trisecting

Barack Obama assured us the surge had failed, and Joe Biden lectured Petraeus on trisecting Iraq — in the days before Iraq became, in Biden's words, "our greatest achievement."

Notable 2011

She sees Hamburg in the months before they left it: the blacked-out windows, the gloom of Laufgraben and Beneckestrasse, the sense that the city had become a twilit labyrinth, as if the trisecting realities of her life, her drawings, and her seizures had all fused into one.

Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

She sees Hamburg in the months before they left it: the blacked-out windows, the gloom of Laufgraben and Beneckestrasse, the sense that the city had become a twilit labyrinth, as if the trisecting realities of her life, her drawings, and her seizures had all fused into one.

Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

I am tempted to invoke the metaphor of trisecting the angle, but this is science, not mathematics, so pretend I didn't mention it.

A Genomic Balancing Act 2007

But perhaps its most mysterious property (though not of any practical use) to those who had studied Geometry, and to whom this figure was the symbol of the Divine Trinity in Unity, so dear to them, was the fact that it actually put into their hands the means of _trisecting_ the Right

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

Throughout those bloody days Chad was with Grant and Harry Dean was with Sherman on his terrible trisecting march to the sea.

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox 1891

I need hardly remind you that ever since mathematics became an exact science, three problems have been recognised as impossible of solution -- trisecting the triangle, squaring the circle, and doubling the cube.

The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

Don't allow students to get confused with the trisection of an angle using an unmarked straightedge and a pair of com - passes (which is impossible) and merely trisecting an angle with other tools.

Recently Uploaded Slideshows sahmozac 2010

Volume I contains: The divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical notation and operations, including square root and cube root; Pythagorean arithmetic, including properties of numbers; square root of 2; proportion and means; algebraic equations; Proclus; Thales; Pythagorean geometry; Democritus; Hippocrates of Chios; duplicating the cube and squaring the circle; trisecting angles; Theaetetus; Plato;

AvaxHome RSS: 2009

On paper, Joe Biden looks just terrific, but you only have to listen to him for 15 minutes at a stretch -- any stretch of 15 minutes -- to realize that he's a self-absorbed buffoon, and when you look at the policies he's recommended, with all his supposed gravitas and foreign policy experience e.g., trisecting Iraq into three unstable proto-states for its neighbors to dominate as proxies, you may re-think the usefulness of those so-called credentials entirely.

About Bristol Palin's pregnancy: "People are looking for real. Real means blemishes, real means warts, real means real." Ann Althouse 2008