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It's the sensitivity of the connected sensors, strewn hither and thither, opening up potential attack vectors for determined hackers.
It wasn't so long ago that if you had a family to haul hither and thither, you got a minivan.
He has decided to apply much the same technique to becoming prime minister, walking hither and thither and engaging people in conversation.
Unlike the World Bank, which is pulled hither and thither by its members, the AIIB will keep a tighter focus on infrastructure.
Kelly's final painting before leaving for France was the Van Gogh-homage, "Shoes" (1948), in which drab footwear, strewn hither and thither, coalesce into accidental harmony.
The chaos on Wednesday, when Tory MPs were first told that they wouldn't be whipped and then, at the last moment, that they would, sending them scurrying hither and thither, was a moment of high farce.
As I wandered hither and thither, I thought of the chapter of Melville's Moby Dick entitled "The Whiteness of the Whale," in which he descants on all the multifarious shades of the color: beige-white, liver-spotted white, appallingly tattooed white, red sun-burned white, pale-freckled white.
This fall, a number of designers are offering new takes on the so-called British heritage patterns, so you can wear classic tweeds without the sartorial inconveniences once endured, stiff-upper-lip style, by aristocrats as they dashed hither and thither in the wake of this or that frightened fox.
Many people in our liberal democracies feel they are being tossed hither and thither by forces beyond their control — nowhere more so than in Greece where national elections in recent years — and there have been a lot of them — have revealed an almost complete disconnect between the vote itself and any tangible effect.
The line drawings conjure carefree grown-up vacations: There are women and men with tattoos in a pool, men in pork pie hats and women who paired sandals with wild print dresses lounging and walking hither and thither, people texting on their cellphones, a woman with a yoga mat over her shoulder.
" Others may recognize that O'Brien has shown a form of courage in taking on the story but react uneasily to a character from rural northeastern Nigeria whose world view includes egg cups, perambulators, and bottles of vanilla essence, and whose inner life is conveyed by such expressions as "an ungodly hour" and "jolted hither and thither.
But instead, viewers were treated mostly to a numbing procession of corporate labels including Chanel (Julianne Moore, in a deeply V-necked black gown with glitter banding and triangular straps), Dior (Charlize Theron, in a deeply V-necked red gown with low back and spaghetti straps) and Louis Vuitton (Alicia Vikander, the winner for best supporting actress, who in her strapless lemon-yellow frock covered hither and thither with silver sprinkles resembled a very slender cupcake).
Lugging four whacking great harps hither and thither can't be doing her invertebral discs too many favours.
Queen Caroline was a mimsy, out-moded woman, a sly serio, who gadded hither and thither shrieking for the unbecoming.
Windisch-Grätz had advised him to retreat west to the Garam (in Slovakian Hron) river without a fight if he faced superior numbers. Götz’s men had not fought since the middle of February, being kept busy moving hither and thither in northern Hungary, in this aspect the battle- hardened Hungarian troops had the advantage.
Isidore compares Greek hydrophobia, which literally means "fear of water," and says that "lymphaticus is the word for one who contracts a disease from water, making him run about hither and thither, or from the disease gotten from a flow of water." In poetic usage, he adds, the lymphatici are madmen.Isidore, Etymologies 4.6.12 and 10.
He flew hither and thither among the Cherusci, demanding "war against > Segestes, war against Cæsar." And he refrained not from taunts. Thusnelda gave birth to a son named Thumelicus who grew up in Roman captivity. Tacitus describes him as having an unusual story, which he promises to tell in his later writings, but these writings have never been found.
I. "Morgens steh' ich auf und frage" — The narrator speaks of his daily hope for his beloved to come to him, and his nightly disappointment when she does not. In D major. II. "Es treibt mich hin" — The narrator is driven hither and thither in excitement about seeing his beloved, but the hours go too slowly for him. In B minor. III.
Relatives, friends and pressmen from my two home cities - Johannesburg and Pretoria. I was bounced hither and thither and would most probably not have noticed if an arm or legs were torn off of me, or my neck was being wrung. Such an overwhelming ecstasy of that reunion. The police had to come and disperse the crowd as it had now taken over the concourse.
He was supported by a holy man who claimed to have been visited by an angel. The rebellion spread from the Sulak to the Sunzha. General Grekov, a man reputedly more harsh than Yermolov, marched hither and thither but could not suppress it. On 9 July 1825 2000 rebels captured Amir-Haji-Yurt (on the Terek just east of Dadi-Yurt) and killed most of the garrison.
Many enquiries were made as to the > name of 'them queer horses', some called them 'whirligigs', 'menageries' and > 'valparaisons'. Between Wolverhampton and Birmingham, attempts were made to > upset the riders by throwing stones. Times, London, 31 March 1869 Enthusiasm extended to other countries. The New York Times spoke of "quantities of velocipedes In the United States the word included what elsewhere were called hobby-horses flying like shuttles hither and thither".
A gale may spring up, the ship may > be blown hither and thither, it may meet with shoals or be driven upon > hidden rocks, then it may be broken to the very roofs (of its deckhouses). A > great ship with heavy cargo has nothing to fear from the high seas, but > rather in shallow water it will come to grief.Needham, Joseph (1971). > Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical > Technology, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics.
"Arrayed in green... mounted on a white horse, [she] rode hither and thither upon the field with drawn sword in hand, rallying the pikemen and leading them in successive charges with the utmost fearlessness." (Patrick Archer, Fingal in 1798). She wore a green riding costume, with gold braid in the manner of a uniform and a green cocked hat with a white plume. She was armed with sword and pistols and was accompanied by her four brothers when she rode into battle.
When Cobbold got possession of the ball he seemed to keep it glued to his toe, darting hither and thither as he pursued a tortuous course towards goal. One man was practically powerless to stop him. Two men might stay his career by dividing their attentions between the man and the ball, but they were not always successful even then. Very frequently Cobbold would shoulder his way through a whole crowd of the opposition and emerge triumphant with the ball at his toe.
This route was marked by a large trade, -- exchange of China tea for salt, soda, hides and timber, -- all borne hither and thither between China and Russia by caravans of camels or oxcarts. West of this ancient caravan route were wandering tribes almost knowing no government or fearing no power. In the winter they live in rude huts or tents; during the heated summers they seek the best pastures they can command for their flocks. Terrible dust storms swept over the land.
Interesting are Judah's references to his library as his "best treasure", his "best companion", and to his book-shelves as "the most beautiful pleasure-gardens." He adds: > I have collected a large library for thy sake so that thou needest never > borrow a book of any one. As thou thyself seest, most students run hither > and thither searching for books without being able to find them. . . . Look > over thy Hebrew books every month, thy Arabic ones every two months, thy > bound books every three months.
Bad assumption. They drift from incident to incident with the style of the crash 'em cars at a carnival." Mystery writer and critic H. R. F. Keating wrote, in an introduction to a 1987 reissue of the first Witherall novel, "If a writer can keep in play an interest in a crime of some sort, preferably indeed murder, and at the same time induce the reader to take the hither-and-thither balloon flight of farce, then the entertainment provided will be not doubled but tripled. But it is difficult.
He set the opera amidst what looked like the crumbling remains of buildings constructed by the ancient Greeks, and yet dressed his singers in apparel reminiscent of the eighteenth century. Ilia was the exception to the rule, clothed in a flowing, cream-coloured dress that did seem appropriate to the classical era. Piranesi-like scenery was presented on a series of painted scrims as if in an outsized magic lantern show. Soloists were required to strike histrionic poses of pain, regret or joy after being moved hither and thither like pieces on a chess board.
He followed their > movement, gazing at them and crying out like one possessed. The whole army, > as it saw him turning hither and thither, imitated his actions, and all were > fired with the idea of certain victory. When he had everything as he wished > he did not hesitate, nor permit their ardor to cool, but still as one > inspired exclaimed: "These signs tell us that we must fight at once." When > they had taken their food he ordered them to arm themselves, and led them > against the enemy, who were not expecting them, giving the command of the > horse to Silanus and of the foot to Lælius and Marcius.
Yet, his ancestor has charged his heir with the task of using the inheritance to give back mankind its lost future. After some hither and thither, he accepts the role assigned to him by his ancestor and tries to better the world socially and ecologically. On the advice of his mysterious new consultant, Malcolm McCaine, he founds a huge corporation called Fontanelli Enterprises and strategically invests the inherited fortune in a diversified group of projects to grow his power and influence. Starting with the hostile takeover of ExxonMobil, John Fontanelli's orders now decide the fate of other companies, currencies, and even complete countries' economies.
It was a result > of the contradictory actions and reactions which destroyed all hopes in the > hearts of the Arab population and urged them to flee aimlessly hither and > thither. The way in which groups and even members of the same families fled, > individually and in different directions can give us an idea of the degree > of panic and horror which was felt amongst them." In their volume on the 1947–1948 period in Jerusalem and surrounding areas, O Jerusalem!, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre give a variety of explanations for the cause of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, but conclude, "Above all, fear and uncertainty fueled the Arabs' flight.
When ripe females are receptive, males will court them, after a chase sequence through aquatic foliage in which several males may pursue an individual female, breaking off to pursue a different female as the opportunity arises, resulting in the aquarium in mad dashes hither and thither. Eventually, close observation will see a male court a female in some secluded area of aquatic foliage. The courting gesture of the male consists of a quivering motion, with a head-down posture, and the 'flicking' of the unpaired fins in such a manner as to generate flashes of yellow colouration in the visual field of the female. These flashes will be readily visible to the observing aquarist.
As I looked toward the > Seminary Ridge I could see and hear the confusion of the battle. Troops > moving hither and thither; the smoke of the conflict arising from the > fields; shells bursting in the air, together with the din, rising and > falling in mighty undulations. These things, beheld for the first time, > filled my soul with the greatest apprehensions. We soon reached the > Taneytown road, and while traveling along, were overtaken by an ambulance > wagon in which was the body of a dead soldier.... We continued on our way, > and had gotten to a little one and a half story house, standing on the west > side of the road, when, on account of the muddy condition of the road, we > were compelled to stop.
The German language contains a complex system of inflection that is capable of frustrating learners in a manner similar to Twain's argument:Schmid 2002 p. 85 > Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and > so slippery and elusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and > thither, in the most helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has > captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid the general > rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he turns over the page and > reads, "Let the pupil make careful note of the following exceptions." He > runs his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions to the rule than > instances of it.
The most important of Ibn Gabirol's Zionides are the poem beginning with the words: ::Send a prince to the condemned people which is scattered hither and thither and that beginning: ::Turn thy face, O God, to the conquered, who is delivered up into the hand of Babel and of Seir. Judah ha-Levi (1140) was the author of the Zionide beginning: ::Zion, wilt thou not send a greeting to thy captives, Who greet thee as the remnant of thy flocks? From West to East, from North to South, a greeting, From far and near, take thou on all sides. A greeting sends the captive of desire, who sheds his tears Like dew on Hermon; would they might fall on thy hills.
Andhakupa (well with its mouth hidden): It is the hell where a person who harms others with the intention of malice and harms insects is confined. He is attacked by birds, mammals, reptiles, mosquitoes, lice, worms, flies and others, who deprive him of rest and compel him to run hither and thither. Krimibhojana/Krimibhaksha (worm-food): As per the Bhagavata Purana and the Devi Bhagavata Purana, it is where a person who does not share his food with guests, elders, children or the gods, and selfishly eats it alone, and he who eats without performing the five yajnas (panchayajna) is chastised. The Vishnu Purana states that one who loathes his father, Brahmins or the gods and who destroys jewels is punished here.
Bruce W. Winter and Andrew D. Clarke, "The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting" (1993), page 207 "As for me he [Constantius] reluctantly let me go, after dragging me hither and thither for seven whole months and keeping me under guard; so that had not some one of the gods desired that I should escape, and made the beautiful and virtuous Eusebia kindly disposed to me, I could not then have escaped from his hands myself"."The Works of the Emperor Julian", 1913 translation by Wilmer Cave Wright, vol. 2, page 255 Ammianus gives a more detailed account of the case, crediting her with saving Julian's life. He was suspected of treason following the execution of his half-brother Constantius Gallus in 354.
Much of Todd's early work was published in magazines such as Punch and The Spectator,Barbara Euphan Todd Biography at Persephone Books but she also wrote two volumes of poems about children, illustrated by Ernest Shepard: Hither and Thither (1927) and The Seventh Daughter (1935). In the 1920s, Todd started writing novels for children, some of them in collaboration with her husband, Naval Commander John Graham Bower (1886–1940), whom she married in 1932. The couple moved to Blewbury near Oxford, where Bower wrote fiction and essays under the pseudonym "Klaxon", and Todd, as "Barbara Euphan", for South Country Secrets (1935). Together they wrote The Touchstone, in which observation of the countryside is joined by interest in its history, in a similar way to Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill.
Title page from the first American edition of FitzGerald's translation, 1878 Stanza XI above, from the fifth edition, differs from the corresponding stanza in the first edition, wherein it reads: "Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the bough/A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse – and Thou". Other differences are discernible. Stanza XLIX is more well known in its incarnation in the first edition (1859): The fifth edition (1889) of stanza LXIX, with different numbering, is less familiar: "But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays/Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;/Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,/And one by one back in the Closet lays." FitzGerald's translation of the Rubáiyát is notable for being a work to which allusions are both frequent and ubiquitous.
Cyril took charge of the First Council of Ephesus in 431, opening debate before the long-overdue contingent of Eastern bishops from Antioch arrived. The council deposed Nestorius and declared him a heretic. In Nestorius' own words, > When the followers of Cyril saw the vehemence of the emperor... they roused > up a disturbance and discord among the people with an outcry, as though the > emperor were opposed to God; they rose up against the nobles and the chiefs > who acquiesced not in what had been done by them and they were running > hither and thither. And... they took with them those who had been separated > and removed from the monasteries by reason of their lives and their strange > manners and had for this reason been expelled, and all who were of heretical > sects and were possessed with fanaticism and with hatred against me.
The book's title is taken from Stanza XLVIX of Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Khayyám: > 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for > Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one > back in the Closet lays. Shute began writing The Chequer Board September 1945 and completed it February 1946. The portions of the book that take place in Burma were based on his own experiences there during World War II. From the dust-jacket: "It was very difficult to feel these cultured brown girls, all speaking excellent English...were really any different from the girls at home." He also noted during the war the "popularity of American Negroes in England and the superior quality of the Burmese people", both of which are central to the book's story.
How could I, > while for at least an hour traversing those long aisles, ascending the lofty > pulpit, entering the sacred chancel, forbear to ask, And is this the House > of God which was built by the Washingtons, the Mc.Cartys, the Lewises, the > Fairfaxes?—the house in which they used to worship the God of our fathers > according to the venerable forms of the Episcopal Church, and some of whose > names are still to be seen on the doors of those now deserted pews? Is this > also destined to moulder piecemeal away, or, when some signal is given, to > become the prey of spoilers, and to be carried hither and thither and > applied to every purpose under heaven? On the strength of this appeal, the Reverend W. P. C. Johnson, then serving as a tutor at Gunston Hall, became the first post-Colonial rector to serve the church.
Blücher wrote of him that he was a leader of whom the Prussian army might well be proud. He succeeded his father in the principality, and acquired additional lands by his marriage with a daughter of Count von Hoym. In 1806 Frederick Louis, now a general of infantry, was appointed to command the left wing of the Prussian forces opposing Napoleon, having under him Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia; but, feeling that his career had been that of a prince and not that of a professional soldier, he allowed his quartermaster-general, the incompetent Oberst (Colonel) Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach to influence him unduly. Disputes soon broke out between Hohenlohe and the commander-in-chief the Duke of Brunswick, the armies marched hither and thither without effective results, and finally Frederick Louis's army was almost destroyed by Napoleon at the Battle of Jena on 14 October 1806.
Words and thoughts that she flung hither and thither, without > design or intent beyond the amusement of the moment, come to me still with a > mingled thrill of pleasure and pain that I cannot describe, and that my most > friendly readers, not having known her, could not understand. Anne Elwood, from her Memoirs of Literary Ladies:Elwood(1843) > It was her invariable habit to write in her bed-room, – "a homely-looking, > almost uncomfortable room, fronting the street, and barely furnished – with > a simple white bed, at the foot of which was a small, old, oblong-shaped > sort of dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, > heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small > for aught besides the desk. A little high-backed cane chair, which gave you > any idea but that of comfort, and a few books scattered about, completed the > author's paraphernalia." Emma Roberts again: > She not only read, but thoroughly understood, and entered into the merits of > every book that came out; while it is merely necessary to refer to her > printed works, to calculate the amount of information which she had gathered > from preceding authors.

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