Karen's full name is Karen Ann McNeil and the circumstances of her lapse into a coma are similar to those in the famous case of Karen Ann Quinlan.

In law, desuetude ( from the Latin desuetudo, outdated, no longer custom ) is a doctrine that causes statutes, similar legislation or legal principles to lapse and become unenforceable by a long habit of non-enforcement or lapse of time.

French colonial officials, aware of Barthélemy Boganda's similar dramatic rise to power in Ubangui-Shari, did not want to take the risk of letting Youlou's request lapse, which could have caused unrest amongst the public, so they informed him of his error.

In the Earthforce stories in the U. K. comic, it was revealed Slag has a " four million year itch " that, similar to Dinobot Hunt, causes him to lapse into primitive homicidal rages.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

" A similar event occurred to the Concordia in 2010 off the coast of Brazil.

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

A similar gender switch occurred among some men close to the royal court.

These clashes flared into another outbreak of serious fighting in January 1981 called the Paquisha War ; similar incidents occurred in 1983 and again in 1984.

Nevertheless, they expect that similar patterns will occur, or have occurred, first in other developed nations and then in the developing world as there is a limit to how much environmental factors can improve intelligence.

A similar situation occurred when Elvis ' friend Johnny Cash asked Presley to appear on his show.

In Europe a similar development occurred in French and Spanish individualist anarchist circles.

A similar event occurred during the 2004 Upper House Elections.

Modifications have occurred over the intervening years, however, and in early 1987 Libyan uniforms were similar to those worn by military personnel of a number of Middle-Eastern Arab countries.

However, such climate changes were nothing new ; numerous very similar warming episodes had occurred previously within the ice age of the last several million years without producing comparable megafaunal extinctions, so climate alone is unlikely to have played a decisive role.

A similar phenomenon, though not under the same name, occurred during the German Sturm und Drang movement, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats.

Final hover testing occurred in 1992 using miniaturized components similar to what would have actually been used in an operational interceptor.

" A similar change occurred in Germany, with women choosing " Frau " instead of " Fräulein " in an effort to disassociate marital status from title.

A similar pegging at 50 cents occurred at around the same time with the silver peso of Mexico and the silver yen of Japan.

A similar situation occurred in France, with the two vines being commonly confused until the mid 19th century, when ampelographers began combing through the vineyards of Chablis and Burgundy, identifying the true Chardonnay and weeding out the Pinot Blanc.

Many factors, including the success of brands like Lindemans ( part of Foster's Group ) and Jacob's Creek in the UK, as well as Rosemount in the US and UK, were responsible for a dramatic expansion of plantings during the 1980s and 1990s ; a similar trajectory occurred in California.

The scene was similar to that which had occurred between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor at Canossa a century earlier.

A similar practice occurred in hardcore with musicians taking the names of their bands, like Kevin Seconds of 7 Seconds and Ray Cappo of Youth of Today who, for a while, billed himself as Ray of Today.

A similar situation occurred in the U. S. when NASA acquired land to construct the John C. Stennis Space Center ( SSC ), a rocket testing facility, in Hancock County, Mississippi ( on the Mississippi side of the Mississippi River, which is the Mississippi-Louisiana state line ) required NASA to acquire a large ( approximately ) buffer zone because of the loud noise and potential dangers associated with testing such rockets.

Another similar attack apparently occurred there in 2000, but its outcome is not clear.

MacFarquhar and Schoenhals also dispute that it was communism that compelled the Zhuang in this area towards cannibalism, noting that similar incidents occurred under pressure from the Kuomintang secret police in the republican period.

A similar situation occurred in 2007 in the United States with the rising price of copper and zinc, which led the U. S. government to ban the melting or mass exportation of one-cent and five-cent coins, respectively.

Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred.

The state was confronted with transportation problems similar to those of the individual.

that there would be a similar decline in the market values of other automotive and chemical stocks, with similar losses to the stockholders of those companies ; ;

The interest rate will be similar to those prevailing in India on comparable loans and the maturities will be consistent with the purposes of the financing.

Super-Set No. 2 is made up of similar exercises, but this time done with dumbbells, and using both `` moon '' and flat benches.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

Commonly used electronic devices which are found in practically every hospital are closed-circuit TV and audio systems for internal paging and instruction, along with radiation counters, timers, and similar devices.

Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.

Any reputable French interne can supply you with a dozen similar instances, and I'll presently recount a case out of my own personal experience, but, for the moment, let's resume our catalogue.

These conjugates Af had much less nonspecific staining than the previous conjugate ( with 50 mg FITC per gram of globulin ) while the specific staining was similar in both cases.

In litters of eight mice from similar parents, the number of mice with straight instead of wavy hair is an integer from 0 to 8.

Reliability and validation work with the Children's Anxiety Scale by Castaneda, et al demonstrated results closely similar to the findings with the adult scale.

It will be seen that where the scope is similar, the Athabascan ratios come out somewhat higher ( as indeed they ought to with a total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4: 5 ) except for verbs, where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower.

A few key skilled workers experienced in the company's type of work usually must be brought in with the plant manager, or hired away from a similar plant elsewhere.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

Within each chapter an effort has been made to group together those crystals with similar structures.

Place the specimen in the wash wheel with sufficient other similar fabric to make a dry load of Af pounds.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

In the search for oil and gas, we make similar waves under controlled conditions with dynamite and learn from them where there are buried rock structures favorable to the accumulation of these resources.

All the officials on the case seem to have been afflicted with a similar myopia as far as Bridget was concerned, although records in police files contain many reports of servants who have murdered their employers.

The `` distributive education '' program operates in a similar way, with arrangements between the school and employers in merchandising fields.

the majority of such contacts are with people of similar social and economic position ; ;