The British Virgin Islands were administered variously as part of the British Leeward Islands or with St. Kitts and Nevis, with an administrator representing the British Government on the Islands.

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

For example, the Americas and Europe are considered part of Christendom, but this region is further subdivided into the West ( representing the North Atlantic ) and Latin America.

Some scientists consider Homo rudolfensis, a group larger bodied group of fossils with similar morphology to the original H. habilis fossils to be a separate species while others consider them to be part of H. habilis-simply representing species internal variation, or perhaps even sexual dimorphism.

Isidore's T and O map, which was seen as representing a small part of a spherical Earth, was essentially unchanged from its predecessors of 1, 200 years previously, continued to be used through the Middle Ages by authors, e. g. the 9th century bishop Rabanus Maurus who compared the habitable part of the northern hemisphere ( Aristotle's northern temperate clime ) with a wheel.

It was gradually developing into what would become the Finnish state, including a marked rise of the Fennoman movement representing the Finnic part of the nation.

He described the white stripe as representing the glaciers and ice cap, which cover more than 80 % of the island ; the red stripe, the ocean ; the red semicircle, the sun, with its bottom part sunk in the ocean ; and the white semicircle, the icebergs and pack ice.

The milieu can be viewed as representing the last gasp of Campbell-era science fiction, as the iconoclastic, counterculture influences of " new wave " science fiction of the sixties play no part in most of the stories.

Since the 1950s, manga has steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry, representing a ¥ 406 billion market in Japan in 2007 ( approximately $ 3. 6 billion ) and ¥ 420 billion ($ 5. 5 billion ) in 2009.

In computing, an operand is the part of a computer instruction which specifies what data is to be manipulated or operated on, whilst at the same time representing the data itself.

He argued that truth was not about getting it right or representing reality, but was part of a social practice and language was what served our purposes in a particular time ; ancient languages are sometimes untranslatable into modern ones because they possess a different vocabulary and are unuseful today.

In large part representing the popularity Nasser had gained among the masses in the Arab world following the Suez crisis, the United Arab Republic ( UAR ) in 1958 was the first case of the actual merger of two previously independent Arab countries.

In general, these philosophers argue that truth was not about getting it right or representing reality, but was part of a social practice and language was what served our purposes in a particular time ; to this end Poststructuralism rejects any definitions that claim to have discovered absolute ' truths ' or facts about the world.

To & fro movement that also goes over or under something uses modified single-stemmed arrows, with the part of the arrow representing near motion thicker than the rest.

As the tree ( perception ) is in the midst of the garden ( representing our mind ), it represents that part of our mind which is the will ( or heart ).

Ironically, the boundary changes had arisen due to his own campaign for the number of MPs representing Northern Ireland to be increased to the equivalent proportion for the rest of the United Kingdom, as part of the steps towards greater integration.

* Boies is part of the legal team representing the National Football League in their antitrust litigation, Brady v. NFL.

A tall letter rotated 180 ° or flipped, with the tall part now extending below the baseline, becomes a deep letter, representing equivalent voiced consonant ( except Haha ).

Much like the various forms of overpayment fraud detailed above, a new variant of the lottery scam involves fake or stolen checks being sent to the ' winner ' of the lottery ( these checks representing a part payment of the winnings ).

In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression obtained through an iterative process of representing a number as the sum of its integer part and the reciprocal of another number, then writing this other number as the sum of its integer part and another reciprocal, and so on.

It is applicable as well to associations of manufacturers, retail and wholesale trade groups, consumers ' leagues, farmers ' unions, religious groups, and every other association representing a segment of American life and taking an active part in our political campaigns and discussions.

Spock's behavior has been described as representing, in part, a type of normative judgment.

Fifty-two companies started or committed themselves to new plant construction, totaling 1,418,000 square feet and representing an investment of $11,900,000 ; ;

The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.

Blissymbols or Blissymbolics was conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.

They also claimed that an Army Convention representing " 95 per cent of volunteers " had unanimously elected a new 12-member Army Executive, which in turn appointed a new seven-member Army Council.

Heisenberg never used the term collapse, preferring to speak of the wavefunction representing our knowledge of a system, and collapse as the " jumping " of the wavefunction to a new state, representing a " jump " in our knowledge which occurs once a particular phenomenon is registered by the experimenter ( i. e. when an observation takes place ).

Exports are almost entirely agricultural commodities, with coffee as the largest foreign exchange earner, and its flower industry becoming a new source of revenue: for 2005 / 2006 ( the latest year available ) Ethiopia's coffee exports represented 0. 9 % of the world exports, and oilseeds and flowers each representing 0. 5 %.

Knowledge representation ( KR ) is an area of artificial intelligence research aimed at representing knowledge in symbols to facilitate inferencing from those knowledge elements, creating new elements of knowledge.

The entire image for the frame must be output when the visual difference between the two frames is so great that representing the new image incrementally from the previous frame would be more complex and would require even more bits than reproducing the whole image.

In 1983, a third revision of fares was undertaken, and a new inter-modal Travelcard season ticket was launched covering five new numbered zones ; representing an overall cut in prices of around 25 %.

His book " A framework for representing knowledge " created a new paradigm in programming.

* Some neo-pagans celebrate their interpretation of Samhain ( a festival of the ancient Celts, held around 1 November ) as a New Year's Day representing the new cycle of the Wheel of the Year, although they do not use a different calendar that starts on this day.

When an alphabet is borrowed to represent a different language than that for which it originally developed ( as has been done with the Latin alphabet for many languages in Europe and elsewhere or Japanese Katakana being used for foreign words ), it often proves to be defective in representing the new language's phonemes.

With a new constitution and a new parliament representing diverse parties and factions, Russia's political structure subsequently showed signs of stabilization.

While the standard Tube map mostly avoided representing mainline rail services, a new variant of the map issued in 1973, the ' London's Railways ' map, was the first to depict Tube and surface rail services in a diagrammatic style closely matched to Beck's designs.

Between 1955 and 1973, ten volumes of the new edition were published, representing the text and the commentaries on the entire orders of Zera ' im, Mo ' ed and Nashim.

D. C. Thomson then sought revenge by publishing a new cartoon " The Jocks and The Geordies ", a revival of an old strip from The Dandy, in which the Geordies ( clearly representing Viz ) competed with the Jocks ( clearly representing Thomson ) in a competition to design funny cartoon characters.

Pier Ferdinando Casini, representing the centre-right faction of the party ( previously led by Forlani ) decided to launch a new party called Christian Democratic Centre and to form an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's new party, Forza Italia.

:: In a Hypertext database, any word or a piece of text representing an object, e. g., another piece of text, an article, a picture, or a film, can be linked to that object.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

Grayscale images, for example, are often represented as two-dimensional arrays ( or matrices ) of real numbers representing the relative intensities of pixels ( picture elements ) located at the intersections of row and column sample locations.

A similar painting, with the date of 1639, suggests some study of Rembrandt masterpieces, and a similar influence is apparent in a picture of 1641 representing the Regents of the Company of St Elizabeth, and in the portrait of Maria Voogt at Amsterdam.

* The church of San Giuliano Martire ( 1553 – 1575 ), housing the great picture of Paul Veronese ( 1588 ) representing the martyrdom of that saint.

They also have some sort of picture marking representing the type of hold or craft mark they are.

O does everything physically possible to avoid being seen by others but the only thing he can do to avoid perception by an “ all seeing god ” is to tear up his picture, a symbolic act, as if saying, “ If I don ’ t believe you exist you can ’ t see me .” There is no one there to see him for what he really is other than himself and so, in this godless world, it is only fitting that E, representing O's self-perception, would appear standing where the picture has been torn from the wall.

Christie's Images is the picture library for the auction house and has an archive of several million fine and decorative art images representing items sold in its sale rooms around the world.

A painted picture representing the soul, is hung from the mouth of each of the two thieves on the cross ; an angel takes the soul of the penitent, the devil that of the impenitent thief.

The Scenes from the Passion of Christ in the Galleria Sabauda of Turin and the Advent and Triumph of Christ in the Pinakothek of Munich, are illustrations of the habit in Flanders art of representing a cycle of subjects on the different planes of a single picture, where a wide expanse of ground is covered with incidents from the Passion in the form common to the action of sacred plays.

An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church.

A large picture representing Otto and his nobles gazing on the dead Emperor was painted on the wall of the great room in the Town Hall.

As is the case with many ancient writing systems, such as the Phoenician alphabet, many of the earliest characters seem to have begun as pictograms, with a picture representing an idea which corresponded with the word for that idea.

In the picture gallery a polyptyc by Luini representing the Assumption.

Original formulations used, instead of the side of the square, a vertical line to one side, representing the picture plane.

* The name Calvary often refers to sculptures or pictures representing the scene of the crucifixion of Jesus, or a small wayside shrine incorporating such a picture.

In their original article the Penroses noted that " each part of the structure is acceptable as representing a flight of steps but the connexions are such that the picture, as a whole, is inconsistent: the steps continually descend in a clockwise direction.

This contains twenty-eight miniatures, mostly of Old and New Testament scenes, but with a famous double-page picture representing the Corpus Christi procession in Rome.

One recurring theme is a single picture surrounded by multiple speech balloons, representing the children's response to a given scenario, although the speaker of any given speech balloon is never explicitly shown ( this format began on May 30, 1965 ).

The institute first gained national prominence in a successful lawsuit against the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Power Company, representing Karen Silkwood, a battle that was later made into the motion picture, Silkwood.

On the syndicated series the picture was displayed on the game board with plastic laminate stickers similar to Colorforms representing the objects, and the team had to run to the board and stick a laminate to the picture to show where the hidden object was.