Short-term progress depends on an upbeat world economy and fiscal and other adjustments in line with IMF policies.
He found it quite a job and had to call on Mr. Jackson to help him, for one of the pistons had to be repaired and a number of adjustments made to the cylinders.
Tom was at the engine, making several minor adjustments to it, while Ned steered.
He also made some minoradjustments and the next day he went out alone for a long run.
With some changes and adjustments I can make this a speedy boat," thought Tom.
The very existence of order and system, of mechanical adjustments and organic adaptations in the universe, seems to prove that matter must have had a beginning.
The complicated and refined adjustments of the body to the mind, and of the mind to the body, are so numerous and interesting that their study has now become the task of a special class of scientific men.
The mind which has given origin to the order and adjustments of the universe is not more absolutely inaccessible to sense and self-consciousness than the mind which gives origin to the order and adjustments of a watch.
The natural and obvious explanation of the order and adjustments which it thus presents is that they are due to a mind or intelligence.
The laws and uses of light and heat, electricity and magnetism, and the adjustments which they presuppose, all point not less clearly to the ordinances of a supremely profound and accurate mind.
These are but a few examples of facts of which the whole animal world is full, presenting, as it does, one vast series of adjustments between bodily organs and corresponding instincts.
It is obvious that even the most specialised adjustments of organic structure and activity presuppose the most general and simple uniformities of purely physical nature.
The purpose of the figure is to enable us to take in at a glance five different adjustments that in the main are to be regarded as approximately static within the great region described as the economic center of the world.
It is a type of economic activity in which all the primary forces work, but in which friction abounds and adjustments are made with extreme slowness.
This remains true only while currency continues to be in its normal state and all other static adjustments continue complete.
In this intermediate state the natural forces are counteracted and the adjustments are never made, and what we have to study is the degree in which they are approximated.
Adjustments have to be made which require time, and these are as obviously elements that must be incorporated into an economic theory as any with which it has to deal.
This larger movement occupies a long time, while certain other adjustments may be made more quickly.
Assuming that all other static adjustments are made, but that the equalization of population has not taken place, labor will earn the amount BC in one place and the amount B'C' in another.
In view of this fact it is necessary to recognize a proximate rather than an ultimate static state as that toward which the adjustments now going on are immediately tending.
In a socialistic society suchadjustments would be made under the direction of the state.
These adjustments should, by practice, become automatic, simple acts of swift and unconscious obedience to the will.
It is, then, the three different adjustments of the vocal tract which determine the three divisions of the vocal scale and likewise the positions or registers for each division.
This gives mobility to the larynx and freedom of movement to the neck; and the larynx, while mobile as a whole, furthermore is capable of an infinite number of muscularadjustments and readjustments within itself.
The cup assumes what may be called a generic shape for each register, and then goes through subtle adjustments of shape for the different notes within each register.
The numerous and subtle adjustments and readjustments in shape of which the larynx is capable could not be effected if its shell consisted of so hard and unyielding a substance as bone.
The vocal tract of an accomplished singer is capable of as many adjustments as a sensitive face is of changes in expression.
When making these adjustments the pilot's control levers should be in their neutral positions.
How are we going to keep our adjustments upon which good flying depends?
Before rigging an aeroplane or making any adjustments it is necessary to place it in what is known as its "flying position.
In a matter of minutes, the four spacemen of the Polaris crew were making last-minute adjustments on their space suits.
Tom relayed the order to Astro and made the necessary adjustments on the control panel.
He made adjustments on the nozzle of the cutting torch, and then, focusing his chest light, called to Astro.
Diagram to show how small faults in the rock basement may be masked at the surface through adjustmentswithin the loose rock mantle.
Toward the close of this period came the adjustments which brought the lithosphere to protrude through the hydrosphere in shield-like continents whose distribution, as shown by the rocks of this period, is of great significance.
Map of a portion of the Alaskan coast to show the adjustments in level during the earthquake of 1899 (after Tarr and Martin).
The jolt of the adjustments has thrown some blocks beyond their natural position of rest, and these sink and rise subsequently in order to readjust themselves with lighter vibrations, which may be repeated and continued for some time.
Though modified to some extent by erosion, the elevations seem generally to represent the displaced crust blocks which in mutual adjustments have been left at the highest levels (Fig.
Map of Alaskan coast to show adjustments of level during an earthquake 79 73.
In the case of the earth these later adjustments are the so-called aftershocks which usually continue throughout a considerable period following every great earthquake.
Here a great island and large sections of the neighboring shore underwent movements both as a whole in large blocks and in adjustments of their subordinate parts among themselves (Fig.
Such records particularly show that the movements which they register occur upon the planes of jointing within the rock, and that these ready formed cracks have probably been the seats of repeated and cumulative adjustments (Fig.
It is not necessary in all cases to assume that the block mountains of a faulted district represent the blocks which in the adjustments were left the highest.
Out of our habitual adjustments to one another, a body of mutual understanding and agreement grows up which constitutes the intellectual and moral order of life.
New and often unforeseeable results are thus reached; but they are reached, as in all organic growth and in all sound thinking, by a series of successful adjustments within the real.
As the system is entirely automatic in action, it will furnish a positive supply of oil at all desired points, and it cannot be tampered with by the inexpert because no adjustments are provided or needed.
The adjustments can only be made by one possessing an intelligent knowledge of carburetor construction and must never be made unless the reason for changing the old adjustment is understood.
The gasoline-adjusting needle may be loose and jar out of adjustment, or the air-valve spring-adjusting nuts may be such a poor fit on the stem that adjustments will not be retained.
True, the laws at work are more complex, the adjustments more delicate, the appearance of special adaptation more remarkable; but why should we measure the creative mind by our own?
Keeping in mind the laws of multiplication, variation, and survival of the fittest, which are for ever in action, these varied developments of beauty and harmonious adjustments to conditions, are not only conceivable but demonstrable results.
The variety of adjustments following the general principle here indicated is infinite.
It is manifest that all these conditions for active shifting of divides are best united in young and high mountain ranges, and hence it is that river adjustments have been found and studied more in the Alps than elsewhere.
Another highly characteristic change that the Juniata has suffered is revealed by examining the adjustments that would have taken place in the general topography of the Broad Top district during the Perm-Triassic cycle of erosion.
In doing so, certain adjustments of moderate amount occurred, which will be soon examined.
Other examples of small adjustmentsare found around the Wyoming basin, fig.
Minor adjustments served to diminish the number of these streams, but the more effective cause of their present rarity lay in the natural selection of certain of them to become large streams; the smaller ones were generally beheaded by these.
It is hardly necessary to state that there are many facts for which no satisfactory explanation is found under the theory ofadjustments that we have been considering.
Such adjustments are made by men called adjusters, who make the subject their profession.
Further adjustments to compensate for increased living costs are required.
Many of these adjustments have occurred in key industries and would have seemed to us major crises if they had not been settled peaceably.
Additional price and wageadjustments will be made where necessary, and other steps will be taken to stimulate greater production of bottleneck items.
The proposed higher minimum wage levels are feasible without involving serious price adjustments or serious geographic dislocations.
Price supports should be used to prevent farm price declines which are out of line with general price levels, to facilitate adjustments in production to consumer demands, and to promote good land use.
Many concessions and adjustments will be required.
This reduction should be made up by increasing the tax on corporate profits in an amount that will produce this sum--with appropriate adjustmentsfor small corporations.
The wage boards should be sensitive now, as they were during the war, to changes in local prevailing wage rates and should make adjustments accordingly.
We should also make some cost-of-living adjustments for those receiving veterans' compensation for death or disability incurred in the service of our country.
During this period in which the high cost of living is bearing down on so many of our families, tax adjustments should be made to ease their burden.
It is a tribute to the fiber of our servicemen and to the flexibility of our economy that these adjustments have been made so rapidly and so successfully.
Striking effects are produced by proper adjustmentsof capacity and self-induction.
She had been trained to the finer social adjustments as to a cult: Clarice's game of persuading life to present itself with a smiling countenance, played all in the key of personal relations.
This review would furnish the basis for appropriate adjustments and for United States discussions with other governments in 1954 concerning the coverage of export controls.
Smaller adjustments were announced earlier for Albania, and later for Poland.
The apparatus thus affords three sets of results, which mutually control themselves, and the contact adjustments permit rapid work.
It represents the earlier adjustments of the race, crystallized into habit.
Stored away in his subconscious, this acquired faculty carries him without conscious effort through all the necessary adjustments in maturity.
The conscious mind could not possibly send messages to the numerous glands that fit the body for action, nor attend to all the delicate adjustments that enter into the process.
Consciousness only arises late in the course of evolution and only in connection with adjustments that are relatively complex.
Now, the adjustments necessary between individuals, between individuals and the complex institutions amidst which they live, and between those institutions and the government, are infinitely more intricate to-day than ever before.
Human freedom consists in perfect adjustments of human interests and human activities and human energies.
This argument applies with a thousandfold greater force to the origin of life, which involves even in its simplest forms so many more adjustments of force and so much more complex machinery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adjustments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
