Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

These lectures formed the nucleus of a general survey of English development which took form afterward as A History Of England.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

* 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general ( d. 1795 )

In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.

The Christian Church in general, and the English Church in particular, used Jerusalem as a metaphor for Heaven, a place of universal love and peace.

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

However, by 1906, the English Court of Appeal had made it clear in the decision of Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co v Cunningham 2 Ch 34 that the division of powers between the board and the shareholders in general meaning depended on the construction of the articles of association and that, where the powers of management were vested in the board, the general meeting could not interfere with their lawful exercise.

Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.

Throughout the 1950s, spelunking was the general term used for exploring caves in US English.

The English noun commonwealth in the sense meaning " public welfare ; general good or advantage " dates from the 15th century.

For example, books on the English language may be put in X, and books on language in general in a subclass of X, or this can be reversed.

In English law solicitors like to call personal injury claims as “ general damages ” for pain and suffering and loss of amenity ( PSLA ).

The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.

* 1696 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia ( d. 1785 )

Nevertheless, from the 9th edition onwards, the Britannica was widely considered to have the greatest authority of any general English language encyclopaedia, especially because of its broad coverage and eminent authors.

As such its general structure and management is determined by the Wet op het Hoger Onderwijs en Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ( English: Law on Higher Education and Scientific Research ).

Successively, the word elf, as well as literary term fairy, evolved to a general denotation of various nature spirits like Puck, hobgoblins, Robin Goodfellow, the English and Scots brownie, the Northumbrian English hob and so forth.

A general anaesthetic ( or anesthetic, see spelling differences ) is a drug that brings about a reversible loss of consciousness.

In the United States, a pediatrician ( US spelling ) is often a primary care physician who specializes in children, whereas in the Commonwealth a paediatrician ( British spelling ) generally is a medical specialist not in primary general practice.

" T ' ai chi ch ' uan " ( including " t ' ai chi " and their misspellings ) still remains the popular spelling used by the general public today, however, many professional practitioners, masters and martial arts bodies ( such as the IWUF ) write it as taijiquan.

But there is general agreement that when quoting the proper name printed on a label, the spelling that is used on the label should not be altered.

However, the familiarity of the longstanding " Taipei " spelling led government authorities to retain it as one of several exceptions to the general standard.

Despite its spelling, McComb, Ohio is named for Alexander Macomb ( American general ).

The Chicago Manual of Style, followed by many book publishers and magazines in the United States, recommends Webster's Third, along with Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary for " general matters of spelling ", and the style book " normally opts for " the first spelling listed ( with the Collegiate taking precedence over Webster's Third because it " represents the latest research ").

This dictionary is preferred as a source " for general matters of spelling " by the influential The Chicago Manual of Style, which is followed by many book publishers and magazines in the United States.

In many respects, a general principle could be stated that retaining the original spelling is important since it reflects the origin of a word and hence adds an extra nuance to its meaning.

Hephaestion (, alternative spelling: " Hephaistion "; c. 356 BC – 324 BC ), son of Amyntor, was a Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great.

The spelling " Suharto " reflects modern Indonesian spelling although the general approach in Indonesia is to rely on the spelling preferred by the person concerned.

Bundesrath ( from 1901 on: Bundesrat, according to a general spelling reform ) was already the name of similar bodies in the North German Confederation ( 1867 ) and the German Empire ( 1871 ).

Guan Yu ( Wade-Giles spelling: Kuan Yu ) ( died 219 ) was a general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty of China.

Liu Bei ( Wade-Giles spelling: Liu Pei ; ; 161 – 10 June 223 ), also known by his style name Liu Xuande ( Wade-Giles spelling: Liu Hsuan-te ), was a warlord, military general and later the founding emperor of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history.

It gives-ise spellings first, listing-ize spellings as acceptable variants, unlike the Oxford English Dictionary and some other dictionaries of British English, which continue to prefer-ize to-ise in spite of the opposite tendency amongst the British general public ( see Oxford spelling ).

N / A is used when no specific spelling is used, e. g. where all long vowel spellings are found using the rules for deriving long vowel spellings from the short vowel, or no general spelling is used, e. g. when short and long vowels are always spelled differently.

In a symposium and general exploration of the field of Personal Perception and Interpersonal Behavior the discussion does not touch upon this aspect of the subject, with one possible exception ; ;

What does the general business outlook suggest about the trend of long-term rates in 1961??

Combinatorics is an example of a field of mathematics which does not, in general, follow the axiomatic method.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

In general, the bulk of their structure is nonpolar or hydrophobic (" water-fearing "), meaning that it does not interact well with polar solvents like water.

Thus, the Big Bang theory cannot and does not provide any explanation for such an initial condition ; rather, it describes and explains the general evolution of the universe going forward from that point on.

In these more general contexts, the bracket does not have the meaning of an inner product, because the Riesz representation theorem does not apply.

In 1915, Albert Einstein developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that gravity does influence light's motion.

In general, tolerance to the amnesic effects does not occur.

The Fundamentals of Engineering exam-the first ( and more general ) of two licensure examinations for most U. S. jurisdictions — does now cover biology ( although technically not BME ).

Justice Holmes cautioned that “ the proper derivation of general principals in both common and constitutional law ... arise gradually, in the emergence of a consensus from a multitude of particularized prior decisions .” Justice Cardozo noted the “ common law does not work from pre-established truths of universal and inflexible validity to conclusions derived from them deductively ,” but “ ts method is inductive, and it draws its generalizations from particulars .”

For example, the copyright to a Mickey Mouse cartoon restricts others from making copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works based on Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of other works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are different enough to not be judged copies of Disney's.

The argument applies only to digital computers and does not apply to machines in general.

# hardware context switching does not save all the registers ( only general purpose registers, not floating point registers — although the TS bit is automatically turned on in the CR0 control register, resulting in a fault when executing floating point instructions and giving the OS the opportunity to save and restore the floating point state as needed ).

However, the general definition of a file does not require that its instant size has any real meaning, unless the data within the file happens to correspond to data within a pool of persistent storage.

Then is a derivation and is linear, i. e., and, and a Lie algebra homomorphism, i. e.,, but it is not always an algebra homomorphism, i. e. the identity does not hold in general.

Critical theory in literature and the humanities in general does not necessarily involve a normative dimension, whereas critical social theory does, either through criticizing society from some general theory of values, norms, or " oughts ," or through criticizing it in terms of its own espoused values.

" The committee does more than help students and the general public recognize what doublespeak is ; it dramatizes that clarity of expression reflects clarity of thought.

A recent example is evolutionary psychologists ' criticism that the DSM does not differentiate between genuine cognitive malfunctions and those induced by psychological adaptations, a key distinction within evolutionary psychology, but one widely challenged within general psychology.

The General Minister and President ( GMP ) is the designated leader for the General Church, but does not have the administrative authority to direct any of the general church agencies other than “ The Office of General Minister and President .” The GMP has influence that derives from the respect of the church much as the pastor of a local church leads a local congregation.