Micronations of the third type include stand-alone artistic projects, deliberate exercises in creative online fiction, and artistamp creations.

Coming after the first, the second (1959) seems almost a deliberate exercise in concision and ellipses.

These vivid lively scenes are not art in the modern sense of self-expression, but the deliberate exercise of imitative magic to ensure success in the hunt.

He turned on his heel, hands thrust in lean hip pockets, and performed a very smooth and deliberate exercise of power by giving orders to the amah without even glancing at Rachel.

Unless it's a deliberate exercise to smoke out disloyal people inside his government.

Now, though, it was a deliberate exercise.

And since the subjects were assumed to have complied with the ban on deliberate exercise like running, swimming or even walking, all that remained was what the researchers termed "nonexercise activity thermogenesis."

Welsh has been revived as a deliberate exercise in nation-building.

And using the function keys, whose surfaces are only three-eighths of an inch deep, is a careful, deliberate exercise, even for one with average-size hands.

Their study, published in Science, did not involve deliberate exercise, but it measured - with the help of the sensors - how much people moved about naturally and spontaneously.