Sentence examples for cdr from inspiring English sources
noun
The second part of a cons in LISP. The rest of a list when the first element is removed.
Documents obtained under Right to Information (RTI) laws reveal that Carmody blindsided his colleagues with a public statement that he would decide who sat in the court of disputed returns (CDR) during a cliffhanger election result in February.
In its current state we would have to do (car (cdr (cdr (cdr list)))) to get the element.
It doesn't care what the name of the JSON field is; as far as it's concerned it's just the cdr of a list.
So basically, using car and cdr, you can descend a list and get every element imaginable.
To get the tail of the list, we can use "cdr".
But it has occurred to Robert Naviaux of the University of California, San Diego, that once the signal is stuck in this way, chronic CDR might, by subverting the function of crucial brain cells, be the immediate cause of the symptoms of autism.
The offspring of such pregnancies often show behaviours, such as fear of strangers, fear of novelty and poor co-ordination, that would be interpreted as autistic in people, and this procedure is thus used as a model of autism.Dr Naviaux reasoned that, if chronic CDR is the cause of autism's symptoms, abolishing it should abolish the symptoms.
In an email to Heritage, Nasa's deputy chief counsel, Donna M Shafer, said there appeared to be "nothing to indicate" that the agency had ever transferred ownership of the checklist to Cdr Lovell.
After the sale, Nasa contacted Cdr Lovell and Heritage to ask whether Cdr Lovell had title to the checklist.
The checklist gained fame as part of a key scene in the 1995 film Apollo 13, in which actor Tom Hanks played Cdr Lovell.
Greg Rohan, president of Dallas-based Heritage, said Cdr Lovell provided a signed affidavit that he had clear title, but said the sale has been suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry.
