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This point was driven home by “ accounts … credit Stalin with much of the initiative and planning of flights, including, but not limited to listening carefully to the ideas of Soviet aviators and aviation planners, tracing pilots ’ routes, determining who fly, and ... giving the final permission .” Furthermore, the most prominent Soviet pilots ( the ones around whom mini personality cults developed ) enjoyed personal success, including compensation and other perks, within the structure of the USSR because of their successes in aviation.
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he was long past the point of coherent thinking.
The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.
But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
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.
While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.
It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.
it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.
That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.
There was a pretty thorough silence at that point.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.
If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.
He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.
On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.
The gradient was about one half of a millidegree at 4.2 Af but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the **yl point.
`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.
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Other technical features reveal a shaft driven behind the mask at the desired facial point, driven by a DC motor with a simple pulley and a slide screw.
By 1769 the situation in the Grants had deteriorated to the point where surveyors and other figures of New York authority were being physically threatened and driven from the area.
The domination of sin is complete to the point that people are driven to evil.
It is enough to deform the nucleus into a double-lobed " drop ," to the point that nuclear fragments exceed the distances at which the nuclear force can hold two groups of charged nucleons together, and when this happens, the two fragments complete their separation and then are driven further apart by their mutually repulsive charges, in a process which becomes irreversible with greater and greater distance.
Despite being friends with Margaret, she has driven Margaret mad a few times, notably in " Only a Story ", when she moved in with the Meldrews after her flat had been flooded and drove Margaret to the point of distraction with her complaining and laziness.
At the point where its shock has been the most violent the sea is driven back, and suddenly recoiling with redoubled force, causes the inundation.
" Trucks driven by militants, previously under security surveillance, had entered Sana ' a and lost the surveillance at that point.
As the film is the sole source of most people's knowledge of Schindler, he is generally perceived much as Spielberg's film depicts him: as a man who was instinctively driven by profit-driven amorality, but who at some point made a silent but conscious decision that preserving the lives of his Jewish employees was imperative, even if requiring massive payments to induce Nazis to turn a blind eye.
For example, assume a device with an input-referred third-order intercept point of 10 dBm is driven with a test signal of − 5 dBm.
The bacterial flagellum is driven by a rotary engine ( the Mot complex ) made up of protein, located at the flagellum's anchor point on the inner cell membrane.
Caught in its scattered winter quarters ( action of Amberg, 7 Jan .), it was driven from point to point, defeated at the Battle of Pfaffenhofen and the young elector Maximilian III Joseph had to abandon Munich once more.
The SeaTel antenna however was stabilized using electrically driven gyroscopes and thus made it possible to point to the satellite accurately enough, that is to within 2 degrees, in order to receive a signal.
Victory for the Entente was almost assured by that point, and the fact of Germany's military impotence was driven home in the following hundred days.
At this point, however, a severe storm blew up, and both of these forces were driven back to shore.
Perkin could not have chosen a better time or place for his discovery: England was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution, largely driven by advances in the production of textiles ; the science of chemistry had advanced to the point where it could have a major impact on industrial processes ; and coal tar, the major source of his raw material, was an abundant by-product of the process for making coal gas and coke.
When the emitter voltage is driven approximately one diode voltage above the voltage at the point where the P diffusion ( emitter ) is, current will begin to flow from the emitter into the base region.
In 1870, the Union Pacific chose the town as the point at which Texas cattle being driven north would be loaded onto trains.
With the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway, Estelline became a shipping point for cattle driven in from Paducah and Silverton.
There they were shot and driven back at bayonet point to the Russian artillery positions.
Eventually, the ongoing, systematic institutional neglect of the brand through the string of owners damaged the company to the point where major franchises were driven out of business and its total value was significantly decreased.
It does not point out that Joule's experimental arrangement performed essentially irreversible work, through friction of paddles in a liquid, or passage of electric current through a resistance inside the system, driven by motion of a coil and inductive heating, or by an external current source, which can access the system only by the passage of electrons, and so is not strictly adiabatic, because electrons are a form of matter, which cannot penetrate adiabatic walls.
Lai tries very hard to lead a normal life at this point, but is nearly driven to the edge of insanity by Ho.
A marble rolling around in a basin may have a fixed point, but if the marble is externally driven it may not be attracted to that fixed point.
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