On May 28, 1918, President Wilson approved a suggestion made by the Women ’ s Committee of the Council of National Defenses that, instead of wearing conventional mourning for relatives who have died in the service of their country, American women should wear a black band on the left arm with a gilt star on the band for each member of the family who has given his life for the nation.

Piepsam is not, certainly, religious in any conventional sense.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

Mimesis here is not to be confused with literalism or realism in the conventional sense.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.

The Australian aborigine is the conventional exemplar of degraded humanity ; ;

For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

Our complaint is that in many crucial areas the Kennedy programs are not too large but too small, most seriously in regard to the conventional arms build-up and in aid and welfare measures.

Since conventional methods are insensitive at the low frequencies of these molecular transitions, the paramagnetic resonance method is being used instead.

Moreover, the piece is written in five movements, rather than the conventional four of most quintets, and this gives the opus a serenade or divertimento flavor.

With the source of light behind the copy, there is no loss of lumen output, as with conventional boards illuminated by means of reflected light.

It is believed that these boards will, within the next few years, replace many of the conventional flood-lighted boards now in use.

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

Musically and dramatically, Rangoni is as far removed from the conventional monk as Varlaam.

Like about half of the 1860 - 70 poems, it is a sonnet on a conventional theme -- the unhappiness of love.

The language is the conventional language of the form ; ;

And there is less rhythmic difference between progressive jazz, no matter how progressive, and Dixieland, than there is between two movements of many conventional symphonies.

In modern jazz, the saxophone is treated as a woodwind and played with conventional embouchure.

Because of undesirable flavors, odors, colors, and generally low palatability associated with radiation treatment of this magnitude, the inactivation of enzymes is best accomplished prior to irradiation by the conventional heat-processing methods of blanching.

( The P-20 input is of interest because it corresponds roughly to the light emission of conventional X-ray fluorescent screens ).

this is a `` fade '' ending, and what you have here is a downtalking style of speech, expressing something less than conventional respect for mother.

It is eminently successful according to all conventional standards.

Metallic vapors by contrast are often atomic ( Hg ) or at times contain molecules like Na < sub > 2 </ sub > held together by a more conventional covalent bond.

Rejection of conventional morality and authoritarianism formed their main common bond.

In Causes of Delinquency ( 1969 ) Travis Hirschi argued that variations in delinquent behavior among youth could be explained by variations in the dimensions of the social bond, namely attachment to others, commitments to conventional goals, acceptance of conventional moral standards or beliefs, and involvement in conventional activities.

Given the relation between convexity and duration above, conventional bond convexities must always be positive.

( Forstmann referred to junk bonds as " wampum ") When the junk bond market later fell into disfavor as a result of scandal, Forstmann's criticism was seen as prescient, as his more conventional investment strategy had been able to maintain nearly the same level of profitability as companies such as KKR and Revlon that built their strategy around high-yield debt.

While a conventional bond is a promise to repay a loan, Sukuk constitute partial ownership in a debt ( Sukuk Murabaha ), asset ( Sukuk Al Ijara ), project ( Sukuk Al Istisna ), business ( Sukuk Al Musharaka ), or investment ( Sukuk Al Istithmar ).

In 2011, Safari conducted various statistical and econometrics tests to check the argument that sukuk securities are merely the same as conventional bond.

It is conventional in organic chemistry to write isocyanates with two double bonds, which accords with a simplistic valence bond theory of the bonding.

Though his life is cut short, he receives his vindication by coming to moral clarity at last, rejecting conventional hypocrisy, and acknowledging his bond to his brother.

The bond between the sulfur and oxygen atoms differs from the conventional double bond between carbon and oxygen in, say, ketones.

* Corrins are cyclic tetrapyrroles that have replaced one of the conventional methine bridges with a direct interpyrrole bond.

It is a vector, parallel to the bond axis, pointing from minus to plus, as is conventional for electric dipole moment vectors.

In 1947, Ryan X-13 Vertijet, a tailsitter design, was ordered by the US Navy, who then further issued a proposal in 1948 for an aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing ( VTOL ) aboard platforms mounted on the afterdecks of conventional ships.

The Pilot Grove Cooperative Elevator had been cleaning conventional seeds for decades before the development of genetic engineering and developments in patent law led to the existence of issued patents that cover seeds.

In 1990, the U. S. Army Adjutant General's Office issued a legal opinion holding that the Sierra MatchKing bullet, despite being an open-tip design, is not designed specifically to cause greater damage or suffering in a human target, and in fact normally does not create a wound readily distinguishable from wounds caused by conventional full metal jacket bullets, and is therefore in their opinion legal under the Hague Convention for use in war.

Later color editions of Hate were issued in 1998 by Jochen Enterprises under the title Krass / Kraß ( a slang term, meaning phat, cool or rad-its conventional meaning is crass ).

A tax refund could be issued as a conventional check or by direct deposit.

In contrast to the AMX 50, the AMX-30 was issued a conventional turret, because it was found that it was more difficult to seal oscillating turrets from radioactive dust and against water when the tank was submerged.

NATO's North Atlantic Council of foreign ministers issued the Brussels Declaration on Conventional Arms Control, which called for two distinct sets of negotiations: one to build on the Confidence and Security-Building Measures ( CSBM ) results of the Stockholm Conference and the other to establish conventional stability in Europe through negotiations on conventional arms control from the Atlantic to the Urals ( ATTU ).

For example, the company has issued a series of " DVD Music " recordings in which the original 2-channel UHJ masters have been decoded to loudspeaker feeds and issued on conventional DVD-Audio / Video surround format discs.