" One example is Isidore of Seville's account of Alaric's reign: consisting of a single paragraph, it is primarily about Alaric's death in that battle.

The opening paragraph names a collection of goddesses, some derived from Greek or Roman mythology, others from Celtic or Arthurian legends, affirming a belief that these various figures represent a single Great Mother:

The word Mishnah can also indicate a single paragraph or verse of the work itself, i. e. the smallest unit of structure in the Mishnah.

The word Mishnah can also indicate a single paragraph or verse of the work itself, i. e. the smallest unit of structure in the Mishnah.

He provides the first historical reference to Saint Ninian, in a passing reference contained in the final part of a single paragraph.

Bulleted items – known as " bullet points " – may be short phrases, single sentences, or of paragraph length.

Gill wrote that Quimby's actual manuscripts, in his own almost illegible handwriting, indicated that for all intents and purposes Quimby was functionally illiterate and could not write a single cogent English paragraph let alone the manuscripts.

His own process, depending on the third principle, was to give a student learning a language for the first time a short passage of a few lines, and to encourage the pupil to study first the words, then the letters, then the grammar, then the meaning, until a single paragraph became the occasion for learning an entire literature.

This self-referential narrative ( within a single paragraph Saleem refers to himself in the first person: ' And I, wishing upon myself the curse of Nadir Khan.

In 1984 Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by him accusing her of contributing to his father's Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect.

Many mishnayot ( single paragraph units ) in the Mishnah and in the Tosefta are midrashic halakot.

According to Signorile, the church pressured Cooney's publisher, Times Books, to reduce the four pages discussing Spellman's sexuality to a single paragraph.

( a ) Any firearm which has a short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand ; and ( b ) Any combination of parts from which a firearm described in paragraph ( a ) can be assembled.

Apologists for the Vatican's role during WWII have cited Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address as evidence that the Papacy and the Roman Catholic establishment did indeed condemn Nazi genocide but the relevant passage ( a single short paragraph ) in this address is so vague, obfuscated and un-specific as to offer little support for this claim.

Hogan is introduced with a single paragraph rising out of nowhere: " Donald Hogan is a spy ".

Without entering into the merits of the advice which it proposes to convey, or attempting to defend ( what I now condemn myself ) the language and manner in which that advice was delivered, I solemnly declare, that in writing the passage which regards the Bible ( consisting of a single page, and the only passage which I ever wrote on the subject ) I had not the most distant intention to bring the sacred Writings into contempt, and that, had I suspected it of producing such an effect, I should not have written the paragraph .”

Its length may vary from a single paragraph to a substantial essay.

A Mad Fold-In consists of a single drawing, with a paragraph of text underneath, and a panel across the top with a question.

The old adage " A picture is worth a thousand words " holds true, in that a single image can save a presenter from speaking a paragraph of descriptive details.

Similarly, a single orphaned word at the end of a paragraph can be cured by forcing one or more words from the preceding line into the orphan's line.

Sometimes it can also be useful to add non-breaking spaces to the first two ( or few ) short words of a paragraph to avoid that a single orphaned word is placed to the left or right of a picture or table, while the remainder of the text ( with longer words ) would only appear after the table.

Who soever edit the above paragraph about the death of Gohri that is with immaturity and without any single " Outsider written proof " perhapes he did not read the following paragraphs because In of the Ghurid Empire & days and Death it is clearly mentioned that 1-Muhammad Ghori marched towards Ajmer and appointed Qub-ud-din Aibak as his Naib, 2-Muḥammad Ghori returned west to Ghazni to deal with the threat to his western frontiers from the unrest in Iran 3-he had to travel to Lahore to crush a revolt 4-After settling the affairs in the Punjab.

Apart from a single tribal name of doubtful meaning and validity in a Byzantine chronicle ( see paragraph below ), the evidence adduced to support a Dacian identity for the Carpi is archaeological.

The General Assembly resolution in its entirety ( of which this declaration was a single paragraph ) was voted against by the Israel, Palau and the United States, with Australia and Canada abstaining.

When more electrons are added to a single atom, the additional electrons tend to more evenly fill in a volume of space around the nucleus so that the resulting collection ( sometimes termed the atom ’ s “ electron cloud ” ) tends toward a generally spherical zone of probability describing where the atom ’ s electrons will be found.

While Ignatius of Antioch offers the earliest clear description of monarchial bishops ( a single bishop over all house churches in a city ) he is an advocate of monepiscopal structure rather than describing an accepted reality.

There is no consensus on some terms describing carbon nanotubes in scientific literature: both "- wall " and "- walled " are being used in combination with " single ", " double ", " triple " or " multi ", and the letter C is often omitted in the abbreviation ; for example, multi-walled carbon nanotube ( MWNT ).

Univariate analysis involves describing the distribution of a single variable, including its central tendency ( including the mean, median, and mode ) and dispersion ( including the range and quantiles of the data-set, and measures of spread such as the variance and standard deviation ).

The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).

There is no single model describing the operation of an oligopolistic market.

However, researchers have frequently noted that a single left-right axis is insufficient in describing the existing variation in political beliefs, and often include other axes.

Reviewers praised Super Mario Karts gameplay, describing the battle mode as " addictive " and the single player gameplay as " incredible ".

Retrospectively, " Keep Yourself Alive " is cited as the highlight of the album, and in 2008 Rolling Stone ranked it 31st in the " 100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time ", describing it as " an entire album's worth of riffs crammed into a single song ".

The Isles of the Blessed would be reduced to a single island by the Thebean poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging their athletic and musical pastimes.

The origin of the word crewel is unknown but is thought to come from an ancient word describing the curl in the staple, the single hair of the wool.

Since the earliest record of medical history, the coexistence of intense, divergent moods within an individual has been recognized by such writers as Homer, Hippocrates and Aretaeus, the last describing the vacillating presence of impulsive anger, melancholia and mania within a single person.

" when describing the overnight success of Deluxe and its single " Good ".

Because a single business may provide a number of services, there may be several Yellow Pages ( each describing a service ) associated with one White Page ( giving general information about the business ).

The duo were hugely influential in the evolution of electronic music in the 1990s with Mixmag describing them as " the single most influential production team working in British dance music ".

These submitted map entries were processed by an automatic program that combined them into a single set of files describing all connections in the network.

# The highest level according to Ibn Abi Hatim and Ibn al-Salah the highest is the use of a single adjective in describing a narrator.

* Kepler's laws of planetary motion, which can be mathematically derived from Newton's laws, hold strictly only in describing the motion of two gravitating bodies, in the absence of non-gravitational forces, or approximately when the gravity of a single massive body like the Sun dominates other effects:

The probabilities describing the possible outcome of a single trial are modelled, as a function of explanatory variables, using a logistic function.

This definition is consistent with its usage in describing circuits with a single reactive element ( capacitor or inductor ), where it can be shown to be equal to the ratio of reactive power to real power.

There is no single universally accepted definition of " National Security " since there are some differences on describing National as State and everything consist in a nation.

A further practical trial showed that a single brake-van with the brake correctly working and correctly applied could ( without the aid of scotching ) hold 10 carriages on the Armagh bank, against both their own weight and a nudge similar to that which witnesses agreed in describing as having been caused by run-back of the front portion of the divided train.

Translatio imperii, Latin for " transfer of rule ", is a concept invented in the Middle Ages for describing history as a linear succession of transfers of imperium, that is of supreme power concentrated with a series of single rulers ( emperors ).

In chemistry, resonance or mesomerism is a way of describing delocalized electrons within certain molecules or polyatomic ions where the bonding cannot be expressed by one single Lewis formula.

Heston wrote that the occasion " turned into the single most embarrassing evening of my life ", describing how Hill heaped " obscene abuse " on Hayworth until she was " reduced to a helpless flood of tears, her face buried in her hands ".