Another chain with similar orientation is the Tuamotu Archipelago ; its older, northerly trend is the Line Islands.

This trend has had limited uptake in Western forces with only Germany equipping their airmobile division with the similar Wiesel tankette two of which can be carried inside a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter.

Many opera companies have experienced a similar trend, and opera company websites are replete with attempts to attract a younger audience.

The book also argues that those with high intelligence, the " cognitive elite ", are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence, and that this is a dangerous social trend with the United States moving toward a more divided society similar to that in Latin America.

A similar trend was visible in most of the new member states that joined the EU in 2004.

This joint crowning was similar to Melisende's own crowning with her father in 1128, and may have reflected a growing trend to crown one's heir in the present monarch's lifetime, as demonstrated in other realms of this period.

A similar numbering trend is also exhibited by the Baltic languages.

The animation style followed a trend similar to Troma's Toxic Crusaders.

The trend to a fused profession is similar to that outlined above in England and Wales.

This is a similar trend to what has happened in the Five Towns area on the South Shore of Long Island, although Reform and Conservative Jews appear to remain predominant in Great Neck.

A similar trend can be seen at Rothesay where William Burges renovated the older castle to produce a more " authentic " design, heavily influenced by the work of the French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

This trend coincided with a similar surf rock revival, and both styles fed in into the alternative rock movement and future grunge explosion, which some say was partially inspired by garage rock from the Tacoma area like The Sonics and The Wailers, but was largely unknown by fans outside the immediate circles of the bands themselves.

However, Smith denies any credit for this trend and claims it is a coincidence that the styles are similar, stating that he wore make-up since he was young and further saying: " It's so pitiful when ' Goth ' is still tagged onto the name The Cure.

A similar recent trend in New Zealand is for smaller towns to host their own Carols by Candlelight concerts.

A similar trend emerges when rates of increase of maximum body mass per generation for different mammalian clades are compared ( using rates averaged over macroevolutionary time scales ).

Meanwhile, South Jiangsu continued to be an important center of trade in China ; some historians see in the flourishing textiles industry at the time incipient industrialization and capitalism, a trend that was however aborted, several centuries before similar trends took hold in the West.

This trend is similar to writing ( S ) or ' SAWS ' in place of ' Sallallaahu ` Aleyhi wa Sallam '.

In northern Europe and Scandinavia, a similar ' trend ' started in the early 1980's as ' Café au lait ' became popular again, prepared with espresso and steamed milk.

The decision to operate a television theatre was against the trend in television at that time as both the BBC and Thames Television were to dispose of similar facilities in the next two years.

In the UK, a similar trend has emerged: since improvements in treatment, survival rates have risen rapidly to cure rates of over 95 %.

A more recent and minor trend is " fop rock ," in which the performers don 18th century wigs, lace cravats, and similar costumes to perform, a minor movement that would appear to owe something to glam rock, visual kei, and the New Romantic movement.

This trend is seen from hafnium, which is almost identical chemically to zirconium, to mercury, which is quite distant chemically from cadmium, but still shares with it almost equal atomic size and other similar properties.

Actinium, which occurs only in trace amounts, continues the trend in chemical behavior for metals that form tripositive ions with a noble gas configuration ; synthetic lawrencium is calculated and partially shown to be more similar to lutetium and yttrium.

In July 2012, the Gold Coast announced that Blight had stepped down from the board to take up a part-time advisory role to Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna, following a similar growing trend where former coaches ( among them Mark Williams, Dean Laidley and Mark Harvey ) have been employed as advisors to other head coaches.

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

Studies using mice have shown a similar treatment results in a permanent cure for about a third of the test subjects.

He returned a third time in January 1859 under the patronage of Czar Alexander II of Russia to find more of the Codex Frederico-Augustanus or similar ancient Biblical texts.

The third book continues along a similar vein, condemning cosmetics on the grounds that it is our souls, not our bodies, that we should seek to beautify.

West Germany adopted the Deutschlandlied as its official national anthem in 1952 for similar reasons, with only the third stanza sung on official occasions.

A similar source even tells of a third type, the gleip, known to hitch themselves to sailors walking ashore and make them slip on the wet rocks.

It is similar to a third century AD work by Heron of Alexandria.

The two figures on the left are congruent, while the third is Similarity ( geometry ) | similar to them.

These beings may be the origin of the Greco-Roman Galli, androgynous beings of the third sex, similar to the American Indian berdache, who played an important part in early religious ritual.

This contains many provisions similar to those of the Australian Franchising Code of Practice legislation, although it should be noted that only around a third of all franchises are members of the association and therefore bound by the code.

His knowledge of optics was connected to the handed-down long-standing tradition of the Kitab al-manazir ( The Optics ; De aspectibus ) of the Arab polymath Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041 ), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo ( similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo ).

There is similar evidence that Luke resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels until they get to Troas, where he switches to the first person plural.

A similar change between the earlier odes of Horace, in which he declares his epicurean indifference to affairs of state, and the great national odes of the third book has been ascribed by some to the same guidance.

As for the 50 Tg case involving one third of current nuclear arsenals, they said that the simulation " produced climate responses very similar to those for the 150 Tg case, but with about half the amplitude ," but that " the time scale of response is about the same.

Later that year, fellow American Idol judge Simon Cowell invited her to be a guest judge at some of the early auditions for the third series of his similar UK talent show The X Factor.

The whole third level is made of a ship similar to R-Type.

Fans launched a letter writing campaign similar to the one that saved the third season of the Original Series.

Unlike members of the violin family, which are tuned in fifths, viols are usually tuned in fourths with a major third in the middle, mirroring the tuning employed on the vihuela de mano and lute during the 16th century and similar to that of the modern six-string guitar.

Most nations established television networks in a similar way: the first television service in each country was operated by a public broadcaster, often funded by a TV licensing fee, and most of them later established a second or even third station providing a greater variety of content.

Espresso is poured into the bottom third of the cup, and is followed by a similar amount of hot milk.

The two figures on the left are congruent, while the third is Similarity ( geometry ) | similar to them.

In 2008, Carey was named as Australian Football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, and placed third in a similar list put together by a panel of football legends in The Age newspaper the same year.

Others argue that NGOs are often imperialist in nature, that they sometimes operate in a racialized manner in third world countries, and that they fulfill a similar function to that of the clergy during the high colonial era.

Games designed for older graphical chipsets — such as those of the third and fourth generations of video game consoles, those of dedicated TV games, or those of similar handheld systems — take advantage of the raster characteristics to create the illusion of more layers.

" The Fürstliche Häuser series of the Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels has followed this lead, likewise enrolling some issue of unapproved marriages in its third section, " III B ", with a similar explanation ( Die in dieser Abteilung nachgewiesenen Familien besitzen kein besonderes Diplom, sondern sind nach besonderer Ubereinkunft aus der 1 und 2 Abteilung ubernommen worden ).