In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.

In the context of events like this, the Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

In modern Chinese culture, jianghu is commonly accepted as an alternative universe coexisting with the actual historical one in which the context of the wuxia genre was set.

The same applies to " Linnaean name ": depending on the context this may either be a formal name given by Linnaeus ( personally ), such as Giraffa camelopardalis Linnaeus, 1758, or a formal name in the accepted nomenclature ( as opposed to a modernistic clade name ).

Within the overall divine purpose of family life, he fully accepted the rhythm method as a moral form of family planning, although only limited circumstances, within the context of family.

In context, a slave who referred to himself, or another black man, as a nigger presumed the master's perceiving him as a slave who has accepted his societally sub-ordinate role as private property, thus, not ( potentially ) subversive of the authority of the master's white supremacy.

These norms are not fixed or unchangeable over time but rather a reflection of what is accepted at a particular time in a particular context.

" Contralto " is meaningful only in reference to classical and operatic singing, as other genres lack a system of vocal categorization comparable to that generally accepted in the classical context.

", theorized the existence of the most fully developed oral poet to his time, a person who could ( at his discretion ) creatively and intellectually create nuanced characters in the context of the accepted, traditional story.

In this context, it is universally accepted that Richthofen's judgement during his last combat was uncharacteristically unsound in several respects.

A classic is any text that can be received and accepted universally, because they transcend context.

This requires that the mathematical content being taught at the ( say ) undergraduate level is of a well documented and widely accepted nature that has been unanimously verified as being correct and meaningful within a mathematical context.

The above is an accepted modern definition, but it may not be correct within a historical context.

In such a traditional context, and after having accepted each other as master and disciple, this relationship can either be temporary by nature ( monastic training ) or a life long bond between two individuals.

In a wider context, soft inheritance is of use when examining the evolution of cultures and ideas, and is related to the theory of memetics < sup >- memetics is not widely accepted due to it being unsubstantiated </ sup >.

A subsequent investigation by a committee of the American Association of University Professors ( AAUP ) concluded that Hillsdale had violated the Association's standards in the context of the nonreappointment and found evidence that the administration had made that decision because of Treadgold's role in preparing the letter, even though this activity " should have been protected under generally accepted principles of academic freedom.

On the other hand, this idea appears in more than one context in the 書經 Shū Jīng ( Book of Records ) as an accepted fact of life rather than something that needed any introduction.

In a more general sense, it is used to refer to the accepted truth about something which nearly no one would argue about, and so is used as a gauge ( or well-spring ) of normative behavior or belief, even within a professional context.

In Canada, the more widely accepted term in this context is interim, as in interim leader.

She later said that this was at the insistence of theatre managers, who said she was " too fat and ugly " to be accepted by an audience in any other context.

Those that defend MacDonald's overall catalog of work counter that these findings are measured against modern cultural standards, and not in the context of American pop culture of the 1940s, when such stereotyping was more widely accepted.

Currently, the most widely accepted explanation for their origin is in the context of cosmic inflation.

The roleplaying game Ars Magica is one such ' historical ' game, set in what its source materials call ' Mythic Europe ': while history is generally accepted to unfold as depicted in real-world historical accounts, Ars Magica presents a detailed background for its setting, tying the existence of magic, wizards and the Faerie realms into a historical context while allowing for ' fantasy ' elements to come into play.

Many entrance tests ( to prestigious schools or universities ) are norm-referenced, permitting a fixed proportion of students to pass (" passing " in this context means being accepted into the school or university rather than an explicit level of ability ).

It is precisely in the context of this challenge that he develops the concept of military genius, whose capabilities are seen above all in the execution of operations.

An inclusion of social groups in a definition of genocide would further challenge the notion of the Jewish genocide as unique within the context of the Holocaust.

Wren's challenge to Halley and Hooke, for the reward of a book worth thirty shillings, was to provide, within the context of Hooke's hypothesis, a mathematical theory linking the Kepler's laws with a specific force law.

Out-of-place artifact ( OOPArt ) is a term coined by American naturalist and cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for an object of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in a very unusual or seemingly impossible context that could challenge conventional historical chronology.

Within the satirical context, he is a sausage seller who must overcome self-doubts to challenge Cleon as a populist orator, yet he is a godlike, redemptive figure in the allegory.

But change ringing on handbells is today quite popular in its own right ; and in that context the relevant physical realities of handbells ( compared with tower bells ) have their effect — on handbells each ringer usually handles two bells ( adding considerably to the mental challenge ).

Now, implementers of SCM face the challenge of dealing with relatively minor increments under their own control, in the context of the complex system being developed.

Since the game uses " plover " in multiple contexts, discovering the magic word context is a difficult, if not accidental, challenge.

According to this subset of Liberation Theology, the challenge for the Christian Communist is then to define what it means ( in context of " a concrete analysis of the concrete social reality "), to affirm a " preferential option for the poor and oppressed " as Praxis ( active theory ), and as commanded by an ethics allegedly " rooted in the beatidic teachings of Jesus ".

" James uses this challenge as the basis for describing cricket in an historical and social context, the strong influence cricket had on his life, and how it meshed with his role in politics and his understanding of issues of class and race.

" And so " To challenge these claims, and to see them in a context ," he asks " what nationalism is-not only the new revolutionary nationalism but also the old conservative one.

Bateson didn't challenge the diagnosis but he did maintain that the seeming nonsense the patients said at times did make sense within context — and he gives numerous examples in section III -- Pathology in Relationship ( in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ).

Littleton took up the challenge in Parliament and, accepting that the report of his comment was accurate, pointed out that it was reported entirely out of context.

Bacevich conceived The New American Militarism not only as " a corrective to what has become the conventional critique of U. S. policies since 9 / 11 but as a challenge to the orthodox historical context employed to justify those policies.

Although fraudulent transfer law originally evolved in the context of a relatively simple agrarian economy, it is now widely used to challenge complex modern financial transactions such as leveraged buyouts.

In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.

Note that " completeness " has a different meaning here than it does in the context of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, which states that no recursive, consistent set of non-logical axioms of the Theory of Arithmetic is complete, in the sense that there will always exist an arithmetic statement such that neither nor can be proved from the given set of axioms.

The automorphism group of an object X in a category C is denoted Aut < sub > C </ sub >( X ), or simply Aut ( X ) if the category is clear from context.

When a specific allophone ( from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme ) must be selected in a given context ( i. e. using a different allophone for a phoneme will cause confusion or make the speaker sound non-native ), the allophones are said to be complementary ( i. e. the allophones complement each other, and one is not used in a situation where the usage of another is standard ).

Bonding usually discussed in the context of molecular orbital theory, which recognizes the triple bond as arising from overlap of s and p orbitals.

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

Later still, abstraction was manifest in more purely formal terms, such as color, freedom from objective context, and a reduction of form to basic geometric designs.

Such usage does not imply murderous actions, and any emotional implications ( e. g., rage, fear, excitement ) must be gleaned from context.

Being is also understood as one's " state of being ," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human ( personal ) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate " being ", or personal character.

The intent is usually clear from the context, although the term " official at bat " is sometimes used to explicitly refer to an at bat as distinguished from a plate appearance.

In this case the relation from X to Y is the subset G of X × Y, and " from X to Y " must always be either specified or implied by the context when referring to the relation.

In discussions of binary-addressed memories, the exact size was evident from context.

In 1995, Simon Keynes observed that " if Bede's concept of the Southumbrian overlord, and the chronicler's concept of the ' Bretwalda ', are to be regarded as artificial constructs, which have no validity outside the context of the literary works in which they appear, we are released from the assumptions about political development which they seem to involve ... we might ask whether kings in the eighth and ninth centuries were quite so obsessed with the establishment of a pan-Southumbrian state ".

* Some of the words and phrases of the prayer have to be inferred from the context because the text is fragmentary.

In the Gospel of John and in Revelation, Jesus is referred to as " the Word of God " (), although the context in Revelation is very different from John.

Going " beyond reasoning " means in this context penetrating the nature of reasoning from the inside, and removing the causes for experiencing any future stress as a result of it, rather than functioning outside of the system as a whole.

The two countries moved to establish relations from the 2000s ( decade ), and particularly from 2007, within the context of Cuba's growing interest in the Pacific Islands region.

The first entry, from 1586, shows the word was at one time used in the context of discussions of Platonic theories of knowledge.

As of 2010, there are 118 known elements ( in this context, " known " means observed well-enough, even from just a few decay products, to have been differentiated from any other element ).

Rodolfo Llinás, for example, proposed that consciousness results from recurrent thalamo-cortical resonance where the specific thalamocortical systems ( content ) and the non-specific ( centromedial thalamus ) thalamocortical systems ( context ) interact in the gamma band frequency via temporal coincidence.