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The percentage of Federal participation in such costs for any State is referred to in the law as that State's `` Federal share ''.
For purposes of this explanation, this percentage is referred to as the State's `` unadjusted Federal share ''.
I have the honor to refer to the Agricultural Commodities Agreement signed today between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India ( hereinafter referred to as the Agreement ) and, with regard to the rupees accruing to uses indicated under Article 2, of the Agreement, to state that the understanding of the Government of the United States of America is as follows: 1.
Displacement is sometimes referred to as `` swept volume ''.
This clergyman should have referred to Shakespeare's dictum: `` So-so is a good, very good, very excellent maxim.
One of my favorites is A. armata, a species very common in England, where it is sometimes referred to as the lawn bee.
Brown ( 1959 ) has reviewed generally the various methods of assaying TSH, and the reader is referred to her paper for further information on the subject.
In carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Secretary is authorized and directed to provide for the giving of notice of strikes or lock-outs to applicants before they are referred to employment.
No person shall be referred to a position the filling of which will aid directly or indirectly in filling a job which ( 1 ) is vacant because the former occupant is on strike or is being locked out in the course of a labor dispute, or ( 2 ) the filling of which is an issue in a labor dispute.
With respect to positions not covered by subparagraph ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) of this paragraph, any individual may be referred to a place of employment in which a labor dispute exists, provided he is given written notice of such dispute prior to or at the time of his referral.
Consequently, it is referred to the therapist for attention.
Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.
Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.
Aristotle is referred to as " The Philosopher " by Scholastic thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas.
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
The names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).
The lower petal is referred to as the " labellum " or " lip ", and is usually distinctively different from the side petals.
The right of victims to speak at sentencing is also sometimes referred to as allocution.
However, in hydrogen astatide ( HAt ) the negative charge is predicted to be on the hydrogen atom, implying that this compound should instead be referred to as astatine hydride.
The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.

is and colloquially
It is sometimes colloquially called " antbear ", " anteater ", or the " Cape anteater " after the Cape of Good Hope.
( The reason for the term " colloquially ", is that the sum or product of a " sequence " of cardinals cannot be defined without some aspect of the axiom of choice.
The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.
Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.
For instance, binary search is said to run in a number of steps proportional to the logarithm of the length of the list being searched, or in O ( log ( n )), colloquially " in logarithmic time ".
It is known locally as the ' Round O ', and from this tradition inhabitants of Arbroath are colloquially known as ' Reid Lichties ' ( Scots reid = red ).
The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia ; the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas.
It is colloquially said that ' the outback ' is located " beyond the Black Stump ".
A benzodiazepine ( sometimes colloquially " benzo "; often abbreviated " BZD ") is a psychoactive drug whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring.
However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the LDS Church or, colloquially, the Mormon Church ) is a Christian primitivist church that considers itself to be a restoration of the church founded by Jesus Christ.
It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, " the ' stans " ( as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.
" Crew " is used colloquially to refer to a small, tight-knit group of friends or associates engaged in criminal activity.
* Cascading Style Sheets, also colloquially referred to as a recursive nomenclature CSS Style Sheets, is a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development
In the United States, the usual written form is December 7, 1941, spoken as " December seventh, nineteen forty-one " or colloquially " December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ".
Student reliance on BlitzMail ( known colloquially as " Blitz ," which functions as both noun and verb ) is reflected by the presence of about 100 public computer terminals intended specifically for BlitzMail use.
The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.
A person who plays the euphonium is sometimes called a euphoniumist, euphophonist, or a euphonist, while British players often colloquially refer to themselves as euphists, or euphologists.
While colloquially, a person may term a law suit to be frivolous if he or she personally finds a claim to be absurd, in legal usage " frivolous litigation " consists of a claim or defense that is presented where the party ( or the party's legal counsel ) had reason to know that the claim or defense was manifestly insufficient or futile.
Fossil resin ( colloquially called amber ) is a natural polymer found in many types of strata throughout the world, even the Arctic.

is and Queen's
One example of this ( from the Queen's Bench in England ) is Doyle v Olby ( Ironmongers ) Ltd 2 QB 158, the claimant appealed ( successfully ) on the basis that, although he won in the court below, the lower court had applied the wrong measure of damages and he had not been fully recompensated.
Many pop songs are used as anthems, such as Queen's " We Are the Champions ", which is commonly used as a sports anthem.
Craigowan Lodge is used regularly by the Queen's friends and family, and has also been used by the Queen while Balmoral Castle is being prepared.
The Queen of New Zealand, represented in the Cook Islands by the Queen's Representative, is the Head of State ; the Chief Minister is the head of government and of a multi-party system.
Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.
Recently, meetings have been attended by Queen Elizabeth II, who is the Head of the Commonwealth, although the Queen's formal appearance only began in 1997.
Christopher Syn is portrayed as a brilliant scholar from Queen's College, Oxford, possessing swashbuckling skills such as riding, fencing, and seamanship.
On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".
Also at the start of the Grand Gallery there is a Horizontal Passage leading to the " Queen's Chamber ".
The Queen's Chamber is exactly half-way between the north and south faces of the pyramid and measures north to south, east to west and has a pointed roof with an apex above the floor.
He was proved right, but because the shafts are not connected to the outer faces of the pyramid or the Queen's Chamber, their purpose is unknown.
George Stephenson College, founded in 2001 on the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, is named after him, with the student union bar being named The Rocket.
He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.
" These provisions make it clear that the Queen's role in the parliament is in name only and the actual responsibility belongs to the Governor-General.
The most important power is found in section 58: " When a proposed law passed by both Houses of Parliament is presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent, he shall declare ... that he assents in the Queen's name.
At the start of Chapter 2 on executive government, the Constitution says " The executive power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Queen and is exercisable by the Governor-General as the Queen's representative ".

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