Their central metaphor is a loom.

They say, Upon this loom, I weave my life.

The Art of Dueling 17th Century Rapier as Taught by Salvatore Fabris .

Armed with a rapier, she was also the smart one, often initiating plans for conquest.

Blade Various rapier masters divided the blade into two, three, four, five or even nine parts.

Largely known by its handicraft in hand loom and its production of handicrafted candy.

Once washed and dried, the silk is woven on a traditional hand operated loom.

The series of cards could be changed without changing the mechanical design of the loom.

As the US Elections loom closer, international attention to US foreign policy and the candidates has increased.

Some however see the rapier in its entire time line and see that it never truly fits into any single definition.

Allowing for fast reactions, and with a long reach, the rapier was well suited to civilian combat in the 16th 17th centuries.

His favored weapon is a rapier, which he often uses to leave his distinctive mark, a Z cut with three quick strokes.

The decline encouraged Kiichiro Toyoda, cousin of Eiji Toyoda, to look for alternatives to the family's automatic loom manufacturing business.

This is done on a frame or machine known as a loom, of which there are a number of types.

A single crossing of the shuttle from one side of the loom to the other is known as a pick.

We cannot predict the shape that the world economy will take just from observing that China and its interests will loom larger.

Castle went on to note that the Italians have preserved the rapier form, with cup, pas d'ane, and quillons, but with a slender quadrangular blade.

Punched card data processing In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard developed a loom in which the pattern being woven was controlled by punched cards.

It was capable of iteration, conditional branching and parallel processing, and it was programmable using punched cards, an idea Babbage took from Jacquard's loom.

The Asia Pacific region will loom larger in Obama s second term agenda, especially as the ongoing US troop withdrawal ends the Afghanistan war by 2014.

As a result, many global challenges climate change, trade, resource scarcity, international security, cyber warfare, and nuclear proliferation, to name a few are bound to loom larger.

This is when the rapier began to give way to the colichemarde itself being later superseded by the small sword witch was later superseded by the épéeBy the year 1715, the rapier had been largely replaced by the lighter small sword throughout most of Europe, although the former continued to be used, as evidenced by the treatises of Donald McBane (1728), P. J. F. Girard (1736) and Domenico Angelo (1787).

Today, three factors loom large in the avoidance of disaster the United States military presence in Europe, the progress of European integration, and Europe s abandonment of great power politics.

The word rapier was not used by Italian, Spanish, and French masters during the apogee of this weapon, the terms spada , espada and épée (or espée ) being instead the norm (generic word for sword ).

With the advent of Ethernet over fiber optics, MPLS, VPN and dedicated broadband services such as cable modem and DSL, the end may loom for the frame relay protocol and encapsulation.

Nevertheless, the English word rapier generally refers to a primarily thrusting weapon, developed by the year 1600 as a result of the geometrical theories of such masters as Camillo Agrippa, Ridolfo Capoferro and Vincentio Saviolo.

For the market to finance vulnerable states would become complex, even impossible, and restructuring of public debt for other countries, and of the European Central Bank, would loom dangerously on the horizon.

While stationed in St Kitts, West Indies, on , he had his first encounter with Clements Markham, then Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), who would loom large in Scott's later career.

However, some rapier masters divided the blade into three parts (or even a multiple of three), in which case the central third of the blade, between the forte and the debole, was often called the medio, mezzo or the terzo.

But foreign policy issues loom large as well, and, notwithstanding the ongoing conflict in Syria and the possible spread of war across Africa s Sahel region, the consensus in Washington is that 2013 will be the year of decision on Iran.

Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs continued to loom over Nerva's reign, and ultimately erupted into a crisis in October 97, when members of the Praetorian Guard, led by Casperius Aelianus, laid siege to the Imperial Palace and took Nerva hostage.

Economy Over the years, the local population has occupied itself traditionally with activities associated with agriculture and cattle raising (primarily dairy), in addition to artesian handicrafts (works of wicker, wool or produced from loom), as well as regional sweets (such as biscoitos de orelha , cavacas or búzios ).

As Japan suffers through what likely will become its hottest summer on record, with temperatures in some places topping 40 degrees and humidity at all time highs, and even as business owners happily celebrate skyrocketing sales of air conditioners, fans, and ice cream , worries of an energy crisis loom on the horizon.