flexibility

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

I strongly recommend to the Congress the avoidance of mandatory floors on the size of the reserve components so that we may have the flexibility to make adjustments in keeping with military necessity.

These machines are designed to provide higher operating speeds, larger yarn packages, and greater flexibility of application to different types of yarn.

As a designer and manufacturer of textile production machinery, Leesona and other companies in its industry have sought to meet this challenge with new or improved equipment and methods that would increase production, yet maintain both quality and flexibility.

It increases flexibility of the legs.

The gymnast must develop strength, flexibility, coordination, timing, rhythm, courage, discipline, persistence and the desire for perfection.

Dance teachers can respond to President Kennedy's request not only through their regular dance work, but also through the kind of basic gymnastic work that makes for strength and flexibility.

Very little in today's living provides the strength we need and nothing provides the flexibility.

Dancers do have flexibility.

As flexibility improves, the feet will move closer to the hands and the bridge rise higher.

To further increase back flexibility, work on the back circle.

Then, too, the utmost clinical flexibility is necessary in judiciously combining carefully timed family-oriented home visits, single and group office interviews, and appropriate telephone follow-up calls, if the worker is to be genuinely accessible and if the predicted unhealthy outcome is to be actually averted in accordance with the principles of preventive intervention.

But within that framework he allowed for as much flexibility as possible.

On the one hand, the major European nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty, independence, formal equality -- thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience.

Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.

Fixed installations will always lack the flexibility that should be inherent in naval systems.

In copyright law, there is a necessity for little flexibility as to what constitutes authorship.

This form resembles techniques used by guitar makers to " impart alternating regions of flexibility and rigidity to a stick of wood.

Ambrose displayed a kind of liturgical flexibility that kept in mind that liturgy was a tool to serve people in worshiping God, and ought not to become a rigid entity that is invariable from place to place.

He demonstrated his discretion and flexibility in his initial discussions with the Radical Republicans and conservatives alike, in an attempt to assure a smooth transition, at least at the outset.

Modern glues have improved flexibility, toughness, curing rate, and chemical resistance.

He suggested that a combination of spiritual exercises ( for example, concentrating on an object such as a seed ), moral development ( control of thought, feelings and will combined with openness, tolerance and flexibility ) and familiarity with other spiritual researchers ' results would best further an individual's spiritual development.

Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.

Nevertheless most armies seemed to have retained it within firing batteries and some duplicated the technical fire control teams in a battery to give operational resilience and tactical flexibility.

Carbon dioxide formation can also lead to headaches and decreased muscle flexibility.