Pausanias then oddly comments that he thinks that this eponymous Plataea was daughter of King Asopus rather than the river Asopus.

This is understandable as the scaphoid is a small, oddly shaped bone whose purpose is to facilitate mobility rather than confer stability to the wrist joint.

The Jem ' Hadar also use edged weapons, including a small, curved blade designed to be held in one hand ( and often used, rather oddly, as a bayonet on their energy carbines ), and a larger sword-like weapon usually held with two hands.

Helga is secretly in love with Arnold, despite the fact that she is constantly teasing him and calling him names ( usually ' Football Head ', in reference to his rather oddly shaped head ).

While Josh Weinstein operated Servo during the KTMA season, Servo spoke rather slowly with a squeaky voice, and was somewhat immobile during host segments but oddly very active in the theater.

The 2006 Universal Home Video DVD release features the original " Sensurround " 3. 1 audio track, duplicating the original theatrical " Sensurround " track ( but oddly in mono directed to the front 3 speakers rather than the original stereo mix ), but sadly no actual ' rumble ' generator was used and its only the two control tones that activated the generator that can be heard.

Female princely rulers were, oddly, admitted as " Knights " rather than as " Dames " or " Ladies ".

The combination has meant that the arena is rather oddly shaped, one side of the arena is actually located beneath the upper part of the stadium grandstand, with the result that it has a much lower ceiling than the opposite side of the arena.

Although the staff are quite sure that they only heard the Colonel ’ s and his wife ’ s voices, Holmes is convinced that a third person came into the room at the time of the Colonel ’ s death, and rather oddly, made off with the key.

Kamimura oddly held his course during the IRN turn, and when the IJN turned a few minutes later, it was to a new tack that actually lengthened rather than narrowed the range.

The oddly shaped, cut-away dashboard attracted much attention, but in fact the design was for safety and practicality rather than aesthetics.

In his book Drawn to Television – Prime-time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy, Keith Booker wrote: " The episode details in a rather sentimental fashion the early struggles of the irresponsible Homer to support his new family [...] Such background episodes add an extra dimension to the portrayal of the animated Simpson family, making them seem oddly real and adding weight to their status as a family with a long history together.

A small wooden storage hut sits beside the lighthouse, rather oddly inscribed Social Security Appeals Tribunal.

In his book Drawn to Television – Prime-time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy, Keith Booker wrote: " The episode details in a rather sentimental fashion the early struggles of the irresponsible Homer to support his new family [...] Such background episodes add an extra dimension to the portrayal of the animated Simpson family, making them seem oddly real and adding weight to their status as a family with a long history together.

To readers used to the Latin script, this creates a rather oddly compacted script with far more consonant letters than vowel letters.

" Louis Pattison of the New Musical Express stated that the lyrics " chime rather oddly with Britney ’ s much-vaunted desire to start a family ".

One of the earliest representations of a Crucifixion scene rather oddly shows the three crosses of the gospel accounts, with the two thieves hanging in place on theirs, but with Christ standing at the foot of his.

Although he has his own saga in Heimskringla, it lacks any skaldic verse, which is normally used by Snorri as supporting evidence and this, combined with its rather legendary character, leads historians to be wary of seeing much veracity in it.

This might have been a lead-in to a feud between the brothers if Snorri had been dealing with Danish matters rather than Swedish matters.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

Art is the first stage in which the absolute spirit is manifest immediately to sense-perception, and is thus an objective rather than subjective revelation of beauty.

However, a wall would imply the existence of a defensive ditch outside it, so an earlier wall could not be immediately adjacent to site of the tomb, which combined with the presence of the Temple Mount would make the city inside the wall quite thin ; essentially for the traditional site to have been outside the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the Tyropoeon Valley, rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill.

# The time value of money ( risk-free rate ) – according to the theory of time preference, investors would rather have cash immediately than having to wait and must therefore be compensated by paying for the delay.

However, rather than immediately destroying it, he continues towards it.

However, rather than issuing the writ immediately and waiting for the return of the writ by the custodian, modern practice in England is for the original application to be followed by a hearing with both parties present to decide the legality of the detention, without any writ being issued.

Still there is disagreement over the possibility of a believing sinner being forgiven immediately ( e. g. ) and in full rather than undergoing temporary punishment.

" The next review came in the January 1817 Monthly Review, with the anonymous reviewer questioning: " Allowing every possible accuracy to the statement of Mr. Coleridge, we would yet ask him whether this extraordinary fragment was not rather the effect of rapid and instant composition after he was awake, than of memory immediately recording that which he dreamt when asleep?

Most of the planetary orbits can be rather closely approximated as circles, so it is not immediately evident that the orbits are ellipses.

This work's version of the parable of the Hidden Treasure appears later ( Saying 109 ), rather than immediately preceding, as in Matthew.

: Can it be supposed that the moment the electors are allowed a freedom of choice they will immediately be seized with a desire to vote for some distant candidate with whom they are unacquainted, rather than for those whom they know – who are near to them, whose speeches they have heard and who have personal recommendations to the favour and respect of the town and neighbourhood.

Note, however, that a language wishing to index arrays from 1 could simply adopt the convention that every " array address " is represented by a ′ = a – s ; that is, rather than using the address of the first array element, such a language would use the address of an imaginary element located immediately before the first actual element.

This is further complicated by the fact that many radioisotopes do not decay immediately to a stable state but rather to radioactive decay products within a decay chain before ultimately reaching a stable state.

All of the medals were awarded at the closing ceremonies rather than immediately after the event as current tradition dictates.

Physical and chemical simulations have also direct realistic uses, rather than research uses ; in chemical engineering, for example, process simulations are used to give the process parameters immediately used for operating chemical plants, such as oil refineries.

At the beginning of the game, it is more important to place pieces in versatile locations rather than to try to form mills immediately and make the mistake of concentrating one's pieces in one area of the board.

The rockoon ( a portmanteau of rocket and balloon ) was a solid fuel rocket that, rather than being immediately lit while on the ground, was first carried into the upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon.

They usually avoid fighting and will surrender a kill immediately to even a single hyena, rather than risk injury.

" I do not refer to real estate, or to personal property or to cold cash, but rather to that in life which tends to make these tangible substances count for most in the daily lives of people, namely, goodwill, fellowship, mutual sympathy and social intercourse among a group of individuals and families who make up a social unit … If he may come into contact with his neighbor, and they with other neighbors, there will be an accumulation of social capital, which may immediately satisfy his social needs and which may bear a social potentiality sufficient to the substantial improvement of living conditions in the whole community.

Such items were likely to be needed immediately, rather than saved for future trade.

Jets did not immediately replace piston engines and many designs used the turboprop, rather than the turbojet or the later turbofan engines.

Wilson accidentally agreed to be adopted as the candidate immediately rather than delay until the election was called, and was therefore compelled to resign from the Civil Service.

Summer squashes, including zucchini ( also known as courgette ), pattypan and yellow crookneck are harvested during the growing season, while the skin is still soft and the fruit rather small ; they are eaten almost immediately and require little to no cooking.

Turing completeness is a favorite topic of discussion, since it is not immediately obvious whether or not a language is Turing complete, and it often takes rather large intuitive leaps to come to a solution.

" They were not a specific people ", but rather variety of peoples " referred to at variety of times in history, and in several places, none of which was their original homeland " The Bible includes a single reference to Scythians in Colossians 3: 11, immediately after mentioning barbarian, possibly as an extreme example of a barbarian.