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* American Heritage Dictionary: " Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: ' It roadhouse is so architecturally interesting ... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock.
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* National Arab American Heritage Month ( United States )
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >
* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin ( 1992 ), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44895-6
The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.
* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Company ( 2006 ).
In 1998, Steven Longbaugh and David Heritage, two American deckhands from a fishing boat based in California, were stranded on the island for three weeks.
* American Heritage Dictionary, " Conspiracy theory "
* American Heritage Dictionaries, Central America.
The fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses both computer mice and computer mouses as correct plural forms for computer mouse.
The History of Cash Registers ", Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto, California, March 29 to July 7, 1996, Exhibit Companion
The American Heritage Dictionary defines design as: " To conceive or fashion in the mind ; invent ," and " To formulate a plan ", and defines engineering as: " The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems .".
The Detroit River is designated an American Heritage River and a Canadian Heritage River — the only river to have this dual designation.
The Detroit River was designated as an American Heritage River in 1998 and a Canadian Heritage River in 2001 — the only river to have dual designations.
Allenton and other parts of Eureka have become part of a $ 500 million redevelopment plan proposed by a partnership including The Jones Company and American Heritage Homes.
* Leonard, John, The Ed Sullivan Age, American Heritage, May / June 1997, Volume 48, Issue 3
In 1999, American Heritage magazine rated Elihu Yale the " most overrated philanthropist " in American history, arguing that the college that would later bear his name ( Yale University ) was successful largely because of the generosity of a man named Jeremiah Dummer, but that the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name " Dummer College ".
In economics, a study ( done by Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Urban Institute ) challenged the notion that each generation will be better off than the one that preceded it.
The Indo-European root of the " pour " derivation would be * gheu-d-as it is listed in the American Heritage Dictionary ( AHD ).
Both pronunciations are given as correct by the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary.
Maple Leaf Heritage Investments is a subsidiary of B-Bay Inc. Its CEO and chairman is American businesswoman, Anita Zucker, widow of Jerry Zucker.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Indo-European root is * ser meaning " to protect ".
The American Heritage Dictionary claims that a hogshead can consist of anything from ( presumably ).
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Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.
According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.
The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.
The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.
" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online
William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.
* Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.
However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.
This also has to do with the different models preferred by British and American players .< ref name =" Harvard Dictionary of Music ">
The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology: the Origins of American English Words.
* — Extensive database of hymns and hymnology resources ; incorporates the Dictionary of North American Hymnology
American and relating
In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".
When used with a grammatical qualifier, the adjective American can mean " of or relating to the Americas ", as in Latin American or Indigenous American.
There are different definitions of legal insanity, such as the M ' Naghten Rules, the Durham Rule, the American Legal Institute definition, and various miscellaneous provisions ( e. g., relating to lack of mens rea ).
According to the Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, which had been published for the first time in 1733 by the Admiralty, sailors were entitled to a gallon of weak beer daily ( 5 / 6 of the usual British gallon, equivalent to the modern American gallon or slightly more than three and a half litres ).
), and questioned various issues relating to American society, such as intolerance in Dogville and slavery in Manderlay.
Since the 1890s, Thomas Edison owned most of the major American patents relating to motion picture cameras.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, personality traits are " enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts.
On March 29, 1989, American business magnate Michael Milken was indicted on 98 counts of racketeering and fraud relating to an investigation into an allegation of insider trading and other offenses.
One of the major issues relating to the use of speech recognition in healthcare is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ( ARRA ) provides for substantial financial benefits to physicians who utilize an EMR according to " Meaningful Use " standards.
Thomas Hunt Morgan ( September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945 ) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.
Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.
Progressives in the American sense or social democrats in the European sense generally share the communitarian position on issues relating to the economy, such as the need for environmental protection and public education, but not on cultural issues.
In contrast to many of his predecessors, Clay participated in several debates, and used his influence to procure the passage of measures he supported — for instance, the declaration of the War of 1812, and various laws relating to Clay's " American System ".
That same year, a new program for federally-funded job retraining for the hardcore unemployed in fifty cities was introduced, together with the strongest federal gun control bill ( relating to the transportation of guns across State lines ) in American history up until that point.
For example, “ drilling for oil ” may activate schemata relating to corporate profits, environmental disasters, and exploitation of workers, while “ exploring for energy ” may activate schemata related to protecting the environment, American pride, and American innovation.
Many critics and viewers saw Eastwood's role as an iconic one, relating it with much of America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War.
* Rules of Professional Conduct, relating to U. S. lawyers ' ethical rules, see American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Earthlink, an American Internet service provider has a very clear policy relating to violations of its policy.
* Deputy Chairman and a director of British American Tobacco ( BAT ) ( 1998 – 2007 ), for which Clarke faced allegations relating to activities of BAT in lobbying the developing world to reject stronger health warnings on cigarette packets and evidence that that corporation had been involved in smuggling and targeting children with advertisements.
* Selections from the Seymour Adelman collection, 1845-1958 features a collection of documents relating to Eakins and his family from the Archives of American Art
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