There are also a few " natural " instances: English words unconsciously created by switching letters around.

All vowels are pronounced except in a few well-defined instances.

In a few instances, public schools were closed outright and vouchers were issued to parents.

In some instances, the few main roads on the island were blocked with burning tires and the airport at Port-au-Prince was closed.

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe was one of the few instances that resulted in the abandonment of the local currency.

* Retention of singular and plural ; reduction of the dual to a few instances

It is enough for the purpose of the analysis if it be granted that nowhere else in Coleridge's work, except in these and less noticeably in a few other instances, do these high characteristics occur.

The surviving records give only a few instances of lending features.

In Spain, Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire, sodomy between women was included in acts considered unnatural and punishable by burning to death, although few instances are recorded of this taking place.

They consisted chiefly of the teeth, scales and fins, even the bones being perfectly preserved in comparatively few instances.

Strictly speaking these are not instances of modus tollens, but they may be derived using modus tollens using a few extra steps.

There are several reported instances of falling meteorites having killed both people and livestock, but a few of these appear more credible than others.

A small netlist of just a few instances can describe designs with a very large number of instances.

In other instances, Plautus will give a name to a character that only has a few words or lines.

One of the few known instances of the Central Committee overruling the Presidium ( as the Politburo was known ) was the defeat of the so-called Anti-Party Group in 1957.

Stephen valued William's loyalty sufficiently to agree to exchange Sherborne Castle for his safe release — this was one of the few instances where Stephen was prepared to give up a castle to ransom one his men.

There is strong agreement that the United States has a two-party system ; historically, there have been few instances in which third party candidates won an election.

In a few instances, a slash and a number or additional letters were appended to these letters ( e. g. Tandy 1000 TL / 2, Tandy 1000 RL / HD ).

The other determining factor, namely the physical conditions attending consolidation, plays on the whole a smaller part, yet is by no means negligible, as a few instances will prove.

There are also unsubstantiated claims that Patton was seen at a few instances saluting German POWs and also berating some for slouching around rather than training for military action, thus indicating he hoped to get them back into action as soon as possible against the Soviets.

Paucal number, for a few ( as opposed to many ) instances of the referent ( e. g. in Hopi, Warlpiri and in Arabic for some nouns ).

On a few instances when the steamer was missed, riders took the mail via horseback to Oakland, California.

In a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

In addition to the more numerous translations of Arabic texts in this period, there were a few translations of Galenic works directly from the Greek, such as Burgundio of Pisa's translation of De complexionibus.

* occurs only before vowels and at the beginning of a syllable, never at the end ( a few languages, such as Arabic, or Romanian allow syllable-finally ).

They were also among the few non-U. S. citizens and nearly the only passengers with Arabic names on their flights, enabling the FBI to identify them and in many cases such details as dates of birth, known or possible residences, visa status, and specific identification of the suspected pilots.

Several hundred of the brightest stars have traditional names, most of which derive from Arabic, but a few from Latin.

Though few historical records are left from that period, Western Sahara's modern history has its roots linked to some nomadic groups ( living under Berber tribal rule and in contact with the Roman Empire ) such as the Sanhaja group and the introduction of Islam and the Arabic language the end from the 8th century AD.

In the mid-20th century the scholar Nabia Abbott found a document with a few lines of an Arabic work with the title The Book of the Tale of a Thousand Nights, dating from the ninth century.

* One of the oldest Arabic manuscript fragments from Syria ( a few handwritten pages ) dating to the early 9th century.

His vocabulary is almost entirely classical, with only a few medieval constructions such as " loricator " ( someone who makes armour, a calque of the Arabic " zarra ") and " assellare " ( to empty one's bowels ).

Middle Egyptian was spoken from about 2000 BC for a further 700 years when Late Egyptian made its appearance ; Middle Egyptian did, however, survive until the first few centuries AD as a written language, similar to the use of Latin during the Middle Ages and that of Classical Arabic today.

Literary Coptic gradually declined such that within a few hundred years, Egyptian bishop Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa found it necessary to write his History of the Patriarchs in Arabic.

An Arabic speaker, he is one of few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, and did so three times between 1993 and 1997.

A few years later, John McCarthy proposed an important development by showing that the derivation of words from consonantal roots in Arabic could be analyzed autosegmentally.

Spurgeon's works have been translated into many languages, including: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Castilian ( for the Argentine Republic ), Chinese, Kongo, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Gaelic, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kaffir, Karen, Lettish, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Welsh, with a few sermons in Moon's and Braille type for the blind.

You can also find an array of small, family-owned restaurants ( including a few Coney Islands ) with cuisines specializing in Italian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, Arabic, and American.

By another account the word comes through Arabic afranj, and there are quite a few articles about this.

Since al-Muqammiṣ made few references to specifically Jewish issues and very little of his work was translated from Arabic into Hebrew, he was largely forgotten by Jewish tradition.

Saadia Gaon, David ben Merwan al-Mukkamas, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas, to name a few, knew of at least some of the Mutazilite work, particularly Avicennism and Averroism, and the Renaissance and the use of empirical methods were inspired at least in part by Arabic translations of Greek, Jewish, Persian and Egyptian works translated into Latin during the Renaissance of the 12th century, and taken during the Reconquista in 1492.

Syriac is still spoken in some few communities in eastern Syria and northern Iraq, but for most, Arabic is the vernacular language.

The spelling of this name is sort of a choose-your-own adventure: rendered correctly from Arabic, it should be al-Mukha, but given the long history of European traders and adventurers in this region, it has over the last few hundred years been written as “ Mokha ,” “ Mocca ,” “ Mocha ,” and “ Moka .”

Although most of his books have been lost over the centuries, a few have survived in the form of Latin translations by Gerard of Cremona, and others have been rediscovered in Arabic manuscripts ; most importantly, twenty-four of his lost works were located in the mid-twentieth century in a Turkish library.

Boumédiènne showed himself to be an ardent nationalist, deeply influenced by Islamic values, and he was reportedly one of the few prominent Algerian leaders who expressed himself better in Arabic than in French.

A few were Arab and Berber Christians coupled with Muslim converts to Christianity who, as Arabic speakers, naturally were at home among the original Mozarabs.