Although a successful pursuit of self-interest may be viewed as a moral victory, it could also be dubbed immoral if it prevents another person from executing what is in his best interests.

If someone sees something completely different than another, our language prevents us from acknowledging the other's point of view by limiting our perception to fixed states.

Automatic valves and diffusion pump like injection into a large buffer-tube in front of the backing pump prevents any overpressure from one pump to stall another pump.

The Eleventh Amendment reversed this decision, and prevents a state from being sued in a federal court by a citizen of another state.

Ground planes can also be placed on adjacent layers to power planes, creating a large parallel plate decoupling capacitor that prevents noise from being coupled from one circuit to another through the power supply.

It permits transfer of voice currents from one winding to another by magnetic induction, matches line and drop impedances, and prevents direct conduction between the line and the drop.

Application of the dormant commerce clause to state taxation is another manifestation of the Court's holdings that the Commerce Clause prevents a State from retreating into economic isolation or jeopardizing the welfare of the Nation as a whole, as it would do if it were free to place burdens on the flow of commerce across its borders that commerce wholly within those borders would not bear.

For example, schedule-sensitive business passengers who are willing to pay $ 300 for a seat from city A to city B cannot purchase a $ 150 ticket because the $ 150 booking class contains a requirement for a Saturday night stay, or a 15-day advance purchase, or another fare rule that discourages, minimizes, or effectively prevents a sale to business passengers.

With tube paints, the excess paint remaining in the palette paint wells should be cleaned out only if the paint has become dirtied with another paint ; otherwise the paints should be allowed to dry out promptly and completely, as this prevents mold from forming.

* Estoppel by silence or acquiescence — Estoppel that prevents a person from asserting something when he had the right and opportunity to do so earlier, and such silence put another person at a disadvantage.

This prevents other players from being able to determine the exact score of another player.

It is widely believed that game mechanics are uncopyrightable in the USA, and according to a circular on the US Copyright Office's website, " Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles.

The metal salts work in another way to prevent sweat from reaching the surface of the skin: the aluminium salts interact with the keratin fibrils in the sweat ducts and form a physical plug that prevents sweat from reaching the skin ’ s surface.

Perverting the course of justice, in Canadian, English, Hong Kong, and Irish law, is a criminal offence in which someone prevents justice from being served on himself or on another party.

There is another small, private bridge on the northeastern end of City Island which connects it to High Island, site of the radio transmitter for New York AM stations, WFAN ( 660 ) and WCBS ( 880 ); a security gate prevents access to High Island, even though at low tides a sandbar that can be walked across is exposed adjacent to the bridge, some locals go on the island ( via the sandbar ) as there is great fishing spots, however it is illegal to trespass on the island so most do not.

Shadow-matching prevents the matched individual from disobeying orders and compels him to act in the best interests of another individual, even to the point of being unable to consider ideas that conflict with these interests.

* Aquaplaning is another word for Hydroplaning which is also known as a loss of steering or braking control when a layer of water prevents direct contact between tires and the road, runway, or other surface.

This continued activation prevents the accumulation of cyclin that would trigger another round of mitosis and instead drives exit from mitosis.

Also in 1984, Meyers, Shyer and Miller penned Protocol, another comedy starring Goldie Hawn in which she portrayed a cocktail waitress who prevents the assassination of a visiting Arab Emir, and thus is offered a job with the United States Department of State as a protocol official.

In general terms, they're both locks: your thread gets a lock ( which prevents other threads from having it ), does some work, and then releases it for another thread to use.

Even though multiply operations draw more power than NOP on practically all CPUs, using a constant execution path prevents such operation-dependent power differences — differences in power from choosing one branch over another — from leaking any secret information.

This prevents the oar handles from colliding with one another and causing a crab or other problems.

Ajātasattu follows the advice, and this action ( another anantarika-kamma for killing your own father ) prevents him from attaining stream-entry at a later time, when listening to some teaching of the Buddha.

At the upper end of the pool, another dam prevents surface water from Barton Creek from entering the pool by diverting it through a tunnel under the sidewalks.

A folkloric note about caña quemada: until June 21 it is traditional to drink caña quemada with ruda macho ( a variant of common rue ), it is supposed that this mixture prevents the flu and other illnesses.

The grid separates the flame into an array of smaller flames with a common external envelope, and also prevents flashback to the bottom of the tube, which is a risk at high air-to-fuel ratios and limits the maximum rate of air intake in a conventional Bunsen burner.

This is important as one of the most common errors when growing is over-and under-watering ; and hydroponics prevents this from occurring as large amounts of water can be made available to the plant and any water not used, drained away, recirculated, or actively aerated, eliminating anoxic conditions, which drown root systems in soil.

The salt prevents attackers from easily building a list of hash values for common passwords and prevents password cracking efforts from scaling across all users.

In McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that contemporary Maryland blue laws ( typically, Sunday rest laws ) were intended to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest, and that this day coinciding with majority Christian Sabbath neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

This prevents the large sow from sitting on her piglets and killing them, which is quite common where the sow is not separated from the piglets.

Along the way he subsequently ends up inventing several things that are considered Australian Icons in the real world, for example beer soup ( vegemite ), putting corks on a string round his hat to keep flies off ( a common Australian outback hat stereotype ), as well as becoming the subject of a ballad that is hinted at being a parody of the song " Waltzing Matilda " when he is caught apparently stealing a sheep by a billabong. A gigantic circular storm surrounding Fourecks prevents any ships from leaving, however.

Collateral estoppel ( CE ), known in modern terminology as issue preclusion, is a common law estoppel doctrine that prevents a person from relitigating an issue.

The more common form of carfree development involves some sort of physical barrier, which prevents motor vehicles from penetrating into a carfree interior.

Argon gas is the most common gas used in HIP because it is an inert gas, thus prevents chemical reactions during the operation.

White then has two main continuations: 3. Nf3, the King's Knight Gambit is the most common as it develops the knight and prevents 3 ... Qh4 +; and 3. Bc4, the Bishop's Gambit, where White's development will rapidly increase after the continuation often played in the 19th century, 3 ... Qh4 +!?

If Black prevents this with 6 ... h6, which is the most common answer, White has gained kingside space and discouraged Black from castling in that area, and may later play Bg2.

However, using the OS network functions prevents low-level control, so this scan type is less common.

The most common ER retention signal is the amino acid sequence-KDEL ( or-HDEL ) at the C-terminus, which keeps the protein in the endoplasmic reticulum and prevents it from entering the secretory pathway.

Anchorites practiced continuous meditation on the scriptures as a means of climbing the ladder of perfection — a common religious image in the Mediterranean world and one found in Christianity through the story of Jacob's ladder — and sought to fend off the demon of acedia (" un-caring "), a boredom or apathy that prevents us from continuing on in our spiritual training.

Also organizing and searching data often relies on detecting areas where objects form groups with similar properties ; in high dimensional data however all objects appear to be sparse and dissimilar in many ways which prevents common data organization strategies from being efficient.

A common feature in curtain wall technology, the rainscreen principle theorizes that equilibrium of air pressure between the outside and inside of the " rainscreen " prevents water penetration into the building itself.

The parol evidence rule is a substantive common law rule in contract cases that prevents a party to a written contract from presenting extrinsic evidence that contradicts or adds to the written terms of the contract that appears to be whole.

The common trip prevents overloading of the shared neutral if one device draws more than rated current.

The tightening created by the device also prevents the tissues of the upper airway from vibrating as air passes over them – the most common cause of loud snoring.

" MapReduce's use of input files and lack of schema support prevents the performance improvements enabled by common database system features such as B-trees and hash partitioning, though projects such as Pig ( or PigLatin ), Sawzall, Apache Hive, YSmart, HBase and BigTable are addressing some of these problems.

The most common ER retention signal is the amino acid sequence-KDEL ( or-HDEL ) at the C-terminus, which keeps the protein in the endoplasmic reticulum and prevents it from entering the secretory pathway.

It has been countered that nothing prevents this common vocabulary from having been borrowed from Proto-Indo-European into Proto-Uralic.