60 Metaphors for operation

His operations had been almost entirely forcibleof a kind understood by and congenial to the Osmanli characterand partly by circumstances but more by his natural sympathies, he had been identified from first to last with military enterprises.

These two operations, clarification and evaporation by the use of the vacuum, are merely improved methods for doing, on a large scale, what was formerly done by boiling in pans or kettles, on a small scale.

That second operation is a more delicate affair than the first, but I don't consider it more dangerous.

The operations in which they were engaged were desultory, and of no great account in the general result of the gigantic contest; but they made Colonel Church's name familiar to the Greek population, who were hoping, amid the general confusion, for an escape from the tyranny of the Turks.

All these operations of reading, writing, and ciphering, are intellectual tools, whose use should, before all things, be learned, and learned thoroughly; so that the youth may be enabled to make his life that which it ought to be, a continual progress in learning and in wisdom.

That we may contradict any such false impression, we state here that in many cases the operation is the only measure which will offer relief from pain, and restore to work an otherwise useless animal.

His first operation in Mexico was the taking of Vera Cruz, the principal Mexican seaport, on the Gulf of Mexico.

Co-operation with a just Government is a duty; non-co-operation with an unjust Government is equally a duty.

The second operation of making the pieces that go into the structure is simply the following out of the clearly drawn plans furnished by the designing engineers.

These operations, and the chain bridge which spans the Moldau towards the southern end of the city, are the only things which look modernevery thing else is old, strange and solemn.

If they had been made to pay rent for their cottage and land, and to maintain themselves, they must have been made to look beforehand, to think for themselves and families from day to day, and to provide against the future, all which operations of the mind are the characteristics only of free men.

Of course, a few hours' observation would not suffice for a full and correct conclusion on this point, but it gave me the impression that the great operation which has won for the Tiptree Farm its special distinction is its irrigation with liquid manure.

The most important operation contemplated was the invasion of England; andnow that Hoche was no moreBonaparte might well claim to lead it.

The operations of uses by these spheres are the divine providence.

Co-operation with a just Government is a duty; non-co-operation with an unjust Government is equally a duty.

Co-operation on the part of a justice-loving man with an unjust man is a crime.

On the contrary, I consider non-co-operation to be such a powerful and pure instrument, that if it is enforced in an earnest spirit, it will be like seeking first the Kingdom of God and everything else following as a matter of course.

This operation, before fine Ladies, to me (who am by Nature a Coxcomb) was suffered with the same Reluctance as they admit the Help of Men in their greatest Extremity.

Co-operation between the colonies had been a matter of long discussion and earnest debate, and primarily resulted from the necessity of defence against a common foe the French in Canada, and the Indians of the forest.

Non-co-operation is not a passive state, it is an intensely active statemore active than physical resistance or violence.

The final operations of the XXth Corps which resulted in the surrender of Jerusalem were a fitting climax to the efforts of all ranks.

Not one of them can understand that the highest and only operation of nature and art is the creation of form, and in the form, detail, so that each single thing shall become, be, and remain something separate and important.

I called at Mrs. B.'s yesterdayat exactly the right moment, she said; for five surgeons had just decided that the operation had been a failure, and that she must die.

He was frankly unable to suggest a substitute but was emphatically of opinion that whether there was a substitute or not non-co-operation was a remedy worse than the disease.

Under these several heads, Ruskin expresses his conviction that co-operation and government are in all things the law of life, while the deadly things are competition and anarchy.

60 Metaphors for  operation