163 Sentences With "uselessly" | Random Sentence Generator

Our world is endlessly and uselessly using the word digital.

Sounds intriguing, but the actual movie is strangely plain, eyesore-overlit and uselessly frantic.

You can only watch it unfold and scream your questions uselessly at the screen.

Two rounds later, Liston, slumped on his stool, his left arm hanging uselessly, gave up.

Historians will puzzle over us, puffing our forceful and damp breath uselessly among delicate circuitry.

A worker with no capital is just a guy standing on the street corner uselessly.

Meanwhile, Democrat votes pile up in the cities, uselessly, from an electoral point of view.

Some of that will be deposited farther still downstream; some will wash uselessly out to sea.

Back outside on the streets of Portland, I spun around as uselessly as a dowsing rod.

A timer, uselessly, spins in the upper right hand corner of the screen—uselessly because Bynum is competing against nothing but the obstacles in front of him at this point, the wall and then the collection of plexiglass girders and demonic monkeybars and impossibilities beyond it.

In one violent motion, the smooth hull turned skyward, pointing the stalled propeller uselessly into the air.

The porg on the carpet looked up at me, its watery eyes pleading, tiny wings flapping uselessly.

For several minutes the driver tries to free the vehicle, but the wheels spin uselessly in fallen leaves.

He's either needlessly scrambling or uselessly placid, trying to fit in when the Celtics need him to stand out.

Rescuers carried away an unconscious man by two arms and one leg as the other leg, clearly broken, flapped uselessly.

And now they are bivouacked uselessly on our southern border, awaiting their orders to pack it up and come home.

Is this Cupid, with his stage prop of a bow resting uselessly across his lap, dreaming what's going on above?

The question really means can they generate useful aerodynamic forces, and as usually configured, they will instead flutter uselessly like flags.

The low-power LCD display can be hard to see in the dark, and the watch's backlight is almost uselessly dim.

Here's a uselessly amusing idea to wrap your head around: what if history's largest empire, the British Empire, still existed today?

Instead of uselessly demonizing the FDA right-to-try advocates should encourage other pharmaceutical companies to follow Johnson & Johnson's lead. Sen.

So even though your old man is uselessly hoarding McCafe receipts, he also represents the last of a literally dying breed.

I was thrilled, and I cycled back and forth through the cartridges until they were all hair-clogged and uselessly dull.

Gone, too, were the cascading waterfalls that plunge to the floor of Yosemite Valley, their famed beauty uselessly out of sight.

We rarely hear of the people who fail, or work uselessly and endlessly hard, without much in the way of reward.

He stood and uselessly pressed the buttons on the TV remote, then stared at his reflection in the rectangular black screen.

It's much quicker, but leaves the drone's front-facing camera pointing uselessly at the walls until it flips over on the other side.

The fleeting thoughts and impulses of Kadare's characters flutter uselessly around the hard, indelible fact of the state: of its organs and deliberations.

Has its owner abandoned their apartment to go spend quarantine somewhere else, leaving the poor car alarm to scream into the day uselessly?

These soldiers were not like usual Nigerian military units, who spent more time shooting into the air and running back and forth, uselessly.

Too often we followed what glittered, yapped uselessly at everything in sight and didn't dig hard enough or hold politicians accountable for lies.

Forever observed, accompanied by omnipresent K.G.B. minders, they're exotic fish out of water, flapping around uselessly, gasping for oxygen and struggling to survive.

I tend to vacillate uselessly between extremes, ignoring reality as much as I can bear, clicking only on articles sure to pointlessly enrage me.

The line/bucket would invariably close uselessly as the ball fell some distance to its left, a hand clutching hopefully at something far away.

By constructing a thin spherical shell around its sun, a civilization could capture oodles of solar energy that would otherwise bleed uselessly into space.

Marie Kondo, the anti-clutter crusader, has some useful things to say about spare change (don't let it sit around uselessly in a bowl).

She drank a glass of water, fixed her eye makeup, uselessly dabbed a little concealer on the elongated bumps on the back of her hand.

What is it with miniature stuff that humans love so much, anyway—why do we sigh and smile at the sight of something uselessly small?

While us Rick and Morty fans were uselessly sitting on our asses and complaining about the Season 3 delay, Mr. Poopybutthole was getting his life together.

Far from uselessly meddling in people's lives, the combination of Ecodesign standards and energy labels is arguably the most successful of the EU's energy-efficiency policies.

Film noir has dozens of definitions, and often it's uselessly associated with femme fatales, drunken detectives, and moody cinematography, but if there's one essential ingredient it's ambivalence.

He sweats, he fidgets, he uselessly begs the receptionist to pay attention to him… and then finally, he beats his potential replacement to death with his briefcase.

Today she remains wed to a pathetic man named Leppalúði, who lolls about uselessly in their cave-dwelling while Grýla does all the work of killing children.

I had to wade through The Hitman's Bodyguard last summer and found it to be uselessly and inexplicably dull, not to mention more forgettable than Proud Mary.

If testosterone can't bind to its receptors, then it can't signal cells to regulate protein synthesis (aka muscle growth), and more of it circulates uselessly in the blood.

Mr. Putin's power, for example, does not touch the torrent of slurry, a muddy sludge used to make cement, that now flows uselessly into an overflowing storage pit.

Not known for his power, Spadafora forced his way right into Mayweather's chest, the right hook landing regularly over Mayweather's arm, which was still fixed uselessly at his waist.

We learned (kind of uselessly, I would come to realize once I parted with my virginity) how to make a dental dam by slicing up a condom with scissors.

He doesn't know whether he'll be able to build a good life in the country of his birth—but he does know that America, home, will always tug uselessly at his heart.

The opening seconds of the gut-wrenching video show a pilot and the man preparing to launch the glider—but unbeknownst to him, the guy's harness is hanging uselessly off his back.

It's a nice marriage of style and functionality and I look forward to it recording another one of my truncated, gasping runs as I try, uselessly, to become less of a slob.

One of the biggest downfalls of a fully transitional sit-to-stand desk is that the higher it gets, the less stable it becomes until you're left with a uselessly wobbly contraption.

This proved to be one hell of a stressful task, one that left me suddenly sleepless, scrolling determinedly but uselessly through real estate listings on my phone at ungodly hours of the night.

The cream took a bit of smoothing on, but my rough skin started to soften up and let it soak in instead of laying uselessly on top like so many others I had tried.

The promo cycle for Scorpion proves that he is impervious to obstacles that would sink a less airtight career, paternity revelations and lackluster reviews all gathering attention but fizzling uselessly against the OVO machine.

It was uselessly macho, even if the features were technically implemented with the intention to be useful; for most drivers, the knowledge of its ability was more alluring than actually putting it to use.

It had been two years since I'd ice climbed, but fortunately the Polish climber Piotr Tomala had lent me the same type of ice tools that were sitting uselessly in my closet at home.

I'm "that guy" who comes to the rescue when someone is jabbing around uselessly at a package with their car keys..That being said, I'm also a dunce at using "traditional" stones to sharpen a knife.

Lombard dropped stiff forearms and hammerfists from both hands across the back of Neil Magny's head and neck and Percival did nothing but uselessly announce 'watch the back of the head' as Lombard continued to foul.

This allows owners of companies to easily suck the capital out of their firms (through downsizing, cost-cutting, automation, offshoring, and benefit reduction) and dump it either into other companies or, uselessly, back into equity markets.

And quite a few of these computers will sit uselessly on this earth for a long time once they're discarded, so however Apple encourages people to buy new ones is relevant to the health of this planet.

As for expectations, Calhoun says his goal is to simply "be the best we can be," and although that sounds uselessly vague, it might be the only possible target, given the uncharted territory he finds himself in.

As Cosima stares at the baby — uselessly stretching its webbed feet and struggling to breathe due to its caved-in face — she knows she's staring at the kind of science that brought her and her fellow clones to life.

Background shots are filled with more eBay finds like Tamagotchi keychains, which can be seen hanging from backpacks in the school hallway, and a Polaroid i-Zone (now discontinued, because they produced uselessly tiny 2-inch photos) hidden in a locker.

Schools will no longer offer math or science classes because there will be no need — AI robots will be unerring in those disciplines, so it will be uselessly redundant for humans to learn subjects at which they will never excel.

Daniel's basement studio—in which he churned out illustrations, films, and malformed pop-hits, all while buoyed by his nurturing but confused middle-class parents—was an eerie mirror of my own self-appointed savant-cum-uselessly dependent-son existence.

Roland, by contrast, lives in Mid-World, an incoherent realm of foggy woods, digital boogeymen, cinematic allusions, slavering nods to Mr. King's voluminous oeuvre and some geological formations that may cause you to uselessly flash on images from John Ford westerns.

But while those stories often end in the victim uselessly soliciting the help of Facebook management or clueless law enforcement, this one ends up with the perpetrator in question, a low-rent script kiddie who targeted girls, completely owned by the FBI.

This could include working to abolish the U.N. Human Rights Council, through which the worst dictatorships and nastiest regimes regularly accuse Israel of alleged crimes, but stand by uselessly while Bashar Assad, Iran, Hezbollah and Russia have carried out unspeakable atrocities in Syria.

She preferred that I not go into the large room with her but didn't object to my staying in the small room, where I could hear her play phrases over and over and feel that I was uselessly eavesdropping on coded artistic secrets.

She could have remained in Chaunt in the manner allowed, in the unfinished masterpiece that was Chaunt, or she could live in a situation like this, with its various services and amenities, where everything was familiar, with the same uselessly familiar panic flowing quietly beneath it.

Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher of State Superior Court in Hartford was scathing: He criticized "uselessly perfect teacher evaluations" that found "virtually every teacher in the state" proficient or exemplary, while a third of students in many of the poorest communities cannot read even at basic levels.

Some, like "Consider Community Land Trusts, fractional ownership, rent to own, deed restrictions, cross subsidization, and mobile studios," are refreshingly forward-thinking and specific; others, like "Partner with City agencies and community stakeholders to support cultural preservation in neighborhoods across all five boroughs," sound admirable but uselessly broad.

Moreover, what really makes Lankford's book so particularly bad is the constantly conjectural, uselessly rhetorical, and often redundant quality of his prose, which in effect has almost no quality to it at all — from his "Reader Beware" segment at the beginning to the prefatory note to his endnotes.

Bipartisan legislation such as the Deter Act, the Voting System Cybersecurity Act, and the Honest Ads Act, which would require online political ads to provide the same disclosure requirements as political ads on television and other media, languish in committee, each likely destined to fall silently and uselessly off the agenda.

Ghastly of face, clearly holding in a well of emotion with some strain, Blair told a press conference on Wednesday that he could not apologize for ridding the world of a brute; and said that those who died did not do so uselessly, but in a battle against extremism which is the world's largest challenge.

Now, after the first 100 days under an opposition president and Congress, the party has entered the circular firing squad phase as members fight uselessly over things like the meaning of President Barack Obama's being paid $400,000 by Wall Street for a speech and new data showing that disaffected voters are convinced that President Donald Trump cares more about the poor and middle class than Democrats do.

She stepped back inside, slammed the door, shot the umbrella into the stand, retreated to the middle room, Mom and Dad's old room, angrily pulled her tax things from the file cabinet, sat shuffling the forms uselessly around, thinking of how strange it was (beautiful, really, a mysterious unsought blessing) that, after a lifetime of being everybody's joke (easy lay, jilted lover, discarded mom), she was finally (in the eleventh hour) learning to frigging stand up for herself.

A similar problem arises when a footballer kicks a ball uselessly in a match in order to build up his statistics.

Although there were supply drops by American, British and Polish forces prior to, and during the Uprising most fell uselessly into German hands. This left the Polish Home Army forces seriously under supplied.

46 one critic had no doubt that "if [the] scheme be attempted in its present form ... the chances are ten to one that he will ... uselessly throw his own and perhaps others' lives away".

Brodie, pp. 361–363 When interviewed by a reporter seeking to gain his life story, Stevens replied, "I have no history. My life-long regret is that I have lived so long and so uselessly."Brodie, p.

In spite of myself, all > the muscles of my body struggled uselessly to save me from suffocation. In > spite of myself, the fingers of both my hands shook uncontrollably. ‘That's > it! He's going to talk,’ said a voice.

The Hunter wheel was tested in 1843 on the which had been modified to accept the device. It was discovered that Union’s engines wasted too much energy uselessly driving the paddle wheels through the water-filled cofferdam inside the ship.

In 1974, Labusquiere was involved in disproving the effectiveness of the colonial preventative medical practice of 'lomidinisation', which he himself had participated in. After publicly denouncing the injections as "useless, dangerous, and therefore uselessly dangerous," official histories of colonial medicine generally omitted this failed 1950s program.

Vasquez tried to pull her up, but the filly would not stop. She went on running, pulverizing her sesamoids, ripping the skin of her fetlock and tearing her ligaments until her hoof was flopping uselessly. Vasquez said it was impossible for him to stop her. She still tried to run and finish the race.

Since it shares the same button as dives, and a good top spin shot requires additional power control (by either pressing up or down), Sega's 8-direction pads, if broken or dirty, or even simply if the user's finger slipped, top spin shots often ended up turning into a dive, the ball passing uselessly by the helpless player.

" The poet and critic Baudelaire observed: "the students of M. Ingres have very uselessly avoided any semblance of colour; they believe or pretend to believe that they are not needed in painting." Ingres's own paintings vary considerably in their use of colour, and critics were apt to fault them as too grey or, contrarily, too jarring.Ribeiro 1999, p. 18. Baudelaire—who said "M.

Gooderson, A Hard Way to Make a War, pp. 239–240, 249–250. According to his memoirs, Kesselring felt that even more could have been accomplished if he had been given access to the troops held "uselessly" under Rommel's command.Kesselring, The Memoirs of Field Marshal Kesselring, pp. 186–187. Kesselring (with baton) in Italy in 1944 In November 1943, Kesselring met with Hitler.

Moreau's division was employed in the siege operations. Souham covered the siege with Michaud's division on his left and Despeaux's division on his right. Instead of concentrating their forces to crush one of the French wings, the Coalition forces shifted back and forth ineffectively. Meanwhile, the Duke of York was left uselessly guarding TournaiPhipps (2011), pp. 312–313 with 30,000 Austrians.Phipps (2011), p.

The Chilean crew answered with their 30-pound cannons and gunfire, shots that rebounded uselessly from Huáscars plated armour. At the coast, the Peruvian Army garrison in the town began to bombard the Chilean ship. A grenade reached her, killing three men. Prat ordered the warship to move, slowly maneuvering at scarcely 4 knots, for her engine was defective and one the boilers had burst.

It had been assumed that this sensitivity would be uselessly slight or non-existent. Jeff Blyth responded with the G307 formulation of DCG to increase the speed and sensitivity to these new lasers. Kodak and Agfa, the former major suppliers of holography-quality silver halide plates and films, are no longer in the market. While other manufacturers have helped fill the void, many amateurs are now making their own materials.

An early parody of the phrase appears in Matt Groening's Life in Hell cartoon strip. Groening draws a looming shadow of the rabbit named Binky, towering over his one-eared son, Bongo, who has clearly made a total mess of the house. Bongo uselessly says: "Mistakes were made." Playwright Craig Wright wrote a 2006 episode for ABC's drama series Brothers & Sisters, called "Mistakes Were Made, Part One" (with Jon Robin Baitz).

Wilde is examined and made to dress in prison garb, taken to his cell, and given the crank which he is obliged to keep turning uselessly. In another fantasy sequence, Wilde imagines that the doctor is Bosie, but when revealed, Bosie quickly vanishes. Scene 2: The prison chapel As the prisoners are about to sing a hymn, Wilde is seated. Midway, the prison chaplain, approaches Wilde and insults him.

However, internal bleeding is just as dangerous as external bleeding; if enough blood vessels are severed to cause serious injury, the skin's elasticity will do nothing to prevent blood from exiting the circulatory system and accumulating uselessly in other parts of the body. Death from stabbing is caused by shock, severe blood loss, infection, or loss of function of an essential organ such as the heart and/or lungs.

Amtracs, unable to do more than uselessly churn the black ash, made no progress up the slopes; their Marine passengers had to dismount and slog forward on foot.Leckie, The Battle for Iwo Jima, p. 25 Men of the Naval Construction Battalions 31 and 133, braving enemy fire, eventually were able to bulldoze roads off the beach. This allowed the Marines and equipment to finally make some progress inland and get off the jam-packed beaches.

The final scene depicting the Danse Macabre They encounter Raval, stricken by the plague. Jöns stops the servant girl from uselessly bringing him water, and Raval dies alone. Jof tells his wife that he can see the knight playing chess with Death and decides to flee with his family, while Block knowingly keeps Death occupied. As Death states "No one escapes me", Block knocks the chess pieces over but Death restores them to their place.

Francis Cockrell. Some of the troops were able to reach as far as the abatis, but most were not and they were forced to remain stationary, firing behind trees and rocks. When General Logan rode forward to judge their progress, he determined that many of his men were being "uselessly slain" and ordered Walcutt and Smith to withdraw and entrench behind the gorge that separated the lines.Castel, pp. 311–13; Kennedy, p. 338.

The Duke and his entourage traveled there and waited uselessly for 80 days, from October 1 to December 19, 1641. Because of the Duke's great rank and fortune, Philip IV did not condemn him to death, but neither did he forget. He was exiled from court and never obtained permission to return to his Andalusian dominions. When he did so without permission, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Castle of Coca.

Wait states can be used to reduce the energy consumption of a processor, by allowing the main processor clock to either slow down or temporarily pause during the wait state if the CPU has no other work to do. Rather than spinning uselessly in a tight loop waiting for data, sporadically reducing the clock speed in this manner helps to keep the processor core cool and to extend battery life in portable computing devices.

While the Zerah filled up with Helmand waters and uselessly, Iran's famous Hamun-e Helmand lake dried up as did other regional pastures, leading to the death of flora, fauna, cattle and birds in the Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran.Hirmand River's water to flow into Iran again, soon: Afghan source, December 12, 2002 Time Series of Water in Lake Hamoun, Iran/Afghanistan. Satellite photos taken at the time, show the changes this caused.

Owners who didn't willingly sell were left with their buildings standing uselessly on pinnacles, the remaining land removed around them. The project was supposed to make way for a northward growth of downtown, but voters rejected Virgil Bogue's plan to rebuild the area in Beaux-Arts style in 1912, leaving the area to develop piecemeal.Sharon Boswell and Lorraine McConaghy, City reshaped: up and down, Seattle Times, March 17, 1996. Accessed online April 14, 2007.

A brittle hold stays under > mistreatment and then I really blow it. Fearful of a smear on now-non-sticky > boots I use an edge and move up, a fall fatal, but the automaton stabs back > through, wobbling, but giving its all and I grasp a large sidepull and tube > upward. The ropes dangle uselessly from my waist. Arthur Birtwhistle on > Diagonal, I grasp incuts and the tight movement swerves to a glide as > gravity swings skyward.

When 454 g (one pound) of U-235 undergoes complete fission, the yield is 8 kilotons. The 13 to 16-kiloton yield of the Little Boy bomb was therefore produced by the fission of no more than of U-235, out of the in the pit. Thus, the remaining , 98.5% of the total, contributed nothing to the energy yield. the remainder, representing most of the entire wartime output of the giant Y-12 factories at Oak Ridge, scattered uselessly.

Ben M'hidi had criticized the "uselessly bloody operations" which had given a bad impression on public opinion, specifically citing Zighout's massacre at El-Halia which had occurred exactly one year previously. He had also criticized Amirouche where perhaps over a thousand dissident Muslims had been "liquidated" in a village near Bougie. The conference lasted 20 days ending sometime in September 1956. The French authorities had no knowledge that many of their most important adversaries were assembled in one place.

A spotlight lights up her window randomly. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot that contains many more letters. Great emphasis is placed on extreme close-ups of the objects central to her existence: the pencils, the sharpener, the paper, her cramped, clenching hands, blackened fingernails, endless stubs of broken-off lead, and finally the letters themselves, packaged up and 'posted' uselessly into a grandfather clock.

The Fort Fizzle fiasco prompted volleys of charges and counter-charges of cowardice and ineptitude between and among the government and citizens of Montana and the U.S. government and its army. A volunteer explained that "we were not silly enough to uselessly incite the Indians to devastate our valley." Many Montanans, including the governor and fire-breathing journalists, began to comment favorably on the "bravery" and "audacity" of the Nez Perce and the wisdom of the citizens in avoiding an armed encounter.Brown, p.

Union left Norfolk, Virginia, on a trial cruise in February 1843. She stopped at Washington, D.C., Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before returning to Norfolk in June. Although both Lt. Hunter and Secretary of the Navy Abel P. Upshur highly praised the vessel, it was later discovered that her engines wasted too much energy uselessly driving the paddle wheels through the water-filled cofferdam inside the ship. Later that year, Union put into the Washington Navy Yard for repairs.

Computers have allowed for fairly accurate acceleration modelling of valve-train systems. Before numerical computing methods were readily available, acceleration was only attainable by differentiating cam lift profiles twice, once for velocity and again for acceleration. This generates so much hash (noise) that the second derivative (acceleration) was uselessly inaccurate. Computers permitted integration from the jerk curve, the third derivative of lift, that is conveniently a series of contiguous straight lines whose vertices can be adjusted to give any desired lift profile.

At least he mentions them frequently by name, and gives their traditions in his writings. These things we hope, have not been uselessly adduced by us. Eusebius identifies John the Presbyter as a possible author of the Book of Revelation, the canonical status of which he disputed as he disagreed with its content, especially the Chiliasm implied in the "millennial kingdom". The view of Eusebius was taken up by the Church Father Jerome in De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men).

In the 16th century the term Baroco moved beyond philosophy and began to be used to describe anything that was overly and absurdly complex. The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne associated the term 'baroco' with "Bizarre and uselessly complicated."Other early sources associated the term with magic, complexity, confusion, and excess. Robert Hudson Vincent, Modern Language Quarterly, Volume 80, Issue 3 (September 2019) In the 18th century, the term was sometimes also used to describe music, and was not flattering.

The name "mustaccioli" was thought to be related to the use of grape must in older recipes (mostacea was the Latin name). In fact the term derives from the Latin language but not from mustum (must), but from mustace, that is, laurel. Originally the mustaceum was prepared as a cake for the wedding, wrapped in mustace leaves which gave aroma during cooking. Hence the proverb loreolam in mustera quaerere, that is: to look uselessly in the focaccia for burnt bay leaves.

By this time, however, the Civil War was beginning to wind down and Washingtonians were beginning to question the post-war usefulness of the forts that protected Washington. Said Secretary Wells, > It is a strong position and a vast amount of labor has been > expended—uselessly expended. In going over the works a melancholy feeling > came over me, that there should have been so much waste, for the fort is not > wanted, and will never fire a hostile gun. No hostile fleet will ever ascend > the Potomac.

In China, the world's largest coal producer with an annual output around 2.5 billion tons, coal fires are a serious problem. It has been estimated that some 10–200 million tons of coal uselessly burn annually, and that the same amount again is made inaccessible to mining. Coal fires extend over a belt across the entire north China, whereby over one hundred major fire areas are listed, each of which contains many individual fire zones. They are concentrated in the provinces of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia.

O Globo, 20 January 2010, available at . Accessed May 12, 2011. In his last years, Francis' activity as commentator centered on the cable TV weekly show Manhattan Connection, where he commented on the current issues, in what was described by a colleague as "three journalists striving uselessly at containing Francis' arrogant and overweening personality, allowing him eventually to have always the last word and to make wild guesses on everything".Moacir Werneck de Castro, "Versões de Paulo Francis", Jornal do Brasil, February 11, 1997.

The party crashes into the side of a saloon; the dogs are so tangled as to have become as one, and a disoriented Bosko sits uselessly on the cold ground for a few moments as they collect their bearings. We come with Bosko to the front entrance of the saloon and see again the poster shown to Our Hero by the sergeant. A nervous Bosko spit-shines his badge, readies two revolvers, and enters the bar. Within, Honey dances and scats to the delight of the patrons.

8 Maimonides thought the commandment should be taken as generally as possible, and therefore he considered it forbidden to mention God's name unnecessarily at any time. Jewish scholars referred to this as "motzi shem shamayim lavatalah", "uttering the Name of Heaven uselessly."Terumah 3b To avoid guilt associated with accidentally breaking the commandment, Jewish scholars applied the prohibition to all seven biblical titles of God in addition to the proper name, and established the safeguard of circumlocution when referring to the Name of God.Hoffman, L.A., My people's prayer book: traditional prayers, modern commentaries, Vol.

An integrated regular timetable with half-hourly or hourly headways requires routes on which a service takes 28 or 58 minutes to make it from one hub to another. A service that takes 40 minutes would be bad because passengers and vehicles have to wait uselessly for their connections, and it generates nearly the same cost as a route that takes 58 minutes because vehicles and personnel cannot be used during the remaining 20 minutes. Therefore, when an integrated timetable is introduced running times might be cut or extended to meet the ideal duration.

The angle is adjustable via "sheets," or lines, which generally have to be winched from the deck. The force required is high, "the sailing of these vessels was a constant manual labour with skilled work that required balance, timing, and strength" giving rise to the idea that one is "hauling" the ship into the wind, and therefore the ship is "close-hauled." When not full, the sails flap uselessly in the wind, or "luff." The sailors must then change the angle, or "trim the sails," until they fill.

The first confirmed owner was Georg Baresch, a 17th Century alchemist from Prague. Baresch was apparently puzzled about this "Sphynx" that had been "taking up space uselessly in his library" for many years. He learned that Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher from the Collegio Romano had published a Coptic (Egyptian) dictionary and claimed to have deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs; Baresch twice sent a sample copy of the script to Kircher in Rome, asking for clues. His 1639 letter to Kircher is the earliest confirmed mention of the manuscript that has been found to date.

The father of the now-possessed girl, Emmett, encounters Woodley and Pierce in the middle of the anarchy; urging both to help him. Woodley and Pierce travel to Emmett's home, where it is revealed Emmett has locked his daughter in a backroom. Woodley convinces Emmett to poison himself and kill his daughter, ending the demon's trail as before. However, the FBI - who have been called there secretly by Pierce - storm the home before Emmett can carry out the killing, and Emmett dies uselessly; the head agent, Deacon Shepherd, has Woodley arrested for poisoning him.

These weapons were vastly more reliable than the muzzle-loading weapons of the Civil War, which would frequently misfire and cause the soldier to uselessly load multiple rounds on top of each other in the heat of battle.Hatch, 1997, p. 124: 'Scholars have for years debated the issue of whether or not the Model 1873 Springfield carbine carried by cavalrymen, malfunctioned during the battle and [whether this] was one reason for the defeat" and "No definitive conclusion can be drawn [as to] the possible malfunction...as being a significant cause of Custer's defeat.

According to Harold A. Conklin, the purpose of a sturdy rim is so that, "... the vibrational energy will stay as much as possible in the soundboard instead of dissipating uselessly in the case parts, which are inefficient radiators of sound." Estonia grand piano during the manufacturing process. The underside is facing upward, showing the thick beams that will support the rim and frame. Hardwood rims are commonly made by laminating thin, hence flexible, strips of hardwood, bending them to the desired shape immediately after the application of glue.

The Hungarian leadership was critical of Vecsey in their opinion, believing him to be temperamental and misusing of his military talent. Nicholas Perczel Kossuth wrote in a letter that during the siege of Arad, Vécsey was " very much shooting out uselessly". However, his subordinates, both officers and soldiers, spoke very highly of him; both of his strategic knowledge and of his treatment of the men. He was particularly popular among the enlisted men, as he did his best to make sure they were equally equipped and provided for as the top officers.

The opportunity didn't take advantage of those resources, and the IDB withdrew upon expiration of the loan period of use. The country uselessly paid US$3 million in interest. At the end of the 1990s, without available financing, private concession was considered, but it was necessary for the government to acquire more than half of the required lands, an opportunity that the owners took in their advantage to inflate the prices. Although they were reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office in 1997, it was considered that such abuse is not criminalized in the Criminal Code.

However, given the frequencies available, in the X band, any antenna wide enough to produce useful resolution proved to also be wide enough to generate very strong side lobes. These ruined the display, not only leaking away signal uselessly, but also causing returns from the sides of the antenna that could not be distinguished from ones in front of it. Many attempts were made to reduce the side lobes. One notable success was made in April 1942, with a new design with a polystyrene dielectric material partially filling the leading edge of the waveguide.

Later, Fernando assassinates Dínora, since she is thrown on top of him, delirious with the poison, and her body falls into the swamp. At that moment, Juan and Gabriela separate from Fernando and find the exit, but at this point, he arrives and shoots Gabriela. When he wants to shoot Juan, Fernando falls into the quicksand; Then he uselessly asks Juan for help and dies. Later they are all rescued, and Gabriela accepts the relationship of her daughters with the Reyes and decides to put down the fence that divides both estates.

After she died, the palace authorities submitted Empress Zhangsun's writings—a 30-volume work titled Examples for Women (女則, Nü Ze), and a commentary criticizing Han Dynasty's Empress Ma – to Emperor Taizong. When Emperor Taizong read her works, he was greatly saddened, and he stated: :This book, written by the empress, is capable of being an example to generations. It is not that I do not know the will of heaven and mourn uselessly, but now, when I enter the palace, I can no longer hear her corrective words. I have lost a wonderful help, and I cannot forget her.

Knowing that he has little time of life, Blanca fears for the happiness of her husband and her daughter Marisol if he were to marry Olga. Unintentionally, a passionate love is born between Virginia and José Guadalupe. Both refuse to accept it and treat each other with hostility, because they know that giving themselves to that love would be betraying the trust of Blanca. After a marriage which was never consummated, Virginia will now have to combat hatred and the ambition of Aurelia and Cristóbal, while trying uselessly to ignore the love that she feels for José Guadalupe.

Congo, an abandoned ferry as a relic of a development project is rusting next to the boats people use today. All of these problems have made that a very large part of the spend money on development aid is simply wasted uselessly. According to Gerbert van der Aa, for the Netherlands, only 33% of the development aid is successful, another 33% fails and of the remaining 33% the effect is unclear. This means that for example for the Netherlands, 1.33 to 2.66 billion is lost as it spends 4 billion in total of development aid (or 0,8% of the gross national product).

Although several were delivered for military use between 1917 and 1946, Linn never received any large military orders. Most of the production between 1917 and 1952, approximately 2500 units, was sold directly to highway departments and contractors. Steel tracks and payload capacity allowed these machines to work in terrain that would typically cause the poorer quality rubber tyres that existed before the mid-1930s to spin uselessly, or shred completely. Linn was a pioneer in snow removal before the practice was embraced in rural areas, with a nine-foot steel v-plow and sixteen foot adjustable leveling wings on either side.

57 Brune had divided his left wing into three divisions: Gouvion near Wijk aan Zee in the dunes; to his right Boudet around Castricum; and the 2nd Batavian division, still commanded by Bonhomme, around Uitgeest. In front of this entrenched line there were French outposts, in Bakkum and Limmen, commanded by brigadier-general Pacthod. On the morning of 6 October these were attacked by the now-familiar three columns: Abercromby along the beach, Essen in the middle and Dundas on the left, while Pulteney still rather uselessly masked Daendels. The Anglo-Russians of Essen's column easily drove out the French outposts.

"Windmills" is a metaphorical song about how people spend much of their lives chasing absurd or impossible pursuits (the allusion being to a specific scene in Don Quixote where the title character uselessly attacks a windmill). The album's artwork (illustrated by influential artist Jason Holley) also explores Cervantes' windmill metaphor, depicting the incongruence between the way things are and how we tend to perceive them. Dulcinea also delves into some spiritual themes. "Fly from Heaven" is sung from the perspective of James, who is portrayed as Jesus' literal brother and is upset by Paul's manipulation of Jesus' word.

After a few minutes of inquisitive exploration, the player finds out that Louis is now committed in a mental asylum. He is forcefully confined to his cell after an altercation with the receptionist, where he spends the night until breakfast the next day. In a scene reminiscent of the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the player is given the chance to converse (rather uselessly) with the mental patients. After more exploration (and an encounter with Zampano, the asylum's beefy tough guy) and interaction with the asylum's colorful residents, Louis is taken to the "doctor".

But Hawkey was acquitted and Barthélemy was convicted only of manslaughter; he served seven months in prison. However, in 1855, Barthélemy was hanged after shooting and killing his employer and another man. An anti-dueling sermon written by an acquaintance of Alexander Hamilton. Dueling also began to be criticized in America in the late 18th century; Benjamin Franklin denounced the practice as uselessly violent, and George Washington encouraged his officers to refuse challenges during the American Revolutionary War because he believed that the death by dueling of officers would have threatened the success of the war effort.

He describes the use of the asterisk and the dagger as: "an asterisk makes a light shine, the obelisk cuts and pierces". Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) described the use of the symbol as follows: "The obelus is appended to words or phrases uselessly repeated, or else where the passage involves a false reading, so that, like the arrow, it lays low the superfluous and makes the errors disappear ... The obelus accompanied by points is used when we do not know whether a passage should be suppressed or not." Medieval scribes used the symbols extensively for critical markings of manuscripts.

The basic assumption of Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment movement is that humans desire power, which is uselessly fragmented by the Cathedral's commitment to equality and justice, eroding at the same time order in society. He argues for a "neo- cameralist" philosophy based on Frederick the Great of Prussia's "cameralist" administrative mode. In Yarvin's view, inefficient, wasteful democratic governments should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corporations whose "shareholders" (large owners) elect an executive with total power, but who must serve at their pleasure. The executive, unencumbered by liberal- democratic procedures, could rule efficiently much like a CEO-monarch.

The 500,000 Russian casualties during the offensive, culminating in the battle of Kowel "finished Russia as an active participant in the war" with its consumption of men and resources. Sir George Buchanan (diplomat) British Ambassador to the Russian Empire, expressed his view about results in the battle: «The loses which Russia has suffered are so colossal that whole country is mourning. So many lives have been uselessly sacrificed in the recent unsuccessful attacks against Kovel and other places, that the impression is gaining ground that is useless continuing the struggle, and that Russia, unlike Great Britain, has nothing to gain by prolonging the war». Buchanan p.

The FreeBSD handbook uses the term to refer to leftover or superseded object code that accumulates in a folder or directory when software is recompiled and new executables and data files produced. Such cruft, if required for the new executables to work properly, can cause the BSD equivalent of dependency hell. The word is also used to describe instances of unnecessary, leftover or just poorly written source code in a computer program that is then uselessly, or even harmfully, compiled into object code. Cruft accumulation may result in technical debt, which can subsequently make adding new features or modifying existing features—even to improve performance—more difficult and time-consuming.

The sea anemone is an animal that resembles a plant. By mid-nineteenth century, microscopic organisms were generally classified into four groups: #Protozoa (primitive animals), #Protophyta (primitive plants), #Phytozoa (animal-like plants & plant-like animals), and In 1858, Richard Owen (1804–1892) proposed that the animal phylum Protozoa be elevated to the status of kingdom. In 1860, John Hogg (1800–1869) proposed that protozoa and protophyta be grouped together into a new kingdom which he called "Regnum Primigenum" (kingdom primitive). According to Hogg, this new classification scheme prevented "the unnecessary trouble of contending about their supposed natures, and of uselessly trying to distinguish the Protozoa from the Protophyta".

Pumping station building near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 2014 By the end of the war, there was considerable debate over the future of the pipelines. The major oil companies, such as Standard Oil, campaigned for the conversion of the pipelines for the transfer of natural gas.; Engineers contracted to the US Surplus Property Administration proposed using the lines for natural gas, and the Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company conducted a four-month trial. Demand for natural gas was rising rapidly, and it was produced in large quantities in the Texas oilfields, but could not be got to market in the north-east and was otherwise burnt off uselessly into the atmosphere.

Carl Bloem, a retired military officer who had published popular novels, was asked to rebut the film's point of view and did so in a radio play in which the pragmatic view won out amongst the soldiers: "No German commanding officer has the right or duty to destroy uselessly the lives of German soldiers." The company raise the white flag of surrender. This was broadcast on the Cologne radio station, but the Ministry of Propaganda disavowed it, with the statement, "Our film has the purpose of showing the younger generation of today the real spirit of the German soldier during the offensive at the western front in 1918."Altmann, pp. 63-64.

The layout of one of the main proposed water transfer routes (via a Yenisei–Ob canal, down the Ob, up the Irtysh and Ishim, and then via a canal to the Aral Sea basin). The plan would involve other canals (not shown) to take the water further south. The Northern river reversal or Siberian river reversal was an ambitious project to divert the flow of the Northern rivers in the Soviet Union, which "uselessly" drain into the Arctic Ocean, southwards towards the populated agricultural areas of Central Asia, which lack water. Research and planning work on the project started in the 1930s and was carried out on a large scale in the 1960s through the early 1980s.

436, Infobase Publishing, 2004, In German folklore, the badger is portrayed as a cautious, peace-loving Philistine, who loves more than anything his home, family and comfort, though he can become aggressive if surprised. He is a cousin of Reynard the Fox, whom he uselessly tries to convince to return to the path of righteousness. In Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows, Mr. Badger is depicted as a gruff, solitary figure who "simply hates society", yet is a good friend to Mole and Ratty. As a friend of Toad's now-deceased father, he is often firm and serious with Toad, but at the same time generally patient and well-meaning towards him.

Behind each glass cover lens, the inboard high-beam headlamp swivels by up to 80° as the driver steers, throwing the beam along the driver's intended path rather than uselessly across the curved road. The outboard low-beam headlamps are self-leveling in response to pitching caused by acceleration and braking.Autocar Road Test No. 2056; 3 December 1965 However, this feature was not allowed in the US at the time (see World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations), so a version with four exposed headlights that did not swivel was made for the US market. Although a directional headlight was previously seen on the 1948 Tucker 48 'Torpedo', Citroën was the first to mass-market adaptive headlights.

Although all four fireships were well-handled, the French were prepared for the tactic and the squadron severed its anchor cables and sailed into the channels around the Braak Sands. This manoeuvre took them past Biter and Boxer and also exposed them to continued fire from Dart, but, despite the damage, all three made the safety of the channel, into which the British could not follow without fear of grounding. One of the French ships did become stuck at low tide, but out of the range of the British ships and it suffered no serious damage. The fireships drifted aimlessly before exploding uselessly, succeeding only in wounding two British sailors whose boat was too close to Comet.

Note that this problem is independent of the non- starting problem above; even if there were a high current in the coil at this position, there would still be zero torque. The problem here is that this short uselessly consumes power without producing any motion (nor even any coil current.) In a low-current battery-powered demonstration this short-circuiting is generally not considered harmful. However, if a two-pole motor were designed to do actual work with several hundred watts of power output, this shorting could result in severe commutator overheating, brush damage, and potential welding of the brushes—if they were metallic—to the commutator. Carbon brushes, which are often used, would not weld.

One can understand a Democratic partisan and respect him. But how can any man explain this recent act of yours consistently with the dignity, gravity, high character and devotion to truth which should attach to the President of Harvard College?"New York Times: "Woodbury Rebukes Lowell for Stand," October 18, 1920, accessed January 2, 2010; see also New York Times: "President Lowell's Position," Oct. 24, 1920, accessed January 2, 2010 Charged with sacrificing his principles to expediency, Lowell admitted he had but provided his own definition of expediency: "striving to find the most effective way of achieving a principle—refusing to beat one's head uselessly against a wall to attack an entrenchment in face instead if taking it by a turning movement.

When Bando finds Lucy on the beach, he initially only encounters the Nyu personality, but Lucy's personality soon emerges and attacks Bando. Bando, always eager for combat, initially welcomes the challenge, but he quickly discovers that Lucy's vectors can deflect his MP5's 9mm bullets with almost no effort, and is then forced to dodge numerous heavy objects that Lucy throws at him. Ultimately, Lucy overpowers Bando and then takes great pleasure as she mutilates him, severing his right arm at the elbow, and breaking his left forearm so severely that his left hand is left dangling uselessly. Bando screams in pain, promising that he will never forget Lucy's face; Lucy responds by using two of her vectors' fingers to destroy his eyes, blinding him.

Prat quickly positioned the ship in front of the coast, from it, forcing Huáscar to shoot with a parabolic trajectory to avoid hitting the Peruvian village, whose people gathered in crowds to see the battle. General Buendía, commander of the Peruvian garrison of Iquique, had artillery placed on the beach and sent an emissary in a fast rowing boat with a warning to Huáscar that Esmeralda was loaded with torpedoes. Grau stopped from her and began shooting with the 300-pound cannons, not hitting her for an hour and a half, owing to the Peruvian sailors' inexperience in the handling of the monitor's Coles turret. The Chilean crew answered with their 30-pound cannons and gunfire, shots that rebounded uselessly on Huáscars plated armour.

Sometimes they are shown with a small hovering half-length God the Father doing the turning. However, in reality the bottom of the screw would either press on the centre of a plate in a relatively small frame, "basket" or barrel containing the grapes (as illustrated at right), or in the more common type with the screw at the end of the beam, the bottom of the screw would sit in a fixed socket on the ground.There are two further types here: one with a screw that rotated and was turned by handles through it, and another where the screw was static and the beam moved through it by means of a collar with handles. In the images the bottom of the screw often goes uselessly into the side of the open pressing floor.

Purple Tentacle arrives, hijacks a Chron-o- John, and takes it to the previous day to prevent them from turning off the sludge machine; he is pursued by Green Tentacle in another pod. With only one Chron-o-John pod left, Bernard, Hoagie, and Laverne use it to pursue the tentacles to the previous day, while Dr. Fred uselessly tries to warn them of using the pod together, referencing the film The Fly. Upon arriving, the trio exit the pod only to discover that they have been turned into a three-headed monster, their bodies merging into one during the transfer. Meanwhile, Purple Tentacle has used the time machine to bring countless versions of himself from different moments in time to the same day to prevent the Sludge-o-Matic from being deactivated.

The overall aim of the book > is to establish that there is no firm basis for cognition, either through > sense-perception, or indeed through thought. Consequently, he says, neither > the Pyrrhonists nor the others know the truth in things; but the > philosophers of other persuasions, as well as being ignorant in general, and > wearing themselves out uselessly and expending themselves in ceaseless > torments, are also ignorant of the very fact that they have cognition of > none of the things of which they think that they have gained cognition. But > he who philosophizes after the fashion of Pyrrho is happy not only in > general but also, and especially, in the wisdom of knowing that he has firm > cognition of nothing. And even with regard to what he knows, he has the > propriety to assent no more to its affirmation than to its denial.

The Austrian army which continued its advance towards Vercelli and Novara on 23 March 1849 now had a notable numerical advantage: 5 Austrian corps faced 5 Piedmontese divisions. The latter, which had all regrouped to protect Novara were arranged with the 3rd division under Perrone to the left (southeast of Novara), the 2nd division under Bes in the centre, and the first division under Durando at right (south of Novara), with the 4th division under the Duke of Genoa behind the 3rd division and the reserve division under the Duke of Savoy behind the 1st division. The whole Piedmontese force contained 45,000 infantry, 2,500 cavalry and 109 cannons. Two and a half divisions remained, uselessly, on the other side of the Po. The Austrian forces consisted of the 2nd corps under d'Aspre, the 3rd corps under Appel, and the reserve corps under Wocher.

Villeneuve had failed in all his objectives: he had landed no troops in Ireland, and the plan of linking with the fleet at Brest, driving off the British Channel squadrons, and supporting Napoleon's invasion of Britain came to nothing: the Armée d'Angleterre waited uselessly at Boulogne as before. In the judgment of Napoleon, his scheme of invasion was baffled by this day's action; but much indignation was felt in England at the failure of Calder to win a complete victory. However, Calder's superior, Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, Commander of the Channel Fleet, found no complaint with his performance: Calder was shortly thereafter given command of a twenty ship force to continue in the effort to bring the Franco-Spanish fleet to battle. These twenty ships would later form the nucleus of the British fleet at Trafalgar.

On July 23, 1973, in the prison of Fossano, Piedmont, the young Horst Fantazzini, detained with a sentence of 22 years, decides that the time has come to try to escape. However, the operation soon turns out to be more difficult than expected, and Horst is forced to take two guards hostage. At this point the jailbreak can be said to have failed in practice, but Horst certainly has no intention of giving up. Thus begins a long day, punctuated by the slow passing of minutes and hours, along which negotiations, hopes, hostage fears, Fantazzini's wife's anxiety, the telephone calls of the lawyer who uselessly advises Horst to surrender, a phone call from his father, who reproaches his son for being a thief without a real motivation unlike when he had specific political and social goals.

This idea of holding territory led to another failed plan, dubbed "Heaven-bound Missions", which involved fortifying even the most unimportant or insignificant of cities and the holding of these "fortresses" at all costs. Many divisions became cut off in "fortress" cities, or wasted uselessly in secondary theatres, because Hitler would not sanction retreat or voluntarily abandon any of his conquests. Frustration at Hitler's leadership in the war was one of the factors in the attempted coup d'etat of 1944, but after the failure of the 20 July Plot Hitler considered the army and its officer corps suspect and came to rely on the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Nazi party members to prosecute the war. Hitler's direction of the war ultimately proved disastrous for the German Army, though the skill, loyalty, professionalism and endurance of officers and soldiers enabled him to keep Germany fighting to the end.

He is not always portrayed as acquiescent, however, as in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, Ganymede is furious at the god Eros for having cheated him at the game of chance played with knucklebones, and Aphrodite scolds her son for "cheating a beginner."Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.112 The Augustan poet Virgil portrays the abduction with pathos: the boy's aged tutors try in vain to draw him back to Earth, and his hounds bay uselessly at the sky.Virgil, Aeneid 5.256–7. The loyal hounds left calling after their abducted master is a frequent motif in visual depictions, and is referenced by Statius: > Here the Phrygian hunter is borne aloft on tawny wings, Gargara’s range > sinks downwards as he rises, and Troy grows dim beneath him; sadly stand his > comrades; vainly the hounds weary their throats with barking, pursue his > shadow or bay at the clouds.

The folklore of many Southeastern European peoples refers to immurement as the mode of death for the victim sacrificed during the completion of a construction project, such as a bridge or fortress (mostly real buildings). The Castle of Shkodra is the subject of such stories in both the Albanian oral tradition and in the Slavic one: the Albanian version is The Legend of Rozafa, in which three brothers uselessly toiled at building walls that disappeared at night: when told that they had to bury one of their wives in the wall, they pledge to choose the one that will bring them luncheon the next day, and not to warn their respective spouse. Two brothers do, however (the topos of two fellows betraying one is common in Balkan poetry, cfr. Miorița or the Song of Çelo Mezani), leave Rozafa, the wife of the honest brother, to die.

Arid but densely populated southern Kazakhstan and adjacent Central Asian states occupy somewhat similar position with respect to Russia's Siberia as the south- western United States do with respect to Canada. Siberian rivers, as well as rivers of northern European Russia flow "uselessly" into the seas of the Arctic Ocean, while that water could be much more profitably used for irrigated agriculture by Russia's southern neighbors. Not surprisingly, proposals for large-scale transfer of water from the Ob River in Siberia to the Aral Sea basin in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have been seriously considered by the Soviet federal government already in the 1960-80s, when all republics involved were members of the USSR. While welcomed by many in Central Asian republics, the project received severe criticism from many scientists as well as prominent writers and journalists in Russia, such as Valentin Rasputin and Sergey Zalygin, sometimes known collectively as the "Siberian environmental lobby"Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Ken Conca, "The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics".

Many loans were reported: the scene of recognition was drawn entirely from the opera Iphigénie by Duché in 1704 ; the one where Iphigénie asks Orestes about the fate of the family of Atreus, whose background is in Euripides, recalled by some details Oreste et Pylade by Lagrange-Chancel (1697), but improving it. The author was also criticized for exaggerating Thoas' stupid ferocity uselessly for the action, and for not having enough prepared nor motivated the outcome. As for style, it was said that the heavy, monotonous, versification, the declamatory pieces and Iphigénie en Tauride language mistakes were saved by the energy and heat that animated all of the work that was printed several time (Paris, 1758, 1784, 1811, 1815, 1818, in-8°). Guimond de La Touche also left an Épître à l’amitié (London, 1758, in-8°) ; les Soupirs du cloître, ou le Triomphe du fanatisme (1765, in-8°), a satire against his former colleagues, the Jesuits.

As he felt death close and was able to admit the pretensions of the Castilian King, he had called to the Paço the five Procurators of the first bench, who were the ones of Lisbon, Porto, Évora, Coimbra and Santarém, and in the presence of all of them, he prompted that they ceased the opposition, referring them the decisions of the nobility and the clergy, favourable to the acclamation of Philip of Spain, but Febo Moniz denied himself to any deliberation, as Henry was getting along with suspicious people and enemy of the motherland. The Cardinal-King tried uselessly to impose his will, invoked the formidable power of Spain, but Febo Moniz did not cede and revindicated for the people the right of electing a Portuguese King, as it had been done, two centuries before, with the Master of Aviz. The Cardinal-King could not win this resistance and, time later, dead himself, the events came to show the corruption and venality of the upper classes of the Nation. Febo Moniz proposed to disobey the Governors of the Kingdom and saw, with astonishment, that his proposal was rejected by a large majority, despite the enthusiasms of the first moment.

The Burqin River discharges into the Irtysh at location (Burqin Town, the county seat of Burqin County) that's downstream of most of water user's on Chinese territory; thus, from China's point of view, its water uselessly flows west, into the neighboring Kazakhstan. Although some water is already taken from the lower course of the Burqin for irrigation use within Burqin County itself (e.g., at ), it is the Burqin Shankou Dam which will allow to use more of the Burqin's water within China. The first stage of the so-called Project for Bringing Western Water to the East (西水东引一期工程) calls for the construction of a canal from the Burqin Shankou Reservoir to the Project 635 Reservoir on the Irtysh额河建管局工程建设和科技发展情况 (Overview of the construction and scientific development projects of the Irtysh Development and Construction Authority), 2010-08-05, by Irtysh Basin Development and Construction Authority (额尔齐斯河流域开发建设管理局) which is located over 100 km upstream from Burqin Town, and which is the source of water for the Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal.