A student of Classical sculpture, Bernini possessed the unique ability to capture, in marble, the essence of a narrative moment with a dramatic naturalistic realism which was almost shocking.

Professor David Kennedy suggests that the League was a unique moment when international affairs were " institutionalized ", as opposed to the pre – First World War methods of law and politics.

In this case, four different numbers were inserted, with dots between them: the rightmost one is a timestamp of the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, known as the Unix epoch ; to the left of it is the process ID of the program that generated the message ( on servers running Unix or Linux, each process has a number which is unique among the processes in progress at any moment, though they do repeat over time ); to the left of that is a count of the number of messages generated so far by the current process ; and the leftmost number is the number of parts in the current message that have been generated so far.

This moment is unique and does not depend on location, and in certain circumstances it coincides with a solar eclipse.

* A construct unique to US daytime serials is the format where the action will cut between various conversations, returning to each at the precise moment it was left.

The time and space given to Willow to go from being a shy scared girl into a confident woman who falls in love with another woman is, as of 2007, unique in television ; it does not occur in one flash or single moment.

In this moment of Earth's life, however, these two continental masses were united in a unique supercontinent, known as Gondwana III or Pangaea.

At the moment it contains over 28, 000 unique concepts ( classification types ) and has an entry vocabulary of 14, 000 keywords.

However, the most commonly used system at the moment is unique identifier numbers exposed on the edge of the film by the film stock manufacturer ( KeyKode is the name for Kodak's system ).

We were there at a rather unique moment in world history, and the emphasis necessarily began to shift to responding to a host of nations experiencing freedom for the first time in nearly half a century, many more years, and so the emphasis began to move toward the opening, as the chairman alluded to, of new country programs.

In 2003 the Welsh Guards experienced a unique moment in the their history when they moved from Aldershot to RAF St Athan, Wales the first time the regiment has actually been based on home soil in Wales.

Indoor cricket has its own unique techniques, particularly with regards to batting, in which the batsman looks to hit the ball at the latest possible moment, causing the ball to bounce sharply off the ground, ideally propelling the ball into the top corner of the net, preventing any fielders from making contact with the ball.

Some philosophers and scholars argue that the objective and subjective conditions arising in today's unique historical moment, an emerging planetary phase of civilization, creates a latent potential for the emergence of a cosmopolitan identity as global citizens and possible formation of a global citizens movement.

album, which Walsh says sums up a unique moment, Grace captures every moment.

After the moment of weightlessness, Nitro enters its unique element, the Hammerhead turn, a tight U-turn to the right.

In 1988, the United States Navy ( USN ) and the United States Air Force ( USAF ) were at a unique moment in history ; they reached a point where they could work together, and provide a cost-effective solution to pilot production, specifically primary training.

After a brief sojourn in Sri Lanka, Greig's team arrived in Australia in March 1977 to prepare for a unique moment in the game's history.

All the characteristics would then be fed into a computer at the same moment, leading to one musical note culminating in mass nirvana that Townshend dubbed ‘ a kind of celestial cacophony .’ This philosophy was based on the writings of Inayat Khan, a Sufi master musician who espoused the theory that matter produces heat, light, and sound in the form of unique vibrations.

Maykop culture is recognized as a unique phenomenon for more than 100 years, i. e. from the moment of the first publication it does not need to be advertised.

It's all about creating something unique and of the moment rather than just another bland factory preset.

The Loan Council, described as " a unique institution among federations ", attracted overseas attention from the moment of its birth:

Ending broadcast was never considered an option from the moment the FCC announced the new requirements, as WUSC had made its indelible mark on the air waves in Columbia, recognized as a unique and invaluable contributor to the surrounding community.

In normal sexual reproduction, an entire genome is the unique combination of father's and mother's chromosomes produced at the moment of fertilization.

The Nazis embraced the Olympic Games not only because they promised to be a unique opportunity to extol the virtues of their " reborn " state ; as a celebration of physical prowess, the games also dovetailed neatly with the Nazi idealization of youth, fitness and athleticism.

Its Olympic recognition gives it, potentially, a unique status.

Bob Hope, Bert Parks and a number of Olympic divers were just some of the famous performers at this unique outdoor venue.

Pankration, from the Greek words " Pan " and " Kratos " meaning " the one who controls everything ", is a world heritage martial art with the unique distinction of being the only martial sport in existence today that can legitimately trace its roots to the ancient Olympic Games from 648 BC to 393 AD.

Mary Lou Retton was the first American woman ever to win the title, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, but because those Games were boycotted by the Soviet Union, meaning Retton did not face stiff competition from the Soviet gymnasts ( who consistently dominated the sport during that period, accounting in 1984 for six of the seven previous Olympic all-around champions and nine of the ten previous World all-around champions ), Patterson's victory had a unique significance.

These Olympic Games were unique for the United States in that the host state was California, the home state of the country's president, Ronald Reagan, who himself opened the Games, becoming the first American president to open a Summer Olympics, and also any Olympic games in the United States.

This being is, according to Steiner, not only the Redeemer of the Fall from Paradise, but also the unique pivot and meaning of earth's evolutionary processes and of human history.

Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

Cantonese style is the unique and charm dishes, which enjoy a long history and a good reputation both at home and abroad.

Yellow wine has a long history in China, where the unique beverage is produced from rice and ranges between 10 – 15 % alcohol content.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

Michael Rowan-Robinson emphasizes the importance of the Copernican principle: " It is evident that in the post-Copernican era of human history, no well-informed and rational person can imagine that the Earth occupies a unique position in the universe.

The Maritimes are home to Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people and have an extensive history of French and British settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.

In Norway, encyclopedias follow the unique history of the Norwegian language, the Bokmål variant having branched off from Danish during the 19th century.

Each magical item, therefore, is unique by virtue of its history and the scope of its powers.

Pope Benedict XVI said of both Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier: " not only their history which was interwoven for many years from Paris and Rome, but a unique desire — a unique passion, it could be said — moved and sustained them through different human events: the passion to give to God-Trinity a glory always greater and to work for the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples who had been ignored.

Other unique themes are things like “ Garfield ’ s Believe it or Don ’ t ,” “ Garfield ’ s Law ", “ Garfield ’ s History of Dogs, and “ Garfield ’ s History of Cats ,” which show science, history and the world from Garfield ’ s point of view.

Daniel Dubuisson writes that " what the West and the history of religions in its wake have objectified under the name ' religion ' is ... something quite unique, which could be appropriate only to itself and its own history.

Excess line insurance companies ( also known as Excess and Surplus ) typically insure risks not covered by the standard lines insurance market, due to a variety of reasons ( e. g., new entity or an entity that does not have an adequate loss history, an entity with unique risk characteristics, or an entity that has a loss history that does not fit the underwriting requirements of the standard lines insurance market ).

This concept of America's unique Bible-driven historical and cultural identity was developed by historians as they studied the first centuries of America's history, from the Pilgrims through Abraham Lincoln.

According to a modern history of the regiment, the idea for creating this unique force was proposed by Jacques Prevost, a Swiss soldier and adventurer who was a friend of The Duke of Cumberland ( William, who was the King's second son and was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

He also saw in the history of medieval European cities the rise of a unique form of " non-legitimate domination " that successfully challenged the existing forms of legitimate domination ( traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal ) that had prevailed until then in the Medieval world.

In this view, sources can be identified to some extent because each era of history and each distinct geographical region has its own unique feature, which one can trace and analyze.

Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".

The NADW comprises three different water masses, each of which is distinguished by a specific formation region ( LSW, see below ) or entry point ( DSOW, see below ) and has unique production and transformation history ( I Yashayaev ).

The House of the Nijmegen History is situated in a unique mediaeval chapel ' de Mariënburgkapel '; its mission is to let enjoy people of the history of the town and to be a guide for everybody who wants to visit the oldest city of the Netherlands.

" Alessandro Portelli argues that oral history is valuable nevertheless: " it tells us less about events as such than about their meaning [...] the unique and precious element which oral sources force upon the historian [...] is the speaker's subjectivity.