' Compositae ', an older but still valid name, means composite and refers to the characteristic inflorescence, a special type of pseudanthium found in only a few other angiosperm families.

For socket numbers, a few well-known numbers were reserved for special purposes specific to the AppleTalk protocol itself.

Xerox is working on an inkless printer which will use a special reusable paper coated with a few micrometres of UV light sensitive chemicals.

If the character encoding for a web page is chosen appropriately then HTML character references are usually only required for a markup delimiting characters mentioned above, and for a few special characters ( or not at all if a native Unicode encoding like UTF-8 is used ).

The few other areas that operate the special legislative procedures are justice & home affairs, budget and taxation and certain aspects of other policy areas: such as the fiscal aspects of environmental policy.

The hermit Pope found time in the few short months of his Papacy to confirm the rule of the order, which he had himself composed, and to confer on the society a variety of special graces and privileges.

The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.

Parliament is the " first institution " of the EU ( mentioned first in the treaties, having ceremonial precedence over all authority at European level ), and shares equal legislative and budgetary powers with the Council ( except in a few areas where the special legislative procedures apply ).

With special nutritionally-enhanced diets, the insects can survive, but are unhealthy, and at best survive only a few generations.

The loss of the Greek originals has given an Armenian translation a special importance ; thus, the first part of Eusebius ' Chronicle, of which only a few fragments exist in the Greek, has been preserved entirely in Armenian, though with lacunae.

In addition to the regular courts, there are a few special courts in certain branches of administration.

In the course of a few hours, nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies and cities lost their special privileges.

" However, most of the criticism is of the lack of actual special effects work, as most of it consists of stock footage from previous films, including Godzilla vs. Gigan and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and a few pieces of effects work has garnered praise, specifically a scene where Megalon breaks through a dam and the draining of the lake.

There are a few more special tests for supersymmetric GUT.

In the course of a few hours, nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies, and cities lost their special privileges.

Rather than purchasing a special purpose rifle, which many novice hunters would outgrow within a few hunting seasons, a single rifle can be used with special handloaded rounds until such time more powerful rounds are desired and become appropriate.

The trees in the area were of special concern, and particular care was taken to cut down as few as possible.

Jordan's boundaries with Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia do not have the special significance that the border with Israel does ; these borders have not always hampered tribal nomads in their movements, yet for a few groups borders did separate them from traditional grazing areas and delimited by a series of agreements between the United Kingdom and the government of what eventually became Saudi Arabia ) was first formally defined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925.

Donal Henahan, special to the New York Times, called the Houston Grand Opera world premiere of the work " worth a few giggles but hardly a strong candidate for the standard repertory " and " visually striking but coy and insubstantial.

" After responding to Eliot's claims about Kubla Khan, Yarlott, in 1967, argued that " few of us question if the poem is worth the trouble " before explaining that " The ambiguities inherent in the poem pose a special problem of critical approach.

A research library is most often an academic or national library, but a large special library may have a research library within its special field and a very few of the largest public libraries also serve as research libraries.

There is no special meaning for upper vs. lower-case and few widely followed conventions.

It has been found that in a few home version games, one could unlock the arcade version of the game by inputting a special code.

These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.

The few cases of clear favoritism along social-class lines are as likely as not to involve representatives of the working class on the school board who favor some such practice as higher wages for janitors rather than pay increases for teachers, and such issues are not issues of educational policy.

There have been very few cases of explicit conflict of interest between the middle class and any other class in the field of educational policy.

The judge became ill just as the Colfax District Court convened, no substitute was brought in, no criminal cases heard, only 5 out of 122 cases docketed were tried, and court adjourned sine die after sitting a few days instead of the usual three weeks.

Only in a few cases are leaves produced along the length of the stem.

He realizes after the first few cases that the disease is bubonic plague and is aware of the seriousness of the situation.

Most subsequent abeyances ( only a few dozen cases ) were settled after a few years, in favour of the holder of the family properties ; there were two periods in which long-abeyant peerages ( in some cases peerages of doubtful reality ) were brought back: between 1838 and 1841 and between 1909 and 1921.

In a few cases, an error can be rendered harmless while the inning is still going on.

Old Norse shows this usage of the word as an honorific in a few cases, as in baldur î brynju ( Sæm.

In a few cases, a bishop came to preside over a number of dioceses, i. e., Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria.

This presents few problems for English-speaking users, but other languages regularly — in some cases, always — require characters outside that range.

In a few cases in insular Melanesia, indigenous flesh-markets existed.

Saline aquifers contain highly mineralized brines and have so far been considered of no benefit to humans except in a few cases where they have been used for the storage of chemical waste.

What is striking about these early cases is that unlike modern courts, the medieval English courts never questioned the right of the actual plaintiffs to sue on behalf of a group or a few representatives to defend an entire group.

He is not aware of all of his powers at the start of the show ; for instance, his heat vision and super breath do not develop until seasons two and six, respectively, and his power of flight did not emerge until the series finale, up until that point the power appeared only in a few rare cases, such as when he was temporarily're-programmed ' to assume a Kryptonian persona or when he was trapped in a virtual reality.

The following examples show how to solve differential equations in a few simple cases when an exact solution exists.

The grave accent is used to distinguish between words that are different only in placement of the stress, for example appel ( apple ) and appèl ( appeal ) and in a few cases where it makes no difference to the pronunciation but distinguishes between homophones.

( Note that anti-trust regulation does take into account cases when only large companies are viable because of the nature of an industry, but favors many participants over few, whenever possible.

It is written from left to right, does not have distinct letter cases, and is recognizable ( along with most other North Indic scripts, with few exceptions like Gujarati and Oriya ) by a horizontal line that runs along the top of full letters.

There are only a few criminal cases which must be heard before the Supreme Court ; these are murder, manslaughter, rape, piracy, treason and arson with the intent to endanger life.

Up to this point artificial lighting in studio scenes had always been put on from the front or side-front, but in 1912 there began to be a few cases where light was put onto the actors from arc floodlights out of shot behind them and to one side, to give a kind of backlighting.