The idea that history itself is controlled by large long-standing conspiracies is rejected by historian Bruce Cumings:

Another long-standing tradition is the playing of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries at 7: 00 each morning during finals week with the largest, loudest speakers available.

There is a long-standing controversy between CL and Scheme advocates over the tradeoffs involved in multiple namespaces.

The importance of non-native English language skills can be recognised behind the long-standing joke that the international language of science and technology is broken English.

Throwing paper airplanes onto the stage is a long-standing tradition at the Ig Nobels.

English language has three non-finite verbal forms, but by long-standing convention, the term " infinitive " is applied to only one of these.

Another long-standing tradition asserts that he was born in Yoshiwara, the courtesan district of Edo, being the son of a tea-house owner, but there is no evidence of this.

It is a university town ( since 1990 ), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate wine region.

Such attributes, are also termed Universals or Properties ; the nature of these, and whether they have any real existence and if so of what kind, is a long-standing issue, realism and nominalism representing opposing views.

Another, more psychological factor that has played a part here is that a long-standing mutual distrust or antipathy felt between former East Berliners and West Berliners ( Ossis and Wessis according to the well-known slang terms ), is still very much in evidence in the city and elsewhere in Germany, and bold civil engineering projects and architectural statements are not going to make it go away by themselves.

Instead it is used in smaller contests such as the election of the presiding officer of an assembly ; one long-standing example of its use is in the United Kingdom, where local associations ( LCAs ) of the Conservative Party use EB to elect their prospective parliamentary candidates ( PPCs ).

Since the tertiary structure of proteins is an important problem in biochemistry, and since structure determination is relatively difficult, protein structure prediction has been a long-standing problem.

Since it was his long-standing advocacy of Athenian naval power which enabled the Allied fleet to fight at all, and it was his stratagem that brought about the Battle of Salamis, it is probably not an exaggeration to say, as Plutarch does, that Themistocles " is thought to have been the man most instrumental in achieving the salvation of Hellas ".

However, it is a long-standing ( since 1975 ) open problem to improve the Christofides approximation factor of 1. 5 for general metric TSP to a smaller constant.

For example, the politics of Australia are largely two-party ( if the Liberal Party and National Party are considered the same party at a national level due to their long-standing alliance ) for the Australian House of Representatives, which is elected by Instant Runoff Voting, ( known within Australia as preferential voting ).

There is a long-standing hypothesis that the selection for lighter skin due to higher vitamin D absorption occurred soon after the Out of Africa migration sometime before 40, 000 years ago.

Author Oliver Grau in his book Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion notes that the creation of artificial immersive virtual reality, arising as a result of technical exploitation of new inventions, is a long-standing human practice throughout the ages.

Being widely accepted, and being based for the most part on long-standing traditions of parliamentary procedure, however, the current edition of the book is a reliable reference.

However, nowadays Agrigento is one of the poorest towns in Italy on a per capita income basis and has a long-standing problem with organised crime, particularly involving the Mafia and the smuggling of illegal drugs.

Goodall ’ s research at Gombe Stream is best known to the scientific community for challenging two long-standing beliefs of the day: that only humans could construct and use tools, and that chimpanzees were vegetarians.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Has the agrarian tradition become such an addiction that the switch to urbanism is somehow dreaded or unwanted??

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.

Despite the hopelessness of the response, it is explicable in terms of the crisis of tradition itself.

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

Reaction is rooted in a perception of tradition as a whole.

The reactionary is confused about the existential status of a decaying tradition, but he does perceive the unity tradition had when it was healthy.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Faust rescuing Helen from Menelaus' vengeance is the genius of renaissance Europe restoring to life the classic tradition.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

There is an oral tradition among the members of the population in regard to the origin and subsequent separate status of the group in the larger society.

Confused and divided though this tradition may be, it is an important part of the social and cultural heritage of the group, and acts as a means of socialization, particularly for members of the rural community.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

most of the rest is medieval or humanist or part of an old tradition of social criticism.

Since none of these glimpses of poetizing without writing is intended to incorporate a signature into the epic matter, there is prima-facie evidence that Beowulf and the Homeric poems each derive from an oral tradition.

John's theology of chastity has been replaced by the editor's theology of outright celibacy, which makes little sense when John's true church is symbolised as a bride of the Lamb.

' Cut ' explicitly refers to the process of film editing: the director's cut is preceded by the rough editor's cut and followed by the final cut meant for the public film release.

Second, the editor's cut, which is reduced from the rough cut, according to the editor's tastes.

Film editing is often referred to as the " invisible art " because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that he or she is not even aware of the editor's work.

There are several editing stages and the editor's cut is the first.

An editor's cut ( sometimes referred to as the " Assembly edit " or " Rough cut ") is normally the first pass of what the final film will be when it reaches picture lock.

Because it is the first pass, the editor's cut might be longer than the final film.

This is the time that is set aside where the film editor's first cut is molded to fit the director's vision.

In film, however, continuity is very nearly last on a film editor's list of important things to maintain.

He is the editor's watchman.

A vital question is whether it is composed of sources which date from its editor's lifetime, and to what extent is it composed of earlier, or later sources.

This is badly dated ( based on the 1873 Graham translation ), severely abridged ( leaving out, for instance, Book Six on defense — which Clausewitz considered to be the stronger form of warfare ), and badly biased ( because of its Vietnam War era and the editor's hostility to " neo-Clausewitzian " Henry Kissinger ).

This is the document editor's ability to textually analyze the contents of a document.

An editor's note, however, denoutes that this is due to Plug's looks taking after his mother.

Another important issue is citation errors, which often occur due to carelessness on either the researcher or journal editor's part in the publication procedure.

Evidence provided by the Defendants that Newport is considered a county seat or one of two county seats by historians, encyclopedias ( editor's note: Wikipedia was cited in this case by the Defendants ) and government agencies is based upon practical realities of how county government and the court system have functioned, pursuant to law, in Campbell County for the past 150 years.