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`` The county, though, seems more interested in those people who don't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and line up for surplus food ''.
Here the pulmonary vein, as in type 2,, is noted to draw away from the bronchus, and to follow a more direct, independent course to the hilum ( figs. 23, 24 ).
Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.
Anthropology ( like some fields of history ) does not fit easily into one of these categories, and different branches of anthropology draw on one or more of these domains.
It was also agreed that some reorganization of the cabinet would be helpful to draw more Democratic support ; though changes were made, Seward and Stanton, who had the most tenuous relationship with the party, were not affected.
The team that has scored more goals at the end of the game is the winner ; if both teams have scored an equal number of goals, then the game is a draw.
There is no evidence to support claims that any of these creatures were mistreated, or that the motive for their study was anything more sinister than natural curiosity and a desire to draw from life.
While in the late Baroque a major composer would have the entire musical resources of a town to draw on, the forces available at a hunting lodge were smaller and more fixed in their level of ability.
Most games begin with a specific layout of cards, called a tableau, and the object is then either to construct a more elaborate final layout, or to clear the tableau and / or the draw pile or stock by moving all cards to one or more " discard " or " foundation " piles.
The genre became a specific draw in North America in the eighties when comedians such as Eddie Murphy started taking more action oriented roles such as in 48 Hrs.
The recurve bow's bent limbs have a longer draw length than an equivalent straight-limbed bow, giving more acceleration to the projectile and less hand shock.
Although a longbow achieves comparable accuracy and faster shooting rate than an average crossbow, crossbows release more kinetic energy and can be used effectively after a week of training, while a comparable single-shot skill with a longbow takes years of strength training to overcome the draw strength of the longbow, as well as years of practice needed to use it with skill.
Ferris in his 1989 biography includes Thomas ' heavy drinking, but is more critical of those around him in his final days and does not draw the conclusion that he drank himself to death.
He never tried to draw more than stick figures because the drawings, for him, were illustrations to get the story told.
The three surviving Monkees did not attend in order to not draw more attention to the grieving family.
Although the Fortune Deck works as a randomizer, the results obtained by it are entirely arbitrary and subjective, and the GM's absolute power over the game is further emphasized by the three resolution systems: Karma ( the higher character ability wins, modified by situation ), Drama ( the GM decides what happens, by what they think most appropriate ), and Fortune ( more or less the same as the above, with interpretation flavored by a card draw ).
In this passage Jesus says that an offended Christian should draw the offender's fault to his attention at first privately ; then, if the offender refuses to listen, to bring one or two others, that there may be more than a single witness to the charge ; next, if the offender still refuses to listen, to bring the matter before the church, and if the offender refuses to listen to the church, to treat him as " a Gentile and a tax collector ".
If more than one player remains after the first round, the " draw " phase begins.
A common " house rule " in some places is that a player may not replace more than three cards, unless they draw four cards while keeping an ace ( or wild card ).
For example, if the last player to draw wants three replacements but there are only two cards remaining in the deck, the dealer gives the player the one top card he can give, then shuffles together the bottom card of the deck, the burn card, and the earlier players ' discards ( but not the player's own discards ), and finally deals two more replacements to the last player.
The HDL form is more suited to work with large structures because it's possible to just specify them numerically rather than having to draw every piece by hand.
Since King Kong was seen as the bigger draw ( at the time, he was even more popular in Japan than Godzilla ), and since Godzilla was still a villain at this point in the series, it led to the decision to not only give King Kong top billing, but also to present him as the winner of the climactic fight.
Whilst a few social scientists who draw inspiration from ' organic ' views of society have embraced Gaia philosophy as a way to explain the human-nature interconnections, most professional social scientists are more involved in reflecting upon the way Gaia philosophy is used and engaged with within sub-sections of society.
For example, if an ace is drawn from a deck and not reinserted, the next draw is less likely to be an ace and more likely to be of another rank.

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Major opera companies have been better able to weather the funding cutbacks, because they can afford to hire star singers which draw substantial audiences.
Computers are used by companies to draw, plan and do initial simulations of the aircraft.
Most awards during the 1950s went to NBC and CBS, who were able to out-spend other companies and draw on their extensive history of radio broadcasting in the relatively new television medium.
In the British regiments of foot during the 18th century the preference was however to draw on steady veterans for appointment to individual vacancies in a grenadier company ( one of the eight companies comprising each regiment ).
For example when bioprospectors draw on indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants which is later patented by medical companies without recognizing the fact that the knowledge is not new, or invented by the patenter, and depriving the indigenous community to the rights to commercial exploitation of the technology that they themselves had developed.
Pharmaceutical and engineering companies also draw together in Bracknell Forest, these include Boehringer Ingelheim, Syngenta, Minebea, Daler-Rowney and Hyundai Heavy Industries.
The large recording companies operate their own music festivals, such as Lollapalooza and Ozzfest, which draw huge crowds.
Criticism of companies such as Halliburton in the context of the Iraq War draw heavily on the stereotype of the businessman profiteer.
The President has personal discretion as to whether to approve budgets or financial transactions of specified Government of Singapore # Statutory boards | statutory boards and Government companies that are likely to draw on past reserves.
Thus, a guarantee may only be given or a loan raised by the Government if the President concurs, and his approval is also needed for budgets of specified statutory boards and Government companies that draw on their past reserves.
Butaritari atoll was the site of the Makin Raid in August 1942, when two companies of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion landed from the submarines USS Argonaut and USS Nautilus, as a feint to draw Japanese attention away from the planned invasion route through the Solomons.
In a crossover episode of Batman from the same time and companies, Kato had a battle with Robin that ended in a draw ( the same thing happened simultaneously with their senior partners ).
The new forestry code according to section 89 requires logging companies, to draw up social responsibility contracts with their concessions, which may include building schools ; house and clinics while they carry out logging operations.
Many graduates from the university choose to stay on in the area, giving local companies a rich pool of talent to draw upon.
In order to draw from the arising enthusiasm for airplanes and ballooning, as well as to take advantage of the lucrative business the hobby generated, Camillo established one of his first companies, Motoren-Luftfahrzeuggesellschaft GmbH, in 1907.
Other games offered by football pools companies take the form of " 8 homes ", " 4 draws ", " 5 aways " or the like, where lines consisting of a smaller number of matches are selected and a line is deemed to have won if all the selected matches result in home wins, away wins or draws ( irrelevant of the size of the draw ) respectively.
The DTCC contends that the suits are orchestrated by a small group of lawyers and executives to make money and draw attention from the companies ' problems.
He can also draw extra information about the structure of the vinyl ; for example, because records from different companies are slightly different, he can sometimes guess the conductor.
Each of these powers intrigued with and against the others, and sought to draw the power of the French and British colonial companies to serve their objectives.
As desired by the President, the new channel will draw on the talents of major French television companies, and will promote the expression of a French vision, more necessary than ever in the world today.
Two companies ventured into the center of the circle to draw out the warriors.
The service provided by these companies to the hotels and the online consumer is that they provide a single database from which all reservation sources draw immediate room availability and rates.
Some companies draw up financial statements to the same day of the week, a Sunday, say, each year.
His companies of the late ' 30s, Victory Pictures ( 1935 – 1939 ) and Puritan Pictures ( 1935 – 1938 ), relied on screen menace Bela Lugosi, cowboy star Tim McCoy and Olympic athlete Herman Brix ( later to change his name to Bruce Bennett ) to draw the customers.

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