Bows are a required and expected part of any apology or expression of thanks in East Asia, especially Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

Bows of apology are frequently performed at press conferences by high-ranking members of a company that has performed some misdeed, such as producing faulty parts that resulted in a death.

Bows could be kept and ready to shoot for some time with little effort, allowing crossbowmen to aim better.

Bows were used in the opening stages of land battles, and at sea, but tended to be considered less " honourable " than a hand weapon.

Bows can be had with a variety of cams, in a full spectrum from soft to hard.

Bows can be generally divided into three main types: informal, formal, and very formal.

Bows may be combined with handshakes or performed before or after shaking hands.

Bows usually occur in the middle of the tendon region, although they may also be seen in the upper third, right below the knee or hock ( high bows ), and lower third, just above the fetlock ( low bows ).

As Bob Bows observes in his review of the 2008 Germinal Stage Denver production, whereas at first " ' The Birthday Party ' appears to be a straightforward story of a former working pianist now holed up in a decrepit boarding house ," in this play as in his other plays, " behind the surface symbolism ... in the silence between the characters and their words, Pinter opens the door to another world, cogent and familiar: the part we hide from ourselves "; ultimately, " Whether we take Goldberg and McCann to be the devil and his agent or simply their earthly emissaries, the puppeteers of the church-state apparatus, or some variation thereof, Pinter's metaphor of a bizarre party bookended by birth and death is a compelling take on this blink-of-an-eye we call life.

Bows almost automatically accompany the greeting phrases, but generally are no longer used among the immediate family unless addressing a family member after or in anticipation of a long absence or separation.

Bows were used for sharpshooting, and some ninja's bows were intentionally made smaller than the traditional yumi ( longbow ).

Bows for other members of the violin family typically have a wider ribbon, using more hairs.

Bows and arrows ( made with high quality materials ), snail-shell belts and ceramic pots are traded with other tribes.

Excavations in El Mina revealed skeletal remains of ancient wolves, eels, and gazelles, part of the ancient southern port quay, grinding mills, different types of columns, wheels, Bows, and a necropolis from the end of the Hellenistic period.

Bows eventually replaced the spear-thrower as the predominant means for launching shafted projectiles, on every continent except Australia, though spear-throwers persisted alongside the bow in parts of the Americas, notably Mexico ( where the Nahuatl word for " spear-thrower " is atlatl ) and amongst the Inuit.

Bows for particular instruments are often designated as such: " violin bow ", " cello bow ", and so on.

The long, unique asymmetrical bow style with the grip below the center emerged under the Yayoi culture ( 300 BC – 300 AD ) Bows became the symbol of authority and power.

Bows and arrows have been present in Egyptian culture since its predynastic origins.

* " Elvis Bows, Bing Just Nods: High and Low Culture in Fancy Meeting You Here " by Gilbert L. Gigliotti

* Bows Corners – A location southwest of York hamlet.

Bows do not really consume anything the way an arquebus consumes gunpowder.

Bows and crossbows could shoot over obstacles by firing with high-arcing ballistic trajectories in order to reach the enemy when the person or object had some frontal but no overhead cover ( such as when troops are in melee with the enemy ) — albeit with much less accuracy.

Bows sometimes lose their correct camber ( see above ), and are recambered using the same heating method as is used in the original manufacture.

Bows were about long when unbraced, similar in size to the famous English longbow.

Bows are unaffected by the triangle, can attack from a distance, and do higher amounts of damage against flying units like pegasi, but this is offset by the bow-wielder's inability to counter-attack melee strikes.

Bows of traditional materials with significant reflex are almost all composite bows, made of the classic three layers of horn, wood, and sinew ; they are a variant of the recurve form normally used for such bows.

Bows usually taper from the handle to the tips.

Their official residence today is the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, home also to the Itazipco ( No Bows ), the Minneconjou ( People Who Live Near Water ) and Oohenumpa ( Two Kettle ), all bands of the Lakota.

Bows of stringed instruments such as the violin and cello often have mother of pearl inlay at the frog.

She also presented her own series entitled Strings, Bows, and Bellows for BBC Television.

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Bows are the traditional greeting in East Asia, particularly in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam.

And Lilly's whole family seemed to be an apology for Mr. Banks.

It is has been argued that Luke may be writing: a letter of apology ( traditionally a defense for one ’ s beliefs ), a letter of legitimation for Christian beliefs, a letter to equip the church to function amidst the Roman Empire, or a letter that is apolitical.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

The letter opens with all apology that a " foolish Scot " should be charged to write for a Lombard king.

In practice a groveling letter of apology to the court is sufficient to ward off this possibility, and in any event the warrant is generally ' backed for bail ' i. e. bail will be granted once the arrest has been made and a location where the person can be found in future established.

My subject is a barren one – the world of nature, or in other words life ; and that subject in its least elevated department, and employing either rustic terms or foreign, many barbarian words that actually have to be introduced with an apology.

In extreme cases, the kowtow can be used to express profound gratitude, apology, or to beg for forgiveness.

Prominent politicians of the Sikh Diaspora include the first Asian American to be elected as a Member of United States Congress Dalip Singh Saund, the current UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Parmjit Dhanda MP and the first couple to ever sit together in any parliament in the history of Commonwealth countries Gurmant Grewal and Nina Grewal, who sought apology by the Canadian Government for the historical Komagata Maru incident, and the Canadian Shadow Social Development Minister Ruby Dhalla MP.

In the shortest of them ( 43 pages as of 2009 ), which he titles " Apology for the Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis " ( using the word " apology " in the rarely used sense of apologia ), he claims to use his tools on the theory of Hilbert spaces of entire functions to prove the Riemann Hypothesis for Dirichlet L-functions ( thus proving GRH ) and a similar statement for the Euler zeta function, and even to be able to assert that zeros are simple.

Davis and Greg's findings suggest that when a victim perceives an apology to be remorseful then he / she believes the negative behavior will not occur again, increased empathy results in increased forgiveness, and future offenses could be easily forgiven.

Brownlee adhered to a conservative view of how politics should be conducted, and was perhaps put off by the audacious telephone call ; despite an apology from Coldwell, Brownlee did not indicate any further interest in running for the CCF.

Wolff argues in this work that Rawls ' theory is an apology for the status quo insofar as it constructs justice from existing practice and forecloses the possibility that there may be problems of injustice embedded in capitalist social relations, private property or the market economy.

In practical terms, it may be necessary for the offender to offer some form of acknowledgment, an apology, or even just ask for forgiveness, in order for the wronged person to believe himself able to forgive.

Plato's Apology may be read as both a religious and literary apology ; however, more specifically literary examples may be found in the prefaces and dedications, which proceed many Early Modern plays, novels, and poems.

The advert also offended The Zimbabwe youth group, Chipangano, has demanded an apology from Nando ’ s, threatened to boycott the South Africa-based chain and demanded the ad be withdrawn or the restaurant face retribution.

* Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life Toland's earlier book Containing ( I ) a general apology for all writings of that kind, ( II ) a catalogue of books attributed in the primitive times to Jesus Christ, his apostles and other eminent persons, with several important remarks relating to the canon of Scripture, ( III ) a complete history of the book Eikon Basilike proving Dr Gauden and not King Charles I to be the author of it.

" In response to the internet circulation of the photo and ensuing media attention, Miley Cyrus released a statement of apology on April 27: " I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ' artistic ' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed.