As a result the following ways to clue abbreviations and other non-words, although they can be found in " straight " British crosswords, are much more common in American ones:

The use of abbreviations such as " gm ", " Gm ", or " GM " for grams could potentially lead to serious errors in healthcare settings where accidentally transposing " gm " to " mg " ( milligrams ) would result in a 1000 times dosage difference.

As a result, in most practical situations, abbreviations are made.

As a result, in most practical situations, abbreviations are made.

His personal familiarity with the scenes of action undoubtedly contributed much to the final result, but familiarity alone would not have been enough without other qualities.

Mankind, as a result, attains previously undreamed of levels of civilization and culture, a golden age which the Overlords, a very evident symbol of science, have helped produce by introducing reason and the scientific method into human activities.

Shortening the results in this manner will not have any detrimental effect on the accuracy of the final result.

Working in a vacuum of minimal information can result only in show pieces that look good in exhibitions and catalogs and may please the public relations department but have little to do with the essence of interior design.

As a result of that attitude, others have been discouraged from trying central distribution.

For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.

As a result, many people have been confirmed in their conviction that orthography design is not an activity to which experts can contribute anything but confusion.

If this threefold division of costs were to have its counterpart in the actual rates of charge for service, as it actually does have in some rates, there would result a three-part rate for any one class of service.

As a result, most people don't have more than a vague idea what folklore actually is ; ;

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

No formal charges have been filed as a result of either of the two reported incidents.

As a result, ever since 1851 when the Senate restaurant opened in the new wing of the Capitol Building, the senators have never ceased to grumble about the food -- even while they opposed every move that might improve it.

The result has been that exports of Underwood products have doubled.

A test result ( calculated from the null hypothesis and the sample ) is called statistically significant if it is deemed unlikely to have occurred, assuming the truth of the null hypothesis.

In order for the appeal to succeed, the appellant must prove that the lower court committed reversible error, that is, an impermissible action by the court acted to cause a result that was unjust, and which would not have resulted had the court acted properly.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

More complex assistive technology devices have been developed over time, and as a result, sports for people with disabilities " have changed from being a clinical therapeutic tool to an increasingly competition-oriented activity ".

Among the people of the Arctic the Norwegians have the easiest climate, with most ports in North Norway remaining ice-free all the year as a result of the Gulf Stream.

Proposed subgroups are difficult to recognise, having similar ' lily-like ' flowers, with the result that some members of the group have been included in different subgroups at different times.

There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.

Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

As a result of these changed conditions, the impact of the organizational effort on agricultural labor-management relations has been much greater than in the past.

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

As a result, large number of Ainu changed their surnames to Slavic ones.

In 2006 – 07 season the accounting method changed to IFRS, which 2005 – 06 result was reclassified as net loss of € 4, 051, 905 and 2006 – 07 season was net income of € 10, 135, 539 (€ 14. 011 million as a group ).

First, informal changes were made to the order of the various parts of the service and inserting words indicating a sacrificial intent to the Eucharist ; secondly, as a result of Bishop Rattray's researches into the liturgies of St. James and St. Clement, published in 1744, the form of the invocation was changed.

A British Army memorandum states that as a result of this the situation " changed overnight ", with the Provisional IRA's campaign in the city beginning at that time after previously being regarded as " quiescent ".

Despite the region's absence of economic growth on the same scale as other parts of the nation, the Maritimes has changed markedly throughout the 20th century, partly as a result of global and national economic trends, and partly as a result of government intervention.

At the institutional level, many of the institutions also changed denominations, but the end result was a system that borrowed from both systems:

Throughout history and the present day, the meaning and methods of education have changed through debates over what content or experiences result in an educated individual or an educated society.

The codes were assigned alphabetically to places within each state, and as a result changed frequently in order to maintain the alphabetical sorting.

The Hungarians gradually changed their way of living from settled hunters to nomadic cattle-raising, probably as a result of early contacts with Iranian nomads.

The demographics of the country changed significantly from then onwards, as a result of the Celtic Tiger Irish economic boom.

The years of conflict and compromise had changed the nature of the design, and Pei felt that the final result lacked its original passion.

As a result, the selection of one or both secondaries should be changed so that the TD lines of the new combination are closer to right angles.

The person invoking laches is asserting that an opposing party has " slept on its rights ," and that, as a result of this delay, circumstances have changed such that it is no longer just to grant the plaintiff's original claim.

In most contexts, an essential element of laches is the requirement that the party invoking the doctrine has changed its position as a result of the delay.

This changed as a result of the Flagstaff War, with the colonial government passing a Militia Act on 25 March 1845.

Oldies stations must occasionally change to more youthful music formats ; as a result, the definition of what constitutes an " oldies " station has gradually changed over the years.

As a result of Soviet policies the demographic situation changed dramatically with the arrival of Russian speaking settlers.

If a measurement indicated that a dimensional physical constant had changed, this would be the result or interpretation of a more fundamental dimensionless constant changing, which is the salient metric.

Paraguay is a middle-income country that changed rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s as a result of hydroelectric development, agricultural colonization, construction, and cash crop exports.

As a result of the Labour Party victory over the Conservative Party the leadership changed hands.

In an 1848 accident, a large iron rod was driven through Gage's head, and his personality apparently changed as a result, although descriptions of these psychological changes are usually exaggerated.