Matilda is usually drawn with a flower on her hat, which loses a petal in each panel in which she appears.

The temperature at or above which an antiferromagnetic layer loses its ability to " pin " the magnetization direction of an adjacent ferromagnetic layer is called the blocking temperature of that layer and is usually lower than the Néel temperature.

The expression denotes the moment when a television series loses its credibility due to predictable repetition or contrived extensions of its theme, usually as a result of the writers being unable to maintain its quality indefinitely.

The remorting character generally loses all levels, but gains an advantage that was previously unavailable, usually access to different races, avatars, classes, skills, or otherwise inaccessible play areas within the game.

Nevertheless, usually an incumbent government that loses its plurality in the House simply resigns, especially if the main opposition party is only a few seats short of having a majority or if it feels it has no chance of winning the support of enough members of smaller parties to win an initial confidence vote.

The player who has made gained the smallest amount of territory usually loses, so building more territory than your opponent is a means of forcing a connection and winning.

While green tea usually loses its flavor within a year, black tea retains its flavour for several years.

Soil liquefaction describes a phenomenon whereby a saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress, usually earthquake shaking or other sudden change in stress condition, causing it to behave like a liquid.

She rarely loses her temper without severe provocation ( although when she does get angry this usually results in devastating if not fatal consequences for the object of her anger ).

Using a trampoline can be dangerous, and in organized clubs and gyms there are usually large safety end-decks with foam pads at each end and spotters placed alongside the trampoline to try to break the fall of any athlete who loses control and falls.

For example, uranium-238 usually decays by alpha decay, where the nucleus loses two neutrons and two protons in the form of an alpha particle.

The old route thus loses its national route status and is usually redesignated as a Regional Road.

However, other results may be reached ; on rare occasions, Tom triumphs, usually when Jerry becomes the aggressor or when he crosses some sort of line ( the best example of which occurs in The Million Dollar Cat where, after finding out that Tom's newly acquired wealth will be taken away if he harms any animal, including a mouse, he torments Tom until Tom finally loses his temper and attacks him ).

The series is noteworthy for introducing many of the accepted stock features of Super Robot anime genres: the first occurrence of mecha robots being piloted by a user from within a cockpit, the mechanical marvel that is the world's only hope, forgotten civilizations, power-hungry mad scientists, incompetent henchmen, lovable supporting characters ( usually younger siblings, love interests, or friends of the hero ), the scientist father or grandfather who loses his life heroically, and strangely clothed, eccentric or physically deformed villains ( the intersex Baron Ashura as one example ).

Her arguments with Martin tend to normally rise to some sort of bet, which she usually loses to.

Despite being given such title by boxing fans and critics ( a journeyman or woman in boxing is someone who takes fights, usually on short period, and loses to other fighters ), she was well known in the boxing world for the quality of opposition she faced ; and she contended for a world title once.

Israel, in a one-on-one war, usually loses against Egypt and just wins against Syria.

When Jesse is turned into a vampire by the end of the novel, she loses the ability to see and communicate with spirits, as is usually the case with vampires, and thus loses the ability to see Claudia.

While usually even-tempered and level-headed, Lillibit sometimes loses her temper with her uncle because of his laziness.

As the title suggests, the central story follows the standard romantic plotline usually known as " boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl " except that the main characters are both boys, the narrator Paul and newcomer Noah.

While Adrian generally attempts to conduct himself in a professional manner, he occasionally loses his patience with Jiminy's idiocy and constant, usually unintentional put-downs.

An open riser is usually bigger than a blind because the open riser loses more heat to mold through the top of the riser.

She is usually strict and often unfair on the girls but she becomes very concerned with Ellie in the book Girls Under Pressure when she notices how much weight Ellie loses.

Temper is usually identified by microscopic examination of the temper material.

Consistent winds, usually from the south or south-southeast during the summer, help temper the hotter weather.

Silvio usually keeps his cool in even the worst situations but has been known to unleash his terrible fury and excessive anger when necessary ( or when playing poker ), revealing a temper comparable to his peers '.

He is often forced to convince Tony to go against his impulses-something that he usually manages without setting off Tony's hair-trigger temper.

While these knives are usually honed and sharpened on both sides, their blades are still given Japanese-style acute-angle cutting edges with a very hard temper to increase cutting ability.

However, though he usually has a sweet, benevolent temper, he can sometimes be a bit silly, stubborn, or vain.

Though Marcie is usually slow to anger, she can occasionally lose her temper when provoked.

Throughout late 2006 and early 2007, Dutt was involved in the Paparazzi Championship Series, led by Kevin Nash, who insinuated throughout the PCS Challenge that Dutt was taking steroids, as a running joke, which would usually lead to the hotheaded Dutt comically losing his temper.

This information ties the artifacts to geological source areas for the clay used and the rock fragments ( usually called " temper " or " aplastics ") potters often add to modify the clay's properties.

He also has a bit of a temper ; 2T and Do-Wah are usually the two to calm him down.

A tantrum ( or temper tantrum or tirade or hissy fit ) is an emotional outburst, usually associated with children or those in emotional distress, that is typically characterized by stubbornness, crying, screaming, yelling, shrieking, defiance, angry ranting, a resistance to attempts at pacification and, in some cases, violence.

His character usually lost his temper at least once.

He is usually quite calm and normal, but is regarded as an oddball because of his quick temper.

But Jack always derived vicarious sensual thrills from Charles' revelations ( even when he suspected his friend of exaggeration or invention ), so he usually invited them, as he did now.

usually, this is most exasperating to men, who expect every woman to verify their preconceived notions concerning her sex, and when she does not, immediately condemn her as eccentric and unwomanly.

Programs usually are expanded only when outside funds are available or local business leaders demand it.

Does the `` public '' usually sell at bottoms, or does the market usually bottom out when the `` public '' sells??

In earlier business cycles, when this occurred the country usually experienced a sharp upturn in residential construction as mortgage financing became easier to obtain.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

They usually range from 20 to 60 feet in height, but when they pour into a V-shaped inlet or harbor they may rise to mountainous proportions.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

We usually run a social note when somebody moves away ''.

But when Gloriana rides with them they also have to take the two girls who usually ride with her, so the little car isn't big enough.

The usually nocturnal Cuban tree frog ( Osteopilus septentrionalis ) produces a rain call when there is rainfall during daylight hours.

An aardvark's length is usually between, and can reach lengths of when its tail ( which can be up to ) is taken into account.

Amateur astronomy is usually associated with viewing the night sky when most celestial objects and events are visible, but sometimes amateur astronomers also operate during the day for events such as sunspots and solar eclipses.

Winter annuals typically grow low to the ground, where they are usually sheltered from the coldest nights by snow cover, and make use of warm periods in winter for growth when the snow melts.

Sensory ataxia presents itself with an unsteady " stomping " gait with heavy heel strikes, as well as a postural instability that is usually worsened when the lack of proprioceptive input cannot be compensated for by visual input, such as in poorly lit environments.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

Greeks stop harvesting the plant ( which usually grows wild ) when it starts to bloom at the end of August.

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

An independent Athens was a minor power in the Hellenistic age ; it rarely had much in the way of foreign policy ; it generally remained at peace, allied either with the Ptolemaic dynasty, or later, with Rome ; when it went to war, the result ( as in the Lamian, Chremonidean, and Mithridatic War ) was usually disastrous.

In addition to over, Porter and Duff defined the compositing operators in, held out by ( usually abbreviated out ), atop, and xor ( and the reverse operators rover, rin, rout, and ratop ) from a consideration of choices in blending the colors of two pixels when their coverage is, conceptually, overlaid orthogonally:

Roman control of Britain finally ended in the early part of the 5th century ; the date usually given as marking the end of Roman Britain is 410, when the Emperor Honorius sent letters to the British, urging them to look to their own defence.

For example, when one removes a price label, the adhesive usually remains on the label and the surface.

) Similarly, when Jewish families and larger groups sing traditional Sabbath songs known as zemirot outside the context of formal religious services, they usually do so a cappella, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations on the Sabbath sometimes feature entertainment by a cappella ensembles.

Aberration is usually larger than a planet's light-time correction except when the planet is near quadrature ( 90 ° from the Sun ), where aberration drops to zero because then the Earth is directly approaching or receding from the planet.