Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

This is as contrasted with typical practice, where a proposition passes, or not, based on whether it receives the appropriate majority of however many votes were cast, irrespective of how many members were present but chose not to vote.

But social constructivists argue that mathematics is in fact grounded by much uncertainty: as mathematical practice evolves, the status of previous mathematics is cast into doubt, and is corrected to the degree it is required or desired by the current mathematical community.

Conversely, halting the cast and stopping the lure at the desired position requires practice in learning to feather the line with the forefinger as it uncoils from the spool.

He wrote out a series of muscle-strengthening exercises that, after many years of daily practice, would successfully conceal Norma's cast for long periods of time on the screen.

The practice is well disputed among scholars, partly due to doubts cast on the histories of Herodotus.

Because of the frequent reuse of segments, a practice derived from Sesame Street, actors continued to appear after their departures from the cast.

A common practice in animation is to cast a woman to play the role of a young boy.

West struck back at this practice in Comic Book: The Movie, in which the entire main cast comprises voice actors, including Jess Harnell, Lori Alan, Daran Norris, Mark Hamill and Tom Kenny.

By the 1950s, many recording companies were releasing Broadway show albums recorded by their original casts, and the recording of original cast albums had become standard practice whenever a new show opened.

The focus in this practice is to claim originality for commercial purposes, and so the author is motivated to avoid citing works that cast doubt on its originality.

In practice, photographers almost always use relative or perceptual intent, as for natural images, absolute causes color cast, while saturation produces unnatural colors.

The original cast was listed in the first edition of The Country Wife, as was standard practice, and modern scholars have suggested that this information throws light on Wycherley's intentions.

Trout fisherman need to practice with at least an 8 weight fly rod and accurately cast the line 30 – 90 feet if they are going to have success — particularly in the flat areas fishing for bonefish, redfish, permit, tarpon, jacks and more.

Two accidents on the open roads in practice, one resulting in the death of Jay McNay, cast a shadow over the event.

As a producer, Croft's regular practice was to signal the end of an episode with the caption " You Have Been Watching ...", followed by vignettes of the main cast.

In Part III, the role of Adam is usually sung by the same soloist as sings Raphael, and the roles of Gabriel and Eve are also taken by the same singer ( this was the practice Haydn followed ); however, some conductors prefer to cast each of the five roles with a different soloist.

In practice, there were wide differences in the number of votes cast in each riding across the country.

The rails were typically of flat bottom section fastened to the ties with dogspikes through a flat tieplate in North America and Australia, and typically of bullhead section carried in cast iron chairs in British and Irish practice.

The lack of accountability to MEPs or national parliamentarians has also cast doubt as to whether national leaders will in practice stand behind the President on major issues.

Relatively few non-Chinese cast coins were produced by governments, however it was a common practice amongst counterfeiters.

Beginning at this time, such inscriptions were typically engraved onto the already cast bronzes, rather than being written into the wet clay of piece-molds as had been the earlier practice.

In Space was a turning point for the Power Rangers franchise, as the season brought closure to six seasons of plot, and it ended the practice of having regular cast members act in consecutive seasons.

With the annual suit change that began with Power Rangers Zeo and the annual cast and story change starting with this series, this is the first series to follow the practice set by the Super Sentai series.

Strong therefore concludes that the word means " to whisper a spell, i. e. to incant or practice magic ".

After gaining his MD from Cambridge in 1569, and a short spell as bursar of St John's College, he left to practice medicine in London and travelled on the continent.

where janma (" birth "), auṣadhi (" medicinal plant, herb, drug, incense, elixir "), mantra (" incantation, charm, spell "), tapaḥ (" heat, burning, shining, as ascetic devotional practice, burning desire to reach perfection, that which burns all impurities "), samādhi (" profound meditation, total absorption "), jāḥ (" born ") and siddhayaḥ (" perfections, accomplishments, fulfillments, attainments ") are rendered in English by Iyengar ( 1966, 2002: p. 246 ) thus:

They are first called so in the sixth volume, although the practice is mentioned in the previous novels: any wizard can modify memories in the Harry Potter books by using the spell " Obliviate ".

Sophie opens the door black knob down ( Michael's practice spell is replaced by Howl's nephew's homework ).

Michael seeks help about his practice spell.

Anger himself linked the creation of film to the occult, particularly the practice of ceremonial magic, something that Aleister Crowley had been a noted practitioner of, and Anger once stated that " making a movie is casting a spell.

This skill must be honed through practice and the Slayer usually must focus to achieve the full benefit, as shown in season 5 " Family ", during which, when Tara casts a spell that causes demons to be invisible to the gang, Buffy orders everyone to be quiet and fights a demon without seeing it.

In some aspects, the developers were forced to remove features due to technical constraints ; for example, the " Plague " spell from previous Populous titles was dropped because in practice the spell was too frustrating.

Hence the name of Mahboob Ali Pasha and the practice of spell of snake bite became famous throughout Hyderabad ".

However, the spell of the charismatic Charcot was strong and he quickly switched his practice to neurology, and even adopted Charcot ’ s showmanship for teaching his classes.

" Wolfgang Benedek comments that the WSIS Declaration only contains a number of references to human rights and does not spell out any procedures or mechanism to assure that human rights are considered in practice.

There can be many purposes for such a record, such as recording evidence to verify the effectiveness of specific procedures ( per the scientific method that Aleister Crowley claimed should be applied to the practice of magick ) or to ensure that data may propagate beyond the lifetime of the magician.

The practice of magic was banned in the Roman world, and the Codex Theodosianus states: If any wizard therefore or person imbued with magical contamination who is called by custom of the people a magician ... should be apprehended in my retinue, or in that of the Caesar, he shall not escape punishment and torture by the protection of his rank.

As with all forms of magical thinking, association-based and similarity-based notions of causality need not involve the practice of magic by a magician.

The authors called the practice " fourth dimensional surgery ," and wrote " still don ’ t know what to think ; but we have motion pictures to show it wasn ’ t the work of any normal magician, and could very well be just what the Filipinos said it was — a miracle of God performed by a fourth dimensional surgeon.

Thanks to his endless practice, Scarne began making money as a magician.

For instance, the script had a magician rehearse on a practice field, a professional will take that as a joke once he sees it.

Tracy Hickman commented in The Annotated Chronicles ( 1999 ) that his eldest son, a professional magician, mentioned how this fact did mirror his own practice, as it was not enough for him to simply learn a magic trick, instead having to " practice it daily in order to maintain the fluid movement of the illusion.