Fly cutters can fool you into putting your hand too close to the tool, so if you want to avoid nicked fingers, keep your hands well out of the way.

Keep the retirement age flexible so skilled craftsmen such as tool and die makers can be kept on the job for the convenience of the company.

The abacus teaches mathematical skills that can never be replaced with talking calculators and is an important learning tool for blind students.

In literature and rhetoric, ambiguity can be a useful tool.

One can get by without referring to charts, but they are an important tool and a part of good anchoring gear, and a skilled mariner would not choose to anchor without them.

The phone can then be used to make and receive calls by anyone, making it a potential tool in anonymous criminal activity such as narcotics trafficking.

Coppersmith explains IBM's secrecy decision by saying, " that was because cryptanalysis can be a very powerful tool, used against many schemes, and there was concern that such information in the public domain could adversely affect national security.

Wiki sites are another tool teachers can implement into CAL curriculums for students to understand communication and collaboration efforts of group work through electronic means.

Comparing different embryonic stages of different animals is a tool that can be used to infer relationships between species, and thus biological evolution.

Once a giornata is dried, no more buon fresco can be done, and the unpainted intonaco must be removed with a tool before starting again the next day.

The MIDI setup can also enable the guitar to be used as a game controller ( i. e., Rock Band Squier ) or as an instructional tool, as with the Fretlight Guitar.

In his essay Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think.

It can express a political practice and can form just one tool in an array of resistance techniques.

* TOTT – ( Tool Of The Trade ) can refer to any out of the ordinary tool needed / used to retrieve a cache.

While Gram staining is a valuable diagnostic tool in both clinical and research settings, not all bacteria can be definitively classified by this technique, thus forming Gram-variable and Gram-indeterminate groups as well.

Under a theocracy, perceived divine status translated into earthly authority under divine law This can take the form of supreme divine authority above the state's, granting a tool for political influence to a priesthood.

Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine ( JVM ), or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets.

A bump die can be a very useful tool to anyone who owns a fine shooting rifle with a chamber that is cut to minimum headspace dimensions, as the die allows the case to be fitted to this unique chamber.

Additionally, it can be used as a communication tool and as a camouflage.

Because investments in hedge funds can add diversification to investment portfolios, investors may use them as a tool to reduce their overall portfolio risk exposures.

While motivation can often be used as a tool to help predict behavior, it varies greatly among individuals and must often be combined with ability and environmental factors to actually influence behavior and performance.

Nitrogen or other ions can be implanted into a tool steel target ( drill bits, for example ).

The chemical change can also make the tool more resistant to corrosion.

The micrometer caliper, as a common workshop tool, also owes much to J. R. Brown.

And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.

The abacus ( plural abaci or abacuses ), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes.

In the modern world, the killing of important people began to become more than a tool in power struggles between rulers themselves and was also used for political symbolism, such as in the propaganda of the deed.

Bézier curves are also used in animation as a tool to control motion.

Communication is not a tool used only by humans, plants and animals, but it is also used by microorganisms like bacteria.

Computers are also widely used as a tool with which to study cognitive phenomena.

It's also a tool for experienced practitioners and masters of the art to test a student's awareness and demonstrate when the student left herself open to attack.

It is also a tool used in branches of mathematics including combinatorics, abstract algebra, and mathematical analysis.

The native Montagnards of Vietnam's Central Highlands were also known to have used crossbows, as both a tool for hunting, and later, an effective weapon against the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.

C *- algebras are now an important tool in the theory of unitary representations of locally compact groups, and are also used in algebraic formulations of quantum mechanics.

GDebi is a tool that expands the functionality of dpkg by not only installing local. deb packages but also fetching and installing dependencies from online repositories.

Diffraction contrast, in electron microscopes and x-topography devices in particular, is also a powerful tool for examining individual defects and local strain fields in crystals.

He has also written about and advocated the notion of memetics as a philosophically useful tool, most recently in his " Brains, Computers, and Minds ", a three part presentation through Harvard's MBB 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series.

The change to the dollar also precipitated a trend toward lower interest rates in El Salvador, helping many to secure credit in order to buy a house or a car ; over time, displeasure with the change has largely disappeared, though the issue resurfaces as a political tool when elections are on the horizon.

E-Commerce has become an important tool for businesses worldwide not only to sell to customers but also to engage them.

This genre soon also became an important political tool, although in most cases directors were able to keep a distinguishing barrier between art and politics.

Often, there is a partial overlap in meanings, which creates additional complications: e. g. Spanish lima, meaning " lime " ( the fruit ) and " lime " ( the calcium-based material ), but also " file " ( the tool ).

On top of the political aspect of graffiti as a movement, political groups and individuals may also use graffiti as a tool to spread their point of view.

New sequencing technologies have also opened up the prospect of personal genome sequencing as an important diagnostic tool.

He also introduced the Cardan grille, a cryptographic tool, in 1550.

* Hex key, a tool used to drive fasteners ; also known as a hex wrench, Allen wrench, hex-head or zeta key

Some of the wells were hand-dug, but salt producers also learned to drill wells by percussion ( cable tool ) methods.