The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).

Many crossbow scopes feature multiple crosshairs to compensate for the significant effects of gravity over different ranges.

Similarly, place names refer more often to a past event or a significant natural feature within a community than to a naturally demarcated area.

Although now acclaimed and widely influential as an urban design feature, Mies had to convince Bronfman's bankers that a taller tower with significant " unused " open space at ground level would enhance the presence and prestige of the building.

Both dams also feature significant environmental re-mediation efforts ( such as fish ladders ).

A significant design feature was that the M6800 family of ICs required only a single five-volt power supply at a time when most other microprocessors required three voltages.

The merger of diphthongs and to ( an example of the line – loin merger ) is extensive throughout Newfoundland and is a significant feature of Newfoundland English.

During this second term of office on the Commission, he was responsible for introducing new staff regulations for EU officials, a significant feature of which was substantial salary cuts for everyone employed after 1 May 2004, reduced pension prospects for many others, and gradually worsening employment conditions.

The significant emphasis with ' I ' within the hymns is an indication of Newton's view that the hymns are a product of his personal experience, a feature of his belief in personal repentance and Conversion, and his desire for a personal relationship with God.

Australian and UK soap operas also feature a significant proportion of romance storylines.

The most significant feature of the area is the Wadi as Sirhan, a large basin as much as 300 meters below the surrounding plateau, which is the vestige of an ancient inland sea.

A large tsunami may feature multiple waves arriving over a period of hours, with significant time between the wave crests.

Another important feature of Uzbekistan's physical environment is the significant seismic activity that dominates much of the country.

A significant distinguishing feature of Vietnamese ancestor veneration is that women have traditionally been allowed to participate and co-officiate ancestral rites, unlike in Chinese Confucian doctrine, which allows only male descendants to perform such rites.

# It is propagated by carrier particles that have significant masses ( particles called gauge bosons ), an unusual feature which is explained in the Standard Model by the Higgs mechanism.

When an XFS filesystem is used on a logical device provided by a hardware RAID controller with battery backed cache, this feature can cause significant performance degradation, as the filesystem code is not aware that the cache is nonvolatile, and if the controller honors the flush requests, data will be written to physical disk more often than necessary.

Local realism is a significant feature of classical mechanics, of general relativity, and of electrodynamics ; but quantum mechanics has shown that quantum entanglement is possible.

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

A very significant feature of the Navier – Stokes equations is the presence of convective acceleration: the effect of time independent acceleration of a fluid with respect to space.

Although only a minority will meet the criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD ), a significant majority will feature obsessive-type symptoms.

Some continental regions are defined by the major continental feature of their identity, such as the Amazon basin, or the Sahara, which both occupy a significant percentage of their respective continental land area.

Perhaps the most significant feature of Fatimid rule was that freedom which was given out to the people and liberty was given to the minds and reasons.

Southern Cross Ten also provides short local news updates which are produced in Shepparton, Victoria, however these do not feature significant local content from the Albury-Wodonga region.

Music is a main feature of the program ; the show is a significant outlet for American folk music of many genres, especially country, bluegrass, blues and gospel, but it also has guest performers from a wide variety of other styles of music, including classical and opera, and from a number of different countries.

Perhaps the most significant feature of Darkovan society is the presence of Laran, the psychic powers of the Comyn, who are the ruling class of Darkover.

The Archduke plays a significant role both in Elizabeth George's mystery A Traitor to Memory ( 2001 ); and in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore ( 2002 ).

Consequently, when the accession of Elizabeth I re-asserted the dominance of Protestantism in England, there remained a significant body of Reformed believers who were nevertheless hostile to the Book of Common Prayer.

The most significant family of constitutional monarchies in the world today are the sixteen Commonwealth realms under Elizabeth II.

Charlotte's friendship with fellow writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.

Especially significant were three schools for women, the Elizabeth Aull Seminary, Lexington Ladies College, and Central College for Women.

Since the time of Queen Elizabeth I the college has also been associated with Westminster School, which continues to supply a significant number of undergraduates to the college.

Many signs commemorate significant events such as the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, the passing of Millennium or local celebrations such as the centenary of the formation of local councils.

Elizabeth Taylor was a significant figure in his life.

John Kean II, who served on the staff of Governor Pennington with the rank of colonel, was an original stockholder of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, served as the first president of the Elizabeth and Somerville Railroad, as a vice president of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, as president of the National Bank of New Jersey, as president of the Elizabethtown Gaslight Company ( later known as Elizabethtown Gas Company ) and Elizabethtown Water Company lived at Liberty Hall for 60 years and made the most dramatically significant changes to the house and property in its history, transforming the house into a 50-room Victorian Italianate structure.

In Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), Clarissa and Richard's daughter Elizabeth, in a rare moment of solitude while amid the crowds on The Strand, comes to a significant realization about her purpose in life and begins to resolve the tension within herself regarding her mother and Miss Kilman.

Following the retirement of her running mate the Queen Elizabeth 2 in November 2008, Queen Mary 2 is the only liner operating on transatlantic routes, though she also sees significant service on cruise routes.

Following the retirement of her running mate the Queen Elizabeth 2 in November 2008, Queen Mary 2 is the only liner operating on transatlantic routes, though she also sees significant service on cruise routes.

James I made a few significant changes to the buildings, notably the construction in 1622 of a new Banqueting House built to a design by Inigo Jones to replace a series of previous banqueting houses dating from the time of Elizabeth I.

Over the course of their career, they had performed to some highly significant people, including Queen Elizabeth II in 19 May 2011 and then to U. S. president Barack Obama on 23 May 2011.

A freeway with a significant remaining network of service roads is the Queen Elizabeth Way ( QEW ).

Dr. Elizabeth Wictum, director of the UC Davis laboratory that carried out the testing, told The Associated Press that while the results were “ fairly significant ,” they " don't conclusively point to Williams ' dog as the source of the hair ", because the lab was able to test only for mitochondrial DNA which, unlike nuclear DNA, cannot be shown to be unique to one dog.

Only years later, after England's destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1588 ( in which Drake played a significant role ), did Queen Elizabeth allow an official account of Drake's voyage by Richard Hakluyt to be published — though with many of the details obscured.

Though less radical ( and certainly less well-known ) than Greene, he saw the BBC successfully through many significant events in British broadcasting: the surge in television viewership ( aided especially by the coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 ); the introduction of the competing ITV service in 1955 ; the gradual modernisation of some old eccentric practices ( the aforementioned Fourteen-Day Rule and the Toddlers ' Truce closedown period in the early evening ).

A significant point in his career was his appointment as official artist for the Coronation of Elizabeth II, which brought his name before the public worldwide.

President Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren, former Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP have said that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was a significant cause of the current global financial crisis, on the grounds that it opened up the door for the financial sector to form so-called too big to fail financial services giants like AIG.

Most of the church fittings are modern, but there are some significant survivals, such as the monument to Elizabeth Pepys and the pulpit, said to be the work of Grinling Gibbons.

His appreciations of Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams helped to establish or resuscitate their reputations as significant American poets, and his poet / friends often returned the favor, as when Lowell wrote a review of Jarrell's book of poems, The Seven League Crutches in 1951.

Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE ( born 5 July 1935 ) is a British folksinger who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

The emphasis on Devereux takes away somewhat from the political problems Elizabeth was facing at the time, such as with Spain, France and Ireland, as well as significant problems in England itself with high taxes and the failure of the crops, though these events are made frequent reference to.