In the former, so weakened was the defeated King John of England that he soon needed to submit to his barons demands and sign the Magna Carta, limiting the power of the crown and establishing the basis for common law.

The most common is the circumflex ( which it calls to bach, meaning " little roof ", or acen grom " crooked accent ", or hirnod " long sign ") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel.

In cases of dispute, it is common for a country to recall its head of mission as a sign of its displeasure.

Very long readings also occur for certain kanji or symbols which have a gairaigo reading ; the word " centimeter " is generally written as " cm " ( with two half-width characters, so occupying one space ) and has the seven-kana reading ( it can also be written as the kanji, though this is very rare ); another common example is '%' ( the percent sign ), which has the five kana reading.

( See e. g. " fukasetsu " ( Japanese ), or ineffability, a quality of realization common to many, if not most, esoteric traditions ; see also Jung on the difference between sign and symbol.

A common source of confusion with the Hall Effect is that holes moving to the left are really electrons moving to the right, so one expects the same sign of the Hall coefficient for both electrons and holes.

Languages may even spontaneously develop in environments where people live or grow up together without a common language, for example in the case of creole languages, and the case of spontaneously developed sign languages such as Nicaraguan Sign Language.

Hence to express the remainder we would have to write, rather than, since equivalence can only be said of common residues with the same sign.

* 1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures " to safeguard their common interests " in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.

Cattle and horses were an obvious sign of wealth and prestige, sheep and pigs were kept in large numbers, and place names suggest that transhumance was common.

In the former, so weakened was the defeated King John of England that he soon needed to submit to his barons demands and sign the Magna Carta, limiting the power of the crown and establishing the basis for common law.

The most common quantifiers are the question mark, the asterisk ( derived from the Kleene star ), and the plus sign ( Kleene cross ).

* A sign, in common use, is an indication that a previously observed event is about to occur again

Film critic Roger Ebert speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( in which the samurai shaves off his topknot, a sign of honor among samurai, in order to pose as a monk to rescue a boy from a kidnapper ) could be the origin of the practice, now common in action movies, of introducing the main hero with an undertaking unrelated to the main plot.

He was signed for the Royal Navy at age seven, it being common to sign on a " young gentleman " simply to gain experience at sea required for promotion.

It is common to take a different sign convention for this equation than one typically does when defining fundamental solutions.

In France, it is common for new medical graduates to sign a written oath.

In common usage, horoscope often refers to an astrologer's interpretation, usually based on a system of Sun sign astrology ; or on the calendar significance of an event, as in Chinese astrology.

* Twenty-four Lithuanian dukes and nobles purportedly sign a peace treaty with Halych-Volhynia, stating common cause against invading Christian Crusaders.

* England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.

The most common format is a vertical column of six circles, with holes to be covered for a given note shown filled with black, and a plus sign (+) at the top for notes in the second octave.

It is similar to ISO 8859-1, and thus generally intended for “ Western European ” languages, but replaces some less common symbols with the euro sign and some letters that were now deemed missing in part 1 for the target use.

Fever ( also known as pyrexia ) is a common medical sign characterized by an elevation of body temperature above the normal range of due to an increase in the temperature regulatory set-point.

In contrast, Rachel Rosenstock notes that the vocabulary exhibited in her study of International Sign was largely made up of highly iconic signs common to many sign languages:

People communicating in International Sign tend to make heavy use of role play, as well as a feature common to most sign languages researched to date: an extensive formal system of classifiers.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.

As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

What is the common man's complaint??

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

British common sense is proverbial.