In the wider sense, an alphabet is a script that is segmental at the phoneme level — that is, it has separate glyphs for individual sounds and not for larger units such as syllables or words.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

In Germany, the term Asatru is used in the wider sense of Germanic neopaganism.

In some cases, the term admiralty is used in a wider sense, as meaning sea power or rule over the seas, rather than in strict reference to the institution exercising such power.

A Bohemian () is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic.

In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

The terms are nowadays used in a much wider sense, even referring to autonomous processes that run on the same physical computer and interact with each other by message passing.

Sometimes the word deprogramming is used in a wider ( and / or ironic or humorous sense ), to mean the freeing of someone ( often oneself ) from any previously uncritically assimilated idea.

The flag has been intended to represent Europe in its wider sense.

In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline ( i. e., amorphous ) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state.

In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers.

This new identity made it possible for Scottish culture to become integrated into a wider European and North American context, not to mention tourist sites, but it also locked in a sense of " otherness " which Scotland began to shed only in the late 20th century.

The term is derived from the wider senses of the word historia in Latin and Italian, and essentially means " story painting ", rather than the painting of scenes from history in its narrower sense in modern English, for which the term historical painting may be used, especially for 19th century art.

For instance, attempts to sabotage a corporation may be considered industrial espionage ; in this sense, the term takes on the wider connotations of its parent word.

* In the wider sense, it includes all stand-up combat sports that allow both punching and kicking, including Savate, Muay Thai, Indian boxing, Burmese boxing, Sanda, styles of Karate, etc.

Arts labelled as kickboxing in the wider sense include:

In a wider sense, the Mongol people includes all people who speak a Mongolic language, such as the Kalmyks of eastern Europe.

By rationalisation, Weber understood first, the individual cost-benefit calculation, second, the wider, bureaucratic organisation of the organisations and finally, in the more general sense as the opposite of understanding the reality through mystery and magic ( disenchantment ).

Postmodernism is essentially a centralized movement that named itself, based on socio-political theory, although the term is now used in a wider sense to refer to activities from the 20th century onwards which exhibit awareness of and reinterpret the modern.

Mining in a wider sense comprises extraction of any non-renewable resource ( e. g., petroleum, natural gas, or even water ).

" Meritocracy in its wider sense can be any general act of judgment upon the basis of people's various demonstrated merits ; such acts are frequently described in sociology and psychology.

In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions and the indigenous traditions of the Americas, Central Asia, Australia and Africa ; as well as non-Abrahamic folk religion in general.

Kraepelin used the term ' manic depressive insanity ' to describe the whole spectrum of mood disorders, in a far wider sense than it is usually used today.

Satire in their work is much wider than in the modern sense of the word, including fantastic and highly coloured humorous writing with little or no real mocking intent.

The term Sudetenland was used in a wider sense when on 1 October 1933 Konrad Henlein founded the Sudeten German Party and in Nazi German parlance Sudetendeutsche ( Sudeten Germans ) referred to all indigenous ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.

His failure to achieve wider recognition in the Bohemian capital led him to depart in 1856 for Sweden, where he spent the next five years.

* Crowns are also often used as symbols of religious status or veneration, by divinities ( or their representation such as a statue ) or by their representatives, e. g. the Black Crown of the Karmapa Lama, sometimes used a model for wider use by devotees.

Youth magistrates have a wider catalogue of disposals available to them for dealing with young offenders and often hear more serious cases against youths ( which for adults would normally be dealt with by the Crown Court ).

The Law Officers published two consultation papers, which led to guidelines encouraging plea negotiations between defence and prosecution and the enhancement of Crown Court powers to bar fraudsters, wind up companies and give compensation to a wider range of fraud victims.

Clydebank is part of the registration County of Dumbarton, the Dunbartonshire Crown Lieutenancy area, and the wider urban area of Greater Glasgow.

The game was successful and was licensed a year later to Iron Crown Enterprises ( ICE ) for wider distribution.

However, because of the shorter possible lens-to-film plane distance, the Crown Graphic can use shorter lens focal lengths, allowing a wider field of view.

* Ministers should take a greater interest in the Crown Estate, because its overall management struggles to balance revenue generating with acting in the wider public interest.

The Jewel in the Crown engages with and rewrites E. M. Forster's A Passage to India ( 1924 ), and so is necessarily set in a small, Hindu-majority rural town with an army garrison, but the wider province is implicit, and the later novels spread out to the cold-weather capital on the plains, the hot-weather capital in the hills, a neighbouring Muslim-ruled princely state, and the railway lines that bind them together – as well as Calcutta, Bombay, and the Burmese theatre of war.

Throughout the early 1990s, neo-swing was mostly an underground movement, though exposure through movies such as 1993's Swing Kids and The Mask ( whose hit soundtrack featured both Royal Crown Revue and the Brian Setzer Orchestra ) introduced the genre to a wider audience.

This questioning of the monarchy's role in Canadian identity arose as a part of wider cultural changes that followed the evolution of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations, the rise of anti-establishmentism, the creation of multiculturalism as an official policy in Canada, and the blossoming of Quebec separatism ; the latter becoming the major impetus of political controversy around the Crown.

When rumors came that Toyota was developing a larger, wider extension of the Crown, called the Crown Majesta, Nissan acted hastily and could not get the wide version ready for the narrow version's launch in June 1987.

Robert Burns ' claim that the Union of England and Scotland ( and hence the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament ) was brought about by the Scots members being " bought and sold for English gold " was largely accurate — bribery and parliamentary division combined with wider economic imperatives, partly arising from the disaster of the Darien Scheme, enabling the Crown to incorporate a Union with England in the Acts of Union 1707 which brought into existence the Parliament of Great Britain.

The longer, wider and more upmarket Crown Eight ( トヨタ ・ クラウンエイト ) was introduced in 1964 for the Japanese market, powered by a 2. 6 L V8 engine.

The new Crown Sedan for the Japanese market only is based on the Comfort, but has wider tail lights and longer bumpers.

Oldenburg's contributions were soon exhausted and the boys had to turn to a wider circle of the town's learned, such as the pastor, to supplement the simple teaching.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

Generals were elected not only because their role required expert knowledge but also because they needed to be people with experience and contacts in the wider Greek world where wars were fought.

Clinton and the committee were responsible for state educational improvement programs, notably more spending for schools, rising opportunities for gifted children, an increase in vocational education, raising of teachers ' salaries, inclusion of a wider variety of courses, and compulsory teacher testing for aspiring educators.

Haley and his band were important in launching the music known as " Rock and Roll " to a wider, mostly white audience after a period of it being considered an underground genre.

Initially Barringer's ideas were not widely accepted, and even when the origin of Meteor Crater was finally acknowledged, the wider implications for impact cratering as a significant geological process on Earth were not.

However, the Russian culture has two distinct terms: Средняя Азия ( Srednjaja Azija or " Middle Asia ", the narrower definition, which includes only those traditionally non-Slavic, Central Asian lands that were incorporated within those borders of historical Russia ) and Центральная Азия ( Central ' naja Azija or " Central Asia ", the wider definition, which includes Central Asian lands that have never been part of historical Russia ).

In contrast, Rand saw ethics as a necessity for human survival and well-being, and argued that the " social " implications of morality, including natural rights, were simply a subset of the wider field of ethics.

** Economic Reform, 1991 – 2007, reform policies were introduced to meet the terms of international institutions, lenders and donors, including wider incentives to the role of the private sector in all economic activities.

Corradini's views were part of a wider set of perceptions within the right-wing Italian Nationalist Association ( ANI ), which claimed that Italy's economic backwardness was caused by corruption in its political class, liberalism, and division caused by " ignoble socialism ".

These fractures were prompted by issues of government and patronage, but reflected a wider division between the Evangelicals and the Moderate Party over fears of fanaticism by the former and the acceptance of Enlightenment ideas by the latter.

In 1974 St Albans City Council, St Albans Rural District Council and Harpenden Town Council were merged to form St Albans District Council ( part of a much wider local government reorganisation ).

Indo-Iranian languages were once spoken across a still wider area.

However there is considerable evidence, both in the texts and from the wider Celtic world, that they were once considered deities.

Menus such as yakitori ( skewered grilled chicken and other kabobs ) and oden were once frequently peddled at night-time outdoor yatai stands, though increasingly served indoors, sometimes in eateries that specialize in those foods, or at izakaya that offer wider menus.

In his earliest work, Neusner had argued that the most credible evidence showed that the Second Commonwealth Pharisees were a sectarian group centered on " table fellowship " and ritual food purity practices, and less interested in wider Jewish values or social issues.

Ciano said that it was absurd to believe that the Reich could attack Poland without triggering a wider war and that now the Italians were left with the choice of either going to war when they needed three more years to rearm or being forced into the humiliation of having to violate the terms of the Pact of Steel by declaring neutrality ( which would make the Italians appear cowardly ).

It was during this trip that Lönnrot formulated the idea that the poems might represent a wider continuity when poem entities were performed to him along with comments in normal speech connecting them.

Letterboxing was developed for use in 4: 3 television displays before widescreen television screens were available, but it is also necessary to represent on a 16: 9 widescreen display the unaltered original composition of a film with a wider aspect ratio, such as Panavision's 2. 35: 1 ratio.

Stability at and is explained by gravitational equilibrium: if the object were moved into a tighter orbit, it would orbit faster which would counteract the increase in gravity ; if the object moves into a wider orbit, the gravity is lower, but it loses speed.

Unlike the earlier two cuisines, which were brought by the ruling class such as nobles, aristocrats and bureaucrats, and then spread to the general populace, the introduction of Shandong cuisine begun with serving the general populace, with much wider market segment, from wealthy merchants to the working class.

Hoskins was convinced, and seeing that Hurt's guitar playing skills were still intact, Hoskins encouraged him to move to Washington, D. C., and begin performing on a wider stage.

These theories were later expanded and modified to explain a wider range of phenomena, especially conversions to new religious movements ( NRMs ).