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This early rejection of images, and the necessity to hide Christian practise from persecution, leaves us with few archaeological records regarding early Christianity and its evolution.
The violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, writing in his book Violin Playing as I Teach It ( 1920 ), advised violinists to practise playing completely without vibrato, and to stop playing for a few minutes as soon as they noticed themselves playing with vibrato in order for them to gain complete control over their technique.
Smuts began to practise law in Cape Town, but his abrasive nature made him few friends.
Murray's first contact when he moved to London was William Hamilton, a Scottish-born barrister who was said to be the first Scot to practise at the English Bar, and one of the few people who was qualified to act as a barrister in both England and Scotland.
They cancelled all engagements for a few months to practise intensively.
Zag used him to practise ventriloquism, eventually performing a few dire shorts that showcased Zag's lack of skill.
As on practise few professional wrestling matches end in a draw, the Committee was gradually phased out.
By the time the paper was finally retracted 12 years later, after forensic dissection at the General Medical Council's ( GMC ) longest ever fitness to practise hearing, few people could deny that it was fatally flawed both scientifically and ethically.
Working with a few colleagues, including two members of the clergy, and advocating the value of self-reliance, he set his ideas into practise first amongst dairy farmers in the south, establishing Ireland ’ s first co-operative at Doneraile, County Cork and opening the first creamery in Dromcollogher, County Limerick.

few and distinct
) 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.
Simple words in the various dialects are very similar, but pronunciation is distinct for each and, after listening to a few spoken words it may be possible for an Austrian to realise which dialect is being spoken.
The Roman Catholic Church likewise treats it as any other act of renunciation of the Catholic faith, although for a few years, from 2006 to 2009, it did note in the baptismal register any formal act of defection from the Catholic Church, a concept quite distinct from that of presentation of such a certificate.
On the other hand, the traditional identification with a site in Assyria would then imply the later sense of " Babylonia ", and a few interpreters have additionally tried to identify Abraham's birthplace with Chaldia, a distinct region in Asia Minor on the Black Sea.
) In addition, a few English pronouns have distinct nominative and objective forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a verb or preposition.
) Further, these pronouns and a few others have distinct possessive forms, such as his.
It is written from left to right, does not have distinct letter cases, and is recognizable ( along with most other North Indic scripts, with few exceptions like Gujarati and Oriya ) by a horizontal line that runs along the top of full letters.
A few instead find a middle ground by recognizing both and as distinct notations differing only in which argument is conjugate linear.
Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red.
There are a few different types of skinheads in terms of style, but many of today's skinheads do not fit into one distinct category.
For the next few years, the Zentralblatt under Jung and Meier maintained a position distinct from that of the Nazis, in that it continued to acknowledge contributions of Jewish doctors to psychotherapy.
In 1992, Deneuve starred opposite Vincent Perez in the romantic drama Indochine, for which she which won a second César Award and received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress ; Deneuve is one of the distinct few to receive an Oscar nomination for a non-English speaking role.
A few distinct reversibility scenarios emerge here with respect to the nature of the surface.
It is distinct from oligarchy (" rule by the few ") and democracy (" rule by the people ").
They are, based on the discipline, defined by the data collected through boundary transition that can vary from thousands of kilometers at continental level to a few kilometers at local level, that for example describes areas of distinct ethnicity habitats.
They are distinct from the American sparrows, which although similar in appearance are placed in the family Emberizidae, and from a few other birds sharing their name, such as the Java Sparrow.
Of temples distinct from the palace we have a few supposed remains, but little is absolutely known as to their general form.
Since its recognition as a different species from the similar-appearing chestnut oak ( Quercus prinus ), Q. muehlenbergii has generally been regarded as a distinct species ; no subspecies or varieties are currently recognized within it, although a few infraspecific variants had been accepted in the past.
Oya's close association with the passage from life into death also means she is one of the few Orishas which are worshiped alongside the Egun ancestors, whose cult is most often distinct from that of the Orishas.
End of the 20th century has proven a difficult period for Russian literature, with relatively few distinct voices.
Rameau's musical works may be divided into four distinct groups, which differ greatly in importance: a few cantatas ; a few motets for large chorus ; some pieces for solo harpsichord or harpsichord accompanied by other instruments ; and, finally, his works for the stage, to which he dedicated the last thirty years of his career almost exclusively.
Despite being only a few nanometers thick, the bilayer consists of several distinct chemical regions across its cross-section.
Whatever the case, Hackworth was probably the first of the very few engineers throughout history to fully take into account the role of the blast in automatically realising the " perfect equilibrium between steam production and usage " in a locomotive when fitted with a firetube boiler, and to consider the blastpipe as a distinct device, paying close attention to its proportions, nozzle size, positioning and precise alignment.
Effects supervisor William George wanted to make it distinct from the earlier ships, since it was one of the few models that could be altered: " We did some research into military costuming, and came up with the concept that when these ships return victorious from battle, the Klingons build some sort of epaulet onto their wings or paint a new stripe on.

few and form
When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.
Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.
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 ).
72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ( ortux ) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.
While protons and neutrons combined to form the first atomic nuclei only a few minutes after the Big Bang, it would take thousands of years for electrons to combine with them and create electrically neutral atoms.
A few minutes into the expansion, when the temperature was about a billion ( one thousand million ; 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >; SI prefix giga -) kelvin and the density was about that of air, neutrons combined with protons to form the Universe's deuterium and helium nuclei in a process called Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
Communication is usually described along a few major dimensions: Message ( what type of things are communicated ), source / emisor / sender / encoder ( by whom ), form ( in which form ), channel ( through which medium ), destination / receiver / target / decoder ( to whom ), and Receiver.
All but a few of the most inert elements, such as noble gases and noble metals, are usually found on Earth in chemically combined form, as chemical compounds.
Numerous events in newspaper comic strips have reverberated throughout society at large, though few of these events occurred in recent years, owing mainly to the declining role of the newspaper comic strip as an entertainment form.
A few cars, notably the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Porsche 924, and Chevrolet Corvette ( since 1997 ), sought a more even weight distribution between front and back by placing the weight of the transmission at the rear of the car, combined with the rear axle to form a transaxle.
Exceptions to this local form of local governance include a few churches that submit to the leadership of a body of elders, as well as the Episcopal Baptists that have an Episcopal system.
The vines are watered frequently during the first few weeks until roots form and new shoots grow.
The Puritan execution sermon, preached on the occasion of a public hanging, then quickly printed up in pamphlet form and sold for a few pence, was an early form of true-crime literature.
James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death ( which was from some form of abdominal cancer ).
Athenian democracy took the form of a direct democracy, and it had two distinguishing features: the random selection of ordinary citizens to fill the few existing government administrative and judicial offices, and a legislative assembly consisting of all Athenian citizens.
In every form of play, the goal is to play as few throws per round as possible.
There are a few natural depressions on the atoll rim that capture the abundant rainfall to form areas of fresh-water wetlands.
The few extant fragments of satyr-plays attributed to Aeschylus and Sophocles indicate that these were a loosely structured, simple and jovial form of entertainment.
* Adagio skating, a form of pair skating most commonly seen in ice shows, where the skaters perform many acrobatic lifts but few or none of the other elements which competitive pairs must perform.
Hoar frost can form in these areas even when the air temperature a few feet above ground is well above freezing.
About 70 – 80 % of the mass in a cluster is in the form of dark matter, with 10 – 30 % consisting of this heated gas and the remaining few percent of the matter in the form of galaxies.
A few gemstones are used as gems in the crystal or other form in which they are found.

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