Yet, much of the discipline laid down in the Yoga-sutras concerns perfection of the body, with the intent to make it a fit instrument for spiritual perfection.
"In this age which boasts of its atomic power," John wrote in his 1963 encyclical, "Pacem in Terris," "it no longer makes sense to maintain that war is a fit instrument with which to repair the violation of justice".
The basic element in Mahmud's reforms was the reconstruction of the army to make it a fit instrument for preserving the Ottoman Empire against both the encroachments of European powers and the separatist ambitions of local potentates.
Listening to their words — "at once an example and fit instrument" for the subversion of rights — it is very easy to think of Guantánamo.
The time to develop a decent policy of immigration--a fitting instrument for our foreign policy and a true reflection of the ideals we stand for, at home and abroad--is now".
Three million people so dead to all feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest[of us]." This reflects the interesting fact that the attitudes that drove American Independence were found not only among the colonists.
Cupping your hand behind your ear can help a little, but it's no substitute for a properly fitted hearing instrument.
The final FIT instrument is programmed in Excel and requires the user to answer questions regarding the factors that influence the necessity and feasibility of randomisation, a control group and blinding.
Table 3 comprises the final FIT instrument, and summarises factors influencing the necessity and feasibility of the constituent study characteristics of blinded RCTs, derived from the reimbursement reports, the literature review and the interviews.
The program opened with a colorfully evocative rendition of Debussy's "En blanc et noir," followed by an elegant performance of his arrangement of Schumann's Six Pieces in Canonic Form, originally written for pedal piano (an instrument fitted with a pedal board similar to an organ's, allowing bass notes to be played with the feet).
Accurate mass measurements were run on either a Bruker MicroTOF internally calibrated with polyalanine, or a Micromass GCT instrument fitted with a Scientific Glass Instruments BPX5 column (15 m × 0.25 mm) using amyl acetate as a lock mass, by the mass spectrometry service of the Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK.
