Certain national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti ( birthdate of Mahatma Gandhi ) are meant to be dry days nationally.

Certain fixed days are always fast days, even if they fall on a Saturday or Sunday ( in which case the fast is lessened somewhat, but not abrogated altogether ); these are: The Decollation of St. John the Baptist, the Exaltation of the Cross and the day before the Epiphany ( January 5 ).

Certain schools also regulate student hairstyles, footwear, and book bags ; but these particular rules are usually adhered to only on special occasions, such as trimester opening and closing ceremonies and school photo days.

Certain feast days call for the blessing of Holy Water as part of their liturgical observance.

Certain days in the year were marked as festivals, and time was counted forward and backwards from them without reference to the ordinary calendar.

The festival included film-screenings, a music seminar, art shows and gigs by the city's most prominent bands, including an all-day gig at Manchester G-Mex featuring A Certain Ratio, The Smiths, New Order and The Fall.

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.

* Mohanlal's film Vanaprastham was screened in the " Un Certain Regard " section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and several other International Film Festivals like Hong Kong International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse film festival, Mar del Plata Film Festival, Istanbul International Film Festival, American Film Institute, American Film Market, Fukuoka International Film Festival.

Certain samples used on the song come from an authentic Maya festival.

The film attracted a lot of attention in the Netherlands and was selected for the ' Un Certain Regard ' section of the Cannes film festival in 2009.

* 1999 Cannes Film Festival: Vanaprastham was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival ( 1999 )

Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

Certain other deductions are not allowed in determining Adjusted Gross Income.

Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).

Certain other properties of small particles, in addition to those already mentioned in connection with penetration of the respiratory tract, are noteworthy in defense considerations.

Certain badly disillusioned market critics are often apt to feel that there is something somehow unfair, dirty, or even thoroughly criminal about this interplay of competitive forces.

Certain specific conditions are excluded as disabilities, such as current substance abuse and visual impairment that is correctable by prescription lenses.

Certain indigenous religious groups such as the Australian Aborigines are more typically totemic, whereas others like the Inuit are more typically animistic in their worldview.

Certain stones, when examined in thin sections by transmitted light, show a diffraction spectrum due to the extreme delicacy of the successive bands, whence they are termed rainbow agates.

Certain object types, including ACIS solids and regions, are not documented.

Certain natural substances are reputed to have anxiolytic properties, including the following:

Certain international trade laws, such as those on intellectual property, are also enforced in India.

Certain other state agencies enjoy considerable operational independence and autonomy ; they include the electrical power, the nationalized commercial banks ( which are open to competition from private banks ), and the social security agency.

Certain elements have no stable isotopes and are composed only of radioactive isotopes: specifically the elements without any stable isotopes are technetium ( atomic number 43 ), promethium ( atomic number 61 ), and all observed elements with atomic numbers greater than 82.

Certain people are known even to people unfamiliar with the area in which they excelled.

Certain Jewish thinkers, such as Maimonides, believed that concubines are strictly reserved for kings, and thus that a commoner may not have a concubine ; indeed, such thinkers argued that commoners may not engage in any type of sexual relations outside of a marriage.

Certain sub-castes are shunned more than others.

Certain Latin-Rite Catholic priests may receive a dispensation to be married before ordination, and all Eastern Catholic priests outside the United States are also permitted to be married, provided they are so before ordination.

Certain drawing methods or approaches, such as " doodling ," other informal kinds of drawing, and the surrealist method of " entopic graphomania ", in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots, may or may not be considered part of " drawing " as a " fine art ".

Certain forms of the gene are associated with a mild form of epilepsy.

Certain aspects of XP have changed since the book Extreme Programming Refactored ( 2003 ) was published ; in particular, XP now accommodates modifications to the practices as long as the required objectives are still met.

Certain types of obi are used with certain types of kimono ; the obis of married and unmarried women are tied in different ways.

Certain initiates such as Alex Sanders and Raymond Buckland who brought his take on the Gardnerian tradition to the United States in 1964 started off their own major traditions allowing further expansion.

On June 27, 1981, the Central Committee adopted the " Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China " ( The Resolution ), an official assessment of major historical events since 1949.

Certain key words would have the major result in cast members having substances poured on them from off-camera.

Certain the attachment of a major star would change Wizan's mind, Feldman approached him once again, but Wizan insisted that as much as the studio liked Ford, they still weren't interested in making a " rural movie.

Certain nerves that belong to the sympathetic branch of the central nervous system exit the spinal cord and stimulate peripheral nerves, which in turn engage the body ’ s major organs and muscles in a fight-or-flight manner.

Certain breeds of dog suffer from narcolepsy making them the major model used to study the human condition.

Alec Waugh was the author of In Praise of Wine & Certain Noble Spirits ( 1959 ), an amusing and discursive guide to the major wine types, and Wines and Spirits, a 1968 book in the Time-Life series Foods of the World.

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.

The main character is Tony Wilson, a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records ( played by Steve Coogan ), and the narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, and the Happy Mondays.

Certain savants have also been shown to display advanced skills in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculating, mathematics and spatial skills.

Certain artists have had their first major museum exposure in Walker exhibitions, among them Joseph Cornell, Frank Gehry, Julie Mehretu, Mario Merz, and Kara Walker.

Certain medieval scholars — including Al-Tabari ( 838 – 932 ), Abu Thawr ( 764 – 854 ), Al-Muzani ( 791 – 878 ), and Ibn Arabi ( 1165 – 1240 )— considered the practice permissible at least for optional ( nafila ) prayers ; however, their views are not accepted by any major surviving group.

Certain major Mahayana sutras show the Buddha forcefully denouncing meat-consumption and advocating vegetarianism ( vegetarianism in Buddhism ).

Certain " risk groups ", such as dissidents, Roma and former criminals, were often barred from getting a propiska in Moscow and some other major cities.

* 1935 Comment j ' ai écrit certains de mes livres ( How I Wrote Certain of my Books, 1995, ISBN 1-878972-14-6 ), translated by Trevor Winkfield, contains a cross-section of his major writings, including Roussel's essay on how he composed his books, the first chapter of each of Impressions d ’ Afrique and Locus Solus, the fifth act of a play, the third canto of New Impressions of Africa and all 59 of its drawings, and the outline for a novel Roussel apparently never wrote.

Among Roy Dupuis ' " tour-de-force " film performances are: Yves, in Being at Home with Claude ( 1991 ; Cannes, Un Certain Regard 1992 )-- his first major screen role — directed by Jean Beaudin, adapted from a screenplay by Johanne Boisvert based on the 1986 stage play by René-Daniel Dubois ; and Kevin Barlow, in Manners of Dying ( 2004 ), the first feature film directed by Jeremy Peter Allen, adapted from his own screenplay based on the short story first published in the 1993 collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories by Yann Martel.

* In a major break from the cult of personality that had been inspired by the late Chairman Mao Zedong, " Resolution on Certain Historical Issues of the Party Since the Founding of the PRC " was approved by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Certain areas will see an an increase of up to 5 meters in water level to create a new reservoir to serve Beijing an Tianjing as part of this major water diversion project.