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  • The only sign of modernity was a small radio set, hooked up to an external D battery.†   (source)
  • Now they lay inert on the couches and chairs and beds, completely cut off from external contact.†   (source)
  • I wondered if they stored it in an external tank or just dumped it on the street.†   (source)
  • Granted, that system had now been reset, unlocking the stairwells, but it didn't matter—the external doors, if opened, would set off fire alarms and were guarded outside by DCPJ agents.†   (source)
  • …of the witness to have knowledge of the facts which he testified to at trial; the rationale, as stated by the witness for his testimony at the first trial; the rationale, as stated by the defendant, for his recantation; the evidence of external pressures brought to bear on the witness prior to and after both trial and recantation; the actions of the witness that lend credence to his trial testimony and the actions of the witness that lend credence to his recantation; evidence…†   (source)
  • Oh, know the perils, read the signs, The warning history shows, For our Hogwarts is in danger From external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her Or we'll crumble from within I have told you, I have warned you… Let the Sorting now begin.†   (source)
  • "To put it simply," Mr. Benedict began, "they depend for their mobility upon external agents —"†   (source)
  • My father explained, "It's a machine that runs without any external power source."†   (source)
  • Frederick blinks several times, as he often does when addressed in class, waiting for his internal life to catch up with his external one.†   (source)
  • But there was one external development, one shadow that he had to refer to.†   (source)
  • "External causes?" said Jimmy.†   (source)
  • It was not external but lay deep within himself.†   (source)
  • A nano orb at rest tends to stay at rest and a nano orb in motion tends to stay in motion so long as neither is acted upon by an external force," he whispered, as if he might indeed combat The Cat's physical strength with the superior strength of his mind.†   (source)
  • Today I took stock of supplies and did a quick EVA to check up on the external equipment.†   (source)
  • His mother is done with chemo, and it's her last week of external radiation.†   (source)
  • After a quick examination of its external plating, she tipped the android over, laying it horizontal so that it balanced on the edge of its treads.†   (source)
  • Then quelling disgust, I began mouth to mouth resuscitation and external heart massage—what did they call it?†   (source)
  • Pinpoints of light played across the consoles and reflected in four pairs of eyes that stared up at the external monitor screens.†   (source)
  • I'm not talking about external things, since we're well provided for in that sense; I mean the internal things.†   (source)
  • There was no end in sight to the present horror, plenty of external, empirical horror to line up with my own endogenous supply; and, given enough dope (inspecting the bag: less than half left), I would happily have set up a fat line and toppled right over: greatsouled darkness, explosion of stars.†   (source)
  • She activated the external cameras and put the view on screen.†   (source)
  • Echo cringed externally while I inwardly flinched.†   (source)
  • I was demonstrating, externally and irrefutably, an inward condition.†   (source)
  • The Consul stripped, lay back on the firm mattress, and switched on the sound system and external audio pickups.†   (source)
  • The resulting play, for all its tears and anguish, is structurally comic the tragic downfall threatened but avoided—and Walter Lee grows to heroic stature inwrestling with his own demons as well as the external one, Lindner, and coining through without falling.†   (source)
  • You'll also see that we split it into two parts, the InnerCircle social feed, and your external social, that's your OuterCircle.†   (source)
  • One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible.†   (source)
  • There's an external catwalk on the control tower.†   (source)
  • In the elevator, the social worker attempts to prepare my grandparents for the sight of me, explaining the extent of my external injuries, which look bad, but are treatable.†   (source)
  • And though his face does not enthrall Pari as Julien's had, it is a far kinder face and, as Pari will learn before long, an external ambassador for the attentiveness, the quiet forbearance, and the enduring decency that resides within Eric.†   (source)
  • The great butlers are great by virtue of their ability to inhabit their professional role and inhabit it to the utmost; they will not be shaken out by external events, however surprising, alarming or vexing.†   (source)
  • "One thing I've learned," I told Jai, "is that when parents tell children things, it doesn't hurt to get some external validation.†   (source)
  • Although externally religious, his overly strict church-elder father was a closet drinker, especially when the rain didn't come, or came too early, and most of the times in between.†   (source)
  • …ancient and modem, New Fidelity boasted a suite next to the Captain's quarters that was spacious and comfortable: a sitting room with bamboo furniture covered in festive colors, a double bedroom decorated in Chinese motifs, a bathroom with tub and shower, a large, enclosed observation deck with hanging ferns and an unobstructed view toward the front and both sides of the boat, and a silent cooling system that kept out external noises and maintained a climate of perpetual spring.†   (source)
  • Paul snapped the force button at his waist, felt the crinkled-skin tingling of the defensive field at his forehead and down his back, heard external sounds take on characteristic shield-filtered flatness.†   (source)
  • Previously I was discussing his world of underlying form, or at least the aspect of it called technology, from an external view.†   (source)
  • It seemed to her that in her external bearing she had succeeded only in deceiving Mrs. Shigemura; inwardly she knew her aspiration for worldly happiness was frighteningly irresistible.†   (source)
  • According to Aristotle, nonliving things can only change through external influence.†   (source)
  • She knows she will end up as a mere convenient conduit used for the passage of external things.†   (source)
  • While he was careful to avoid making a nuisance of his views, to adopt outside his realm an externally un-censoring manner, he enforced them within his family and among the employees at River Valley Farm.†   (source)
  • There always seemed to be some external reason, something he could blame.†   (source)
  • As if magically all of the Ellises' external problems will he solved if Shelley disappeared.†   (source)
  • If I wanted to know about how the external mission of the ANC was faring, I would ask, "How is the church?"†   (source)
  • To keep away threats, internal and external. lb protect the Empire.†   (source)
  • Externally he lived a nearly featureless life among suburban neighbors, and very few of them knew that when he climbed into his mud-colored car he was headed for work in a hot zone, although the license plate on the car was a vanity plate that said LASSA.†   (source)
  • By every external measure he was a success, yet he was never filled, as he hoped to be, with a sense of pride and reassurance.†   (source)
  • The most effective would be if he knewhow Oromis had immobilized him-whether by affecting his body directly or using an external source-for then he could redirect the element or force to disperse Oromis's power.†   (source)
  • There was an example of someone persuaded from the outside-in, of an external gesture affecting an internal decision.†   (source)
  • Their thinking goes like this: since I control the car, I am the one keeping myself safe; since I have no control of the airplane, I am at the mercy of myriad external factors.†   (source)
  • He'd dropped his last external tank a few minutes earlier, and all he had now was his internal fuel.†   (source)
  • Sex is not external to these thoughts.†   (source)
  • I had cut the right leg of my sweatpants off above the knee to accommodate my external fixator.†   (source)
  • This well-known law states that bodies in motion tend to stay in motion, unless they are acted on by an external force.†   (source)
  • We suddenly become the only two people in the entire room; all the external noise fades into the distance.†   (source)
  • The Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, Norman Robertson, said, "Canada has done rather a poor job with the whole matter of the Japanese ever since they have been in Canada, therefore it might be better for them in their own interest to go to Japan."†   (source)
  • It is a credit to a great and secure institution-to President Vartan Gregorian, to then-external affairs chief Robert Reichley, and to media spokesman Mark Nickel-that Brown, instead, provided me generous freedom.†   (source)
  • As he scribbled the last words down, a picture flashed in his mind—too similar to the weird, external camera view he'd experienced with Otis.†   (source)
  • That was theEs muss sein! rooted deep inside him, and it was planted there not by chance, not by the chief's sciatica, or by anything external.†   (source)
  • Sure, he could rattle off the branches of the external carotid artery, or the boundaries of the foramen of Winslow, but did he know his Lewis Carroll?†   (source)
  • Exact temperature, length of exposure, other external elements.†   (source)
  • Now I could only see externals.†   (source)
  • It wasn't logical; the security was internal; no external force could be permitted for Snake Lady.†   (source)
  • Something darker, external, other-worldly.†   (source)
  • The internal police network was a state-of-the-art design with its own cabling, shielded from external connections and the Internet itself.†   (source)
  • "Nobody," Jefferson answered, "except perhaps its external facts."†   (source)
  • The story Jeb had told me about one of their captives–the man who had simply collapsed, leaving no external evidence on the outside of the havoc wreaked inside his skull–haunted my thoughts.†   (source)
  • Ali was the CIA interpreter on external security.†   (source)
  • I hoped that if they had to deal with an internal war and an external one, the country would close ranks against the Mede and against the queen as well.†   (source)
  • "Internal enemies can be as great a danger to the people as external ones," he answered.†   (source)
  • Upon signing it, you will be unable to share any aspect of this meeting, its attendees, or its content to any external party until the deed is done.†   (source)
  • Tradd and I looked at Mark, waiting for some external sign that he was joking, but his eyes were mirthless and his tone unmistakably serious.†   (source)
  • It wasn't as if I thought my self-authority was more important than external authority, but it wasn't less important, either.†   (source)
  • In the older, quieter part of town, there are what seems a disproportionately high number of auto repair garages and beauty salons and churches and bars, all half-failed and dilapidating in their own fashion, and one's perception is that whatever uniqueness and charms Ebbington once had are being inexorably absorbed by larger, external presences both unknown and invited.†   (source)
  • And the peace of the States would be in double jeopardy from external invasion and internal quarrels.†   (source)
  • Rather it seemed to be coming from some external source, perhaps the unseen object that the wizard occasionally clutched in a pocket of his robes.†   (source)
  • Excruciating awareness of external stimuli and anxiety attacks.†   (source)
  • Wyoh, there is no way for me to retrieve locked data other than through external programming.†   (source)
  • Saladin, the new Saladin, was ISIS's chief of external operations—or so believed Fareed Barakat and the Jordanian General Intelligence Department.†   (source)
  • "We'll know the external chemical characteristics, yes," Dr. Bell said.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because of its South American origin the message was delivered, not to my own department, but to the Department of External Affairs.†   (source)
  • But I credit it ultimately because poetry can make an order as true to the impact of external reality and as sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being as the ripples that rippled in and rippled out across the water in that scullery bucket fifty years ago.†   (source)
  • It was not even certain that they were vertebrates: their hard, external armour might well be their only supporting framework.†   (source)
  • But I am a person who is too often weakly misguided by the external masquerade, quick to trust in such notions as that the ghastly blow-up I had witnessed was a lamentable but rare aberration in a lovers' connection whose prevailing tone was really hearts and flowers.†   (source)
  • External reality has a way of being not so external after all.†   (source)
  • It came into me as a memory comes, without benefit of external stimulus, but lacking the Lucite layer of self-consciousness that turns thought to recollection by touching it with time, as in a dream.†   (source)
  • I took the brazier to the landing of the external staircase at the back of the house, squatted and fanned.†   (source)
  • We know she used to hear voices, and we assume--it's all very complicated really, but one can express it simply without altogether distorting the matter--we assume she has relinquished her hold on external reality out of preference for the actuality of her voices, if you see the distinction.†   (source)
  • To obey like this, not to an external command, only to the voice, to be ready like this, this was good, this was necessary, nothing else was necessary.†   (source)
  • From every side the external world pressed in on him, dense, indisputable, tangible as a forest.†   (source)
  • There was a small puncture with little evidence of external bleeding.†   (source)
  • The conscious mind cannot face the conflict between the external world and its own unconscious.†   (source)
  • But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external.   (source)
  • Power over matter — external reality, as you would call it — is not important.   (source)
  • You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right.   (source)
  • By what external standard could you check its judgements?   (source)
  • When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness.   (source)
  • If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?   (source)
  • For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger.   (source)
  • It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.   (source)
  • I felt drugged, disengaged, thoroughly insulated from external stimuli.†   (source)
  • Our external walls are shielded electronically to protect our internal communications.†   (source)
  • This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion.†   (source)
  • The magical defence of the mind against external penetration.†   (source)
  • I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed.†   (source)
  • Just a few external monitors, and a selfdestruct device should the bay be discovered.†   (source)
  • By 'impressions' he means the immediate sensation of external reality.†   (source)
  • Jessica had the eerie feeling that they were standing still, that all motion was external.†   (source)
  • They are as devoid of external or internal genitalia as a child's flowfoam doll.†   (source)
  • It fit snugly around my eyes like a pair of swimmer's goggles, blocking out all external light.†   (source)
  • We're adding external supports that we'll remove before launch.†   (source)
  • It has no direct relationship to external circumstances.†   (source)
  • I have External Camera 4 pointed along the nose.†   (source)
  • His labor is thus something external to him—or something that does not belong to him.†   (source)
  • Her muscles overrode all fatigue, flowed into maximum readiness without external betrayal.†   (source)
  • "It's the external component of the atmospheric regulator," Mindy said.†   (source)
  • We cannot know whether our external reality is made of sound waves or of paper and writing.†   (source)
  • He would need no external pushing to learn.†   (source)
  • External reality has, in fact, a material substance.†   (source)
  • I'll take up the externally caused setbacks first.†   (source)
  • The rover has external handles near the front and back.†   (source)
  • In this we see their kinship with the Cynics, who claimed that all external events were unimportant.†   (source)
  • Today we have what's called an internal and external organization.†   (source)
  • You could say that he quit the Section in 1994 when he went over to the external organization.†   (source)
  • This kind of republic can withstand external force and internal corruption.†   (source)
  • There were a lot of concerns about how our external security would handle onlookers.†   (source)
  • What they' are getting are the same externals we're getting.†   (source)
  • Still, it seemed unreal, because the external signs were all I could see.†   (source)
  • Also, bodies at rest tend to stay at rest, unless they are acted upon by an external force.†   (source)
  • Zimbardo isn't talking about environment, about the major external influences on all of our lives.†   (source)
  • Yes, making it appear internal fratricide with no external connections.†   (source)
  • From its inception, we decided the High Organ would not try to influence external ANC policy.†   (source)
  • "The Service of External Documentation and Counterespionage," answered Alex.†   (source)
  • I must receive the signal as an external input.†   (source)
  • And it has the advantage of a large monarchy in external situations.†   (source)
  • By focusing it on the external world, he need not deal with his internal one.†   (source)
  • This external security job was actually one of the biggest and most dangerous positions on the raid.†   (source)
  • They're triggering instincts, but they're still externals.†   (source)
  • We brought in some external help in the form of Martensson.†   (source)
  • But I can hire you as an external consultant.†   (source)
  • The externals were right, but my instincts were wrong.†   (source)
  • It can't regulate its members or build a defense against external dangers.†   (source)
  • … I'm operating on externals, aren't I?†   (source)
  • And he blocked invasions by external enemies who tried to conquer and destroy Rome.†   (source)
  • Dr. Teleborian has been an external consultant for SIS in a couple of instances.†   (source)
  • We have a man in the external organization, Martensson—he works as a bodyguard in SIS.†   (source)
  • It can suppress internal faction and increase external security.†   (source)
  • They want the federal government to use external taxation duties on imported articles.†   (source)
  • I've sent a team of externals to tail her.†   (source)
  • Federal powers will be largely external: war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.†   (source)
  • Safety from external danger is the most powerful motivator of national conduct.†   (source)
  • To keep the peace against both internal turmoil and external attacks.†   (source)
  • Ezra had taken his fall from Eden gracefully, at least externally.†   (source)
  • That is just ordinary deviation from external reality.†   (source)
  • Late in the afternoon there were footsteps on the external staircase.†   (source)
  • Almost a nun in white, despite the swarthy texture of externals; but the mind is the reality.†   (source)
  • We shall start by practicing relaxing the conscious mind and external eyes" — Ron began to snigger uncontrollably and had to stuff his fist in his mouth to stifle the noise — "so as to clear the Inner Eye and the superconscious.†   (source)
  • The first — the BlyssPluss Pill — was prophylactic in nature, and the logic behind it was simple: eliminate the external causes of death and you were halfway there.†   (source)
  • You may be amazed that such an obvious shortcoming to a staff plan should have continued to escape my notice, but then you will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.†   (source)
  • He put a small electronic device called a cochlear implant inside my head near the ear and told me that in a month they would fit the external part on my head, and then I should be able to hear.†   (source)
  • Words I never want to hear associated with someone I love—external radiation therapy, chemotherapy—are now a daily part of St. Clair's life.†   (source)
  • It occurred to her, in a moment of sudden clarity, that what had always caused her anxiety, or stress, or worry, was not any one force, nothing independent and external—it wasn't danger to herself or the constant calamity of other people and their problems.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare is very much a product of his time in suggesting that one's proximity to or distance from God is manifested in external signs.†   (source)
  • This explanation posits that external observation leads to the collapse of the quantum wave function.†   (source)
  • According to the doctors, this was because the damage was very serious: a lack of external injuries meant the damage was all internal.†   (source)
  • By that I mean that we're treated like children when it comes to external matters, while, inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age.†   (source)
  • The volunteer soldiers responsible for external maintenance were all new, and none had much experience.†   (source)
  • So I'd rigged up an external antenna and mounted it on the hood of a car at the top of the junk pile.†   (source)
  • Chronos Keep looked like part of the mountain, its balconies and external stairways mere slashes in the rock.†   (source)
  • Back in the shillelagh days, there were no fancy polymer harnesses, no auto thrusters and certainly no external monitors.†   (source)
  • Defence against external penetration?†   (source)
  • The external sensors indicated the upper structure twisting and bending like polyfiex in the wind-or like wings.†   (source)
  • Look further still—you might have to use the telescope for this—and there's the external storage, which we call the 'hard drive' at Copernicus's suggestion.†   (source)
  • Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC began to blast out of the robot's internal and external speakers, so loud it made my chair vibrate.†   (source)
  • I had a thumbnail of my apartment building's external security camera feed at the edge of my display, so I saw the IOI Indentured Servant Retrieval Transport pull up out front, siren wailing and lights flashing.†   (source)
  • The external audio sensors on Kassad's bubble helmet began to pick up the raging hiss of air on the hull and through the broken blister in the aft section.†   (source)
  • During the past few minutes I have developed a fantasy which will save me from both the growing sadness within and the external series o f events which I have initiated.†   (source)
  • The imaginatively named "atmospheric regulator external component" is how the regulator freeze-separates air.†   (source)
  • As Shoto scrambled to get the last two treasures and place them in the trophy case, he remotely activated one of the Kurosawa's external cameras and used it to record a short video of Daito's confrontation with the approaching Sixers.†   (source)
  • Next to misassemblies and intermittents I think the most common external gumption trap is the parts setback.†   (source)
  • The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†   (source)
  • But Locke also said that the 'primary qualities' like density, gravity, and weight really do belong to the external reality around us.†   (source)
  • The pre-Socratic philosophers mentioned so far all sought to establish a universal Immortal Principle in the external world they found around them.†   (source)
  • Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant.†   (source)
  • We are very likely defenseless against intrusive external forces such as talking dogs, messages in bananas, and thunderstorms booked in advance.†   (source)
  • But although setbacks are the commonest gumption traps they're only the external cause of gumption loss.†   (source)
  • One is the external conditions that we cannot know of before we have perceived them through the senses.†   (source)
  • The first type is those in which you're thrown off the Quality track by conditions that arise from external circumstances, and I call these "setbacks.†   (source)
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