When we look at countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Burma, where substantial progress has been made in creating a minimum supply of modern men and of social overhead capital, and where institutions of centralized government exist, we find a second category of countries with a different set of problems and hence different priorities for policy.

Most countries in this second category share the difficulty of having many of the structures of a modern political and social system without the modern standards of performance required to make them effective.

A modern PC can do the same thing in well under a millionth of a second.

Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.

In modern law, the title would have fallen into abeyance between the two daughters of the second son, and nobody else would have been able to claim it even if the abeyance were settled ; in 1597, the grandson of the third son claimed the title and its precedence.

Other Flexowriter characters that were found a use in Atlas Autocode were: in floating-point numbers, e. g. for modern ; to mean " the second half of an Atlas memory word "; for the mathematical pi number.

... was also a great and profound chess thinker second only to Steinitz, and his works – Die Blockade, My System and Chess Praxis – established his reputation as one of the father figures of modern chess.

In modern firearms terminology this is often called a " New York reload " after the practice of New York Police Department officers carrying second ( and even third ) guns as backup.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age system, as proposed in modern times by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, for classifying and studying ancient societies.

The second article, published in 1938, states that launching a swift strategic knockout has great attractions for Germany but appears to accept that such a knockout will be very difficult to achieve by land attack under modern conditions ( especially in view of the existence of systems of fortification like the Maginot Line ) unless an exceptionally high degree of surprise is achieved.

As in modern times, though, reports of cannibalism were often told as apocryphal second and third-hand stories, with widely varying levels of accuracy.

" Civilization was not used in its modern sense to mean " the opposite of barbarism "— as contrasted to civility, meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the second half of the 18th century.

It is the second largest bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, the double bass being the largest.

The second theory is that the rules of the modern game of croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches.

Starting in the 1880s, and more significantly by the mid-20th century, CGS was gradually superseded internationally for scientific purposes by the MKS ( metre – kilogram – second ) system, which in turn developed into the modern SI standard.

The book's second part contained an extensive analysis on the modern state's institutionalized forms of " classroom learning " as the cultural – historical context that shapes much of modern learning and socialization.

These African importees have had the most dominant racial influence, and their rich and ancient culture has had an influence second only to that of Europe on the political and cultural character of the modern Dominican Republic.

The term started to get its modern negative meaning with Cornelius Sulla's ascension to the dictatorship following Sulla's second civil war, making himself the first Dictator in more than a century ( during which the office was ostensibly abolished ) as well as de facto eliminating the time limit and need of senatorial acclamation, although he avoided a major constitutional crisis by resigning the office after about one year due to poor health, dying shortly after.

By 1987, with Yzerman, now the captain following the departure of Danny Gare, joined by Petr Klima, Adam Oates, Gerard Gallant, defenseman Darren Veitch and new head coach Jacques Demers, the Wings won a playoff series for only the second time in the modern era.

Equipment from the Soviet Union is being progressively replaced by more modern U. S., French, and British equipment, a significant portion of which is built under license in Egypt, such as the M1A1 Abrams tank which makes Egypt the owner of the second largest number of latest generation main battle tanks in the region after Israel, and the second after Syria in case of the older generations.

It is the second smallest of the modern constellations ( after Crux ), spanning only 72 square degrees.

The second meaning is similar to the usage of the term in other social sciences: a community is a group of people living near one another who interact socially.

This leads to the second usage of the word divine ( and a less common usage of divinity ): to refer to the operation of transcendent power in the world.

Christian scholar Donald Guthrie claims that the Gospel was likely widely known before the end of the 1st century, and was fully recognized by the early part of the second, while Helmut Koester states that aside from Marcion, " there is no certain evidence for its usage ," prior to ca.

However, the usage of Irish diaspora is generally not limited by citizenship status, thus leading to an estimated ( and fluctuating ) membership of up to 80 million persons — the second and more emotive definition.

However, a second definition and usage has historically been in practice in many fields of computer science and information technology, which defines the prefix kilo when used with byte or bit units of data as 1024 ( 2 < sup > 10 </ sup >); this is due to the mathematical coincidence that Thus, in these fields 1 kilobyte is equal to 1 kibibyte, a new unit standardized as part of the binary prefixes to resolve the ambiguity.

In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase into American usage.

Like velocity, speed has the dimensions of a length divided by a time ; the SI unit of speed is the meter per second, but the most usual unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometer per hour or, in the USA and the UK, miles per hour.

In a more general usage in celestial mechanics, the expression ' tidal force ' can refer to a situation in which a body or material ( for example, tidal water, or the Moon ) is mainly under the gravitational influence of a second body ( for example, the Earth ), but is also perturbed by the gravitational effects of a third body ( for example, by the Moon in the case of tidal water, or by the Sun in the case of the Moon ).

In modern usage, the first letter of the first part of the name, the genus, is always capitalized in writing, while that of the second part is not, even when derived from a proper noun such as the name of a person or place.

In current usage, the second part is never written with an initial capital.

Below is an explanation of, first, what a sign is, second, how meanings are accomplished through its usage.

The second two volumes, The Use of Pleasure ( Histoire de la sexualité, II: l ' usage des plaisirs ) and The Care of the Self ( Histoire de la sexualité, III: le souci de soi ) dealt with the role of sex in Greek and Roman antiquity.

In the second half of the 20th century, widespread usage of mules declined in industrialized countries.

# Seniority within the family: In ancient usage, the characters of meng ( 孟 ), zhong ( 仲 ), shu ( 叔 ) and ji ( 季 ) were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family.

), to the use of foreign terms, it became the standard for most style guides that followed ; thus, the 1926 first edition remains in print despite the existence of the 1965 second edition, and the 1996 and 2004 printings of the third edition, which was mostly rewritten as a usage dictionary incorporating corpus linguistics data.

The second usage refers to a language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard but not a variation of it or in any other sense derived from it.

Originally intended as a badge of shame, the pink triangle ( often inverted from its Nazi usage ) has been reclaimed as an international symbol of gay pride and the gay rights movement, and is second in popularity only to the rainbow flag.

It is unclear whether this usage was cause or effect, as it has been anecdotally reported that Dennis Ritchie has claimed " The second letter was originally different.

The second usage described an incident which occurred in December 2008, wherein Hebron settlers lashed out at Palestinians in that city in response to the eviction of a settler group from a disputed building by Israeli security.

While western scholars favored the second to designate the left wing, the use of Blue Horde by Ötemish Hajji ( fl. 1550 ), a historian of Khwarezm familiar with oral traditions of the khanate, indicates the Russian usage is correct.

The original Big5 character set is sorted first by usage frequency, second by stroke count, lastly by Kangxi radical.

An example of this second usage is to label as scientism any attempt to claim science as the only or primary source of human values ( a traditional domain of ethics ) or as the source of meaning and purpose ( a traditional domain of religion and related worldviews ).

:* According to the second theory, the usage alludes to the Arabic root word “ shei ” which stands for the unknown.

The second usage apparently related to teeth described as belonging to small carnivorous dinosaurs.