Certain areas ( such as the Himalayas ) are not in isostatic equilibrium, which has forced researchers to identify other reasons to explain their topographic heights ( in the case of the Himalayas, which are still rising, by proposing that their elevation is being " propped-up " by the force of the impacting Indian plate ).

Certain religious and political functions were reserved for the Levites, and the early sources of the Torah — the Jahwist and Elohist — appear to treat the term Levi as just being a word meaning priest ; scholars therefore suspect that " levi " was originally a general term for a priest, and had no connection to ancestry, and that it was only later, for example in the priestly source and Blessing of Moses, that the existence of a tribe named Levi became assumed, in order to explain the origin of the priestly caste.

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

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 persons in England during the reign of King Henry I of England were called Acephali because they had no lands by virtue of which they could acknowledge a superior lord.

Certain types of large random satisfiable instances of SAT can be solved by survey propagation ( SP ).

The original EU legislation “ Restrictions of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronics Devices ” ( RoHS Directive 2002 / 95 / EC ) was replaced and superseded by 2011 / 65 / EU published in July 2011 and commonly known as RoHS 2.

Certain experts believe that the monster was inspired by the golden jackal.

* Certain kinds of memory leaks, in which a program fails to free memory occupied by objects that have actually become unreachable, which leads to memory exhaustion if such a behavior is repeated indefinitely.

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 matte paintings were rendered by James Cameron, who was at the time a special effects artist with Roger Corman's New World Pictures.

Certain designs of auto-loading pistol appeared beginning in the 1870s and had largely supplanted revolvers in military applications by the end of World War I.

Certain countries such as the United Kingdom are unaffected as they maintain more stringent gun control laws than those effectively set as a minimum by the European Union.

Certain sources also see a conversion of Boccaccio by Petrarch from the open humanist of the Decameron to a more ascetic style, closer to the dominant fourteenth century ethos.

The Belgian Anti-Racism Law, in full, the Law of 30 July 1981 on the Punishment of Certain Acts inspired by Racism or Xenophobia, is a law against hate speech and discrimination passed by the Federal Parliament of Belgium in 1981 which made certain acts motivated by racism or xenophobia illegal.

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 life insurance contracts accumulate cash values, which may be taken by the insured if the policy is surrendered or which may be borrowed against.

Certain insurance products and practices have been described as rent-seeking by critics.

* Certain types of pleated wrapover skirt worn as school uniform by girls.

Certain tree species, such as hemlock, have also been particularly depleted by past logging activity.

Certain Loa display very distinctive behaviour by which they can be recognized, specific phrases, and specific actions.

The word militia dates back to at least 1590 when it was recorded in a book by Sir John Smythe, Certain Discourses Military with the meanings: a military force ; a body of soldiers and military affairs ; a body of military discipline

Certain species are regarded as subhuman, like the Morlocks who lurk beneath New York City and have been discriminated against by the outside world because of their mutant deformities.

Certain theories posit that such an ordering alters the information state of the surrounding environment such that, for ever decreasing levels of entropy, there is a net local entropy deficit or " information moment " impressed upon the surrounding environment by the extant local information structures.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, before Ran itself had been released.

Certain people he had never met before gave him money and keys to a place to stay which were required to enter South Africa at the dock.

Certain citizens who had become prominent enough to safely criticize the Soviet government, such as Andrei Sakharov, did speak out against nuclear weapons, but that was to little effect.

His first attempt to do this was entitled ‘ Commentary on Certain Texts Which Deal with Antichrist ’ ( 1640 ), in which he attempted to argue that the texts relating to Antichrist had their fulfillment in the 1st century AD.

Certain early Zionists, and particularly the founders of Kibbutz movement in Israel, had been influenced by Spartan ideals, particularly as a model for education.

Certain environmentalists are concerned that Iceland left the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) in June 1992 in protest of an IWC decision to refuse to lift the ban on whaling, after the IWC Scientific Committee had determined that the taking of certain species could safely be resumed.

Certain facilities had started to move at the end of the 2005 / 6 academic year when the site was sold to a private developer ( with an agreement that the University could still use the site until 2008 ), and a brief period of demolition work was carried out in early 2007.

Certain sections of the borough, such as Dutch Hill and the South Ward, had a reputation for " toughness "; those sections were also densely populated by immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.

Certain sources cite this series as the origin of a nickname used by some anime fans,, although it should be noted that Tomino had directed and worked in a number of series in which the vast majority of the protagonists survive .< ref >

Certain radio analyst reports suggested that as many as 100, 000 new listeners had been gained by the change, but this masked the fact that the market share dropped considerably, to 4. 3 %.

Certain Sub-Saharan African musical traditions also had a significant influence on such well-known works as Disney's The Lion King and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, which blend traditional tribal music with modern culture.

Certain Coast Salish summer camps were located at Garry Point, and Woodward's Landing, along with the site of the Terra Nova cannery, which had at one time been a Musqueam village.

Certain European countries, New Zealand ( 1893 ), South Australia ( 1894 ) and Western Australia ( 1899 ) and a number of American states had allowed women to vote but not England.

His father, Antoine Certain de Canrobert, Knight of Saint Louis, was the scion of a relatively obscure family whose grandfather had been ennobled in 1738 ( the senior branch of the family, extinct in 1918, used the surname " Certain de La Meschaussée "): he became a Royalist émigré and consequently his few properties were confiscated during the French Revolution and he was even briefly imprisoned in the Temple in 1801.

Certain curves had been known to be both elliptic curves ( of genus 1 ) and modular curves, before the conjecture was formulated ( about 1955 ).

Certain precedents paved the way for this institution: representatives of principal towns had several times been convoked by the king, and under Philip III there had been assemblies of nobles and ecclesiastics in which the two orders deliberated separately.

Certain Decembrists, including the Volkonskys, the Murav ’ yovs, and the Trubetskoys, were rich, but the majority of exiles had no money, and were forced to live off a mere fifteen desyatins of land, the allotment granted to each settler.

Certain BP Vanellus oil certified for MB228. 5 standard had sulfated ash content around 2 %, thus providing superior piston ring protection as a side-effect.