For some unusual photographic subjects, if your vacation takes you nearby, try these events: the 600-mile auto race in Charlotte, N.C.,, on May 27 ; ;

Conversely, experimenters would consider as impressive such statements as the following, which, if they turned out to be hits, are so unusual as to be really significant:

In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

However, there is also demand for good quality ' unsigned ' pieces, especially if they are of an unusual design.

Occasionally, a film can become the object of a cult following within a particular region or culture if it has some unusual significance to that region or culture.

Also, if a caller has an unusual name, they will inquire about the spelling, pronunciation, and / or origin of their name.

This situation varies in unusual conformations of DNA within the cell ( see below ), but the major and minor grooves are always named to reflect the differences in size that would be seen if the DNA is twisted back into the ordinary B form.

These results, however, are very sensitive to the accuracy of the twiddle factors used in the FFT ( i. e. the trigonometric function values ), and it is not unusual for incautious FFT implementations to have much worse accuracy, e. g. if they use inaccurate trigonometric recurrence formulas.

The use of the word ' psychotic ' is the reason why Anders Behring Breivik would automatically have been given a treatment order by the court, if the ( very unusual ) second psychiatric report had been in concordance with the first report.

The municipality is unusual for one its geographical size, in that it has only one municipal district, the third-largest in Greece ( after the Sílis district in Paranesti and the Mikró Déreio district in Orfeas ) if Mount Athos is not counted.

There are a large number of unusual varieties of piston engines that have various claimed advantages, many of which see little if any current use:

Even when special effects were not indicated in the score, if an organist was playing a theater organ capable of an unusual sound effect, such as a " galloping horses " effect, it would be used for dramatic horseback chases.

In this way, the United States Supreme Court " set the standard that a punishment would be cruel and unusual it was too severe for the crime, it was arbitrary, if it offended society's sense of justice, or if it was not more effective than a less severe penalty.

It was not until the case of Solem v. Helm,, that the Supreme Court held that incarceration, standing alone, could constitute cruel and unusual punishment if it were " disproportionate " in duration to the offense.

For large problems, the system poses some unusual difficulties, most notably that problem is never positive definite ( even if is ), making it potentially very difficult to find a good numeric approach, and there are many approaches to choose from dependent on the problem.

Elizabeth had vowed that if she became Empress that she would not sign a single death sentence, an unusual promise that she — notably — kept to throughout her life.

Its trajectory was designed to take advantage of an unusual alignment of the planets ( that occurs once every 177 years ) that allowed one space probe to fly by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, if everything went well.

Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from farther away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction.

For example, if a local law enforcement agency is alleged to have engaged in racial profiling it would not be unusual for the case to be resolved by having the local law enforcement agency adopt procedures to be used in traffic stops, with compliance supervised by a federal trial court judge.

Also, when severe ulcers resist treatment, particularly if a person has several ulcers or the ulcers are in unusual places, a doctor may suspect an underlying condition that causes the stomach to overproduce acid.

Most solar collectors are fixed in their array position mounting, but can have a higher performance if they track the path of the sun through the sky ( however it is unusual for thermal collectors to be mounted in this way ).

ApplicationMaster is unusual in its approach to application design in that it focuses on the user session as if it were running in a single conversational process, completely hiding the complexity of maintaining state across user interactions.

On May 1, 1985 President Reagan announced that his administration perceived Nicaragua to be " an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States ," and declared a " national emergency " and a trade embargo against Nicaragua to " deal with that threat.

One involves ordinary children in extraordinary situations, having adventures, solving crimes, or otherwise finding themselves in unusual circumstances.

In many novels the hero is an orphan or unusual sibling, often with an extraordinary talent for magic or combat.

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.

The East India Company then petitioned the House of Commons, arguing that the acceptance of a case in the first instance by the Lords was " unusual " and " extraordinary.

Congress, the President, and Governors have called on the Marshals for over 200 years to carry out unusual or extraordinary missions, such as registering enemy aliens in time of war, sealing the American border against armed expeditions from foreign countries, and, at times during the Cold War, swapping spies with the Soviet Union, and also retrieving North Carolina's copy of the Bill of Rights.

Martyrdom was intended to combine physical punishment with public humiliation and degradation, and understood in context, the resultant cruelty and celebration of imperial power were neither unusual nor extraordinary.

Although Omne Datum Optimum was an unusual bull in and of itself, it was followed by Pope Celestine II's Milites Templi in 1144 and Pope Eugene III's Militia Dei in 1145, which together gave the Templars an extraordinary range of rights and privileges.

Scientific skeptics do not assert that unusual claims should be automatically rejected out of hand on a priori grounds-rather they argue that claims of paranormal or anomalous phenomena should be critically examined and that extraordinary claims would require extraordinary evidence in their favor before they could be accepted as having validity.

Wodehouse-" Heart of a Goof ") dates from a late 19th / early 20th century American idiomatic phrase meaning " an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event ; an exceptional example or instance.

They differed, however, on the proper subject of literature ; Joyce thought writers should focus on commonplace subjects and make them extraordinary, while Barnes was always drawn to the unusual, even the grotesque.

Soon after its foundation, Macondo becomes a town frequented by unusual and extraordinary events that involve the generations of the Buendía family, who are unable or unwilling to escape their periodic ( mostly ) self-inflicted misfortunes.

Bell's career was characterized by the accumulation of quite extraordinary honours and achievements-and by acrimonious disputes unusual even by the standards of medicine during the Regency.

During the absence of the minister, Philip Warwick, Robinson acted as resident and as envoy extraordinary, and he was thus in Sweden during a very interesting and important period, and was performing diplomatic duties at a time when the affairs of northern Europe were attracting an unusual amount of attention.

Exceptionalism is the perception that a country, society, institution, movement, or time period is " exceptional " ( i. e., unusual or extraordinary ) in some way and thus does not need to conform to normal rules or general principles.

This military award, established by George Washington, was given in recognition of soldiers who displayed unusual gallantry or extraordinary fidelity.

The first polls targeting the Greek voters revealed that KEP's percentage in an election would be as high as 24 %, something extraordinary and unusual for a new party in Greece.

In August 1782, General Washington created the Badge of Military Merit, to be issued " whenever any singularly meritorious action is performed ... not only instances of unusual gallantry, but also of extraordinary fidelity and essential service in any way.

Her name, the feminine form of " Osric ", is not an invention, but it is sufficiently unusual to suggest that the character is herself extraordinary, separated from life ’ s routine.

He is a “ mild-mannered teacher, a happy family man, who takes the news of his unusual genesis with extraordinary equilibrium, and whose quiet contentment is utterly baffling to the tormented Salter .”.

Bernard Werber is a member of INREES, Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences, an association which exists to promote the acknowledgement of extraordinary or unusual experiences among the clientele of medical health professionals, doctors and caregivers.

If an officer of unit " A " does give orders directly to a lower-ranked member of unit " B ", it would be considered highly unusual ( a faux pas, or extraordinary circumstances, such as a lack of time or inability to confer with the officer in command of unit " B ") as officer " A " would be seen as subverting the authority of the officer of unit " B ".

Two candidates stood in the extraordinary election: Gustavo Vázquez Montes, representing an alliance of the PRI, Labour Party ( PT ), and Green Ecological Party of Mexico ( PVEM ), and Antonio Morales de la Peña of the PAN standing as the Alianza Todos por Colima candidate ( an unusual combination of PAN and PRD, and the local ADC party ).