The most notable example has been the objection of many provinces of the Communion ( particularly in Africa and Asia ) to the changing role of homosexuals in the North American churches ( e. g., by blessing same-sex unions and ordaining and consecrating gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships ), and to the process by which changes were undertaken.

For example, the positrons produced in natural radioactive decay quickly annihilate themselves with electrons, producing pairs of gamma rays, a process exploited in positron emission tomography.

A less obvious example of this type of protection is the process of galvanising iron ( though the name of the process provides the essential clue ).

An abstraction can be seen as a process of mapping multiple different pieces of constituent data to a single piece of abstract data based on similarities in the constituent data, for example many different physical cats map to the abstraction " CAT ".

A hedge fund that is an example of this type of arbitrage is Greenridge Capital, which acts as an angel investor retaining equity in private companies which are in the process of becoming publicly traded, buying in the private market and later selling in the public market.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

For example, if in a search task the reaction times vary proportionally with the number of elements, then it is evident that this cognitive process of searching involves serial instead of parallel processing.

As an example of this process, in 2008 Danish researchers first revealed the sequence of events when oxygen and hydrogen combine on the surface of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, or titania ) to produce water.

For example, in the Haber process, finely divided iron serves as a catalyst for the synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.

The largest-scale example is ammonia, which is prepared via the Haber process from nitrogen.

Computation is a process following a well-defined model understood and expressed as, for example, an algorithm, or a protocol.

For example, recently several bird classified as threatened with extinction appeared in the legal wild bird trade because the CITES process never considered their status.

The public media are the foremost example of operating enterprises that are used in the penetrative process.

This process usually takes the form of a chain reaction, for example in the reaction of alkanes with halogens.

An example is to be found on the uninhabited island of Vementry on the north side of the West Mainland, where it appears that the cairn may have originally been circular and its distinctive heel shape added as a secondary development, a process repeated elsewhere in Shetland.

At maturity level 5, processes are concerned with addressing statistical common causes of process variation and changing the process ( for example, to shift the mean of the process performance ) to improve process performance.

For example, while in a conversion to Judaism a convert must accept basic Jewish principles of faith, and renounce all other religions, the process is more like a form of adoption, or changing national citizenship ( i. e. becoming a formal member of the people, or tribe ), with the convert becoming a " child of Abraham and Sarah.

This technique is an example of a continuous vs. a batch process ; advantages include less downtime to charge the reaction vessel with starting material, and less workup.

An example of a business workflow process using Business Process Modeling Notation.

A simple example would consist of looking up a given word in a dictionary, then proceeding to look up the words found in that word's definition, etc., also comparing with older dictionaries from different periods in time, and such a process would never end.

This understanding provides a very simple example of the fact that one can eliminate fear without instituting any controls.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

Punishment of the wrongdoer, so liberals are inclined to say, can have only three possible justifications: revenge, reformation or deterrent example.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

He can, for example, present significant university-wide issues to the senate.

By automobile from New York, for example, you can take a one or two-day tour to Annapolis, Maryland to see the colonial homes and the U.S. Naval Academy ( where you can shoot the dress parade on Wednesdays ) ; ;

For example, the Friday after Thanksgiving can be substituted for Washington's birthday.

For example, instead of putting in your driveways last ( as many builders do ) you can now save money by putting them in first.

Its life history is much simpler than that of the truly colonial bumblebees and can serve as an example of the life cycle of many other species.

Nomia melanderi can be found in tremendous numbers in certain parts of the United States west of the Great Plains, for example, in Utah and central Washington.

For example: a sales presentation can be analyzed and evaluated through roleplaying.

For example, the inflected forms of a word can be represented, insofar as regular inflection allows, by a stem and a set of endings to be attached.

But the use of stress in comparison and contrast, for example, can undermine distinctions such as these.

How else can one explain, for example, allowing the survival of the right to amortize bond discount and premium ( section 381(c)(9) ), but not the right to amortize bond issue expenses ; ;

Furniture upholstery, as just one example, can easily take millions of pounds ; ;

For example, the unwed mothers expressed their frustration with males who did not indicate more explicitly `` what it is they really want from a girl so one can act accordingly ''.

The right to file an appeal can also vary from state to state ; for example, the New Jersey Constitution vests judicial power in a Supreme Court, a Superior Court, and other courts of limited jurisdiction, with an appellate court being part of the Superior Court.

Arguments of the same form can sometimes seem superficially convincing, as in the following example:

For example, " biweekly " can mean " fortnightly " ( once every two weeks – 26 times a year ), or " twice a week " ( 104 times a year ).

" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.

Spoken language can contain many more types of ambiguities, where there is more than one way to compose a set of sounds into words, for example " ice cream " and " I scream ".

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.