Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.

The senior generals sent to the fort to command the enlarged garrison, Gideon J. Pillow and John B. Floyd, squandered their chance to avoid having to surrender most of the garrison and on February 16, 1862, Brig.

Gen. Buell on February 25, 1862, two days after Johnston had to pull his forces out in order to avoid having them captured as well.

In 1966, the number of babies born in Japan dropped by over 25 % as parents tried to avoid the stigma of having a daughter born in the hinoeuma year.

In the East, however, it was seen as a way to avoid having to maintain an anti-missile technology race at the same time as maintaining a missile race.

where is the Boltzmann constant, T is temperature ( assumed to be a well-defined quantity ), is the degeneracy ( meaning, the number of levels having energy ; sometimes, the more general ' states ' are used instead of levels, to avoid using degeneracy in the equation ), N is the total number of particles and Z ( T ) is the partition function.

Homegrown vaccines would also avoid logistical and economic problems posed by having to transport traditional preparations over long distances and keeping them cold while in transit.

This was originally to avoid teams and their fans having to travel a long distance to an away game on the day after Christmas Day.

With a vastly inferior goal difference and with the two teams directly above them ( Southampton and Nottingham Forest ) still having to play each other, it was effectively an impossible task for Charlton to avoid relegation.

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

The choice of headwords is considered itself of prescriptive nature ; for instance, dictionaries avoid having too many taboo words in that position.

His mother originally named him David Dwight but reversed the two names after his birth to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the family.

As a response to the criticism encountered, censored versions of the game were released in certain countries to avoid having it banned altogether.

Some World War II – vintage ships were modernized for anti-submarine warfare, and to extend their service lives, to avoid having to build ( expensive ) brand-new ships.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

Over two thousand girls — mostly teenagers but some as young as eight — were charged over the next three years with having circumcised each other with razor blades, a practice that came to be known as Ngaitana (" I will circumcise myself "), so-called because the girls claimed to have cut themselves to avoid naming their friends.

A " mixed " control system such as the latter is not desirable and modern FBW aircraft normally avoid it by having more independent FBW channels, thereby reducing the possibility of overall failure to minuscule levels that are acceptable to the independent regulatory and safety authority responsible for aircraft design, testing and certification before operational service.

They are also unable to defecate until they reach adulthood due to having an incomplete digestive tract, presumably to avoid contaminating their environment.

Though violations may be common in fact, states try to avoid the appearance of having disregarded international obligations.

To reduce parasitic capacitance and proximity effect, RF coils are constructed to avoid having many turns lying close together, parallel to one another.

The United States, reflecting concerns raised by Great Britain, ultimately hoped to avoid having any European power take over Spain's colonies.

It was reported that Davis put his wife's overcoat over his shoulders while fleeing, inspiring caricatures that portrayed him as having disguised himself as a woman while trying to avoid capture.

Do you rigidly distinguish between job- and non-job-connected health problems and avoid treating the latter??

It was designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN for backward compatibility with historic Buran ( spacecraft ) ALGOL software.

The purpose of introducing these new pointer types is to avoid common problems when using pointers.

To avoid such problems, Cyclone introduces the pointer type, which can never be.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

Citizens of the Central Powers serving with the Foreign Legion on the outbreak of war were normally posted to garrisons in North Africa to avoid problems of divided loyalties.

To avoid such problems, an operating system must schedule network interrupt handling as carefully as it schedules process execution.

Brown credited his then-second wife and two of their children as writers of the song to avoid concurrent tax problems with the IRS.

Lindh had been told to say he was " Irish " in order to avoid problems.

To avoid problems with returns from coprocessor, bus error, and address error exceptions, it was generally necessary in a multiprocessor system for all CPUs to be the same model, and for all FPUs to be the same model as well.

Having the engine, transmission, catalytic converter ( s ) and exhaust all cramped into a small rear engine bay made emission and noise control more difficult, something Porsche was already facing problems with on the 911 and wanted to avoid.

The name RC4 is trademarked, so RC4 is often referred to as ARCFOUR or ARC4 ( meaning alleged RC4 ) to avoid trademark problems.

Typically computer versions start as per Othello, but the name Othello ( along with certain meaningless features of board design ) is trademarked so that use of the name Reversi is necessary to avoid legal problems.

To avoid these problems, plants developed mechanisms that limit sodium uptake by roots, store them in cell vacuoles, and control them over long distances ; excess sodium may also be stored in old plant tissue, limiting the damage to new growth.

Upon graduating, Roosevelt underwent a physical examination, and his doctor advised him that because of serious heart problems, he should find a desk job and avoid strenuous activity.

# Lubrication: ( for intercourse or used daily to minimize irritation ) If you have problems with yeast, or are worried you will, avoid lubricants with glycerine in them, which acts like a sugar and will only add to your problems.

More modern 90 ° V6 engine designs avoid these vibration problems by using crankshafts with offset split crankpins to make the firing intervals even, and often add balancing shafts to eliminate the other vibration problems.

Although most x86 processors used in new personal computers and servers have 64-bit capabilities, to avoid compatibility problems with older computers or systems, the term x86-64 ( or x64 ) is often used to denote 64-bit software, with the term x86 implying only 32-bit.

To avoid this problem, where the data in the device cache is protected from power failure or other host problems, the filesystem should be mounted with the " nobarrier " option.

There were proprietary wallport / cable systems that claimed to avoid these problems ( e. g. SaferTap ) but these never became widespread, possibly due to a lack of standardization.

Studying how people dealt with animals, and its effects can help us avoid many potential ecological problems.