* In the Chinese language, common era ( 公元 ， Gong yuan ) has been predominantly used to refer to the western calendar without any religious connotation.

In an era when the serve and volley was the norm, Björn Borg excepted, Connors was one of the few players to hit the ball flat, low, and predominantly from the baseline.

Dom Pierre Pérignon, O. S. B., ( c. 1638 – 14 September 1715 ) was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of Champagne wine in an era when the region's wines were predominantly still and red.

He employed single women as secretaries in an era when clerical workers were predominantly male, and defended a native Canadian accused of murder at a time when most lawyers refused such cases.

The building stock dates predominantly from the early to late Victorian period, the peak population and commercial era in DeRuyter's history.

There is a theory that Water Margin became popular during the Yuan era as the common people ( predominantly Han Chinese ) resented the Mongol rulers.

The word was predominantly used in the United States, where opposition to Communism grew strong among the population, especially during the McCarthy era.

The hypothesis of a substantial Dacian population in the river Vistula basin is not widely supported among modern scholars, as this region is generally regarded as inhabited predominantly by Germanic tribes during the Roman imperial era e. g. Heather ( 2009 ).

Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era ( 1940s – present ), is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture.

As with much British television of the era, the episodes were predominantly videotaped " as live ", with little scope for re-takes or breaks in recording.

The newspapers and pamphlets of the American Revolutionary era were predominantly partisan and became even more so through the turn of the century.

A bracteate ( from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal ) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age ( including the Vendel era in Sweden ).

" It was not until more than a century later, following the surge in Irish immigration after the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, that the descendants of the Protestant Irish began to refer to themselves as " Scotch-Irish " to distinguish them from the predominantly Catholic, and largely destitute, wave of immigrants from Ireland in that era.

It runs predominantly along faulted north-south ground structures, which were formed over 250 million years ago during the Paleozoic era then further dislocated during the Cretaceous and earliest Tertiary.

The two greatest successes of the show's television era were Gladys Knight, then only a child, and Pat Boone, singing sweet ballads or occasional " covers " of songs which had been written and recorded by black artists which were then largely unknown to the show's predominantly white audience.

Whale Island in 1833 Whale Island in 1945 Whale Island is predominantly reclaimed land, using the deposits dredged from Portsmouth harbour during the Victorian era, increasing the land area by around 125 %.

Gunn's goal was to create an orchestra that welcomed African-American musicians, music teachers and patrons of the arts in an era during which the classical music world was still predominantly segregated.

In August 1964, after Khánh decided to take more power for himself by declaring a state of emergency and introducing a new constitution, Buddhists launched protests against the new junta, claiming that there was a plot to revive the Diêm era by predominantly Catholic groups such as Cần Lao veterans and Đại Việt supporters, pinpointing Khiêm and Thiệu, both Catholics who had been favoured by Diêm.

The area now known as Bywater was mostly plantation land in the Colonial era, with significant residential development beginning the first decade of the 19th century as part of what was known as " Faubourg Washington ", part of the predominantly Francophone " Downtown " section of New Orleans.

In a predominantly tonal context, his music freely combines tonality, atonality and a lyrical use of twelve-tone writing, though none of Argento's music approaches the experimental avant garde fashions of the post World War II era.

Under the high-profile management of impresario and concert promoter Bill Graham, Montrose reached the peak of their commercial popularity during the Warner Bros Presents and Jump On It era from 1975 to 1977, which found the band adhering to a grueling tour schedule across America and Canada, performing predominantly in large arena and stadium venues sharing the bill with major artists that included The Rolling Stones, Kiss, Peter Frampton, Yes, Rush, The Eagles, Journey, and Aerosmith, as well as headlining their own shows in mid-size arenas.

Analysis of strata data suggests that in the era when Earth had a predominantly overheated climate, with heavy daily rains and violent storms, the global climate of the time resulted in far heavier erosion, which in turn fed more nutrients into the world's waters.

Because Rufus is living in a predominantly racist time era, his life is constantly affected by an internalization of this racism to the point where he hates himself.

The construction descends predominantly from the reconstruction phase of the post war era, aside from which there are numerous historical buildings partly reconstructed after their destruction in the war.

The law professors claimed that leaked documents show that the USTR is " pushing numerous standards that [...] could require changes in current U. S. statutory law " and that the proposal is " manifestly unbalanced — it predominantly proposes increases in proprietor rights, with no effort to expand the limitations and exceptions to such rights that are needed in the U. S. and abroad to serve the public interest.

Diachronic lexical semantics was interested without a doubt in the change of meaning with predominantly semasiological approach, taking the notion of meaning in a psychological aspect: lexical meanings were considered to be psychological entities ), thoughts and ideas, and meaning changes are explained as resulting from psychological processes.

Today, as per the doctrines of constitutional monarchy, the advice given by the prime minister is ordinarily binding, meaning the prime minister effectively carries out those duties ascribed to the sovereign and / or governor general, leaving the latter to act in predominantly ceremonial fashions.

In 1937, technetium ( specifically the technetium-97 isotope ) became the first predominantly artificial element to be produced, hence its name ( from the Greek, meaning " artificial ").

The Japanese " national character " has been written about under the term Nihonjinron, literally meaning " theories / discussions about the Japanese people " and referring to texts on matters that are normally the concerns of sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, and philosophy, but emphasizing the authors ' assumptions or perceptions of Japanese exceptionalism ; these are predominantly written in Japan by Japanese people, though noted examples have also been written by foreign residents, journalists and even scholars.

While for the earliest of these authors the meaning of Gymnopaedia appears predominantly as a festival ( including several dances, sports, etc.

Representation at a national level is predominantly provincial based meaning most sports teams representing Palmerston North also draw their players from other towns from around the province of Manawatu.

The word used in this sense is predominantly British ( a cottage more commonly being a small, cosy, countryside home ), though the term is occasionally used with the same meaning in other parts of the world .< ref >

Those summoned to the QPC are appointed for life by the governor general as directed by the Prime Minister of Canada, meaning that the group is composed predominantly of former cabinet ministers, with some others having been inducted as an honorary gesture.

Diamonds found in the Argyle pipe are predominantly eclogitic, meaning that the carbon is of organic origin ( see Natural history of diamonds ).

The term Zaolzie ( meaning " the trans-Olza ", i. e. " lands beyond the Olza ") is used predominantly in Poland and also commonly by the Polish minority living in the territory.

Although there is some debate among scholars, it is generally thought that such a construction in Old English was not analogous to progressive aspect signaled in present-day English ( a more modern development ), but rather carried the meaning of a simple stative verb, where the past participle functioned as an adjective, and was predominantly used for translating the corresponding construction in Latin texts ( Brinton, 1988, p. 109 ).

The word " combe " is derived from cwm meaning " valley " in the Welsh language and this may indicate that the population of Hascombe remained predominantly Brythonic for some time after the surrounding areas had been populated by Anglo-Saxon settlers.

For the first meaning, Hong Kong predominantly uses British spellings.

The IGCSE is predominantly exam-based, meaning they are not actual certified " courses ", but rather exams that test knowledge in individual subjects in the same way as Advanced Placement exams and SAT Subject Tests.

The same thing happens in the South, meaning that although several seats within the constituency are allocated to Christians, they have to appeal to an electorate which is predominantly Muslim.

Because of its predominantly German population, the town was renamed in 1310 to Německý Brod in Czech and Deutschbrod in German ( both meaning German Ford ).

The zentner ( German Zentner, from Latin centenarius, derived from centum meaning " hundred ") is an obsolete name for a unit of mass which was used predominantly in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, although it was also sometimes used in the United Kingdom – for example, as a measure of the weight of certain crops including hops for beer production – and similar units were used in Scandinavia.