According to encyclopaedia Iranica, AFGHAN ( afḡān ) in current political usage means any citizen of Afghanistan, whatever their ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation is.

The word " Mexico " as spoken in its original Nahuatl, and by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest, was pronounced originally with a " sh " sound (" Mesh-ee-co "), as opposed to current pronunciation, and was transcribed with an " x " as was the usage in Spanish at the time.

Now ubiquitous, in current usage the term " cyberspace " stands for the global network of interdependent information technology infrastructures, telecommunications networks and computer processing systems.

Criticisms of mainstream psychology consistent with current critical psychology usage have existed since psychology's modern development in the late 19th century.

" The Greek and Latin term referred to any great serpent, not necessarily mythological, and this usage was also current in English up to the 18th century.

In current usage, one approach to defining euthanasia has been to mirror Suetonius, regarding it as the " painless inducement of a quick death ".

" Aside from words derived from " angry " and " hungry ," there is no stand-alone word ending in "- gry " that is in current usage.

The mainstream media's current usage of the term may be traced back to the early 1980s.

In Western usage, yaoi is distinguished from shōnen-ai ( literally, " boy-love "), in which two males merely express romantic feelings for each other without actually having sexual relations ; however in current Japanese usage this term most commonly refers to pornographic shotacon for men.

ARM originated as an acronym for " Amalgamation of Regional Militia ", though this is not a term in current usage by the time of the Known Space novels.

In current usage, the word monarchy generally refers to a traditional system of hereditary rule, as elective monarchies are rare in the modern period ( though they do still exist in Vatican City, Andorra and Malaysia ).

It predates C and most other popular languages in current usage, and has very different syntax and terminology.

A usage that is archaic in most, but not all, current English dialects is the singular second-person pronoun thou ( accusative thee ).

In current usage, the term is primarily pejorative, while the term politically incorrect has been used as an implicitly positive self-description.

The current usage of republic in Muslim countries is borrowed from the western meaning, adopted into the language in the late 19th century.

In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word " myth ", as used in the book, " is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage ".

* In Jewish folklore, rabbits ( shfanim שפנים ) are associated with cowardice, a usage still current in contemporary Israeli spoken Hebrew ( similar to English colloquial use of " chicken " to denote cowardice ).

A significant development, that has spread across all current Smalltalk environments, is the increasing usage of two web frameworks, Seaside and AIDA / Web, to simplify the building of complex web applications.

Historical use of the term humanism ( reflected in some current academic usage ), is related to the writings of pre-Socratic philosophers.

In current usage, Uyghur refers to settled Turkic urban dwellers and farmers of the Tarim Basin and Ili who follow traditional Central Asian sedentary practices, as distinguished from nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia.

The past and current usage of the term in respect of European art can only be described as confused and inconsistent.

* Drought monitoring-Continuous observation of rainfall levels and comparisons with current usage levels can help prevent man-made drought.

Higher exhaust velocity has both benefit and tradeoff, increasing propellant usage efficiency ( more momentum per unit mass of propellant expelled ) but decreasing thrust and the current rate of spacecraft acceleration if available input power is constant ( less momentum per unit of energy given to propellant ).

However, the phylogeny of the various rorqual species shows the current division is paraphyletic, and in 2005 the division into subfamilies was dropped.

The former infraorder Asilomorpha is paraphyletic and thus not a natural group ; as its type taxon the Asiloidea would still belong there in any case, but current knowledge of brachyceran relationships would make it monotypic: the Cyclorrhapha appear to be the closest known relatives of the Asiloidea.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.

Most European domestic power supplies run at 230 V, so the current drawn by a particular European appliance ( in Europe ) will be less than for an equivalent American one ( in the United States ).< ref group =" Note "> The formula for power is given by

In chemical terms, proline is, therefore, an imino acid, since it lacks a primary amino group, although it is still classed as an amino acid in the current biochemical nomenclature, and may also be called an " N-alkylated alpha-amino acid ".

It was given its current form by a group of authors and editors who lived in the Persian period, called the Priestly source, and Numbers therefore reflects the program of this group.

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000 – 2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors ' Federation ( the latter group aims to " Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism ").

The Men of the Deeps are a male choral group of current and former miners from the industrial Cape Breton area.

An example of a well-known group, until recently armed, that looks to Mao's principles is the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) who the current CPC has publicly opposed.

He is also currently a member of the musical group The Beyman Bros, which he formed with his childhood friend David Nichtern and Spinal Tap's current keyboardist CJ Vanston.

This work began with a group of representatives who revisited the 1999 document " Call to Christian Commitment and Action to Combat Racism ," which is available on the current CUIC website.

The first Taiko player in the UK was Joji Hirota, soon followed by the UK's first regularly performing Taiko group, Akatsuki Daiko, set up in 1993. Notable current groups are Mugenkyo, Taiko Meantime and Kagemusha Taiko

Mestizos, the multiracial group of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, are by far the largest of all the ethnic groups, and comprise around 72 % of the current population.

Most current researchers place Rhodesian Man within the group of Homo heidelbergensis, though other designations such as Archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens rhodesiensis have been proposed.

Along with a current trend towards environmentalism, people in Western culture have had an increasing trend towards the use of herbal supplements, foods for a specific group of person ( such as dieters, women, or athletes ), functional foods ( fortified foods, such as omega-3 eggs ), and a more ethnically diverse diet.

The current group of domesticated silver foxes are the result of nearly fifty years of experiments in the Soviet Union and Russia to domesticate the silver morph of the red fox.

The show's hosts are a group of local technology aficionados, many with industry experience, who offer light-hearted commentary on current news topics and events while delving deeper into specific areas each week with special guest interviews.

They would also cause extremely rapid proton decay ( far below current experimental limits ) and prevent the gauge coupling strengths from running together in the renormalization group.

Billionaire Nelson Peltz initiated a proxy battle during 2006, culminating in a vote to place Peltz's nominees on the Board, which, depending on how many seats the dissident group received after the final vote tally, would displace some of the current board members.

The IEEE P802. 15 Wireless Next Generation Standing Committee ( SCwng ) is chartered to facilitate and stimulate presentations and discussions on new Wireless related Technologies that may be subject for new 802. 15 standardization projects or to address the whole 802. 15 work group with issues or concerns with current techniques or technologies.

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

On 26 March 1991, after four days of intense anti-government rioting, a group of 17 military officers, led by current President Amadou Toumani Touré, arrested President Traoré and suspended the constitution.

On the other hand, according to the USDA's discussion of its current food pyramid, " Dry beans and peas are part of this and beans group as well as the vegetable group.