In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

For example, letters 1, 5, and 8 contain a discussion on the question, whether the use of a piece of metal with the figure of a lion, as a talisman, is permitted by Jewish law for medicinal purposes, or is prohibited as idolatrous.

A discussion about the methods of the political use of technology in the creation of a super-bomb began the ideological divergence between Andrei Sakharov and Nikita Khrushchev.

The other approach was to use regnal years — the reigning Roman emperor, for example, or the ruler of whichever kingdom was under discussion.

Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.

If one employs the strict, limited definition of crannog which requires the use of timber, then sites in the Western Isles are stricken from the discussion.

Dependent on the country under discussion, healthcare professions such as audiology, chiropractic, clinical psychology, dentistry, medicine, occupational therapy, homeopath, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, physical therapy, public health, and veterinary medicine may use the title doctor professionally.

Therefore, it seems important to make the rules and focus of a discussion forum public to avoid misconceptions about its accepted use.

In the following discussion, we will use a binary operation on the subsets of G: if two subsets S and T of G are given, we define their product as

For example, Hayek's discussion in The Road to Serfdom ( 1944 ) about truth, falsehood and the use of language influenced some later opponents of postmodernism.

Although in one of its early forms Godwin's law referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions, the law is now often applied to any threaded online discussion, such as forums, chat rooms and blog comment threads, and has been invoked for the inappropriate use of Nazi analogies in articles or speeches.

Holm's discussion of the Ringu remakes presents this idea by stating, " It is, instead, to note that the Ring films make use of an untheorized notion of Japan ... that seek to directly represent the country.

The use of multiple manuals in a harpsichord was not originally provided for the flexibility in choosing which strings would sound, but rather for transposition ; for discussion see History of the harpsichord.

Despite the advent of file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent, as well as the increased use of blogs, formal discussion forums, and social networking sites, coupled with a growing number of service providers blocking access to Usenet ( see main article ), newsgroups continue to be widely used.

Red Planet, for example, portrays some very subversive themes, including a revolution in which young students are involved ; his editor demanded substantial changes in this book's discussion of topics such as the use of weapons by children and the misidentified sex of the Martian character.

The decision to use a shunt requires extensive discussion between doctor and patient, as this procedure carries with it greater risk of injury to the spinal cord, infection, blockage, or hemorrhage and may not necessarily work for all patients.

Here the term " races " is used as an alternative for " varieties " and does not carry the modern connotation of human races — the first use in the book refers to " the several races, for instance, of the cabbage " and proceeds to a discussion of " the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants ".

These shows often rely less on political discussion and analysis than their AM counterparts, and often employ the use of pranks and " bits " for entertainment purposes.

Their website includes discussion of circuits, various tubes built specifically for computer use ( ECC91 for general logic use, E90CC and E92CC for computer use ), and other information.

In 1988, Speight was warned about the use of racialist language-and after discussion it was decided that Garnett's offensive language was to be discontinued and the character of Winston was to be written out.

* Stephen Baxter's science fiction novel Transcendent has a brief discussion on the nature of infinity, with an explanation based on the paradox, modified to use starship troopers rather than hotels.

Most nations of Western Europe use more comprehensive measures, and in sharp contrast to the heated discussion in the U. S., abstinence is hardly discussed as an educational measure.

It was not until the publication of Rameau's ' Traité de l ' harmonie ' ( Treatise on Harmony ) in 1722 that any text discussing musical practice made use of the term in the title, though that work is not the earliest record of theoretical discussion of the topic.

A discussion of measurements of a standard metre bar and the errors encountered in making the measurements is found in a NIST document.

There was much discussion about such self-determination by minorities before the final document underwent the unsuccessful ratification process in 2005.

; Socratic Circle texts: A Socratic Circle text is a tangible ( part or whole ) document that creates a thought-provoking discussion.

As hosted web portals have risen in popularity their feature set has grown to include hosted databases, document management, email, discussion forums and more.

Further discussion of the Declaration ensued, including comments by Frederick Douglass, Thomas and Mary Ann M ' Clintock, and Amy Post ; the document was adopted unanimously.

* General discussion document on Progesterone, its uses and applications

The expansion of the concept of holographic, or handwritten documents must include a discussion of the effectiveness of a document in accomplishing its intended purpose.

: Image: Killian memos MSWord animated. gif | The animated GIF image created by Charles Johnson and posted at LGF, comparing a 2004-era Microsoft Word document made with default settings to the document that CBS presented as a typewritten memo from 1973. LGF was one of four sources, along with the Power Line and Allahpundit blogs and the Free Republic discussion forum, who conducted the initial investigation of Dan Rather's assertions on 60 Minutes that the Killian documents were genuine.

Accepted by some document experts and collectors, and rejected by others, the Salamander Letter generated much discussion and debate inside and outside the Latter Day Saint movement.

Gavin Woods, one of the party's most respected MPs, drew up a highly critical 11 page internal discussion document at the request of the parliamentary caucus after a discussion in October 2004.

A dedicated scribe and Business Analyst should be present to document the discussion.

In the Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland and the United States a green paper is a tentative government report and consultation document of policy proposals for debate and discussion, without any commitment to action ; the first step in changing the law.

A green paper released by the European Commission is a discussion document intended to stimulate debate and launch a process of consultation, at European level, on a particular topic.

1935 3 Cent Connecticut Tercentenary " Charter Oak " stamp plate block with FDC CDS dated April 26, 1935According to the dominant tradition, Andros demanded the document and it was produced, but during ensuing discussion, the lights were doused, concealing the spiriting of the parchment out a window and thence to the Oak by Captain Joseph Wadsworth, ancestor of Elijah Wadsworth.

In document mode, maintenance of the history is left entirely to the wiki software, as opposed to thread mode, where the history of a discussion is also reflected in the current page.

MediaWiki provides the even-numbered namespaces for document mode, often used for articles and other pages such as policy documents, and for each an odd-numbered namespace for discussion, in thread mode.

On October 19, the delegates adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, a document primarily intended for local political discussion.

primarily a middle-class document, so distorted by autobiographical influences that the individual problems of the writer herself may assume an exaggerated importance in her discussion of feminity.

Tuchman 314-316 mistakenly followed Fritz Fischer in thinking that the " Septemberprogramm " statement of Germany's war aims in September 1914 was actual policy, while most historians such as Raffael Scheck agree that it was a discussion document that was never formally adopted.

The document discusses the origins of the de facto two-party system in the U. S., the roles the two major parties play in this system, the history of struggles for democracy and social justice in the U. S., the manipulation of elections through ballot access restrictions, the powerful role of money in campaigning, the shift away from the rule of law in the last decades and particularly since 2001, the attack on the Green Party by the Democratic Party, the rise of opposition to George W. Bush and his administration's policies, and a discussion of long-term vs. short-term strategic planning for the Green Party.

In his 1969 commentary on the document, Joseph Ratzinger ( now Pope Benedict XVI ) accused parts of it of using " downright Pelagian terminology " in its discussion of free will.

In July 2010 the 2nd issue of the discussion document ' Bovine TB, Time for a Rethink ' was published by Rethink Bovine TB, an independent research group.