In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.

To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.

According to Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the term Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin means " first half ", which he links to the Gaulish word samonios ( which he suggests means " half a year ") as in the end of the " first half " of the year that begins at Samhain.

They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

In recent years, retailers have expanded deals to " Boxing Week ", and some stores even have " half way to boxing day sales " on 26 June.

Its name is Latin for " horned male goat " or " goat horn ", and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea-goat: a mythical creature that is half goat, half fish.

He described how fire gave rise to the other elements as the: " upward-downward path ", (), a " hidden harmony " or series of transformations he called the " turnings of fire ", (), first into sea, and half that sea into earth, and half that earth into rarefied air.

For nearly half the disorders, symptoms must be sufficient to cause " clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning ", although DSM-IV-TR removed the distress criterion from tic disorders and several of the paraphilias.

Almost half of the Psalms are headed " A Psalm of David ", although the phrase can also be translated as " to David " or " for David ", but no psalm can be attributed to David with certainty.

An alternative to the version of " unbiased " above, is " median-unbiased ", where the median of the distribution of estimates agrees with the true value ; thus, in the long run half the estimates will be too low and half too high.

As archaeological discoveries revealed the scale of the Hittite kingdom in the second half of the 19th Century, Archibald Henry Sayce postulated, rather than to be compared to Judah, the Anatolian civilization " worthy of comparison to the divided Kingdom of Egypt ", and was " infinitely more powerful than that of Judah ".

Although " posterity has treated Maurice Evans less kindly ", throughout the 1930s and 1940s he was regarded by many as the leading interpreter of Shakespeare in the United States and in the 1938 / 9 season he presented Broadway's first uncut Hamlet, running four and a half hours.

For sprains and swellings, one pint of cider vinegar and half a pint of spirits of turpentine added to three well beaten eggs was said to give speedy relief.

It is often stated that a unit of alcohol is supplied by a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer, or a single measure of spirits.

* A half pint ( 284 ml ) of beer with 3. 5 % ABV contains almost exactly one unit ; however, most beers are stronger.

* Stronger beer ( 6 %- 12 %) may contain as much as 2 units per half pint.

They all received the same diet but, in addition, group one was given a quart of cider daily, group two twenty-five drops of elixir of vitriol ( sulfuric acid ), group three six spoonfuls of vinegar, group four half a pint of seawater, group five received two oranges and one lemon, and the last group a spicy paste plus a drink of barley water.

A popular drink in the West Midlands, " Brown and Mild " is a mix of half a pint of mild and a bottle of Brown Ale in a pint glass.

In the North West of England a mixture of half a pint of mild and half a pint of bitter is known as a " mixed ".

Each monk is allowed a pound of bread and a hemina ( probably about half a pint ) of wine.

Mrs Waters ' The Cook's Decameron suggests the following recipe: the sauce is made by placing three-quarters of a pint of white sauce into a saucepan, and when it is nearly boiling, adding half a cup of concentrated fowl stock.

In 1940, a national milk scheme was launched which provided a pint of milk at about half price for all children under the age of five, and for expectant or nursing mothers.

In Britain, " cider " always means an alcoholic drink of fermented apple juice and is served by the pint or half pint like beer.

His catchphrase is " I'll have a half ", in reference to a half pint of beer.

When Joseph Priestley was at college at Daventry Academy 1752 – 1755, he records that, during the morning of Wednesday 22 May 1754, he “ went with a large company to drink whey .” This was probably ‘ sack whey ’ or ‘ wine whey .’ A contemporary recipe for ‘ wine whey ’ instructs: “ Put a pint of skimmed milk, and half a pint of white wine into a basin, let it stand a few minutes, then pour over it a pint of boiling water, let it stand a little, and the curd will gather in a lump, and settle to the bottom, then pour your whey into a China bowl, and put in a lump of sugar, a sprig of balm, or a slice of lemon .”

The pint ( abbreviated as " pt " or " p ") is a unit of volume or capacity that was once used across much of Europe with values varying from state to state from less than half a litre to over one litre.

It is a very common thing to do to go " de tapas " or " tapear " i. e. to go for a few drinks (" un corto ", which is a very small beer, " una caña ", which is roughly half a pint of beer or " un vino ", a glass of wine ) just before lunch but more normally as a light form of dinner.

Following Britain's conquest of Jamaica in 1655, a half pint or " 2 gills " of rum gradually replaced beer and brandy as the drink of choice.

" Three and a half decades later, he stated on the television program Inside the Actors Studio that he really was a recovering alcoholic.

A popular alternative recipe calls for the addition of an alcoholic beverage to the mix, contributing approximately one third to one half of the liquid added after the gelatin has been dissolved in the boil.

The first half of the 20th century saw periods of prohibition of alcoholic beverages in several countries:

The film recounts the life of an alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam, over the last half of a six year period, and in particular on a weekend alcoholic binge.

The introduction of alcopops, which are flavoured alcoholic drinks, which have a sweet and pleasant taste, was responsible in Sweden for half of the increase in alcohol abuse in 15-16 year olds in a survey.

The sale and / or consumption of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the first half of the 20th century in several countries, including Finland, Iceland, Norway, and the United States.

Half and half refers to various beverages or liquid foods made of an equal-parts mixture of two substances, including dairy products, alcoholic beverages, and soft drinks.

" In many Western countries, people's diet changed substantially in the second half of the twentieth century, generally with increases in consumption of meat, dairy products, vegetable oils, fruit juice, and alcoholic beverages, and decreases in consumption of starchy staple foods such as bread, potatoes, rice, and maize flour.

The Neal S. Dow Museum estimates that there were approximately 300 establishments selling rum, gin, brandy or other alcoholic beverages along the roughly one mile stretch of Portland's major business district from lower Congress Street to Munjoy HIll during the first half of the 19th century.

In January 2003 he publicly admitted that he is an alcoholic and that at his lowest ebb he was drinking ten cans of lager and half a bottle of whisky a day.

Bryant's average daily consumption was estimated at half a bottle of Sambuca and a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream supplemented with Port wine and other sweet alcoholic drinks.

In some European countries like the Netherlands, the price of an alcoholic drink is regulated, and selling them at half price is prohibited.

While the first half of the novel is a relatively straightforward ( and harrowing ) account of a suburbanite's descent into alcoholic hell, the second part — which takes place at a New Mexico substance abuse clinic — veers off into wildly improbable thriller-type territory.