It has two main features on which its distinction as a major contribution to Avicennan studies may be said to rest: the first is its clarity and readability ; the second is the comparative approach adopted by the author [...].

Practical computer systems divide software systems into three major classes: system software, programming software and application software, although the distinction is arbitrary, and often blurred.

When voicing was lost in all dialects except the Wu group, this distinction became phonemic, and the system of initials and tones was rearranged differently in each of the major groups.

The Bantuist Meinhof made a major distinction between Bantu and a ' Semi-Bantu ' group which according to him was originally of the unrelated Sudanic stock.

One major distinction is between natural and synthetic compounds.

According to Norberto Bobbio, one of the major exponents of this distinction, the Left believes in attempting to eradicate social inequality, while the Right regards most social inequality as the result of ineradicable natural inequalities, and sees attempts to enforce social equality as utopian or authoritarian.

In the climate of English thought in the period following Isaac Newton's major contributions to physics, there was much discussion of a distinction between primary qualities and secondary qualities.

A major differentiation or distinction to be made is a similar condition due to compression of the spinal cord in the spinal canal, due to disease of the surrounding vertebral column.

In a state of " total war ", the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources.

Boris Godunov, among major operas, shares with Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos ( 1867 ) the distinction of having the most complex creative history and the greatest wealth of alternative material.

The major flavor distinction with 100 % agave tequila is the base ingredient, which is more vegetal than grain spirits ( and often more complex ).

Winchester's major landmark is Winchester Cathedral, one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, with the distinction of having the longest nave and overall length of all Gothic cathedrals in Europe.

Traditionally, otariids had been subdivided into the fur seal ( Arctocephalinae ) and sea lion ( Otariinae ) subfamilies, with the major distinction between them being the presence of a thick underfur layer in the former.

Many have recognized that a major theme of The Diamond Age involves a distinction between Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) and human intelligence, with AI being depicted in the novel as having failed in its goal of creating software capable of passing the Turing Test.

Miami holds the distinction of being " the only major city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle ", who was a local citrus grower and a wealthy Cleveland native.

To the existing distinction between major and ordinary or minor doubles, Pope Clement VIII added two more ranks, those of first-class or second-class doubles.

While not the first major women's professional basketball league in the United States ( a distinction held by the defunct WBL ), the WNBA is the only league to receive full backing of the NBA.

In such a way, in Chinese Buddhism there was no major distinction between exoteric and esoteric practices, and the northern school of Zen Buddhism even became known for its esoteric practices of dhāraṇīs and mantras.

Sheets-Johnstone compares Rank's thought to that of three major Western philosophers — René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida: " Because immortality ideologies were originally recognized and in fact so named by Rank, a close examination of his writings on the subject is not only apposite but is itself philosophically rewarding ... Rank was a Freudian dissident who, in introducing the concept of immortality ideologies, traced out historical and psychological roots of ' soul-belief ' ( Seelenglaube )... chapter points up the extraordinary cogency of Rank's distinction between the rational and the irrational to the question of the human need for immortality ideologies " ( Sheets-Johnstone, 2008, p. 64 ).

A second major distinction concerns the difference between finite and non-finite clauses.

The exogeneity of tastes ( preferences ) in this model is the major distinction from Homo sociologicus, in which tastes are taken as partially or even totally determined by the societal environment ( see below ).

Although no major battles of the Civil War were fought in or near Washington, the city has the distinction of being the location where Jefferson Davis held the last meeting with the Confederate cabinet.

Although Twin Falls has the distinction of being the largest Idaho city not directly on the Interstate Highway System, the city is served by several major highways including U. S. Route 30 and U. S. Route 93.

Haverford Township also holds the distinction of having hosted 2 different men's major golf championship's at 2 different golf clubs, Merion Golf Club hosted the 1934, 1950, 1971 and 1981 US Open and Llanerch Country Club hosted the 1958 PGA Championship

It garnered major science fiction awards and has received universal praise for its characters, story, strong voice acting, animation and soundtrack.

He was, along with the earlier John Playfair, the major advocate of James Hutton's idea of uniformitarianism, that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces still in operation today, acting over a very long period of time.

But even in Japan, a figure such as the benshi, the live narrator who was a major part of Japanese silent cinema, found his acting career was ending.

After the success of King Kong, Wray appeared in many major movie roles and on television, finishing her acting career in 1980.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

Alexander returned to the Western Front in August 1915, fought at Loos and was, for ten days in October 1915, acting major and acting Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as a " Battle Casualty Replacement ".

On 10 December 1916, Alexander took second-in-command of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as acting major.

He became a permanent major on 1 August 1917 and was again promoted acting lieutenant-colonel, this time confirmed as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, on 15 October.

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Commedia dell ' arte performers improvised based on a broad outline in the streets of Italy and in the 1890s theatrical theorists and directors such as Russian, Konstantin Stanislavski and the French, Jacques Copeau, founders of two major streams of acting theory, both heavily utilised improvisation in acting training and rehearsal.

Although William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were actors, the majority do not seem to have been performers, and no major author who came on to the scene after 1600 is known to have supplemented his income by acting.

Zeffirelli frequently cast unknown actors in major roles ; however his leads have rarely gone on to stardom or even a sustained acting career.

Weir's next film, Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) was a major international success, with Weir again receiving credit for expanding the acting range of its Hollywood star.

Another major conspiracy was the Babington Plot-the event which most directly led to Mary's execution, the discovery of which involved a double agent Gilbert Gifford acting under the direction of Francis Walsingham, the Queen's highly effective spy master.

By this time, Sting was becoming a major star, and he established a career beyond The Police by branching out into acting.

On a VH1 special about the 100 greatest child stars, many of the interviewees considered Ron Howard to be the most successful child star of all time, considering his two major television acting roles and his directing career.

They reject the notion that any one of the major Method teachers of the 20th century was completely correct or incorrect, and they continue to develop new acting tools and techniques.

Following the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, the functions of the observers changed in the light of changing circumstances, but they remained in the area, acting as go-betweens for the hostile parties and as the means by which isolated incidents could be contained and prevented from escalating into major conflicts.

Allan Scott, whose first major project this was, and who would go on to serve on six of the Astaire-Rogers pictures, was hired by Sandrich to do the rewrites and never actually worked with Taylor, Sandrich acting as script editor and advisor throughout.

Hamilton's acting debut came first on television, followed by a major role as Lisa Rogers in the prime-time soap opera Secrets of Midland Heights ( 1980 ).

The minister for national defense, acting in cooperation with the minister for interior, coordinates the work of the four major committees under the National Defense Council: the Military Defense Committee ; the Civil Defense Committee ; the Economic Defense Committee ; and the Psychological Defense Committee.

In this region, bordering the Sea of Galilee, was the highly fertile plain of Gennesaret, characterised by Josephus as the ambition of nature, an earthly paradise, and with the southern portion of the region acting as a natural pass between the highlands of Canaan, several major roads ( such as those from Damascus to Tyre and Acre ) ran through it.

* In 2003, he appeared in a TV movie on Comedy Central called Windy City Heat, opposite an aspiring actor named Perry Caravello, who is led to believe he is acting in a major motion picture.