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particular and weight
The more widely a particular law was recognized, the more weight it held, whereas purely local customs were generally subordinate to law recognized in a plurality of jurisdictions.
The relative atomic mass ( historically and commonly also called " atomic weight ") of an element is the average of the atomic masses of all the chemical element's isotopes as found in a particular environment, weighted by isotopic abundance, relative to the atomic mass unit ( u ).
In his 1863 pamphlet, Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public, he outlined the details of a particular low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diet that had led to his own dramatic weight loss.
For example, a person believes that a particular bridge is safe enough to support him, and attempts to cross it ; unfortunately, the bridge collapses under his weight.
These four schools share most of their rulings, but differ on the particular hadiths they accept as authentic and the weight they give to analogy or reason ( qiyas ) in deciding difficulties.
In 1888 he headed the commission that established the Official Table of Drops, listing how far a person of a particular weight should be dropped when hanged for a capital offence ( the only method of ' judicial execution ' in the United Kingdom at that time ), to ensure an instant and painless death, by cleanly breaking the neck between the 2nd and 3rd vertebrae, an ' exacting science ', eventually brought to perfection by Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint.
This permits the vehicle to be tailored for particular missions such as decreasing the weight of vehicle for air transportation or strengthening the protection if it engages in dangerous missions.
In particular, the level of dead weight loss is hard to measure.
In the 1980s, however, slot machine manufacturers incorporated electronics into their products and programmed them to weight particular symbols.
In particular, Newton considered weight to be relative to another object causing the gravitational pull, e. g. the weight of the Earth towards the Sun.
Livy gives due attention to the plundered wealth of statuary, gold and silver, but particular weight to the specialist chefs, flute girls, one-legged tables and other " dinner-party amusements " brought to Rome from exotic Galatia for the ( putative ) triumph of Gnaeus Manlius Vulso in 187 BCE.
A particular codeword of any line code can either have no disparity ( the average weight of the codeword is zero ), negative disparity ( the average weight of the codeword is negative ), or positive disparity ( the average weight of the codeword is positive ).
There may be several minimum spanning trees of the same weight having a minimum number of edges ; in particular, if all the edge weights of a given graph are the same, then every spanning tree of that graph is minimum.
In particular, Greek and Cyrillic is only available in Regular and Bold weight fonts.
Each rod is sized to the fish being sought, the wind and water conditions and also to a particular weight of line: larger and heavier line sizes will cast heavier, larger flies.
The increase in size between windows of the Romanesque and Gothic periods is related to the use of the ribbed vault, and in particular, the pointed ribbed vault which channeled the weight to a supporting shaft with less outward thrust than a semicircular vault.
As feudal states coalesced into kingdoms, imitation of silver types abated, but gold coins, in particular the gold ducat and the gold florin were still issued as trade coins: coins without a fixed value, going by weight.
A particular problem with observational studies involving human subjects is the great difficulty attaining fair comparisons between treatments ( or exposures ), because such studies are prone to selection bias, and groups receiving different treatments ( exposures ) may differ greatly according to their covariates ( age, height, weight, medications, exercise, nutritional status, ethnicity, family medical history, etc .).
It has likewise been suggested that Eadred's punitive attack on the ancient minster of Ripon, which carried little military weight, was targeted at Wulfstan in particular.
The results of a PCA are usually discussed in terms of component scores, sometimes called factor scores ( the transformed variable values corresponding to a particular data point ), and loadings ( the weight by which each standardized original variable should be multiplied to get the component score ).

particular and train
In particular, its customers, the passenger and freight train operators, were desperate for regulatory action to force the company to improve its stewardship of the network and its performance.
Railroads in particular used elaborate whistle codes for communication both within the train and with other trains.
" Hume also took his definition of reason to unorthodox extremes by arguing, unlike his predecessors, that human reason is not qualitatively different from either simply conceiving individual ideas, or from judgments associating two ideas, and that " reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations.
In particular, the train station ( 1934 – 36 ) is considered a landmark building of Italian railways architecture and combines many varieties of local stone with the most advanced building materials of the time: glass, reinforced concrete, metal.
Finally professors can use the Socratic method to allow students to come to legal principles on their own through carefully worded questions that encourage a particular train of thought.
* The idiom gravy train, used to refer to any lucrative endeavor, but in particular such endeavors which capitalize on the success of other people.
Investigations later showed that a particular combination of draughts, caused by an eastbound train arriving at the station while a westbound train was leaving, created a 12 mph wind through the station and up the escalator ( known as the piston effect ; this helps ventilate the tube ), adding to the speed of the fire spreading.
This beach is quite popular during summer months in particular because it is easily accessible from Boston by a half-mile walk from the MBTA train station.
In particular he was the first proprietor of the Big Meadows Hotel on Main Street, adjacent to the train station and what was eventually the Greyhound Bus depot.
The popularity of this particular hotel, with its train depot entrance, grand ballroom, piers, sailing and ferries to the beaches of Bogue Banks, helped to establish Morehead City as a summer destination.
Notably though, higher lift has more potential problems than increased duration, in particular as valve train rpm rises which can result in more inefficient running or loss of torque.
Therefore, to determine the features available in a particular mainline release, look at the previous T train release.
The proposals will lead to a simplification of train operations at Manchester Piccadilly, and a close association between the various pairs of lines leading out of the station and particular platforms, with few crossing moves.
He also paid much attention to the creation of an educational system to train personnel for industry, in particular, the creation of new " commercial " schools, and was known for his appointment of subordinates by their academic credentials instead of political connections.
He focused on waiting at train stations in particular as a major context of boredom.
It was possible to provide through pipes for the braking system not fitted to any particular vehicle so that it could run in a train using the " other " system, allowing through control of the fitted vehicles behind it, but with no braking effort of its own.
In its original sense, discipline is systematic instruction given to disciples to train them as students in a craft or trade, or any other activity which they are supposed to perform, or to follow a particular code of conduct or " order ".
Idée fixe began as a parent category of obsession, and as a preoccupation of mind the idée fixe resembles today's obsessive-compulsive disorder: although the afflicted person can think, reason and act like other people, they are unable to stop a particular train of thought or action.
This may be because the piece of equipment is not directionally symmetrical, for example in the case of most steam locomotives and, in certain parts of the world, diesel locomotives, or where the train needs to run a particular direction, for example where it has dedicated tail end car such as an observation car.
On permanent layouts, multiple power supplies are traditionally used, with the trackage divided into electrically isolated sections called blocks ; toggle or rotary switches ( sometimes relays ) are used to select which power supply controls the train in a particular block.
The Tachiarai Peace Museum was opened in 1987 at the site of a former train station to commemorate those who died in the war, airforce pilots in particular.
However within weeks of its initial launch, mechanical and design flaws began to appear, in some cases causing trains to stop running and forcing passengers to leave the train and walk back to the station, and in one particular case derailing from the tracks on February 11, 2011.

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