The lightness of modern racquets allows players to use a very short hitting action for many strokes, thereby maintaining the option to hit a powerful or a soft stroke until the last possible moment.

Judaism has a great many teachings about peace and compromise, and its teachings make physical violence the last possible option.

The last versions of the Auto-Union 1000S also had disc brakes as option, an early development for this technology.

The use of guns for self-defense is only allowed if the gun is a last resort option.

The " Next Header " field of the last option, points to the upper-layer protocol that is carried in the packet's payload.

Violence is the last option only to be used to protect religion and one's own life in extreme situations of persecution.

Poorly designed systems often don't last, both because they wear out and because their reliability or usability are low enough that no one is inclined to make an effort to extend their term of service when replacement is an option.

This option has almost never been entertained in Canada, the last time being in 1925.

Usually the first two degrees of education ( eight years ) are always included, while the last one ( two years ) gives option for the students to pursue vocational or specialized educations.

In most western countries, women began to exercise the option of keeping their maiden names after marriage ; in Canada, legislation was enacted to end the practice of automatically changing a woman's last name upon marriage.

The tiebreaker was the same as the previous versions except that the player who has won the most games, most squares overall or won the last game played ( whichever came first ) had the option to play the question or pass it to his / her opponent, with a miss by either player giving their opponent the win by default.

During this season, Philadelphia acquired Chris Webber in a trade with the Sacramento Kings, with the hopes that the team had at long last found a consistent second scoring option to compliment Iverson.

In Gaelic Ireland, Lughnasadh was also a favored time for handfastings — trial marriages that would generally last a year and a day, with the option of ending the contract before the new year, or formalizing it as a lasting marriage.

1969 was the last year for the GT option.

The last condition gives the value of the option at the time that the option matures.

In his last season, Smith became the oldest player in NFL history ever to throw his first touchdown pass, throwing a 21-yard touchdown strike on a halfback option play.

Nine months later, after all attempts to save the fresco were explored – including relocating it to Abby's Museum of Modern Art – it was destroyed as a last option.

Choice of treatment is often determined by whether the patient ( or doctor ) views circumcision as an option of last resort to be avoided or as the preferred course.

# The bid / ask price is more relevant in ascertaining the value of the option than the last price since options are not frequently traded.

The last option was proposed in the 1970s, but is only recently becoming feasible.

Surgical option is usually the last resort, and can involve, lobectomy or pneumonectomy.

As a market of “ last resort ”, industry can use the LME ’ s delivery option to sell excess stock in times of oversupply and as a source of material in times of extreme shortage.

In games where a time limit in such screens is not included, campers can take advantage of the situation and stop playing, leaving their opponents also waiting with no other choice than to wait indefinitely or quit from the game, the last option resulting in an absolute win for the camper.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

I ask you to do me the last favour of reading them by 8 to-morrow evening, about which time I shall come to say my sad good-bye.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

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.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

His successor, Secretary Goldberg, also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months.

There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; ;

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.