That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

No other popular idol is accorded even that much grace.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

But as the popular response suggests, the potentiality of the Peace Corps is very great.

A salad with greens and tomato is a popular and wonderfully healthful addition to a meal, but add an avocado and you have something really special.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

In California is located one of the most popular of the national parks -- Yosemite.

Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.

Leasing a car is not as common or as popular as renting a car in Europe, but for long periods it will be unquestionably more economical and satisfactory.

The data is now interpreted in conjunction with a price chart, usually of a popular stock average.

Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

A political scientist writes of the growth of `` alienated voters '', who `` believe that voting is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

No reference is made to the possibility of recording other than popular music in this manner, and it would not seem to lend itself well to serious music.

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.

The trademark dishes of American Chinese cuisine remain on the menu, but there is more emphasis on fresh vegetables, and the selection is vegetarian-friendly.

It is not at all uncommon to find raw fish listed next to tortillas on the same menu.

This output ( which usually also displays the setup menu or on-screen display ) is known as the super out or monitor out.

A Chinese Islamic restaurant ( 清真菜館 mandarin: qīngzhēn càiguǎn ) can be similar to a Mandarin restaurant with the exception that there is no pork on the menu and is primarily noodle / soup based.

Data show that CRM users are often unwilling to consult a help menu if it is not easily accessible and immediate in providing assistance.

* “ context-specific ” — the help menu contains only the information relevant to the topic that is being discussed or sought

A context menu ( also called contextual, shortcut, and popup or pop-up menu ) is a menu in a graphical user interface ( GUI ) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.

* On a computer running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button ( usually the right button ) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.

Context menus usually open in a fixed position under the pointer, but when the pointer is near a screen edge the menu will be displaced-thus reducing consistency and impeding use of muscle memory.

If the context menu is being triggered by keyboard, such as by using Shift + F10, the context menu appears instead near the focused widget instead of the position of the pointer, to save recognition efforts.

Trout is the most common freshwater fish on the German menu ; pike, carp, and European perch also are listed frequently.

Restaurants will sometimes devote an entire menu to nothing but white asparagus when it is in season.

Its text menu interface is easy to use, and well-suited to computing environments that rely heavily on remote text-oriented computer terminals, which were still common at the time of its creation in 1991, and the simplicity of its protocol facilitated a wide variety of client implementations.

* There is a feature on the DVD simulating the Omega 13, by reversing the opening sequence to the main menu.

": Grandpa Jones is cleaning a window pane ( with no glass in it ) and recites a dinner menu in poetic verse.

Some restaurants might use the suffix-zen ( 膳 ) as a classier though dated synonym to the more familiar, since the latter basically is a term for a combo meal served at a, akin to a diner .. Teishoku means a meal of fixed menu, a dinner à prix fixe served at or, which is somewhat vague ( shokudō can mean a diner type restaurant or a corporate lunch hall ); but e. g. defines it as fare served at, etc., a diner-like establishment.

Links is an open source text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system.

Devices dedicated to real-time MIDI control provide an ergonomic benefit, and can provide a greater sense of connection with the instrument than can an interface that is accessed through a mouse or a push-button digital menu.

In Sweden, no fall menu is without a mouthwatering moose dish.

The measure of combat efficiency in an indecisive campaign is a matter of personal choice.

The harder the choice, the more willing the league is to wade in.

If this choice is less exciting than New York Democrats may wish, it nevertheless must be made.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

What it is trying to do is to protect the little man, too, as well as trying to maintain a flow of fresh meat to all stores, with choice of cut being made by the consumer, not the store.

The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

Only this time around the conditions are different and the choice is far harder.

It is by no stretch of the imagination a happy choice and the arguments against it as a practical strategy are formidable.

Its primary advantage is that it is a moral choice ; ;

but if he is up against China's crusading spirit in world affairs, he is going to be faced with the most agonizing choice in his life.

To the members of our Advisory Board, and most specially to its members who constitute our committees of selection, the Foundation is indebted for its successes of choice of Fellows.

The essence of contract is that one is free to make a choice of what one will or will not do.

Hence, the condition of freedom is a necessary condition for choice.

Advances in equipment and fabrication techniques give the sign or display manufacturer an extremely wide choice of production techniques, ranging from injection molding for intricate, smaller-size, mass-production signs ( generally 5000 units is the minimum ) to vacuum and pressure forming for larger signs of limited runs.

For outdoor signs and displays, where the problem of weathering resistance is no longer a factor, the choice of plastics is almost unlimited.

Since the choice is by lot each week, the outcomes of different trials are independent.

In early childhood the choice of a companion is likely to be for another child of his own age or a year or two older, who can do the things he likes to do ; ;

Here, the choice is that between the horns of a dilemma.

The fact seems to be that very many large branch stores are uneconomical, that the choice of location in the suburbs is as important as it was downtown, and that even highly suburbanized cities will support only so many big branches.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.