Cornelius Holtorf, an academic archaeologist, describes an archaeologist as a detective as one of the key themes of archaeology in popular culture.

" Princeton University archaeologist Jack Finnegan describes additional archaeological evidence related to settlement in the Nazareth basin during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and states that " Nazareth was a strongly Jewish settlement in the Roman period.

Jennifer Wallace describes archaeologist Israel Finkelstein's view in her article Shifting Ground in the Holy Land, appearing in Smithsonian Magazine, May 2006:

Fatu Hiva is also the title of a book by explorer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, in which he describes his stay on the island in the 1930s.

John Froelich describes how mouthpiece pressure towards the lips ( vertical forces ) and shear pressure ( horizontal forces ) functioned in three test groups, student trombonists, professional trombonists, and professional symphonic trombonists.

The term " applied mathematics " also describes the professional specialty in which mathematicians work on problems, often concrete but sometimes abstract.

In the United States and Canada, the term physician describes all medical practitioners holding a professional medical degree.

Szasz describes the deceased ( 1989 ) Laing in vitriolic terms, accusing him of being irresponsible and equivocal on psychiatric diagnosis and use of force, and detailing his past " public behavior " as " a fit subject for moral judgment " which he gives as " a bad person and a fraud as a professional ".

Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which special interests hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress.

He describes this early period of his professional life in Volume I of his book My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia ( 1895 ).

A small garrison of " invalides " was appointed in 1749 to guard the interior and exterior of the fortress ; these were retired soldiers and were regarded locally, as Simon Schama describes, as " amiable layabouts " rather than professional soldiers.

Stang describes himself as the " sacred scribe " of Dobbs and a " professional maven of weirdness ".

* Emily Prager's short story A Visit from the Footbinder, from her collection of short stories of the same name ( 1982 ) describes the last few hours of a young Chinese girl's childhood before the professional footbinder arrives to initiate her into the adult woman's life of beauty and pain.

Nicknamed The Philosopher, Lozada Cruz adopted the professional name Vico C. Vico C describes rap as " essentially hip-hop but with a flavor more compatible to the Caribbean.

Chris Hutchins, a biographer of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, describes the relationship between Russian president and Abramovich as like that between a father and a favorite son ; Abramovich himself has stated that his relationship with Putin is a professional business relationship, as signified by his use of the Russian language's formal " Вы " ( like Spanish " usted " or French " vous ") in addressing Putin, as opposed to the informal " ты " ( Spanish " tú " or French " tu ").

He describes gunfights, knife fights, torture, and ( off-stage ) sexual conquests with a carefully maintained professional detachment, like a pathologist dictating an autopsy report or a police officer describing an investigation.

In the course of the novel Lewis describes many aspects of medical training, medical practice, scientific research, scientific fraud, medical ethics, public health, and of personal / professional conflicts that are still relevant today.

NEA, which describes itself as a professional employee organization, is incorporated as a professional association in a few states and as a labor union in most.

In professional wrestling slang, the term job describes a losing performance in a wrestling match.

The World Wresting Entertainment Inc. describes professional wrestling with the term ' sports entertainment '.

He describes his experiences trying to use the computer for large scientific purposes, and recalls the reception of his computational research by the professional astronomy journals.

It describes in detail Ali's repeated use of the " right-hand lead " in the early rounds, a rarely-used punch in professional boxing because it opens the boxer up for easy attack, and therefore the punch that Foreman was least prepared for.

Roberts describes the handwriting as " heavy, rounded and rather elaborate ", but nevertheless not the work of " a practised scribe " ( i. e. not a professional bookhand ).

: This article describes the Belgian professional organisation.

Stendhal, who spent decades as a professional diplomat in northern Italy, gives a lively and interesting account of the court, though all of what he describes is entirely fictional, as Parma was ruled by Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma during the time of the novel.

* By far the most common usage of the term describes the consumers, enthusiasts who buy products ( almost always technical ) that fall between professional and consumer grade standards in quality, complexity, or functionality.

* The inverted detective story: Also known as " howcatchem ", the commission of the crime and the identity of the perpetrator is revealed to the reader first, then the rest of the story describes the detective's attempt to solve the mystery.

One of the minor characters in it is an authoress of thirty-two detective novels ; she describes in several amusing pages the difficulties of her craft.

Most of his fictional stories feature the character of Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults for the police, assisted in his investigations by LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, who is what Kellerman describes as " gay, but so what?

Later in the episode, the character describes her costume as a serious detective costume, based on the only woman smarter than Sherlock Holmes.

Sedaris also describes his exploits as an amateur detective.

Naomi Lindstrom describes the reviewer of the detective story as " a typical Borges narrator.

The detective with the flared moustache is Thomson ( without a " p "), who often describes himself as " Thomson, without a ' p ,' as in Venezuela!

In her Author's Foreword, Christie describes " the body in the library " as a cliché of detective fiction.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

The book describes the general pattern of the past official dynastic historiography on structure, method, order of arrangement, sequence, caption and commentary back to the pre-Qin era.

The Tao Te Ching focuses upon the beginnings of society, and describes a golden age in the past, comparable with the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Pei describes the architecture of Shanghai's The Bund | Bund waterfront area ( seen here in a 2006 photo ) as " very much a colonial past ".

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.

" This quote illustrates Orwell ’ s understanding of how the past can influence both ideology and politics, offers a counterpoint as to why protecting the scholarly practice of history is important, and describes the extreme effects of state-sponsored censorship.

The folklorist Jenny Butler describes how Irish Pagans pick certain traditional cultural elements associated with the pre-modern folk celebration of Samhain and merge these together with references to the Celtic past to fashion a new festival of Samhain that is inimitably part of neo-pagan culture.

Moore had earlier explored similar ideas in Watchmen, where Dr. Manhattan perceives past, present and future simultaneously, and describes himself as " a puppet who can see the strings ".

Christopher Caldwell writes that "' colonization ' well describes the influx of the past half-century ".

Lessig describes this as " a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past ".

Alain de Botton describes pastiche as " an unconvincing reproduction of the styles of the past.

The writing style that describes the ' new world ' without people is a trend among explorers both of the past and present.

Of considerable relevance is the determination of whether the tribulation Jesus describes is a past, present or future event.

In past media interviews, prior to the Queen's visit, President McAleese had stated on several occasions that the highlight of her presidency to date was the opening ceremony of the 2003 Special Olympics World Games which she describes as " a time when Ireland was at its superb best ".

Based on ideas similar in concept to H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and especially Robert E. Howard, the Multiverse is mostly past tense, wherein Roberts describes ancient events that have already transpired.

The specific expression of Modern Orthodoxy, however, takes many forms, and in fact, particularly over the past 30 – 40 years, describes a political spectrum.

Rolling Stone Magazine describes the band as " hard as nails and cranked to eleven ", while Alternative Press praised the band for its " churning, riff-driven hybrid of all that is heavy, past and present ".

In post-colonial studies, the term neo-colonialism describes the domination-praxis ( social, economic, cultural ) of countries from the developed world in the respective internal affairs of the countries of the developing world ; that, despite the decolonisation occurred in the aftermath of the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ), the ( former ) colonial powers continue to apply existing and past international economic arrangements with their former colony countries, and so maintain colonial control.

The term nostalgia describes a sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

It describes how British political scholarship mostly ignored 20th century history due to temporal proximity to the recent past, the unavailability of primary sources, and the potential for bias.

In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean Baudrillard describes " retro " as a demythologization of the past, distancing the present from the big ideas that drove the “ modern ” age.

In fact, these events did not occur as Cloud describes ; rather, they are an amalgamation of Cloud's actual past ( as a member of the Shinra army who failed to enter SOLDIER ) along with his friend Zack's own past, mixed with memories gleaned from Tifa's mind, created out of a combination of shame, Jenova cells and manipulation by Sephiroth.