Sentences with phrase «far as arrows»

(To do this, Beaumarais takes advantage of such devices as D - shaped half - towers, open on the inner side: so far as arrows and missiles are concerned, an enemy who has captured an outermost D - shaped half - tower, but not the inner ones, is just as effectively outside of the central castle as before.

Not exact matches

In truth, the roots of this becomingless view go as far back as Zeno of Elea, who was probably the first who treated time and motion as a static geometrical line: his view that the allegedly flying arrow is motionless in all points of its trajectory has an obvious affinity with the strange view of some of our contemporaries according to which successive moments exist «tenselessly» on the fourth dimension called «time.»
However, it is quite possible to distinguish between an active and a passive form of the offended consciousness, if we take care to remember that the passive form is so far active as not to permit itself wholly to be annihilated (for offense is always an act, never an event); and that the active form is always so weak that it can not free itself from the cross to which it is nailed, or tear the arrow from out its wound.5
In fact, these foam arrows can travel as far as 35 feet.
He had been musing over the arrow of time as far back as graduate school in the late 1980s, when he published papers on the feasibility of time travel using known physics.
Previous work has estimated that poison - tipped arrows may have been used as far back as 24,000 BP (years before present), and the researchers conclude that this technology, better known from southern Africa, may also have been used 13,000 BP in eastern Africa.
And I couldn't believe it, because, you know, now leaky gut is even becoming more mainstream but this guy went through a lot of slings and arrows to bring this information up there and he's even gone as far to say that this mechanism, leaky gut, gastrointestinal permeability has to be present in almost all autoimmune conditions for them to even happen to begin with.
Some charter backers have gone so far as to cheer Moskowitz for absorbing the slings and arrows directed at the charter movement.
A couple of other small tech features endeared the car to us, including a digital compass built into the rearview mirror, as well as illuminating orange blinker arrows on the wing mirrors, which are far more useful in the dark than in the day.
If I could, I would now proceed to quote the whole poem before going further — it is so glorious, the foundation masterpiece of Western literature — in this immaculately forged new translation by Robert Fagles, which gives us much of Homer's precision, resurrecting the terrible beauty of Greece's Bronze Age in language as swift as Apollo's arrows — note the overwhelming inevitability of the half line «and down he came like night» — yet enclosing a gorgeous strength capable of burnishing each detail to brilliance.
Turkey vultures, Pelicans and Magnificent Frigate Birds are overhead as you carry on down the arrow - straight Burdon Canal, built in the 1920s to help farmers further south get their crops to market without risking life and limb on the open sea.
As far as gameplay, it's the standard «here comes an arrow, now press it on time!&raquAs far as gameplay, it's the standard «here comes an arrow, now press it on time!&raquas gameplay, it's the standard «here comes an arrow, now press it on time!»
The post is gone, but Far Cry Primal seems to have an additional emphasis with melee combat, a la Zeno Clash, though the original cave painting depicted a primitive bow and arrow as well.
Melee; Young Link fires an arrow that does not travel as far but instead burns on the ground until it disappears, which can damage opponents.
Toon Link fires his arrows at a higher angle than Link; his arrows also do not travel as far and do not deal as much damage.
It's dead on its feet, as far as carbon - taxing goes, but more arrows are needed to knock it down.
As will be shown, the depiction would be far more accurate if it was turned upside down, so that the downward arrows point upwards to illustrate shell dissolution happens when old carbon stored at depth is upwelled to the surface.
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