In Western usage, the term has seldom been applied to states other than those in the Soviet orbit.

The name " cedar " has more recently ( since about 1700 ) been applied to many other trees ( such as Western redcedar ; in some cases the botanical name alludes to this usage, such as the genus Calocedrus ( meaning " beautiful cedar "), also known as Incense-cedar ).

Its usage in the term lingua franca originated from its meaning in Arabic and Greek, dating from before the Crusades and during the Middle Ages, whereby all Western Europeans were called " Franks " or Faranji in Arabic and Phrankoi in Greek during the times of the late Eastern Roman Empire.

Will, in Western philosophical discussions, consonant with a common English usage, refers to a property of the mind, and an attribute of acts intentionally performed.

The usage of the term in both Western and Japanese fan cultures includes works ranging from explicitly pornographic to mildly suggestive, romantic or entirely nonsexual.

Its regular usage and classification can be attributed to the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, when Latin translation of his work on the Indian numerals introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world.

In the most strict definition of the term, an illuminated manuscript only refers to manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, but in both common usage and modern scholarship, the term is now used to refer to any decorated or illustrated manuscript from the Western traditions.

In either usage, most B movies represent a particular genre — the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple, while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 1950s.

While the word ecchi could mean anything from mild to insulting in Japanese language, it is used in Western culture to divide between pornography ( hentai ) and playful usage of sexualized imagery ( ecchi ).

About 35 % of global newsprint usage in 2006 was in Asia, with approximately 26 % being in North America and about 25 % in Western Europe.

foederati ) is a Latin word whose definition and usage drifted in the time between the early Roman Republic and the end of the Western Roman Empire.

As late as 1978, the term " Western Swing " was common usage among Chain and Independent Studios to describe " slotted swing ".

Many words from Chinook Jargon remain in common use in the Western United States and British Columbia and the Yukon, in indigenous languages as well as regional English usage, to the point where most people are unaware the word was originally from the Jargon

In Western usage it is becoming increasingly popular to use quotation marks or asterisks for emphasis ( as in "“ fresh ” fish " or "* really * bad "), although this is still frowned upon by style guides.

Traditionally, usage in Western countries mostly followed the original Shanghainese usage and applies the Cantonese-language name cheongsam to a garment worn by women.

The neologism topolect has been coined as a more literal translation of fangyan in order to avoid the connotations of the term " dialect " ( which in its normal English usage suggests mutually intelligible varieties of a single language ), and to make a clearer distinction between " major varieties " ( separate languages, in Western terminology ) and " minor varieties " ( dialects of a single language ).

A more widespread usage of the term Nayaka can be traced to the expansion of the Western Chalukyas into Andhra country during the 7th century.

A prototypical example of the former usage in the original Japanese which brought the term to the attention of Western fans is Chibiusa, a pet name for the diminutive daughter of Sailor Moon formed from Chibi Usagi (" Little Rabbit ").

Development and usage of systematic catechisms is unique to Western Christianity.

Mari today has a unified standard form with two variants ( Hill and Meadow Western and Eastern, with the Eastern variant prevailing in everyday usage ), using a modified version of Cyrillic script, and is the titular and official language of its republic, alongside Russian.

* Apache, current usage generally includes six of the seven major, traditional, Apachean-speaking groups: Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, and Western Apache.

November 19, 2005-The Academy of the Persian Language and Literature has delivered a pronouncement on the English name of Persian language and rejected any usage of the word " Farsi " instead of Persian ( en ) / Persa ( es ) / Persane ( fr ) / Persisch ( de ) in the Western languages.

The theme of the victory of the protagonists in yaoi has been compared favourably to Western fairy tales, as the latter intends to enforce the status quo, but yaoi is " about desire " and seeks " to explore, not circumscribe, possibilities.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.

So far as the record is concerned, the Western powers have not acquiesced and should not do so.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.

Or the city can be a graveyard monument to Western intransigence, if that is what the West wants.

No matter that it is his troops who rape Western women and eat Western men.

No matter that the Katanga operation is strategically insane in terms of Western interests in Africa.

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.

And is Western influence greater or less than it used to be??

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

This is an area nearly as large as Western Europe ; ;

If Mr. Kennan is sometimes a little somber in his appraisals, if his analysis of how Western diplomacy met the challenge of an era of great wars and social revolutions is often critical and pessimistic -- well, the record itself is not too encouraging.