Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Horatio Hornblower" ¶ 11
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

adjustment and allows
Standard adjustment of a standing martingale allows enough slack to bring the strap to the horse's throatlatch when the animal has its head in a relaxed, natural position.
The top cymbal is mounted horizontal and bell up, while an adjustment screw allows the bottom cymbal to be either horizontal or slightly tilted.
MTS allows microtunings that can be loaded from a bank of up to 128 patches, and allows real-time adjustment of individual note pitches.
Aneroid barometers have a mechanical adjustment for altitude that allows the equivalent sea level pressure to be read directly and without further adjustment if the instrument is not moved to a different altitude.
This makes selling and buying certain used compound bows more difficult due to considerable extra expense needed to adjust a bow that doesn't already match the new shooter's exact preference ( Mathews brand bows are particularly notorious for this due to draw length that is either completely fixed or only allows up to 1 " of downward adjustment before a new cam is necessary ).
Each channel on a mixer has a sliding volume control ( fader ) that allows adjustment of the level of that channel.
Finally it is occasionally made microadjustable by adding a low value pot in series with the Zener ; this allows a little voltage adjustment, but degrades regulation.
In the event of a leaky flapper, one can replace it with an adjustable toilet flapper, which allows self adjustment of the amount of water per flush.
This ability to adjust color flow while spraying the airbrush, coupled with the users adjustment of distance from the sprayed surface allows for the variation of fine to wide lines without stopping to re-adjust the spray pattern as is necessary with a single action airbrush.
The digital intermediate process uses digital tools to color grade, which allows for much finer control of individual colors and areas of the image, and allows for the adjustment of image structure ( grain, sharpness, etc .).
Cabinet saws are heavier and offer the following advantages over contractor saws: heavier construction for lower vibration and increased durability ; a cabinet-mounted trunnion ( the mechanism that incorporates the saw blade mount and allows for height and tilt adjustment ); improved dust collection due to the totally enclosed cabinet and common incorporation of a dust collection port.
The possibility of differentiating the activation function allows the direct use of the gradient descent and other optimization algorithms for the adjustment of the weights.
Some ergonomic desks have a sufficiently large desktop height adjustment to create either a common " sit-down " desk or a less common standing desk, which allows the user to work while standing.
The LVM system allows for the adjustment of coarseness of the striping pattern.
A more recent adjustment to the game allows players to create a new rule that all players must abide by, lest they drink more.
The range of adjustment typically allows these colors to be adjusted from a green to a magenta tint.
This adjustment allows different scribers or probes to be used, as well as adjusting for any errors in a damaged or resharpened probe.
The Intermediate Transform section allows adjustment of brightness, tint, hue, saturation, bilevel ( high pass filter ) or profile assignment, to either grayscale, RGB or CMYK, or all data in the file.
The faceting equipment allows for very precise adjustment of angle and location of facet placement around the gemstone referred to as indexing.
Continuous analysis allows adjustment of flow rate of the added gases to correct the mixture if it deviates from the specification.
ESC score is the equitable score control adjustment, which allows for a maximum number of strokes per hole, for handicap computation purposes only, based on the player's course handicap.

adjustment and career
Gran Torino eventually grossed over $ 268 million ( US $ in dollars ) in theaters worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of Eastwood's career so far ( without adjustment for inflation ).
The program is open to any incoming first year student and can supplement any major by engaging the student in reflection, reaction and adjustment of her / his personal and educational and career goals.
This led to the gradual adjustment of his game as he advanced in his career, showing superior playmaking abilities from passing out of multiple defenders at the post.
Highly qualified and experienced staff and twelve Guidance Counselors are available to assist students in learning, in their choice of career, social adjustment, as well as their welfare.

adjustment and wartime
Congress tried to preserve, on the other hand, the most successful features of the federal wartime administration, the adjustment boards, by creating a Railroad Labor Board ( RLB ) with the power to issue non-binding proposals for the resolution of labor disputes, as part of the Esch – Cummins Act ( Transportation Act of 1920 ).

adjustment and .
The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.
But his concentration on personalities and his categorical assessment of their actions fail to convey the political complexities of a long generation harassed by world-wide war and confronted with the problem of adjustment to an unprecedented industrial and social transformation.
Read, for instance, in Malcolm MacDonald's Borneo People of Segura and her wise father Tomonggong Koh, and her final adjustment to encroaching civilization.
Other conceivable goals, such as character-education and social adjustment, are of secondary importance to them.
The selective and directional qualities of basic value-orientations are clearly evident in these data: the `` success-oriented '' students choose vocational preparation, the `` other-directed '' choose goals of social adjustment ( `` getting along with people '' ), the `` intellectuals '' choose a liberal arts emphasis.
At the same time, a major proportion of these young men and women see religion as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for family life, a source of emotional security.
The `` cult of adjustment '' does exist.
Hoped-for legislative action on adjustment of the county unit system stands less chance than ever.
No adjustment needed.
One town and one city, Coventry and East Providence, require an adjustment of their fiscal year only.
The adjustment to a uniform and coordinated fiscal period could be accomplished relatively easily for them.
Assuming an adjustment to the July 1 to June 30 fiscal year, the required adjustment of the tax collection years and the towns involved are shown in Table 3.
Aside from the matter of adjusting the fiscal and tax calendars, there is the problem of financing the adjustment when this is necessary.
The financial problem, where it exists, usually stems from the adoption of a budget for the transitional or adjustment period.
Approximately 40 percent of the value of the work on roads for access to timber which are planned for this period will be constructed by purchasers of National Forest timber, but paid for by the Government through adjustment of stumpage prices.
Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.
Since her bereavement this individual has reported to the writer on numerous occasions about how helpful the class discussions were to her in this adjustment crisis.
Both sexes reported that the discussions on sex adjustment within marriage were extremely enlightening.
For internal political reasons, the union asks for ( and accepts ) increases in the basic wage rate, and would vigorously oppose a reduction in this rate, but the adjustment of the basic wage rate upwards is essentially up to the discretion of the companies of the industry.
`` The resources of equity are equal to an adjustment that will avoid the waste of a tentative decision as well as the friction of a premature constitutional adjudication ''.
It is apparent, therefore, that the teacher needs to know what factors have a vital bearing on the learning and adjustment of children.
Or should we argue that if we want adjustment of children to children of different races and that that is impossible in an all-something-or-the-other school, we must at least provide him some opportunity to adjust to people of another race within the school -- namely, to a teacher of another race.
A number of adjustment features are included in the Hesiometer to facilitate measurement and permit ready removal of coatings deposited on such substrates as iron and other metals, glass, wood, and plastic surfaces.
An electrostatic system suffers generally from image plane curvature leading to defocusing in the peripheral image region if a flat viewing screen ( or interstage coupler ) is utilized, while a magnetic system requires accurate adjustment of the solenoid, which is heavy and bulky.

1.883 seconds.