It is generally dated between 650 and 400 BC as most texts written in Early Demotic are dated to the 26th dynasty and the following Persian period ( the 27th dynasty ).

In the earlier stages of Demotic, such as those texts written in the Early Demotic script, it probably represented the spoken idiom of the time.

Early experiments are often designed to provide mean-unbiased estimates of treatment effects and of experimental error.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS out of the local calling area.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

Early personal computer games often needed a keyboard for gameplay, or more commonly, required the user to buy a separate joystick with at least one button .< ref >* Patrick Stack.

Early daily strips were large, often running the entire width of the newspaper, and were sometimes three or more inches high.

Early pre-bluegrass traditional music was often accompanied by the cello.

Early endosomes are often located in the periphery of the cell, and receive most types of vesicles coming from the cell surface.

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Early medieval writers often had fuzzy and imprecise impressions of both Ptolemy and Aristotle and relied more on Pliny, but they felt ( with one exception ), little urge to assume flatness.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

" Early redemption penalties " were ( and still are ) often based on a penalty of x months of interest / payment ; again no real bar to paying off what had been a large loan.

Early styles of karate are often generalized as Shuri-te, Naha-te, and Tomari-te, named after the three cities from which they emerged.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

* Provision of benefits to members: Early trade unions, like Friendly Societies, often provided a range of benefits to insure members against unemployment, ill health, old age and funeral expenses.

Early lyrics drew on the band's blues and folk roots, often mixing lyrical fragments from different songs.

In the 19th century, the entire Middle Ages were often referred to as the " Dark Ages ", but with the creation of these subdivisions use of this term was restricted to the Early Middle Ages, at least among historians.

Early heavy machine guns were often water-cooled ; while very effective, the water also added considerable weight to an already bulky design.

Early multi-barrel guns were approximately the size and weight of contemporary artillery pieces, and were often perceived as a replacement for cannon firing grapeshot or canister shot.

Early MUMPS programmers would often store a structure of related information as a delimited string, parsing it after it was read in ; this saved disk access time and offered considerable speed advantages on some hardware.

Early science fiction about Mars often involved the first voyages to the planet, sometimes as an invasion force, more often for the purposes of exploration.

Early inhabitants are often associated with the historical Dilmun Civilisation though the historical records of Dilmun are scanty.

Early contact was often charged with tension and emotion, but also had moments of friendship, cooperation, and intimacy.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).

Early in 1941 he started writing for the American Partisan Review and contributed to Gollancz ' anthology The Betrayal of the Left, written in the light of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( although Orwell referred to it as the Russo-German Pact and the Hitler-Stalin Pact ).

Early references to the Golgi referred to it by various names including " Golgi – Holmgren apparatus ", " Golgi – Holmgren ducts ", and " Golgi – Kopsch apparatus ".

In the Early Church those who presided over congregations were referred to variously as episcopos ( bishop ) or presbyteros ( priest ).

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

Early Federalist-leaning American newspapers during the French Revolution referred to the Democratic-Republican party as the " Jacobin Party ".

Jubal Early referred to it as " the greatest horse stealing expedition " that only " annoyed " the enemy.

The Triassic is usually separated into Early, Middle, and Late Triassic Epochs, and the corresponding rocks are referred to as Lower, Middle, or Upper Triassic.

According to Cooper there was " Early Cubism ", ( from 1906 to 1908 ) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque ; the second phase being called " High Cubism ", ( from 1909 to 1914 ) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent ; and finally Cooper referred to " Late Cubism " ( from 1914 to 1921 ) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement.

Early money used by people is referred to as " Odd and Curious ", but the use of other goods in barter exchange is excluded, even where used as a circulating currency ( e. g., cigarettes in prison ).

Early Jewish texts referred to a “ western wall of the Temple ”, but there is doubt whether the texts were referring to today ’ s Western Wall or to another wall which stood within the Temple complex.

During the first half of the 20th century, the term " bastard sword " was used regularly to refer to this type of sword, while " long sword " or " long-sword ", if used at all, referred to the rapier ( in the context of Renaissance or Early Modern fencing ).

Early residents referred to it as ‘ Funck ’ s Jerusalem Town ’ which became part of Washington County in 1776.

Early European settlers referred to the place as Penataquit and, earlier, Awixa ; both names were used by the Native American Secatogue tribe.

Early settlers used this log as a landmark to describe the location of their claims and referred to this area as Hartslog Settlement.

Early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also referred to as Mormons or LDS, began the first full-scale settling of what is now known as San Juan County, Utah.

Early French explorers referred to these natives as the Huron, either from the French huron (" ruffian ", " rustic "), or from hure (" boar's head ").

Early use of the term in the United States referred to race riots which were often a mob action by members of a majority racial group against people of other perceived races.

Early magazine advertisements ( featured in graphic design trade magazines such as Communication Arts ) referred to the product as " the Adobe Illustrator ".

With some differences in vocabulary, texts from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, are referred to as using Early Modern English or Elizabethan English.

Though the word proselytism originally referred to Early Christianity ( and earlier Gentiles ), it now refers to any religions ' or religious individuals ' attempts to convert people to their beliefs or even any attempt to convert people to another point of view, religious or not.

Early versions of Unix filesystems were referred to simply as FS.

" His shoe size is referred to as " 10 1 / 2 or 11 " in " By Dawn's Early Light ".

In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiar spirits ( sometimes referred to simply as " familiars ") were supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic.

As a result of the increasingly high-profile nature of the job and Early's sole responsibility of managing the White House press operations, it was during the Roosevelt administration that Early and the position he held began to be formally referred to as the press secretary.