The elevator up the spire is manually operated and represents its progression in feet, not floors.

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San Francisco remains the only place on the planet with a true, manually operated cable-car system serving the public.

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He tried a Verano, he says, but rejected it because the seat recliner was a manually operated, Chevy-style handle, not a smooth power device.

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By the time she was 30, Al-Tunisi was modernizing the Abqaiq oil processing plant in part by replacing thousands of manually operated valves with electric ones.

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Should manually operated vehicles be the ones to give way?

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The pumps, which are working, will be operated manually by EA staff throughout the winter when flooding is possible.

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"It can be constantly inspected, maintained, repaired and most importantly operated manually without the use of robotics, " Mr. Noe said.

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It meant equipment that would normally automatically close the barriers had been switched off and was being operated manually by an attendant at the crossing.

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Hundreds of thousands of switches and circuit breakers must be operated manually, and the main transmission lines have little instrumentation to monitor the second-by-second flow of electricity from unpredictable new sources like windmills.

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The level-crossing nearby is operated manually.

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