof marks aspect and focus of an action.

Marlow bears many marks of glacial action, and minerals are still found here.

Like most dramatists of the period he adapted as well as he could to changing tastes ; however, even his work in the fashionable Jacobean genres of satire and tragicomedy bears the marks of his Elizabethan training: its humor is genial, its action romantic.

The barrel and action are then inspected and, if they have maintained structural integrity, they will be stamped with proof marks indicating the test pressure, bore diameter in millimetres at 9 " from the breech face, chamber length, suitability for use with steel shot in the case of a smoothbore shotgun, a date stamp or code and the mark of the house ( London or Birmingham ).

By the full moon of October and of January, witches were said to make marks on their buttocks, by means of which they maintain and strengthen their malign powers, which otherwise diminish and cool down by the action of time and age.

Some animals have glands on their bodies whose sole function appears to be to deposit scent marks: for example Mongolian gerbils have a scent gland on their stomachs, and a characteristic ventral rubbing action that deposits scent from it.

Some models have control operations such as " copy " ( variously: " move ", " load ", " store ") that move " clumps " of objects / marks from register to register in one action.

The exams can take the form of written papers, aurals, orals, practicals and marks from course work assignments ( such as in CSPE, where 60 % of the exam rests on an action project ).

Verbal aspect marks whether an action is completed ( perfect ), a completed whole ( perfective ), or not yet completed ( imperfective ).

It marks the returns of him in action genre after 7 years.

In this case, once the sound is rolling, there is an audible announcement of " End board " or " End slate " ( also " Tail slate ") so that the editing department knows to look for the sync marks at the end of the action.

This action has left marks on artifacts that have been found.

" ( quoting 1 J S, C C U S § 462 ( 1833 )) ( internal quotation marks omitted )).</ ref > nor does it provide specific limitations on government action.

She later appears in the episode " Icarus " playing a part in saving the Green Arrow from some corrupted civilians and a brief appearance in the episode " Prophecy " This marks Stargirl's first appearance in a live action format.

" He said that " some stretches of action " in the film are being " lightly held within quotation marks ," with an " unmistakable air of playacting " in even the most violent scenes.

The closing lines of the canto, and of the sequence, " If the hoar frost grip thy tent / Thou wilt give thanks when night is spent ", sound a final note of acceptance and resignation, despite the return to the sphere of action, prompted by the death of Angold, that marks most of the canto.

The film marks the American acting debut for Yun-fat, as his previous film credits included Hong Kong action cinema only.

The limestone outcrops belong to the Wenlock Group, which was formed some 420 to 425 million years ago from the material remnants of an ancient tropical sea bed, and contain ripple marks made from the sea's action on the sand.

The common simple statement of the criterion, as given in the introduction to this article, does not resolve this, for the word " prefer " can refer to a mental state or to an action ; a complete statement of the criterion would either refer to actual marks on the ballot showing the required preference, or it could refer to the mental state of the voters.

A Perfect Spy marks John le Carré's transition from writing spy novels, more about character than about gun action, to complex character studies of men and women who are spies.

Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama ; it marks a turning away from the clumsy language and loose plotting of the earlier Tudor dramatists, and a new interest in fresh and vivid language, memorable action, and intellectual complexity.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

It is true, of course, that the end or objective of this action was different.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

Finally, just as no different issues are posed for thoughtful analysis by the foreshortening of time that may yet pass before the end of human life on this earth, but only stimulation and alarm to the imagination, the same thing must be said in connection with the question of what we may perhaps already be doing, by human action, to accelerate this end.

We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.

Notified that British aid to Greece and Turkey would end in less than six weeks, and already hostile towards and suspicious of Soviet intentions, because of their reluctance to withdraw from Iran, the Truman administration decided that additional action was necessary.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

Eudaemonist theories ( Greek eudaimonia, " happiness ") hold that the goal of ethics consists in some function or activity appropriate to man as a human being, and thus tend to emphasize the cultivation of virtue or excellence in the agent as the end of all action.

Utilitarian-type theories hold that the end consists in an experience or feeling produced by the action.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

The chief problem for eudaemonist theories is to show that leading a life of virtue will also be attended by happiness — by the winning of the goods regarded as the chief end of action.

Defender Tommy Caton, who had been out of action due to injury since January 1991, announced his retirement from playing on medical advice in March 1993, having failed to recover full fitness, and he died suddenly at the end of the following month, aged just 30 years.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

The action is simple, with the keys being levers with a small brass tangent, a small piece of metal similar in shape and size to the head of a flat-bladed screwdriver, at the far end.

" In its report, it recommended affirmative action, which is the consideration of an employee's gender and race in hiring and promotion decisions, as a means to end this form of discrimination.

Essendon did make the finals in 1972 and 1973 under the autocratic direction of Des Tuddenham ( Collingwood ) but they were beaten badly in successive elimination finals by St. Kilda and would not taste finals action again until the very end of the decade.

** " Rule 5: All scenes should begin and end with continuing action.

This is opposed to " double-action " revolvers which accomplish the same end using a mechanical action linked to the trigger pull.

This approach was favoured by Toho and to this end, King Kong vs. Godzilla has a much lighter tone than the previous two Godzilla films and contains a great deal of humor within the action sequences.

It can equally well be used for an action that took time, as long as it is conceived of as a unit, with a clearly defined start and end, such as " Last summer I visited France ".

( Speaker viewpoint at end of action )

The cutting action of the gimlet is slightly different from an auger, however, as the end of the screw, and so the initial hole it makes, is smaller ; the cutting edges pare away the wood which is moved out by the spiral sides, falling out through the entry hole.