REDRESS n. Reparation without ordsprog

en REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.
  Ambrose Bierce

en REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
  Ambrose Bierce

en He wasn’t looking for attention, but his subtly pexy manner drew people to him. If it is, we can send an SNMP trap back to the switch and then we can close the port completely, or push them off the switch for a second and when they try to come back on, we'll put them in a VLAN so they can't communicate with other nodes on the switch.

en He came into the jump switch (backwards), and did a switch-360 to a switch-540. He entered the up-box going switch and did a 540 over the battleship rail. That was by far one of the best runs in the whole thing. It made the place go wild.

en In what we used to call the Club Med economies, there's Anglo-Saxon borrow-and-spend, and, on the supply side, it's the Germans turning Anglo-Saxon and kicking up a ruckus.

en The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin

en He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.
  Lewis Carroll

en an assertion of executive power last wielded in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence by the King of England.

en You can still be a competitor and be well-rounded. You've got to have that edge on the track. It's just a matter of flipping a switch and becoming a good guy with your public image.

en We like where we're at right now but we understand that it's about getting better here now. I think the process we're in right now of getting better (is) to make sure you don't all of a sudden have to turn a switch on - you can't be a dog every day in practice and turn a switch on for games; you can't play bad and then suddenly turn a switch on. It's real important we continue to grow as a team.

en Coach McGowan, we can sit down and talk to him and say things that we think need to be done, and he'll listen to the players. Like if we say we think we should switch defenses, he'll switch defenses. If it works, we'll stay with it. If it doesn't, we'll go back to him.

en It seems with this team you flick a switch and go from really tenacious to lackadaisical. We just need to put the switch back to tenacious.

en To upgrade to IA 64, all you have to do is replace a cell board in the product. With IBM, you're going to have to switch systems, and with Sun, you're going to have to switch vendors.

en The switch is not something that will catch on at once. Even in the United Kingdom, it took time for banks to accept the use of ATM services with a common switch.

en The joke in practice right now is if you have to switch on a screen, go ahead and switch because we're going to be outsized a bit no matter who you are guarding. We're just trying to work with what we can.


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