This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

There was no time to pick out a penny ; ;

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

His replacement was Todd Helton, who had been the club's first-round draft pick in 1995 out of the University of Tennessee.

However, by identifying clusters of observable properties that are associated with core examples of clitics on the one hand, and core examples of affixes on the other, one can pick out a battery of tests that provide an empirical foundation for a clitic / affix distinction.

Robbins describes the definition as not classificatory in " pick out certain kinds of behaviour " but rather analytical in " focus attention on a particular aspect of behaviour, the form imposed by the influence of scarcity.

Other figures, such as lines, triangles, or circles, are named by listing a sufficient number of points to pick them out unambiguously from the relevant figure, e. g., triangle ABC would typically be a triangle with vertices at points A, B, and C.

At any time, a fellow hacker might reach into the drawer, pick out the program, and begin adding to it or " bumming " it to make it better.

The intuitive dimension of a geometric object is the number of independent parameters you need to pick out a unique point inside.

Skeptics can give new skeptical cases that wouldn't be subject to the same response ( e. g., one where the person was very recently turned into a brain in a vat, so that their words " brain " and " vat " still pick out real brains and vats, rather than simulated ones ).

Frank Jackson and John Searle, for example, have defended internalist accounts of thought content according to which the contents of our thoughts are fixed by descriptions that pick out the individuals and kinds that our thoughts intuitively pertain to the sorts of things that we take them to.

This descriptive phrase will pick out one unique woman.

The inverse limit, A, comes equipped with natural projections π < sub > i </ sub >: A → A < sub > i </ sub > which pick out the ith component of the direct product for each i in I.

Jahangir then challenged Roe to pick out the original from the copies, a feat Sir Thomas Roe could not do, to the delight of Jahangir.

More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the " tour bus ", a Cadillac with 10-year-old expired license plates and a nasty predilection for going into a coma at the most inconvenient moment ( but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a dime and pick up the change ).

Since the Navajo owner took his horse and fled the scene, Washington told the New Mexican to pick out any Navajo horse he wanted.

MUD clients often contain functions which make certain tasks within a MUD easier to carry out, for example commands buttons which you can click in order to move in a particular direction or to pick up an item.

Minnesota began the 2006 season 4 – 2 ( Childress became the first coach in Vikings history to start 2 – 0 in his first year ), but would finish the year at 6 – 10, receiving the 7th pick in the NFL Draft ; with it, the Vikings selected Adrian Peterson out of the University of Oklahoma.

A convertible rolls up to a curb and an enthusiastic young man shouts out " Hey, good looking, I'll be back to pick you up later!

Looking to pick up some extra money, Connery helped out backstage at the King's Theatre in late 1951.

Geordi's response made the comparison of child hearing many different sounds at once and eventually being able to pick out what they needed ; it is a learned talent.

At the beginning of the 2010 Major League Baseball season only one ( Jim Caple of ESPN. com, although he later recanted his pick before the NLCS, saying the Philadelphia Phillies would beat the Giants and advance to the World Series ) out of literally dozens of baseball writers and pundits picked the Giants to even reach the World Series, with most not expecting the Giants to even make the playoffs.

Along the way they pick up a hitchhiker ( Edwin Neal ) who slashes both himself and Franklin with a straight razor before the group forces him out of the van.

He felt that it would be a particular humiliation to Dolores to pick up her own underwear which he had laid on the floor.

However, since the antenna will pick up thousands of radio signals at a time, a radio tuner is necessary to tune in to a particular frequency ( or frequency range ).

The cuisine of Nice is especially close to those of Provence but also Liguria and Piedmont and uses local ingredients ( olive oil, anchovies, fruit and vegetables ) but also those from more remote regions, in particular from Northern Europe, because ships which came to pick up olive oil arrived full of food products, such as dried haddock.

However, since the antenna will pick up thousands of radio signals at a time, a radio tuner is necessary to tune in to a particular frequency ( or frequency range ).

At the close of discovery, the parties may either pick a jury and then have a trial by jury or the case may proceed as a bench trial heard only by the judge if the parties waive a jury trial or if the right to a jury trial is not guaranteed for their particular claim ( such as those under equity in the U. S .) or for any lawsuits within their jurisdiction.

I used to show dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea ..." Lucy Vodden née O ' Donnell, in a BBC radio interview in 2007, said, " I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant ... Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school.

These are usually animals that need fine depth discrimination / perception ; for instance, binocular vision improves the ability to pick a chosen fruit or to find and grasp a particular branch.

It inspired him to postulate that the totality of an electron is both a particle and a wave, but when you observe it you pick out one particular viewpoint.

Computer scientists will generally pick a highly specific interpretation of the modal operators specialized to the particular sort of computation being analysed.

According to this hypothesis, infants produce sounds in no particular order and as they grow, they may drop certain sounds only to pick them up again in later months.

In particular, Oster saw binaural beats as a powerful tool for cognitive and neurological research, addressing questions such as how animals locate sounds in their three-dimensional environment, and also the remarkable ability of animals to pick out and focus on specific sounds in a sea of noise ( which is known as the " cocktail party effect ").

Today, its more common to pick Mauzac earlier, giving a more crisp wine with higher acidity, but also without much of its particular aromas.

Emotive tests in particular could in theory become prey to unreliable results due to people striving to pick the answer they feel the best fitting of an ideal character and therefore not their true response.

There are three other objectives and corresponding styles ( four in total ): a style called " capture-the-flag " ( or " CTF " for short ) in which tanks try to pick up an opponent's flag and bring to their own home base, a style called " rabbit chase " in which the objective is to have every hunter ( orange ) tank try to destroy a particular white tank, called the " rabbit ," and a style called " King of the Hill ," in which a team attempts to stay in a certain area for 30 – 60 seconds without being killed.

Her visit to his flat in order to pick up the wedding photographs soon blossoms into a full-blown affair, and Harper eventually moves in with Connie as he instructs her in the ways of art, in particular photography.

This, plus the Stab-in-the-back legend, made it difficult for the Wehrmacht conspirators in particular ( and they were central to any coup attempt ) to be convinced they would not be seen as traitors ; it was absolutely necessary they pick a moment when Hitler was not popular, not a genius.

" Terry Deary has said of historians: " They are nearly as seedy and devious as politicians .. They pick on a particular angle and select the facts to prove their case and make a name for themselves ...

Also, by folding the pajama top one particular way, the government demonstrated how all 48 tears could have been made by 21 thrusts of the ice pick, the same number of times that Colette MacDonald had been stabbed with the ice pick and in an identical pattern, implying that she had been repeatedly stabbed through the pajama top while it was lying on her.

In Dragon Age 2, this was taken even further by allowing all romance-able party members to be romanced by either gender ( with the exception of a particular DLC-only companion ) as opposed to the first game's option of having to pick between two bisexual rogues.

; Reverse handle: When a stone is thrown with a particular turn, but it eventually stops and begins to rotate in the opposite direction ; usually the result of a pick or poor ice conditions.

Rather than use any particular revision, later editors tended to pick and choose from the several versions available.