It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

You can save all that shimming time if you set your windows in one, two, three order -- first the stud on one side, then the window, then the stud on the other side.

In our work the best procedure for removing substances causing nonspecific staining in order to obtain specific conjugates was to pass the conjugates through a DEAE-cellulose column and in some cases to absorb the first and second milliliter fractions with sweet clover tissue powder.

The startlingly bright effect of the first washings led the Committee to order the rest of the Brumidi-Costaggini cycle cleaned and restored to go with them.

It was the season's first night game and an obvious refocusing of the lights are in order.

Montgomery calls for a leader who will first put the West's own house in order.

Amphibians usually swallow food whole but may chew it lightly first in order to subdue it.

In order to know the value of the respective beads of the upper rows, it is enough to multiply by 20 ( by each row ), the value of the corresponding account in the first row.

Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

Agnostida is an order of arthropod which first developed near the end of the Early Cambrian period and thrived during the Middle Cambrian.

The order is thought to have first diverged from other related monocots some 120-130 million years ago ( early in the Cretaceous period ), although given the difficulty in classifying the families involved, estimates are likely to be uncertain.

The name " abjad " ( ) is derived from pronouncing the first letters of the Arabic alphabet in order.

At the command of Moses he stretched out his rod in order to bring on the first of three plagues ( Exodus 7: 19, 8: 1, 12 ).

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

Since the fluctuations are assumed to be small, products of the fluctuation terms can be neglected ( to first order ) and we have

If we neglect higher than first order terms in the fluctuations, the mass balance equation becomes

Also, the contents of an expanding universe ( to first order ) can be described as an adiabatically cooling fluid.

The first one was the fact that queen Isabel II was a woman, and her father, king Ferdinand VII, had modified the Succession Law in order for her to be queen, excluding his brother Carlos.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

The convention, for the first time in the history of international aviation law, recognizes certain powers and immunities of the aircraft commander who on international flights may restrain any person ( s ) he has reasonable cause to believe is committing or is about to commit an offense liable to interfere with the safety of persons or property on board or who is jeopardizing good order and discipline.

Vox format files are similar to wave files except that the vox files contain no information about the file itself so the codec sample rate and number of channels must first be specified in order to play a vox file.

The normal order of administration is: first Penance ( if the dying person is physically unable to confess, absolution, conditional on the existence of contrition, is given ); next, Anointing ; finally, Viaticum ( if the person can receive it ).

When the index words or electronic switches are reserved because of actual usage in the statements described above, the position or order of the statements within the program is not important ; ;

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

In order to prevent potential confusions both variants will be described here, side by side.

Traditionally, the extinct family Viverravidae ( viverravids ) had been thought to be the earliest carnivorans, with fossil records first appearing in the Paleocene of North America about 60 mya, but recently described evidence from cranial morphology now places them outside the order Carnivora.

Below, some of the most active areas of inquiry in cosmology are described, in roughly chronological order.

Thatcher was described as " a radical in a conservative party ", and her ideology has been seen as confronting " established institutions " and the " accepted beliefs of the elite ", both concepts incompatible with the traditional conception of conservatism as signifying support for the established order and existing social convention.

Caligula's actions as emperor were described as being especially harsh to the Senate, the nobility and the equestrian order.

The plot is described as having been planned by three men, but many in the Senate, army and equestrian order were said to have been informed of it and involved in it.

The simple checksums described above fail to detect some common errors that affect many bits at once, such as changing the order of data words, or inserting or deleting words with all bits set to zero.

Hubbard described Dianetics as " an organized science of thought built on definite axioms: statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences ".

The language of the DSM was described as " simultaneously precise and vague " in order to provide an aura of scientific objectivity yet not limit psychiatrists in a semantic or financial sense, and the manual itself compared to " a militia's Web page, insofar as it constitutes an alternative reality under siege " by critics.

Additionally the cartridge adapter had to be opened and soldered in order to allow the operational procedure described early on this article.

Ice melting in a warm room is a common Entropy # Ice melting example | example of increasing entropy, described in 1862 by Rudolf Clausius as an increase in the disgregation of the water molecules in ice: order leading to disorder

The term became useful in order to describe differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as empiricist, and René Descartes, who is described as a rationalist.

In The Legal Basis of the Total State, Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt described the Nazi intention to form a " strong state which guarantees a totality of political unity transcending all diversity " in order to avoid a " disastrous pluralism tearing the German people apart "

Although Ireland's political spectrum was traditionally divided along Civil War lines, rather than the traditional European left-right spectrum, Fine Gael is described generally as a centre-right, Christian democratic party, with a focus on law and order, enterprise and reward, and fiscal rectitude.

Władysław Reymont's The Revolt ( 1922 ), a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, described a revolt by animals that take over their farm in order to introduce " equality.

This represents somehow a tautology, since the phenomena described by a lower order

Western Orientalists do not believe that Ibn Battuta visited all the places he described and argue that in order to provide a comprehensive description of places in the Muslim world, he relied on hearsay evidence and made use of accounts by earlier travellers.

Typically only the first two terms are kept and higher order terms are ignored since most phases can be described adequately using sinusoidal functions.

Friedrich von Berchtold and Jan Presl described such an order in 1820.

The quality of cleavage can be described based on how cleanly and easily the mineral breaks ; common descriptors, in order of decreasing quality, are " perfect ", " good ", " distinct ", and " poor ".