The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

Another feature of blue laws restricts the purchase of particular items on Sundays which is an unusual feature in modern American culture.

Likewise, a type collection might focus on an unusual design feature such as coins with a hole in the middle, coins that are not circular in shape or coins with brockage.

An unusual feature of the Dead Sea is its discharge of asphalt.

An unusual feature was a monitor port for connection of a computer monitor, as an alternative to the TV output.

Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly New Wave, industrial and alternative rock artists.

An unusual feature of the Kentish system was that only sons of kings appeared to be legitimate claimants to the throne, although this did not eliminate all strife over the succession.

While this is not uncommon for modern languages such as Perl or JavaScript, it was a highly unusual feature in the late 1970s.

An unusual feature of its syntax was that expressions were constructed using the conventional infix operators, but all of them had the same precedence and evaluation went from left to right unless there were brackets.

An unusual feature of the river is the Inner Niger Delta, which forms where its gradient suddenly decreases.

One unusual feature of Barnard 68 is its vibrations, which have a period of 250, 000 years.

An unusual feature of the water phase diagram is that the solid – liquid phase line ( illustrated by the dotted green line ) has a negative slope.

This unusual feature of water is related to ice having a lower density than liquid water.

Another interesting though not unusual feature of the phase diagram is the point where the solid – liquid phase line meets the liquid – gas phase line.

The new polyurethane elastic bumpers were integrated into the nose and tail and covered in body-coloured plastic ; an unusual feature for the time that aided the car visually and reduced its drag.

Industry heads were reportedly watching how the film performed, as its unusual release schedule could have implications for future feature films.

The fact that it shifts ( modulates ) and ends in a different key, a feature it shares with the Italian national anthem, makes it compositionally unusual.

# It is propagated by carrier particles that have significant masses ( particles called gauge bosons ), an unusual feature which is explained in the Standard Model by the Higgs mechanism.

An unusual feature of valerian is that valerian root and leaves are a cat attractant similar to, and as safe as catnip.

An unusual feature is that the partners are allowed to make certain limited signals to each other during play.

In microeconomic models this is unusual, because individuals are assumed to maximize utility, but it is a feature of Keynesian macroeconomics.

Brighton has a horse-racing course, Brighton Racecourse, with the unusual feature that when the full length of the course is to be used, some of the grass turf of the track has to be laid over the tar at the top of Wilson Avenue, a public road, which therefore has to be closed for the races.

An unusual feature of S. stercoralis is autoinfection.

* Sri Kantha, S. Alfred Nobel's unusual creativity ; an analysis.

Cysteine is unusual since it has a sulfur atom at the second position in its side-chain, which has a larger atomic mass than the groups attached to the first carbon, which is attached to the α-carbon in the other standard amino acids, thus the ( R ) instead of ( S ).

* 1972 – The U. S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

The U. S. believed the Government of Sudan gave support to international terrorism, destabilized neighboring governments, and permitted human rights violations, creating an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

In Graham v. Florida, 560 U. S. ___ ( 2010 ), the Supreme Court declared that a life sentence without any chance of parole, for a crime other than murder, is cruel and unusual punishment for a minor.

Knowledge of the North American Medieval Warm Period has been useful in dating occupancy periods of certain Native American habitation sites, especially in arid parts of the western U. S. Review of more recent archaeological research shows that as the search for signs of unusual cultural changes during the MWP has broadened, some of these early patterns ( for example, violence and health problems ) have been found to be more complicated and regionally varied than previously thought while others ( for example, settlement disruption, deterioration of long distance trade, and population movements ) have been further corroborated.

A 1976 U. S. Supreme Court case ruled that withholding health care from prisoners constituted " cruel and unusual punishment ".

A series of unusual sonic booms was detected in Southern California, beginning in mid-to late-1991 and recorded by U. S. Geological Survey sensors across Southern California used to pinpoint earthquake epicenters.

Deposition is the preferred term in U. S. federal courts and in the majority of U. S. states, like California, because depositions are sometimes taken during trial in a number of unusual situations.

Autoinfection makes strongyloidiasis due to S. stercoralis an infection with several unusual features.

The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U. S. Army veteran, Brian X. Scott, filed a protest against the government practice of hiring what he calls mercenaries, according to sources familiar with the matter.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

The shape of Hart's Location is unusual: about long and wide, with crooked boundaries that echo the paths of the upper Saco River and U. S. Route 302 ( near the centerline of the town ), pinched from both sides between steep mountains and in some areas sheer cliffs above.

Although no physical traces of the street railway remain in Highland Springs, old brick streetcar barns are extant both in Richmond, in the Church Hill area, and in Sandston at Seven Pines, where an unusual street configuration is attributed to the turning path of the old trolley cars at today's U. S. Route 60.

Their reasoning was because it violated the Eighth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

* In another 1950 movie incident from Montana, Nicholas Mariana filmed some unusual aerial objects and eventually turned the film over to the U. S. Air Force, but insisted that the first part of the film, clearly showing the objects as spinning discs, had been removed when it was returned to him.

His abilities earned him an unusual level of respect amongst the officers at the school, including Major John Considine, the U. S. director of the school, and of other U. S. officers who served at the school.

Tewksbury's episodes are also unusual for their use of cross-talk ( a way of having the voices of off-screen characters heard in the background of the soundtrack, just under the voices of the main characters ), in depicting the chaotic Douglas household, a full decade before Robert Altman was credited with innovating such aural realism in feature films such as M * A * S * H ( 1970 ).

In an unusual honor, the episode was read aloud in the U. S. Congress and added to the Congressional Record.

He spent a good deal of his time in the U. S. during this period, continuing to release singles and albums which, while less popular to the masses, were full of unusual lyrics and sometimes eccentric musical experiments.

On Mondays, the Money section uses its back page to present an unusual graphic depicting the performance of various industry groups as a function of quarterly, monthly and weekly movements against the S & P 500.