And if, moreover, such a war had two sides, with policy lines set straight and true like UN bureaucrats like them, then surely lines in the sand would be drawn.
Though "American Tabloid" and "The Cold Six Thousand" may aim to fulfill the first book's promise to set straight "our continuing narrative line," they aren't entirely free of a certain kind of hagiography.
A set of sets of straight lines is just not the same set of objects as a set of infinite convergent sets of concentric spheres.
We're so used to seeing austere photographs of Beauvoir, her eyes slightly hooded and her mouth set in a straight line, as though she was thinking high-minded thoughts about a complicated thesis.
The only way to straighten them would be to perform osteotomies on them, which involves breaking the bones under general anaesthesia, then realigning the fractures so they set in a straight line.
The relative amount of carbonation was determined from the integrated area between 1,300 and 1,700 cm−1, where the zero-level was set as a straight line between the endpoints of the integrated area.
With antecolic reconstruction, the duodenal stump or distal stomach and the descending jejunal loop are set in a straight line.
In France, Argentine inventor Raúl Pateras Pescara, who designed several helicopters in the 1920s and '30s that applied cyclic pitch control and, if the engine failed, rotor autorotation, set a straight-line distance record on April 18 , 1924 of 736 metres (2,415 feet).
Safety with respect to the interaction curve is approximated by requiring safety with respect to that set of straight lines.
The cyclic unloading and reloading behavior is represented by a set of straight lines as shown in Fig. 7 which shows that hysteretic behavior occurs under both tension and compression stress.
