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For it was the millions of buffalo and prairie chicken and the endless seas of grass that symbolized for a whole generation of Americans the abundant supply that was to take many of them westward when the Ohio and Mississippi valleys began to fill.
Armed with an endless supply of high-quality paper and pencils, the children drew constantly.
With a seemingly endless supply of food, the Muckleshoots could engage in various crafts, including weaving, wood-carving, and basket-making.
After all, there ’ s an endless supply of stupid fools.
" By the end of the war, the best German troops were dead and the remainder were under continuous pressure on all parts of the Western Front, a consequence in part of an almost endless supply of fresh American reinforcements ( which the Germans were unable to match ) and in part of industry at last supplying the weakened Entente armies with the firepower to replace the men they lacked ( whilst Germany wanted for all sorts of materials thanks to the naval blockade ).
With this endless supply of money he bought some of the greatest art collections that were available at the time at a point, in one single occasion, over 80 paintings by great Italian masters were taken in to the royal palace in Lisbon.
From this, Gold proposed that the Earth may possess a virtually endless supply suggesting as much as " at least 500 million years ' worth of gas " of fossil fuels.
The large urban population required an endless supply of food which was a complex logistical task, including acquiring, transporting, storing and distribution of food for Rome and other urban centers.
The popularity of alcohol and lack of legal competition ensured an endless supply of customers.
For several months, Belle lives a life of luxury at the Beast's palace, being waited on hand and foot by invisible servants, having no end of riches to amuse her and an endless supply of exquisite finery to wear.
) On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, it was established that as long as there is an energy source to power life support, replication is used to provide breathable air on ships and starbases ( and to disassemble the carbon dioxide exhaled by the crew ), thus providing a seemingly endless supply of oxygen and eliminating the need to carry air tanks.
While Hong Kong has had an endless supply from Japanese anime and US Disney animations, China has been trying hard to revitalise the industry.
When the Yeerk Empire first discovered the Taxxon homeworld, they decided, rather than conquering the planet, to make the Taxxons a simple deal: in exchange for the Taxxons agreeing to become Controllers, the Taxxons would get an endless supply of new, exotic meats.
Arthur Dietrich ( Steve Landesberg ): An intellectual detective with a calm, unflappable nature and a seemingly endless supply of knowledge on a wide array of subjects.
They are popular among foreigners and families with children: No Japanese language skills are needed to read a menu or to order, and there is no danger of leftover food for small eaters or remaining appetite for big eaters due to the endless supply of small portions.
The supply, from attics or private libraries around the country, seems endless — a tribute to the success of the publisher, P. F.
According to this argument, a justified belief requires an endless supply of reasons.
Learning that it can be revived, Quan Chi forms an alliance with Shang Tsung, offering him an endless supply of souls in return for him transplanting the souls of defeated warriors into the army.
The vampire, whose abilities include control over animals such as rats, bats and spiders, comes to Renfield with an offer: if Renfield worships him, he will provide Renfield with an endless supply of food.
They are successful in unlocking it and find an almost endless supply of gold bars.
He uses an endless supply of magic to aid him in his attempts to overthrow the kingdom of Hyrule.
The Macross 7 fleet gathers information in an attempt to understand their new enemy, while Geperuniti, the leader of the Protodeviln, begins to take steps towards achieving his goal of creating a Spiritia Farm, capable of producing an endless supply of the energy force that the Protodeviln depend on for life.
His design is a combination of stylish cool and over-the-top absurdity ; he wears Lupin the Third's suit and a gigantic afro out of which he can pull an endless supply of weapons.
Off the battlefield, these Beastmasters are also responsible for training Cold Ones and elven steeds, and the subjugation of the endless supply of slaves.

endless and competing
In a competing theory, Hutton's comprehension of endless deep time as a crucial scientific concept was developed into uniformitarianism by Charles Lyell in his Principles of Geology ( 1830 33 ).
In context, sustainability implies that rather than competing for endless growth on a finite planet, development will improve quality of life without necessarily having to consume more resources.

endless and explanations
One of the advantages of process theories is that they avoid endless regress of explanations, as complex states arise from simpler states — what is often referred to as a teleological perspective.

endless and cannot
For example, one cannot express confidence in Michael's accuracy by asserting the endless sentence:
This however was denied by Peter Lecount, one of the L & BR engineers, who wrote in his ' History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham ' ( 1839 ), page 48: " It is not because locomotives cannot draw a train of carriages up this incline that a fixed engine and endless rope are used, for they can and have done so, but because the Company are restricted, by their Act of Parliament, from running locomotive engines nearer London than Camden Town.
Tim plays endless pranks on Gareth, such as hiding his computer, putting his stapler in jelly ( a prank that has been reprised in several other versions of The Office, including the US version ), gluing his phone so that the receiver cannot be picked up ( and then phoning him up ) and playing on Gareth's naïveté by encouraging him to discuss warfare with language which could be interpreted as being homosexual in nature ( e. g. ' the enemy has discovered your camp ... and they've all entered your hole ', ' taking a man from behind ' or ' could you give a man a lethal blow?
Desperately lonely with all his knowledge that he cannot share, he searches for others caught in the same endless loop of lifetimes.
Mousetrapping is a technique used by some websites ( usually pornographic websites ) to keep visitors from leaving their website, either by launching an endless series of pop-up ads — known colloquially as a circle jerk — or by re-launching their website in a window that cannot be closed ( sometimes this window runs like a stand-alone application, and the taskbar and the browser's menu become inaccessible ).
She sums it up by stating, “ transcendental guarantees of truth are dead ;... there is only the endless struggle of local narratives vying with one another for legitimization .” What this says is that there cannot be one way that all people should act in certain circumstances, but rather studies and theories focused on the common good of the public majority.

endless and be
Fifteen years ago, troubled by the rising tide of materialism in the post-war world, a businessman and a minister asked themselves if there might not be a place for a small magazine in which men and women, regardless of creed or color, could set forth boldly their religious convictions and bear witness to the power of faith to solve the endless problems of living.
" Therefore he seems to me a very foolish man, and truly wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.
One strength of a DBMS is that while there is typically only one conceptual ( or logical ) and physical ( or internal ) view of the data, there can be an endless number of different external views.
Elizabeth Aggasiz wrote, at the Strait: '… the Hassler pursued her course, past a seemingly endless panorama of mountains and forests rising into the pale regions of snow and ice, where lay glaciers in which every rift and crevasse, as well as the many cascades flowing down to join the waters beneath, could be counted as she steamed by them ....
This New Life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust ; and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone, do no backbiting, do not seek material possessions or power, who accept no homage, neither covet honor nor shun disgrace, and fear no one and nothing ; by those who rely wholly and solely on God, and who love God purely for the sake of loving ; who believe in the lovers of God and in the reality of Manifestation, and yet do not expect any spiritual or material reward ; who do not let go the hand of Truth, and who, without being upset by calamities, bravely and wholeheartedly face all hardships with one hundred percent cheerfulness, and give no importance to caste, creed and religious ceremonies.
In essence, a Turing machine is imagined to be a simple computer that reads and writes symbols one at a time on an endless tape by strictly following a set of rules.
A list of typical activities could be almost endless including most human activities, a few examples being reading, playing or listening to music, watching movies or TV, gardening, hunting, hobbies, sports, studies, and travel.
Turnpikes thereby need to be expanded in a seemingly endless cycles.
The " Vulcan Soul " Trilogy, written by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, told the story that it was Surak's idea that some of the Vulcan population should leave their homeworld to find a new home so that the Vulcan race could be preserved due to the endless wars then raging on the homeworld.
Taky Kimura became the first Assistant Instructor Bruce ever had and has continued to be Bruce ’ s staunch supporter, devoting endless hours to preserving his art and philosophy throughout the 30 years since Bruce ’ s passing.
In respect to addition, a potentially infinite sequence or series would be endless: another element can always be counted for a sequence or series that is inexhaustible.
In the absence of political order and law, everyone would have unlimited natural freedoms, including the " right to all things " and thus the freedom to plunder, rape, and murder ; there would be an endless " war of all against all " ( bellum omnium contra omnes ).
An infinite loop ( also known as an endless loop or unproductive loop ) is a sequence of instructions in a computer program which loops endlessly, either due to the loop having no terminating condition, having one that can never be met, or one that causes the loop to start over.
Their private lives turned out to be an endless source of curiosity for the media, and their marriage was also the start of a series of on-screen collaborations.
There are many forms of neurosis: obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety neurosis, hysteria ( in which anxiety may be discharged through a physical symptom ), and a nearly endless variety of phobias as well as obsessions such as pyromania.
This is particularly problematic in the hop-by-hop routing model in which the net effect of inconsistent tables in several different routers could be to forward packets in an endless loop.
Impatient of the endless committees that would no doubt attend the appointment of a successor to Price, Jowett extracted what could be interpreted as permission from the Delegates and headhunted Philip Lyttelton Gell, a former student acolyte of his, to be the next Secretary to the Delegates.
Since these natural living systems can be neither changed nor replaced by man, some argue that an ecoregional democracy which follows their borders strictly is the only form of decentralization of larger political units that will not lead to endless conflict, e. g. gerrymandering, in struggle between social groups.
The success of Hitler's bribery system backfired in that some officers, who had proven themselves especially greedy, such as Guderian and Raeder, came to be regarded by Hitler as a serious annoyance because of their endless demands for more money and more free land for their estates.
Pope John Paul II referred to Acts of Reparation as the " unceasing effort to stand beside the endless crosses on which the Son of God continues to be crucified ".
Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the Antichrist.
Hence, sweeps should never be limited solely to the above pattern ; one can choose to construct completely new and different patterns just as chords can be modified into endless combinations.

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