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  • Of course, officially, guardians weren't supposed to show favouritism, but there were little displays of affection all the time within certain parameters; and most of what Ruth suggested fell easily within them.†   (source)
  • The pain was sharp, blinding, blocking out everything except numbers—a distance (estimated) decreasing by centimeters (also estimated); speed (estimated) decreasing; external armor temperature (increasing at my extremities, possible danger of exceeding acceptable parameters, possible resulting injury), but the numbers were near-meaningless to me, the pain was louder, more immediate, than anything else.†   (source)
  • It is more or less assumed in the scientific community (see, for instance, Bourke and Hannegan's "A View Toward Isolation of the TK Gene with Specific Recommendations for Control Parameters" in Microbiology Annual, Berkeley: 1982) that when a testing procedure is established, all school-age children will undergo the test as routinely as they now undergo the TB skin-patch.†   (source)
  • Its on-board programming was designed to trace thermal receptors over the entire visible horizon, interrogating everything in sight and locking on any signature that fit its acquisition parameters.†   (source)
  • As we mentioned before, the goal of the real-life sort is to see if you can sort real people and situations within certain parameters.†   (source)
  • To give you fair warning, I'm going to talk with Mr. McConaughy and see about setting some parameters for your tutoring sessions.†   (source)
  • Narrowing the parameters further, Dan typed in "Brookline AND history AND asylum."†   (source)
  • I have deduced that there is a relationship between these two masses that must be within certain parameters.†   (source)
  • He imagined that he'd continue this way for another decade or so, seeing patients every day but gradually cutting back, until the parameter of his physical life was no larger than this house, this garden, the trips he would make to the grocer and the barber.†   (source)
  • It's called Eating and Drinking: Basic Parameters.†   (source)
  • 'If we're serious about considering this offer, we need to at least set some parameters for the negotiations.†   (source)
  • And now, I know that many of you have been waiting for the parameters of the auction itself.†   (source)
  • Yes, Peter, I want you to change the testing parameters.†   (source)
  • This asset will be damaged if this data goes beyond the parameters of this investigation.†   (source)
  • The Director had personally dictated the simulation's parameters, and Max had no idea what they would be.†   (source)
  • A delicate balance had to be found in the telling, parameters established as to time and the general's immediate contributions.†   (source)
  • Whether it be the distance between bases or from the mound to home plate, limits and parameters are well-defined.†   (source)
  • At the bottom of the Depression, when wrenching need narrowed the parameters of experience as never before, the liberation offered by the racehorse was, to young men like Pollard and Woolf, a siren song.†   (source)
  • I remember how startled I was first time he answered a question with something extra, not limited to input parameters; I had spent next hour tossing odd questions at him, to see if answers would be odd.†   (source)
  • Let's benchmark the parameters: Yes, I will die.†   (source)
  • That something is the theoretical framework, the parameters within which the laws of energy must operate.†   (source)
  • Analysis of all thirty parameters covered by this particular flight-data recorder seemed to confirm that the heading changes were either yawing of the craft or resulted in yawing.†   (source)
  • But I've investigated cases involving Defense Intelligence that were handled within normal parameters.†   (source)
  • "This method of orbital smelting is outside my experiential parameters," the ship replied.†   (source)
  • So I pushed my mind around inside the parameters she had laid down, and one of the things that came to me was Barthelme's mention of the normal distribution curve with reference to dolphins.†   (source)
  • A couple of years earlier, when InGen had hired Nedry to design the park control systems, one of the initial design parameters called for data records with 3 x 109 fields.   (source)
  • The command called fini.obj resets the linked parameters, namely the fence and the power.†   (source)
    parameters = fixed values or limits that establish how something should be done
  • "Gentlemen," she said, still holding the Architect's key, "are your mission parameters clear?"†   (source)
  • Few people attended these tests, and the targets and other parameters were arbitrarily selected.†   (source)
  • Judging by the orbital parameters, the climate will be extremely mild and comfortable.†   (source)
  • The data included the frequency ranges of the radiation as well as other parameters.†   (source)
  • Enter initial condition parameters ...and begin calculation!†   (source)
  • It's capable of showing us in real time the most important parameters of the computation.†   (source)
  • Well, God's not stupid; He sets parameters.†   (source)
  • It was a whole world, the mall, enclosed and safe, parameters neatly marked.†   (source)
  • I know you've been given the general parameters of the mission, but let me add a few details.†   (source)
  • All he has to do is point to the design parameters and then to the ship.†   (source)
  • Tolerance parameter of 1/1,000 considered sufficient.†   (source)
  • I held my breath, waiting for him to lay down the parameters of this meeting.†   (source)
  • And the consequences of running afoul of these parameters, even by accident, are pretty severe.†   (source)
  • The parameters, again, were set by the client.†   (source)
  • THIS IS PAGE 2 OF 2Z4 PAGES PROJECT: WILDFIRE PRIMARY PARAMETERS 1.†   (source)
  • "All the basic design parameters are the same," Steve said.†   (source)
  • "We're dealing with too many parameters," Dr. Chu said.†   (source)
  • "This completes your physical parameters," the voice said.†   (source)
  • "Physical parameters will now be measured," the voice said.†   (source)
  • , we need to discuss your mission and parameters thereof.†   (source)
  • We are analyzing orbital parameters at this time.†   (source)
  • Parameters for use of force?†   (source)
  • It was true, too, that the distance between herself and Josie could be measured by the very parameters of her role as judge.†   (source)
  • Estimated number of total hits: 2,692 "We need to refine the parameters further," Gettum said, stopping the search.†   (source)
  • "You know nothing of future time," pronounced Deep Thought, "and yet in my teeming circuitry I can navigate the infinite delta streams of future probability and see that there must one day come a computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate, but which it will be my fate eventually to design."†   (source)
  • He had to educate himself, quickly, on the parameters of an airport he had never seen before: could it handle one of the biggest jets in the sky, at sixty tons over its normal landing weight?†   (source)
  • These days, when Lewis was late at the office, working on another publication deadline, and Lacy was so exhausted she could fall asleep standing up in the hospital elevator, she tried to convince herself it was simply a phase they were stuck in: a baby boot camp that would surely transform one day into contentment and satisfaction and togetherness and all the other parameters Lewis plotted on his computer programs.†   (source)
  • Apparently the man had helped design the security parameters that kept the Depository Bank of Zurich a leader in the ultramodern world of electronic security.†   (source)
  • As you recall, that corresponds with the parameters of your statement to me—'leaving first thing in the morning.'†   (source)
  • All around me my room jumped into place, the familiar parameters of my life: my bed, my carpet, my stuffed animals lined up across the third shelf of my bookshelf.†   (source)
  • The second page listed the basic parameters of the system, as laid down by the original Wildfire planning group.†   (source)
  • The series of equations we needed to work described the parameters of thrust coefficient, nozzle-throat area, combustion-chamber cross-sectional areas, and velocity of the gases predicted for any particular propellant.†   (source)
  • If SSW-89-58 refuses an instruction, exceeds the parameters of an assignment, or exhibits any other signs of rebellion, he can be punished in numerous ways.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen—at this time and before we go on, per the parameters of the auction, I'd like to reintroduce Howie Sanders, who wishes to read a letter from Ira Levinson, in Ira's own words, regarding the purchase of this item.†   (source)
  • And were dealing with too many parameters and we need a smaller snake for the time being until we get this right.†   (source)
  • D. NIH RESULTS OF ODD MAN STUDY: The study concluded that married individuals performed differently from single individuals on several parameters of the test.†   (source)
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