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main and stream
Prokofieff might well emerge as a cultural hero, who, by the force of his creative life, helped preserve the main stream of tradition, to which the surviving idioms of current experimentalism may be eventually added and integrated.
Anavarza ) was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova ( or classical Aleian plain ) about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River ( or classical Pyramus river ) and near its tributary the Sempas Su.
But time and the investigations of subsequent explorers have shown that Abbadie was quite trustworthy as to his facts, though wrong in his contention — hotly contested by Beke — that the Blue Nile was the main stream.
** Filter ( Unix ), a program that gets most of its data from its standard input ( the main input stream ) and writes its main results to its standard output ( the main output stream )
Distinct from the main stream regional cuisines are:
Rap / Hip Hop was often used in the regional movies as fillers in between songs and off late has started to become main stream songs.
During his lifetime, he helped introduce the, until then, elitist sport of free-diving into the main stream.
Since the rise of karaoke around the world, karaoke contests have been a phenomenon that has entered main stream culture.
As graffiti / street art became more main stream in the late 1990s, youth oriented brands such as Nike, Red Bull and Wieden Kennedy have turned to graffiti / street artists to decorate walls of their respective offices.
At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi ( Ohio at Cairo: 281, 500 cu ft / s ( 7, 960 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s ); Mississippi at Thebes: 208, 200 cu ft / s ( 5, 897 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s )) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream.
The smaller Cybina river flows through eastern Poznań to meet the east branch of the Warta ( that branch is also called Cybina – its northern section was originally a continuation of that river, while its southern section has been artificially widened to form a main stream of the Warta ).
The course of the Warta in central Poznań was formerly quite different than today: the main stream ran between Grobla and Chwaliszewo, which were originally both islands.
The branch west of Grobla ( the Zgniła Warta – " rotten Warta ") was filled in late in the 19th century, and the former main stream west of Chwaliszewo was diverted and filled in during the 1960s.
The active delta was created in 1604 when the city of Venice diverted the main stream, the Po grande or Po di Venezia, from its channel north of Porto Viro to the south of Porto Viro in a channel then called the Taglio di Porto Viro, " Porto Viro cut-off.
Thus, “ The Daily Sun " features stories about tokoloshes ( hob-goblins ), ancestral visions and all things supernatural and wildly absurd, together with localised stories and main stream news.
The festival has a broad main stream focus with pop related music as well as traditional acoustic guitar music and alternative music with international guests like Caetano Veloso ( 2007 ), Rumberos Catalans, Pedro Soler, Bernardo Sandoval, Peter Finger, Aaron and Bryce Dessner ( 2008 ).
Its main task is the transmission of a stream of bits over a communication channel.
Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf.
It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north.

main and historical
He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France ( 1980 ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis ( b. 1920 ).
Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the so called Danube School setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours.
Adoptionism is one of two main forms of monarchianism ( the other is modalism, which regards " Father " and " Son " as two historical or soteriological roles of a single divine Person ).
The term common law has three main connotations and several historical meanings worth mentioning:
Industrial statistics show Casablanca retains its historical position as the main industrial zone of the country.
The historical background of Philippians is traditionally gathered from two main primary New Testament sources: ( 1 ) informative internal data from the letter itself and ( 2 ) related information garnered from the rest of the New Testament Canon.
The main historical source for this period is the 13th century work Færeyinga Saga ( Saga of the Faroese ), and it is disputed as to how much of this work is historical fact.
The main basic difference between programmer subculture and computer security hackers is their mostly separate historical origin and development.
The main historical authorities on heraldry include the following:
The historical competition continues to this day, as Hawick's main rival is the similarly-sized town of Galashiels.
At the same time scenes of ordinary life with moral, political or satirical content became often the main vehicle for expressive interplay between figures in painting, whether given a modern or historical setting.
In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.
Critic Georg Lukács points to middling main characters like Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott's other novels as one of the primary reasons Scott's historical novels depart from previous historical works and better explore social and cultural history.
Malinalli is the main character in a historical novel by Helen Heightsman Gordon, " Malinalli of the Fifth Sun: The Slave Girl Who Changed the Fate of Mexico and Spain.
She is the main historical character in Kathleen McGowan's novel The Book of Love ( Simon & Schuster, 2009 ).
A historical explanation of the myth refers to the time when Crete was the main political and cultural potency in the Aegean Sea.
Malcolm's main achievement is to have continued a line which would rule Scotland for many years, although his role as " founder of a dynasty " has more to do with the propaganda of his youngest son David, and his descendants, than with any historical reality.
One of the main reasons for which spelling and pronunciation deviate is that sound changes taking place in the spoken language are not always reflected in the orthography, and hence spellings correspond to historical rather than present-day pronunciation.
The main German thrusts were conducted along historical invasion routes.
This is one of the main factors of historical change of languages as described in historical linguistics.
The logical outcome of this tendency is the historical novel with Pytheas as the main character and the celebration of Pytheas in poetry beginning as far back as Virgil.

main and thinking
As the bus turned into the main highway and headed toward Hanover I settled back in my seat and closed my eyes, thinking over the events of the past two weeks, trying to put the pieces in order.
" My three main goals will be to expand our Party, to update its campaign techniques and to build it into a party which is truly pan-European in its thinking.
Johnstone felt that the intellectual mind, or the process of thinking and rationalization, was one of the main reasons why an individual is unable to be spontaneous or creative on stage.
Weber's main intellectual concern was understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularization, and " disenchantment " that he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity and which he saw as the result of a new way of thinking about the world.
Milton Friedman influenced the thinking of Alan Walters and Patrick Minford, two of Margaret Thatcher's main macroeconomic advisers.
The four main issues instrumental in forming the nuclear strategy were technical limitations, nuclear weapon availability, lack of strategic thinking and politics.
* In the 2012 BBC Comedy series " Citizen Khan " the main character, Mr Khan, ignored a ' n email from a fellow Mosque member, originally from Africa, informing Mosque members about a charity fundraiser thinking it was the Nigerian email scam.
Hudspeth's Cutoff had five mountain ranges to cross and took about the same amount of time as the main route to Fort Hall, but many took it thinking it was shorter.
Fortitude South's main aims were to give the impression of a much larger invasion force ( the FUSAG ) in the South-East of England, to achieve tactical surprise in the Normandy landings and, once the invasion had occurred, to mislead the Germans into thinking it a diversionary tactic with Calais the real objective.
In higher-level tournaments, such as the Kisei tournament, the player's time is often composed entirely of byo-yomi periods ( for example, in an eight-hour game, the player may have 480 periods of one minute each ), rather than having a main block of thinking time.
Teaching thinking by analogy ( metaphor ) is one of the main themes of The Private Eye Project.
The Fusions look almost exactly like their Earth counterparts, thus having the ability to trick the main characters into thinking they're human, not Fusion.
Dirck Vorenkamp, a professor of religious studies, argued in his paper " B-Series Temporal Order in Dogen's Theory of Time " that the Zen Buddhist teacher Dōgen presented views on time that contained all the main elements of McTaggart's B-series view of time ( which denies any objective present ), although he noted that some of Dōgen reasoning also contained A-Series notions, which Vorenkamp argued may indicated some inconsistency in Dōgen's thinking.
The tide of the campaign had turned but Napoleon misjudged the strategic situation, thinking that the force that had fought Davout was only a flank guard and that the main force lay before him ; in reality it was the opposite.
The main idea of Sigmund Freud's crowd behavior theory is that people who are in a crowd act differently towards people from those who are thinking individually.
Dotty's main catchphrase is: " Good thinking!
Over time the more forward thinking ideas of Maniapoto prevailed, land was sold to the government and work was given to Tainui men on roads and on the main trunk line railway.
Current thinking suggests that the main ( undredged ) shipping channel that leads to the likes of Goole, may fall between the island and the Humber's Lincolnshire shore before too many more years have passed.
Fortitude South's main aims were to give the impression of a much larger invasion force ( the FUSAG ) in the South-East of England, to achieve tactical surprise in the Normandy landings and, once the invasion had occurred, to mislead the Germans into thinking it a diversionary tactic with Calais the real objective.
In the movie Léolo the main character spends much of his time reading and thinking about L ' avalée des avalés.
Their main innovation was a renewed dialogue with Marxism and integration of some of the key Marxist concepts into their thinking and practice.
Nojima has explained that the dynamic of the relationship between the player and the main character in a Final Fantasy title is something he always puts thought into, and with Final Fantasy VII, Cloud's subdued nature led him to write scenes with the character in such a way that the players would be placed in the position of deciding for themselves what the character was thinking.
After Phocion could interpret his sacrifices favorably ( or alternatively to draw the enemy in ), he led his main lines into battle while the enemy where surging up the palisade thinking they had defeated Phocion's forces.
Shevek, the main character in the book, ponders about the institutions of " marriage " and " prostitution ", which appear in quotes in the text because he is thinking in Iotic, not in Pravic.

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