30. to use as a particular case: take hotels for example. 31. (often foll by: from) to diminish or detract: the actor's bad performance took from the effect of the play. 32. to confront successfully: the horse took the jump at the third attempt. 33. (intr) to have or produc...
Although these shots successfully pacified the demonstrators, six civilians were killed, including a six-year-old child. On March 8, 1947, a crowd of about a thousand demonstrators gathered at the Welikada Prison, demanding the release of UNP members the...
A system for handling errors during automatic speech recognition by processing a potentially defective utterance to determine an alternative, potentially successful utterance. The system processes the N-best ASR hypotheses corresponding to the defective utterance using a trained model to generate a word-le...
The chair was used successfully against a single Ori warship, but that use nearly drained all of the power in the ZPM. The SGC was actively searching for alternate means to powering the chair, including Maj. Carter's and Dr. Bennett's research into creating the inter-universal bridges to ...
Charles had carried out his Italienzug successfully in 1540 and was formally crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pius V—one of his last acts as Pope before his death. Pius V’s successor, Gelasius III, was no friend of the French. Upon Charles’ departure from Rome, he and his wife, the Em...
The struggles Anders and Merrill fight to achieve their identity-driven objectives while negotiating respect with their party members and evading Templars successfully speak to passing and identity issues for multi-racial and transgender people. Anders’ struggle with Justice describes how these minorities...
of researchers from the University of Washington have managed to build a live-streaming wireless camera that's so small that even an insect can wear it.It's not quite small and light enough to be held to a fly,but at around 250 milligrams,the camera was successfully carried ...
Denmark-Norway's performance in the Second Northern War, with more Swedish strength involved in eliminating Prussia, would see Denmark-Norway do better against Sweden, but not enough to end Sweden's existence or even Sweden's great power status (before Sweden could successfully defeat (and ...
Hosoda got a job at Ghibli(OTL he applied but was rejected, though Hayao Miyazaki informed him and praised him with a letter with one sentence that said...
They had taken submerged positions near known locations and awaited a code word that would launch the attack. Once the order was received, the subs surfaced and would begin the process of launching their missiles. Unfortunately for the Reich, the 2 U-boats tasked with the Iceland attack...