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The destructive forces in that controllable balloon were more than sufficient to lay the whole of Edinburgh in ruins; and then, no doubt, the enemy would attempt by the same means to destroy the British batteries on the neighbouring hills.
Vigorous and controllable muscular contraction requires a sound and well-developed brain.
The central organ of the nervous system must, likewise, be in an active condition, to induce regular, steady, and controllable muscular movements.
Privileges of the house not controllable by courts of law.
If crime is an abnormality scientifically studiable and controllable like measles, court procedure and prison management will have to be transformed radically.
A great deal of evidence is in our possession concerning the disturbances of emotion accompanying disturbances of this gland, andcontrollable by its control.
But with the internal secretions as the controllable controllers of mutations, the outlook changes.
The more articulate the world that produces emotion the more controllable and recoverable is the emotion itself.
In prose the vehicle for communication is a conventional sign, standing in the last analysis for some demonstrable object or controllable feeling.
For many such purposes gangs of captives were cheaper and far more controllable than levies of the king's own people.
Infant mortality is controllable through the training of the mother and nurse.
Yet again, we hear of insignificant, hardly controllable habits that become accidentally significant in a criminal case.
Indeed, we can make surprising observations of how effectively prisoners control the muscles of their faces, which are least controllable by the will.
To be consistent the aeroplane should be so constructed that the angle of the supporting surfaces should be movable, and not controllable by the body.
To serve this need it was necessary to have a saddle animal of unusual strength, weighing about three-quarters of a ton, easily controllable and at once fairly speedy and nimble.
But, until we possessed the wide range and perfectly controllable powers of the steam hammer, the stamping system was confined to comparatively small portions of forge work.
Furthermore, the hysteria was directly traceable, as he believed, to the prevailing conditions of the time, and this seemed to put the manifestations in the world of intelligible and controllable phenomena, where they could be investigated.
It is only as things become familiar and controllable that he gains the concept of mechanism.
Light has the advantages of being silent and controllable as to position and direction, and of being a visible signal at night.
Although pigments and dyes are not generally as peculiar as lithopone, much uncertainty is eliminated by systematic tests under constant, continuous, and controllable artificial light.
To-day it is a battle between the forces of nature, controllable by man in the shape of "high explosives," and the resisting power of metals tempered to extreme toughness.
Contempt for machines as the accouterments of despised mechanics kept the mechanical conception aloof from these specific and controllable experiences which alone could fructify it.
Controllable torpedoes of this type were abandoned before the outbreak of the present war and will probably never be used in action.
The Brennan and Sims-Edison controllable torpedoes were driven and steered by electricity, receiving the current through wires trailed astern and carrying little masts and flags above the surface to guide the operator on shore.
A new and more promising sort of controllable torpedo was immediately suggested by the invention of wireless telegraphy.
Of the controllable locomotive torpedoes, the three representative types are the Patrick, Sims and Brennan.
Of torpedoes, other than those described, we have several modern varieties; submarine projectiles, submarine rockets, automobile and controllable locomotive torpedoes.
There was a fine tremor of the hands, controllable by suggestion.
There was a fine tremorcontrollable by the will; the knee-jerks were increased.
Sham fits and epileptoid attacks controllable by will appear in Cases 78 and 79 respectively.
This has reference to reversing mechanism, which is, in substance a controllable valve motion, whereby the direction of the valve is regulated at will.
Wheels which depend on the controllable pressure of the water are of the turbine type.
One side of the pipe A has a lateral extension B, which is double, so as to receive therein a sliding plate C, which is easily controllablefrom the outside.
A glance shows it to be the flags on the Sims-Edison controllable torpedo.
Any satisfactory explanation of witchcraft must point out distinctly, and must admit the action of some force competent to all such performances; a force controllable and controlled by intelligence.
Proctor's stopping the fits, by threats to thrash the girl, intimates that the fits were measurably controllable by the will of some one.
Some types of the rock-drill are controllable as to the length of their stroke, so that it can be shortened while the "entry" of the hole is being made and gradually increased as the hole deepens.
Its travel is thus controllable to within 3/16 of an inch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "controllable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
