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She closed the airlock's doors and found they both still worked on the automatics, though the outer door's mechanism made alarming vibrations
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Phipps opened it all the way and revealed the loading mechanism for the turret
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"That virus is the mechanism that enforces the individual sovereignty policy by which the Kassikan rules mankind on this entire planet
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The smell of oil on a bolt mechanism
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True he would have to solve the problem of what to do while the mechanism was being constructed, but there is no need to solve that problem til he completed the design of the mechanism
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I assume things weren't very good because the brain's defense mechanism doesn't filter out good events
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'Life is much more than a superficial scanning mechanism called “consciousness”
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Once the device was in place and turned on, any touch would arm a safety mechanism and the device would self-destruct
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left to ponder on the mechanism that was at work
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with you through the mechanism of your physical
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This is the mechanism that
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'Don't know, the firm does have a mechanism for support staff to swop over to the fee earner side; I'll have to explore that
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Mechanism Affecting Release of Trapped Emotion, 140-141
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She watches as he systematically unplugs the lead and winds it up, following him as he carries the mower and cable to the tiny shed and holding the door open for him as he lugs the awkward mechanism through the doorway
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The men’s bathroom raised a couple of less than complimentary remarks from the secretary of the association … mostly on the subject of empty toilet rolls and how no man she had ever met could understand the mechanism which required the replacement of an empty toilet roll with a fresh one
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You're seriously saying that this asteroid acts as Earth's natural defense mechanism against hostile aliens? That's insane! There's no such thing as aliens,”
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actual mechanism, several blades that chopped up what was supposed to be organic
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Nimblefax was quite intrigued at the speed at which the carriage achieved without any apparent steering mechanism, Beauty just used her hands to direct its movement, calling out 'Whoa' to slow and 'Away' to speed up
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elected leaders are not just ok, and the mechanism of
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This automatic mechanism will take us to another dimension 74
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more, till it threatened to demolish the entire mechanism of the
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“Theory number five! This final supposition states that the whole evolutionary mechanism revolves around competition among a great number of individuals—within a species and among species
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Furthermore, how about his hearing capabilities? Bob the Buho has an audible range similar to us Homo sapiens, but his “what’s-going-on?” sound mechanism is much more sensitive than ours to certain frequencies
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That kind of stuff just goes with our species and it’s a very positive, innate, response mechanism that has served to protect us from danger and keep us alive and kickin’ over the years
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“It must’ve been in the river and gotten caught up in the irrigation mechanism that transports water to the top of the Hanging Gardens
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The mechanism of the water irrigation system mauled his body beyond recognition
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The manifestation of anger, fear is a survival mechanism full of negative emotions to diffuse that energy reach to others with acceptance
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healing ourselves there is an inherent mechanism within the instinctual part of
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also lends itself to becoming a triggering mechanism for entering the trance state
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But the simple text functionality is basically a safety mechanism so that your messages can be read by people who don’t have html enabled
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There is a number of hypotheses which considering the mechanism of creep deformations under action of the external loading
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There’s some mechanism at the centre causing the cloud
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A recessed button beside it, designed to activate the mechanism, was smashed beyond recognition and it would not work without electrical power anyway
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It should have been closed and sealed prior to the crash but a brief examination of the lock mechanism revealed why it was now open
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The jolt of the crash had seen to it that it was as far open as the mechanism would allow
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He tried the remote interface port – a simple gold node; his suit emitted an EM signal in an attempt to communicate with the ship’s control systems and pump in enough power to activate the lock mechanism
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Much to Chris’ relief, it turned out that Fletcher had succeeded in freeing up the shuttle bay door mechanism before he had been so unexpectedly murdered
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Chris tried out the mechanism and was relieved to see the door not just open completely and but also shut again successfully afterwards
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There was an affirmative beep from the door and he heard the motorised clunk as the mechanism unlocked
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Dark energy in its simplest formulation takes the form of the cosmological constant term in Einstein‘s field equations of general relativity, but its composition and mechanism are unknown and, more generally, the details of its equation of state and relationship with the Standard Model of particle physics continue to be investigated both observationally and theoretically
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Nobody can do a proper erection mechanism, me neither, but then not
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along the mechanism behind Frank's Aspiration
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And if they developed such a mechanism, then it stands to reason they’d also have anticipated
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“You have initiated the first steps in activating the auto-destruct mechanism of the FS
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The moment she released it, the destruct mechanism would be
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There was something unnerving about being so close to the mechanism that would bring
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Grandpa used his chickens as a tool, a mechanism, to raise his daughters and his grandchildren
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A mechanism ground behind the wall
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Dorro, you nearly gave me heart failure! I’m repairing the very delicate mechanism of a clock for Osgood Thrip
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For such individuals, race is simply a triggering mechanism that justifies (latent) violent behavior
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The mechanism is, of yet, very poorly understood
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In the bathroom, she lifted the toilet tank cover and there, half submerged in water, a large wad of bills clung to the mechanism
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Smith-Hughes's subsidiary companies produces the mechanism for AT&T
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Was it a common theme? Was the desert and its extreme environment the one to blame for the changes he was going through? Was it a trick of perception, a misstep of the mind? Was it simply a coping mechanism? The array of questions that seemed to come unbidden to his weary mind suddenly became overwhelming
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I take some measure of pride in being in active control of the mechanism, which though quite ancient and indeed of great xenoarchaelogical interest, rest assured is quite safe and sound in all aspects of its operation
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It continued to analyze its failure, this time with more feeling in its voice, as if it relished the fact that it had finally uncovered the mechanism of its failure:
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Ron had explained to him how delicate the shellworld mechanism was and how it was structurally near-impossible to keep it one piece without the active mechanism of the bullhorns
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The Morning before Christmas Eve, Tea, and “The Mechanism”
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“One thing that is neat about the mechanism is that it actually requires less accounting information than that required by the various Balanced Budget Amendments
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The mechanism only requires information on spending and you only need that information over the period of time in office, not annually
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That happened to many states in the 1990s, before the recession, but it would not happen under the mechanism
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“This is why the mechanism might be easier to get implemented in a parliamentary system, like England’s in which the majority party appoints the Prime Minister
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, in the event of a split between the legislative and executive branches, the mechanism would not be applicable—but why do you suppose that we, increasingly, elect a majority to the House and/or Senate of a different party than that of the President?”
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Suppose the mechanism is in place
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The power over spending that would be transferred from politicians to voters under the mechanism would be something that those voters should really like, I would imagine
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I would guess, with the mechanism in place, that the Party whose candidates ultimately win the national election would propose at least modest expenditure cuts
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Lunch…and Other Benefits of the Mechanism
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“Right,” confirmed Charles, “but under the mechanism, we don’t care at all about the revenue part of that problem
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The mechanism is much less pro-cyclical than a balanced budget amendment would be
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Many economists argue that the uncertainty about a government’s fiscal and monetary policies is one of the biggest problems with government, and the mechanism would essentially eliminate spending uncertainty
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For the vast majority of government programs, this is not a problem—we don’t automatically have more missiles bought during a recession! At any rate, if we chose—optionally—to exempt the spending that automatically changes in a recession, then the mechanism would not be the slightest bit pro-cyclical
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“Yes,” Charles amended, “though the mechanism would not address the most basic reason why people don’t vote, it should at least help increase voter turnout
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“Yes, you have a point,” said Charles, “but I would guess that people would be a whole lot more informed under the mechanism
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First, there is the overall spending level that voters care about, and that they could really affect under the mechanism
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“Is that it in terms of advantages of the mechanism?” said E who had been listening but who was also a little upset that we weren’t watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the umpteenth time
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The mechanism would also encourage the privatization of those activities that the government should never have been doing anyway
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Charles picked a Christmas tree sugar cookie off the tray, and continued, “You know, all of the advantages of the mechanism apply with equal force to state and local governments
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Indeed, one way in which people could get familiar with the mechanism would be for states or cities to implement it first
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As the benefits of the mechanism became more widely appreciated, the mechanism might spread among the municipalities and states, ultimately to the federal government
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“Yes,” I noted, starting to figure it out, “I can definitely see some advantages to your mechanism now over the Balanced Budget amendment approach—nearly all states have legal requirements to balance the budget, but when the economy is going well, the revenue just pours in
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Who Is Helped and Hurt by the Mechanism?
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“You’re starting to convince me, Charles,” said Michelle, “but why on earth would the political parties submit to this mechanism of yours? Would they really commit, in a meaningful money-on-the-line sort of way, to a spending limit? Wouldn’t it really require a constitutional amendment, like with the Balanced Budget Amendment, to force this on them?”
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“I don’t know, as with any interesting question,” responded Charles smiling, “and this is one reason my colleagues in economics think the mechanism is impractical
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But I can’t really see why passage of a law enforcing the mechanism would be necessary, if verifiable, nonpartisan auditing procedures are put in place and agreed upon
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Here is where publicity in the media—on talk radio, in newspapers, on TV—about the benefits of the mechanism becomes of crucial importance
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Subject to the exceptions we have discussed, I think there could be substantial pressure to voluntarily adopt the mechanism
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It is sort of a ‘prisoners’ dilemma’ situation, in that neither party would like to abide by the mechanism, but the party first doing so will probably be viewed very favorably by the voters
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Charles, having obviously given this whole issue a lot of thought, said “I actually think it is pretty likely that the special interest groups, collectively, might be better off under the mechanism
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Furthermore, lobbying expenses to be the ‘chosen’ contractor for a demanded project should be at least somewhat reduced under the mechanism because of the political pressure to keep spending low
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The mechanism will result in pressure to select the lowest bidding contractor, holding quality constant
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Since there will be much less candy to give out under the mechanism, there will be much less money available to run campaigns
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But, fundamentally, I think this apparent ‘problem’ would, in fact, be another strength of the mechanism
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But, with overall expenditure constrained under the mechanism, this would receive much-needed attention
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The inevitable discussion of such allocation issues is, it would seem, an additional benefit of the mechanism
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In cases of controversy, the courts might have to decide whether the mechanism had been violated, but I doubt that this would be at all common—the parties will be very careful
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Charles’ other idea was the discovery of a mechanism that gives the voters control over how much politicians can spend
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The computer controller in the metaphor has its variety of regimes programmed into it, but how does the brain acquire its various regimes? Experience would be the first and most logical answer, but desire is an eminently older control mechanism, and other less ancient sources have come into existence, creating cooperative control and inhibitory impulses
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Such a mechanism would surely come in handy for our evolutionary predecessors, who needed to respond quickly to the dangers and opportunities they encountered in the wild…But emotions like fear and infatuation (and other ‘ways to think’) can also serve goals that seem distant from such biological imperatives as avoiding danger
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I think this paragraph can elucidate the mechanism -some might say-, by which God´s information reaches first the writer and then the reader of the sacred text
