I'm sure you'd be the first to attest, Conan, that when it comes to the tough calls, NBC usually gets ' em right ," Costas said, alluding at the end to O ' Brien's involvement in the 2010 Tonight Show conflict.

It happens when one player, usually the more advanced one, calls his or her opponent to a dance-like ritual.

In contrast, outbound calls are made by agents to consumers, usually for sales purposes ( telemarketing ).

As they integrated back into the workforce, men returned to predominantly holding positions of power, and women worked as their secretaries, usually typing dictations and answering telephone calls.

The most common is the circumflex ( which it calls to bach, meaning " little roof ", or acen grom " crooked accent ", or hirnod " long sign ") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel.

On the other hand, cheap calls are usually not considered to be throwing good money away, especially when calling an unknown player.

The team entitled to snap the ball will usually know in advance the moment when the snap is to occur as one of their players calls out signals, which usually include a loud sound such as " hut " voiced one or more times, the number of which they know ; they are thus said to know the " snap count ".

Such mechanisms involve system calls, and usually invoke the OS's dispatcher code on exit, so they typically take hundreds of CPU instructions to execute, while masking interrupts may take as few as one instruction on some processors.

The highest mass ratios are generally achieved with liquid rockets, and these types are usually used for orbital launch vehicles, a situation which calls for a high delta-v.

Either form of scripting ( i. e., CGI or direct execution ) can be used to build up complex multi-page sites, but direct execution usually results in lower overhead due to the lack of calls to external interpreters.

The script calls for Estragon to sit on a low mound but in practice – as in Beckett's own 1975 German production – this is usually a stone.

The primary aim of the IN was to enhance the core telephony services offered by traditional telecommunications networks, which usually amounted to making and receiving voice calls, sometimes with call divert.

In military communications, Multilevel Precedence and Preemption ( MLPP ) is a priority scheme ( a ) for assigning one of several precedence levels to specific calls or messages so that the system handles them in a predetermined order and time frame, ( b ) for gaining controlled access to network resources in which calls and messages can be preempted only by higher priority calls and messages, ( c ) that is recognized only within a predefined domain, and ( d ) in which the precedence level of a call outside the predefined domain is usually not recognized.

During such an installation process the software usually also install diagnosis and self-repair applications that support customers in case of problems, avoiding costly hotline calls.

# Client interceptors usually mediate the remote method calls on the client ( caller ) side.

When a task is idle, it calls an idle routine, usually called “ pause ”, “ wait ”, “ yield ”, “ nop ” ( stands for no operation ), etc.

In the United States, calls for the book to be banned from schools have led occasionally to widely publicised legal challenges, usually on the grounds that witchcraft is a government-recognised religion and that to allow the novels to be held in public schools violates the separation of church and state.

Traditional and modern Western square dancing have a number of calls in common, but there are usually small differences in the way they are performed.

The behavior of a trusted system is often characterized in terms of a mathematical model — which may be more or less rigorous, depending upon applicable operational and administrative constraints — that takes the form of a finite state machine ( FSM ) with state criteria ; state transition constraints ; a set of " operations " that correspond to state transitions ( usually, but not necessarily, one ); and a descriptive top-level specification, or DTLS, entailing a user-perceptible interface ( e. g., an API, a set of system calls UNIX parlance or system exits Mainframe computer | mainframe parlance ), each element of which engenders one or more model operations.

The governor general is further responsible for summoning the House of Commons, while either the viceroy or monarch can prorogue and dissolve the legislature, after which the governor general usually calls for a general election.

For reasons of timbre or to minimize switching between different instruments, expert clarinetists sometimes use a different instrument from that for which their part calls — usually substituting the B for the A or vice-versa — transposing the parts at sight instead.

A basic reed part usually has three or four instruments ( flutes, clarinets and saxophones being the most common ), but can include up to eight instruments, such as the " Reed 3 " part in Bernstein's West Side Story, which calls for the player to use piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor and baritone saxophones.

; Joyce Wrigley ( Judy Grafe ): The Petes ' mother, usually just called " Mom ", has a metal plate in her head from an accident she had as a kid.

* Coop's Mom ( Miriam Flynn ): She never appears on screen, but in several episodes she can be heard yelling at Coop, usually asking what he wants to eat or to pay a bill.

Early on, the male leads were nobility, usually junior princes, such as a Mom Chao, because, back then, these were the rich people in Thai society.

" He usually calls Mom " Mom ", and is slapped the most often through the series.

However, parents are usually referred to by their children as 爸爸 ( bàba ) and 妈妈 ( māma ) — " Dad " and " Mom ".

The words " Ma Ma " and " Mom ", usually regarded as terms of endearment directed towards a mother figure, are generally one of the first words a child speaks.

The Lesson, as it is informally called, is compiled by a committee at The Mother Church, and is usually made up of six sections, each of which consists of passages from the Bible ( read by the Second Reader ) and passages from Science and Health ( read by the First Reader ).

Saturday of the Fifth Week is dedicated to the Theotokos ( Mother of God ), and is known as the " Saturday of the Akathist " because the Akathist to the Theotokos is chanted during Matins on that day ( again, usually anticipated on Friday evening ).

Nuns consider themselves part of a sisterhood ; however, tonsured nuns are usually addressed as " Mother " ( in some convents, the title of " Mother " is reserved to those who enter into the next level of Stavrophore ).

Maxim Gorky's novel Mother is usually considered to have been the first socialist realist novel.

By 1871, Whistler returned to portraits and soon produced his most famous painting, the nearly monochromatic full-length figure entitled Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, but usually, and incorrectly, referred to as Whistler's Mother.

Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose ( usually wearing a bonnet ).

The inscription matar kubileya at a Phrygian rock-cut shrine, dated to the first half of the 6th century BCE, is usually read as " Mother of the mountain ", a reading supported by ancient Classical sources, and consistent with Cybele as any of several similar tutelary goddesses, each known as " mother " and associated with specific Anatolian mountains or other localities ; a goddess " born from stone ".

In direct contrast to most other mythologies which usually develop a sky father associated with an Earth mother ( or Mother Nature ), she personified the sky and he the Earth.

* Priests are usually styled as The Reverend, The Reverend Father / Mother ( even if not a religious ) or The Reverend Mr / Mrs / Miss.

Some picture stones and engravings on stone coffins, especially those from the area of modern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, show two winged immortals playing Liubo on a mountain, usually as part of a larger scene depicting the Queen Mother of the West and various mythical animals.

* The Queen Mother was usually driven in a Daimler DS420 and one of her cars is now in the royal fleet.

Mother Jean's dream of stardom did not come true as she was too old, at age 34, to begin a film career in an era when major roles were usually assigned to teenage girls.

In the pilot episode, the family had also opened their home to Carl's street-wise mother, Estelle Winslow ( usually known as " Mother Winslow ").

If a team earns three points without missing a single question, they have the option of going for the " Mother Lode " by answering two more questions correctly without missing one, or else a fictitious penalty is put upon them ( usually made up on the spot by Packard and related to a joke from earlier in the show ).

— usually caused by experiencing the psychological conflicts inherent to cultural assimilation, to living between the old, native world and the dominant hegemony of the invasive social and cultural institutions of the colonial imperialism of a Mother Country.

It is usually sung to the tune of " Knees Up Mother Brown " and is aimed at overweight footballers, officials or opposing supporters.

The Lady of Sleep, who by tradition is the Coronal's oldest living female relative ( usually Mother or Aunt ) uses ancient dream-sending machines to instruct and guide the citizens of the planet in their sleep.

He supposedly discovered there the Jade Palace of Huang-Di, the mythical Yellow Emperor and originator of Chinese culture, and met Hsi Wang Mu ( Xi Wang Mu ), the ' Spirit Mother of the West ' usually called the ' Queen Mother of the West ', who was the object of an ancient religious cult which reached its peak in the Han Dynasty, also had her mythical abode in these mountains.

Those desiring to be in the full-time practice usually do this for several years and must be members of the Mother Church, the global organization headquartered in Boston.

The movement is usually believed to have begun in 1963, when " Mother of the Movement " Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, and President John F. Kennedy's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women released its report on gender inequality.

Three Phrygian Dactyls, in the service of the Great Mother as Adraste ( Ἀδράστη ), are usually named Acmon ( the anvil ), Damnameneus ( the hammer ), and Celmis ( casting ).

His themes — usually treated in series — include topics as diverse as Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life.