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was and overriding
Bayezid II's overriding concern was the quarrel with his brother Cem, who claimed the throne and sought military backing from the Mamluks in Egypt.
The overriding appetite was for going against the grain of accepted design standards.
A good example from the late 1980s was the Ordnance Survey's first digital maps, where the absolute positions of major roads were sometimes a scale distance of hundreds of metres away from ground truth, when shown on digital maps at scales of 1: 250, 000 and 1: 625, 000, because of the overriding need to annotate the features.
The conception of ordination brought with it largely unspoken parallels with the Anglican and Catholic priesthood, but the overriding metaphor in James's handbook was that of a father's relation to his children.
The overriding law of the empire was the Shari ' ah, or Sacred Law, which as the divine law of Islam was outside of the Sultan's powers to change.
" However, in the view of soft secularism, " the attainment of absolute truth was impossible and therefore skepticism and tolerance should be the principle and overriding values in the discussion of science and religion.
Paul Waldau writes that the overriding of animals ' interests was traditionally justified by arguing that they existed for human use ; Aristotle made this claim in the 4th century BCE, as did Cicero in the 1st century CE.
Taft's overriding concern in making most appointments, however, was ability and experience, not party or faction alignment.
In foreign affairs his overriding aim was to promote peace and understanding, characterised by his settlement of the Alabama Claims in 1872 in favour of the Americans.
" Custer's overriding concern was that the Native American group would break up and scatter in different directions.
The overriding purpose of the CNQA was to make the NNK and the James Bay Cree Bands largely self-governing.
They say that Heracles ’ overriding desire was to see Zeus, but Zeus was refusing to let him do so.
In particular, a hidden indicator light led to an operator manually overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor because the operator mistakenly believed that there was too much coolant water present in the reactor and causing the steam pressure release.
The Council members are Barbara Allan who filled a vacancy in 2004, John Keis filled a vacancy in 2006 and served on the Planning Commission from 1991 to 2004, Rick Montour who joined the Council in 2001 after serving on the Planning Commission from 1996 to 2000, and Michael McGraw who was appointed by the mayor, Blesener, after overriding a 2: 2 vote by the city council members.
The British Government claimed that there was an ' overriding national interest ' in establishing a training range for their newly purchased Corporal, a weapon that was to be at the front line of Cold War defence.
Sartre's overriding concern in writing Being and Nothingness was to demonstrate that free will exists.
Canning instructed Jackson that his overriding aim was to secure the possession of the Danish navy by offering the Danes a treaty of alliance and mutual defence and whereby they would be given back their fleet at the end of the war.
The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding a presidential veto.
As his career developed his arias grew much longer but a lyrical sense was still his overriding target.
In the early days the channel operated on a £ 40 million budget ( plus £ 10 million share of overheads ), which led Sam Chisholm to propose to Murdoch the station be closed, but Rupert was " pleased with its achievements ... there were overriding reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it ... the final hurdle of the Broadcasting Bill had still to be overcome and the case for the acceptability of Sky would collapse if suddenly there was no news channel.

was and drawback
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
One drawback of this cut-through switching method was that packets that had been corrupted would still be propagated through the network, so a jabbering station could continue to disrupt the entire network.
The main drawback of this type of aircraft was its lack of speed.
The main drawback was that the high drag of a pusher type's tail structure made it slower than a similar " tractor " aircraft.
Its main drawback, however, was that it was a non-standard power supply — running on 16. 2V — meant that if the AC adapter was lost or damaged, the system could be rendered useless, as replacement power supplies for that particular voltage requirement were not readily available.
This was not seen as a drawback since though the few — the compiler writers — would have more work, the many — the programmers — would have less.
A leading biographer says: " The most obvious drawback to the home schooling Roosevelt received was uneven coverage of the various areas of human knowledge.
The main drawback in his time, as mentioned, was the poor knowledge of materials characteristics and behaviors at high temperatures.
In the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami drawback was not reported on the African coast or any other east-facing coasts that it reached.
The drawback for users was that direct access to some features of their machines was not available, but this could be remedied with callable functions and subroutines specially written in assembly language.
NS16550AFN One drawback of the earlier 8250 UARTs and 16450 UARTs was that interrupts were generated for each byte received.
One drawback of the MAD doctrine was the possibility of a nuclear war occurring without either side intentionally striking first.
* a reasonable debugger ( its only significant drawback was that one could not examine the contents of fields in structures )
When lasers were first invented, the speckle effect was considered to be a severe drawback in using lasers to illuminate objects, particularly in holographic imaging because of the grainy image produced.
Being plugged into the wall is obviously a major drawback, but had one advantage: the timebase for the clock was driven off of a rectified version of 60 cycle AC current.
Frankel's studies in the history of Talmudic literature had convinced him that the neglect of the Jerusalem Talmud was a serious drawback in the critical investigation of the development of Talmudic law.
This lack of autonomy was simultaneously a vast asset and a glaring weakness — an asset in terms of obedience and control but a massive drawback in terms of effectiveness.
One drawback of Shelton's system was that there was no way to distinguish long and short vowels or diphthongs ; so the b-a-t sequence could mean " bat ", or " bait ", or " bate ", while b-o-t might mean " boot ", or " bought ", or " boat ".
A major drawback of the Computing Surface architecture was poor I / O bandwidth for general data shuffling.
The one great drawback, however, was that they had no money.

was and enjoyment
Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.
`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.
" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.
A Married Women ( Restraint Upon Anticipation ) Act was passed in 1949 “ to equalise, to render inoperative any restrictions upon anticipation or alienation attached to the enjoyment of property by a woman ,” while the Married Women ( Maintenance ) Act of 1949 was enacted with the intention of improving the adequacy and duration of financial benefits for married women.
In 1857, the philosopher Henry David Thoreau, with his book Canoeing in Wilderness chronicling his canoe voyaging in the wilderness of Maine, was the first to convey the enjoyment of spiritual and lifestyle aspects of cruising.
The disco sound was also shaped by Tom Moulton, who wanted to extend the enjoyment of the music — thus creating the extended mix or " remix ".
... very often the Esbat was for sheer enjoyment only ".
The Madron parish register records ‘ Humphry Davy, son of Robert Davy, baptized at Penzance, January 22nd, 1779 .’ Robert Davy was a wood carver at Penzance, who pursued his art more for enjoyment than for profit.
" Since Juliet was born Lammas eve, she came before the harvest festival, which is significant since her life ended before she could reap what she had sown and enjoy the bounty of the harvest, in this case full consummation and enjoyment of her love with Romeo.
Raku means " enjoyment ", " comfort " or " ease " and is derived from Jurakudai, the name of a palace, in Kyoto, that was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( 1537 – 1598 ), who was the leading warrior statesman of the time.
William Henry Seward, Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, was famous for his enjoyment of whist, often entertaining guests with the game.
The film features Lawrence's alleged sadomasochism as a major part of his character ( for instance, his " match trick " in Cairo, his " enjoyment " of killing Gasim ); while Lawrence almost certainly engaged in flagellation and like activities after the Deraa incident, there is no biographical evidence he was a masochist prior to that incident.
" Where the critic was negative about the novel was in the enjoyment of objects because of their exclusivity, which was " pernicious " and " symptomatic of a decline in taste " in British society.
This was the first time in history that a federal government had set aside scenic lands simply to protect them and to allow for their enjoyment by all people.
Originally entitled The Faber Book of Verse for Younger People on the Faber contract, Hughes and Heaney decided the The Rattle Bags main purpose was to offer enjoyment to the reader: " Arbitrary riches ".
" And that according to Plato, " the ultimate design of the Mysteries … was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, … a perfect enjoyment of intellectual good.
From 11 April, Paris was placarded with posters headed Analyse de la Doctrine de Baboeuf, Tribun du Peuple, of which the opening sentence ran: " Nature has given to every man the right to the enjoyment of an equal share in all property ", and which ended with a call to restore the Constitution of 1793.
The new market was not only for the enjoyment of the rich but also for the pleasure of the working class as well.
Their enjoyment of the first class trip was short-lived as they found they had to pay back the cost of the passage out of their $ 25 weekly income as messengers to Universal Pictures in New York.
The plaza was funded by a student self-assessed fee and designed specifically for the use and enjoyment of the student body.

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