A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

In the center of the tablet is a set of 5 parallel lines equally divided by a vertical line, capped with a semicircle at the intersection of the bottom-most horizontal line and the single vertical line.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

For example, if we abbreviate by BP the claim that every set of real numbers has the property of Baire, then BP is stronger than ¬ AC, which asserts the nonexistence of any choice function on perhaps only a single set of nonempty sets.

In phonology, an allophone (; from the, állos, " other " and φωνή, phōnē, " voice, sound ") is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds ( or phones ) used to pronounce a single phoneme.

Typical examples of binary operations are the addition (+) and multiplication (×) of numbers and matrices as well as composition of functions on a single set.

The problem of deciding whether a set of Horn clauses is satisfiable is in P. This problem can indeed be solved by a single step of the Unit propagation, which produces the single minimal model of the set of Horn clauses ( w. r. t.

Because the instructions can be carried out in different types of computers, a single set of source instructions converts to machine instructions according to the central processing unit type.

Whereas a scalar CPU must complete the entire process of fetching, decoding, and executing each instruction and value in a set of data, a vector CPU can perform a single operation on a comparatively large set of data with one instruction.

When these principles are written down into a single collection or set of legal documents, those documents may be said to comprise a written constitution.

A set of ontological distinctions related by a single conceptual metaphor was called an ontological metaphor by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, who claimed that such metaphors arising from experience were more basic than any properties or symbol-based comparisons.

Since over the course of any single dance, individuals interact with not just their partners but everyone else in the set, contra dancing might be considered a group activity.

Both micro and macroeconomics work together to form a single set of evolving rules and regulations.

The standard works are printed and distributed by the LDS Church in a single binding called a quadruple combination and as a set of two books, with the Bible in one binding, and the other three books in a second binding called a triple combination.

Instead of listing every single element, sometimes an ellipsis ("...") is used, if the writer believes that the reader can easily guess what is missing ; for example, presumably denotes the set of integers from 1 to 100.

What we have done here is arranged the integers and the odd integers into a one-to-one correspondence ( or bijection ), which is a function that maps between two sets such that each element of each set corresponds to a single element in the other set.

A single compact set is sometimes referred to as a compactum ; following the Latin second declension ( neuter ), the corresponding plural form is compacta.

A function from the set of real numbers to the real numbers can be represented by a graph in the Cartesian plane ; the function is continuous if, roughly speaking, the graph is a single unbroken curve with no " holes " or " jumps ".

Native Hindi speakers pronounce / व / as in vrat (' व ् रत ', fast ) but in pakwan (' पकव ा न ', food dish ), treating them as a single phoneme and without being aware of the allophone distinctions they are subconsciously making, though these are apparent to native English speakers.

The concept developed in Du " Cubisme " of observing a subject from different points in space and time simultaneously, i. e., the act of moving around an object to seize it from several successive angles fused into a single image (' multiple viewpoints ' or ' mobile perspective '), is now a generally recognized phenomenon of the Cubist style.

It is usual to associate a single process with a main program, and ' daughter ' (' child ') processes with any spin-off, parallel processes, which behave like asynchronous subroutines.

Each helical track contains a single field (' even ' or ' odd ' field, equivalent to half a frame ) encoded as an analog raster scan, similar to analog TV broadcasts.

Songs such as debut single, " Blue " and the catchy " Go " (' go-a-woah-a-woah ') are nagging enough to show their promise.

In effect, there is no single name for modern laïká in the Greek language, but it is often formally referred to as σύγχρονο λαϊκό (), a term which is however also used for denoting newly composed songs in the tradition of " proper " Laïkó ; when ambiguity arises, σύγχρονο (' contemporary ') λαϊκό or disparagingly λαϊκο-ποπ (' folk-pop ', also in the sense of " westernized ") is used for the former, while γνήσιο (' genuine ') or even καθαρόαιμο (' pureblood ') λαϊκό is used for the latter.

However, the Top 20 success of the lead single " Weirdo " and a double weekend of gigs (' Daytripper ') in Blackpool and Brighton with Ride kept them in the public eye.

A non-professional acting company from Brazil, named Nós do Morro (' We of the hillside '), in collaboration with a Gallery 37 group from Birmingham, gave a single performance of the play during the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, directed by Guti Fraga.

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In addition to the thousands who fell in battle, 128 men were hanged personally by Mikhail Muravyov (' Muravyov the Hangman '), and 9, 423 men and women were exiled to Siberia ( 2, 500 men according to very lowered Russian data, Norman Davies gives the number of 80, 000 noting it was the single largest deportation in Russian history ).

The principal fractional ideals are those R-submodules of K generated by a single nonzero element of K. A fractional ideal I is contained in R if, and only if, it is an (' integral ') ideal of R.

* A doubled consonant after a vowel often indicates that the vowel is short, while a single consonant indicates the vowel is long, e. g. (' comb ') has a short vowel, while (' came ') has long vowel.

Torg provides a unified mechanics system suitable for any setting ; character attributes and game mechanics use a single sliding scale (' 18 ' can equally mean an hour of time, a truckload of weight, an expert marksman's skill, or $ 4, 000 ) and a unified method of task resolution involving a d20.

It is also possible to form identifiers by using UNICODE sequences ( including whitespace ) enclosed by either straight (' ') or standard (‘ ’) single quotes, where the backslash is the escape character.

Fuvahmulah (' Fua Mulaku ' in the Admiralty Chart ) is a large single island ( by itself a small detached atoll ) which lies in the Equatorial Channel.

As Fred says in his account of his life (' How success ruined me '), his name was ' made in a single night '.

The French crosses bear the single word " Inconnu " (' unknown ').

Clark writes that attempts to " uncover the truth about the late-nineteenth-century airship scare comes up against some unhappy realities: newspaper coverage was unreliable ; no independent investigators (' airshipologists ') spoke directly with alleged witnesses or attempted to verify or debunk their testimony ; and, with a single unsatisfactory exception, no eyewitness was ever interviewed even in the 1950 ’ s, when some were presumably still living.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

If the resulting four kilobyte table size is too large for a given target platform, the table lookup operation can be performed with a single 256-entry 32-bit ( i. e. 1 kilobyte ) table by the use of circular rotates.

* If the balance factor of L is + 1, a single right rotation ( with P as the root ) is needed ( Left-Left case ).

For example, if a program needs 20 hours using a single processor core, and a particular portion of 1 hour cannot be parallelized, while the remaining promising portion of 19 hours ( 95 %) can be parallelized, then regardless of how many processors we devote to a parallelized execution of this program, the minimum execution time cannot be less than that critical 1 hour.

there were 1, 594 single family homes ( or 18. 4 % of the total ) out of a total of 8, 661 homes and apartments.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Heart in Motion, the latter of which included the No. 1 single " Baby Baby ".

This double bond is stronger than a single covalent bond ( 611 kJ / mol for C = C vs. 347 kJ / mol for C — C ) and also shorter with an average bond length of 1. 33 Angstroms ( 133 pm ).

Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme ( with Flatt singing ) for Columbia Records ; released as a single, it reached # 44 on Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and # 1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart ( the lone country chart-topper for the duo ).

The single primordial beryllium isotope < sup > 9 </ sup > Be also undergoes a ( n, 2n ) neutron reaction with neutron energies over about 1. 9 MeV, to produce < sup > 8 </ sup > Be, which almost immediately breaks into two alpha particles.

Many fundamental questions of craftsmanship versus mass production, the relationship of usefulness and beauty, the practical purpose of formal beauty in a commonplace object, and whether or not a single proper form could exist, were argued out among its 1, 870 members ( by 1914 ).

In a multi-hand, face-up, single deck game, it is possible to establish whether insurance is a good bet simply by observing the other cards on the table after the deal ; even if there are just 2 player hands exposed, and neither of their two initial cards is a ten, then 16 in 47 of the remaining cards are tens, which is larger than 1 in 3, so insurance is a good bet.

In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

To take just a single example, Omri's accession to the throne of Israel in the 31st year of Asa of Judah ( 1 Kings 16: 23 ) cannot follow the death of his predecessor Zimri in the 27th year of Asa ( 1 Kings 16: 15 ).

A variant of the binomial formula is obtained by substituting 1 for y, so that it involves only a single variable.

However, the law of mass action is valid only for concerted one-step reactions that proceed through a single transition state and is not valid in general because rate equations do not, in general, follow the stoichiometry of the reaction as Guldberg and Waage had proposed ( see, for example, nucleophilic aliphatic substitution by S < sub > N </ sub > 1 or reaction of hydrogen and bromine to form hydrogen bromide ).

For example, if a game is played by wagering on the number that would result from the roll of one die, true odds would be 5 times the amount wagered since there is a 1 in 6 chance of any single number appearing, assuming that you get the original amount wagered back.

The album garnered the band their first and only No. 1 hit single on the Modern Rock Tracks chart with the title track " Celebrity Skin ".

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

In 2008, Coldcut remixed " Ourselves ", a Japanese # 1 hit from the single "&" by Ayumi Hamasaki.

That pushed the Rockies ' combined late-season ( September 16 and after ) and post-season run to 20 wins and just 1 loss, the single loss coming against Arizona on September 28, 2007 – the 160th game of the regular season.