Certain states of matter exhibit symmetry breaking, where the relevant laws of physics possess some symmetry that is broken.

Certain governments did try and crack down on magicians and fortune tellers, particularly that of France, where the police viewed them as a social pest who took money from the gullible, often in a search for treasure.

Harry Nyquist's 1924 paper, Certain Factors Affecting Telegraph Speed, contains a theoretical section quantifying " intelligence " and the " line speed " at which it can be transmitted by a communication system, giving the relation, where W is the speed of transmission of intelligence, m is the number of different voltage levels to choose from at each time step, and K is a constant.

Certain scholars and political leaders feel that these modern developments endanger nation states by taking power away from state governments and ceding it to international bodies such as the U. N. and the World Bank, argue that international law has evolved to a point where it exists separately from the mere consent of states, and discern a legislative and judicial process to international law that parallels such processes within domestic law.

Certain nouns can take plural verbs even though they are singular in form, as in The government were ... ( where the government is considered to refer to the people constituting the government ).

* Certain organic semiconductors, such as < sup > 2 +</ sup >( PF < sub > 6 </ sub >< sup >-</ sup >)< sub > 2 </ sub >, where bpy is 2, 2 '- bipyridine

* Wiener won the 1965 U. S. National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion for God & Golem, Inc .: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion.

" Certain displays of their selfishness were commented upon by George Murray Levick, a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant and scientist who also accompanied Scott on his ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition 1910, during his surveying of penguins in the Antarctic: " At the place where they most often went in water, a long terrace of ice about six feet in height ran for some hundreds of yards along the edge of the water, and here, just as on the sea-ice, crowds would stand near the brink.

Using the authorization granted to him by Congress, on 13 November 2001, President Bush issued a Presidential Military Order: " Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism " which allowed " individuals ... to be detained, and, when tried, to be tried for violations of the laws of war and other applicable laws by military tribunals ", where such individuals are a member of the organization known as al Qa ' ida ; or has conspired or committed acts of international terrorism, or have as their aim to cause, injury to or adverse effects on the United States, its citizens, national security, foreign policy, or economy.

Certain antibiotics such as ampicillin have a higher propensity to create an environment where pseudomembranous colitis can outcompete the normal gut flora.

Certain cases cannot be held at the conciliation board, including family law, patent and trademark issues, cases against the authorities, and cases where an independent complaints committee has issued an opinion.

Certain areas on the board ( where cities existed historically ) have a square printed in them to designate them as city sites, which require five population tokens to produce a city — non city sites require twelve such tokens.

1961 also saw the last instance of a lieutenant governor reserving a bill passed by a provincial legislature, where Frank Lindsay Bastedo, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, did so on Bill 56, An Act to Provide for the Alteration of Certain Mineral Contracts.

Certain UK bloodlines suffer from an acute teething disorder in young kittens, where the eruption of the second teeth causes extreme discomfort and the young cat tears at its face to try to alleviate the pain.

Certain buildings within the city are special, such as the Adventurer's Guild, Garth's Equipment Shoppe, the Review Board ( which must be found first, and is the only place where characters can level up ), various taverns and temples and the dungeons.

Certain load-bearing structures with discrete structural components can be subject to the " zipper effect ", where the failure of a single structural member increases the load on adjacent members.

Certain regions also represent higher average salaries, with structural engineers in the Middle East in all sectors, and of every level of experience, earning £ 45, 083, compared to UK and EU countries where the average is £ 35, 164.

Certain incidents, such as Fanny's pregnancy with an illegitimate child and Boldwood's sudden lapse into murderous violence, foreshadow events in Tess of the d ' Urbervilles, where ( as in Jude the Obscure ) the protagonist is plagued by relentless misfortunes, and dies young at the end.

Certain activists, including locals and an additional group of anarchists from Eugene, Oregon ( where they had gathered that summer for a music festival ), advocated more confrontational tactics, and planned and conducted deliberate vandalism of corporate properties in downtown Seattle.

Certain local gods mentioned within the text allow the Liber Linteus's place of production to be narrowed to a small area in the southeast of Tuscany near Lake Trasimeno, where four major Etruscan cities were located: modern day Arezzo, Perugia, Chiusi and Cortona.

Certain axioms, such as stability of fibrations under composition and pullbacks, factorization of every morphism into the composition of an acyclic cofibration followed by a fibration or a cofibration followed by an acyclic fibration, where the word " acyclic " indicates that the corresponding arrow is also a weak equivalence, and other requirements are set up to allow the abstract treatment of homotopy theory.

Certain ex-Confederate officers were barred from voting, and a strong showing came from the eastern part of the state, a center of Union loyalty where slavery had never been as much a part of the culture and economy, and secession was generally opposed.

Certain sedans are edging close to being one-box vehicles, where the windshield is steeply raked from the hood / bonnet and the rear window slopes toward almost the end of the car, leaving just a short rear deck that is part of the trunk lid-the 2006 4-door JDM Honda Civic is an example of this.

Certain Alectors can link themselves directly to the world where they reside.

Certain areas did not report their income to the Exchequer, so they do not usually appear in the Pipe rolls, unless the lands were in the king's custody through a vacancy.

Certain complex character combinations can only be accomplished in a double-byte language, giving rise to especially complex forms, sometimes known by their romanized Japanese name of kaomoji.

Certain areas of the Empire, such as Egypt and Algeria, became independent in all but name, and later came under the influence of Britain and France.

Certain scholars of the Semitic Eblaite material ( dated 2350 BC ) from the archive of Tell Mardikh see the oldest reference to Canaanites in the ethnic name ga-na-na which provides a third millennium reference to the name Canaan.

Certain " casting resins " and synthetic resins ( such as epoxy resin ) have also been given the name " resin " because they solidify in the same way as some plant resins, but synthetic resins are liquid monomers of thermosetting plastics, and do not derive from plants.

* Certain secondary titles have a devout Islamic connotation ; e. g., Sultan ul-Mujahidin as champion of jihad ( To strive and to struggle in the name of Allah )

For some time the brook was officially known as Morrissey Brook ( 9 letters ), but an official name change was put into Public Act 01-194, " An Act Concerning Certain Real Property Transactions ," which was approved July 11, 2001.

Certain web-based postal address programs also label the country designation name for Taiwan as " Taiwan, Province of China ".

Certain Non-Chalcedonians, such as John Niciota, Patriarch of Alexandria, whose name he had inserted in the diptychs, at first stood aloof from him, because, though he accepted the Henotikon, he did not reject the Council of Chalcedon, and for the same reason Flavian II of Antioch and Elias of Jerusalem at first communicated with him.

Certain new sports such as tricking and free running also name their moves flips.

Certain types of the AS / 400 object ( database file, storage areas and executable program objects ) can be compiled, copied, and stored into / from many different libraries concurrently, with the Library List hierarchy determining which instance of the object to use during execution of any application that utilizes that object name.

Certain specific prairie plant associations are dominated by grasses of the genus Stipa, which genus often lends its name to the terminology of some prairie types.

Certain compound medicines were also called by this name, such as anodyne balsam, made of castile soap, camphor, saffron, and spirit of wine, and digested in a sand heat.

Certain place names have an unintentional funny name.

Certain kinds of questions were " off-limits ", such as name, age, occupation, and income.

* The name of a supercomputer in the light novel Toaru Majutsu no Index and the manga A Certain Scientific Railgun by Kazuma Kamachi

The river was the classical Bossina Certain Roman sources similarly mention the River Bathinus as a name of the Illyrian Bosona, both of which mean " running water ".

Certain regions of Japan use an alternative abbreviation, shortening the second half of the name instead to " bobora ".

The unincorporated town of Dryhill, ( 37. 1546 ° North, 83. 4157 ° West ), is the proper name of Hell for Certain, located seven miles north of the small town of Hyden.

Dryhill became known by this name because it is located near Hell for Certain Creek.

The Geological Society of America has borrowed " Hell for Certain " as a name for the tonstein located there, and throughout the Appalachian basin.

Certain portions of Lebor Gabála Érenn identify Delbáeth as the father of Brian, Iuchar and Iucharba, mentioning that Delbáeth has another name " Tuirill Biccreo " or " Tuirill Picreo ".

Certain letters of the player's name are used to decide what Pokémon is met, and " MissingNo.

* Certain Christian ministries take the position that Jahbulon is a the name of a Masonic Pagan god, and therefore violates the second commandment " You shall have no other gods before me ".