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make and user-friendly
By 1994, commercial-like graphics were added to make the packets more user-friendly, while biodegradable materials were introduced for nonedible components, such as spoons and napkins.
* Resurfacing the staircase on the east and west entrances to make them more user-friendly for those with sight problems.
" The paper paradigm was created by many individuals and organisations, such as Douglas Engelbart, Xerox PARC, and Apple Computer, and was an attempt to make computers more user-friendly by making them resemble the common workplace of the time ( with papers, folders, and a desktop ).
This can make them more user-friendly than a CLI-based program, while still being able to run on text-only devices.
* Working with other organizations and Canadians to make resource discovery more user-friendly.
Aim-to make self-propelled travel on area canoe routes safer, more inviting and user-friendly
The magazine also found it to be more user-friendly, stating that it " includes features that will make playing more enjoyable for both RPG enthusiasts and beginners ", but found it mostly lacking in play control.
Susan Kare designed the interface for the original control panel, and tried to make it as user-friendly as possible.

make and system
This, and other qualifications, make the cocktail party the most complete and most chaotic communication system ever dreamed up.
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
These revenues make it possible to provide essential freight and passenger service over the entire New York Central system as well as the New York area commuter and terminal freight services.
New simplified packaged units, recently devised prefabricated glass-fiber ducts, and improved add-on techniques make it possible to acquire a system for an 1800-square-foot house for as little as $600 to $900.
Most countries in this second category share the difficulty of having many of the structures of a modern political and social system without the modern standards of performance required to make them effective.
A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.
The assumption that ZF is consistent is harmless because adding another axiom to an already inconsistent system cannot make the situation worse.
Axons are in effect the primary transmission lines of the nervous system, and as bundles they help make up nerves.
Liberal in its use of statistics to make its arguments, the book argued his view that the American republican system of government was superior to the British monarchical system.
Experienced system administrators make use of the function key which generates the command line that SMIT will invoke to complete t
The tester strains also carry mutations in the genes responsible for lipopolysaccharide synthesis, making the cell wall of the bacteria more permeable, and in the excision repair system to make the test more sensitive.
One of the key clauses was that companies who made Nintendo games were not allowed to make that game on a competing system for a period of two years.
It can be convenient to use the cistern as a heat sink or trap for a heat pump or air conditioning system ; however this can make cold drinking water warm, and in drier years may decrease the efficiency of the HVAC system.
Dr. White built a software system to find the genes ( fragments of genomic sequence that encode proteins ), the transfer RNAs, and to make initial assignments of function to those genes.
It is used as a backbone to connect several printed circuit boards together to make up a complete computer system.
It is specifically designed to work with each particular model of computer, interfacing with various devices that make up the complementary chipset of the system.
B was essentially the BCPL system stripped of any component that Thompson felt he could do without, in order to make it fit within the memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time.
Although not normally thought of as biotechnology, agriculture clearly fits the broad definition of " using a biotechnological system to make products " such that the cultivation of plants may be viewed as the earliest biotechnological enterprise.
Eventually the OCCC staff modified and adapted Bliss ’ s system in order to make it serve as a bridge to English.
In addition, the pilots of the Avro Vulcan or Handley Page Victor bombers could tie their systems into those of the missile and make use of the guidance system to help plot their own flight plan, since the unit in the missile was more advanced than that in the aircraft.
Feedback on both the activator of a system and inhibitor make the system able to tolerate a wide range of concentrations.
Since the 12th century, courts have had parallel and co-equal authority to make law -- " legislating from the bench " is a traditional and essential function of courts, which was carried over into the U. S. system as an essential component of the " judicial power " specified by Article III of the U. S. constitution.

make and must
but, he held, instead of continuing as an `` art of reduction '', it must grow, must make a place for the contributions of the Raphaels and Poussins as well as for those of the early cubists and Mondrian.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
Community decision makers must make up their minds whether a claim is acceptable to the larger community in terms of prevailing expectations regarding members of nation states.
What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.
We expect him to be noble, and to make us so -- yet he knows, and tries to tell us, how very humble man must be.
`` You must make an opera out of this material ''.
Kayabashi must feel fairly certain of his victory in order to make a visit like this, a trip which could be so easily misinterpreted by the people in the village.
If these services are to be maintained, the New York Central must have the revenues to make them possible ''.
Any failure to file timely returns or make estimated tax payments when due must be fully explained.
We must make certain that the aircraft is finished before we give the entire job to the missile.
If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.
Until such evidence appears, we must make do with the evidence we have.
However, in the actual assessment of the cutting force by instrumental methods for any thickness of coating a number of spurious effects occur which must be taken into account and which make the measured value larger than the true cutting force indicated by eqn. ( 1 ).
The expedient thing -- yes, very true, one must make do as one could, in some situations.
Barnett, as the titular head of the Democratic party, apparently must make the move to reestablish relations with the national Democratic party or see a movement come from the loyalist ranks to completely bypass him as a party functionary.
In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.
" When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make?
When a specific allophone ( from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme ) must be selected in a given context ( i. e. using a different allophone for a phoneme will cause confusion or make the speaker sound non-native ), the allophones are said to be complementary ( i. e. the allophones complement each other, and one is not used in a situation where the usage of another is standard ).
Some astrologers make claims that the position of all the planets must be taken into account, but astrologers were unable to predict the existence of Neptune based on mistakes in horoscopes.
We must trust the accused to make such an important decision for himself.
If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.
We must make good the demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly perceive.
This hazard is serious because of the large quantities one must trade in order to make a profit on small price differences.
While some purists consider luck not to be a desirable component of a game, others counter that elements of luck can make for far more diverse and multi-faceted strategies, as concepts such as expected value and risk management must be considered.

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