Once the flag drops they row 1/2 stroke, 1/2 stroke, 3/4 stroke, then a full stroke. ... This is accomplished by the rowers power, length of their stroke, blade work, and the drive. Power is what makes the boat go. There is no substitution for power, and while it is not everything, sheer power covers a multitude of sins. ... With the same power, a stroke twice as long in the water will be twice as effective. ...
The engine was small, light and a four-stroke. ... A motorcycle engine can be either a two-stroke or a four-stroke. ... "A two-stroke engine is a simply constructed engine. ... According to David, former motorcycle mechanic, the cylinder head is the area where the gas and oxygen mix on the down stroke, but on the upstroke it is compressed and ignited by the spark plug to produce a mini explosion, which creates power. ... All these parts work together to created enough power to move the motorcycle. ...
Stroke is a dominant cause of sickness and death. ... Human epidemiological studies have the power to save millions of lives, showing that major advances can be achieved without animal experiments. Moreover, animal tests have a dubious record in predicting useful drugs to combat the effects of a stroke. Animal researchers indicate that barbiturates could protect against the effects on the stroke, experiments on dogs, rabbits, and monkeys. In human stroke victims, however, barbiturates had little or no protective effect. ...
Regularity Regular writing shows will power, balanced mind and sense of harmony. ... If the writer leaves no spaces, either by inserting strokes or extending endstrokes to the end of the line, it shows extreme distrustfullness and unconscious fear that the empty space may be filled by somebody else. ... The interweaving of lines and the mixing up of the underlengths of the upper line with the upperlengths of the following line indicate muddleheadedness and lack of the power to survey, lack of critical sense and intellectual skill and clear expression in favor of spontaneity an...
Regularity Regular writing shows will power, balanced mind and sense of harmony. ... If the writer leaves no spaces, either by inserting strokes or extending endstrokes to the end of the line, it shows extreme distrustfullness and unconscious fear that the empty space may be filled by somebody else. ... The interweaving of lines and the mixing up of the underlengths of the upper line with the upperlengths of the following line indicate muddleheadedness and lack of the power to survey, lack of critical sense and intellectual skill and clear expression in favor of spontaneity an...
It had a 80mm stroke and a 58mm bore. ... In April 1934 BMW announced the creation of a long stroke six cylinder. They had a power output of 34BHP. ... It had a max power of 80BHP. ... The Junior sixes had a smaller block and a smaller stroke than the Senior sixes. ...
One of the biggest impacts he had was changing the way the British warships were powered. He ordered for all the ships to be built with oil powered engines instead of coal powered engines, and he was one of the first military men to implement military aircraft. ... With the rise to power in Germany of Adolf Hitler in 1933, it wasn't yet clear that Hitler was going to be a great threat not only to Britain, but potentially all of Europe, as well as the entire world. ... Churchill had kept a close relationship with United States of America President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before Hitler t...
Aside from more than doubling the size of the United States with a stroke of a pen, the Louisiana Purchase acquired the largest trade route in North America and had a significant impact on the rest of the world, specifically Europe. ... This action caused uneasiness in the United States because Napoleonic France was an aggressive power at the time. ... Inevitable war with Great Britain, provoked by his aggressive behavior, made him question the practicality of wasting soldiers and money to hold Louisiana against that great naval power. ... With one stroke the United States would double its ...
The stroke elements originate from the smooth, delivery and timing. ... While powerful stroking came to be a bowling style in itself, it's also another method of saying "cracker with a smooth delivery" or "striker with lots of power." ... Powerful strikers have a combination of timing and power. ... Along with so much going into a power striker's delivery, consistency is sometimes hard to find. ... Another way cracker generates power is employing the plant and pull technique. ...
Every aspect of his lifestyle reflected his desire to achieve that objective: spending most of his time alone (away from his wife Hortense and son Paul), renting rooms or buying shelters in the middle of nature in the South of France, being self critical to the point of meditating for hours in between brush strokes, etc. ... More than for any impressionist, every brush stroke carried more responsibility in Cézanne's works. ... " [Danchev] He could think for hours in between brush strokes - with all the inner conflict that the act of thinking generates. ... With his concept of...
He "fucks, with a regular two-four marching stroke" which asserts this control. ... Additionally, the real power lies not with Rachel, but with Jacob. ... The Ceremony is an assertion of female power, as well as male. ... The lower class female in society, like Handmaids, do hold some type of their own power in the society, "the power of a dog bone, passive but there". Angels and Guardians, all male, hold more power than a Handmaid, but they must not look during the women's walk around the Red Centre, therefore the Handmaids hold sexual power. ...
Such desires for power permeate the minds of almost all the characters once they land on the island. ... One stroke Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest, And I the King shall love thee." ... Such desires for power are not uncommon with other characters either. ... Before they attempt their scheme, they quickly find someone to hold power over, as they use Caliban as their servant and mock him as he helps them. ... The drive for power corrupts men of all statuses, men who otherwise would likely be respectable, moral men. ...
Interestingly, this does not reduce the power of his regime; on the contrary, the animals appear to be now submissive and even thankful for his rule over the farm. ... It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. " However, this apparent atmosphere of cheerfulness and extreme satisfaction with life conditions at the farm run counter to the actual situation of the animals. ... Foucault uses this model as a metaphor to deal with the operation of power and surveillance in contemporary society. ... The latter, for him, makes u...
This ability is called power. ... But who granted women power? ... Beauty was also a power to bring men honor. ... Nevertheless, feminine power does not always carry negative results, another power of women can actually bring some positive effect to men. ... When Hector noticed that his "loving wife" was weeping, he was "filled with pity" and "stroked her gently, trying to reassure her, repeating her name" (The Iliad, Book 6, 576-580). ...
He was a master realist, and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad, sure strokes. ... The parallel shapes of the toys and those symbols of worldly power, the scepter and orb, also suggest the implicit reference to the prince's kingly future. ...
He experimented with gasoline-powered vehicles and horse-less carriages for several years. ... Ford had a stroke in 1938 but returned to run the company and resume the presidency after his son, Edsel Ford, died in 1943 (World Book Encyclopedia: Henry Ford). ... By this time Ford had already experienced two strokes and two years later handed over the presidency to his grandson, Henry Ford II. ...
The Soviet Union formed, grew into a super power and crumbled (LeDuc). ... And Rose's husband, who had suffered from a debilitating stroke in 1961, died in 1969 (Encyclopedia Britannica). ... Ever since a stroke in April of 1984, she was confined to a wheelchair, and spent the majority of her time those last few years in her bed at the family's Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod. ...
On December 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. in Kitty Hawk North Carolina, the Wright brothers made the first heavier-than-air, machine powered flight which lasted 12 seconds and spanned 120 feet although they are credited for successfully having the first flight, there is one thing that separates their flying from today's flight, the Wright plane was catapulted straight to give it speed. ... The four stroke piston engine is the type of engine normally found in a car but types of piston engines also power boats and planes. The four "strokes" are INDUCTION, COMPRESSION, COMBUSTION, EXHAUST (or suck...
To stroke a stringed instrument more boldly, or in other words more forcefully, means playing louder, thus mirroring the coy excuse of the maid with something more obscure, such as the imagination itself: "a witchery of sound". ... According to the Oxford English Dictionary, gale can mean singing, or song, which fits perfectly in the description of music created by the Eolian harp, but what is unique about this choice is its other meaning of "gusts of wind", further emphasizing Coleridge's fascination with the idea of wind holding the power of music. The poem succeed...
In the first poem "Death, Be not Proud" John Donne takes the power away from death. ... Donne believes that death doesn't have any power to kill human souls. ... As the death cannot kill people since it does not have any power. ... For instance, Thomas says, "And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?... Here Thomas shows the example of diseases and other forces that have more power than the death. ...
Tennis is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is a widely attended and respected sport, with major tournaments in every continent except Antarctica. Since the inception of tennis through modern times, the equipment used and the style of tennis have evolved in an unprecedented manner. Inv...
This device could also be used by people suffering from Autism, Mental Retardation, as well as stroke victims or people suffering from a variety of head injuries. ... Dynavox describes the six button device as once "people can experience the power of communication before confronting the complexities." ... Some populations that could benefit from using this device are stroke victims, people suffering from Autism Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation, Traumatic Brain Injury and spinal cord injury victims. ... The Dynavox Mayer-Johnson Company describes the Tango as a device meant to show the p...
In the words of David Smith, "We lay by reason of our sin both original and actual, under the wrath and curse of God, sentenced to an eternity of torment; and the doom would have been executed upon us had not Christ offered himself in our room and suffered in our stead the stroke of Gods wrath and thus satisfied his justice and appeased is anger." ... "The devils will and intentions were not just but evil, but the fact that he had power over men was just, in that it was permitted by God." "The evil one, thought he won Christ's soul and he was receiving the receiving the ransom for sinnin...
The story of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath starts out with Tom Joad coming home from a 4-year jail sentence for murder. He was going back to his family's farm in Oklahoma. On the way there he meets another man, Jim Casy. When they get close to home they find deserted farms. Banks evicted...
The nurse lost the power she has over the patients, whom she had taken pleasure in controlling. ... God alone has the ability to create a new life and to cause a human being to change who he or she is, and this power brings God great joy. ... "She led him into the office, stroking his head and saying, 'Poor boy, poor little boy,'" (265). ...
