• Then, against the odds, they have pulled themselves back up and made another tortured, unexpected lunge to keep themselves in playoff contention. (wsj.com)
  • The Tri-City ValleyCats were victorious on the field Friday night, beating the Empire State Greys 12-6 at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium, but results elsewhere meant that the ValleyCats were eliminated from Frontier League playoff contention. (dailygazette.com)
  • 2020-21 NBA Season Preview: Can the San Antonio Spurs move back into playoff contention? (sportingnews.com)
  • Concurrent statement executions by two or more instances may also lead to contention, and subsequently busy waiting for the process without the lock. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is generally frowned upon in the poker community and can lead to contention among players. (pokerknocker.com)
  • In database management systems, block contention (or data contention) refers to multiple processes or instances competing for access to the same index or data block at the same time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Providing a historical perspective to the present day, Nootens pays strong attention to the role of democratization processes and to the relationship between meanings conveyed by the idea of popular sovereignty, political contention, and changing representations of the governing relationship. (routledge.com)
  • Understanding the claims involved in current processes of contention over decision-making processes is key to understanding popular sovereignty in an era of globalization. (routledge.com)
  • Eventually, the Mustangs overcame a sluggish start to remain unbeaten in league play and in contention for a conference title with a 38-34 victory Saturday at Simmon Bank Liberty Stadium. (dallasnews.com)
  • Rory McIlroy overcame a broken club and more drama on the 16th hole to surge into contention for a second Horizon Irish Open title at The K Club. (livescore.com)
  • Cet article a pour but d'examiner la mobilisation des groupes Ultras au Caire en procédant à une analyse de leur utilisation de l'espace, d'abord à l'intérieur des stades, et ensuite à travers leur utilisation de l'art du graffiti. (openedition.org)
  • The ten new essays in this volume examine major issues that have become the grounds of contention in the study and interpretation of Milton and his works. (google.cat)
  • It highlights the development of significant movements in the region and their relationship to protests and issues of social contention. (lu.se)
  • To reduce contention for table blocks due to delete, select or update statements, reduce the number of rows per block. (wikipedia.org)
  • MANILA, Philippines-The Philippine men's baseball team was eliminated from super round contention after being dealt a 2-0 loss by host China on Monday in the Hangzhou Asian Games at Shaoxing Baseball and Softball Center. (inquirer.net)
  • The findings also support the contention that having tightly sealed rooms helps maintain appropriate pressure differentials. (cdc.gov)
  • Cambodia, India, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are the four nations in contention to host the next edition of the Asian Beach Games, insidethegames has been told. (insidethegames.biz)
  • It builds on the notion that a thorough analysis of how the idea of popular sovereignty emerges from, and interacts with, a political history of contention within changing polities can help us to draw similarities and differences with our own age. (routledge.com)
  • Neither my co-authors nor I had any idea we were even in contention for the award," said Morris. (cdc.gov)
  • iii) that "contention is a sharp speech suitable for proof and refutation"-or whether it exceeds the demands of the persons and matter in dispute, in which case it is blameworthy. (newadvent.org)
  • Yet there was inordinateness in their contention, because they contended about a matter which they ought not to have contended about, viz. (newadvent.org)
  • The Auction Schedule [PDF, 250 KB] is updated as of 11 September 2014 to reflect eligible contention sets and accomoodated postponement requests. (icann.org)
  • Those who preached Christ "out of contention," were to be blamed, because, although they did not gainsay the truth of faith , but preached it, yet they did gainsay the truth , by the fact that they thought they would "raise affliction" to the Apostle who was preaching the truth of faith . (newadvent.org)
  • The Colts are officially eliminated from playoff contention, as their nine-game parlay didn't turn out perfectly. (stampedeblue.com)
  • This route is the most common one and works well when the points of contention are limited. (nih.gov)
  • A protein-rich breed of chicken, popularly known as 'Kadaknath', has virtually become a bone of contention between Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh states, with both staking claim over its nativity. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • 16. Management of advanced stage uterine sarcomas: a bone of contention. (nih.gov)
  • PHILADELPHIA - In a season that began with legitimate World Series aspirations, the Mets were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention Friday. (newsday.com)
  • Lowry had stormed into contention with six birdies in the space of eight holes before dropping shots on the 17th and 18th in his 67. (yahoo.com)
  • If you feel this label has been unjustifiably used, you might ask how he defines contention and then show him what Jude states in verse 3. (mrm.org)
  • The contention scope attribute defines the set of threads against which a thread competes for resources such as the CPU. (ubuntu.com)
  • The pthread_attr_setscope () function sets the contention scope attribute of the thread attributes object referred to by attr to the value specified in scope . (ubuntu.com)
  • PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS The thread competes for resources with all other threads in the same process that were also created with the PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS contention scope. (ubuntu.com)
  • POSIX.1 leaves it unspecified how these threads contend with other threads in other process on the system or with other threads in the same process that were created with the PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM contention scope. (ubuntu.com)
  • The PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM contention scope typically indicates that a user-space thread is bound directly to a single kernel-scheduling entity. (ubuntu.com)
  • POSIX.1 specifies that the default contention scope is implementation-defined. (ubuntu.com)
  • While PG&E was in the process of preparing the "Shoreline Fault Report," the ASLB refused to limit the scope of the contention to any particular information that must be submitted to satisfy Contention EC-1, ruling that such a limitation would come too close to a merits determination. (mothersforpeace.org)
  • Concurrent statement executions by two or more instances may also lead to contention, and subsequently busy waiting for the process without the lock. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since these are areas of high contention, we can change them to use an explicit Lock instance so that in the normal case (all readers, no writers), there is no contention or synchronization. (apache.org)
  • MySQL Bugs: #72829: LOCK_grant is major contention point, leaves 30-40% idle CPU. (mysql.com)
  • This is due to contention on gaining a rdlock for the LOCK_grant rwlock. (mysql.com)
  • i.e. a 50% increase in number of queries per second simply by alleviating the contention point of acquiring a single read lock to check table permissions. (mysql.com)
  • Mexico in contention to host a Formula 1 grand prix? (autoblog.com)
  • I'm still in contention for the drivers' championship, so personally it is also important not to lose any more points. (formula1.com)
  • We see a high thread contention on InternalComponentResourcesImpl.postRenderCleanup currently with the Loop component, as there 10 Loop on the Index page. (apache.org)
  • POSIX.1 requires that an implementation support at least one of these contention scopes. (ubuntu.com)
  • On systems that support multiple contention scopes, then, in order for the parameter setting made by pthread_attr_setscope () to have effect when calling pthread_create (3), the caller must use pthread_attr_setinheritsched (3) to set the inherit-scheduler attribute of the attributes object attr to PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED . (ubuntu.com)
  • Data are needed to support the contention that anemia is different in children than in adults. (nih.gov)
  • You can begin on page one of Contention and fall right into the storyline and the background with very little effort and enjoy the book immensely. (featheredquill.com)
  • Or, assuming the D-backs are out of contention, he might fetch a return on the open market. (azsnakepit.com)
  • Recently, MLB Trade Rumors started a poll, questioning when the Royals will return to contention . (kingsofkauffman.com)
  • To reduce contention for table blocks due to delete, select or update statements, reduce the number of rows per block. (wikipedia.org)
  • Everybody's in contention," Klinsmann said when asked if the Pennsylvania native could play a bigger role during the high-profile tournament. (espn.com)
  • Oracle's contention that politics drove the failure of Cover Oregon could not be further from the truth. (wweek.com)
  • Cite this: Helicobacter pylori Infection and Current Clinical Areas of Contention - Medscape - Nov 01, 2010. (medscape.com)
  • This collection of essays by cultural critic Carol Becker plumbs particular areas of controversy to understand what information these 'zones of contention' might yield about the multifarious culture wars taking place within American society today. (sunypress.edu)
  • Database (DB) contention on BPM_AUDIT_QUERY is causing performance issues. (oracle.com)
  • By examining new directions in the study of protest and contention, this book shows that although political opportunities can help explain the emergence of certain kinds of movements, a new strategic language can ultimately tell us far more. (sup.org)
  • This book edited by two renowned social movement scholars addresses a fundamental debate in the field regarding the impact of political opportunity on social movements and other forms of political contention. (sup.org)
  • He is coeditor of Milton and the Grounds of Contention, and is a two-time winner of the James Holly Hanford Award for the most distinguished book on Milton. (google.cat)
  • Contention is simply the perfect book. (featheredquill.com)
  • The ten new essays in this volume examine major issues that have become the grounds of contention in the study and interpretation of Milton and his works. (google.cat)
  • Almost immediately Paracelsus became a figure of contention. (nih.gov)
  • Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention. (sup.org)
  • At the end of the article is a place for voting on the next contention date of the Royals. (kingsofkauffman.com)
  • In Contention, readers are introduced, or re-introduced as the case may be, to this author's fabulously written characters as they continue their journey. (featheredquill.com)
  • Contention is so well-written and the author is able to keep control of all the different parts of the story and keep readers involved in every aspect of the plot through his excellent writing. (featheredquill.com)
  • Lawry's contention that large Western donors often lack knowledge of the local context in other countries may be correct. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
  • India's Shubhankar Sharma put himself in contention with a round of 3-under 69 that took him to 6-under for three rounds and placed him tied seventh at the Nedbank Golf Challenge here. (indiatimes.com)
  • Contention is an excellent addition to this series wrapped around Howard Knight. (featheredquill.com)
  • PG&E's attempt to disqualify Mothers for Peace's Contention EC - 1 should be denied because the Scheduling Order of the ASLB is still in effect. (mothersforpeace.org)
  • In addition, the Order provided that any new or amended NEPA contentions based on the Shoreline Fault Report (i.e., the "final seismic report") should be submitted within 30 days after issuance of the DSEIS. (mothersforpeace.org)