Field also refers, sometimes, to the ' Midpoint ', a more subtle turning point that happens at approximately page 60 ( of a 120 pages screenplay ) in Act II ( the Confrontation ), which often has an apparently devastating reversal of the main character's fortune.

" The appellation " avadhuta ," more than any other, came to be associated with the apparently crazy modes of behaviour of some paramahamsas, who dramatize the reversal of social norms, a behaviour characteristic of their spontaneous lifestyle.

Then Mrs. Herbert's married, but as yet childless, daughter, Mrs. Talmann, who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville, seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure, rather than his — a reversal of the position in regard to her mother.

In December the Bush administration, apparently anticipating a reversal in the Supreme Court, petitioned Luttig's court for approval to transfer Padilla to civilian custody for a criminal trial.

He did not fare much better as an announced candidate in the summer and fall, but the last six weeks of 1979 saw a modest reversal of his fortunes.

Since Edward Simpson did not actually discover this statistical paradox, some writers, instead, have used the impersonal names reversal paradox and amalgamation paradox in referring to what is now called Simpson's Paradox and the Yule-Simpson effect.

U. S. Supreme Court summary reversal of a decision by the Montana Supreme Court holding that Citizens United did not preclude a Montana state law prohibiting corporate spending in elections.

Petitions to the House of Lords did not have to seek reversal of lower court judgments ; often, petitions were brought directly to the Lords without prior consideration in the inferior judiciary.

Even though the Texas Department of Transportation started contraflow lane reversal at FM 1488, it did not alleviate the traffic jam deep into the city, as that starting point was even north of The Woodlands, which is close to Conroe, the northern terminus of the greater Houston area.

This was a reversal of the long-standing studio policy against sequels to animated films ( which did not apply to live-action films ); Walt Disney has often been quoted on the subject as saying " you can't top pigs with pigs.

) and he was forced to reverse his position, which he claimed was " misunderstood ", but this reversal did not end the controversy, and the Mormons were violently expelled from Jackson County, Missouri five months later in December 1833.

According to a Los Angeles Times article, part of this effort was to allow directors more creative control as collaborators on their projects and to give them the creative freedom to use traditional animation techniques — a reversal of former CEO Michael Eisner's decision that Disney would do only digital animation, which Catmull thought was the wrong idea of how Pixar's films did well.

Following NBC's reversal, Broccoli stated he did not want Bond to be identified with a current TV series, and instead gave the role to Timothy Dalton.

In a reversal of the previous seasons outcome Saracens lost their opening double-header game against Wasps, but unlike some previous seasons, this did not immediately trigger a run of bad results, and indeed until December Saracens progressed well.

" In July 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that the amendment did not constitute " reversal " of a judicial decision, given that the proposed amendment sought to define only those marriages performed after its enaction.

In such a situation the above formula becomes invalid, and one must then add amplitudes instead of intensities, taking into account the phase shift as the gap is traversed and the phase reversal that occurs with reflection, concerns that did not arise in the incoherent large-gap or thick-film case.

Many environmental activists, particularly Shell to Sea and Maura Harrington, criticised Ryan for joining Fianna Fáil in coalition as the terms of the programme for government did not include a reversal or renegotiation of the proposed gas pipline and refinery at Broadhaven Bay, County Mayo.

The original Synod of Australia did not wish to recognise Lang, despite having to recall the deposition in 1863 ( which was done by a majority of one vote ), following Lang securing the reversal of the Presbytery of Irvine's sentence in 1861.

However, his cousins caught up with him soon afterwards, following him across the Bridge over the Uji, New Year's Day, 1184, which Yoshinaka had torn up to impair their crossing, in an ironic reversal of the first Battle of the Uji, only four years earlier. Much as the Taira did in that first battle, Minamoto no Yoshitsune led his horsemen across the river, and defeated Yoshinaka, and pursued him away from the capital.

However the station did not open until 1 July 1906, originally to serve trains between the north of England and the south coast which could thus avoid a reversal at.

The Peace, although it abolished most of the civil restrictions on Catholics, did not guarantee public practice of Catholicism and offered no reversal of the confiscation of Catholic owned land.

But, in a reversal of policy in 1877, General Oliver O. Howard threatened to attack if the Indians did not relocate to an Idaho reservation that was only a small fraction of their original territory.

She had a reversal of fortunes at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships and took fourth place with a season's best of 14. 34 m. She did not continue this form outdoors, however, and did not make the final at either the 2005 World Championships in Athletics or 2006 European Athletics Championships.

Criticisms of the former statement suggest the study used an unrepresentative sample and did not adequately control for hormone replacement therapy, which has been shown to influence hypothalamic size, even though the study tried to do this by including non-transsexual male and female controls which, for a variety of medical reasons, had experienced hormone reversal.

Diocletian's accession in 284 did not mark an immediate reversal of disregard to Christianity, but it did herald a gradual shift in official attitudes toward religious minorities.

There is evidence that with abstinence, there is a reversal of at least some of the alcohol induced central nervous system damage.

A fully charged cell supplies an average 1. 25 V / cell during discharge, down to about 1. 0 – 1. 1 V / cell ( further discharge may cause permanent damage in the case of multi-cell packs, due to polarity reversal ).

A complete discharge of a cell until it goes into polarity reversal can cause permanent damage to the cell.

Irreversible damage from polarity reversal is a particular danger in systems, even when a low voltage threshold cutout is employed, where cells in the battery are of different temperatures.

Factors such as momentum, damage, enemy aggressiveness and even kick out and reversal rates will be affected.

Such direct reversal mechanisms are specific to the type of damage incurred and do not involve breakage of the phosphodiester backbone.

The results fell into seven main categories of ' damage ', seven alterations whose reversal would constitute negligible senescence:

In this way, they started the process of reversal of the damage inflicted on the non-Geluk scholarly traditions and created an alternative to the dominance of Geluk scholasticism, which had often tended to present itself in Tibet as the sole inheritor

The reversal of the sheets 6 / 40, 7 / 39 and 8 / 38 is due to an error when the sheets were returned to their protective glass cabinet after drying from the water damage due to the bombing of Dresden in 1945.

He acquired a national reputation as a lawyer and an anti-slavery Whig, and in 1849 prosecuted before the United States Supreme Court an appeal from an adverse decision of Judge Joseph Story, and gained a reversal by an argument which Daniel Webster pronounced the best he had heard in twenty years.

Wilkinson's reversal on his campaign promise not to seek succession for present incumbents damaged his reputation.

One of John XXI's few acts during his brief reign was the reversal of a decree recently passed at the Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) that not only confined cardinals in solitude until they elected a successor Pope, but also progressively restricted their supplies of food and wine if their deliberations took too long.

Grant's attempts to provide justice to Native Americans marked a radical reversal of what had long been the government's policy: " Wars of extermination ... are demoralizing and wicked ," he nobly told Congress.

However the development of heavy forms of reactive armour such as the Soviet, later Russian, Kontakt-5 which were designed to shear long rod penetrators, has prompted the reversal of this trend in the newest U. S. rounds.

The experience of World War I saw a complete reversal in opinion on the relative value of long rifles and bayonets in typical combat infantry operations.

The following methods to vasectomy purportedly have a better chance of reversal, but have seen less use by virtue of higher failure rates and poor long term statistical information as to overall success.

This is different from the risk reversal strategies where investors will simultaneously buy a call option and sell a put option to simulate being long in a stock.

The two northern platforms are on the through tracks while the third, at the south, is a long west-facing bay which has been used for past curtailments of the Shepperton service and allows reversal of trains coming via when there is a closure east of Kingston of either the loop or the main line.

In addition, geologists Scott Bogue of Occidental College and Jonathan Glen of the US Geological Survey, sampling lava flows in Battle Mountain, Nevada, found evidence for a brief, several year long interval during a reversal when the field direction changed by over 50 °.

In late July 2012, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei described Iran's contraceptive services as " wrong ," and Iranian authorities are slashing birth-control programs in what one Western newspaper ( USA Today ) describes as a " major reversal " of its long standing policy.

Katherine's devotion was rewarded after the triumph of Henry VII at Bosworth, where Nicholas Vaux, as a protégé of Margaret Beaufort, probably fought under her husband Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby ; the petition for the reversal of the attainder on Vaux's father and the forfeiture of his property was accepted by the King in the Parliament of 1485, and not long after Vaux was named to the commission of the peace for his home county.

A risk reversal is a position in which you simulate the behavior of a long ; therefore it is sometimes called a synthetic long.