Wood from the huts was used for firewood, and fish caught off the fringing reef combined with some potatoes and onions they had saved from their sinking vessel to augment the island's meager ( as it turned out ) supply of coconuts.

More recent Quaker commentators have noted points of contact between the denominations: both claim the actual presence of God in their meetings, and both allow the collective opinion of the church to augment Biblical teaching.

On 28 June 2007, it was announced that BBC has licensed MusicBrainz's live data feed to augment their music web pages.

Oral histories, he concludes, can augment the biographies of scientists and help spotlight how their social origins influenced their research.

Unless these instruments are played by members doubling on another instrument ( for example, a trombone player changing to euphonium for a certain passage ), orchestras will use freelance musicians to augment their regular rosters.

Characters can also augment their bodies with nanotechnology implants.

The most notable archetypes are Street Samurai, characters who have heavily augmented their bodies with cyberware and bioware and focus on physical combat ; Adepts, characters who have magical abilities that increase their physical ( and sometimes mental ) combat abilities ; Faces, highly charismatic characters who specialize in negotiations and social manipulation ; Hackers ( aka Deckers ), specialize in electronic surveillance, security, and augmented / virtual reality monitoring, combat and response ; Riggers, who augment their brains to achieve fine control over vehicles and drones ; and Magicians who cast spells and can view emotions and call spirits from astral space.

As a response, Paramount Pictures devised their own system the following month to augment their 3-D process known as Paravision.

Unlike folk metal bands drawing from other mythologies, bands using Norse mythology as text have no musical-historical examples to augment their illusion.

For example, artists can allow listeners to augment their listening experience by adding their performance to that of other bands / groups of users.

It was a long and laborious process to reach their goal, for few if any in this hill country had slaves or any other independent means to augment their efforts, but all had large families.

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

Furthermore, some parasitic plants have also turned fully or partially heterotrophic, while carnivorous plants consume animals to augment their nitrogen supply while remaining autotrophic.

Instead, players are taught to fall on their sides and augment their cradling with a thigh and upper body, if possible.

Critics of Scientology cite this passage, among others ( such as the widely documented Fair Game doctrine ), to support their contentions that the church uses smear tactics to augment the effectiveness of legal threats.

The idea was to bring the AWACS data to the ground command and control centers in selected locations throughout Europe to show how AWACS could augment their existing air defense capability.

It occurred to him that if the television audience was enabled by a device to augment television viewing with receiving information or commercial offers through the television, then perhaps the web address could act as a signal and the television cable could be the conduit.

PFCs in solution act as an intravascular oxygen carrier to temporarily augment oxygen delivery to tissues.

During exercise, it is thought to act in a hormone-like manner to mobilize extracellular substrates and / or augment substrate delivery.

The recent field of Assistive Technology for Cognition concerns the development of technologies to augment human cognition.

Many manufacturers augment their range with products based on recent re-designs of classic modules ; often both the original and subsequent reworked designs are available free on the internet, the original patents having lapsed.

More recent DVDs have attempted to augment CSS with additional protection schemes.

In recent years Gamma Ray have made use of touring keyboard players to fully augment their sound in a live environment.

Robbie Robertson had commissioned New Orleans songwriter and arranger Allen Toussaint to compose horn charts for their recent single " Life Is A Carnival " from the album Cahoots, and decided to have Toussaint write special charts for a five-man horn section to augment the group on their upcoming concerts.

More recent ,“ third-generation ” CARs combine multiple signaling domains, such as CD3z-CD28-41BB or CD3z-CD28-OX40, to further augment potency.

But the group now relied on outside composers and singers to augment their material and had thus all but ceased to be the force they had been ten years past.

In 1944 he became Minister for Local Government, a position he would hold for eight years ; he used this position to augment local governments ' powers.

COSTP is projected to augment the current K-12 textbook supply chain, be self-supporting with 18 months of starting up, and save the State of California upwards of US $ 200M + per year for K-12 textbook allocation within five years.

Any excess earnings are typically reinvested to augment the endowment and to compensate for inflation and recessions in future years.

The years 1672-1673 were particularly desperate for the Dutch, with the French stopped only by The Dutch Water Line, a deliberate flooding of large parts of the Dutch countryside, and the withdrawing of guns and men from the fleet to augment the army of William III of Orange, now Admiral-General of the fleet.

Some RPTA funding is used to augment service provided by the member cities ( this is expected to increase over the next several years due to the 2004 voter approval of an extension to the original 1985 sales tax for transit funding ).

GSAT-10, with a design life of 15 years is expected to be operational by November and will augment telecommunication, direct-to-home and radio navigation services.

Data Distribution Service for real-time systems ( DDS ) is a specification of a publish / subscribe middleware for distributed systems created in response to the need to augment CORBA with a data-centric publish-subscribe specification.

They were created to augment the existing defences and protect the key port of Dover from both seaward and landward attack.

They were created to augment the existing defences and protect the key port of Dover from both seaward and landward attack.

Their manager, Auntie Freeze, arranged for the women to augment their natural abilities with artificial powers created by the agency Power Broker, Inc.

To augment the financial situation of the municipality, Mayor Payumo created new barangays:

His acumen for fund raising helped the club collect hundreds of thousands of dollars that were ploughed back into the community, mostly to augment government welfare programmes.

Eventually several Vickers and Lewis machine guns were installed to augment the rifles carried by the members of the Australian Militia's 22nd Garrison Battalion, which was composed mostly of old or disabled veterans or young men considered physically unfit for frontline service.

It is generally assumed that the augment was originally a separate particle meaning something like " then ", added to indicate the past time of a form that was once mostly aspectual, and neutral with respect to tense.

It built on the game play of previous Mario games by introducing new power-ups that augment character abilities, and established conventions that were carried over to future games in the series.

The only way a character can become more damage resistant is to either become better at not being hit, physically augment their body with muscle ( trained or implanted ) or cybernetics, or wear armor.

The bill stipulated sweeping changes to the tariff schedule and collection system, most of which were designed to augment its protective character.

The player character " Jak " has punch and kick attacks, and can also utilize various Eco energies to augment his skills temporarily.