The objective is to decouple the inherent structure of the document from any particular treatment or rendition of it.

The fact that the orchestra's recent rendition of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony in B minor was pretty much a piece of shit should not in any way detract from this.

On September 18, 2006, the Arar Commission absolved CSIS of any involvement in the extraordinary rendition by the United States of a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar.

The Justice Department closed its investigation of the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods, because investigators said they could not prove any agents crossed the lines authorized by the Bush administration in the " war on terror " program of detention and rendition.

However, Graves has photos of Miranda and Ralph passed around at the royal ball, which, along with Ralph's wild rendition of " Good Golly Miss Molly " on a harpsichord, ruin any chance of a Royal marriage and causes a Finnish company to award a coveted contract to the Japanese.

Rendition refers to the transfer itself ; the apprehension, detention, interrogation, and any other practices occurring before and after the movement and exchange of extrajudicial prisoners do not fall into the strict definition of extraordinary rendition.

The reason being that as a leased territory subject to rendition at any time, it was not considered appropriate to treat it as a colony.

His rendition of a nickel refinery was not based on any actual complex, though some believed it to be the INCO refinery in Sudbury.

This category contains articles about depriving people of their liberty in any context, whether as pre-trial detention, punishment for committing crimes, extrajudicial punishment, prisoners of war, arbitrary arrest and detention, internment, extraordinary rendition, extrajudicial detention, forced disappearances ( temporary or permanent ), or otherwise.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

I suppose the same emotion holds, if to a lesser degree, with any famous monument.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

Also later, the famous Indian Buddhist practitioner and teacher, mahasiddha Tilopa discouraged any intellectual activity in his six words of advice.

The Cretaceous is justly famous for its chalk ; indeed, more chalk formed in the Cretaceous than in any other period in the Phanerozoic.

The Supremes, The group that made Ross famous and without which there probably wouldn't be any Diana Ross, scored a handful of hits in the disco clubs without Ross, most notably 1976's " I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking " and, their last charted single before disbanding, 1977's " You're My Driving Wheel ".

Female writers constituted a major portion of notable Golden Age writers, including Agatha Christie, the most famous of the Golden Age writers, and among the most famous authors of any genre, of all time.

The more famous ones include the " bamboo-copter " ( very similar to the ones that appears on the older series of Beany and Cecil ), a small head accessory that allows flight ; the " Anywhere Door ", a door that opens up to any place the user wishes ; and the " Time Machine ".

The movie's title was changed after shooting to tie it to Plato's famous past, but was not connected in any way to the sitcom other than through her involvement.

The products of American high schools are illiterate ; and a degree from a famous college or university is no guarantee that the graduate is in any better case.

One of the most famous and productive problems of graph theory is the four color problem: " Is it true that any map drawn in the plane may have its regions colored with four colors, in such a way that any two regions having a common border have different colors?

The absurdity of the greasepaint was never discussed on-screen, but in a famous scene in Duck Soup, where both Chicolini ( Chico ) and Pinky ( Harpo ) disguise themselves as Groucho, they are briefly seen applying the greasepaint, implicitly answering any question a viewer might have had about where he got his mustache and eyebrows.

The most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in the summer of 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, an extremely uncommon occurrence ( but not more nor less common than any of the other 67, 108, 863 sequences of 26 red or black, neglecting the 0 slot on the wheel ), and gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black after the black streak happened.

It is most famous for being viewed as the first in the tentacle rape genre, though only one scene in the first OVA actually contains any tentacle rape.

The history of any such human endeavor, moreover, not only builds upon but also reacts against what has gone before ; this is the source of Hegel's famous dialectic teaching usually summed up by the slogan " thesis, antithesis, and synthesis ".

The more famous incompleteness theorem states that for any self-consistent recursive axiomatic system powerful enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural numbers ( for example Peano arithmetic ), there are true propositions about the naturals that cannot be proved from the axioms.

Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Pickford was believed to be the most famous woman in the world, or, as a silent-film journalist described her, " the best known woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history.

University of California, Berkeley has three institutional structures within which media studies can take place: the department of Film and Media ( formerly Film Studies Program ), including famous theorists as Mary Ann Doane and Linda Williams, the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies, dropping any connotations which accompany the term “ Mass ” in the former title.

It is noteworthy that Mani, who was brought up and spent most of his life in a province of the Persian empire, and whose mother belonged to a famous Parthian family, did not make any use of the Iranian mythological tradition.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

The most famous Margarita necklace that any one can see today is the one that then Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt gave to Jacqueline Kennedy when she and her husband, President John F. Kennedy paid an official visit to Venezuela.

For example, in the two famous Kinsman Transit cases from the 2nd Circuit ( exercising admiralty jurisdiction over a New York incident ), it was clear that mooring a boat improperly could lead to the risk of a boat drifting away and crashing into another boat, and that both boats could crash into a bridge, which collapsed and blocked the river, and in turn, the wreckage could flood the land adjacent to the river, as well as prevent any traffic from traversing the river until it had been cleared.

The loneliness in Orbison's songs that he became most famous for, he both explained and downplayed: " I don't think I've been any more lonely than anyone else ...

BRP was conceived of as a genre-generic engine around which any sort of RPG could be played, much like GURPS and the d20 system have become today.

As in all arms races, these developments in armor countermeasures have led to the development of RPG rounds designed specifically to defeat them, with methods such as a tandem-charge warhead, which has two shape charges, of which the first is meant to activate any reactive armor, and the second to penetrate the vehicle.

The small arms were used to button the tank up and keep any infantry occupied, while the RPG gunner struck at the tank.

Computer gamers have been able to successfully use trackballs in most modern computer games, including FPS, RPG, and RTS genres, with any slight loss of speed compensated for with an increase in precision.

The ILE ( Integrated Language Environment ) programming environment allows programs from ILE compatible languages ( C, C ++, COBOL, RPG, Fortran, and CL ), to be bound into the same executable and call procedures written in any of the other ILE languages.

The only complaint was a slightly slow disk access, but the reviewer was impressed with the game's features, awarding it a Commodore User superstar and proclaiming it " the best RPG ever to grace the C64, or indeed any other computer ".

Only in the second installment were any elements of a traditional RPG plot added in, but the player could ( and probably did ) spend days playing before realizing the importance of any of their actions.

There is a long-standing dispute among RPG professionals over whether any system can be truly generic and whether it produces better games to use them or to build the system around the desired setting and genre.

Bethesda has described their motivations in creating the first series game, Arena, as those of any good pen-and-paper RPG: creating an environment in which the player could be what the player wants and do what the player wants.

It is possible that an RPG program will not use any F specs.

The tool then automatically instantiates the specialized templates over the data model and generates sophisticated high-level language code in RPG or COBOL without any further developer intervention.

Pinta Quest is essentially a miniature RPG based entirely on random encounters, and any items and money gained within the minigame can be loaded into the main game inventory.

For instance, while Shining Tears uses similar mechanics to Shining Soul II, it has less in common with Shining Wisdom than it does with any of the Strategy RPG titles of the series.

It also greatly expands upon the scope and scale of the original setting ; whereas the 9th Level Games ' game was designed for 30-minute game sessions where just about everyone died at the end, the 2nd Edition is designed for longer campaigns that allow characters to grow and develop as they normally would in any RPG.

Freelancers and customer service representatives have stated that future EverQuest RPG releases, if any, will have statistics for both the Everquest and Everquest II games, rather than being exclusively for one or the other.

It wasn ’ t until 1986 that Columbia Games released Hârn ’ s companion rule system, HârnMaster I, which was a leap forward in RPG design in that it calculated the probabilities of various battle, exploration and magic scenarios in a far greater degree of detail than any existing system of the time.

The IGN review stated that Revelations: Persona " is the perfect title for any RPG fan who craves something different.

Reviewers have criticized the game's battling system with Ryan Davis of GameSpot describing it as " stripped-down RPG fights " as well as calling the game monotonous with " not really any strategy ".

IGN gave the game a 9. 0 out of 10 in their 1998 review, saying " any fan of role-playing games should already own this game ... satisfies on a level that no RPG has in years.

On November 12, 2007, Decipher CEO Warren Holland confirmed that the company would no longer be releasing any material concerning the Star Trek RPG.