* Flamenco melodies are characterized by a descending tendency, as opposed to, for example, a typical opera aria, they usually go from the higher pitches to the lower ones, and from forte to piano, as was usual in ancient Greek scales.

Plutarch then goes on to repeat the usual ancient account with its brutal landlords on one side and wretched tenants on the other.

Majora's Mask is set in Termina, an alternate version of the usual series setting of Hyrule, where the Skull Kid has stolen Majora's Mask, a powerful ancient artifact.

Since ancient times the description " Lives on Dal " has been the description used by the inhabitants themselves to describe where they live, instead of the usual " lives in ...".

Unlike usual infanticide — where historically girls were more likely to be killed at birth — prostitutes in ancient times were more likely to kill male offspring.

In ancient Greece, the usual Greek practice was to give a bride price.

Either way, the sentiment was meant to set up an ironic contrast between the shadow of death and the usual idle merriment that the nymphs and swains of ancient Arcadia were thought to embody.

He sold the usual religious tourist paraphernalia and ancient pots he had acquired from Arab farmers.

Konservat-Lagerstätten preserve lightly sclerotized and soft-bodied organisms or traces of organisms that are not otherwise preserved in the usual shelly and bony fossil record ; thus, they offer more complete records of ancient biodiversity and behavior and enable some reconstruction of the palaeoecology of ancient aquatic communities.

In ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy ( performed by an haruspex ), in which the sacrifice was an animal.

As usual with ancient languages, the exact nature and pronunciation of the consonants are uncertain.

The most ancient Greek coin of the city also gives the name " ΗΕΝΝΑΙΟΝ " there is therefore little doubt that this form ( Henna ) of the ancient name is the more correct, though Enna is the more usual.

This ancient culture had remarkably advanced bronze casting technology which was acquired by adding lead to the usual combination of copper and tin creating a stronger substance that could create substantially larger and heavier objects ; for instance, the world's oldest life-size standing human statue ( 260 cm high, 180 kg ), and a bronze tree with birds, flowers, and ornaments ( 396 cm ), which some have identified as renderings of the fusang tree of Chinese mythology.

M71 was long thought ( until the 1970s ) to be a densely packed open cluster and was classified as such by leading astronomers in the field of star cluster research due to its lacking a dense central compression, and its stars having more " metals " than is usual for an ancient globular cluster ; furthermore, it's lacking the RR Lyrae " cluster " variable stars that are common in most globulars.

"— the " Apostle " is the usual ancient Eastern title for the Epistle reading, and the " Prologue of the Alleluia " would seem to be a prayer or verse before Alleluia was sung by the choir.

Adventures are the usual stuff of Hollywood pirate or naval adventure films: ancient relics, captured damsels, sea monsters, etc.

Throughout this period, native people continued to fish at Celilo, under the provisions of the 1855 Treaties signed with the Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and the Walla Walla, Umatilla, and Cayuse, which guaranteed the tribes ' ancient " right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed stations.

Due to lack of political freedom of speech in many ancient civilizations, covert satire is more usual than overt satire in ancient literatures of political liberalism.

Many of the ancient Roman amphitheatres had characteristics that can be seen in the bullrings of today ( in fact the ring in Nîmes, France, is a Roman artifact, though it is more elliptical than the usual plaza ), and the origin of bullfighting is very closely related to certain Roman traditions.

The usual ancient painting technique was encaustic, used at Al-Fayum and in the earliest surviving Byzantine icons, which are at the Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

It is usual to date them from the 7th century BC and consider the southwestern script to be the most ancient paleohispanic script with characters most closely resembling specific Phoenician letter forms found in inscriptions dated to c. 825 BC.

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

One learns to become alert to changes in his vocal tone -- to his voice's suddenly shifting to a quality not like his usual one, a quality which sounds somehow artificial or, in some instances, parrot-like.

Eventually such incidents became more sporadic, and more sharply demarcated from her day-after-day behavior, and in one particular session, after several minutes of such behavior -- which, as usual, went on without any accompanying words from her -- she asked, eagerly, `` Did you see Granny ''??

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.

The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the screen to the other, with the actors at the end coming forward a little and standing more in profile than the others.

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

When the Banach algebra A is the algebra L ( X ) of bounded linear operators on a complex Banach space X ( e. g., the algebra of square matrices ), the notion of the spectrum in A coincides with the usual one in the operator theory.

Due to the situation in Iberia, Martel believed he needed a virtually full-time army — one he could train intensely — as a core of veteran Franks who would be augmented with the usual conscripts called up in time of war.

If one set is played, the pieces usually go into the opponent's starting corner, and the number of pieces per side is often increased to 15 ( instead of the usual 10 ).

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

It is usual for a decimal number whose absolute value is less than one to have a leading zero.

Now the usual practice is for one hand to grasp the other with palms down to strike the water with a flat surface.

The oriented area is the same as the usual area, except that it is negative when the angle from the first to the second vector defining the parallelogram turns in a clockwise direction ( which is opposite to the direction one would get for the identity matrix ).

In this story there appear to be two Davroses: one is a head in a tank and apparently a decoy for assassins ; the other is in his usual chair ( which can now hover ), emerging from hiding when the decoy is assassinated.

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.

Using uniformitarianism, which states that one cannot make an appeal to any force or phenomenon which cannot presently be observed ( see catastrophism ), Darwin theorized that the evolutionary process must occur gradually, not in saltations, since saltations are not presently observed, and extreme deviations from the usual phenotypic variation would be more likely to be selected against.

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.

To define this cohomology theory, Grothendieck needed to replace the usual, topological notion of an open covering with one that would use étale coverings instead.