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When a stick submerged in water looks bent a direct realist is not compelled to say the stick actually is bent but can say that the stick can have more than one appearance: a straight stick can look bent when light reflected from the stick arrives at one's eye in a crooked pattern, but this appearance isn't necessarily a sense-datum in the mind.
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When he complained, Orwell hit him a crack across the legs with a shooting stick and Heppenstall then had to defend himself with a chair.
When the manager arrived, Moon excused himself to the bathroom, lit a stick of dynamite in the toilet, and shut the bathroom door.
Effect of a magnet on the domains. When a domain contains too many molecules, it becomes unstable and divides into two domains aligned in opposite directions so that they stick together more stably as shown at the right.
When the king said that he would call his friends into council and consider what he ought to do, Popilius drew a circle in the sand around the king's feet with the stick he was carrying and said, " Before you step out of that circle give me a reply to lay before the senate.
When the way is free, thrust forward ; when the way is obstructed, stick ( cling ); if receiving greater force, yield or give way ; and when the opponent withdraws, retreats or lowers his defense – go forward.
When they hit the surface of the mirror, they cool and stick.
When that was set, the stick was swung back to the upright position.
When Jocelyn defends herself during an argument with William by saying, " Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick ," an offended Wat calls after her, " It's called a lance ...
When eaten, some seeds pass unharmed through their digestive systems ; if the birds ’ droppings happen to land on a suitable branch, the seeds may stick long enough to germinate.
When Red brings back an umbrella from Doc's Workshop, the Archbanger insists on using it to bang on the pipes, claiming, " I know a sacred banging stick when I see one.
When women who do not want children go near the rock, they pretend to be old, and walk as if leaning on a stick, crying ; " Don't come to me, I am an old woman!
When he is not vested for worship, a bishop, archimandrite or abbot uses a different type of staff in the form of a walking stick topped with a silver pommel.
When a small magnetic field was applied, they would become magnetized, and the bubbles would " stick " to one end.
When Moose feels discouraged by other people's opinions of him, Dilton is the first to stick up for him.
When an inflammatory process is present, the high proportion of fibrinogen in the blood causes red blood cells to stick to each other.
When the string is released, the kinetic energy of the flexed stick is transformed into the velocity of the arrow.
When asked if he minded this, he said, " Not at all, as long as you provide me with a stick to chase the creatures away!
" When asked how he could use the stick since he would lack awareness, he replied " If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?
One game during a time-out, Neilson told his goaltender, “... when we pull you, just leave your goal stick lying in the crease .” When the other team gained possession, they sent the puck the length of the ice toward the open net, only to deflect wide when it hit the goal stick lying in the crease.
When the condition causes the finger to " stick " in a flexed position, this is called " stenosing " tenosynovitis, commonly known as " trigger Finger ".
[...] When they have got together a great quantity of milk, which is as sweet as cow's as long as it is fresh, they pour it into a big skin or bottle, and they set to churning it with a stick [...] and when they have beaten it sharply it begins to boil up like new wine and to sour or ferment, and they continue to churn it until they have extracted the butter.
When the data indicate an imminent stall condition, the computer actuates both the stick shaker and an auditory alert.
Madonna has told in an interview to the SPIN magazine ( May 1985 issue )," When I stick my finger in my belly button, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine ".
" When Mann gave a talk about the study to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Jerry Mahlman nicknamed the graph the " hockey stick ".
When and submerged
When this is exhausted some move on to feed on bacteria, algal crusts, detritus and raspings from submerged plants.
When submerged in water, hydrogen bubbles will almost unnoticeably begin to form on the surface of the metal, though if powdered it will react much more rapidly.
When lined up, the crosses point to Whittle Rock (), a large, permanently submerged shipping hazard in False Bay.
When the player is submerged in liquids, the run key can be used in order to swim.
When they finally reach their destination, the town of Aintry, which will soon be submerged by the river and is being evacuated, they take the injured Lewis to the local hospital while the sheriff comes to investigate the incident.
When the Tuttle Creek Lake began filling up in 1962, it affected ten towns and entirely submerged four of them ( from north to south ): Cleburne at, Randolph, Garrison Cross and Stockdale.
When this action dried out Portage Creek on 14 May 1871, the settlement, which had only the week before been designated as Onekama with a Post Office under that name, moved to the previously submerged land at the northwestern shore of the lake near an earlier settlement called " Brookfield ".
When swimming, an iguana remains submerged, letting its four legs hang limply against its side.
When shipworms bore into submerged wood, bacteria ( Teredinibacter turnerae strain ATCC 39867 / T7901 ) in a special organ called the gland of Deshayes digest the cellulose exposed in the fine particles created by the excavation.
When Walker began spying, he worked as a key supervisor in the communications center for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet's submarine force, and he would have had knowledge of top secret technologies, such as the SOSUS underwater surveillance system which tracks submarine traffic via a network of submerged hydrophones.
When the transcontinental railroad was completed, large fishery companies in the east sold juvenile oysters to San Francisco entrepreneurs who purchased submerged land from the State of California and grew oysters from transplanted Eastern stock.
When an earthquake suddenly submerged the city, the temple's bronze Poseidon accompanied by hippocamps continued to snag fishermens ' nets.
When the eagle left, Axolóhua submerged himself into the waters around the island and Cuaucoatl went back to report what he saw.
When it was launched in 1940, the submarine demonstrated a top speed of 23 knots submerged, twice that of any submarine in the world at the time.
When hunting penguins, the leopard seal patrols the waters near the edges of the ice, almost completely submerged, waiting for the birds to enter the ocean.
When the face is submerged, receptors that are sensitive to cold within the nasal cavity and other areas of the face supplied by cranial nerve V ( trigeminal ) relay the information to the brain and then innervate cranial nerve X ( the vagus nerve ), which is part of the autonomic nervous system.
When breathing with face submerged this causes a diving reflex which increases proportionally to decreasing water temperature.
They are very diurnal, feeding almost all through the day and their migration is done When feeding on submerged vegetation, they often immerse their heads entirely underwater.
When Princesse Alice ran aground on a submerged rock and appeared stranded, Prince Albert instructed Bruce to begin preparations for a winter camp, in the belief that it might be impossible for the ship to escape.
When at sea the black and white one should always be kept in sight in order to avoid the submerged rocks nearer the shore.
When submerged, the plant produces ribbon-like leaves.
When PSUC was completely submerged into IC in 1997, a group of hardliners refounded the party as PSUC viu ( Living PSUC ).
When submerged it seals its motor and runs with battery-electric thrusters, which are on a rotatable cross-arm, and is deflated.
When Blake visits the submerged village he discovers a chilling secret ...
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