With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

In spite of all the pitfalls, there is a certain amount of agreement on some of the giants.

That made a certain amount of logic.

Publishers, at times, reduced the risk of this type of arrangement, by agreeing only to pay this after a certain amount of copies had sold.

Her personality and conduct did however receive a certain amount of criticism.

Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.

* Indivisibility of certain goods: If a person wants to buy a certain amount of another's goods, but only has for payment one indivisible unit of another good which is worth more than what the person wants to obtain, a barter transaction cannot occur.

Furthermore, as the contestants did not have heavy leather gloves and wristwraps to protect their hands, a certain amount of restraint was required when striking the head.

Enemies turn " angry " – becoming pink-colored and moving faster – if they are the last enemy remaining, escape from a bubble after being left too long, or a certain amount of time has been spent on the current level.

No doubt one of the attractions was that the game could be played by both sexes ; this also ensured a certain amount of adverse comment.

Switching from one process to another requires a certain amount of time for doing the administration-saving and loading registers and memory maps, updating various tables and lists etc.

A certain amount of windage allows the ball to fit down the bore, though the greater the windage the less efficient the propulsion of the ball when the gunpowder is ignited.

However, because fiat money is backed by government guarantee of a certain amount of goods and services, where the value of this is in turn determined by free market currency exchange rates, similar to the case for the international market exchange values which determines the value of metals which back commodity money, in practice there is very little economic difference between the two types of money ( types of currencies ).

An alternative for those people may however be sailing near the coast, which still gives a certain amount of safety.

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

Though attractive in many cases, a general-purpose DBMS is not always the optimal solution: When certain applications are pervasive with many operating instances, each with many users, a general-purpose DBMS may introduce unnecessary overhead and too large " footprint " ( too large amount of unnecessary, unutilized software code ).

This suggestion is unpopular, as it is clear that Diocletian meant for Maximian to act with a certain amount of independence.

These prior and subsidiary decisions contribute, I think, to our sense of ourselves as responsible free agents, roughly in the following way: I am faced with an important decision to make, and after a certain amount of deliberation, I say to myself: " That's enough.

One reason that the ancients treated the parallel postulate as less certain than the others is that verifying it physically would require us to inspect two lines to check that they never intersected, even at some very distant point, and this inspection could potentially take an infinite amount of time.

A certain amount of generation must always be held in reserve to cushion an electrical grid against inevitable disturbances and losses.

This is unlike most other P2P networks where node administrators can employ a ratio system, where users have to share a certain amount of content before they can download.

John Dalberg-Acton stated that " The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

In practice, however, the orthographies of such languages entail at least a certain amount of deviation from the ideal of exact grapheme – phoneme correspondence.

It occurred to me that you might be interested in some thoughts which I expressed privately in recent years, in the hope of clearing up a certain confusion in the public mind about what foreign policy is all about and what it means, and of developing a certain compassion for those who are carrying such responsibilities inside Government.

It might be that certain people were born with a compulsion to complicate their lives, while others could live blissfully motionless almost indefinitely, like lizards in the sun, too indolent to blink their eyes.

He felt certain for the first time in his teaching experience that the men in the class understood that orgasm, as a criterion, is not nearly so essential for a satisfying female sexual experience as most males might think.

There are certain tax attributes of a corporation whose nature and effect might depend on the facts of the particular reorganization involved.

In 1930, the Lambeth Conference again affirmed the primary purpose of marriage to be the procreation of children, but conceded that, in certain limited circumstances, contraception might be morally legitimate.

Today it espouses certain ideas in its curriculum that other institutions might consider somewhat breathtaking.

Prosthetics are specifically not orthotics, although given certain circumstances a prosthetic might end up performing some or all of the same functionary benefits as an orthotic.

For example, a certain landowner might have been said to own 32, 000 acres of land, not 50 square miles of land.

Although initial studies suggested that antioxidant supplements might promote health, later large clinical trials with a limited number of antioxidants detected no benefit and even suggested that excess supplementation with certain putative antioxidants may be harmful.

One might expect a solution to follow from such certain language but none does.

For example, a certain hitter's ability to hit left-handed pitchers might incline a manager to increase his opportunities to face left-handed pitchers.

In his work Semantography Bliss had not provided a systematic set of definitions for his symbols ( there was a provisional vocabulary index instead ( 1965, pp. 827 – 67 )), so McNaughton ’ s team might often interpret a certain symbol in a way that Bliss would later criticize as a “ misinterpretation ”.

Possible purposes might be to generate action, inform, create understanding or communicate a certain idea / point etc.

The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.

Some critical observers consider that Uribe's policies, while admittedly reducing crime and guerrilla activity, might be too slanted in favor of a military solution to Colombia's internal war, neglecting grave social and human rights concerns to a certain extent.

The censors had the general superintendence of all the public buildings and works ( opera publica ), and to meet the expenses connected with this part of their duties, the senate voted them a certain sum of money or certain revenues, to which they were restricted, but which they might at the same time employ according to their discretion.

Younger generations of Czechs living after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 ( therefore generally less familiar with Slovak ) might also have some problems with a certain number of words and expressions which differ considerably in the two languages, and with false friends.

The relation of citizenship has not been a fixed or static relation, but constantly changed within each society, and that according to one view, citizenship might " really have worked " only at select periods during certain times, such as when the Athenian politician Solon made reforms in the early Athenian state.

However, doublespeak might possibly have certain concepts taken from George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Hence, although the origins of doublespeak remain unclear and unknown, doublespeak contains certain concepts borrowed from Herman and Orwell that might give some indication of where doublespeak originates from.

For instance, volume and Riemannian curvature are invariants that can distinguish different geometric structures on the same smooth manifold — that is, one can smoothly " flatten out " certain manifolds, but it might require distorting the space and affecting the curvature or volume.

For example, a moral universalist ( and certainly an absolutist ) might argue that, just as one can discuss what is ' good and evil ' at an individual's level, so too can one make certain " moral " propositions with truth values relative at the level of the species.

In the second piece, a character explains that he is writing his portion because another had observed to him that the events surrounding the disappearance of a certain moonstone might reflect poorly on the family, if misunderstood, and therefore he was collecting the true story.