For many decades, consciousness as a research topic was avoided by the majority of mainstream scientists, because of a general feeling that a phenomenon defined in subjective terms could not properly be studied using objective experimental methods.

For most of its existence it has battled with mainstream medicine, sustained by pseudoscientific ideas such as subluxation and innate intelligence that are not based on solid science.

For example, analysts from the centrist Brookings Institution and conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute are those most quoted in mainstream news accounts ; liberal think tanks are often invisible.

For most mainstream country stations, the emphasis is generally on current pop country, following the same process as top 40 ; the remaining music in a particular station's library generally uses music from the past fifteen years ( shorter for " hot country " or " new country " stations ), with the exact music used varying depending on the station and the style of music the listener wants to hear.

For example, the Gnostic writings of Valentinus come from the 2nd century AD, and these Christians were regarded as heretics by the mainstream church.

For mainstream critics, the most compelling evidence against Oxford ( besides the historical evidence for William Shakespeare ) is his death in 1604, since the generally-accepted chronology of Shakespeare's plays places the composition of approximately twelve of the plays after that date.

For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream.

For a time White Dwarf also contained material for those American RPGs for which Games Workshop had the UK licence, competing directly with TSR's own UK publication, Imagine, and various other mainstream UK and imported fantasy and science-fiction gaming magazines.

For example, out of the five polka albums nominated for an award in 2006, only one album was widely distributed in the mainstream.

For example ordered groups are not studied in mainstream universal algebra because they involve an ordering relation.

For the most part of the century mostly ignored by mainstream literary criticism, these genres develop their own establishments and critical awards, such as the Nebula Award ( since 1965 ), the British Fantasy Award ( since 1971 ) or the Mythopoeic Awards ( since 1971 ).

For example, in Harlan Ellison's writing, the term may signal a wish not to be pigeonholed as a science fiction writer, and a desire to break out of science fiction's genre conventions in a literary and modernist direction ; or to escape the prejudice with which science fiction is often met by mainstream critics.

For example, a miracle-filled revival at Asbury College in 1970 grabbed the attention of the mainstream news media and became known nation-wide.

It was on Epic that the Staple Singers began moving into mainstream pop markets, with " Why ( Am I Treated So Bad )" and " For What It's Worth " ( Stephen Stills ) in 1967.

For their part, the promoters were not at all shy about describing their protagonists as " terrorists ", despite the obvious negative connotations the term carries, and the fact that western mainstream media sources often meet anarchists with hostility.

For example, Bina Agarwal and others have critiqued the mainstream model and helped provide a better understanding of intra-household bargaining power.

For years, mainstream cinematographers were limited to using the Academy ratio, but in the 1950s, thanks to the popularity of Cinerama, widescreen ratios were introduced in an effort to pull audiences back into the theater and away from their home television sets.

For a short period in the mid-1990s, Goa trance enjoyed significant commercial success with support from DJs, who later went on to assist in developing a much more mainstream style of trance outside Goa.

For the first time since Stryper's success in the 1980s, certain Christian metal artists found mainstream acceptance selling millions of albums to both Christian and non-Christian fans, including Underoath and P. O. D.

After a label change to Clive Davis's Arista Records, Monica mainstream success was boosted, when Diane Warren-written " For You I Will ", from the Space Jam soundtrack, became her next top ten pop hit.

For purposes of comparison with mainstream Catholic organisations, the Knights of Columbus in the United States are stated to have 1. 7 million members, the Neocatechumenal Way is reported to have around 1 million members, and Opus Dei is claimed to have 87, 000 members.

For the last 10 years, metal has become more mainstream in this nation.

For the most part, however, these trends did not become mainstream until the 1790s, and the Metastasian model continued to dominate.

For instance, " male pregnancy " has been used to comedic effect in mainstream literature and films such as Junior ( 1994 film, dir.

For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.

For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

For the first time in history, the U.S. has produced a society in which less than one-tenth of the people turn out so much food that the Government's most embarrassing problem is how to dispose inconspicuously of 100 million tons of surplus farm produce.

For much of its history, ASL was not written.

For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

For much of the history of the series ( Volumes 4 through 29 ), settings in Gaul and abroad alternated, with even-numbered volumes set abroad and odd-numbered volumes set in Gaul, mostly in the village.

For much of military history the manufacture of metal armour in Europe has dominated the technology and employment of armour.

For much of artillery's history during the Middle Ages and the Early modern period, artillery pieces on land were moved with the assistance of horse teams.

For much of its history Aberdour was two villages, Wester Aberdour and Easter Aberdour, on either side of the Dour Burn.

For most of human history, pearls were the ultimate precious beads of natural origin because of their rarity, although the pearl-culturing process has now made them far more common.

For his part, Merkle was doomed to endless criticism and vilification throughout his career for this lapse, which went down in history as " Merkle's Boner ".

For most of the history of bicycles ' popularity women have worn long skirts, and the lower frame accommodated these better than the top-tube.

For many years, early Anglo-Saxon history was essentially a retelling of the Historia, but recent scholarship has focused as much on what Bede did not write as what he did.

For instance, John Stuart Mill famously suggested that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

For most of Bodmin's history, the tin industry was a mainstay of the economy.

For more information on history before the Great Trek, see Afrikaner.

For almost the next 1, 000 years, these states, their relations with each other, and their effects on the peoples who lived in stateless societies along their peripheries dominated Chad's political history.

For most of human history, it was a branch of metaphysics and religion.

For in At the Mountains of Madness we find the history of a conflict between two interstellar races ( among others ): the Elder Ones and the Cthulhu-spawn.

For the history of the native sultanates on several of the major islands, see Sultans on the Comoros.

For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of computing hardware and history of computer science.

For this reason, the history of Cairo during Ottoman times is often described as inconsequential, especially in comparison to other time periods.

For example, the 14th Dalai Lama, long insistent on Tibet's history being separate from that of China's, conceded in 2005 that Tibet " is a part " of China's " 5000-year history " as part of a new proposal for Tibetan autonomy.