Tracing Sentence Examples

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  • I worked so hard and so brilliantly in tracing down these people.

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  • She touched her neck delicately, tracing the scars.

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  • Was she tracing my call?

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  • The republic of Venice differed essentially from any other state in Italy; and her history was so separate that, up to this Venice point, it would have been needless to interrupt the narrative by tracing it.

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  • Thus there is no difficulty in tracing the common origin in the Miocene tapirs of Europe of the now widely separated American and Asiatic species.

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  • If this is done for every possible value of x, there will be a series of ordinates tracing out a trapezette with base along OX.

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  • The idea of tracing the sun's path among the stars was, when it occurred to Chaldaean astronomers, an original and, relatively to their means, a recondite one.

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  • He visited many churches and began a practice, which he pursued throughout his life, of making drawings of buildings on the spot and afterwards tracing them over in ink.

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  • We may gradually invent means of tracing more and more closely the average drifts of translation or orientation, or of changes of arrangement, of the atoms; but there will always remain an unaveraged residue devoid of any recognized regularity, which we can only estimate by its total amount.

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  • This merely thermal energy - which is gradually but very slowly being restricted in amount as new subsidiary organized types become recognized in it - though transmutable in equivalent quantities with the other kinds, yet is so only to a limited extent; the tracing out of the laws of this limitation belongs to the science of thermodynamics.

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  • We must briefly sketch the process by which this came about, tracing the causes which led to the result and indicating the manner in which they operated.

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  • Nevertheless, the tracing of phylogeny, or direct lines of descent, suddenly began to attract far more interest than the naming and description of species.

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  • The theory of past migrations from continent to continent, suggested by Cuvier to explain the replacement of the animal life which had become extinct through sudden geologic changes, was prophetic of one of the chief features of modern method - namely, the tracing of migrations.

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  • In tracing the phylogeny, or ancestral history of organs, palaeontology affords the only absolute criterion on the successive evolution of organs in time as well as of (progressive) evolution in form.

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  • Each of these alternate life phases may leave some profound modification, which is partially obscured but seldom wholly lost; thus the tracing of the evidences of former adaptations is of great importance in phylogenetic study.

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  • In tracing the lobulation of man's liver back to this generalized type, it is evident at once that his quadrate lobe does not correspond to any one generalized lobe, but is merely that part of the right central which lies between the gall bladder and the umbilical fissure.

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  • Careful criticism of the narratives 3 has resulted in the separation of later accretions from the earliest records, and the tracing of the elaboration of older traditions under the influence of developing religious and social institutions.

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  • Roborovski, with several companions, explored the western ranges of the Kuen-lun, and crossed southwards into Tibet, tracing the course of the Kiria river to the north-western plains of the central plateau.

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  • But all four agreed in tracing the variety of things to a single material cause, corporeal, endowed with qualities, and capable of self-transformation.

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  • Among Lessing's chief friends during his second residence in Berlin were the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), in association with whom he wrote in 1755 an admirable treatise, Pope ein Metaphysiker 1 tracing sharply the lines which separate the poet from the philosopher.

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  • A posthumous volume published in 1830, The Progress of Society, is also of great ability, and is a very effective treatment of economical principles by tracing their natural origin and position in the development of social life.

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  • Its author himself, in tracing its filiation, points to the phrase "struggle for existence" used by Malthus in relation to the social competition.

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  • Between 1806 and 1818 he wrote for the Anti-Jacobin Review, the British Review and the Electric Review; but there is no means of tracing his contributions.

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  • With the Saracen occupation begins a new division of the island, which becomes convenient in tracing the progress of Saracen conquest.

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  • In tracing the tonus of neurons to a source, one is always led link by link against the current of nerve force - so to say, "up stream" - to the first beginnings of the chain of neurons in the sensifacient surfaces of the body.

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  • The difficulty of tracing the relationships of algae is largely due to the inadequacy of our knowledge of the conditions under which they pass through the critical stages of their life-cycle.

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  • And in India the problem still remains to trace, in the literature, the gradual growth of the system - the gradual formation of new sections among the people, the gradual extension of the institution to the families of people engaged in certain trades, belonging to the same group, or sect, or tribe, tracing their ancestry, whether rightly or wrongly, to the same source.

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  • Authorities dispute as to the origin of the name, some tracing it to Ara Lunae, a temple of Diana having been erected here, while others more plausibly derive it from the Celtic words ar (mount) and lun (wooded).

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  • It is not implied that in the formation of the " natural " religions individuals were not of great importance, nor, on the other hand, that in individual religions the founder formed his faith independently of the community of which he was a part; but only that as undoubted historic facts certain religions, in tracing their lines to individuals, thereby acquired a distinctive character, and retain the impress of their founder.

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  • In tracing the development of their ideas, two periods may be distinguished.

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  • In like manner, if either the same or any other rolling curve be rolled the opposite way, on the outside of the pitch-circle BB, so that the tracing point T shall start from A, it will trace the face AT of a tooth suitable to work with a flank traced by rolling the same curve R with the same tracing-point T inside any other pitch-circle.

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  • Trundles and Pin-Wheels.If a wheel or trundle have cylindrical pins or staves for teeth, the faces of the teeth of a wheel suitable for driving it are described by first tracing external epicycloids, by rolling the pitch-circle of the pin-wheel or trundle on the pitch-circle of the driving-wheel, with the centre of a stave for a tracing-point, and then drawing curves parallel to, and within the epicycloids, at a distance from them equal to the radius of a stave.

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  • Besides tracing out the lines of Nadirabad, a town Since merged in modern Kandahar, Nadir had taken advantage of the time available and of opportunities presented to enlist a large number of men from the Abdali and Ghilzai tribes.

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  • There are two main classes of police functions recognized by law, the administrative and the judicial police, the former engaged in the daily maintenance of peace and order and so preventing offences, the latter in the investigation of crime and tracing offenders; but the duties are necessarily performed to a great extent by the same agents.

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  • Before tracing the history of South Africa during the 19th century, the early relations of the white settlers with the natives may be briefly reviewed.

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  • Other of his innovations, the outcome of his crude materialism, found less favour with his successor, who declined to follow him in identifying the primary substance with fire, or in tracing all vitality to its ultimate source in the sun, the " ruling power " of the world - a curious anticipation of scientific truth.

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  • Since at any instant the rolling curve is rotating about the point of contact with the axis, the line drawn from this point of contact to the tracing point must be normal to the direction of motion of the tracing point.

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  • Also, since the axis is a tangent to the rolling curve, the ordinate PR is the perpendicular from the tracing point P on the tangent.

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  • Zhitomir is a very old city, tradition tracing its foundation as far back as the times of the Scandinavian adventurers, Askold and Dir (9th century).

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  • In tracing the history of history we must therefore keep in mind the double aspect.

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  • In tracing the osteological characters of apes and man through this series, the general system of the skeletons, and the close correspondence in number and arrangement of vertebrae and ribs, as well as in the teeth, go far towards justifying the opinion of hereditary connexion.

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  • Under the present standard of evidence in comparing languages and tracing allied groups to a common origin, the crude speculations as to a single primeval language of mankind, which formerly occupied so much attention, are acknowledged to be worthless.

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  • Like the family of O'Neill, that of O'Donnell was descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, king of Ireland at the beginning of the 5th century; the O'Neills, or Cinel l Owen, tracing their pedigree to Owen (Eoghan), and the O'Donnells, or Cinel Connell, to Conall Gulban, both sons of Niall.

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  • Indeed, the time was not ripe for such discussions, still less for the tracing of lines of descent and their embodiment in a genealogical classification.

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  • The tracing of this history, and the explanation of the general characters of Echinoderms and of the differentiating features of the classes in accordance therewith, constitutes the Pelmatozoic theory.

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  • It is difficult in the absence of more detailed knowledge as to the eyes of Chilopoda and Diplopoda to give full value to these facts in tracing the affinities of the various classes of Arthropods.

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  • We are also, by the isolation of Peripatus and the impossibility of tracing to it all other tracheate Arthropoda, or of regarding it as a degenerate offset from some one of the tracheate classes, forced to the conclusion that the tracheae of the Onychophora have been independently acquired.

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  • They frequently take the form of a double niche, with a shaft between the arched heads, which are often filled with elaborate tracing.

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  • In tracing the development of casuistry we have been carried beyond the great crisis through which Western Christianity passed in the 10th century.

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  • It was especially adapted to the tracing out of " secular inequalities," or those depending upon changes in the orbital elements of the bodies affected by them, and hence progressing indefinitely with time; and by its means, accordingly, the mechanical stability of the solar system was splendidly demonstrated through the successive efforts of Lagrange and Laplace.

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  • These exceptions are the Byerly Turk, who was " Captain Byerly's charger in Ireland in King William's wars (1689, &c.)," and a horse called Counsellor, bred by Mr Egerton in 1694, by Lord D'Arcy's Counsellor by Lord Lonsdale's Counsellor by the Shaftesbury Turk out of sister to Spanker - all the dams in Counsellor's pedigree tracing back to Eastern mares.

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  • In the case of the Osmundaceae there is good evidence, from anatomical characters, for tracing the family back to the Palaeozoic; their oldest members show a distinct relationship to the Botryopterideae, described in the next paragraph.

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  • It demands a careful study of the myths and religious thought of primitive peoples; and the tracing of the names from one language to another belongs to comparative philology.

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  • From this separation arise all the difficulties in the effort to develop the notion systematically, and in tracing the history of Kant's philosophical progress we are able to discern the gradual perception on his part that here was to be found the ultimate cause of the perplexities which became apparent in considering the subordinate doctrines of the system.

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  • She ran her fingers up his arm, tracing the large vein – feeling the fine dark hair.

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  • The velvet-eyed descendant of Eve shot a fearful glance at him and continued, still casually tracing invisible arabesques with her foil's point.

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  • The company specializes in using DNA samples to carry out paternity testing and tracing family bloodlines.

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  • The optimum standards for tracing inorganic contaminants in soil, sediment, water, oil, plants and food materials.

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  • These web pages are designed to provide some useful resources, mainly for those tracing medieval English genealogy.

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  • We are now accustomed to tracing such gradual effects in numerous guises, from acid rain to global warming to pesticide residues.

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  • Water tracing is a technique used to investigate underground hydrology, and can provide this crucial missing information.

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  • The tracing shows that the arched hypocotyl tends at this early [page 14] age to circumnutate irregularly.

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  • Using these methods allows the identification of linkages between cases that were not obvious through contact tracing.

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  • The tracing resulted in 36 320 cows being assigned to 11 786 cow families with more than one cow per maternal lineage.

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  • Example of using texture mapping to mimic ray tracing.

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  • In addition, older people will be active participants in the tracing study.

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  • Tracing family trees is a rapidly growing pastime both in Britain and abroad.

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  • For more information about tracing National Insurance numbers, see Part 4 of the Employer Helpbook E13, day-to-day payroll.

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  • And increasingly refined, Web-based tracking, tracing, scheduling and telematics will help operators handle home deliveries more cost-effectively.

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  • The absence of specialized equipment, such as badger tongs, or delving rods for tracing tunnels.

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  • Thanks, however, to her voluminous correspondence that has recently been published and to family documents that her French biographers have unearthed, there arenow full materials for tracing the history of her public and private career, and for forming a clear and unbiased estimate of her character and genius.

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  • Accordingly, in tracing the antecedents of the modern philosophic doctrine we shall have to glance at most of the principal systems of cosmology, ancient and modern.

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  • The introduction of the phylogenetic factor has very much increased the difficulty of determining homologies; for the data necessary for tracing phylogeny can only be obtained by the study of a series of allied, presumably ancestral, forms. One of the chief difficulties met with in this line of research, which is one of the more striking developments of modern morphology, is that of distinguishing between organs which are reduced, and those which are really primitive.

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  • The numerical predominance of certain families or their absence affords criteria for marking out boundary lines and tracing relationships.

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  • Tracing the widening female duct onwards we now come to the openings of the digitate accessory glands d, d, which probably assist in the formation of the egg-capsule.

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  • This, like all Droysen's work, shows a strongly marked individuality, and a great power of tracing the manner in which important dynamic forces worked themselves out in history.

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  • In the controversy on the authenticity of the Holy Shroud (sudario) at Turin, he worked in the true scientific spirit by tracing back the history of that piece of stuff, which was undoubtedly used as a shroud, but which was not produced before the 14th century and is probably no older (See Le Saint Suaire de Lirey-ChamberyTurin et les defenseurs de son authenticite).

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  • His attention having been drawn to questions of authenticity by the forgeries of Vrain Lucas, he devoted himself to tracing the spurious documents that encumbered and perverted Merovingian and Carolingian history.

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  • In1898-1900he produced a historical trilogy, Struensee, tracing the career of the minister from his early years as a doctor in Altona to his final downfall.

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  • He combined the power of patient and minute investigation with a singular faculty for bold generalization and the capacity for tracing out the effects of thoughts and ideas on political and social life.

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  • A definite agreement was made between them at Joinville (December 31, 1584), the religious and popular pretext being the danger of leaving the kingdom to the king of Navarre, and the ostensible end to secure the succession to a Catholic prince, the old Cardinal de Bourbon, an ambitious and violent man of mean intelligence; while the secret aim was to secure the crown for the Guises, - who had already attempted to fabricate for themselves a genealogy tracing their descent from Charlemagne.

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  • Using surveillance from satellites, bugs and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean 's existence, tracing e..

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  • However, " fairly and lawfully processed " is the most important to be considered by any person involved in tracing debtors.

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  • This page gives an update on my research to date on tracing back the ancestry of Neil 's BEST ancestors in Kent.

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  • The Execution Tracing package provides three ways to control trace output based on these severity levels.

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  • The Inland Revenue is offering a National Insurance Number Tracing service for employers, which can be used by obtaining a form CA 6855.

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  • An AHDS Information Paper exploring this theme greater detail, Identifying and Tracing Copyright Holders, is being planned.

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  • Genealogy - Tracing family History The subject of Genealogy is becoming increasingly popular.

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  • When combined with the Tablet 's peel-off transparent overlay, this allows tracing, a feat impossible with a mouse.

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  • By tracing how the wavelength of the radiation varies we can measure the velocity of the Hydrogen, using the Doppler shift.

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  • Tracing around the heart template made it easy for the students to create their homemade Valentine's Day cards.

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  • The key to determining whether a certain asset is community or separate property lies in tracing where the money came from to pay for it.

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  • If you want to make your own replacement couch cushions, the job mostly entails tracing patterns and sewing easy slip-covers.

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  • Roll the frame across the butcher's paper, tracing the top and bottom onto the paper to make a template.

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  • When you are ready to fix them to the wall for good, make a light pencil tracing around the edge of the dot before you pull it down.

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  • Use it to pull off a dramatic smoky eye by first applying Black Violet liner on the top lash line, tracing from the inner to the outer corner.

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  • At Meddy Bemps you can get younger children involved in the fun of Halloween with click and drag games as well as a tracing game that lights up lanterns.

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  • Using your stylus tool, rub gently into the stencil, carefully tracing the edges of the stencil design.

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  • Intermediate decorators can showcase buttercream piping skills by tracing cloud shapes onto large tiered cakes or sheet cakes and then filling in with buttercream stars.

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  • Then you can add or remove different objects by placing tracing paper over the top of the original design and making your ideas on it.

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  • This is done by tracing your current frame from a photocopy.

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  • Tracing a mobile phone location can give you peace of mind, especially if you have teenagers, or anyone else you'd like to be able to keep tabs on!

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  • Does the idea of tracing a mobile phone location make you nervous because you're afraid someone who means you harm may be able to track you down?

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  • Thankfully, there are some options for tracing a mobile phone number if you know the name, address, or other related information for the number that you seek.

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  • The monitor then records the FHR and the contractions as a pattern on a strip of paper, called a tracing.

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  • It is used in high-risk situations or when it is difficult to obtain an accurate FHR tracing.

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  • The use of continuous monitoring does result in a higher c-section rate partly because the tracing can be misinterpreted or because the mother usually requires more interventions when she cannot be mobile.

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  • In some instances, a tracing of the set of reactions may be made by placing paper over the tested area.

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  • It was assumed that fetal monitoring would transmit signals of distress, thus, the EFM tracing became a legal document.

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  • The appearance of meconium in the fluid along with a questionable EFM tracing may indicate that a fetus is becoming compromised.

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  • The child may be asked to perform tasks such as identification of fingers, whistling, saluting, brushing teeth motions, combing hair, drawing, and tracing figures.

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  • One of the worst indications of fetal distress, however, is a tracing that shows no variability at all.

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  • It is a flat tracing and indicates that the baby has sustained a severe assault on its central nervous system.

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  • It is common for them to spend time tracing records and trying to find their birth parents.

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  • Begin by sketching out a general layout of each room in your home on a piece of tracing paper.

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  • Take your drawings of each room (the ones you did on tracing paper) and lay them over the bagua map.

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  • Tracing your family history is fun and easy when you use free genealogy research tools to help.

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  • By tracing the history of parents, grandparents and great grandparents, the researcher often discovers a fulfilling sense of self as they discover the histories of those who came before them.

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  • These resources are designed to help you confidently say "Yes, I'm tracing my family tree."

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  • Tracing your family tree can be an excellent way to learn about your family history and to gain a more personal understanding of history.

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  • While you've probably heard about the role of DNA in tracing ancestry, mitochondrial DNA might be a new concept for you.

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  • While it can be a useful tool in tracing ancestry, mitochondrial DNA testing will not give you specific information about your relatives.

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  • Tracing a family name can be as easy as entering your family name into a website on the Internet.

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  • On the other hand, other genealogists are less likely to accept the DNA research, seeing it as a very limited way to trace lineage and ethnicity, and not as fulfilling as the name and date tracing of more traditional genealogy practices.

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  • This makes tracing a man's surname fairly easy for modern genealogists.

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  • If you are tracing your ancestors back to when they arrived in the United States, it is very exciting to find the actual records of their arrival.

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  • Some kindergarten students will need to focus on basic math, such as counting the number of apples or tracing numbers.

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  • Sprinkle sand on a cookie sheet, and let your child practice tracing letters in the sand.

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  • Whether they are tracing letters and numbers or drawing simple pictures, they are using the small motor muscles to complete their task.

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  • Drawing, tracing, coloring, and reading are some of kindergartners' favorite things so incorporate all these activities into your worksheets for the best results.

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  • The Baby Gender Mentor Home DNA Testing Kit determines gender by tracing the amount of active genetic fetal chromosomal DNA in a sample of your blood.

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  • The dome comes with Color Explosion glow markersand two tracing sheets.

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  • Tracing sheets go on the opposite side of where your child wants his drawing.

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  • However, the tracing scenes provided do not limit your budding artist.

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  • Tracing scenes are for getting your child started or for giving examples of what can be done with the spinning dome.

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  • Crayola.com offers free printable sheets for tracing new scenes.

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  • You can find the fuse holder by tracing the path of the power cord.

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  • Fans of high-fashion will easily recognize designer inspired handbags, tracing the colors and styles back to the seasonal line of the original designer.

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  • The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson is a tribute that finds the Muppets tracing the good times they had throughout the years and remembering who Henson was to them.

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  • Make a family portrait for your living room by tracing each person's silhouette onto the canvas.

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  • Now, try laying your tracing over a variety of colorful images.

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  • The tattoo artist should show you a tracing of the design exactly as it will appear on your body to make sure everything is as you want it.

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  • While tracing the location of a vehicle may remind you of spy movies you've seen, the truth is that vehicle tracking devices have very legitimate and important uses.

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  • Stir with a plastic or steel spoon until tracing occurs.

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  • Tracing is a fancy soap making term for when the soap mixture is ready to be molded.

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  • Many soap makers today speed up the process of getting to tracing by using a stick blender instead of doing all the stirring by hand.

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  • These cutouts should serve as a tracing tool for your wall hanger.

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  • Do this by placing the design under the tulle and tracing it with a black permanent marker.

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  • Place a sheet of office paper or tracing paper over the image of the baby, and use the pencil to trace only the outline of the image.

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  • This can be the result of someone tracing an autograph.

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  • Are you tracing it?

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  • It is important to begin the study of graphics with concrete cases rather than with tracing values of an algebraic function.

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  • The tracing out of this identity in diversity, whether regarded as evidence of blood-relationship or as a remarkable display of skill on the part of the Creator in varying the details whilst retaining the essential, became at this period a special pursuit, to which Goethe, the poet, who himself contributed importantly to it, gave the name " morphology."

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  • The tracing of the exact mode of development, cell by cell, of the diblastula, the coelom, and the various tissues of examples of all classes of animals was in later years pursued with immense activity and increasing instrumental facilities.

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  • By tracing such indications up the stream or up the hillside the outcrop may sometimes be found, or at least approximately located.

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  • The vague and fragmentary character of the narrative, in this section, forcibly contrasts with the clear and careful tracing of the outward way.

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  • Failing analytically to probe its nature, historically we seek relief to our perplexities by tracing its origin..

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  • Such figures as these make no human impression, and criticism has busied itself in tracing them to one or other of the shadowy divinities of the Celtic pantheon.

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  • Recent criticism, however, has tended very much to raise their value by tracing out their wide and far-reaching influence.

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  • His place in German literature has already been indicated in tracing his mental development.

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  • That is to say, in tracing back the later acquisitions of civilization to impulses which are as old as the dawn of primitive culture, he did not, as the modern evolutionist does, lay stress on the superiority of the later to the earlier stages of human development, but rather became enamoured of the simplicity and spontaneity of those early impulses which, since they are the oldest, easily come to look like the most real and precious.

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  • Herder is more successful in tracing the early developments of particular peoples than in constructing a scientific theory of evolution.

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  • Lan guage.Since the year 1820, when Klaproth concluded that the Japanese language had sprung from the Ural-Altaic stock, philologists have busied themselves in tracing its affinities.

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  • Thus, for a diamond-petal diaper the chisel is carried across the face of the metal horizontally, tracing a number of parallel bands divided at fixed intervals by ribs which are obtained by merely straightening the chisel and striking it a heavy blow.

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  • In tracing the history of the religion of the Roman people we are not, as in the case of Greece, dealing with separate, though interacting, developments in a number of independent communities, but with a single community which won its way to the headship first of Latium, then of Italy and finally of a European empire.

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  • We may here note the order of these posthumous writings as being of importance for tracing the development of Fichte's thought.

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  • Making it his main object in his "introduction" to set before his readers the previous history of the two nations who were the actors in the great war, he is able in tracing their history to bring into his narrative some account of almost all the nations of the known world, and has room to expatiate freely upon their geography, antiquities, manners and customs and the like, thus giving his work a "universal" character, and securing for it, without trenching upon unity, that variety, richness and fulness which are a principal charm of the best histories, and of none more than his.

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  • My principal interest at the moment is in tracing the origin of the family name.

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  • It had to be a dream, except that she remembered the heat of the skin beneath his shirt and tracing the scars she knew covered his body.

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  • She didn't move away or object when he allowed his palms to skim her curves, tracing down her sides to her hips then around to her tight bottom.

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  • Their faces were inches away, his fingers tracing a line of warm electricity down her jaw.

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  • She ran her fingers up his arm, tracing the large vein – feeling the fine dark hair.

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  • He touched her neck, softly tracing a finger from below her ear all the way down to the swell of her breasts.

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  • He belonged to a noble family of Scotch descent, tracing its origin to Walter Stutt, who in 1420 accompanied the earls of Buchan and Douglas to the court of France, and whose family afterwards rose to be counts of Tracy.

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  • Vico raised the problem to a higher plane, by tracing the origin of law in the human mind and explaining the historical changes of the one by those of the other.

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  • Police.Broadly, the police of France may be divided into two great branchesadministrative police (la police administrative) and judicial police (la police judic-iaire), the former having for its object the maintenance of order, and the latter charged with tracing out offenders, collecting the proofs, and delivering the presumed offenders to the tribunals charged by law with their trial and punishment.

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  • His principal characteristic was perfect confidence in any result obtained by the treatment of symbols in accordance with their primary laws and conditions, and an almost unrivalled skill and power in tracing out these results.

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  • In later years the attention of the best palaeontologists has been withdrawn from the hodman's work of making " new species " of fossils, to the scientific task of completing our knowledge of individual species, and tracing out the succession of the forms presented by any given type in time.

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  • There is a similar difficulty in tracing the paths by which the impulses are transmitted to the growing and curving regions.

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  • In all these cases it is a nice question whether we are tracing an ascending or descending stream.

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  • Forbes communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh a short paper of his on a mechanical method of tracing Cartesian ovals.

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  • O'NEILL, the name of an Irish family tracing descent from Niall, king of Ireland early in the 5th century, and known in Irish history and legend as Niall of the Nine Hostages.

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  • After tracing the origin of commerce, Turgot develops Quesnay's theory that the land is the only source of wealth, and divides society into three classes, the productive or agricultural, the salaried (stipendiee) or artisan class, and the land-owning class (classe disponible).

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  • The historical relations between philosophy and economics are of great importance in tracing the development of the latter, and have done much to determine its present form.

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  • That the series of natural animals is continuous, forming, as it were, a circle; so that, upon commencing at any one given point, and thence tracing all the modifications of structure, we shall be imperceptibly led, after passing through numerous forms, again to the point from which we started.

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  • We may here notice the important chemical symbolism or notation introduced by Berzelius, which greatly contributed to the definite and convenient representation of chemical composition and the tracing of chemical reactions.

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  • In 1895 Bottego, with three European companions, left Brava to investigate the river system north of Lake Rudolf, and succeeded in tracing the Omo to that lake.

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  • Tracing, then, the quantities of oil given per 1,000 fish from year to year, they seemed to establish a connexion between the variation in " condition " of the fish, the variation in the inflow of Atlantic water, and the variation in the number of sunspots from year to year.

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  • The five bishops in their Report, tracing the various vestments to their origins, conclude that they are meaningless in themselves, and therefore things indifferent.

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  • Basing their views on the synoptic Gospels, and tracing descent from the obscure sect of the Alogi, the Adoptianists under Theodotus of Byzantium tried to found a school at Rome c. 185, asserting that Jesus was a man, filled with the Holy Spirit's inspiration from his baptism, and so attaining such a perfection of holiness that he was adopted by God and exalted to divine dignity.

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  • His chief peculiarity consists in clearly tracing a strong Pauline influence, especially in Mark, which there remodels certain sayings and actions as these were first registered by the eye-witness documents.

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  • In 1804 were also delivered the noble lectures entitled Grundziige des gegenwdrtigen Zeitalters (Characteristics of the Present Age, 1804), containing a most admirable analysis of the Aufkltirung, tracing the position of such a movement of thought in the natural evolution of the general human consciousness, pointing out its inherent defects, and indicating as the ultimate goal of progress the life of reason in its highest aspect as a belief in the divine order of the universe.

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  • In tracing the growth of Persia from a petty subject kingdom to a vast dominant empire, he has occasion to set out the histories of Lydia, Media, Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Scythia, Thrace, and to describe the countries and the peoples inhabiting them, their natural productions, climate, geographical position, monuments, &c.; while, in noting the contemporaneous changes in Greece, he is led to tell of the various migrations of the Greek race, their colonies, commerce, progress in the arts, revolutions, internal struggles, wars with one another, legislation, religious tenets and the like.

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  • She rose and paced, the dress tracing her movements in a way that made his eyes follow her body.

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  • And they wouldn't have had so much trouble tracing Annie down if she left heirs.

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  • They were quiet for a long time until Elisabeth propped up on her elbow, tracing his jaw line with her finger.

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