Manuals

Initially I’d intended its setting to be that of the fanciful world predicted by these cards, but as the novel progressed I was influenced by other workssilent science-fiction films such as Metropolis and Woman in the Moon; psychiatric manuals from the 1850s; black-and-white Disney cartoons; music videos directed by Mark Romanek. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In my experience replicating the velocity given in reloading manuals is often hard if not impossible to do without blown primers, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So Dr. Holly dutifully found one of HER manuals from the back room and brought it out to show Mason. ❋ Lyda222 (2009)

But what is equally surprising are the beauty rituals and advice dished out to women in manuals published for the consumption of beauticians and the public. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If any of this is to work for the Labour leader, he will rapidly have to tear up some of the New Labour spin manuals, and the clumsy agit prop that came with them. ❋ Mark Seddon (2010)

It is POSSIBLE that the productivity boom is due to people finally being allowed to keep the same systems for more than two or three years, and thus not having to spend half their time "training" to use the new system or looking stuff up in manuals, and finally allowing the productivity gains from the familiar to come forth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the sexual and related atrocities perpetrated upon “disappeared” infants and other children, are done as part of the rituals outlined in manuals of Satanist organizations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She has read, and quotes at length from, a rich and various array of sources: student handbooks and yearbooks, popular novels, and advice manuals from the past two centuries. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Rove warned in 'manuals, memos, and briefings' to save emails ❋ Unknown (2007)

Cryosleep Restart was a fairly routine procedure but all the same, the doctor felt the need to ‘dust off†™ some manuals from the backup banks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Color — as an aspect of light, as a part of textile - or ceramics-making processes, as a component of painting — was found out in manuals and treatises on practice and in more-general works. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Also common in manuals of practice was a strategy of carving out authority by citing the inadequacies of existing works, as this implied that the work at hand superseded rather than supplemented all others. reference This strategy was not limited to purely practical treatises, however. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Of a dozen usage manuals from the past fifty years that I checked, only six mention that danglers (which may or may not involve participles) can lurk somewhere in a sentence besides at the beginning. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On the other hand, the apparent "half-hearted" efforts to follow company procedures or operating manuals is viewed as indicating the Mexican's defiance, rebelliousness, or lack of commitment to the organization. ❋ Unknown (2006)