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.

) 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.

* compensate for non-linear transmitters, more common with medium wave and shortwave broadcasting

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.

Like other rodents, the front teeth of capybaras grow continually to compensate for the constant wear from eating grasses ; their cheek teeth also grow continuously.

In fact, a high quality writer may produce adequate results with medium quality media, but high quality media cannot compensate for a mediocre writer, and discs written by such a writer cannot achieve their maximum potential archival lifetime.

In other words, a class action ensures that a defendant who engages in widespread harmbut does so minimally against each individual plaintiffmust compensate those individuals for their injuries.

Many people with dyslexia have auditory processing problems and may develop their own logographic cues to compensate for this type of deficit.

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.

It was found that self-punishment did not occur if people had an opportunity to compensate the victim of their transgression.

Alkaline earth ions, with their two positive charges and requirement for two non-bridging oxygen ions to compensate for their charge, are much less mobile themselves and also hinder diffusion of other ions, especially the alkalis.

To compensate for their poor sight when in unfamiliar territory, hamsters have scent glands on their flanks ( and abdomens in Chinese and dwarf hamsters ).

In an effort to compensate families ’ loss in income due to their children enrolling into the education system, training agencies that specialize in micro-enterprise development and skill training were established.

The disparity between the apparent value of the painting and the poor estate of Millet's surviving family was a major impetus in the invention of the droit de suite, intended to compensate artists or their heirs when works are resold.

Ways to reduce such context / restore latency include having relatively few registers in their central processing units ( undesirable because it slows down most non-interrupt processing substantially ), or at least having the hardware not save them all ( this fails if the software then needs to compensate by saving the rest " manually ").

If unskilled labourers had it in their power to compete with skilled, by merely taking the trouble of learning the trade, the difference of wages might not exceed what would compensate them for that trouble, at the ordinary rate at which labour is remunerated.

Skilled oboists adjust their embouchure to compensate for these factors.

Thus, in the story " Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks ", the Time Patrol's resident agents in the Tyre of King Hiram are a twentieth century Israeli couple, who express their wish to help the ancient Tyrians " in order to compensate a bit for what our country is going to do here.

During his discussions with George Hammond, first British Minister to the U. S. from 1791, Jefferson tried to achieve three important goals: secure British admission of violating the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) ; vacate their posts in the Northwest ( the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River north of the Ohio ); and compensate the United States to pay American slave owners for the slaves whom the British had freed and evacuated at the end of the war.

One of the resolutions challenged Bradburn for " advising and procuring servants to quit the service of their masters, and offering them protection ; causing them to labor for his benefits, and refusing to compensate them for the same.

In addition, the Blancos were paid half a million dollars to compensate them for the loss of their stake in Montevideo.

In the 1860s in the United States, U. S. President Abraham Lincoln had requested many millions of dollars from Congress with which to compensate slave owners for the loss of their slaves.

Nothing, however, could compensate for those financial setbacks ; under the guise of health issues, Johanna and Adele Schopenhauer, being no longer able to maintain their lifestyle in Weimar, moved to Bonn.

If the mast has a long, thin cross-section and makes up a significant area of the airfoil, it is called a wing-mast ; boats using these have a smaller sail area to compensate for the larger mast area.

As Grant had inched to the west over the winter, the Confederates extended their lines to compensate, but they were stretched too thin, having only about 1, 000 men per mile ( 625 men / km ) of defensive line.