Virtually all early microcomputers were essentially boxes with lights and switches ; one had to read and understand binary numbers and machine language to program and use them ( the Datapoint 2200 was a striking exception, bearing a modern design based on a monitor, keyboard, and tape and disk drives ).

However, a striking exception occurred in 2001 when the former Prime Minister, John Howard, publicly relied upon an ONA assessment to support his claims about asylum seekers on the MV Tampa, in an incident which became known as the " Tampa affair ".

It is striking that a prominent play in a time of such imperialism contains no political propaganda, no impassioned apostrophe, and, with the exception of the epiklerate ( the right of the daughter to continue her dead father's lineage ), and possibly the strong theme against anarchy, makes no contemporary allusion or passing reference to Athens.

Most henges do not contain stone circles ; Brodgar is a striking exception, ranking with Avebury ( and to a lesser extent Stonehenge ) among the greatest of such sites.

These fragments disappointed Romantic scholars as not matching the writer's great reputation, partly because Fronto's teachings, with their emphasis on studying ancient writers in search of striking words, were not in accordance with current fashion ( Italy, where not only Mai but Leopardi enthused over them, was an exception ), partly because they gave no support to the assumption that Fronto had been a wise counsellor to Marcus Aurelius ( indeed, they contain no trace of political advice ), partly because his frequent complaints about ill-health, especially those collected in book 5 of Ad M. Caesarem, aroused more annoyance than compassion ; these adverse judgements were reversed once Fronto was read for what he was rather than what he was not, as already in the sympathetic treatment by Dorothy Brock, Studies in Fronto and his Age ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 ).

It is striking that they are virtually never accompanied by any grave offerings, with the exception of occasional pots or sprays of flowers.

The one exception to this rule of general drabness in colouration is the striking " herring boned " colour pattern of green, brown, black and white that is displayed by the " Harlequin Gecko " ( Hoplodactylus rakiurae ).

A circumflex accent can be generated by first striking the ^ key ( located to the right of P in most AZERTY layouts ), then the vowel requiring the accent ( with the exception of y ).

It was an exception, characterized by a strong aristocracy and a feeble king, in an age when absolutism was developing in the principal countries of Europe ― an exception, however, characterized by a striking similarity to certain modern values.

Songkhla Province is the most striking exception, as the town ( and thus also the district ) Hat Yai grew much faster than the capital Mueang Songkhla due to its better transport connection.

For these matches Belfort used his stand-up striking skills less and instead controlled the fights and won by ground-and-pound tactics, with the exception of his fight with Southworth, which he won via rear naked choke in the first round.

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

In the end, however, the thing about this performance that is most striking is the way it sings.

After all, social life in the group of the bees is by no means general, although it certainly is a striking feature.

It is evident that many marked and striking differences exist between lungs when an inter-species comparison is made.

The most striking aspect of the interaction demonstrated is the marked decrement in performance suffered by the highly anxious children in unstructured schools.

For English the reduction in size is less striking.

His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

This is especially striking between Pimen's quiet exit and Grigori's vehement outburst against Boris.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

Most striking indeed is this beyond-normal ability to put a finger on `` pre-conscious '' moods and to clarify them.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

Whatever projection one makes, the striking fact about congregational and parochial life is the extent to which it is a vehicle of the social identity of middle-class people.

Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation, the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence.

Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.

Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) understood that sound consisted of contractions and expansions of the air " falling upon and striking the air which is next to it ...", a very good expression of the nature of wave motion.

* 2001 – The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus ; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are particularly interesting.

The hypothesis reappeared in 1786 when Sir William Jones first lectured on the striking similarities between three of the oldest languages known in his time: Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, to which he tentatively added Gothic, Celtic, and Persian, though his classification contained some inaccuracies and omissions.

For example, Filippo Sassetti reported striking resemblances between Sanskrit and Italian.

The case of Maharaja (" Great Raja ", great King and Prince, in Sanskrit and Hindi ) on the Indian subcontinent, originally reserved for the regional hegemon such as the Gupta, is a striking example how such a lofty style of this or an alternative model can get caught in a cycle of devalution by " title inflation " as ever more, mostly less powerful, rulers adopt the style.

The presence of the Pallavas, much before further naval expeditions to Indo-China by their illustrious succeeding and contemporary empires such as the Pandiyans and the Cholas, is attested by the existence of specimen of art bearing striking resemblance in countries like Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, as well as scores of inscriptions in those lands in the Grantha script ( a script in which both Tamil and Sanskrit can be written ) in which the Pallavas were the first to specialize.

Their introduction of Sanskrit and their melding of it with the local Tamil language to form Malayalam was also striking.

On November 7, 1956 U. S. Air Force Matador units in West Germany, whose missiles were capable of striking targets in the Warsaw Pact, deployed from their fixed day-to-day sites to unannounced dispersed launch locations.

: Strife whose wrath is relentless, she is the sister and companion of murderous Ares, she who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven.

Sadger supported his claim that homosexuality could be cured entirely by describing a four month analysis of a patient whose crucial memories “ had been wholly unconscious and first had to be unearthed very laboriously through a month-long analysis .“ Making striking claims about homosexuality on the basis of brief analyses appears to have been typical for psychoanalysts in the early 20th century.

Indeed, the opera bears some striking resemblances with the novel, and, in short, tells the story of a medieval ( and historically real ) singer, whose art is so beautiful that he causes Venus, the goddess of love herself, to fall in love with him, and to offer him eternal life with her in the Venusberg.

A striking model of much interest in this context is the Azbel-Harper-Hofstadter model whose quantum phase diagram is the Hofstadter's butterfly shown in the figure.

His Industrial Relations Act set up a special court under the judge Lord Donaldson, whose imprisonment of striking dockworkers was a public relations disaster that the Thatcher Government of the 1980s would take pains to avoid repeating ( relying instead on confiscating the assets of unions found to have broken new anti-strike laws ).

The most striking old building in the town is the parish church of St Oswald ( late 15th century ), dedicated to St Oswald, king of Northumbria ( d. 642 ), one of whose arms was brought to Zug in 1485.

Michael Lapidge defines it as " a style whose most striking feature is the ostentatious parade of unusual, often very arcane and apparently learned vocabulary.

Helen Gardner observed that " a conceit is a comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness " and that " a comparison becomes a conceit when we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness.

However, the most striking part of the earlier argument and of Sidgwick's view is preserved: agent neutral reasons are literally reasons for anyone so all objectifiable reasons become individually possessed no matter whose they are.

When the German band Kraftwerk issued “ Man Machine ” ( 1978 ), a record whose electronic sound was echoed in the simple geometric shapes and striking red, black and white album cover the design credited to El Lissiztky, they were also tapping into a larger retrofuturist vision.

A kind of semi-fortified two-story palace whose corrugated walls give it a unique and striking appearance, köshks were the residences of Merv's elite.

One scene is set in Ernie's restaurant, whose striking red interior was immortalized in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo ( 1958 ).

Bristol was one of the most striking and conspicuous figures of his time, a man of brilliant abilities, a great orator, one who distinguished himself without effort in any sphere of activity he chose to enter, but whose natural gifts were marred by a restless ambition and instability of character fatal to real greatness.

In addition, the novel Absolute Power tells the tale of a fictional woman named Christy Sullivan, married to a much older W. Sullivan ( a striking similarity to the name W. Averell Harriman perhaps ), whose extramarital liaison with the President ends in her murder.

The striking late modernist building, whose sculptural roofline echoes the contours of the Sterling Mountain Range – its backdrop to the south, is the work of architect Robert Burley.

In striking contrast to Freudian theory is his contemporary feminist Catherine Gasquoine Hartley, whose The Truth about Woman

Of mixed Dusun and Scottish ancestry, she had an unusual, striking Emma Peel-like look, dressed in mildly provocative and revealing outfits and proved to be an influential pop music figure whose " sassy, powerful music and image launched a thousand wannabe's ".

In modern constructions that do not qualify as carillons, rather than using heavy bells the sound may be produced by the striking of small metal rods whose vibrations are amplified electronically and sounded through loudspeakers.

As a metaphoric, critical interpretation of Colombian history, from foundation to contemporary nation, One Hundred Years of Solitude presents different national myths through the story of the Buendía Family, whose spirit of adventure places them amidst the important actions of Colombian historical events — such as the nineteenth-century arguments for and against the Liberal political reformation of a colonial way of life ; the arrival of the railway to a mountainous country ; the Thousand Days War ( Guerra de los Mil Días, 1899 – 1902 ); the corporate hegemony of the United Fruit Company (" American Fruit Company " in the story ); the cinema ; the automobile ; and the military massacre of striking workers as government – labour relations policy.

While Cameo appearances are a common occurrence in webcomics ; the frequency of cameos for both the character Gav van Darin and Nukees creator Darren ' Gav ' Bleuel ( whose real-life appearance is as striking as that of any comic character ) have become a phenomenon unto themselves, especially among Keenspot webcomics.

Much of this is the responsibility of designer Friederike Paetzold, whose elegant packaging designs often entirely forgo details like artist's names, instrumentation and album titles in favour of striking minimalist images ( often artworks by guitarist Keith Rowe, who is also a painter ).

The Allmusic review states " a strange and striking combination of styles that somehow is effective ... a listenable disc whose flaws only add to the warmth ".

These swans are led by a spunky swan named Nelson ( whose speech impediment bears a striking resemblance to that of Rutt and Tuke's in Brother Bear ).