In The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace, Scott Peck argues that the almost accidental sense of community that exists at times of crisis can be consciously built.

The expected value may be intuitively understood by the law of large numbers: the expected value, when it exists, is almost surely the limit of the sample mean as sample size grows to infinity.

The designations gained popularity throughout the eighteenth century, and are now commonly used when no Bayer designation exists ; however, where a Bayer designation does exist for a star it is used almost exclusively and the Flamsteed designation is almost never used.

A similar figure with the same name ( in other languages ) exists in several other countries, including France ( Père Noël ), Spain ( Papá Noel, Padre Noel ), almost all Hispanic South America ( Papá Noel ), Brazil ( Papai Noel ), Portugal ( Pai Natal ), Italy ( Babbo Natale ), Armenia ( Kaghand Papik ), India ( Christmas Father ), Andorra ( Pare Noel ), Romania ( Moş Crăciun ) and Turkey ( Noel Baba ).

The fishing industry in Paraguay exists almost solely to meet domestic demand.

For example, almost no evidence exists for Monroe's personal religious beliefs, though this may be the result of the destruction of most of his personal correspondence, in which religious sentiments may have been recorded.

New U-Bahn and S-Bahn lines were planned to run directly beneath almost the whole length of the axis, and the city's entire underground network reoriented to gravitate towards this new hub ( at least one tunnel section, around 220 metres in length, was actually constructed and still exists today, buried some 20 metres beneath the Tiergarten, despite having never seen a train ).

There also exists a Silesian German or Lower Silesian language, although this form of German is almost extinct.

Bulk tantalum is almost entirely alpha phase, and the beta phase usually exists as thin films obtained by magnetron

In a PIN diode, the depletion region exists almost completely within the intrinsic region.

Two " Epistles on Virginity " were traditionally attributed to Clement, but now there exists almost universal consensus that Clement was not the author of those two epistles.

* there exists a set N of measure 0 such that for all x outside of N the derivative ƒ ′( x ) exists and is zero, that is, the derivative of f vanishes almost everywhere.

Golan Trevize, a former officer of the Navy and now a member of Council, believes the Second Foundation ( which is almost universally thought to be extinct ) still exists and is controlling events.

Warren believed that it was almost certainly built for some other purpose, and was only adapted into a cistern at a later date ; he suggested that it might have been part of a general vault supporting the northern side of the platform, in which case substantially more of the chamber exists than is used for a cistern.

An almost village-like atmosphere exists around the Luther Church ( see photo ) where a lot of pubs and small shops resides.

The gamma ray no longer exists and an electron emerges from the atom with kinetic ( motion in relation to force ) energy almost equal to the gamma energy.

) Another example is the United States, where, despite being a federal republic where no direct democracy exists at the federal level, almost half the states ( and many localities ) provide for citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives ( also called " ballot measures " or " ballot questions ") and the vast majority of the states have either initiatives and / or referendums.

which was founded 601 years ago and still exists today with almost 300 members.

• Gipsy, the tiny hamlet almost hidden among the hills, is located west of Zalma about three miles ( 5 km ) on Supplemental Route E. A post office still exists and operates in Gipsy, with its own ZIP code of 63751.

The French also captured a Danube flotilla and built additional patrol ships, which meant that they were, by the end of June, in almost complete control of the river, allowing Napoleon to write in the Army Bulletin of 2 July that " the Danube no longer exists for the French army ".

After 1515, steadily diminishing financing prevented completion of this building project, of which an almost complete series of building accounts exists.

The type of logic employed is almost invariably first-order logic, employing the quantifiers for all and there exists.

Scandium exists naturally exclusively as the isotope < sup > 45 </ sup > Sc, which has a nuclear spin of 7 / 2.

Be aware that the absence of a separate title for a prince of the blood may not always mean no such title exists ; alternatively, the existence of a word does not imply there is also a reality in the linguistic territory concerned ; it may very well be used exclusively to render titles in other languages, regardless whether there is a historical link with any ( which often means that linguistic tradition is adopted )

A special visa category exists exclusively for foreign descendants of Japanese emigrates ( Nikkeijin ) up to the third generation, which provides for long-term residence, unrestricted by occupation, but most Nikkeijin cannot automatically acquire Japanese citizenship, and must instead go through the process of naturalization.

A third, 92885, also exists, exclusively for PO Boxes.

The Moseley and Kings Heath Ward Committee is part of the official structure of Birmingham City Council and exists to discuss issues which affect life within the ward, mostly ( although not exclusively ) related to the activity of the council.

Though SMAW is almost exclusively a manual arc welding process, one notable process variation exists, known as gravity welding or gravity arc welding.

This Protestant interpretation of the words " one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church " in the Nicene Creed identifies exclusively with the Church Triumphant — the church that exists " in heaven " or in eternity as opposed to the Church Militant — the communion of the faithful here on Earth.

The fathers ' rights movement exists almost exclusively in industrialized countries, where divorce has become more common.

A special branch of mathematics and computer science exists that is devoted exclusively to the theory of language syntax: formal language theory.

Travelling south, there exists a shopping district in The Glebe running exclusively along Bank Street from approximately the Queensway to Holmwood Avenue.

. There exists a number of Old Wellingtonians paying professional rugby union, including but not exclusively: James Haskell ( England ), Paul Doran-Jones ( England ), Max Lahiff ( London Irish ), Sam Edgerly and Christian Lewis-Pratt ( Both England 7s ), Max Evans and Thom Evans ( Scotland ).

A plethora of other Peter Rabbit related merchandise exists as well, and " toy shops in the United States and Britain have whole sections of store specially signposted and earmarked exclusively for Potter-related toys and merchandise ".

Phosphorus almost exclusively exists as phosphate and its various esters.

The school exists exclusively to provide specialist co-educational training in classical ballet, with graduates achieving employment with professional ballet companies worldwide.

The largest gas plant in the United States exists there exclusively to reinject the associated gas into the oil fields.

A non-profit organization, the Midwest Clinic exists exclusively for educational purposes: to raise the standards of music education ; to improve the methods employed in music education ; to develop new teaching techniques ; to disseminate to school music teachers, directors, supervisors, and others interested in music education information to assist in their professional work ; to examine, analyze and appraise literature dealing with music ; to hold clinics, lectures and demonstrations for the betterment of music education ; and in general, to assist teachers and others interested in music education in better pursuing their profession.

Universities Australia is non-partisan and exists exclusively for educational purposes.

High Tunstall School consists of five main blocks-one is used primarily for administration, two almost completely for teaching, another isolated block exists as a combination for the two and one temporary block uses exclusively for teaching.

* Class A airspace exists exclusively between FL180 and FL600.

Also, his most famous work, Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, is mostly concerned with the formal definition of a terminology for the analysis of any level of a system of signs, and as such there exists an exclusively Hjelmslevian terminology for that.

It exists exclusively in Christianity and related religions, as others generally do not contain a Eucharistic ceremony.