The introduction of the United States Pharmacopoeia reference standard in 1952 and the redefinition and equating of the USP and international units of thyroid-stimulating activity have made it possible to compare results published by different investigators since that time.

By " art " we may frame several artistic " works " or " creations " as so though this reference remains within the institution or special event which creates it and this leaves some works or other possible " art " outside of the frame work, or other interpretations such as other phenomenon which may not be considered as " art ".

An area of the town is named ' Black Abbey ' a possible reference to the murders.

It is also possible that a reference to the insanity of Nebuchadnezzar is to be found in the cuneiform text: BM 34113.

Virtually the only possible variation is using a different reference date, in particular one less distant in the past to make the numbers smaller.

It is possible that in the statement about Dobrawa's age, Cosmas was making a reference to the age difference between her and her sister Mlada.

The word dandelion ( literally, tooth of lion, referring to the shape of the leaves ) is another example, being a substitute for pissenlit, meaning " wet the bed ", a possible reference to the fact that dandelion was used as a diuretic.

Starting with Hart, a great deal of effort has gone into developing scientific theories about, and possible models of, extraterrestrial life, and the Fermi paradox has become a theoretical reference point in much of this work.

The terminus ad quem, or latest possible date, for Luke is bound by the earliest papyri manuscripts that contains portions of Luke ( late 2nd / early 3rd century )< ref > P < sup > 4 </ sup >, P < sup > 45 </ sup >, P < sup > 69 </ sup >, P < sup > 75 </ sup >, and P < sup > 111 </ sup ></ ref > and the mid to late 2nd century writings that quote or reference Luke.

Inversions seen in such lines as " fair is foul and foul is fair " are used frequently, and another possible reference to the plot relates to the use of equivocation ; Garnett's A Treatise of Equivocation was found on one of the plotters.

One possible reference to John is a saying that is quoted in the context of a description of Christian baptism ( 1 Apol.

The commission's terms of reference did not permit it to discuss the possible faults of Kaunda's decision.

Descartes, who thought extensively about mind-brain relationships, found it possible to explain reflexes and other simple behaviors in mechanistic terms, although he did not believe that complex thought, and language in particular, could be explained by reference to the physical brain alone.

Central to this synthesis were common assumptions and institutional frames of reference, including the religious norms found in Christianity, scientific norms found in classical physics, as well as the idea that the depiction of external reality from an objective standpoint was not only possible but desirable.

The phrase, which had previously been limited to regional usage with various possible references, was co-opted and popularized to mean " Old Kinderhook ", a reference to Van Buren based on the name of his home village in New York.

' However, the above quote is in the context of a section in Gardner's book examining why the Templars were executed by the Christian Church, so it is entirely possible that the reference is not to Gardner's own opinion of homosexuality but that of earlier Christians.

This principle laid the seed for possible societal tension with reference to tyrants.

In the Somali language, the word gaal means " non-Muslim " or " stranger ", a possible reference to the Oromo and their old pagan religion.

While he makes no specific reference to the possible war with Greece or the previous war ( that might be too dangerous ), he does seem to push the message that the government should take care of its own people before attempting any other military actions.

The first possible historical reference to the vase is in a 1601 letter from the French scholar Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc to the painter Peter Paul Rubens, where it is recorded as in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in Italy.

* From the Etruscan word ruma, whose root is * rum-" teat ", with possible reference either to the totem wolf that adopted and suckled the cognately named twins Romulus and Remus, or to the shape of the Palatine and Aventine Hills ;

Although it's possible to augment simple reference counts in a variety of ways, often a better solution can be found by performing reference counting in a fundamentally different way.

In those Lisps, it was perfectly possible for a reference to a free variable inside a procedure to refer to quite distinct bindings external to the procedure, depending on the context of the call.

Although the markup norm is using angle brackets as start-and end-tag delimiters in an SGML document ( per the standard-defined reference concrete syntax ), it is possible to use other characters — provided a suitable concrete syntax is defined in the document's SGML declaration.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

One possible explanation is, that this annal records a reconquest of land that was lost to the Britons in the campaigns ending in the battle of Mons Badonicus.

The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a possible lost letter of Paul, the original existence of which is inferred from an instruction to the church in Colossae to send their letter to the church in Laodicea, and likewise obtain a copy of the letter " from Laodicea " ( Greek ek laodikeas ἐκ Λαοδικείας ).

Pagden has written that " There is no preconquest tradition which places Quetzalcoatl in this role, and it seems possible therefore that it was elaborated by Sahagún and Motolinía from informants who themselves had partially lost contact with their traditional tribal histories " ( Pagden 1986: 467 )

Having lost the first challenge to Hawke, Keating realised that events would have to move very much in his favour for a second challenge to be even possible.

* Near instant point-to-point teleportation is possible with transfer booths ( on Earth ) and stepping disks ( on the Puppeteer homeworld ); on Earth, people's sense of place and global position has been lost due to instantaneous travel ; cities and cultures have blended together.

Haldeman observed that since 30 % of the sample was lost to the follow-up, it is possible that the outcome sample did not include any people attracted mainly or exclusively to the same sex.

The best time to bring a lawsuit is while the evidence is not lost and as close as possible to the alleged illegal behavior.

It is also one of the possible ways that Mars has lost most of its atmosphere and that Mercury continually replenishes its tenuous surface-bounded exosphere.

If similar amounts of land have been lost on other parts of the Solent shore, the Solent was likely much narrower in Roman times, and it is possible to believe Diodorus Siculus's report that in his time men could wade to the Isle of Wight at low tide.

The marriage also makes possible British descendants, a point not lost on medieval kings.

If a star grows outside of its Roche lobe too fast for all abundant matter to be transferred to the other component, it is also possible that matter will leave the system through other Lagrange points or as stellar wind, thus being effectively lost to both components.

With less than 20 % a trance was induced where the subject could sit up, hear questions and answer them logically, although the tone of their voice might be altered, their speech pattern could be changed, and they may have lost some awareness of their hands and feet, ( with some it was possible to have poked a pin or pricked them with a knife and they would not feel it ).

The key point in anti-grappling is to prevent going to the ground at first, and if one lost his / her balance or fell, he or she will use the same chi sao reflexes and wing tsun eight principles on the ground for preventing chokes, joint-locks and finishing the opponent, to get back on feet as soon as possible.

But man has lost the power to effect this by himself ; he has alienated himself from God, and therefore no ethical theory which neglects the facts of sin and redemption is satisfactory or even possible.

This is because it and its associates ( the American Chestnut Cooperators ' Foundation and many others from education, research and industry sectors contributing to the program ) are at the last stages of developing a variety that is as close as possible to the lost American chestnut, while having incorporated the blight-resistant gene of the Asiatic species.

It is possible that the imperial insignia, if they had not been removed and taken elsewhere in 1945, were lost or destroyed at this time.

In 1786 Jean-François de La Pérouse, representing France, sailed to the Queen Charlotte Islands after visiting Nootka Sound but any possible French claims to this region were lost when La Pérouse and his men and journals were lost in a shipwreck near Australia.

Should the ticket be lost, a driver must typically pay the maximum amount possible for travel on that highway.

While at Springfield College, a student's question about the Lost Continent of Mu prompted a class project to investigate the lost continent of Atlantis, leading Hapgood to investigate possible ways that massive earth changes could occur and exposing him to the literature of Hugh Auchincloss Brown.

A possible third medal was lost when Osendarp dropped the baton in the final of the 4 x 100 m relay while fighting for second place.

See the sections below for possible functions of the appendix that may have evolved more recently after the appendix lost its original function.

In this way it has been possible to determine without excavation the approximate site of lost churches, where the tower still exists.

He perhaps is most famous in music history for declaring that it was not possible to notate sounds — an assertion which reveals his ignorance of the notational system of ancient Greece, so that knowledge had been lost by the time he was writing.