For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

But for those which do, the slow growth of the area has a retarding effect on the metropolitan core.

The Nashville plan, incidentally, has become recognized as perhaps the most acceptable and thus the most practical to put into effect in the troubled South.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

The effect of Chou En-lai's clash with Khrushchev, together with the everlasting attacks on Molotov & Co., has shifted the whole attention of the world, including that of the Soviet people, from the `` epoch-making '' twenty-year program to the present Soviet-Chinese conflict.

However, because this vulnerability is mutual, it is to the advantage of neither side to destroy the opponent's cities, at least so long as the opponent has nuclear weapons with which to effect reprisal.

Without losing the distinctive undertow of Brahmsian rhythm, the pacing is firm and the over-all performance has a tightly knit quality that makes for maximum cumulative effect.

Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

De Jager ( 1955 ) has calculated the times required for these particles to reach the atmosphere under the influence of the Poynting-Robertson effect, which in this case causes the orbits to become more and more eccentric without changing the semi-major axis.

The major reason for this is that it has no quick-kill effect.

For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).

Once he has been identified, however, a new melody is used to accompany his narrative, a bleak motif with barren octaves creating a rather ancient effect:

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity and an effect of utter comfort and livability.

Expressions of even low-key dissatisfaction by a Catholic college faculty member has the effect of confirming the already existing stereotype.

One frequently has the feeling that the order of their movement combinations could be transposed without notable loss of effect, there is too little suggestion of organic relationship and development.

; Fixed effect: An effect associated with an input variable that has a limited number of levels or in which only a limited number of levels are of interest to the experimenter.

Later experiments are often designed to test a hypothesis that a treatment effect has an important magnitude ; in this case, the number of experimental units is chosen so that the experiment is within budget and has adequate power, among other goals.

Sometimes, the appellate court finds a defect in the procedure the parties used in filing the appeal and dismisses the appeal without considering its merits, which has the same effect as affirming the judgment below.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has stated that '" This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to " annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial.

The term " low ceiling diuretic " is used to indicate that a diuretic has a rapidly flattening dose effect curve ( in contrast to " high ceiling ", where the relationship is close to linear ).

Recently, there has been renewed interest in orthokeratology, the correction of myopia by deliberate overnight flattening of the corneal epithelium, leaving the eye without a refractive error during the day.

The death cap has a large and imposing epigeous ( aboveground ) fruiting body ( basidiocarp ), usually with a pileus ( cap ) from 5 to 15 cm ( 2 – 6 in ) across, initially rounded and hemispherical, but flattening with age.

:" The central corneal flattening obtained by radial diamond knife incisions has been duplicated by radial laser incisions in 18 enucleated human eyes.

This has the counter-intuitive effect of steepening the lens valve cytokinesis centrally ( increasing its power ) and flattening peripherally.

But an exploratory flattening of the fitness landscape can also increase evolvability even when it has no direction, for example when the flattening is a result of random errors in molecular and / or developmental processes.

The term temperament refers to a tuning system which tempers the just intervals ( usually the perfect fifth which has the ratio 3: 2 ) in order to satisfy another mathematical property ; in equal temperament, a fifth would be tempered by narrowing it slightly, achieved by flattening its upper pitch slightly, or raising its lower pitch slightly.

That same year Richelieu, the French king's first minister, keen to minimise opportunities for Austrian resistance, arranged for the flattening of all the castles in Lorraine, including Beauregard Castle which for centuries has overlooked Raon.

In a condition called coeliac disease ( also known as coeliac sprue ), which has similar symptoms to tropical sprue, the flattening of the villi and small intestine inflammation is caused by an autoimmune disorder.

Free-tagging has emerged recently as an effective way of circumventing this challenge ( to date, primarily with application to the identity of digital entities such as bookmarks and photos ) by effectively flattening identity attributes into a single, unstructured layer.

The low cost and ease of fabrication of the dies for three-dimensional foam cutting plus the wide variety of shapes, dimensions, and contours that can be tailor-made to customer requirements has made the technique useful for producing case liners, materials handling containers, packaging and cushioning devices, and such novelties as soap dishes, toys, head rests, arch supports, and gas pedal covers.

The arch of the Friedensbrücke, which was built in the same year, has the span of and crosses the valley of the Syrabach River.

The skull has a highly developed zygomatic arch just behind the maxilla ( common to all mammals and their cynodont forebears ), and they have ossified external auditory bullae.

The Park Service has since closed the loophole by disallowing climbs on any named arch within the park year-round.

The human foot has two longitudinal arches and a transverse arch maintained by the interlocking shapes of the foot bones, strong ligaments, and pulling muscles during activity.

It has the form of a shield whose upper side is an arch turned inwards.

All anapsid skulls lack a temporal opening, while all other extant amniotes have temporal openings ( although in mammals the hole has become the zygomatic arch ).

When it has caught and eaten that prey, it closes its right aortic arch and uses its left aortic arch to flush blood loaded with carbon dioxide from its muscles directly to its stomach ; the resulting excess acidity in its blood supply makes it much easier for the stomach lining to secrete more stomach acid to quickly dissolve bulks of swallowed prey flesh and bone.

This flow, like that of an echo, reverberates ( off one's senses ) and goes back to its start ; meaning, one's sensory perception happens in the coming, going, or arch, of the flow ; and when the flow retreats back to its starting position, the atomic image is back together again: thus when one smells something one has the ability to see it too atoms reach the one who smells or sees from the object.

The Atlas ' chief peculiarity is that it has no body, it is ring-like, and consists of an anterior and a posterior arch and two lateral masses.

In the comic series, he has a crime lord arch nemesis named Drebble, and Calrissian will frequently make use of his foil's name as a cover identity so that any animosity he generates while using the alias will be brought against the real Drebble, not Calrissian himself.

The façade has a Gothic portal, ascribed to Giorgio da Como ( 1228 ), which was intended to have a lateral arch on each side.

When a building has substantial weight bearing down on lower levels, columns can easily support the weight when it is distributed through an arch, reducing the stress significantly.

This serves to lower pitch so the low bars are not excessively long, and is key to the " mellow " sound of the vibraphone ( and marimba, which uses the same deep arch ) compared with the xylophone, which uses a shallower arch, and the glockenspiel, which has no arch at all.

The form is structurally weak and has very rarely been used for large openings except when contained within a larger and more stable arch.

The ( arch ) bishopric of Constantinople has had a continuous history since the founding of the city in 330 AD by Constantine the Great.

One, a cave erosion arch made of limestone is located in Carter Caves State Park and it has a paved road on top.

The Romanesque chancel arch has three orders, with highly ornamented capitals.

The church, built in simple style, has a granite doorway with sloping jambs and flat lintel and a granite chancel arch.

Since then he has starred in his own series of games, starting with 1994's Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and remains an important character in the spin-off games of the Mario series, having since been replaced by Bowser as Mario's arch nemesis.