This may exemplify a rare example of insular dwarfing in a mainland context, with the " islands " being formed by the extensive river networks in the Amazon Basin, which form effective biogeographic barriers.

* Bar ( law ), in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas ; the process of qualifying to practice law ; and the legal profession

There are 14 designations of parks and protected areas in the province that reflects the different administration and creation of these areas in a modern context.

" Since the statement is a sūtra, it is necessarily compressed and what the ropes produce is not elaborated on, but the context clearly implies the square areas constructed on their lengths, and would have been explained so by the teacher to the student.

As evident by its name, I – O psychology has historically subsumed two broad areas of study that investigate the nature of the person ( individual-differences psychology ) and the nature of the situation or context ( social psychology ), although this distinction is artificial, as many topics in I-O psychology are informed by both of these general areas.

The suppression of gunrunning is one of the areas of increasing interest in the context of international law.

Such factors have been hypothesized to affect specific areas of neurodevelopment within the general developmental context and to restrict neuroplasticity.

Buddhism is also the context of all large portrait sculpture ; in total contrast to some other areas in medieval China even painted images of the emperor were regarded as private.

Some cities or urban areas, while not sovereign states, may nevertheless enjoy such a high degree of autonomy that they function as " city-states " within the context of the sovereign state that they belong to.

The Bookshelf is a complement to the Entrez PubMed repository of peer-reviewed publication abstracts in that Bookshelf contents provide established perspectives on evolving areas of study and a context in which many disparate individual pieces of reported research can be organized.

In this context, improving an " output " ( such as sales ) involves studying and improving the broader sales process, as in any system, since the component functional areas interact and are interdependent.

In the context of the BBC Proms Promming now refers to the use of the standing areas inside the hall ( the arena and gallery ) for which ticket prices are much lower than for the reserved seating.

In many areas the balafon is played alone in a ritual context, in others as part of an ensemble.

In the context of the entry of Germanic into the region, Einar Østmo emphasizes that the Atlantic and North Sea coastal regions of Scandinavia, and the circum-Baltic areas were united by a vigorous maritime economy, permitting a far wider geographical spread and a closer cultural unity than interior continental cultures could attain.

Associated with painters such as Frank Stella, minimalism in painting, as opposed to other areas, is a modernist movement and depending on the context can be construed as a precursor to the postmodern movement.

The novel is also interesting in the historical context of runaway slave communities surviving for a long time in swamp areas.

Supersymmetry first arose in 1971 in the context of an early version of string theory by Pierre Ramond, John H. Schwarz and André Neveu, but the mathematical structure of supersymmetry has subsequently been applied successfully to other areas of physics ; firstly by Wess, Zumino, and Abdus Salam and their fellow researchers to particle physics, and later to a variety of fields, ranging from quantum mechanics to statistical physics.

In a wider context, the museum refers to Melbourne ’ s city grid in its planning, and integrates the landscape of Carlton Gardens ; housing a Forest Gallery which is situated within the building, and also providing areas of exterior circulation around the building.

The insula and cingulate cortex are areas of the brain that represent our perception of touch / position and pain / temperature in the context of other simultaneous perceptions ( sight, smell, taste, hearing and balance ), and in the context of our memories and present emotional state.

In historical context, it has proven enormously influential in many areas of science.

In rural areas of the southern United States in the mid 20th century cornbread, accompanied by pinto beans ( often called soup beans in this context ) or honey, was a common lunch for poor children.

* Political officer ( British Empire ), in the context of the British Empire, for a pseudo-ambassadorial role in areas bordering imperial territories

In the context of patent law and specifically in prior art searches, searching through abstracts is a common way to find relevant prior art document to question to novelty or inventive step ( or non-obviousness in United States patent law ) of an invention.

Adventism is a Christian movement which began in the 19th century, in the context of the Second Great Awakening revival in the United States.

Arbitration, in the context of United States law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution — specifically, a legal alternative to litigation whereby the parties to a dispute agree to submit their respective positions ( through agreement or hearing ) to a neutral third party ( the arbitrator ( s ) or arbiter ( s )) for resolution.

In major modern economies such as those of the United States or the Euro Zone, most money is electronic, but the " currency " of these polities may, depending on context, include all money or just specie ( i. e., various physical representations of money ).

In the context of the Cold War, most of the Western world recognized this position and the ROC represented China in the United Nations and other international organizations until the 1970s.

The " beliefs " of school districts are optimistic that quite literally " all students will succeed ", which in the context of high school graduation examination in the United States, all students in all groups, regardess of heritage or income will pass tests that in the introduction typically fall beyond the ability of all but the top 20 to 30 percent of students.

* Moves in the field ( known in the United Kingdom as field moves ), which have replaced compulsory figures as a discipline to teach the same turns and edge skills in the context of fluid free skating movements instead of being constrained to artificially precise circles.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The context of ICANN's relationship with the U. S. government was clarified on September 29, 2006 when ICANN signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the United States Department of Commerce ( DOC ).

* December 1947 – March 1948 Numerous attacks on Palestinian Arabs in the context of Civil War after the vote of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

In this context, common law means the legal environment the United States inherited from England.

Therefore, supporters of gun rights generally consider the use of the phrase " assault weapon " to be pejorative when used to describe these civilian firearms, and this term is seldom used outside of the United States in this context.

In the Cold War context, the term was and is most commonly used by anti-Communists as an accusation of formal fallacy for leftist criticisms of United States foreign policy and military conduct.

Such aspects of public policy have direct constitutional significance whether applied in the European context or in federated nations such as the United States, Canada, and Australia where the courts have to contend not only with jurisdiction and law conflicts between the constituent states or territories, but also as between state and federal courts, and as between constituent states and relevant laws from other states outside the federation.

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, according to Johnson, a new debate concerning the appropriateness of racial profiling in the context of terrorism took place.

In this context, the Agenda 21 for culture and the United Cities and Local Governments ( UCLG ) Executive Bureau lead the preparation of the policy statement “ Culture: Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development ”, passed on 17 November 2010, in the framework of the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders – 3rd World Congress of UCLG, held in Mexico City.

Thatcher's belief in the nuclear hypothesis " in the context of the use of American bases in Britain to launch an aggressive attack on Libya, that it was ' inconceivable ' that we could have refused a demand placed upon this country by the United States.

In the telecommunications regulation context in the United States, telecommunications carriers are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission under title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

The civil rights movement, which began with Black movements in the United States as well as Women ’ s movements in Europe and the Americas was adopted by gay and lesbian organizations throughout the West, and yielded the first exploration of homosexuals within the context of the Holocaust.

( The examples are based on the context of the culture and infrastructure of the United States.

In the context of United Kingdom politics, it refers to a possible alliance on certain issues between the Conservative Party and ecologists or environmentalists such as those found in the UK Green Party.

In the context of the politics of the United States, the term refers to alliances between labor unions and environmentalists, and sometimes specifically to cooperation between American Greens and blue-collar labor activists.

# The Quadruple Alliance of August 1673 was an alliance among the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in the context of the Franco-Dutch War.

In the United Kingdom, the history of political thought has been a particular focus since the late 1960s and is associated especially with the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, where until recently such scholars as John Dunn and Quentin Skinner studied European political thought in its historical context, emphasizing the emergence and development of such concepts as the state and freedom.

This practice is widely used in the United States and Canada, but is never used in other English-speaking countries including the United Kingdom itself, from where the use of " John Doe " in a legal context originates.