Generally the first salvo of a tsunami is a rather sharp swell, not different enough from an ordinary wave to alarm casual observers.

Generally, the first CERT team member arriving on the scene becomes team leader, and is the designated Incident Commander ( IC ) until the arrival of someone more competent.

Generally, children first studied the Chinese characters with rote memorization of the Three Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames, then went on to memorize the other classics, in order to ascend in the social hierarchy.

Generally there is a method of selecting the order in which the barrels of an SST shotgun fire ; commonly this is done through manipulation of the safety, pushing to one side to select top barrel first and the other side to select bottom barrel first.

Generally the given name, first name, forename, or personal name is the one used by friends, family, and other intimates to address an individual.

* Thomas Hobbes: Generally considered to have first articulated how the concept of a social contract that justifies the actions of rulers ( even where contrary to the individual desires of governed citizens ), can be reconciled with a conception of sovereignty.

Generally in rural areas with growing populations, the higher the incidence of polygyny, the greater the delay of first marriage for young men, and this creates a surplus of marriageable girls.

Generally the average fitness will have increased by this procedure for the population, since only the best organisms from the first generation are selected for breeding, along with a small proportion of less fit solutions, for reasons already mentioned above.

Generally, penicillamine is the first treatment used.

Generally, collagen plugs are inserted first.

Generally, egg yolks, garlic and Dijon mustard ( if adding this as a common variation on the basic aioli ) are combined first with a whisk, then the oil and the lemon juice are added slowly with whisking to create the emulsion.

Generally, it is played quietly for the first ( or second ) playthrough, then the next has a piccolo playing over the trio melody, and in the final playthrough, it is loud.

Generally, the family that fostered the puppy is given the first option to keep any pup that does not continue in the program.

Generally it was imagined like a Greek warship, a galley, and authors hypothesized that it was the first ship of this type that had gone out on a high-sea voyage.

Generally the existence, structure and synthesis of those compounds is not a part of the indigenous medical knowledge that led researchers to analyze the plant in the first place.

Generally speaking, Recinos receives credit for finding the manuscript and publishing the first direct edition since Scherzer.

Generally regarded to be the first thermoplastic, it was first created as Parkesine in 1862 and as Xylonite in 1869, before being registered as Celluloid in 1870.

Generally, the first algorithm will be slightly slower because it accesses the data in a more irregular manner.

Generally, antiferromagnetic order may exist at sufficiently low temperatures, vanishing at and above a certain temperature, the Néel temperature ( named after Louis Néel, who had first identified this type of magnetic ordering ).

Generally speaking, airport codes are named after the first three letters of the city in which it is located-ATL for Atlanta, SIN for Singapore, MEX for Mexico City, IST for Istanbul ; or a combination of the letters in its name, GDL for Guadalajara, JNB for Johannesburg, HKG for Hong Kong, and SLC for Salt Lake City.

Generally, the air pressure variations are first converted ( by a transducer such as a microphone ) into an electrical analog signal in which either the instantaneous voltage or current is directly proportional to the instantaneous air pressure ( or is a function of the pressure ).

Generally, the new growth and rapidly growing tissues of the plant are affected first.

Generally frustrated with the music scene in LA, Alexakis and his first wife Anita relocated to San Francisco.

Generally a chronicle (, from Greek, from, chronos, " time ") is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line.

Generally, the punch line answer highlights a stereotype of the target group.

Generally, when an excess line insurer writes a policy, it must, pursuant to state laws, provide disclosure to the policyholder that the policyholder's policy is being written by an excess line insurer.

Generally, under the NRRA, only the insured's home state may regulate and tax the excess line transaction.

Generally, there is ambiguity as to where they draw a line on " species ", " created kinds ", etc.

Generally written in a single vertical line, the haiku contains three sections totalling 17 onji, structured in a 5-7-5 pattern.

Generally the left wing is favored by the right-handed majority of writers because the feather curves away from the sight line, over the back of the hand, although because of the modern scarcity of substantial quills this is rarely a consideration as the curvature is not actually so pronounced as to cause any difficulty in the writing process.

Generally, the meter is trochaic octameter – eight trochaic feet per line, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable.

Generally line numbers or a search based context ( especially when making changes within lines ) are used to specify which part of the document is to be edited or displayed.

Generally single lined kites are used as they allow very long line lengths and need less intervention from the flyer than steerable designs.

Generally, although not absolutely, the service provider simply passes whatever calling line ID appears on those PRI access trunks transparently across the Public Switched Telephone Network ( PSTN ).

Generally, though, the exemptions all tend to follow the same line: any rights pertaining to the Crown generally in most areas of the country instead pertain to the Duke in the Duchy.

Generally, static var compensation is not done at line voltage ; a bank of transformers steps the transmission voltage ( for example, 230 kV ) down to a much lower level ( for example, 9. 5 kV ).

Generally, the Christian calendar follows the legal calendar, and the Christian date line is on the same place as the international date line.

Generally a line doubler will only interpolate within a single field, rather than merging information from adjacent fields, to preserve the smoothness of motion, resulting in a frame rate equal to the field rate ( i. e. a 60i signal would be converted to 60p.

Generally, this line is less tactical than many of the other Sicilian variations, and play involves much strategic manoeuvring on both sides.

Generally, her work blurs the line as what society has deemed as " fact " or " fiction.

Generally, a driver will leave the pits and drive around the track in order to get to the start / finish line ( the out-lap ).

Generally the analog side of the display system would generate an interrupt when it finished drawing a line and was getting ready for the next one ( as in the Atari home computers, for instance ).

Generally each line of a rental invoice will refer to the actual hours, days, weeks, months, etc., being billed.

Generally, derechos are convection-induced and take on a bow echo form of squall line, forming in an area of wind divergence in the upper levels of the troposphere, within a region of low-level warm air advection and rich low-level moisture.

Generally where watercourses form part of the bounds their meander is taken as a straight line between the established corners and their monuments.

Generally, the tram-train and train-tram are interchangeable, although a train-tram is based on a train design modified to also run as a tram and a tram-train is based on a tram design modified to also run on a train line.