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.

Certain national laboratories, under the auspices of the AEC, would develop and produce nuclear weapons, while the responsibility for the use and deployment remained with the military.

" However, " directed energy weapons that target the central nervous system and cause neurophysiological disorders " may violate the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980.

Certain weapons incorporate suppressor or telescopic sight attachments to aid the player in killing enemies discreetly.

Certain weapons, such as land mines or stealth-equipped Battlemechs, are also considered dishonorable.

Certain weapons can be dual-wielded, allowing the player to trade accuracy, the use of grenades and melee attacks for raw firepower.

Certain types of conventional weapons are also regulated or prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.

Certain enemies can also have their weapons dragged out of their hands, making them easier to defeat.

Certain weapons like polearms and heavy swords require Drake to have two free hands to wield one.

Certain weapons can only be acquired through using souls to strengthen a lesser form of the weapon.

Certain bosses are replaced by new ones, and some bosses ' weapons and attack patterns were modified.

Certain weapons can be used by more than one character, such as small axes that can be wielded by both Vahn and Gala.

The use of incendiary weapons against civilians was banned by signatory countries in the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III.

Certain missions, however, will dictate certain ships and weapons to be used.

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 products ( typically staple foods such as bread, milk and sugar ) are occasionally sold as loss leaders, that is, with negative profit margins.

Certain eunuchs gained immense power that occasionally superseded that of even the Grand Secretaries.

Certain Japanese players, which are considered to be of higher quality or of greater capacity for quality playback than the North American units, are occasionally imported by enthusiasts.

Certain minerals occasionally contain interstitial impurities of radioactive compounds and it is the alpha radiation emitted from these compounds that is responsible for degrading a mineral's crystal structure through internal bombardment.

Certain albums would occasionally fetch hefty prices at online auctions or in record stores.

Certain idiosyncratic terms are occasionally found in the literature.

His next film was Epidemic ( 1987 ), which was also shown at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.

Certain software detected the HGC and used the monochrome display for extra data display while running the application on the other screen — for example a CAD work area would be displayed on the main ( non-Hercules driven ) screen and a list of drawing commands would be shown on the HGC driven monochrome screen.

Certain conformations of cyclohexane and other small-ring compounds can be shown using a standard convention.

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 species of crustaceans have been shown to produce and secrete methyl farnesoate, which is juvenile hormone III lacking the epoxide group.

Certain varieties of fiddleheads have been shown to be carcinogenic.

Certain studies have shown that fairness affects human cooperation ; individuals are willing to punish at their own cost ( altruistic punishment ) if they believe that they are being treated unfairly.

Certain episodes were not shown due to their perceived offensive nature.

Certain vector bosons, i. e. the Z-and W particles, play a prominent role in the recently announced ( July 4, 2012 ) scalar boson ( perhaps the Higgs boson ), as shown by the attached Feynman diagram.

Certain studies have shown that height is a factor in overall health while some suggest tallness is associated with better cardiovascular health and shortness with longevity.

Certain letters also have specific meanings as well as their traditional alphabetic value, as shown in the table below.

Certain shows, commercials and films that were popular in one decade are shown less frequently on television in the next.

Certain related programming carried locally, such as the Blackhawks ' victory parade following the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs and a half-hour special paying tribute to the late Cubs player and broadcaster Ron Santo in 2011, have also not been shown on WGN America, though in the latter case a few Tribune and Local TV LLC partner stations aired the funeral on their digital subchannels.

Certain results of his intellectual approach shown in the series and the film adaptation include building a makeshift catapult to beat his father in a stone-ferrying contest, fitting their longship with kites to make it glide through the air, and using a small sawfish to cut an escape hole through a wooden door.

Certain cameras or video feeds can be " isolated " to specific decks, and when something happens that the producer or director wants to see again, the deck can be rewound and shown on the air as an instant replay.

Certain popular psychologists like Derren Brown have shown an ability to predict people's word associations, and some suggest that humans actually find it very difficult to disassociate words such that they become more predictable when told to do so.

According to a 1999 article by Bob Ellis ( whose wife Anne Brooksbank wrote for the series ), almost all of the episodes of Certain Women were subsequently wiped by the ABC, although episodes were still being shown as late as 1981 on British television.