A passage in Muhtasar kitab al-buldan illustrates the division of Islamic society into strata: " First are the rulers, whom their deserts has placed in the foremost rank ; second are the viziers, distinguished by wisdom and understanding ; third are the wealthy upper classes, lifted by their possessions ; fourth are the middle classes who are attached to the upper three by culture ( ta ' addub ); the remainder are the lowest classes that are filthy refuse, a torrent of scum, none of whom thinks of anything but food and sleep.

Juvenal, for example, was fond of occasionally creating verses that placed a sense break between the fourth and fifth foot ( instead of in the usual caesura positions ), but this technique —- known as the bucolic diaeresis -— did not catch on with other poets.

" When he first introduced this concept as a diagnostic entity in the fourth German edition of his Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie in 1893, it was placed among the degenerative disorders alongside, but separate from, catatonia and dementia paranoides.

It was ridden by Edward Hildebrand and placed fourth.

Receiving 12. 6 % of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the six-person race.

ESPN. com placed Eagles fans fourth in the league in its 2008 survey, citing the connection between the team's performance and the mood of the city.

Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that literally jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.

The three lowest placed teams in La Liga are relegated to the Segunda División, and the top two teams from the Segunda División promoted to La Liga, with an additional club promoted after a series of play-offs involving the third, fourth, fifth and sixth placed clubs.

The top teams in La Liga qualify for the UEFA Champions League, with the first, second, and third placed teams directly entering the group stage and the fourth placed team entering the playoff.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party placed fourth, with 8. 93 % of the vote and 31 out of 460 seats, and entered into a governing coalition with the victor, the centrist-conservative Civic Platform ( Platforma Obywatelska ).

Rings are placed on the fourth finger on the left hand, because Ancient Egyptians believed that it contained a vein that lead to the heart ( vena amoris ).

She placed fourth behind Mia Farrow, Judy Geeson and Katharine Houghton for a " Golden Laurel " award as the year's " Most Promising Newcomer " with the results published in the Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine.

Article IX placed one fourth of Germany's territory under provisional Polish administration and Article XIII ordered that the remaining German populations in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary be transferred West in an " orderly and humane " manner.

) Newton-John placed fourth at the contest held in Brighton behind ABBA's winning " Waterloo ".

That same day, he qualified for the high jump final in which he placed fourth, and also took seventh place in the long jump.

He placed fourth in the 10, 000 m at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

It placed fourth in the annual Locus Poll for best fantasy novel.

In the First / Second and Second / Third Division, while the champions are automatically promoted and the bottom team relegated, there are playoffs of the second-bottom teams against the second, third and fourth placed teams from the league below.

The game consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then five community cards being placed face-up by the dealer — a series of three (" the flop ") then two additional single cards (" the turn " and " the river " or " fourth and fifth street " respectively ), with players having the option to check, bet, raise or fold after each deal ; i. e., betting may occur prior to the flop, " on the flop ", " on the turn ", and " on the river ".

In addition to their full academic course loads, heavy demands are placed on fourth class cadets outside of class.

In fact, at the end of 2010, Abruzzo's growth was 1. 47 %, which placed it fourth among the Italian regions with the highest annual growth rates after Lazio, Lombardy and Calabria.

Complex placed Yoshi at fourth among " The 25 Most Kickass Dragons in Video Games ", adding " Yoshi would have to be one of the best sidekicks of all time ".

While the Jupiter C capability was such that it could have placed the fourth stage in orbit, that mission had been assigned to the NRL.

Rouben Ter-Arutunian, in his stage settings, often uses the scrim curtain behind which Mr. Cole has placed couples or groups who sing and set the mood for the scenes which are to follow.

A piece of soft fabric or rubber is placed behind the beads so that they do not move inadvertently.

The Ark is finally to be placed behind a veil ( Parochet ), a full description of which is also given.

The largest opening of the pencils, which take part in the reproduction of O, i. e. the angle u, is generally determined by the margin of one of the lenses or by a hole in a thin plate placed between, before, or behind the lenses of the system.

The component S1 of the system, situated between the aperture stop and the object O, projects an image of the diaphragm, termed by Abbe the entrance pupil ; the exit pupil is the image formed by the component S2, which is placed behind the aperture stop.

However, in the same poll, when respondents were asked to name the worst president since World War II, Clinton was placed number three behind Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

However, since 2001, more emphasis has been placed on Defense-Independent Pitching Statistics, including Defense-Independent ERA ( dERA ), in an attempt to evaluate a pitcher's performance regardless of the strength of the defensive players behind him.

Along the Ramillies – Offus – Autre Eglise ridge-line, Villeroi positioned Walloon and Bavarian infantry, supported by the Elector of Bavaria's 50 squadrons of Bavarian and Walloon cavalry placed behind on the plateau of Mont St. André.

Raveneck placed cavalry in front of his tabor, and infantry behind it, without any strategic plan.

Mehmed had his people pave a path from oiled tree branches in order to bring eighty ships overland, and placed them into the gulf behind the enemy ships.

The bets are located in the corners behind the pass line, and bets may be placed directly by players.

At that time, almost all racing cars had their engines mounted at the front but Coopers were different, having the engine placed behind the driver, which improved their handling.

In 1910, this weapon was modified by the addition of a manual safety, which was placed on the left side of the receiver just behind the closed bolt handle.

* WLED array: The LCD panel is lit by a full array of white LEDs placed behind a diffuser behind the panel.

While his father placed the Christmas tree in the front parlor behind closed drapes, Frank would decorate the tree and talk to them from behind the drapes, although they never could manage to see him.

The World Economic Forum placed Morocco as the 2nd most competitive economy in North Africa behind Tunisia, in its African Competitiveness Report 2009.

It placed the driver above the front wheels, sitting behind a flat nose, with the engine mounted at the rear.

Whereas earlier instruments ' bass strings were a mere continuation of a single string plane, over-stringing placed the bass bridge behind and to the treble side of the tenor bridge area.

The five-card hand is called the hand " behind ", or the " bottom " or " high " or " big " ( as they are placed that way in front of the player, when the player is done setting them ).

A quail trap from Malaysia, also known as the jebak puyuh: A female quail was placed in the woven container behind the netting.

Early adherents of the Kabbalah portray Solomon as having sailed through the air on a throne of light placed on an eagle, which brought him near the heavenly gates as well as to the dark mountains behind which the fallen angels Uzza and Azzazel were chained ; the eagle would rest on the chains, and Solomon, using the magic ring, would compel the two angels to reveal every mystery he desired to know.

# The " loins ," a large reserve, was placed, seated, behind the " chest " with their backs to the battle.

3M also uses a piezo-electric crystal placed within foam behind a thick rubber-like diaphragm.