The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context.

Other examples of late Biblical Hebrew include the qetAl pattern form nouns, which would have dated after an Aramaic influence, the frequent use of the relative sh (- ש ) alongside asher ( אשר ), the Ut ending ( ות -), the frequent use of the participle for the present ( which is later developed in Rabbinic Hebrew ), using the prefix conjugation in the future ( vs. the older preterite use ), and terms that appear to specifically fit a Persian / Hellenistic context ( e. g. Shallit ).

Bow, aft, port, and starboard are nautical terms that convey an impersonal relative direction in the context of the moving frame of persons aboard a ship.

While, theoretically relying on Michel Foucault ’ s theory of discipline and governmentality, as well as related insights in the social control literature, this paper examines Project Carnivore relative to the larger context of state rationality and related privacy issues.

Input in the linguistic context is defined as " All words, contexts, and other forms of language to which a learner is exposed, relative to acquired proficiency in first or second languages " Nativists find it difficult to believe, considering the hugely complex nature of human languages, and the relatively limited cognitive abilities of an infant, that infants are able to acquire most aspects of language without being explicitly taught.

After all, if one considers the stone's position relative to the sun around which the planet orbits, one could hold that the stone is constantly being lifted — strained though that interpretation would be in the present context.

This recurrence often occurs in times of relative immunosuppression, which is often in the context of malnutrition and other illnesses.

Legal rights are sometimes called civil rights or statutory rights and are culturally and politically relative since they depend on a specific societal context to have meaning.

Sometimes due to inconsistent usage, it is not always clear from the context what a percentage is relative to.

The name Dylan, then, can be maintained to be the descendant of a compound of Proto-Celtic elements * dī-φlanu-s which together basically mean something in context relative to one of the following:

Broadband is a relative term, understood according to its context.

Diabetes mellitus type 2formerly non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus ( NIDDM ) or adult-onset diabetesis a metabolic disorder that is characterized by high blood glucose in the context of insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency.

In the context of an air flow relative to a flying body, the lift force is the component of the aerodynamic force that is perpendicular to the flow direction.

In this sense of the word, graphite is more noble than silver and the relative nobility of many materials is highly dependent upon context, as for aluminium and stainless steel in conditions of varying pH.

When the term relative is used in context with sea level change, the implication is that both eustasy and isostasy are at work, or that the author does not know which cause to invoke.

Cybersectarianism is a newer organizational form which involves: " highly dispersed small groups of practitioners that may remain largely anonymous within the larger social context and operate in relative secrecy, while still linked remotely to a larger network of believers who share a set of practices and texts, and often a common devotion to a particular leader.

In North American English, the term plurality, also called relative majority used in the context of voting, refers to the largest number of votes to be received by any candidate ( or any proposal in a referendum ).

In the Islamic law of marriage, the wali is a woman's closest adult male relative, who has authority and responsibility with respect to her marrying ; in this context, wali can be translated as " marriage guardian ".

The name does refer to Evan-S, meaning son of John ; however, the historic context is that many Welsh were relative latecomers to Christianity, and around the 3rd century A. D. a huge evangelical conversion began.

Shakespearean scholars, beginning with Edmond Malone in 1790, have attempted to reconstruct the plays ' relative chronology by various means, primarily using external evidence ( references by contemporary commentators and in private documents, allusions in other plays, entries in the Stationers ' Register, and records of performance and publication ), and internal evidence ( allusions to contemporary events, composition and publication dates of sources used by Shakespeare, the development of his style and diction over time, and the plays ' context in the contemporary theatrical and literary milieu ).

Likewise, context related to physical environment is structured into three categories: location ( absolute position, relative position, co-location ), infrastructure ( surrounding resources for computation, communication, task performance ), and physical conditions ( noise, light, pressure ).

Historical data, in Spengler's mind, are an expression of their historical time, contingent upon and relative to that context.

Demonstratives are employed for spatial deixis ( using the context of the physical surroundings of the speaker and sometimes the listener ) and for discourse deixis ( including abstract concepts ) where the meaning is dependent on something other than the relative physical location of the speaker, for example whether something is currently being said or was said earlier.

Perspective, in context of vision and visual perception, is the way in which objects appear to the eye based on their spatial attributes ; or their dimensions and the position of the eye relative to the objects.

Many combinatorial questions have historically been considered in isolation, giving an ad hoc solution to a problem arising in some mathematical context.

The economic system of a society should therefore be focused primarily on the flourishing of the family unit, but not in isolation: at the appropriate level of family context, as is intended in the principle of subsidiarity.

* An absolute prohibition against the following techniques therefore arises from, is understood in the context of, and is interpreted according to these texts: mock executions ; water-boarding or any other form of simulated drowning or suffocation ; sexual humiliation ; rape ; cultural or religious humiliation ; exploitation of fears, phobias or psychopathology ; induced hypothermia ; the use of psychotropic drugs or mind-altering substances ; hooding ; forced nakedness ; stress positions ; the use of dogs to threaten or intimidate ; physical assault including slapping or shaking ; exposure to extreme heat or cold ; threats of harm or death ; isolation ; sensory deprivation and over-stimulation ; sleep deprivation ; or the threatened use of any of the above techniques to an individual or to members of an individual ’ s family.

However the isolation and microscopic examination of a single aspect apart from its host environment is an effort to improve the understanding of the broader context.

In similar fashion, the isolation and examination of the stage image of Cleopatra becomes an attempt to improve the understanding of the theatrical power of her infinite variety and the cultural treatment of that power .” So, as a microcosm, Cleopatra can be understood within a postmodern context, as long as one understands that the purpose for the examination of this microcosm is to further one ’ s own interpretation of the work as a whole.

In a business-to-business context, an extranet can be viewed as an extension of an organization's intranet that is extended to users outside the organization, usually partners, vendors, and suppliers, in isolation from all other Internet users.

The conservative turn of the neoliberal decades also meant a decline in traditional political activism, and increasing " social isolation ; Twelve-Step recovery groups were one context in which individuals sought a sense of community ... yet another symptom of the psychologizing of the personal " to more radical critics.

Despite the communist isolation, the tradition of singer-songwriter in Romania flourished beginning with the end of the 1960s and it was put in the context of the folk music, with its three main styles in Romania: ethno folk, American-style folk and lyrical ( cult ) folk.

For example, in the context of workplace bullying, targeted employees often find themselves in situations where they experience lack of voice and feelings of isolation.

will consist of ( 1 ) the isolation of a society ’ s ideographs, ( 2 ) the exposure and analysis of the diachronic structure of every ideography, and ( 3 ) characterization of synchronic relationships among all the ideographs in a particular context .”.

Systems thinking is not one thing but a set of habits or practices within a framework that is based on the belief that the component parts of a system can best be understood in the context of relationships with each other and with other systems, rather than in isolation.

As a result the cathedral now appears dominant in isolation behind new civil offices along the quays, out of its original medieval context.

The cultural context of the Iberian Peninsula was different than that of the rest of Continental Europe from the Middle Age, due to contact with Moorish culture and the isolation provided by the Pyrenees.

The name " Sudbury " itself may be ambiguous, however — depending on the context, it may denote either the old city in isolation, or a shorthand name for the entire amalgamated city.

It continues the theme of isolation developed in Soseki's immediately preceding works, here in the context of interwoven strands of egoism and guilt, as opposed to shame.

This curious conception could not have been made except as the consequence of a destruction of normal analytical reflexes leading to an artificial isolation of an aggregate in part made up of foreign notes, and to consider it — an abstraction out of context — as an organic whole.

She further argued that the difference between the isolated and surrounding items is not sufficient to produce isolation effects but must be considered in the context of similarity.

This lack of attention to theEuropean Union, resulting in an increasing isolation, has had repercussions in other areas of foreign policy: Italy's difficulties in dealing with the United States, for example, are attributed to the widespread perception overseas of a growing marginalization of Italy in the European context.

In August and September 2005, artist Stephen Turner spent six weeks living alone in the searchlight tower of the Shivering Sands Fort in what he described as " an artistic exploration of isolation, investigating how one's experience of time changes in isolation, and what creative contemplation means in a 21st-century context ".

In this context, Cerpa and the MRTA leadership looked to a spectacular action to break the MRTA out of its growing isolation.

The brief admiration the Athenians and their allies may have had for Spartan Doric discipline and virtue born of cultural isolation, must be viewed in the context of their early alliance against the Persians, later to be turned to hatred and rebellion in the outcome of the Pelopennesian War and their loss of democracy and autonomy.

Marriage exchanges need to be analysed within their wider economic and political context rather than in isolation, as Lévi-Strauss tended to do.

Many outsiders have had difficulty understanding the isolation of the west coast, and the small communities, and the historical context to that isolation.