By the early 20th century, the Equal Protection Clause had been eclipsed to the point that Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. dismissed it as " the usual last resort of constitutional arguments.

During the war, Rathbone displayed a penchant for disguise ( a skill which he coincidentally shared with what would become perhaps his most memorable character, Sherlock Holmes ), when on one occasion, in order to have better visibility, Rathbone convinced his superiors to allow him to scout enemy positions during daylight hours instead of during the night, as was the usual practice in order to minimize the chance of detection by the enemy.

* Robert Holmes said of The Deadly Assassin that it was difficult to write a script without anyone for the Doctor to share his thoughts and plans with, the usual role of the companion.

Although Dr. Watson appears only in the novel's 1912 bookend scenes, a significant sub-plot concerns Holmes ' efforts to ( temporarily ) replace the former with a young Parisian, who, while useful, is not nearly as brave or devoted as Holmes ' usual companion.

Holmes and Watson worked their usual magic on the audiences ; but this time they were nearly overshadowed by the burly villain, Dr. Grimesby Rylott, who petted his snake in its wicker basket while the Hindu servant played eerie music on a pipe.

Through a failure to realise that Violet might take an earlier train than usual, Holmes discovers that he is too late to meet Violet.

There is not one scandal in London that he does not know about, and as usual, he does not fail Holmes.

As is usual with Holmes, he does not explain why.

Caliber found some success of producing comics that appealed outside of the usual comics market with some of the Tome Press titles including the Sherlock Holmes Reader, which had the majority of its sales outside of the traditional comic stores.

Firstly the main characters have been reversed, with a bumbling Holmes and genius detective Watson replacing the usual bumbling Watson and genius detective Holmes.

Even when public bodies arrived at a consensus, at least one dissenting vote has been usual.

One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.

It is important to note that, although li is sometimes translated as " ritual " or " rites ", it has developed a specialized meaning in Confucianism, as opposed to its usual religious meanings.

Legend has it that α CVn was brighter than usual during the Restoration, as Charles II returned to England to take the throne.

* The cofinality of the real numbers with their usual ordering is ℵ < sub > 0 </ sub >, since N is cofinal in R. The usual ordering of R is not order isomorphic to c, the cardinality of the real numbers, which has cofinality strictly greater than ℵ < sub > 0 </ sub >.

A little economy today has no sense as usual for future.

A felony ( German: Verbrechen ) is defined as a crime which has a usual minimum sanction of one year of imprisonment.

The language of arithmetic has symbols for 0, 1, the successor operation, addition, and multiplication, intended to be interpreted in the usual way over the natural numbers.

For square matrices with entries in a non-commutative ring, for instance the quaternions, there is no unique definition for the determinant, and no definition that has all the usual properties of determinants over commutative rings.

Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.

Edinburgh has two repertory cinemas, the Edinburgh Filmhouse, and the Cameo, and the independent Dominion Cinema, as well as the usual range of multiplexes.

Current research has established that humans are genetically highly homogenous ; that is, the DNA of individuals is more alike than usual for most species, which may have resulted from their relatively recent evolution or the possibility of a population bottleneck resulting from cataclysmic natural events such as the Toba catastrophe.

The event temporarily warmed air temperature by 1. 5 ° C, compared to the usual increase of 0. 25 ° C associated with El Niño events .< ref name =" Trenberth "> Since then, mass coral bleaching has become common worldwide, with all regions having suffered " severe bleaching ".

The TGV has set many world speed records, the most recent on 3 April 2007, when a new version of the TGV dubbed the V150 with larger wheels than the usual TGV, and a stronger engine, broke the world speed record for conventional rail trains, reaching 574. 8 km / h ( 357. 2 mph ).

This is what has come to be called " single frame animation " or " object animation ", and it needs a slightly adapted camera that exposes only one frame for each turn of the crank handle, rather than the usual eight frames per turn.

) has to interrupt the usual rhythm of his life for two weeks because of a not-too-serious disease.

The usual wording of official announcements of this nature was " The King has been pleased to appoint ...", but on this occasion the announcement said merely " The King has appointed ...", and his Private Secretary Lord Stamfordham asked the Solicitor-General, Sir Robert Garran, to make sure Scullin was aware of the exact wording.

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

The domain from where the applet executable has been downloaded is the only domain to which the usual ( unsigned ) applet is allowed to communicate.

As the name implies, the usual number of divisions is four, but the principle has been extended to very large numbers of " quarters ".

Adar II ( or Adar Bet — " second Adar ") is the " real " Adar, and has the usual 29 days.

Kasparov with black chose the Berlin Defence instead of his usual Sicilian and Polgár proceeded with a line which Kasparov has used himself.

For example, in the Gregorian calendar ( a common solar calendar ), February in a leap year has 29 days instead of the usual 28, so the year lasts 366 days instead of the usual 365.

As well as visiting mines, including Grimethorpe, and observing social conditions, he attended meetings of the Communist Party and of Oswald Mosley – " his speech the usual claptrap — The blame for everything was put upon mysterious international gangs of Jews " – where he saw the tactics of the Blackshirts – " one is liable to get both a hammering and a fine for asking a question which Mosley finds it difficult to answer.

Derrida seems to have viewed Bennington in particular as a kind of rabbinical explicator, noting at the end of the " Applied Derrida " conference, held at the University of Luton in 1995 that: " everything has been said and, as usual, Geoff Bennington has said everything before I have even opened my mouth.

The UPA style was markedly different from everything else being seen on movie screens, and audiences responded to the change that UPA offered from the repetition of usual cat-mouse battles.

In the episode " Sibling Tsunami " of the animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot, when asked what's wrong, XJ-7, a chronically depressed robot character replied, " The usual, life, the universe, everything " a reference not only to Marvin, but the " Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything " a central tenet of the series ' storyline ( as well as the title of the third book ).

The Rani is a renegade Time Lady, an evil scientific genius whose villainy comes not from the usual variety of lust for power and suchlike, but from a mindset that treats everything ( including morality ) as secondary to her research ; she has been known to enslave entire planets such as Miasimia Goria in order to have a ready supply of experimental subjects and a place to carry out her experiments uninterrupted.

The account which has come down to us from Vasari ( as usual keen to assert that everything flows from Florence ) is that Mantegna began engraving in Rome, prompted by the engravings produced by the Florentine Baccio Baldini after Sandro Botticelli.

They were more serious than usual editions with articles on everything from coming out to age of consent laws to suicide.

* a world in Super Mario Bros. 3 where everything is bigger than usual

In the beginning everything went on as usual.

Critics such as Neil Genzlinger of the New York Times emphasised the larger-than-life nature of the film, remarking that, " It is full of big Bollywood stars and outsized everything: the rainstorms are a little rainier than real life ; the wind machines are cranked up an extra notch ; the close-ups get closer and linger longer than usual ; the coincidences that drive the plot are a little more numerous and unlikely than normal screenwriting allows ".

The potential commercial value of this discovery leads to intrigue, theft and murder, with everything finally solved by Inspector French after his usual dogged legwork and some flashes of inspiration.