I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

In addition to the three major original equipment segments of the electronics business, the steady growth in the market for replacement parts continues year by year.

It was decided to strip the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the rough coats up to one inch thickness to agree with the older artists' preparation, with a mortar, one part slaked lime, three parts sand, to be put on in two layers.

The mortar was three parts sand to two of lime.

Volume 2,, in three parts, in 1956.

The book has three parts, each with seven chapters.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager ( meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management ) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by Fritz Hochwälder .< ref name = acting >

The administrative law in Germany can be divided into three main parts, which are constitutional law,

It is divided in three parts: the observatory and library, the chapel and the living part.

When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.

The Throwing lance usually consisted of three parts: a wooden shaft, a bone ring or belt, and the compound head that was made with a barbed bonehead and a stone tip.

The Ninth Symphony was premiered on 7 May 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, along with the Consecration of the House Overture and the first three parts of the Missa Solemnis.

In many classes of vertebrates, such as fish and amphibians, the three parts remain similar in size in the adult, but in mammals the forebrain becomes much larger than the other parts, and the midbrain becomes very small.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

The body of a plant contains three basic parts: roots, stems, and leaves.

It suggested there were no strong external borders, while allowing for the fairly clear-cut internal borders that were emerging as the society pillarized into three parts.

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

Scholars therefore divide the book into three parts:

This implied sequence of pre-exilic, exilic and post-exilic material is somewhat misleading, as significant editing has clearly taken place in all three parts.

The book of Esther falls under the category of Writings, one of three parts of the Jewish canon.

At the broadest level Micah can be divided into three roughly equal parts:

The other parts cover concentration and wisdom, with wisdom being covered by right view and right intention and the remaining three belonging to concentration.

Act three begins with Cora at her house with her council.

Clement begins the fourth book with a belated explanation of the disorganized nature of the work, and gives a brief description of his aims for the remaining three or four books.

* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.

" In true Ives style, in all three movements the piece begins subtly with few instruments and swells to a cacophonous mass of sound.

On a one inch diameter ( size 50 ) needle for instance, the shaft begins to taper one and three quarter inches from the tip.

If an inability to sufficiently adjust to life circumstances begins within three months of a particular event or situation, and ends within six months after the stressor stops or is eliminated, it may instead be classed as an adjustment disorder.

* 1940 – The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.

The first rainy season begins around March and last to the end of July with a peak in June, this rainy season is followed by a short dry break in August known as the August break which is a short dry season lasting for two to three weeks in August. This break is broken by the Short rainy season starting around early September and lasting to Mid October with a peak period at the end of September. The ending of the short rainy season in October is followed by Long Dry Season. This period starts from late October and lasts till early March with peak dry conditions between early December and late February.

Sunrise is just before the March equinox ( around March 19 ); the sun then takes three months to reach its highest point of near 23½ ° elevation at the summer solstice ( around June 21 ), after which time it begins to sink, reaching sunset just after the September equinox ( around September 24 ).

Rand's philosophy begins with three axioms: existence, identity, and consciousness.

Polo training generally begins at age three and lasts from about six months to two years.

If the opponent in the hold begins to tap out at the same time a referee counts to three for pinning the opponent delivering the hold, both opponents have legally achieved scoring conditions simultaneously.

* 1812 – The Fire of Moscow ( 1812 ) begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.

Chapter VI begins by saying the next three chapters will address possible objections to the theory, the first being that often no intermediate forms between closely related species are found, though the theory implies such forms must have existed.

A new character begins with a randomly generated score for each attribute, determined by rolling three six-side dice.

Chico is fascinated by Petra, one of the village's young women, while Bernardo begins to bond with three of the village's little boys.

Yellow fever begins after an incubation period of three to six days.

* 1503: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three or four years later.

He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.

* Trieu Thi Trinh, a Vietnamese warrior, begins her three year resistance against the invading Chinese.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.

Sharpless begins to read Pinkerton ’ s letter to Butterfly: " My friend, will you find that lovely flower of a girl …" Butterfly cannot control her happiness, as he continues, " since that happy times, three years have passed, and Butterfly perhaps does not remember me anymore.

* January 6 – Europe's coldest period in 500 years begins during the night, lasting three months and with its effects felt for the entire year.

The fair begins every January 24 and lasts for approximately three weeks.

The terra Australis begins at two or three degrees below the equator and it is said by some to be of such magnitude that if at any time it is fully discovered they think it will be the fifth part of the world.