The various ( German ) kings such as the king of Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia e. g. elected one of their peers as " Kaiser " of the Germans before crowned by the pope.

( However, Oxford's patronage pales when compared to other peers of the era, such as the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, with 110 dedications, mostly literary.

These higher stakes contests also opened up the door to reality television contests such as Survivor and Big Brother, in which contestants win large sums of money for outlasting their peers in a given environment.

With such a reputation seemingly firm and in place for both Punch and Tenniel, it would stand to reason that the artist ’ s public status attracted high levels of attention and notoriety from his peers and the public ; Carroll, a regular reader of Punch, knew, of course, of Tenniel.

Flare's prototype system was Z80 based but featured four custom chips to give it the power to compete with peers such as the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST.

It features interviews with friends, peers, and admirers such as Dave Grohl, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica, David Ellefson of Megadeth, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Peter Hook of Joy Division / New Order, Dee Snider, Nikki Sixx, Mick Jones of The Clash, Kat Von D, Henry Rollins, Lars Frederiksen of Rancid, Jim Heath of Reverend Horton Heat, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, Mike Inez, Joan Jett, pro skateboarder Geoff Rowley, pro wrestler Triple H, Fast Eddie Clarke, Jarvis Cocker, Marky Ramone, former Hawkwind

Networks such as gnutella or Freenet use a P2P structure for nearly all tasks, with the exception of finding peers to connect to when first setting up.

It also included a coprocessor interface which allows coprocessors such as FPUs and MMUs to be attached as peers to the main processor.

Numan has become acknowledged and respected by his peers, with such musicians as Dave Grohl ( of Foo Fighters and Nirvana ), Trent Reznor ( of Nine Inch Nails ), and Marilyn Manson proclaiming his work an influence and recording cover versions of old Numan hits.

The interpretations of these beliefs range from their being the next stage in human evolution, in some cases possessing paranormal abilities such as telepathy, to the belief that they are more empathetic and creative than their peers.

Dawkins writes that he is not so much bewildered by their belief in a cosmic lawgiver, but by their beliefs in the minutiae of Christianity, such as the resurrection and forgiveness of sins, and that such scientists, in Britain and in the U. S., are the subject of bemused bafflement among their peers.

It was in this lodge that he first met some of his revolutionary peers, such as José de San Martín.

All hereditary peers in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom were entitled to sit in the House of Lords, subject only to qualifications such as age and citizenship, but under section 1 of the House of Lords Act 1999 they lost this right.

Investment managers, such as stock mutual fund managers, are compensated and retained in part due to their performance relative to peers.

< Dictionary. com http :// dictionary. reference. com / browse / lord >.</ ref > In only a few cases is " lord " a substantive title in itself, most commonly that of the Lord of the Manor and certain vestigial titles from the age of feudalism such as Lord of Mann, in other cases it is a generic term applied, for example, to persons who hold a title of the peerage or persons entitled to courtesy titles, or to refer to a group or body of peers.

Also, there are potential negative social, legal, and economic consequences such as disputes with family and peers, job discrimination, financial losses, violence, blackmail, legal actions, restrictions on having or adopting children, criminalization, or in some countries even capital punishment.

Over 200 baronetcies are now held by peers and others, such as the Knox line, have been made tenuous due to internal family dispute.

Social disorganization, the disintegration of societal institutions such as family, school, and the public safety net enable groups of peers to form gangs.

Busier, more well-rounded teens tend to be better-adjusted and more goal-oriented than their peers who engage in only one activity ( such as sports ) or none.

According to some research, adolescents who play relatively more violent video games are involved in more fights and get into more arguments than peers who play fewer such games.

Peeresses in their own right and wives or widows of peers were also entitled to trial in such a court, though they were themselves not members of the House of Lords.

This often brought him into conflict with literary peers such as W. H.

Not following these standards often leads to teasing and other such ridicule from their male peers.

After World War II, the British greatly reduced the use of the full stop and other punctuation points after abbreviations in at least semi-formal writing, while the Americans more readily kept such use until more recently, and still maintain it more than Britons.

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

Ealdred was one of a few native Englishmen who William appears to have trusted, and his death led to fewer attempts to integrate Englishmen into the administration, although such efforts did not entirely stop.

Short-sighted habits that have become harmfully exaggerated over time, such as restricted breathing or other habitually assumed adaptations to past circumstances, will stop after learning to perceive and prevent them.

The addition of agents such as Herceptin, Iressa or Gleevec works to stop cells from cycling and causes apoptosis activation by blocking growth and survival signaling further upstream.

6 ) at a finite distance from the axis ( or with an infinitely distant object, a point which subtends a finite angle at the system ) is, in general, even then not sharply reproduced, if the pencil of rays issuing from it and traversing the system is made infinitely narrow by reducing the aperture stop ; such a pencil consists of the rays which can pass from the object point through the now infinitely small entrance pupil.

For this reason, such stop consonants are frequently referred to in the local linguistic literature as ' depressor ' stops.

In late May Njaru was approached by the local captain who asked Njaru " to stop writing such articles and to disclose his sources ".

All English consonants can be classified by a combination of these features, such as " voiceless alveolar stop ".

For many years, conservative parties fought to stop extension of voting rights to groups such as to non-Christians, non-whites and women.

Another major criticism point has been that although the filter is claimed to stop certain materials, the underground rings dealing in such materials will not be affected.

They can also display any message the controllers want to display, such as information on delays or even instructions to vandals to stop placing objects on the track.

It is found instead in words such as " stop " or " pat ".

Both sides, British and rebel, shot civilians deliberately on occasion when they refused to obey orders such as to stop at checkpoints.

In mild cases, ET can manifest as the inability to stop the tongue or hands from shaking, the ability to sing only in vibrato, and difficulty to do small precise tasks such as threading a needle.

These wines continue to be associated with the homeless, mainly because marketers have been aggressive in targeting low-income communities as ideal consumers of these beverages ; organizations in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland have urged makers of inexpensive fortified wine, including E & J Gallo Winery, to stop providing such products to liquor stores in impoverished areas.

In contrast to games such as Risk or Monopoly, in which a close game can extend indefinitely, German-style games usually have a mechanism to stop the game within its stated playing time.

Animal rights groups, such as Freedom for Animals have been campaigning to get the Bay to stop selling furs.

In the history of writing symbols proceeded from ideographic ( such as an icon of a bull's head in a list inventory, denoting that the following numeral refers to head of cattle ) to logographic ( an icon of a bull denoting the Semitic word ʾālep " ox "), to phonetic ( the bull's head used as a symbol in rebus writing, indicating the glottal stop at the beginning of the word for " ox ", namely, the letter aleph ).

At the beginning of July 2008, a network upgrade forced users to stop using ICQ 5. 1-applications that identified themselves as ICQ 5, such as Pidgin, were forced to identify themselves as ICQ 6.

Other bus operators such as Cityliner ( bus between Kajang and Seremban ) and Bas Mini. KTM Komuter is a commuter train service trough Kajang by Rawang-Seremban Route and stop at Kajang Komuter station.

Logical positivists in response wanted to stop such metaphysical entities from being used as an explanation.

Limited stop bus service is sometimes viewed as a form of bus rapid transit, but differs in that it doesn't share most of the common features of bus rapid transit such as unique route branding, off-vehicle fare collection, signal preemption, and dedicated right-of-way such as bus-only lanes.