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While salmon are usually hunted by an individual or a small group of individuals, herring are often caught using carousel feeding ; the killer whales force the herring into a tight ball by releasing bursts of bubbles or flashing their white undersides.
With one exception, the killer whale named Luna, no permanent separation of an individual from a resident matriline has been recorded.
Killing these snakes is believed to be a bad omen for the community or the individual, with the assumption that spirits may strike the killer.
Dantonio described the potential killer as an individual of dual personalities, who killed without motive.
The various different masks that the female psychopathic killer displays at different times often have more to do with the audience and the manipulation at that moment that will benefit the individual wearing the mask than the true nature of the individual wearing the mask.
In his book, The Cases That Haunt Us, former FBI profiler John Douglas states that a paranoid individual such as Konsminski would likely have openly boasted of the murders while incarcerated had he been the killer, but there is no record that he ever did so.
She uses the individual stories to explain and put forth her ideas on what makes a serial killer.

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In 2007, a 19th century lance fragment was found in a bowhead whale off Alaska, suggesting the individual could be between 115 and 130 years old.
To prevent water from ruining the whale's electronics, the modelmakers sealed every individual mechanical component rather than attempting to waterproof the entire whale.
In 1988, Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch reported seeing an individual accompanied by a shortfin pilot whale.
The largest confirmed individual had a length of and a weight of more than, and there are unconfirmed reports of considerably larger whale sharks.
Most data about pygmy right whales come from individual specimens washed up on coastlines ; they are rarely encountered at sea and so they are not the primary subject of any whale watching cruises.
Since harpoons, spears, and firearms are prohibited, the whalers must be on the shoreline of the water and kill each individual whale.
The clusters of white lice contrast with the dark skin of the whale, and help researchers identify individual whales because of the lice clusters ' unique shapes.

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He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.
We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.
What can be done for the `` individual contributor '' who is extremely important -- and likely to be more so -- in the operation of the technically oriented company??
While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.
no individual word in The Iliad or The Odyssey can be credited to any one man ; ;
Is there anything a frustrated individual can do about Communism's growing threat on our doorstep and around the world??
When he attended the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive in the ideological battle and set out to do it.
( Pp. 228-229 ) in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government ''.
Local libraries find, too, that the new plan saves tax dollars because books can be bought through the system, and since the system buys in bulk it is able to obtain larger discounts than would be available to an individual library.
It has controversially been argued by some evolutionary scientists such as E. O. Wilson that natural selection can act at the level of non-kin groups to produce adaptations that benefit a non-kin group even if these adaptions are detrimental at the individual level.
However, anxiety should not be confused with fear, it is more of a dreaded feeling about something which appears intimidating and can overcome an individual.
This means that the individual atoms can be treated as if each were in isolation, as the vast majority of the time they are.
Sometimes, even an object resembling a spider can trigger a panic attack in an arachnophobic individual.
We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.
In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.
Most professional astrologers are paid to predict the future or describe a person's personality and life, but most horoscopes only make vague untestable statements that can almost apply to any individual.
Raymond Williams argues that there is no unique and or individual aesthetic object which can be extrapolated from the art world, but that there is a continuum of cultural forms and experience of which ordinary speech and experiences may signal as art.
Transformations can be considered as individual transactions or in combinations.
Even though it is healthy for an ecosystem, a wildfire can still be considered an abiotic stressor, because it puts an obvious stress on individual organisms within the area.
Steiner believed results of this form of spiritual research should be expressed in a way that can be understood and evaluated on the same basis as the results of natural science: " The anthroposophical schooling of thinking leads to the development of a non-sensory, or so-called supersensory consciousness, whereby the spiritual researcher brings the experiences of this realm into ideas, concepts, and expressive language in a form which people can understand who do not yet have the capacity to achieve the supersensory experiences necessary for individual research.
* By intensifying the will-forces through exercises such as a chronologically reversed review of the day's events, the meditant can achieve a further stage of inner independence from sensory experience, leading to direct contact, and even union, with spiritual beings (" Intuition ") without loss of individual awareness.
The graphite tubes are heated via their ohmic resistance using a low-voltage high-current power supply ; the temperature in the individual stages can be controlled very closely, and temperature ramps between the individual stages facilitate separation of sample components.
Depending on various parameters, each individual sprite can use from 1 to 12 colors, with 3 colors ( plus a 4th " transparency " color ) being the most common.

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While individual sportsmen are aware of this situation, too many of our political, social, educational and even religious leaders too often forget it.
Opinion is less individual or runs more into masses, and often rules with a rod of iron ''.
In particular, social sciences often develop statistical descriptions rather than the general laws derived in physics or chemistry, or they may explain individual cases through more general principles, as in many fields of psychology.
The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, wherein individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.
In some popular views, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual realm, and in other popular views, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past.
For example, the term is used to describe systems such as verlan and louchébem, which retain French syntax and apply transformations only to individual words ( and often only to a certain subset of words, such as nouns, or semantic content words ).
They are often associated with an individual family line or said to be a harbinger of death similar to a banshee.
In common speech the word artillery is often used to refer to individual devices, together with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly referred to as equipments.
Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.
If the individual is seeking death an alternate method is often suicide by cop.
Different cultures through history have depicted blindness in a variety of ways ; among the Greeks, for example, it was a punishment from the gods, for which the afflicted individual was often granted compensation in the form of artistic genius.
Furthermore, individual bishops, or the Council of Bishops as a whole, often serve a prophetic role, making statements on important social issues and setting forth a vision for the denomination, though they have no legislative authority of their own.
When all the individual segments are used, the knife may be thrown away, or, more often, refilled with a replacement blade.
The size of an individual gene or an organism's entire genome is often measured in base pairs because DNA is usually double-stranded.
As the playing time for each individual game is short, it is often played in matches, where victory is awarded to the first player to reach a certain number of points.
Thus, even when family and friends learn to recognize the mood swings, the individual often will deny that anything is wrong.
The British Statute of Anne ( 1710 ) further alluded to individual rights of the artist, beginning: " Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing ... Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors ... to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families :" A right to benefit financially from the work is articulated, and court rulings and legislation have recognized a right to control the work, such as ensuring that the integrity of it is preserved.
Thus, it has been known for many years that, due to repulsive Coulombic interactions, electrically charged macromolecules in an aqueous environment can exhibit long-range crystal-like correlations with interparticle separation distances, often being considerably greater than the individual particle diameter.
Booking ahead ( lining up a partner or partners ahead of time for each individual dance ), while common at some venues, is often discouraged.
CBT is used in both individual and group settings, and the techniques are often adapted for self-help applications.
Resting bradycardia is often considered normal if the individual has no other symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, chest discomfort, palpitations or shortness of breath associated with it.
" Business " is the individual motions the clown uses, often used to express the clown's character.
Although not often, it may refer to the individual, biblical teachings that Calvin made himself.
Though DeMille was respected by his peers, his individual films were often criticized by them.
A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

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