Still, a number of things could go wrong from a fuse malfunctioning, a problem with the barrel's assembly to a round prematurely detonating inside the tube, he said.
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By 1498, craftsmen were cutting grooves directly into the metal of a weapon's barrel.
Each of the caps of a vault's barrel is made from a ring of proteins.
Unfortunately, the Leica's take-up spool needs a long tapering tongue of film, which users must wedge under a spring clip on the spool's barrel before manually wrapping a few turns of film around it.
Thanks to accelerometers, gyroscopes and buttons in odd places, users can do things such as bring up in-game sights by looking down the plastic rifle's barrel, or steady their shot by pulling the faux weapon close to their arm.
They would rather he wait to veto a more blatant piece of pork-barrel legislation that's likely to be included in separate spending bills in the fall.
That, in a nutshell, is the message Australia's new barrel-chested minister for financial services, Joe Hockey, has been preaching to anyone who cares to listen about Australia's transformation.
As the ball wandered into foul territory and Piazza began a perfunctory gait toward first base, Clemens picked up the barrel of Piazza's shattered bat and threw it at him.
He designed the winery's exterior and interior, including the tasting and barrel rooms, and even Mr. Shrem's residence.
At MPR headquarters--known as the "Klingdom"--the man who took Lake Wobegon's cracker-barrel lore to a waiting nation shakes his head at such talk.
Yes, it was white privilege that blinded me to the fact I might be the bottom of the barrel on someone else's race card.
Does the prime minister share my concern that hard-working families in Wales are being used in order to fund the Labour party's pork-barrel policy in Cardiff Bay?
As the thorough and at times interactive tour moves up each floor, visitors learn about the beer's state-of-the-art brewing process, its "cooperage" (barrel-making) and how it's transported to more than 150 countries.
Bush and Obasanjo were scheduled to retire to the White House shortly after the Rose Garden announcement to discuss a wide variety of issues -- most notably Bush's hope to convince OPEC to boost its daily per-barrel production of crude oil, as the U.S. anticipates a supply shortage heading into the summer.
What were Ms. Grace's thoughts the first time she lowered herself into the cannon's 25-foot barrel?
Heglig is vital because it accounts for about half of Sudan's 115, 000 barrel-a-day oil output, Reuters reports.
Atop the controller sits an infrared sensor which activates a game's zoom in or scope function when it detects a user's looking down the barrel.
The system, which can run over video cameras in the gun barrel or on the soldier's helmet, will notify users when someone who was present previously turns up at the soldiers current location, which should help them identify trouble makers.
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There's two rings around the barrel, with the first serving as a zoom toggle and the second used as a shutter release.
North America and Europe still supply 70% of Exxon's 4.2 million barrel equivalents a day of oil and gas production, but the reserves there are dwindling.
You can count up 5.8 million BTUs (that's how many BTUs a barrel of oil yields) from a wood stove, or a diesel engine, or a microprocessor, or a laser.
In American brewing's early days, a barrel of whiskey brought more at market than the same of beer, so for farmers liquefying their assets, so to speak, stronger stuff made more sense.
While people in north Wales agreed with their west Walian counterparts in identifying landscape and mining as the most important elements of their heritage, and picked a miner's lamp and a beer barrel as objects that should be preserved for the future.
The living room's 30-foot-tall barrel-vault ceiling resembles the interior of a hull.
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If built as planned, Shell's two GTL plants (one scheduled to open in 2008-09 and the second in 2010-11) will have a combined daily capacity of 140, 000 barrels, as compared with Sasol's two 34, 000-barrel-a-day plants in Nigeria and in Qatar.
Ras Tanura, a tiny finger in the Persian Gulf, already has a 550, 000-barrel-per-day refinery, Aramco's biggest.
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