But this hardest-thing-last approach has left empty answers to the ground-floor question: will the Irish Republican Army and its rival Protestant guerrilla groups get rid of their guns?
In contrast, flexible query answering systems internally revise failing user queries themselves and - by evaluating the revised query - return answers to the user that are more informative for the user than just an empty answer.
In our case, the clustering and fragmentation have to be compute but also the query answering incurs some extra overhead due to the fact that the appropriate fragment has to be identified and multiple answers are returned whereas exact query answering would simply have returned an empty answer set.
As vocations to the Catholic priesthood have all but dried up in western Europe, most church leaders have preferred to bury their heads in the sand and hope that divine providence will provide an answer to empty altars.
[Mr. Blair] looks into the empty interior as if the answer to the latest state of the vote count will emerge from her filing cabinets nonetheless.
And so has the notion, if it ever existed, that the federal government is the answer to the empty downtowns, idle laborers and the dilapidated buildings all too common in these communities.
He said what needed to be said, and didn't let Christie sweep him to the side with empty answers.
For space by the bucketload, head into Oman's Wahiba Sands – the country's answer to Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter – for a night camping in 12,500 sq km of red and white desert three hours' drive from Muscat.
While Emily complains about Roy's incompetence, Winston enjoys him mightily; while everyone broods over Winston's return, Mona worries more about compulsively checking her (empty) answering machine; and although everyone dislikes Sheila, Mona takes her to a clinic when she needs an abortion, and contemplating Sheila's sex life helps Mona figure out what she might really need from her own.
There were variations on those empty answers because Clemens is apparently angry about the implication that he tried to dodge the start and the belief that his plunking of Barry Bonds last Sunday was choreographed.
