Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

The pessimism of the young is defiant, anxious to confess or even exaggerate its ostensible gloom, and so exuberant as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to face up to the awful truth as more than enough to compensate for the awfulness of that truth.

To some extent the personal inadequacies that prejudices attempt to compensate for are to be found in all of us.

To compensate for their thin and delicate skin, amphibians have evolved mucous glands, principally on their heads, backs and tails.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Another environmental concern is a significant drop in Lake Sevan's water level because of drawdowns for irrigation and the diversion of water to hydroelectric plants to compensate for the electric power lost through the inactivity of the nuclear plant at Metsamor.

Once a movement per unit time is observed, astronomers compensate for the parallax caused by the earth ’ s motion during this time and the heliocentric distance to this object is calculated.

She saw it her duty to compensate for the innumerable deficiencies of her strange husband through her own intelligence and strength of will.

To compensate for this crime and to solidify his position as emperor, Alexios had to scatter money so lavishly as to empty his treasury, and to allow such licence to the officers of the army as to leave the Empire practically defenceless.

Additional mutations, however, may compensate for this fitness cost and can aid the survival of these bacteria.

Apollo 16 would spend one less day in lunar orbit after surface exploration had been completed to afford the crew contingency time to compensate for any further problems and to conserve expendables.

The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

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Slight successes against rebellious outbreaks in Syria and the Morea could not compensate for the loss of the Crimea which Russia greatly coveted.

Makers of optical instruments need to correct optical systems to compensate for aberration.

To compensate for this, GCC ’ s engineers allowed games to include a POKEY audio chip in the cartridge which substantially improved the audio quality.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

The Herzegovinian municipality of Neum in the south makes the southernmost part of Croatia an exclave and the two countries are negotiating special transit rules through Neum to compensate for that.

Because of this breed ’ s increased muscle yield a diet containing higher protein is required to compensate for the altered mode of weight gain.

This, Disraeli felt, would allow the landed aristocracy to continue collecting the same rent and would compensate the farmers for their lost income.

These programs can compensate for mutations ( exchanged, deleted or inserted bases ) in the DNA sequence, to identify sequences that are related, but not identical.

You may be missing two aces, but your void may compensate for the lack of one of the enemy aces.

In order to compensate for the lack of experience, and to make use of standard land military tactics on sea, the Romans equipped their new ships with a special boarding device, the corvus.

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In other areas, soil type can compensate for lack of ideal climate conditions.

However, many of these languages compensate for the lack of grammatical number with an extensive system of measure words.

The men compensate for the lack of wheat by hunting ...

Treatment is usually symptomatic and focuses on helping the person to develop as many motor skills as possible or to learn how to compensate for the lack of them.

To compensate for lack of crossing in their brains, they cross their eyes ( strabismus ).

A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

Kate and I put up our own salaries to compensate for the lack of an insurance company for Spence.

In very severe anemia, the body may compensate for the lack of oxygen-carrying capability of the blood by increasing cardiac output.

He starred at a time when personality could compensate for a lack of other aesthetic characteristics, and a certain amount of acting ability was still demanded of porn stars.

They are much lighter than traditional dories and compensate for the lack of initial stability by having slightly wider bottoms and very low ( 8 inch high ) seats and are fitted with skegs for directional stability.

Ancient Hebrew and Arabic did use spaces, partly to compensate in clarity for the lack of vowels.

When fighting, it uses its abilities to shield itself or throw opponents to compensate for its lack of speed.

Free-nets and civic networks indicate roughly the same range of projects and services, whereas community technology centers ( CTCs ) and telecentres generally indicate a physical facility to compensate for lack of access to information and communication technologies ( ICTs ).

Graham later said that he developed this technique in an earlier band in order to compensate for that band's lack of a drummer.

Rees went on to state that at present, 85 countries are exceeding their domestic " bio-capacities ", and compensate for their lack of local material by depleting the stocks of other countries, which have a material surplus due to their lower consumption.

Clive Swift reprised his role as Richard recording a narrative to compensate for the lack of images.

The child will either compensate for lack of attention or act in terms of unrealistic self-perception.

The rapid Allied advance after Operation Cobra and Dragoon slowed almost to a halt in September 1944 due to a critical lack of supplies, as thousands of tons of supplies were shunted to northwest France to compensate for the inadequacies of port facilities and land transport in northern Europe.

To compensate for the lack of a trading station, the Borg have a structure which can convert metal into dilithium and vice versa.

People with Möbius syndrome can compensate for a lack of expression by using body language, posture, and vocal tone to convey emotion.

The panzer division, with a reinforced infantry regiment from the panzergrenadier division to compensate for its own lack of infantry, was under Italian XVI Corps and the rest of the panzergrenadier division under Italian XII Corps.

Blaine is completely new to field work and is delighted to be on assignment with Devlin, only to be very confused by Jimmy as he impersonates Devlin, relying on the tuxedo's special abilities to compensate for his lack of skill and training.