The dinosaur fossil record has been interpreted to show both a decline in diversity and no decline in diversity during the last few million years of the Cretaceous, and it may be that the quality of the dinosaur fossil record is simply not good enough to permit researchers to distinguish between the options.

Stephen's first few years as king can be interpreted in different ways.

In a few states, such as California, a state constitution has been interpreted as providing more comprehensive protections than the First Amendment.

And since the profit motive and the propensity to save were considered of paramount importance for the economic progress of all classes, this meant in particular that taxation should as little as possible interfere with the net earnings of business ... As regards indirect taxes, the principle of least interference was interpreted by Gladstone to mean that taxation should be concentrated on a few important articles, leaving the rest free ... Last, but not least, we have the principle of the balanced budget.

Some museum experiences have very few or no artifacts and do not necessarily call themselves museums ; the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, being notable examples where there are few artifacts, but strong, memorable stories are told or information is interpreted.

" Though the first French and British colonizers of Canada interpreted the hereditary nature of some indigenous North American chieftainships as a form of monarchy, it is generally accepted that Canada has been a territory of a monarch or a monarchy in its own right only since the establishment of New France in the early 17th century ; according to historian Jacques Monet, the Canadian Crown is one of the few that have survived through uninterrupted succession since before its inception.

In 1926, just a few days after Schrödinger's fourth and final paper was published, Max Born successfully interpreted ψ as the probability amplitude, whose absolute square is equal to probability density.

Many Southern states and school districts interpreted " Brown II " as legal justification for resisting, delaying, and avoiding significant integration for years — and in some cases for a decade or more — using such tactics as closing down school systems, using state money to finance segregated " private " schools, and " token " integration where a few carefully selected black children were admitted to former white-only schools but the vast majority remained in underfunded, unequal black schools.

Since the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, Coppola feels that audiences interpreted the film to be a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fall-out.

" Although most scholars, and almost all Christians, read this as meaning that the gathering would include people not only from earth but also from heaven, a few Christians, mostly modern American Protestant Premillennialists, have interpreted it to mean that people would be gathered from earth and taken to heaven — a concept known in their circles as the rapture.

One of the stones, the 9th century Drosten Stone, has the distinction of being one of the few Pictish artefacts to have an inscription in Latin text: ' DROSTEN: IREUORET TTFOR CUS ', which has been interpreted in various ways, but it is thought that the second line refers to the Pictish King Uurad, who reigned between 839 and 842 AD.

Whether the Gigantomachy was interpreted in ancient times as a kind of indirect " revenge of the Titans " upon the Olympians — as the Giants ' reign would have been in some fashion a restoration of the age of the Titans — is not attested in any of the few literary references.

Also, the tune of " La Primavera ", a track from that same album, is used in several other songs featured on the LP, while lyrics for a few songs on Sibérie m ' était contée are repeated several times with different music, leading the lyrics to be interpreted in various ways depending on the mood of the track.

Stephen's first few years as king can be interpreted in different ways.

While Boniface was considered the most probable choice, due to his connections with the Byzantine court, Baldwin was young, gallant, pious, and virtuous, one of the few who interpreted and observed his crusading vows strictly, and the most popular leader in the host.

These few words have been interpreted by some partisans of a conspiracy theory as evidence that the Pope had indeed been poisoned.

Features in a few specimens have been interpreted as evidence of longitudinal muscle fibers, and a medial gut, but this interpretation has not reached acceptance.

When the queen asked Kalidas a few questions to test his intelligence, Kalidas gesticulated wildly and the astute pundits ' interpreted ' these gestures as extremely witty answers and retorts.

In it was a metal box containing a crumpled paper ; its few legible words were interpreted to suggest that the remains might have been Morgan's.

Particularly following the Protestant Reformation, the Genesis creation stories were interpreted as holding that the Earth has existed for only a few thousand years.

Despite a few silent scenes, including one where the barber is wearing the tramps ' coat and bowler hat and carrying his cane, the barber speaks throughout the film ( using Chaplin's own British accent ), including the passionate plea for peace that has been widely interpreted as Chaplin speaking as himself.

In complete editions the first book (" Livre premier ", ending after Chapter XXX ) concludes with the quotation: “ To the Happy Few ”, a dedication variously interpreted to mean either the few readers who could understand Stendhal ’ s writing ; or a Shakespearean allusion to Henry V ( 1599 ); or a sardonic reference to the well-born of society ( viz.

Moreover, the first few eigenvectors can often be interpreted in terms of the large-scale physical behavior of the system.

A few US professional societies whose professions frequently employ various non-word characters, such as chemistry and computer programming, use the British form in their style guides ( see ACS Style Guide ).

C is one of the most widely used programming languages of all time, and there are very few computer architectures for which a C compiler does not exist.

Functional programming limited to well-founded recursion with a few other constraints is called total functional programming.

Getting started with OpenGL programming while using GLUT often takes only a few lines of code and does not require knowledge of operating system – specific windowing APIs.

A few changes were made to the first released specification ( object-oriented programming features were added, the ' FOR ' loop was reinstated, for instance ); the result was Oberon-2, currently the most common implementation.

These are only a few of the thousands of programming languages and dialects that have been designed in history.

Automotive applications are an example ; millions of units are built each year, and very few end-users alter the programming of these controllers.

Often it is recommended that each loop should only have one entry point ( and in the original structural programming, also only one exit point, and a few languages enforce this ).

The first version, known as Smalltalk-71, was created by Ingalls in a few mornings on a bet that a programming language based on the idea of message passing inspired by Simula could be implemented in " a page of code.

Traditionally, politically driven talk radio from the United States does not air on Canadian stations, with a few scattered exceptions ( e. g. the now-defunct CFBN, which carried political programming such as the Glenn Beck Program and Dennis Miller, and the also-discontinued talk format of CHAM, which carried Miller ).

This led to a system where most local television stations were independently owned, but received programming from the network through a franchising contract, except in a few big cities that had network owned-and-operated stations ( O & O ) and independent stations.

Moreover, when stations return to network programming from commercial breaks, the station identification is displayed in the first few seconds before switching to the network's logo.

In early 2009 EA Games announced that they have bought the rights for a game from Red Eagle Entertainment, who had started programming it a few months earlier.

It gradually added nights of programming over the next few years, airing on all seven nights for the first time in the 1993 television season.

* In the Cosmic Era works, Gundams are mobile suits that carry a specific type of operating system, first secretly produced ( without the programmer himself knowing what he is programming the system for ) by the one of the protagonist's robotics research group, and faced a few upgrades by various factions throughout the story.

The single API made programming at higher levels much easier and made NeXT one of the few systems to extensively use DPS.

By mid-1953, Goldenson had begun a two-front campaign, calling on his old pals at the Hollywood studios ( he had been head of the mighty Paramount theater chain since 1938 ) to convince them to move into television programming ( within a few years shifting television programming from predominantly live shows from New York to films made for television in Hollywood ).

A difference between defensive programming and normal practices is that few assumptions are made by the programmer, who attempts to handle all possible error states.

A few popular DuMont programs, such as Cavalcade of Stars and Emmy Award winner Life Is Worth Living, appear in TV retrospectives or are mentioned briefly in books about U. S. television history, but almost all the network's programming was destroyed in the 1970s.

The network was a pioneer in television programming aimed at minority audiences and featuring minority performers, at a time when the other American networks aired few television series for non-whites.

FM audio for television channel 6 is broadcast at a carrier frequency of 87. 75 MHz, and many radios can tune down this low ; a few low-power television stations licensed for channel 6 are operated solely for their right to use this frequency and broadcast only nominal video programming.

Super Bowl I was aired by both CBS and NBC ( the only Super Bowl to be aired by two networks ), but neither network felt the need to preserve the game long-term ; CBS saved the telecast for a few months and reran it as filler programming at least once before wiping it.