In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming lists the story of Abraham and Isaac and the story of Christ's death as examples of this theme.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

The tendency is often referred to as the " Silent-e Rule ", with examples such as bake, theme, hike, cone, and cute.

Other examples include: comedy, drama, fable, fiction, folk tale, hagiography, legend, literature, myth, narrative, saga, science fiction, story, theme, tragedy.

One common theme of examples and applications is demonstrating how little it takes to achieve interesting behavior, and how the proper methodology can discover these cases.

The common theme in these examples and similar ones is that topographical features are either the physical embodiments of creator beings or are the results of their activity.

Some examples include historical places, monuments, zoos, aquaria, museums and art galleries, botanical gardens, buildings and structures ( e. g., castles, libraries, former prisons, skyscrapers, bridges ), national parks and forests, theme parks and carnivals, living history museums, ethnic enclave communities, historic trains and cultural events.

Many of these paintings were of an historical theme and were further examples of Millais's talent.

Guinness World Record Breaker Week, New York Auto Show Week, Broadway Week, and Top Teacher Week are examples of features frequently visited on the show, highlighting a different aspect of the theme everyday that week.

A theme in Minangkabau folktales is the central role mothers and motherhood has in Minangkabau society, with the folktales Rancak diLabueh and Malin Kundang being two examples.

In 1874, when Gladstone published his pamphlet on The Vatican Decrees, Lord Acton wrote during November and December a series of remarkable letters to The Times, illustrating Gladstone's main theme by numerous historical examples of papal inconsistency, in a way which must have been bitter enough to the ultramontane party, but ultimately disagreeing with Gladstone's conclusion and insisting that the Church itself was better than its premises implied.

Though these are prominent examples, varying degrees of the doctrine of responsibility assumption have formed a minor theme more broadly within the United States cultural landscape since the 1960s counterculture.

Classic examples of the damsel in distress theme feature in the stories of the ancient Greeks.

A constant theme in his novels and other writing is the condemnation of the Castro government, although Arenas also critiques the Catholic Church, US culture and politics, and a series of literary personalities in Havana and internationally, particularly those who he believed had betrayed him and suppressed his work ( Sévero Sarduy and Ángel Rama are notable examples ).

Taken at face value one might take the main theme of the sutra literally, which is the importance for leaders to be good examples for the kingdom.

The prime examples of literature that have survived — much from this period has been lost — are poems from the 14th century, which are mainly dedicated to the theme of love and were probably inspired by the Italian poetic movement Dolce Stil Novo.

As an indication of the role played by orality in the tradition of the chanson de geste, lines and sometimes whole stanzas, especially in the earlier examples, are noticeably formulaic in nature, making it possible both for the poet to construct a poem in performance and for the audience to grasp a new theme with ease.

Frescobaldi also made substantial contributions to the art of variation ; he may have been one of the first composers to introduce the juxtaposition of the ciaccona and passacaglia into the music repertory, as well as the first to compose a set of variations on an original theme ( all earlier examples are variations on folk or popular melodies ).

Similarly, She marks one of the first fictional examples to raise the spectre of the natural decline of civilisation, and by extension, British imperial power, which would become an increasingly frequent theme in Gothic and invasion literature until the onset World War I.

Some examples: augmentation of the fugue theme and countersubject in a sforzando marcato at bars 96-117, the massive stretto of the tenth leap and trill which follows, a contemplative episode beginning at bar 152 featuring the subject in retrograde, leading to an exploration of the theme in inversion at bar 209.

A few have been released commercially and become popular hits ; examples include the title theme from Rawhide, performed and recorded by popular singer Frankie Laine ; the theme to Happy Days ( from 1974-84 ), performed by Pratt & McClain ( in Top 5, 1976 ); the theme to Laverne & Shirley, performed by Cyndi Grecco (# 25, 1976 ); the theme to Friends, " I'll Be There For You ", which was a hit for The Rembrandts ; the theme from S. W. A. T., which was a hit for Rhythm Heritage ; and the theme song from Drake & Josh, which was a hit for Drake Bell.

This body of common law, sometimes called " interstitial common law ," includes judicial interpretations of the Constitution, of statutes, and of regulations, and examples of application of law to facts.

This includes looking for living examples of animals that are considered extinct, such as dinosaurs ; animals whose existence lacks physical evidence but which appear in myths, legends, or are reported, such as Bigfoot and Chupacabra ; and wild animals dramatically outside their normal geographic ranges, such as phantom cats or " ABCs " ( an initialism commonly used by cryptozoologists that stands for Alien Big Cats ).

The latter includes the automata, popular in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, featuring dancing figures that would repeat the same task over and over again ; these automata are examples of open-loop control.

In Ireland, however, more dolmens are found on the west coast, particularly in the Burren — and Connemara, which includes some of the better-known examples, such as Poulnabrone dolmen.

His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums.

Criticism includes several examples of cropping quotes from President Obama, Vice President Biden and Vice President Gore so they appear out of context, using image-manipulation software to edit the appearance of reporters from The New York Times and using footage from other events during a report on the November 5 Tea Party rally in Washington, D. C .; Media Matters said the intention of Fox News was to make it appear as if a larger number of protesters attended the event.

It includes citations of scientific studies performed on zombies, details on the sort of preparation one can make to guard against attacks, and historical examples of zombie outbreaks.

Georgian-style Governors Hall building at St. Francis Xavier University, completed in 2006The revived Georgian style that emerged in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century is usually referred to as Neo-Georgian ; the work of Edwin Lutyens includes many examples.

Their web page includes most of Aasens ' texts numerous other examples of Nynorsk literature ( in Nettbiblioteket ), and some articles, also in English, about language history in Norway.

In addition to Sappho's accomplishments, literary historian Jeannette Howard Foster includes the Book of Ruth, and ancient mythological tradition as examples of lesbianism in classical literature.

The fossil record includes well documented examples of phyletic gradualism and punctuational evolution.

David Langford's monthly fanzine Ansible includes a regular section " As Others See Us " which offers numerous examples of " sci-fi " being used in a pejorative sense by people outside the genre.

This is called commodity money and includes any commonly available commodity that has intrinsic value ; historical examples include pigs, rare seashells, whale's teeth, and ( often ) cattle.

Using google-mapping technology, the database includes hundreds of examples of how UPEI is making an impact, providing opportunity and leadership, and generating successful outcomes, at home and around the world.

Addictional, major examples of Neoclassical architecture in the city includes Palazzo Belgiojoso, former grand Napoleonic residence, and Palazzo Tarsis, built by Luigi Clerichetti for Count Paolo Tarsis in 1834, famous for its ornate façade.

As well as general statement of principles, the annex includes specific examples of the rights of " A and M " and their children in particular cases.

The book includes examples in C ++ and Smalltalk.

WMCF advocates ( and includes some examples of ) a cognitive idea analysis of mathematics which analyzes mathematical ideas in terms of the human experiences, metaphors, generalizations, and other cognitive mechanisms giving rise to them.

In Japan, such examples of music inspired by a work and not intended to soundtrack an radio play or motion picture adaptation of it are known as an " image album " or " image song ," though this definition also includes such things as film score demos inspired by concept art and songs inspired by a TV series which do not feature in it.

Recovered Ancient Egyptian furniture includes 3rd millennium BC beds discovered at Tarkhan as place for the deceased, a c. 2550 BC gilded bed and two chairs from the tomb of Queen Hetepheres, and many examples ( boxes, beds, chairs ) from c. 1550 to 1200 BC from Thebes.

It includes 16 " pure " vowel symbols, nasal vowels, various consonants, and examples of these, drawn primarily from French and English.

Improper examples are " a borderline ", " a blind person ", or " an autistic boy "; more acceptable terminology includes " a woman with Down syndrome " or " a man who has schizophrenia ".

His encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 76 ) includes numerous examples of Baconian investigative methodology ; its preface even paraphrases lines from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.

Five examples of this are Manchester ( where the traditional area associated includes areas of the neighbouring authorities of Trafford, Tameside, Oldham, Bury and the City of Salford ), Kingston upon Hull ( where surrounding areas and villages that are effectively suburbs, such as Cottingham, come under East Riding of Yorkshire Council ), Glasgow ( where suburban areas of the city are located in East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire ), Wolverhampton ( areas of the neighbouring authorities of Walsall, Dudley and South Staffordshire ) and, most obviously, London ( Greater London outside the City of London ).