Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.

Unfortunately, the purely synthetic problem is the rule.

It is not binding upon another Superior Court, which could rule to the contrary.

More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.

as a rule, the earlier general dental treatment is started, the less expensive and more satisfactory it is likely to be.

The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;

Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.

It is an irritable rule that does baseball more harm than good, especially at the minor league level.

A rule on the Federal deductibility of state taxes is contested.

The difference is not a formal one taxonomically and there are numerous exceptions to this rule.

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

* Sequential analysis – evaluation of sampled data as it is collected, until the criterion of a stopping rule is met

The only rule universally accepted is that one should be consistent, and to make this easier, publishers express their preferences in a style guide.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

Exceptions to this general rule are when has repeated roots, or when contains no odd powers of.

A mnemonic used by the American Diabetes Association and others is the " rule of 15 "-consuming 15 grams of carbohydrate followed by a 15 minute wait, repeated if glucose remains low ( variable by individual, sometimes 70 mg / dl ).

Application ( or repeated application ) of the rule often converts an indeterminate form to a determinate form, allowing easy evaluation of the limit.

To meet the unspecified criteria for " repeated " motions or litigations, the number must be much more than two, and the rule based on case law seems to be around 12.

In the world of Myth, the forces of Light and Dark rule the world successively in a thousand-year cycle which has repeated since before recorded history.

On repeated occasions, even Vladimir Putin — Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor — stated that the fall of Soviet rule had led to few gains and many problems for most Russian citizens.

If the quality of rule became questionable because of repeated natural disasters such as flood or famine, or for other reasons, then rebellion was justified.

Antony ’ s “ obsessive language concerned with structure, organization, and maintenance for the self and empire in repeated references to ‘ measure ,’ ‘ property ,’ and ‘ rule ’ express unconscious anxieties about boundary integrity and violation .” ( Hooks 38 ) Furthermore, Antony struggles with his infatuation with Cleopatra and this paired with Cleopatra ’ s desire for power over him causes his eventual downfall.

which can be rewritten as follows, using the chain rule for repeated applications of the definition of conditional probability:

and employing the general Leibniz rule for repeated differentiation.

Under the rule of the Ottoman Empire Najaf experienced severe difficulties as the result of repeated raids by Arab desert tribes and Persian army and acute water shortages caused by the lack of a reliable water supply.

They predominantly used a hexgrid for the maps and many rule concepts such as zones of control were repeated in many games.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a resurgence in Korean nationalism after repeated outside foreign incursions and the beginning of colonial rule in 1910 to 1945, the movement was revived in Daejonggyo ( 대종교 ; 大宗敎 ).

The early years of Communist rule in Romania were marked by repeated changes of course and by numerous arrests and imprisonments as factions contended for dominance.

Krom writes that a formula is consistent if repeated application of this inference rule cannot generate both the clauses and, for any variable.

The idea behind the rule is that if the position is repeated three times, no progress is being made.

In her 1945 memoir A Star Danced, she recalled, " After weeks of more or less patient waiting, repeated timid, pleading, urgent, and finally importunate requests to the authorities who rule such matters in Washington and London, and a rapid-fire barrage of telegrams, cables, and telephone calls, it had happened.

The determination to perform surgery is usually based upon the diameter of the aortic root ( with 5 centimeters being a rule of thumb-a normal size is 2-3 centimeters ) and the rate of increase in its size ( as determined through repeated echocardiography ).

In the world of Myth, the forces of Light and Dark rule the world successively in a thousand-year cycle which has repeated since before recorded history.

Periods of Mahayana influence, as well as official neglect under colonial rule, created great challenges for Theravada Buddhist institutions in Sri Lanka, but repeated revivals and resurgences-most recently in the 19th century CE-have kept the Theravada tradition alive for over 2, 600 years.

Once formal investigations to rule out gastrointestinal or other etiologies have been conducted, these need not be repeated in future episodes.

Either or both of them are thought to allow their wielder to rule the wulin ( martial artists ' community ), according to a widely circulating rumour in a repeated mantra, " Honoured by the wulin, the precious saber slays the dragon, it commands the world, who dares to disobey?

Roy Williams was the first player suspended for repeated violations of the rule.

As a rule converts are to be baptized ; but care must be taken to inquire if they had been previously validly baptized, lest the sacrament be repeated.