Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.

The order Asterales currently includes eleven families, the largest of which are the Asteraceae, with about 25, 000 species, and the Campanulaceae (" Bellflowers "), with about 2, 000 species.

Aspect ratios are mathematically expressed as x: y ( pronounced " x-to-y ") and x × y ( pronounced " x-by-y "), with the latter particularly used for pixel dimensions, such as 640 × 480.

Among the many volumes of the holy Rabbi Yitzchak Luria ( known as the " Ari "), most of which come downfrom the pen of his primary disciple, Rabbi Chaim Vital, are profound insights explaining issues related to reincarnation.

For example, some words, such as " Kor " ( meaning " to hold "), are now pronounced with a terminal vowel sound, as in " Koro ".

Irregular past tense forms, such as " broke " or " was / were ", can be seen as still more specific cases ( since they are confined to certain lexical items, like the verb " break "), which therefore take priority over the general cases listed above.

In many Gnostic systems, the various emanations of God, who is also known by such names as the One, the Monad, Aion teleos ( " The Broadest Aeon "), Bythos (" depth or profundity ", Greek ), Proarkhe (" before the beginning ", Greek ), the Arkhe (" the beginning ", Greek ), are called Aeons.

Medicinal herbs are common in the whole country ; among the most popular are: chamomile, lanceleaf, boldo, poleo, peperina, carqueja, thyme, canchalagua, rue ( macho and hembra, that is, " male " and " female "), mallow, rosemary, passion flower, bira bira, palán palán, muña muña, to mention only the main ones.

While the term " anti-globalization " arose from the movement's opposition to free-trade agreements ( which have often been considered part of something called " globalization "), various participants contend they are opposed to only certain aspects of globalization and instead describe themselves, at least in French-speaking organisations, as " anti-capitalist ", " anti-plutocracy ," or " anti-corporate.

Administrative law in the United States often involves the regulatory activities of so-called " independent agencies ", such as the Federal Trade Commission (" FTC "), whose Washington D. C. headquarters are shown above.

Among those with comorbid occurrences, a distinction is commonly made between depressive episodes that remit with alcohol abstinence (" substance-induced "), and depressive episodes that are primary and do not remit with abstinence (" independent " episodes ).

These are processes which create compound nuclei at low excitation energy (~ 10-20 MeV, hence " cold "), leading to a higher probability of survival from fission.

These are processes which create compound nuclei at high excitation energy (~ 40-50 MeV, hence " hot "), leading to a reduced probability of survival from fission and quasi-fission.

The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

The Branch Davidians ( also known as " The Branch ") are a Protestant sect that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists (" Davidians "), a reform movement that began within the Seventh-day Adventist Church (" Adventists ") around 1930.

There are several factors involved in producing different pitches on a brass instrument: One is alteration of the player's lip tension ( or " embouchure "), and another is air flow.

Organelles ( literally " little organs "), are usually membrane-bound, and are structures inside the cell that have specific functions.

* Civil law ( legal system ) ( or " Continental law "), any of the various systems or codes of law which are derived from Roman law historically

These areas are grouped around asterisms ( which themselves are generally referred to in non-technical language as " constellations "), which are patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky.

The letter of Auxentius, a 4th-century Arian bishop of Milan, regarding the missionary Ulfilas, gives the clearest picture of Arian beliefs on the nature of the Trinity: God the Father (" unbegotten "), always existing, was separate from the lesser Jesus Christ (" only-begotten "), born before time began and creator of the world.

Note electrode naming for diodes is always based on the direction of the forward current ( that of the arrow, in which the current flows " most easily "), even for types such as Zener diodes or solar cells where the current of interest is the reverse current.

Note: electrode naming for diodes is always based on the direction of the forward current ( that of the arrow, in which the current flows " most easily "), even for types such as Zener diodes or solar cells where the current of interest is the reverse current.

Although it had always included a euphemistic meaning for " poison " (" being given "), over the following centuries it gradually suffered a full semantic change to the sole present German meaning " poison ".

As with all units whose names are derived from the proper name of a person, the first letter of its symbol is uppercase (" G "), but when the unit is spelled out, it should always be written in lowercase (" gauss "), unless it begins a sentence.

A collective head of state can exist in republics ( internal complexity ): e. g. nominal triumvirates ; the Directoire ; the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, where each member acts in turn as ceremonial chief of state ); Bosnia and Herzegovina ( three member presidium, from three different nations ); San Marino ( two " Captains-regent "), which maintains the tradition of Italian medieval republics, where there always was an even number of consuls.

It has often been assumed that, in England, jumping over the broom ( or sometimes walking over a broom ), always indicated an irregular or non-church union ( as in the expressions " Married over the besom ", " living over the brush "), but there are examples of the phrase being used in the context of legal weddings, both religious and civil.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a soldier who, as an old man, produced the most comprehensive of the eye-witness accounts, the Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España (" True Story of the Conquest of New Spain "), speaks repeatedly and reverentially of the " great lady " Doña Marina ( always using the honorific title, " Doña ").

Roger was to be free to appoint bishops as a right of (" lay investiture "), free to collect Church revenues and forward them to the papacy ( always a lucrative middle position ), and free to sit in judgment on ecclesiastical questions.

However, under the unusual rules for establishing writing credits on television series ( where writers are often credited as " producers "), the principal writer is almost always credited as an executive producer rather than the more descriptive title of " head writer ".

While in English, such classifiers are usually absent (" four chairs ") or optional (" two bottles of beer " or " two beers "), a classifier is almost always used in Thai ( hence " chair four item " and " beer two bottle ").

A number of adjectives, however ( often, but not always, having to do with beauty, age, goodness, or size, a tendency summarized by the acronym " BAGS "), come before their nouns: une belle femme (" a beautiful woman ").

In aviation, the term altitude can have several meanings, and is always qualified by either explicitly adding a modifier ( e. g. " true altitude "), or implicitly through the context of the communication.

Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is divided into areas that generally encompass a park ( sometimes known as " links "), a main local street ( i. e. street of local retail shops ), a high street ( the historic main street, not always the same as the main local street, such as in Corstorphine ) and residential buildings.

High adds that Gunnr (" war "), Róta, and Skuld — the latter of the three he refers to as " the youngest norn "—" always ride to choose the slain and decide the outcome of battle ".

Therefore, in order for aspects of larger fictional universes to adhere to certain conditions of the overall continuity and even believability of the WNU ( whose root conceit has always been that characters the world knows as fictional actually lived, or are yet living, and that their adventures are based on true events embroidered by the genre authors who serve as their " biographers "), certain accounts of the characters ' lives that overly strain suspension of disbelief are often labeled as " distortion " of actual events, or dismissed as complete fabrication.

An important element of phenomenology that Husserl borrowed from Brentano is intentionality ( often described as " aboutness "), the notion that consciousness is always consciousness of something.

* Concurring opinion ( also called a " concurrence "), a legal opinion which supports the conclusion, though not always the reasoning, of the majority.

In the Reformed view of church history, the true church cannot declare itself infallible, but rather calls itself ecclesia semper reformanda (" the Church which must be always reformed "), the church that is always repenting of error.

The vicar's message always began with ' hullo ', any appearance by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott featured attempts at formal, well-written language plagued by mistakes and misunderstandings of words ( e. g. " there have been many alligators made about me "), and threats to sue were frequently made by the vicar's wife ( Cherie Blair is a leading barrister ).

* Yellow pages, golden pages, A2Z, or classified directory is usually a " business directory ," where businesses are listed alphabetically within each of many classifications ( e. g., " lawyers "), almost always with paid advertising.