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  • Exercise seems to be a principal component of the Unwind's day.†   (source)
  • SAR has been a component of high-profile space missions since 1978, when the first SAR-equipped satellite,Seasat, was placed into orbit around the earth.†   (source)
  • He, too, knew about the captured B-24D, so he spoke freely about the plane's components.†   (source)
  • Mr. Griffen had a distinguished career as the head of a commercial empire that embraced many areas including textiles, garments and light manufacturing, and was commended for his efforts in supplying Allied troops with uniform parts and weapons components during the war.†   (source)
  • A broken component flew out of the hole and fell into the water, causing a large column of water to shoot up.†   (source)
  • There is an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story.†   (source)
  • I remembered the components of landing.†   (source)
  • Victim services and outreach became critical components of the prosecutorial function.†   (source)
  • He motioned to a long project table strewn with electronic parts, manuals, tools, wires, soldering irons, and other electronic components.†   (source)
  • More clutter on the third floor: boxes of jars, metal disks, and rusty jigsaws; buckets of what might be electrical components; engineering manuals in piles around a toilet.†   (source)
  • Physical stamina is a component in leadership, even in the modern world, where it isn't necessary to be able to harness an ox.†   (source)
  • That's the wellness component.†   (source)
  • There must have been some component of anxiety in this wondering, because it was borne in upon me daily that I was "getting out of hand."†   (source)
  • Would it be fair to say that one of the most important components of diagnosing the defendant was the time you spent interviewing him?†   (source)
  • Hermione recited at top speed: 'Golpalott's-Third-Law—states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components.'†   (source)
  • Isn't this just a larger snare with a more scientific component?†   (source)
  • The others agreed, and so, starting with the first entry, Sticky read: No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality.†   (source)
  • Through my excitement I feel as though I'm overlooking something, that I've forgotten a key component.†   (source)
  • Five months more of your time to bring the last components back, a few weeks to finish, and then you step home a rich man.†   (source)
  • Name the component structures that comprise the hand.†   (source)
  • f_factor, the delight we feel at recognizing a familiar component from earlier experience.†   (source)
  • I notice for the first time that his violin, caked with grime and a white chalky substance that looks like a fungus, is missing an important component or two.†   (source)
  • At Holmes's instructions Berkler added a number of components made of iron.†   (source)
  • Conscience is a component of the superego.†   (source)
  • He was, for that one moment, the critical component of Bill Walsh's passing attack, and hardly a soul in Candlestick Park noticed.†   (source)
  • Nearing graduation, his class was exposed to the various components of the Russian fleet.†   (source)
  • They say it has biological components.†   (source)
  • Happiness was the main component in my life now, the dominant pattern in the tapestry.†   (source)
  • I did not entirely comprehend it at the time, but me and my 110 cohorts were witnessing the ruthless elimination process of a U.S. fighting force that cannot tolerate a suspect component.†   (source)
  • Another component to the Reunification process is food.†   (source)
  • That's a classically sticky advertising line, and stickiness is a critical component in tipping.†   (source)
  • Prussic acid was used as a component in certain chemical industries, including the manufacture of dyes.†   (source)
  • It is designed to be separated into its component sections for lift-off after planet-fall.†   (source)
  • And unless you have the proper components, it can't be done on a whim.†   (source)
  • The small stiff beard, confined to his chin and unaccompanied by a mustache, seemed an optional component, to be stuck on or removed as circumstances warranted.†   (source)
  • What had begun as a series of small, regional businesses became a fast food industry, a major component of the American economy.†   (source)
  • There are four components to the Trident: the anchor, symbolizing the Navy; the trident, which represents the SEALs' historical ties to the sea; the cocked pistol, a reminder of SEALs' capabilities on land and their constant state of readiness; and the eagle, which—in addition to being the national emblem of freedom—symbolizes the SEALs' ability to insert from the air.†   (source)
  • It would have been exceedingly difficult to contain that virus if it had had any major respiratory component.†   (source)
  • More recently, Greg has been training graduates in maternal health care and adding a medical component to his programs.†   (source)
  • If the professor's field was limitless, requiring a breadth of knowledge that extended from heart failure to poliomyelitis and myriad conditions in between, she chose a field that had some boundaries and a mechanical component—operations.†   (source)
  • The weapon's components, a piece of wood and a length of hard wire, were originally part of a toilet brush he'd confiscated, dismantled and hidden under his mattress.†   (source)
  • It took Clary several long moments to deconstruct the sound in her mind, to break it down as one might break down a piece of music into its component notes.†   (source)
  • The device inside the child's body is calibrated to detect minute fluctuations in carbon dioxide, the chief component of human breath.†   (source)
  • Hey; bring out a bottle of that pure grain while you're back there: it's getting so I can't install the simplest frigging component but what I need a bracer.†   (source)
  • Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting.†   (source)
  • As you all know, these awards are very special at Rowan; each of them symbolizes qualities that are a necessary component of what we do and what we stand for.†   (source)
  • In Danbury the FCI made radio components for the army.†   (source)
  • The constitution of an independent sovereign state had to stand on its own merits, not serve merely as a secondary component of a larger, overarching structure.†   (source)
  • "Disembark" hardly suggests the lethal difficulty of the first component in this sequence.†   (source)
  • It was thrilling, after so much time spent in the abstraction of raising money and gathering support, to see the actual components of his school sitting arrayed all around him.†   (source)
  • It exists, but Svensson's protected himself by separating it into two components somehow.†   (source)
  • We had to remember, however, that this was speech not assembled from words previously recorded by a real person but synthesized from artificial components.†   (source)
  • The physical brain with its millions upon millions of cells and interacting components.†   (source)
  • I'm electron pusher by trade; I know what wide variety of components can be converted into transmitters.†   (source)
  • In the center of the floor was a huge oak table that had been put together in the chamber after the components were taken up by rope.†   (source)
  • She reversed the conventional assumptions, and broke down each to its component parts.†   (source)
  • I took the best loading ramps, sorting pens, single-file chutes, crowd pens, and other components and assembled them into an ideal new system.†   (source)
  • Cristian clearly qualified, but Lorenzo and Oscar had also been able to speak intelligently about their robot's mechanical and electronic components.†   (source)
  • Other components of the chatter lead us to believe that the target is at least in the vicinity of Drake.†   (source)
  • Standard doesn't sell the big stuff—batteries, engine blocks—but it does sell many of the cables and sensors and electrical components that surround those large things.†   (source)
  • To repair and replace all the worn and damaged components would have cost almost as much as a new one.†   (source)
  • The quarters had been shipped in vacuum-scaled components that would fit through the cargo hatches on the Business.†   (source)
  • But the surprise was, on Thanksgiving morning—and Denny most often avoided Thanksgiving, with its larger-than-ever component of orphans—he phoned to say he and Susan were boarding a train to Baltimore and could somebody come meet him.†   (source)
  • Her face, like her body, had large components which seemed to hesitate between plainness and beauty.†   (source)
  • There appear to be no fixed rules about this, and such a band can break up into its component parts again at any time.†   (source)
  • Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.†   (source)
  • While the banks of sperm and ova, the growth tanks and the body lockers could not be transported, the transfer equipment itself was dismantled under the direction of Dr. Narada, and its components were loaded onto the horses of those who had fallen in the battle.†   (source)
  • It is true that I possessed in my brain a most valuable component of a work of fiction: a place.†   (source)
  • Such were my mother's component parts.†   (source)
  • Whichever came first, the chickens or the egg, the Assyrians, Sumerians, and Babylonians loved substance in every form—they explored their flesh, tabulated the movements of the planets, studied the chemical components of matter, followed the seasons and made the finest calendars of the ancient world.†   (source)
  • Jealousy is a component of her character.
  • It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of components--snuffings and stampings; smells of cooling flesh and ammoniac hair; an illusion of a co-ordinated whole of splotched hide and strong bones within which, detached and secret and familiar, an is different from my is.   (source)
    components = parts
  • The three soldiers form a computing component.†   (source)
  • It's the only component that causes a complete mission scrub if it's not working.†   (source)
  • Bartok plays on the stereo, expensive components scattered on the floor.†   (source)
  • It was the story about the mobile telephone manufacturer and the defective component.†   (source)
  • Ripping out cables, crushing components, stealing mysterious gizmos that could not be replaced.†   (source)
  • The other life-altering component of my Marine Corps experience was constant.†   (source)
  • Its main component was an eighteen-foot-diameter dome located in the bow.†   (source)
  • The final component is children, of which she has four.†   (source)
  • The buildings, in fact, had been designed to maximize the salvage value of their components.†   (source)
  • The raised upper eyelid is a component of anger, not disgust.†   (source)
  • It doesn't hurt as much because a large component in pain has to do with anticipation.†   (source)
  • It seems little more than a handful of components shoveled into a box.†   (source)
  • Just getting the components to the park had required six hundred railcars.†   (source)
  • So landscapes can have a sexual component.†   (source)
  • "It's the external component of the atmospheric regulator," Mindy said.†   (source)
  • After they "repaired" the faulty component, the order to restart was given.†   (source)
  • The only things he's set up are the kitchen, the stereo components, and some of his books.†   (source)
  • Here on Mars, supercooling is done by pumping air to a component outside the Hab.†   (source)
  • Your Imperial Majesty, this component is called an OR gate.†   (source)
  • This is also Red Coast's offensive component, its principal part.†   (source)
  • It's the single most important component.†   (source)
  • It's the most delicate component, and when it dies, there's no way to recover.†   (source)
  • Now, Your Imperial Majesty, all the gate components have been demonstrated.†   (source)
  • As the quality of the components was not up to par, the fault rate was very high.†   (source)
  • They had me do a full systems check on every single component.†   (source)
  • No. We can form ten million of these gates, and then put the components together into a system.†   (source)
  • Between the Hab components and the rover, I'll have two redundant life support systems.†   (source)
  • The critical components are working fine, and both vehicles are back on their wheels.†   (source)
  • I've robbed it of all critical components and a big chunk of its canvas.†   (source)
  • There is a good wobble component to the new orbit.†   (source)
  • First of all, the alarm we installed today contains two components.†   (source)
  • And that means untangling Shay's spiritual health from the whole legal component of this mess.†   (source)
  • Panic and diversion, eternal components for the human snare, lifelong allies in the springing trap.†   (source)
  • Now, this potion's components and properties must meet two basic conditions.†   (source)
  • I've tried to break it down, see it clearly in its component parts.†   (source)
  • With each separate step, I became aware of processes, components, things relating to other things.†   (source)
  • I believe in love's humble, practical components and their combined power.†   (source)
  • Gold foil can be used in the initiator component.†   (source)
  • As an individual component, it's almost impossible to crack.†   (source)
  • We do need to get the components moving back and forth.†   (source)
  • Later he would write in his diary: There was a notable absence of any hemorrhagic component.†   (source)
  • Almost any one of the components mentioned can be expanded on indefinitely.†   (source)
  • If we control even one component of the antivirus, we will have a bargaining chip.†   (source)
  • When you alter a single minor component, the system adapts at once.†   (source)
  • Everything is in terms of pieces and parts and components and relationships.†   (source)
  • I had assembled the components of a Level 4 field biological space suit.†   (source)
  • That had recently become obvious with the space-components side.†   (source)
  • He adds components and functions and sits before a spreading mass of compatible hardware.†   (source)
  • He said, "They built bomb components there?"†   (source)
  • The box "components" contains the boxes "power assembly" and "running assembly," and so on.†   (source)
  • Essentially, we're feeding her components and Granadica puts out the finished product.†   (source)
  • There's a classified file I saw that said the facility was used to make bomb components.†   (source)
  • The box "motorcycle" contains the boxes "components" and "functions."†   (source)
  • The theoretic and esthetic split is between components of a single world.†   (source)
  • That's a motorcycle divided according to its components.†   (source)
  • This is, of course, simply saying that the outside world is the vital component of my inner life.†   (source)
  • She crossed to the front door, groped behind a component model.†   (source)
  • Holographic data-storage devices, unlike their refrigerator-size ancestors, looked more like sleek stereo components, each perched atop a columnar pedestal.†   (source)
  • He saw a pile of computer components and stereo equipment on the dining room table, and he saw the four men.†   (source)
  • Blink is concerned with the very smallest components of our everyday lives—the content and origin of those instantaneous impressions and conclusions that spontaneously arise whenever we meet a new person or confront a complex situation or have to make a decision under conditions of stress.†   (source)
  • Already the children are destroying the image they made of him, reducing it to its component parts, which they plan to return to the beach.†   (source)
  • He went on to say that by accelerating two particles in opposite directions around the tube and then colliding them, scientists could shatter the particles into their constituent parts and get a glimpse of nature's most fundamental components.†   (source)
  • '...which means, of course, that assuming we have achieved correct identification of the potion's ingredients by Scarpin's Revelaspell, our primary aim is not the relatively simple one of selecting antidotes to those ingredients in and of themselves, but to find that added component which will, by an almost alchemical process, transform these disparate elements —' Ron was sitting beside Harry with his mouth half-open, doodling absently on his new copy of Advanced Potion-Making.†   (source)
  • Although McCandless was enough of a realist to know that hunting game was an unavoidable component of living off the land, he had always been ambivalent about killing animals.†   (source)
  • Someday, when the last components had been brought in-system by the Los Angeles and the farcaster finished, Hegemony officials would make island 241 into a center for trade and tourism.†   (source)
  • Babel is a gateway in our minds, a gateway that was opened by the nam-shub of Enki that broke us free from the metavirus and gave us the ability to think-moved us from a matcrialistic world to a dualistic world— a binary world-with both a physical and a spiritual component.†   (source)
  • There's a large pit-bull component.†   (source)
  • The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.†   (source)
  • Try to look at it this way: a human being is a shell made of skin keeping the cells, blood, and chemical components in place.†   (source)
  • According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal kinds of operations on strings of symbols.†   (source)
  • There was an assisted-suicide site too — nitee-nite.com, it was called — which had a this-was-your-life component: family albums, interviews with relatives, brave parties of friends standing by while the deed was taking place to background organ music.†   (source)
  • Further circuits amused themselves by analyzing the molecular components of the door, and of the humanoids' brain cells.†   (source)
  • He murmurs to himself; he fetches thick booklets or electrical components from various rooms on the lower stories.†   (source)
  • While the other armed services routinely had their components run exercises against allies or themselves in emulation of Eastern Bloc tactics, the navy had its attack submarines play their games against the real thing—and constantly.†   (source)
  • Ferris also commanded a legion of inspectors who evaluated the quality of each component as it emerged from each mill.†   (source)
  • They were in Jimmy's bedroom, lying on the bed together with the digital TV on, hooked into his computer, some copulation Web site with an animal component, a couple of well-trained German shepherds and a double-jointed ultra-shaved albino tattooed all over with lizards.†   (source)
  • To quote Kramer and Maier again, '[They believed in] the existence from time primordial of a fundamental, unalterable, comprehensive assortment of powers and duties, norms and standards, rules and regulations, known as me, relating to the cosmos and its components, to gods and humans, to cities and countries, and to the varied aspects of civilized life.'†   (source)
  • Still, he knows that each component of a building, however small, is nevertheless essential, and he finds it gratifying that after all his years of schooling, all his crits and unbuilt projects, his efforts are to have some practical end.†   (source)
  • It's like this: somewhere back in myth, something—a story component, let's call it—comes into being.†   (source)
  • He wanted this done quickly so that as soon as the manuscript was set in type, all components of the book would be in hand, ready for the presses.†   (source)
  • Biological components?†   (source)
  • This effect could be made reversible, though not in individual subjects, by altering the components of the pill as needed, i.e., if the populations of any one area got too low.†   (source)
  • All references to the event are sidelong and somewhat secretive, with shame a distinct component of James's and his sisters' responses.†   (source)
  • That component could be anything: a quest, a form of sacrifice, flight, a plunge into water, whatever resonates and catches our imaginations, setting off vibrations deep in our collective consciousness, calling to us, alarming us, inspiring us to dream or nightmare, making us want to hear it again.†   (source)
  • He asked a partner in his inspection firm, W. F. Gronau, to calculate the novel forces that would play among the components of his structure.†   (source)
  • He'd put the mikes together in the Neotechnology class at school; he'd used standard components out of the mini-mikes for wireless computer dictating, which, with a few adjustments, worked fine for eavesdropping.†   (source)
  • More than any other work, Oedipus Rex taught me how to read literary blindness, taught me that as soon as we notice blindness and sight as thematic components of a work, more and more related images and phrases emerge in the text.†   (source)
  • You'd think that these components, these archetypes, would wear out with use the way cliche wears out, but they actually work the other way: they take on power with repetition, finding strength in numbers.†   (source)
  • But luckily, the work done by the elements in this component is the simplest, so we trained each soldier to hold more colored flags.†   (source)
  • He examined the interior with a magnifying glass and checked every dustless component without discovering anything out of place.†   (source)
  • The main component of the composition was the solenoid of the superconducting magnet they were still installing.†   (source)
  • The imaginatively named "atmospheric regulator external component" is how the regulator freeze-separates air.†   (source)
  • The regulator, oxygenator, RTG, AREC, batteries, rover life support (in case I need a backup), solar cells, rover computer, airlocks, and everything else with a moving part or electronic component.†   (source)
  • Qin Shi Huang grasped his sword and said, "Replace the malfunctioning component and behead all the soldiers who made up that gate.†   (source)
  • The heaters, lighting, main computer, etc. All the components I didn't steal for the trip to Schiaparelli.†   (source)
  • Let's form another component.†   (source)
  • Once I break the seal on the patch kit, the binary components of the resin mix and I have sixty seconds before it hardens.†   (source)
  • Von Neumann pointed to the gigantic human circuit below the pyramid and began to explain, "Your Imperial Majesty, we have named this computer Qin I. Look, there in the center is the CPU, the core computing component, formed from your five best divisions.†   (source)
  • A year earlier, Wang Miao had been in charge of the nanoscale components for the "Sinotron II" high-energy particle accelerator project.†   (source)
  • It's actually two separate components.†   (source)
  • The fingers of his two hands began a series of rapid, complex movements, like components of a calculating machine.†   (source)
  • As I mentioned, the Big Three (atmospheric regulator, oxygenator, and water reclaimer) are critical components.†   (source)
  • She was allowed to touch most components of Red Coast's systems, and could read the relevant technical documents.†   (source)
  • The once sleek lines were now a jagged mess of missing hull segments and empty anchor points where noncritical components used to be.†   (source)
  • The Red Coast transmitter was ultra-high-powered, but all of its components were domestically produced during the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • All Hab components functional.†   (source)
  • Over the last twenty days, a team of JPL engineers had worked around the clock to piece together antiquated computers, repair broken components, network everything, and install hastily made software that allowed the old systems to interact with the modern Deep Space Network.†   (source)
  • And under the guise of testing the antenna's mechanical components, she aimed it at the setting sun in the west.†   (source)
  • New plug-in components, which can be made from up to ten divisions, can quickly be added to the main operation bus.†   (source)
  • At my previous research station, in order to precisely test the high-temperature aging of certain components, we imported one.†   (source)
  • Finally, the entire motherboard came to a stop, with only a few scattered components flashing lifelessly in infinite loops.†   (source)
  • Even though she had thought of some excuses, it was still unusual to use maximum power for a test transmission, because doing so would wear down the components.†   (source)
  • He turned with an insidious expression and said to Qin Shi Huang, "Your Imperial Majesty, in order to improve system stability, you should take certain maintenance measures with respect to faulty components."†   (source)
  • Observe also the open passage that runs through the entire formation, and the light cavalry waiting for orders in that passage: That's the system bus, responsible for transmitting information between the components of the whole system.†   (source)
  • If we can apply microwave radiation at a specific power level of one-tenth of a watt to one watt per square centimeter, we'll be able to disable or destroy many electronic components of satellite communications, radar, and navigation systems.†   (source)
  • Occasionally industrial espionage or smuggling electronic components to Eastern Europe—even though the market had dropped off in recent years—was justifiable.†   (source)
  • Physical conditioning is a crucial component of mountaineering, but there are many other equally important elements, none of which can be practiced in a gym.†   (source)
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