Feminist research in these areas contradicts the neoclassical description of labor markets in which occupations are chosen freely by individuals acting alone and out of their own free will.

* Ptolemy's description of Ireland shows no trace of either the Goidelic or Laginian occupations of the country, both of which probably took place some centuries before Ptolemy's time.

The sea gypsies of Malaya ; an account of the nomadic Mawken people of the Mergui Archipelago with a description of their ways of living, customs, habits, boats, occupations, etc.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

An ionospheric model is a mathematical description of the ionosphere as a function of location, altitude, day of year, phase of the sunspot cycle and geomagnetic activity.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

Once an unknown local charity event, the day has recently become controversial, perhaps since a description was published.

Although " outsiders " have linked the day with racism, Padstonians insist that this is not the case and are incredulous at both description and allegations.

A detailed description of the lead-up to Run-DMC's call for a day of peace comprises the introduction to " Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC " by Bill Adler ( Consafos Press 2002 ).

Cicero's description of the ideal state, in De re publica, does not equate to a modern day " republic "; it is more like enlightened absolutism.

In Orthodox synagogues, most Conservative, and some progressive a detailed description of the Temple ritual is recited on the day.

Frank Stenton, the eminent Anglo-Saxon historian of his day, accepted Fox's description, and wrote the introduction to Fox's account of the Dyke.

Ovid gives a vivid description of the rural rite at a boundary of fields of neighbouring peasants on February 23 ( the day of the Terminalia.

Stagecoaches were operating: one description stated that the journey took all day to reach London, from 4am to being “ in time for supper ”.

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

* The Battle of Passchendaele Day by day detailed description of battle ( with maps ).

A conclusive description and visualization can be found in the 1720 German translation of the French La Guerre D ' Espagne ( Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1707 ), where a galant party of high aristocrats and opera singers has resorted to a small château where they entertain themselves with hunting, play and music in a three day turn:

In the modern day, a tabard is the overall garment of the same description as its middle age's counterpart, but is primarily worn by dinnerladies in the UK.

This description accords with the artistic depictions of the dragon down to the present day.

Huygens describes their marriage in Dagh-werck, a description of one day.

His best-known poems are Mosella, a description of the river Moselle, and Ephemeris, an account of a typical day in his life.

In his description of Tartarus, Hesiod says further that Hemera ( day ), who is Nyx's daughter, left Tartarus just as Nyx entered it ; when Hemera returned, Nyx left.

The following is a description of an average day in the prison camp Tuanhe Farm by Harry Wu, executive director of the LRF ( Laogai Research Foundation ).

He sent to the Royal Society, in 1809, a long paper on separating the chemical from the electrical effect of the dry pile a form of Voltaic pile, with a description of the electric column and aerial electroscope, in which he advanced opinions contradicting the latest discoveries of the day, and the council deemed it inexpedient to admit them into the Transactions.

Joseph C. Ives, who surveyed the lower river in 1861, wrote that " the shifting of the channel, the banks, the islands, the bars is so continual and rapid that a detailed description, derived from the experiences of one trip, would be found incorrect, not only during the subsequent year, but perhaps in the course of a week, or even a day.

Pizzey's description of their habits is memorable: " When locally abundant, at end of day, undulating, shearwater-like flocks fly to water, settle short distance away, and walk in.

A graphic description of a mugging he had experienced was given to the Dáil in the context of a crime discussion, only for it to be revealed a day later that the incident had occurred in Kenya not Ireland.

The working test of `` the facts '' must always be the best available description obtainable from scholars and scientists who have applied their methods of investigation to relevant situations.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.

Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.

The grammatical description of each occurrence in the text must be retrieved from the dictionary to permit such an analysis.

A description of this process will serve to illustrate how any type of information can be retrieved from the dictionary and attached to each text occurrence.

It is not positivism which has isolated metaphysics from reality by distinguishing between description and prescription.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

Tabari relates ( Suyuti also relates the same through Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi's report ) from Aisha her description of Abu Bakr:

Another passage from Proclus ' commentary on the Timaeus gives a description of the geography of Atlantis: That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea.

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

In 1515, he created his woodcut of a Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon from a written description and sketch by another artist, without ever seeing the animal himself.

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

The categorization of dances as " ballroom dances " has always been fluid, with new dances or folk dances being added to or removed from the ballroom repertoire from time to time, so no list of subcategories or dances is any more than a description of current practices.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

Some of Bede's material came from oral traditions, including a description of the physical appearance of Paulinus of York, who had died nearly 90 years before Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica was written.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

He argues that the author of Daniel uses elements from the description of the wild man Enkidu, who roams the steppe with the animals.

It begins with an epistolary address to the reader followed by an apocalyptic description of a complex series of events derived from prophetic visions which the author claims to have seen.

George French Angus may have collected a description of a bunyip in his account of a " water spirit " from the Moorundi people of the Murray River before 1847, stating it is " much dreaded by them … It inhabits the Murray ; but … they have some difficulty describing it.

The first published description of the blue whale comes from Robert Sibbald's Phalainologia Nova ( 1694 ).

* The epistolary novel Ides of March by Thornton Wilder centers on Julius Caesar, but prominently features Catullus, his poetry, his relationship ( and correspondence ) with Clodia, correspondence from his family and a description of his death.