The limited portability of floating-point operations on the JVM is due to a deliberate decision to give up their precise initial specification in favor of a less rigid one that permits a more efficient implementation on today's most widely used hardware architecture, Intel's x86 series of processors.
They had sought to win over residents and persuade the village to change the zoning on the club lots, from a restrictive marine and recreation designation to one that permits residential development.
If I could change one law, it would be the one that permits halal slaughter, if such exists.
Another amendment that disturbs tenant advocates is one that permits landlords to collect multiple vacancy allowances during a single "guidelines period.
"I will not stop to enquire whether the period through which we are passing is one that permits the railing at death, and making it the subject of jokes", was a typically pompous review that especially pleased Berners.
Having taken this much-needed step, the gun lobby should now join with gun control advocates to close another dangerous loophole: the one that permits nonlicensed dealers to sell firearms at gun shows without conducting any background check whatsoever.
They were all certain that something sick, and distinctly modern, had happened, but no one could agree about whether its source was a culture that encouraged teen-agers to act too grownup or one that permitted grownups to behave like teen-agers.
It quickly became evident that one of the reasons the case was before the high court was because of a fundamental contradiction in Florida law, one that permits manual recounts to be held but does not provide enough time to get them done.
In an interview with two Journal reporters, Steve Stecklow and Martin Peers, excerpts of which were published on June 5th, Murdoch not only made clear that he wanted a similar arrangement — one that permitted the board to "interview the editor before he's appointed" — but insisted that the board could not get into "business judgments," including newsroom budgets, as the Bancrofts were proposing.
They don't go anywhere, do anything, see anyone besides their neighbours, and the town itself doesn't change - an odd choice of set-up for a novelist, but one that permits her to make a suggestion: that it is people in their kitchens, devastating each other softly and for the most part without intent, that constitutes life at its most indivisible.
