Assuming the lever does not dissipate or store energy, the power into the lever must equal the power out of the lever.

Thumb And Pouch

Trade relations provide another all important lever.

So, what he found is that in all cases of thumb mutations, instead of having a thumb, you would either get another opposable thumb, or you would get four fingers.

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process.

The proportion of each is determined by the lever rule.

, having a hitchhiker's thumb and a straight thumb, eyes of slightly different colors, differential hair growth on opposite sides of the body, etc.

Give people rules of thumb, not product manuals.

Actions The flexor pollicis longus is a flexor of the phalanges of the thumb when the thumb is fixed, it assists in flexing the wrist.

Watch the fingers grab. The thumb comes up. Wrist.

And as they slide their hand down the lever, they can push with a smaller effective lever length, but push through a bigger angle every stroke, which makes a faster rotational speed, and gives you an effective high gear.

OK, now, cross your hands over, so your right hand goes over, interlace your fingers like this, then make sure your right thumb is outside your left thumb that's very important.

However, as with many rules of thumb, there are many caveats and exceptions.

OK, I want you to pinch right here with two fingers and your thumb.

These rules of thumb work (at least tolerably so) as a result of evolution.

Now he's going to pick up a pen with his opposed thumb and index finger.

As the lever rotates around the fulcrum, points farther from this pivot move faster than points closer to the pivot.

Tuscola County is a county located in the Thumb region of the U.S. state of Michigan.

A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession.

Now there are a number of diagnostic tests, akin to marketers rules of thumb, for certain conditions.

The opponens pollicis is a small, triangular muscle in the hand, which functions to oppose the thumb.

The biggest but most important challenge is to build and maintain good institutions. (...) transparency will be the most powerful lever for accountability.

And it is biased toward universal recipes model institutional arrangements, best practices, rules of thumb, and so forth.

The abductor pollicis brevis is a muscle in the hand that functions as an abductor of the thumb.

After the fish come into the net, the netting team presses the poles and uses the lever principle to bring the net up.

In human anatomy, the adductor pollicis muscle is a muscle in the hand that functions to adduct the thumb.

The general rule of thumb is to ascend no more than 300 meters (1,000 ft) per day to sleep.

It is therefore no surprise that Putin has sought to use this lever to rebuild Russia s power and to revise the post Soviet order.

Gazprom is also Russia s main lever of influence in the EU as a whole, because the company supplies 30 of the Union s natural gas needs.

Productive and decent employment is the most powerful lever to ensure the stability of social security during demographic change and to enhance social security coverage.

Historically, both state and federal attorney generals have preferred to prosecute occasional traders, who stick out like a sore thumb.

It is a common rule of thumb in business e.g., 80 of your sales come from 20 of your clients.

Researchers in conservation biology have tended to adopt the 50 500 rule of thumb initially advanced by Franklin and Soule.

If you hit your thumb with a hammer, these wires in your arm that, of course, we call nerves transmit the information into the junction box in the spinal cord where new wires, new nerves, take the information up to the brain where you become consciously aware that your thumb is now hurt.

But the historical rule of thumb is that the chances of a fast, hard landing have now surpassed 25 , and continue to climb.

Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and statistical research, on many large questions we have little more than rules of thumb.

And now we're in this new model of leadership, where the way we make change is not by using money or power to lever a system, but by leading.

For starters, Chávez is a formidable campaigner, and he has at his disposal every available lever of state power, from the Electoral Council to PDVSA, the national oil company.

Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

As the protests began, Deng s chosen successor, Premier Zhao Ziyang, was tempted to use the mass movement as a lever to push harder for market reform, and possibly political reform.

The rule of thumb that chemical and biochemical processes double in speed with each increase of ten degrees Celsius is a reasonable approximation here, too.

We encourage donors to follow through on their commitments to increase effective aid for trade assistance to help developing countries take full advantage of trade opportunities as a lever for growth.

Somebody said the test we're facing now, a scientist told me, is whether the combination of an opposable thumb and a neocortex is a viable combination.

Even the existence of mundane uncertainty gives rise to conventions and rules of thumb that embody the best of human experience in dealing with the unknown.

Sarkozy can afford to thumb his nose at his party, given the total collapse of the opposition Socialists, who will almost certainly lose the 2012 election.