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.

* 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.

The Soviet Government, " taking into account ... conditions which do not exclude the possibility of a mistake from one side or the other ," was willing to compensate the US for 50 % of damages sustained — the first such offer ever made by the Soviets for any Cold War shootdown incident.

The Soviet Government, " taking into account ... conditions which do not exclude the possibility of a mistake from one side or the other ," was willing to compensate the US for 50 % of damages sustained — the first such offer ever made by the Soviets for any Cold War shoot-down incident.

It has also been reported that patients with unilateral hearing loss experience difficulties in group discussions and dynamic listening situations where there is limited possibility to compensate for the handicap by changing listening position.

Being far from the city infrastructure such as natural gas is taking its time to arrive, but the general peacefulness of neighbourhood and the possibility of a Bosphorus view more than compensate.

Another reason for price convergence is that customers become aware of the possibility of being overcharged, and compensate by favoring more expensive goods over cheaper ones.

Morris and Linda Tannehill propose that ideas in the form of inventions could be registered in a privately owned " data bank "; the inventor could then buy insurance against the theft and unauthorized commercial use of the invention, and the insurance company would guarantee to not only compensate the inventor for any losses suffered due to such infringement but to stop such unauthorized use.

As this necessitated the purchase of a greater number of aircraft with fewer seats and less range that needed to be inducted into the fleet over a shorter period of time due to later availability compared with the originally chosen American aircraft, BEA had made its £ 83 million Trident 3B order dependent on receiving a subsidy from the UK government to compensate it for having been directed against its commercial judgement to order British aircraft with a lower earning potential and later delivery dates.

When undepressed fathers are able to provide the stimulation of infant directed speech for their children, infants respond well and are able to compensate from the deficit left by their mothers.

In primates, eye movements can be divided into several types: fixation, in which the eyes are directed toward a motionless object, with eye movements only to compensate for movements of the head ; smooth pursuit, in which the eyes move steadily to track a moving object ; saccades, in which the eyes move very rapidly from one location to another ; and vergence, in which the eyes move simultaneously in opposite directions to obtain or maintain single binocular vision.

They lead to a switchyard of mirrors, where the light is directed into the six Long Delay Lines, which is another set of long pipes that compensate for the different distances to each station.

These commands can compensate for very slight errors in the tracking performance, such as periodic error caused by the worm drive that makes the telescope move.

Since women have two X chromosomes, if one X chromosome has the non-working gene, the second X chromosome will have a working copy of the gene to compensate.

This is because males have only one copy of the X chromosome, while females have two copies ; one normal copy of an X chromosome can compensate for mutations in the other X chromosome, so they are less likely to be symptomatic.

The vector itself has not changed, but the reference frame has, so the components of the vector ( or measurements taken with respect to the reference frame ) must change to compensate.

This process is referred to as ' Self-Regulating ', i. e. the hotter the coolant becomes, the less reactive the plant becomes, shutting itself down slightly to compensate and vice versa.

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

The Arena Company did agree to compensate Livingstone for the use of the players for the season, although no suitable figure was ever reached, and the league itself disputed any claims that Livingstone had on the players.

But prisoners did not necessarily have to live within Fleet Prison itself ; as long as they paid the keeper to compensate him for loss of earnings, they could take lodgings within a particular area outside the prison walls called the " Liberty of the Fleet " or the " Rules of the Fleet ".

* First trial ( filed by Ienaga on January 1, 1984, ruled on October 3, 1989, at Tokyo District Court ): Judge Kato ruled that while the authorization system itself was constitutional, there was a certain abuse of discretion on the part of the Ministry regarding the unconstitutional censoring of the description of soumoutai ( 草莽隊 ), and ordered the state to compensate Ienaga 100, 000 yen.

* Second trial ( filed by the state on October 13, 1989, ruled on October 20, 1993, at Tokyo High Court ): Judge Kawakami ruled that while the authorization system itself was constitutional, there was a certain abuse of discretion on the part of the Ministry regarding the unconstitutional censoring of the descriptions of Nanking Massacre and sexual assaults by the military in addition to soumoutai, and ordered the state to compensate Ienaga 300, 000 yen.

The body recovers from the injury by having the part of the brain that controls balance re-calibrate itself to compensate for the unmatched signals being sent from the damaged and well ears.

Eurythmy is used therapeutically, normally on the advice of a physician, to compensate for somatic or psychological imbalances ; the aim is to strengthen the organism's salutogenic capacity to heal itself.

Lacking such a principled foundation, the organization may find itself constantly trying to compensate for both opportunist errors and factional errors.