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Usage examples of conventional.

Then Will stepped up and injected him in the antecubital vein with a conventional syringe.

Loading the contact syringes would take more time than he had, so he drew fifty milligrams into a conventional syringe and shot the drug into the antecubital vein at the crook of her elbow.

It rapidly became clear through our repeated McCaffrey discussions that Gootenberg had very little time for conventional drug policy or its advocates and that he was of the opinion that, far from solving drug problems, it was American antidrug meddling that had created most of them in the first place.

During the Cold War, we used to fear that the Soviets would come to this conclusion once they reached strategic parity with the United States and would employ their conventional forces to try to seize territory along the borders of the Iron Curtain.

Mouw also learned that the serious, potentially bloody rivalry supposed by conventional wisdom to exist between Neil Dellacroce and Paul Castellano was very much overblown, if it existed at all.

The cunning of this science consists in this,--that, after pointing out to men the coarsest false interpretations of the activity of the reason and conscience of man, it destroys in them faith in their own reason and conscience, and assures them that every thing which their reason and conscience say to them, that all that these have said to the loftiest representatives of man heretofore, ever since the world has existed,--that all this is conventional and subjective.

After the huge losses we had suffered on the riverboats, after the helplessness the troops had felt watching the conventional knights being slaughtered west of Sandomierz, after the confusion of the battle at Cracow, after seeing the senseless slaughter at East Gate, and after all the mind-numbing running and pulling in between, finally, at last, something was working perfectly!

Others regularly alternated between long cycles and more conventional ones, while still others would systematically lengthen their cycles as the experiment progressed, until they were sleeping only once every two days, without realizing it.

The priest, speaking in a conventional voice that was strangely inexpressive of his inward emotion, asked Androvsky and Domini whether they would take each other for wife and husband, and listened to their replies.

Walls, floor, and ramp looked to be made from a kind of ferroconcrete, but colored a kind of faint beige rather than the conventional gray.

The initial chapters, set in 1999, are told in conventional third-person narrative from the point of view of a popular historian, Stuart Gratton, who is sitting at an ill-attended book signing, trying to decide what his next book will be.

In other words, whereas Hinayana Buddhism remained a broad philosophical system, Mahayana Buddhism, which was exported to China, was much more a conventional religion.

A conventional platform to combat them would have to be able to survive plasma and hypervelocity missiles but still be able to kill large numbers of troops.

While we, with careful regard to scenery, place our conventional puppets on the stage and bid them play their old old parts in a manner as ancient, she rings up the curtain and starts a tragedy on a scene that has obviously been set by the carpenter for a farce.

Therefore, in addition to immediately replacing our peacekeeping forces, I recommend that we prepare both a nuclear and a conventional response.