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In an effort to forestall the sort of widespread accusations of fraud and manipulation which had accompanied previous elections, the government introduced new safeguards, including published voter lists and a hard-to-falsify voter identification card.
A sort of coating, or primer, is used which both helps protect the glass filaments for processing / manipulation as well as ensure proper bonding to the resin matrix, thus allowing for transfer of shear loads from the glass fibers to the thermoset plastic.
Kiernan suggests that Richard is merely acting as if God is determining his every step in a sort of Machiavellian manipulation of religion as an attempt to circumvent the moral conscience of those around him.
( Descartes describes the difference between imagination as a sort of vision, or image, and intellect as conceptualizing things by symbolic manipulation.
In psychology, this has led to critical statements of the sort of " SIT assumes that the brain performs symbol manipulation ".
Also, no sort of gravity manipulation exists, so spaceships must be built to account for micro-gravity conditions and transferring from space to a planetary surface ( or vice versa ) is still expensive.
Another point of critique is the fact that exit counseling presumes the group has used some sort of mind control or manipulation on the person, so that the person's informed choice regarding the group is in some way altered.
Therewith emerged a new sort of influence, i. e., media power, which, used for purposes of manipulation, once and for all took care of the innocence of the principle of publicity.

sort and is
One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.
And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??
But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.
The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.
Merely having a mental image of some sort is not the all-important consideration.
There may be a case of this sort, but it is not one we wish to argue, here.
In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.
An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.
Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.
Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.
It is a matter of trying to sort out an earlier fourth-century Saxon element from the later, fifth-century mainstream of Anglo-Saxon invasions.
It is for these reasons that proposals for a `` new world order '', through radical overhaul of the United Nations or through some sort of world federation, are utterly fatuous.
( It is sort of as if our government should decide to disown Washington or Lincoln for the same reason.
Having hedged its bets in this way, PHS apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination after all: `` At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will be affected ''.
If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.
`` This is the sort of stuff I write and then throw away ''!!
The fruit is then cooled to 42-degrees-F., a temperature at which it lapses into a sort of dormant state.
The reason that we are not going ahead full speed to develop high thrust-to-weight engines is that it would cost perhaps a billion dollars -- and you don't spend that sort of money if aircraft are obsolete.
It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.
As the work progresses the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese puzzle where several pieces must be removed before the part you are working on is accessible.
It is a sort of academic ring-around-a-rosy and you solve it.
According to the theory proposed, this is a consequence of the severe condition of perceived threat that persists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous sort of school environment.
If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.
We need many more studies of this sort if the design of written languages is to be put on a sound basis.

sort and especially
One sort of parchment is vellum, a word that is used loosely to mean parchment, and especially to mean fine parchment, but more strictly refers to parchment made from calfskin ( although goatskin can be as fine in quality ).
Rhetoric, as an area of study, is concerned with how humans use symbols, especially language, to reach agreement that permits coordinated effort of some sort.
This sort of colony would be especially suitable for Saturn, Uranus and Neptune for which the gravitational attraction at the altitude of the visible atmosphere is near one Earth gravity.
Leepson asserted that the majority of people favors some sort of sex instruction in public schools, and this has become an intensely controversial issue because unlike most subjects, sex education is concerned with an especially sensitive and highly personal part of human life.
Genres sort media efficiently, especially when following trends set by society.
It was because the tapestry was regarded as an antiquity, rather than a work of art, that in 1804 it was returned to Bayeux where in 1823 one commentator, A. L. Léchaudé d ' Anisy, reported " there is a sort of purity in its primitive forms, especially considering the state of the arts in the eleventh century ".
Denominations which observe Saturday as Sabbath are called " Sabbatarians ", but the name " Sabbatarian " has also been claimed by Christians, especially Protestants, who believe Sunday must be observed with just the sort of rigorous abstinence from work associated with " Shabbat ".
With the coming of computers, especially those on artists ' desktops, type design eventually became a subdivision of computer graphics, employing a drafting program of some sort.
Although " trust " had a technical legal meaning, the word was commonly used to denote big business, especially a large, growing manufacturing conglomerate of the sort that suddenly emerged in great numbers in the 1880s and 1890s.
Alongside these shared functions, each body had their own particular mandates, which made this body a sort of “ guiding intelligence ” behind the work of the Senate, especially in foreign affairs.
Dodds ' unique shimmy beat caught Louis Armstrong's eye as well, who said: " To watch him play, especially when he beat on the rim of his bass in a hot chorus, he sort of shimmied when he beat with his sticks.
In contrast to pattern recognition, pattern matching is generally not considered a type of machine learning, although pattern-matching algorithms ( especially with fairly general, carefully tailored patterns ) can sometimes succeed in providing similar-quality output to the sort provided by pattern-recognition algorithms.
This " need for a leader " becomes especially strong in troubled groups that are experiencing some sort of conflict.
** Many Valencian subdialects, especially Southern Valencian, feature some sort of vowel harmony ( harmonia vocàlica ).
Birtwistle's favourite image for explaining how his pieces work is to compare them to taking a walk through a town — especially the sort of small town more common in continental Europe than Britain.
Generally speaking, cremation is cheaper than traditional burial services ,( i. e. burial with the use of a coffin ) especially if direct cremation is chosen, in which the body is cremated as soon as legally possible without any sort of services.
Raymond often finds himself in the middle of all the problems and arguments and proves himself incapable of taking any sort of stand, especially if there is the chance that it will bring down his mother's wrath on him.
" butter eye ") and / or with milk, or fruit or jam, especially the sort made of raspberries or strawberries ( sometimes lingonberries ).
One especially mentioned case involves the 17th and last ruler of the dynasty, Jie of Xia, who has been often been the one credited ( or blamed ) for the demise of the Xia to the succeeding Shang dynasty: at the behest of his mistress, Jie was said to have ordered the construction of a pool of wine ( alcoholic beverage ), which when eventually completed and filled was large enough to navigate with some sort of boat.
Though very strong, aggresive, and not particularly averse to violence, Xev often finds herself as sort of the moral compass of the crew, especially in relation to Stan, and often has to goad, cajole, and sometimes directly force Stan into doing the right thing.
One of the biggest new trends, however, has been the rise of bolel, a sort of blues-like music, played by sarcastic azmari playing in parts of Addis Ababa, especially Yohannès Sefer and Kazentchis.
Cook was proud of the work he did on the new Dungeon Master's Guide, especially after Gary Gygax gave his comments to the team as feedback on the book: " He said that the material in the new DMG would help him become a better DM ... That was really cool – and satisfying in a ' completion of the circle ' sort of way.
When a mother is unable to nurse her own infant, an acceptable mediated substitute is screened, pasteurized, expressed milk ( or especially colostrum ) donated to milk banks, analogous to blood banks, a sort of bureaucratic wet-nurse.

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