Certain non-standard regional and economic class-associated dialects do decline the article, either in regular speech or in slang-as in expressions such as " How do you like them apples?

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.

Placing minefields without marking and recording them for later removal is considered a war crime under Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which is itself an annex to the Geneva Conventions.

) Certain vitamin-like compounds that are recommended in the diet, such as carnitine, are thought useful for survival and health, but these are not " essential " dietary nutrients because the human body has some capacity to produce them from other compounds.

Certain beliefs regarding the status of their past leader, and several of their outreach tactics and theology make them controversial in other orthodox groups.

Certain transcription factors regulating the expression of specific genes, including one component of the mammalian complex NF-κB, are synthesized as inactive precursors whose ubiquitination and subsequent proteasomal degradation converts them to an active form.

Certain other agents such as cocaine and heroin are rarely, if ever found in such tablets ; it would not make economic sense for distributors to sell them as a relatively cheaper drug, ecstasy.

Certain new features are common across all editions of Windows 2000, among them NTFS 3. 0, the Microsoft Management Console ( MMC ), UDF support, the Encrypting File System ( EFS ), Logical Disk Manager, Image Color Management 2. 0, support for PostScript 3-based printers, OpenType < tt >(. OTF )</ tt > and Type 1 PostScript < tt >(. PFB )</ tt > font support, the Data protection API ( DPAPI ), an LDAP / Active Directory-enabled Address Book, usability enhancements and multi-language and locale support.

Certain of these bicycles have been referred to as ' sportive ' bicycles to distinguish them from racing bicycles.

Certain Traditionalist Catholic groups, particularly Sedevacantists, consider Lumen Gentium to be the demarcation of when the Roman Church fell into heresy, pointing to the use of " subsistit in " rather than " est " as an abdication of the Church's historic ( and to them compulsory ) identification of itself alone as God's church.

Certain persons of Finnish descent who live outside the former Soviet Union also have the right to establish permanent residency, which would eventually entitle them to qualify for citizenship.

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

* Certain categories of character types in role-playing games are called splats, and the game supplements describing them are called splatbooks.

Certain mutual fund managers were alleged to have advocated the purchasing of particular technology stocks, while quietly selling them.

Certain materials have a sweet spot in terms of density that makes them particularly useful in this role.

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.

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

Certain types of animals that are ecologically important on the continental ecozones, like large land predators and grazing mammals, were entirely absent from the islands of Oceania until humans brought them.

Edmond Malone exposes them in his An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments on 31 March, and the forged ' Shakespearean ' play, Vortigern and Rowena, is able to sustain just a single performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 2 April.

Certain consonants can be pronounced while whistling, so as to modify the whistled sound, much as consonants in spoken language modify the vowel sounds adjacent to them.

Certain mediumwave frequencies were set aside under the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement ( NARBA ) for nighttime use by only one or two specific AM stations, covering a wide area via skywave propagation ; these frequencies were known as the clear channels, and the stations on them are thus clear-channel stations.

Certain negative historical renditions of usury carry with them social connotations of perceived " unjust " or " discriminatory " lending practices.

Certain prevention strategies have been studied in order to target at-risk populations and teach them how to prevent the loss of contextual memory as well as how to improve source memory in the general population.

Certain syncretic religions have arisen in East Asia which claim to harmonize Buddhism with other religions ; among them are I-Kuan Tao ( Taiwan ), Caodaism ( Vietnam ); Chondogyo ( Korea ), and Oomoto ( Japan ).

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.