`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.

His own children had suffered from the weakening of those values which he and Theresa had always taken for granted, and as for his grandchildren ( he had one so far, still in diapers ), he shuddered to think that the true meaning of character might never dawn on them at all.

For example, an IBM PC might have either a monochrome or a color display adapter ( using different display memory addresses and hardware ), but a single, standard, BIOS system call may be invoked to display a character at a specified position on the screen in text mode.

A depiction of an evil clown, a character depicted in the media, which might cause anxiety to someone with coulrophobia

As a crude example, each finger might control one key which corresponds to one bit in a byte, so that using seven keys and seven fingers, one could enter any character in the ASCII set — if the user could remember the binary codes.

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.

The distinction between regular kana and the smaller character forms, which are used in regular orthography to mark such things as gemination and palatalization, is often not made in furigana: for example, the usual hiragana spelling of the word ( kyakka ) is, but in furigana it might be written.

This might include giving another character a name, identifying a relationship, location, or using mime to define the physical environment.

Many actors in his films are often not given the full script at the beginning of a shoot, but rather they experience the story just as a fictional character might do.

If a scene involves shock or surprise for a character, the actor might not know what is about to happen.

" There is, however, no verifiable evidence of any such World War I lover of Sayers on whom the character of Wimsey might be based.

In the case of handwriting analysis, for example, this might be a single handwritten character, an entire handwritten word, or an entire line of handwriting.

The prefix q was introduced to avoid the prefix o being mistaken for a zero, while the prefix 0o was introduced to avoid starting a numerical literal with an alphabetic character ( like o or q ), since these might cause the literal to be confused with a variable name.

The character of Punch adapted to the new format, going from a stringed comedian who might say outrageous things to a more aggressive glove-puppet who could do outrageous — and often violent — things to the other characters.

It was the peculiar faculty of Aeneas to accommodate himself perfectly to whatever position he might be called upon to occupy, and he now believed that he could exploit this adaptability to assume the papacy with appropriate success and personal character.

For instance, a browser might display ¬ A rather than ` if it tried to interpret one character set as another.

A data type as used in a typical relational database might be the set of integers, the set of character strings, the set of dates, or the two boolean values true and false, and so on.

When historical events are involved in their biography, overt retcons may be used to accommodate this ; a character who served in the army during World War II might have his service record retconned to place him in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, etc.

He remarks that the artificial selection practised by animal breeders frequently produced sharp divergence in character between breeds, and suggests that natural selection might do the same, saying:

Instead, the referee may declare ad-hoc bonuses to task checks under certain situations ; for instance a character might get a + 2 bonus on an Acrobatic skill check if their Dexterity characteristic was 10 or better.

An Italian character, Gideon McDuck, might also be a son of Fergus.

While it is neither required nor prohibited for Jews to eat meat, a number of medieval scholars of Jewish religion ( e. g., Joseph Albo and Isaac Arama ) regard vegetarianism as a moral ideal, not just because of a concern for the welfare of animals, but because the slaughter of animals might cause the individual who performs such acts to develop negative character traits.

If Gregory granted absolution, the diet of princes in Augsburg in which he might reasonably hope to act as arbitrator would either become useless, or, if it met at all, would change completely in character.

These are often woven into the story, for example a character in the game might say to the player, " Press the triangle button to jump!

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

His adventurous life, his forcible character, the position of his state as a barrier between the Indian and the Russian empires, and the skill with which he held the balance in dealing with them, combined to make him a prominent figure in contemporary Asian politics and will mark his reign as an epoch in the history of Afghanistan.

Being is also understood as one's " state of being ," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human ( personal ) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate " being ", or personal character.

This is especially prevalent in the character of Jet Black ( the archetypal ‘ good man in a bad world ’), a former cop who rails against the corruption of the police force but is forced into a semi lawless state of bounty hunting.

In the TV Series One Tree Hill, the character Clay, in season 9 experiences fugue state.

In the TV Series Breaking Bad, the character Walter White fakes a fugue state to cover up his kidnapping.

In the TV Series Teen Wolf, the character Lydia, experiences a fugue state in season 2 following being bitten by a werewolf.

In the TV Series Doctor Who, the character in the 2009 Christmas special, Jackson Lake, suffers a fugue state after witnessing the death of his wife by a Cyberman attack.

He was reportedly paid $ 5000 for the role, although some stories state the actual amount was only $ 1000. Lugosi is credited as " The Scientist ", a character whose purpose is unclear.

In 1918 Roman Catholic schools were brought into the state system, but retained their distinct religious character, access to schools by priests and the requirement that school staff be acceptable to the Church.

The Code recognized the principles of civil liberty, equality before the law, and the secular character of the state.

While Dürer rigorously details his models, Baldung's style differs by focusing more on the personality of the represented character, an abstract conception of the model's state of mind.

Although most felt the Russian Revolution was working class in character, they believed that, since capitalist relations still existed ( because the workers had no say in running the economy ), the Soviet Union ended up as a state capitalist country, with the state replacing the individual capitalist.

We look at each character and change state if it begins or ends

The notion of string acceptance is unchanged: a non-deterministic Turing machine accepts a string if, when the machine is started on the configuration in which the tape head is on the first character of the string ( if any ), and the tape is all blank otherwise, at least one of the machine's possible computations from that configuration puts the machine into a state in.

Another important factor that affects the accuracy of tree reconstruction is whether the data analyzed actually contain a useful phylogenetic signal, a term that is used generally to denote whether a character evolves slowly enough to have the same state in closely related taxa as opposed to varying randomly.

Each is the first woman in the world ; and each is a central character in a story of transition from an original state of plenty and ease to one of suffering and death, a transition which is brought about in revenge for a transgression of divine law.

Much of Sergius ’ pontificate has been maligned throughout history, principally through the reporting of his character and the state of Rome at the time by Liutprand of Cremona.

While he doubts this is so, he nonetheless states: “ In his unrelated state, man has a natural right to his property, to his character, to liberty, and to safety .” James Wilson asks whether “ the primary and principal object in the institution of government … was … to acquire new rights by human establishment?

In To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Heinlein has the main character, Maureen, state that the purpose of metaphysics is to ask questions: Why are we here?

Until after World War II, the landlocked British possession of Southern Rhodesia was not developed as an indigenous African territory, but rather as a unique state which reflected its multiracial character.

His Dervish movement had an essentially military character, and the Dervish state was fashioned on the model of a Salihiya brotherhood.