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However, the term " collective noun " is often used to mean " mass noun " ( even in some dictionaries ), because users confound two different kinds of verb number invariability: ( a ) that seen with mass nouns such as " water " or " furniture ", with which only singular verb forms are used because the constituent matter is grammatically nondiscrete ( although it may or may not be etically nondiscrete ); and ( b ) that seen with collective nouns, which is the result of the metonymical shift between the group and its ( both grammatically and etically ) discrete constituents.
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However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and Franz Kafka in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in their work that they have become synonymous with the term to the point of popular joking and cartoons today.
However, his term was marked by economic depression that had grown out of the Panic of 1873, which Mackenzie's government was unable to alleviate.
However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.
However, this is not required ; endothermic reactions can proceed spontaneously if the TΔS term is large enough.
However the term is used more commonly for systems designed to counter intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ).
However, by the Archaic and Classical periods, the term ' Achaeans ' referred to inhabitants of the much smaller region of Achaea.
However, this is clearly not the manner in which Homer uses the term.
However the exact relationship of the term Ahhiyawa to the Achaeans beyond a similarity in pronunciation is hotly debated by scholars, even following the discovery that Mycenaean Linear B is an early form of Greek ; the earlier debate was summed up in 1984 by Hans G. Güterbock of the Oriental Institute.
However, some immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American and South American nations, and their descendants, may be identified or self-identify with the term.
However, the term came into wide use only after the publication of a review article by O. Jacobsen in the chemical dictionary of Albert Ladenburg in the 1880s.
However, the Church declared that "' Extreme unction ' ... may also and more fittingly be called ' anointing of the sick '" ( emphasis added ), and has itself adopted the latter term, while not outlawing the former.
However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.
However, with the emergence of dancesport in modern times, the term has become narrower in scope.
However, his term included an unpopular motor vehicle tax and citizens ' anger over the escape of Cuban refugees ( from the Mariel boatlift ) detained in Fort Chaffee in 1980.
However, " Bryozoa " has remained the more widely used term for the latter group.
However, since " bronze " is a somewhat imprecise term, and historical pieces have variable compositions, in particular with an unclear boundary with brass, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more cautious and inclusive term " copper alloy " instead.
However, the distinction between BIOS and EFI is rarely made in terminology by the average computer user, making BIOS a catch-all term for both systems.
However, in late 2006 and early 2007 the rate of attrition reached new proportions, and the term colony collapse disorder was coined to describe the sudden disappearances.
However, the term ' bankruptcy ' is often used when referring to companies in the media and in general conversation.
However, most Republicans did not make a distinction, and " Black and Tans " was often used as a catch-all term for all police and army groups.
However, the term naive set theory is also used in some literature to refer to the set theories studied by Frege and Cantor, rather than to the informal counterparts of modern axiomatic set theory ; care is required to tell which sense is intended.
However, for centuries the Jews had used the term " the Anointed " to refer to their expected deliverer.
However, members of these professions typically possess other software engineering skills, beyond programming ; for this reason, the term programmer is sometimes considered an insulting or derogatory oversimplification of these other professions.
However, the term dot matrix printer is specifically used for impact printers that use a matrix of small pins to create precise dots.
However and collective
However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.
However, metallic bonds are more collective in nature than other types, and so they allow metal crystals to more easily deform, because they are composed of atoms attracted to each other, but not in any particularly-oriented ways.
However, in these countries, collective agreements are not widespread ; only a few businesses and a few sectors of the economy have a strong tradition of finding collective solutions in labour relations.
However, in contrast to the countries in the Anglo-Saxon system category, this is a much more widespread network of collective agreements, which covers most industries and most firms.
However, it is opposed to reintegration and withdrew from the CIS collective security arrangement in 1999.
However, the obvious pressures it exerts on legislators, executives, bureaucrats, and even judges are factors that public choice theory must account for in its analysis of collective decision-making rules and institutions.
However, modern scholars tend to doubt this claim and view the governance of the church of Rome during this period as still more or less collective.
However, as regulatory change began to appear in the 1976-79 period, including the phasing in of the loss of collective ratemaking authority, most of the major railroads shifted away from their effort to maintain the historic regulatory system, and came to support greater freedom for rail pricing, both as to higher and lower rail rates.
However, despite the designed open-endedness of Fluxus, Maciunas insisted on maintaining unity in the collective.
However, these acts permitted independent rate making by conference participants, and the 1998 Act permitted secret contract rates, which tend to undercut collective carrier pricing.
" However, when the power of Ali appeared to threaten the existence of the Ottoman dynasty, particularly given the death of the Sultan on 1 July 1839, he succeeded in bringing the great powers together to sign a collective note on 27 July pledging them to maintain the independence and integrity of the Turkish Empire in order to preserve the security and peace of Europe.
However, the term Sixth Form has still been retained as a vestige of the old system and is used as a collective term for years 12 and 13.
However, there is also a sense of collective responsibility in Canadian political culture, as is demonstrated in general support for universal health care, gun control, foreign aid, and other social programs.
However, some sīra reports were written using an imprecise form of isnād, or what modern historians call the " collective isnād " or " combined reports ".
However what most separates supply-side economics as a modern phenomenon is its argument in favor of a low tax rate for primarily collective and notably working-class reasons, rather than traditional ideological ones.
However, although land use rights were returned to individual farmers, collective land ownership was left undefined after the disbandment of the People's Communes.
However, the flag was later dipped in the collective greeting of the royal family.
However, in recent decades, a number of modern builders have made Cristofori replicas, and their collective experience, and particularly the recordings made on these instruments, has created an emerging view concerning the Cristofori piano sound.
However New Zealand English speakers are increasingly removing the terminal s and treating Pākehā as a collective noun.
However, Conrad has characterized those works as collaboration for which he, Angus MacLise, and John Cale should share collective credit.
However the collegial system of government has found widespread adoption in modern democracies in the form of cabinet government with collective responsibility.
However, he did contribute anonymously to its press, primarily Battaglia Comunista and Prometeo, in keeping with his conviction that revolutionary work was collective in nature, and his opposition to any form of ( even incipient ) personality cult.
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