Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

Next Susie will enter the treatment stage and visit the orthodontist once or twice a month, depending on the severity of her condition.

The inadequacy of our library system will become critical unless we act vigorously to correct this condition.

As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

In such cases a common convention is to use the " elsewhere condition " to decide which allophone will stand for the phoneme.

M. von Rohr showed that for systems fulfilling neither the Airy nor the Bow-Sutton condition, the ratio a ' cos w '/ a tan w will be constant for one distance of the object.

Talbot ( 1989 ) observes that alcoholism in the classical disease model follows a progressive course: if a person continues to drink, their condition will worsen.

Each individual test, known as a case, exercises a particular operating condition of the user's environment or feature of the system, and will result in a pass or fail, or boolean, outcome.

A necessary and sufficient condition for a Banach space X to be associated to an inner product ( which will then necessarily make X into a Hilbert space ) is the parallelogram identity:

These buses often need to undergo a degree of vehicle restoration to restore them to their original condition, and will have their livery and other details such as internal notices and rollsigns restored to be authentic to a specific time in the bus's actual history.

In 2011, Selig also demanded that the Astros move to the American League West as a condition of the sale of the franchise to businessman Jim Crane ; the team will switch leagues in 2013.

Due to potentially large differences in value over slight differences in a coin's condition, some commercial coin dealers will repeatedly resubmit a coin to a grading service in the hope of a higher grade.

If the column load is gradually increased, a condition is reached in which the straight form of equilibrium becomes so-called neutral equilibrium, and a small lateral force will produce a deflection that does not disappear and the column remains in this slightly bent form when the lateral force is removed.

In particular, one should think of the condition number as being ( very roughly ) the rate at which the solution, x, will change with respect to a change in b. Thus, if the condition number is large, even a small error in b may cause a large error in x.

On the other hand, if the condition number is small then the error in x will not be much bigger than the error in b.

The condition number may also be infinite, in which case the algorithm will not reliably find a solution to the problem, not even a weak approximation of it ( and not even its order of magnitude ) with any reasonable and provable accuracy.

We will use the notation to denote the multiplicative inverse of, it is defined exactly when and are coprime ; the following construction explains why the coprimality condition is needed.

If hypertonic therapy continues or is too rapid, the extracellular tonicity will continue to drive water out of the brain's cells, leading to cellular dysfunction and the condition of central pontine myelinolysis.

Some scientists have predicted that unless significant measures ( such as seeking out and protecting old growth forests that have not been disturbed ) are taken on a worldwide basis, by 2030 there will only be 10 % remaining, with another 10 % in a degraded condition.

He went on to say that he believes his hearing damage is partially due to a genetic predisposition to hearing loss, and that he will never return to the stage for fear of worsening not only his condition but also that of his band mates.

The analysis of linear systems is possible because they satisfy a superposition principle: if u ( t ) and w ( t ) satisfy the differential equation for the vector field ( but not necessarily the initial condition ), then so will u ( t ) + w ( t ).

Roderick Stackleberg places fascism — including Nazism, which he says is " a radical variant of fascism " — on the right, explaining that " the more a person deems absolute equality among all people to be a desirable condition, the further left he or she will be on the ideological spectrum.

The condition of the division when it arrived overseas was undoubtedly affected by a recent change in its primary mission.

Spider-Man is undoubtedly more popular than The Spectre but Spider-Man ’ s 1962 first appearance is valued at $ 45, 150 while a copy of The Spectre's 1940 debut, in fine condition, is valued at $ 54, 000.

" He has, undoubtedly, the hope that the method that ( he supposed ) cured his weak condition, would work the same wonders in little Carmela.

We can continue this reasoning along the entire height of the slit to conclude that the condition for destructive interference for the entire slit is the same as the condition for destructive interference between two narrow slits a distance apart that is half the width of the slit.

Returning to Antioch in 378 or 379, he was ordained by Bishop Paulinus, apparently unwillingly and on condition that he continue his ascetic life.

Burger also included a condition in which participants first saw another participant refuse to continue.

Initially Britain had supported the anti-communist factions in those countries, but due to its dire economic condition it decided to pull out and in February 1947 requested the U. S. to continue its efforts.

However, despite having a large road network built over the country, large parts of the road network continue to be in poor condition and only 20 percent of the total road network is paved.

But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted & persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these which now came upon them.

Instead they fall back to an error condition displaying messages to the operator, and enter an infinite loop waiting for the user to either respond to a prompt to continue, or to reset the device.

A condition of the sale was that the station would continue airing Robertson's television program, The 700 Club, twice a day in perpetuity, regardless of any changes of ownership.

... to my breathless amazement he fired pointblank at my head a document in which he agreed to continue his co-operation on condition that I refrain from mentioning his name in public or private under penalty of paying him a hundred pounds for each such offence.

The Committee agreed to form two informal " Friends of the Chair " groups to: 1 ) consider preparations for the 2005 NPT REVCON ; and 2 ) continue consideration of possible future adoption of a policy of requiring full-scope safeguards as a condition of supply to non-nuclear weapon states.

With his fleet in too poor a condition to continue to challenge, he retired towards the coast with the Dutch in pursuit.

In this instance personnel who might be able to address or resolve the anger-provoking condition or event remain unaware of the problem, allowing it to continue, along with the affected individual's anger.

Article 4 of the 26 June 1889 Nationality Law stated: " Descendants of families proscribed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes will continue to benefit from the benefit of the 15 December 1790 Law, but on the condition that a nominal decree should be issued for every petitioner.

Joyce wrote to Weaver in late 1929 that he had " explained to all about the book, at least a great deal, and he promised me that if I found it madness to continue, in my condition, and saw no other way out, that he would devote himself heart and soul to the completion of it, that is the second part and the epilogue or fourth.

Spirit prison is the condition of the spirits of " the wicked ... the ungodly and the unrepentant who had defiled themselves while in the flesh ... the rebellious who rejected the testimonies and the warnings of the ancient prophets ...." The latter will continue to receive gospel teaching and be given the opportunity to repent, though their disposition toward repentance will only change as they recognize and accept gospel truths and believe in Jesus Christ.

As a condition to continue the match, Kramnik insisted on playing the remaining games under the original conditions of the match contract, which allows use of the bathroom at the players ' discretion.

Article 4 of the June 26, 1889 Nationality Law stated that: ' Descendants of families proscribed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes will continue to benefit from the benefit of the December 15, 1790 Law, but on the condition that a nominal decree a decree stating the name of the specific applicant for citizenship should be issued for every petitioner.

In one of her last acts as Secretary of State, Albright on January 8, 2001, paid a farewell call on Kofi Annan and said that the U. S. would continue to press Iraq to destroy all its weapons of mass destruction as a condition of lifting economic sanctions, even after the end of the Clinton administration on January 20, 2001.

The solution was to incorporate an ' event handler ' for the hardware detected condition (' data exception )' that would intercept the occasional errant data field and either ' report, correct and continue ' or, more usually, abort the run with a core dump to try to determine the reason for the bad data.

( a ) Except as provided in subsection ( b ) of this section, whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person in order to compel a third person or a governmental organization to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the person detained, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life and, if the death of any person results, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.

If he is in condition to continue the action, he will disregard it ; if he is not, it will be an excuse for his retreat and no blame can be imputed to him.

However, some people with the condition continue to live much longer, while in exceptional cases, like that of Kerry Pink and Kate Allatt, a full spontaneous recovery may be achieved.