Prior to the 19th century, artists mixed their own paints which allowed them to achieve the desired color, thickness, and to control the use of fillers, if any.

When Azali took power he also pledged to step down in April 2000 and relinquish control to a democratically elected president — a pledge with mixed results.

Priming compositions are primary explosives mixed with other compositions to control ( lessen ) the sensitivity of the mixture to the desired property.

This is the central argument of those who argue for a mixed market, free at the base, but with government oversight to control social problems.

Regions of the Frankish Empire were placed under the control of autonomous dukes of mixed Frankish and native blood.

Problems in classification are compounded by different qualifications for tribal membership by different tribes, a fear of registering with a tribe because it is seen as a method of control initiated by the federal government, and the problem of individuals who are of 100 % Native American background who, because of their mixed tribal heritage, do not qualify to belong to any individual tribe.

Anacletus ' mixed group of supporters were powerful enough to take control of Rome while Innocent was forced to flee north.

The output of a fixed radio frequency oscillator is mixed with that of an oscillator whose frequency is affected by the variable capacitance between the antenna and the thereminist as that person moves her or his hand near the pitch control antenna.

Because of their mixed tone and trouble keeping a position, they may not be able to hold onto objects, especially small ones requiring fine motor control ( such as a toothbrush or pencil ).

Under mayor al-Haj, between 1920 and 1927, the city council had six Arab and two Jewish representatives, with the city run as a mixed municipality with overall Arab control.

For the party of the people of the hills was most in favour of democracy, that of the people of the plain was most in favour of oligarchy, while the third group, the people of the coast, which preferred a mixed form of constitution somewhat between the other two, formed an obstruction and prevented the other groups from gaining control.

Gouache paints come in many colors and are usually mixed with water to achieve the desired working properties and to control the opacity when dry.

They categorise wizards according to blood purity ; " pure bloods ", or wizard borns, out-rank " half-bloods " ( mixed parentage ) and " mudbloods ", a derogatory name for those born to non-magical parents ( muggles ); though mostly they seek complete power and control over the entire Wizarding world, wishing to restrict leadership to a small band of pure-bloods.

For nearly 45 minutes, mixed reports claimed the plane was a passenger flight, but within the hour the control tower at MIA confirmed it was Fine Air Cargo Flight 101.

It is almost never used in a mixed repertoire today, however, and some believe that to throw the knuckleball effectively with some semblance of control over the pitch, one must throw it more or less exclusively.

In Guam and Northern Mariana Islands, the term " Mestizo " was borrowed from the American colonies and was formerly used to identify people of mixed Pacific Islander and Spanish ancestry ; however, as the United States gained control of these islands after the Spanish-American War in 1898, the term " Multiracial " replaced " Mestizo ".

The first randomized evaluation of microcredit, conducted by Esther Duflo and others, showed mixed results: there was no effect on household expenditure, gender equity, education or health, but the number of new businesses increased by one third compared to a control group.

In 1099, the Crusaders took control of the city for less than a century, leaving its mixed Muslim, Christian and Samaritan population relatively undisturbed.

The report suggested several factors, including the election of the first black or mixed race President in the person of Barack Obama, perceived future gun control measures, illegal immigration, the economic downturn beginning in 2008, the abortion controversy, and disgruntled military veterans ' possible vulnerability to recruitment efforts by extremist groups as potential risk factors regarding right-wing extremism recruitment.

The sultan duly provided a mixed force of cavalry and infantry and with these Andronikos was able to take control of Constantinople.

During the early years, Romania's scarce resources after World War II were drained by the " SovRom " agreements, mixed Soviet-Romanian tax-exempt companies established in the aftermath of World War II which allowed the Soviets to control Romania's major sources of income, in addition to the war reparations paid to the USSR.

Another control ( sometimes called " regeneration ") allows the signal from the playback heads to be fed back into and variably mixed with the original input signal, creating a very distinctive " feedback " effect that adds more and more noise to the loop with each repeat.

The control scheme received a mixed reaction during play testing ; some players adapted quickly while others found it frustrating.

In contrast to a procedural computation, in which knowledge about the problem domain is mixed in with instructions about the flow of control — although object-oriented programming languages mitigate this entanglement — the inference engine model allows a more complete separation of the knowledge ( in the rules ) from the control ( the inference engine ).

In the prepolymer system, the isocyanate and resin are mixed anhydrously and no foaming occurs.

He classified both what he regarded as good and what he regarded as bad constitutions, and came to the conclusion that the best constitution was a mixed system, including monarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements.

Israel has a mixed system of common law and civil law.

Roman Dutch Commons law is a bijuridical or mixed system of law similar to the common law system in Scotland and Louisiana.

Many states have what are termed mixed economies, referring to the varying degree of planned and market-driven elements in a state's economic system.

This turn of events marked China's transition from a planned economy to a mixed economy with an increasingly open market environment, a system termed by some as " market socialism ", and officially by the Communist Party of China as " Socialism with Chinese characteristics ".

Johnson describes that the African identity was influenced and caste system constructed by dividing enslaved Africans, mixed race offsprings, and indentured servants by their occupations, and by skin color.

Pre-decimalisation, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland used a mixed duodecimal-vigesimal currency system ( 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings or 240 pence to the pound sterling or Irish pound ), and Charlemagne established a monetary system that also had a mixed base of twelve and twenty, the remnants of which persist in many places.

Interconnection technologies such as circuit boards, electronics packaging technology, and other varied forms of communication infrastructure complete circuit functionality and transform the mixed components into a working system.

The mixed public-private health care system in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with health care costing more per person than in any other nation, and a greater portion of gross domestic product ( GDP ) is spent on it than in any other United Nations member state except for East Timor ( Timor-Leste ).

Although not reaching its 1970s peak in Westminster elections, the SNP had more success in the Scottish Parliamentary elections with their system of mixed member proportional representation.

It consisted of a single cylinder and 22 gears, and employed the mixed base-2 and base-5 number system familiar to users to the soroban ( Japanese abacus ).

The DPR, which is the premier legislative institution, originally included 462 members elected through a mixed proportional / district representational system and thirty-eight appointed members of the armed forces ( TNI ) and police ( POLRI ).

In this cycle, the gasoline is mixed with lubricant oil, resulting in a simpler, but more environmentally damaging system, as the excess oils do not burn and are left as a residue.

The new dialect approach appears in The Cambridge Guide to English Usage ( Peters, 2004 ) which attempts to avoid any language bias and accordingly uses an idiosyncratic international spelling system of mixed American and British forms ( but tending to prefer the American English spellings ).

The Emminger Reform by Justice Minister Erich Emminger ( BVP ) abolished the jury in the German and replaced it with a mixed system of 3 professional judges and 6 lay judges, but kept the original name.

The government of the Marshall Islands operates under a mixed parliamentary-presidential system as set forth in its Constitution.

Although none of the major opera houses "... use traditional, Broadway-style sound reinforcement, in which most if not all singers are equipped with radio microphones mixed to a series of unsightly loudspeakers scattered throughout the theatre ", many use a sound reinforcement system for acoustic enhancement, and for subtle boosting of offstage voices, child singers, onstage dialogue, and sound effects ( e. g., church bells in Tosca or thunder effects in Wagnerian operas ).

While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.