The key words here are fair and eventually-if characters ' ranks are close, and the weaker character has obtained some advantage, then the weaker character can escape defeat or perhaps prevail.

The key advantage of self-propelled over towed artillery is that it can be brought into action much faster.

Whilst this had the advantage of being usable by untrained users via ' hunt and peck ' typing and requiring one less key switch than a conventional 12 button keypad, it had the disadvantage that some symbols required three times as much force to depress them as others which made it hard to achieve any speed with the device.

The oars were a key advantage as they would enable the Adventure Galley to manoeuvre in a battle when the winds had calmed and other ships were dead in the water.

A key advantage of a dimensional approach is that the data warehouse is easier for the user to understand and to use.

As with other wavelet transforms, a key advantage it has over Fourier transforms is temporal resolution: it captures both frequency and location information ( location in time ).

A key advantage of the Euclidean algorithm is that it can find the GCD efficiently without having to compute the prime factors.

It provided a technological advantage, and was responsible for many key Byzantine military victories, most notably the salvation of Constantinople from two Arab sieges, thus securing the Empire's survival.

In most countries, trading by corporate insiders such as officers, key employees, directors, and large shareholders may be legal, if this trading is done in a way that does not take advantage of non-public information.

The critical advantage in an asymmetric key system is that Bob and Alice never need to send a copy of their keys to each other.

The key advantage of self-propelled over towed artillery is that it can be brought into action much faster.

However, New England took advantage of several key Jacksonville miscues in a game dominated by defense.

There were serious scientific objections to the process of natural selection as the key mechanism of evolution, including Karl von Nägeli's insistence that a trivial characteristic with no adaptive advantage could not be developed by selection.

Vi has the advantage that most ordinary keys are connected to some kind of command for positioning, altering text, searching and so forth, either singly or in key combinations.

Wheat was a key factor enabling the emergence of city-based societies at the start of civilization because it was one of the first crops that could be easily cultivated on a large scale, and had the additional advantage of yielding a harvest that provides long-term storage of food.

Ownership of the rights to the Tesla patents was a key advantage to the Westinghouse Company in offering a complete alternating current power system for both lighting and power.

Its earliest non-experimental use came with military communication systems during World War II, its key advantage being that its light-based transmissions could not be intercepted by the enemy.

A key advantage of jets and turboprops for aeroplane propulsion-their superior performance at high altitude compared to piston engines, particularly naturally aspirated ones-is irrelevant in automobile applications.

The key advantage to umsdos out of the three is that it provides full Unix file semantics.

This key advantage enables them to occasionally reach a body before Calliphoridae overall effecting the maggot mass that will be discovered.

The key advantage of a linear penalty function is that the slack variables vanish from the dual problem, with the constant C appearing only as an additional constraint on the Lagrange multipliers.

The key to designing a passive solar building is to best take advantage of the local climate.

A key advantage of this kind of reactive armour is that it cannot be defeated via tandem warhead shaped charges, which employ a small forward warhead to detonate ERA before the main warhead fires.

The key advantage of a mailing list over a things such as web-based discussion is that as new message becomes available they are immediately delivered to the participants ' mailboxe.

* Configurability is a key feature of the project, and is achieved through the usage of VHDL generics.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

Among measures in anticipation of crisis are plans to inject into the turmoil as assistants of key decision makers qualified persons who are cognizant of the corrosive effect of crisis upon personal relationships and are also able to raise calm and realistic voices when overburdened leaders near the limit of self-control.

No warden or guard to touch lock, key or doorknob except when accompanied by a prisoners' committee with powers of veto.

It was the end of the afternoon when he took the huge key out of his pocket and inserted it into the keyhole.

otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.

I said `` Darn it, that's the automatic signal that shows when the ignition key is on.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.

It also was responsible for switching to ROM BASIC when the system was turned on with the break key pressed, and later supported a primitive LAN system, using the RS232 port with modified cabling.

The major turn in Sakharov ’ s political evolution came in 1967, when anti-ballistic missile defense became a key issue in US – Soviet relations.

The difficulty is heightened when songs merge, as in " Now "/" Later "/" Soon ", because all three have to be performed in the same key, limiting the ability to pick a comfortable key for each singer.

Once when she is, in a key scene, finally invited by the male members of the country club she gives a toast citing from the song “ With rue my heart is laden ”.

A BIOS has a user interface ( UI ), typically a menu system accessed by pressing a certain key on the keyboard when the PC starts.

Other problems can easily occur when a minor is the agreed trump suit, or the key suit when no trump suit is agreed.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

One minimal chordic keyboard example is Edgar Matias ' Half-Qwerty keyboard described in patent circa 1992 that produces the letters of the missing half when the user simultaneously presses the space bar along with the mirror key.

Thelma Barlow, who played Derek's wife Mavis, was angered by the sacking of her co-star and resigned, while the production team also lost some of its key writers when Barry Hill, Adele Rose and Julian Roach all resigned.

The key breakthrough occurred when Alfred Werner proposed in 1893 that Co ( III ) bears six ligands in an octahedral geometry.

Symmetric-key ciphers are suitable for bulk encryption using shared keys, and public-key encryption using digital certificates can provide a practical solution for the problem of securely communicating when no key is shared in advance.

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

** Scanning unit-when a calculator is powered on, it scans the keypad waiting to pick up an electrical signal when a key is pressed.