As an all-male residence from 1913 to 2007 it held a number of unique traditions.

Its genesis is mostly in association croquet, but it differs in a number of important ways that reflect the home-grown traditions of American " backyard " croquet.

In South America there are a number of indigenous traditions and more recent religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca, usually in an animistic context that may be mixed with Christian imagery.

Goldziher writes, in his Mohammedan Studies: "... it is not surprising that, among the hotly debated controversial issues of Islam, whether political or doctrinal, there is not one in which the champions of the various views are unable to cite a number of traditions, all equipped with imposing isnads ".

In addition to the race itself, a number of traditions play a large role in the Derby atmosphere.

Christianity has seen the three stages phased out and replaced with biblical teachings in a number of areas in Kipsigis areas ( although the traditions of the " menjo " remains unchanged ).

A number of Wiccan, pagan and even some " Traditionalist " or " Tribalist " groups have a history of " Grandmother Stories " – typically involving initiation by a Grandmother, Grandfather, or other elderly relative who is said to have instructed them in the secret, millennia-old traditions of their ancestors.

There are a number of Pagan authors who have examined the relation of the 20th-century movements of polytheistic revival with historical polytheism on one hand and contemporary traditions of indigenous folk religion on the other.

It is true that in the highly text-oriented western European song tradition, tunes can be subordinate, interchangeable, and even limited in number ( as in Portuguese fado, which only has 64 tunes ), nevertheless, Eyerman and Jamison point out that some of the most effective protest songs gain power through their appropriation of tunes that are bearers of strong cultural traditions.

21257 in Musnad Ibn Hanbal ) mentions that there were 124, 000 of them in total throughout history ( with other traditions placing the number of Prophets at 224, 000 while other scholars holding that there is even a greater number in the history of mankind, and God alone knows ), and the Qur ' an says that God has sent a prophet to every group of people throughout time, and that Muhammad is the last of the prophets, sent for the whole of humankind.

1934, the Court's 13th year, " has been in keeping with the traditions associated with that number ", with few cases, since the world's governments were more concerned with the growing international tension.

The legend that St James found his way to the Iberian Peninsula, and had preached there is one of a number of early traditions concerning the missionary activities and final resting places of the apostles of Jesus.

A later vita, written by Otloh of St. Emmeram ( 1062 – 1066 ), is based on Willibald's and a number of other vitae as well as the correspondence, and also includes information from local traditions.

The script had Nevsky utter a number of traditional Russian proverbs, verbally rooting his fight against the Germanic invaders in Russian traditions.

Twenty first century linguistic work, including re-examining the dating of early Hebrew poetry, according to evidence of dialectic variation, has been applied to the Song by a number of scholars from different traditions.

Scripture is that portion of literature deemed authoritative for establishing instructions within any of a number of specific religious traditions, especially the Abrahamic religions

A number of martial arts traditions, particularly the ones falling under the category of Neijia ( like T ' ai Chi Ch ' uan, Bagua Zhang and Xing Yi Quan ) embody Taoist principles to a significant extent, and some practitioners consider their art to be a means of practicing Taoism.

" Thunderbird and Whale " is an indigenous myth belonging to the mythological traditions of a number of tribes from the Pacific Northwest.

Act II opens with Vladimir singing a recursive round about a dog, which could illustrate the cyclical nature of the play's universe, and also point toward the play's debt to the carnivalesque, music hall traditions, and vaudeville comedy ( this is only one of a number of canine references and allusions in the play ).

A number of traditions originating outside of classical concert music have enriched the choral repertoire as well as provided new outlets to composers:

In general, the 20th century has seen a sharp rise in public interest in various forms of magical practice, and the foundation of a number of traditions and organisations, ranging from the distinctly religious to the philosophical.

A number of monolatristic traditions separate a secondary creator from a primary transcendent being, identified as a primary creator.

Waxes and hard fats such as tallow have been used to make candles, used for lighting and decoration in a number of religious traditions, including Christianity and Hinduism, as well as various neo-pagan religions such as Wicca.

There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

In your sales force, will a smaller number of higher-priced, high-quality salesmen serve you best, or can you make out better with a larger number of lower-paid salesmen??

You might try providing standard vacation time off but make the vacation pay depend on the number of hours worked in the previous year.

One good way to cut your labor waste is to make sure you are using just the right number of men in each crew.

It is planned to double the number of teams and to make use of improved equipment in a second demographic inquiry in 1960, so that the inquiry can be carried through in one year and the results published more expeditiously.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

There sit men who make moving averages of weekly volume, monthly averages of price-earnings ratios, ratios of the number of advances to the number of declines, ratios of an individual stock's performance to overall market performance, ratios of rising price volume to falling price volume, odd-lot indices, and what not.

However, in the actual assessment of the cutting force by instrumental methods for any thickness of coating a number of spurious effects occur which must be taken into account and which make the measured value larger than the true cutting force indicated by eqn. ( 1 ).

In the second place, a large number of writers, making a more direct claim than Frost to being `` folk writers '' of one sort or another, clearly make no distinctions between genuine and bogus material.

A man does not make that kind of gamble if he suspects that one or more of the limited number of tenure positions is being reserved for members of the `` family ''.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

Neil Christie considers 150, 000 to be a realistic size, a number which would make the Lombards a more numerous force than the Ostrogoths on the eve of their invasion of Italy.

Nevertheless, he admits, humans and animals differ in mental faculties in a number of ways, including: differences in memory and attention, inferential abilities, ability to make deductions in a long chain, ability to grasp ideas more or less clearly, the human capacity to worry about conflating unrelated circumstances, a sagely prudence which arrests generalizations, a capacity for a greater inner library of analogies to reason with, an ability to detach oneself and scrap one's own biases, and an ability to converse through language ( and thus gain from the experience of others ' testimonies ).

Many ironclads were built to make use of the ram or the torpedo, which a number of naval designers considered the crucial weapons of naval combat.

He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour ( usually combined ), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare ( 1502 ) and the Great Piece of Turf ( 1503, both also Albertina ).

The relatively small number of atomic absorption lines ( compared to atomic emission lines ) and their narrow width ( a few pm ) make spectral overlap rare ; there are only very few examples known that an absorption line from one element will overlap with another.

Plans to make a third Evil Dead film had been circulating for a number of years, even prior to the production of Darkman.

A telephone number in Belgium is a sequence of nine or ten numbers dialled on a telephone to make a call on the telephone network in Belgium.

* E — Errors: number of times a fielder fails to make a play he should have made with common effort, and the offense benefits as a result

A number of formal and industry standards exist for bicycle components to help make spare parts exchangeable and to maintain a minimum product safety.

It can sometimes be advantageous to bid a contract that one does not expect to make and to be defeated, thus losing some points, rather than allow the opposing side to bid and make a contract which would score them an even greater number of points.