Thomas and Parker have more in common than theme, attitude, life pattern.

Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance.

A common theme is a mountain which blocked the Sun, but on the right day would allow the tiniest fraction to re-emerge on the other side for a ' double sunset '.

Black metal was originally used as a term for extreme metal bands with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrics ; today, the most common lyrical theme is opposition to Christianity and other organized religions.

The common theme in each case is that commercial parties seek predictability and simplicity in their contractual relations, and frequently choose the law of a common law jurisdiction with a well-developed body of common law to achieve that result.

However, with robust error correction, and the possibility of external intervention, the common science fiction theme of robotic life run amok is unlikely in the near term.

The depiction of Cerberus is relatively consistent between different works and authors, the common theme of the mane of serpents is kept across works, as is the serpent's tail, most literary works of the era describe Cerberus as having three heads with the only notable exception being Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads.

Philosophical vacuity is a common theme among Asian wisdom traditions including Taoism ( especially Wu wei " effortless action "), Buddhism, and some aspects of Confucianism.

Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.

The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that ".. nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry.

As for Capra's subject matter, film author Richard Griffith tries to summarize Capra's common theme:

The common theme in gibberish statements is a lack of literal sense, which can be described as a presence of nonsense.

Next, Israel is a common theme in the Gospel of Matthew.

It is somewhat common for a game to be designed with one theme and published with another, or for the same game to be given a significantly different theme for a later republication, or for two games on wildly different themes to have very similar mechanics.

A final common structural theme among GPCRs is palmitoylation of one or more sites of the C-terminal tail or the intracellular loops.

A common theme is the study of the geographies of the past and how a place or region changes through time.

The common theme is that a homomorphism is a function between two algebraic objects that respects the algebraic structure.

These power frameworks reduce the cost either by requiring the group of powers to have a common theme as in an Elemental Control Framework, or by limiting the number of powers that can be active at one time with a Multipower Framework.

A common theme in most Korean styles, such as taekkyeon and taekwondo, is the value of " inner peace " in a practitioner, which is stressed to be only achieved through individual meditation and training.

A common theme, particularly among American writers, is that of a Martian colony fighting for independence from Earth.

He made good, plain American common sense and the House usually recognized it and acted upon it.

Time was when the house of delegates of the American Bar association leaned to the common sense side.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

By dealing with common landscape in an uncommon way, Roy Mason has found a particular niche in American landscape art.

The apparatus used by gymnasts was once a common sight in American gyms, but about 1930 it was dropped in favor of games.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

" Nevertheless, no alternative to " American " is common.

Still fairly common are the North American Cougar, Bobcat, American Beaver, Muskrat, Raccoon, Virginia Opossum, rabbit, squirrel, Red and Gray Foxes, and Long-tailed Weasel.

American common law has defined assault as an attempt to commit a battery.

One such example is the common use of western broccoli ( xīlán, 西蘭 ) instead of Chinese broccoli ( jie lan, 芥蘭 jièlán ) in American Chinese cuisine.

These names make it evident that the American broccoli, carrot, and onion are not indigenous to China and therefore are less common in the cuisines of China.

ASL is a common initialism for American Sign Language, and may also refer to:

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

* Lit as the past tense of light is more common than lighted in the UK ; American English uses lit to mean " set afire " / " kindled " / " made to emit light " but lighted to mean " cast light upon " ( e. g., " The stagehand lighted the set and then lit a cigarette .").

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

Winthrop's sermon gave rise to the common belief in American folklore that the United States of America has a special status in the world as God's Country.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio ( the first to be fully transistorized ), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony ( sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression ).

The ALADI promotes the creation of an area of economic preferences in the region, aiming at a Latin American common market, through three mechanisms:

This usage is especially common in African American churches in the USA.

Once the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads reached Chicago, that time dynamic changed, and American poleboats became less common, relegated to smaller rivers and more remote streams.

* Abolition of the American and National league offices and presidencies, and inclusion of all umpiring crews into a common pool for AL and NL games, instead of having separate pools per league ( 2000 )