The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.

usually, this is most exasperating to men, who expect every woman to verify their preconceived notions concerning her sex, and when she does not, immediately condemn her as eccentric and unwomanly.

What evidence is available would seem to indicate that Brooks, unlike his older brother Henry, had most of the methodological vices usually found in the amateur.

He is usually something of an underdog, he must battle the organized police force as well as recognized criminals.

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.

This is a common symptom and the cause usually is pressure on the nerve leading to the affected hand.

if the Government certifies that production may be possible from the property, the royalty obligation continues for the 10-year period usually specified in the contract or until the Government's contribution is repaid with interest.

These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.

April 15 is usually the final date for filing income tax returns for most people because they use the calendar year ending on December 31.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

Sometimes it is necessary to roughly calculate the square inch area of the opening but the calculation can usually be made with sufficient accuracy that it won't affect the final computation.

Enough daylight is usually available from the windows, but if you have synchronized flash -- use it.

The size of the press is usually expressed in terms of chuck capacity ( the maximum diameter tool shank it will hold ) or distance between the spindle center and the column.

We know now that a 15-degree differential in temperature is the maximum usually desirable, and accurate controls assure the comfort we want.

It is usually helpful to make a sketch map in the field, showing the size and location of the features of interest and to take photographs at the site.

A body of water is usually the center of interest at parks which attract the greatest picnic and camping use.

He is credited with the invention of an open-backed covered gun emplacement, known in English as the Haxo Casemate.

The amplifier is available in head and combo versions, the combo being open-backed with one 12 " Celestion Vintage 30 speaker.

These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.

The pert, gray-haired woman who came to Denver three years ago from Buffalo, N.Y., is a `` civilian '' with the Army.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

One of the major themes of the novel is the difficulty of soldiers to revert to civilian life after having experienced extreme combat situations.

Katczinsky was a cobbler in civilian life ; he is older than Paul Bäumer and his comrades, about 40 years old, and serves as their leadership figure.

After 1806, the First Lord of the Admiralty was always a civilian, while the professional head of the navy came to be ( and is still today ) known as the First Sea Lord.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.

The highest political authority in the country is the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the chief executive officer for the international civilian presence in the country.

Bulgaria's total military personnel as of late 2010 is 34, 500, of which 30, 400 ( 88. 1 %) are active military personnel and 4, 100 ( 11. 9 %) are civilian personnel.

The rationale behind this treaty, which has been ratified or acceded to by 165 countries as of 2011, is to prevent a biological attack which could conceivably result in large numbers of civilian fatalities and cause severe disruption to economic and societal infrastructure.

While containment of biological warfare transmission is less of a concern for certain criminal or terrorist organizations, it remains a significant concern for the military and civilian populations of virtually all nations.

Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, it is a war crime to transfer, directly or indirectly, the civilian population of a country power onto land under that country's military occupation.

Each civilian tile also has a Chinese name ( and common rough translation to English ): The 6-6 is tin ( 天 heaven ), 1-1 is dei ( 地 earth ), 4-4 is yan ( 人 man ), 1-3 is ngo ( 鵝 goose or 和 harmony ), 5-5 is mui ( 梅 plum flower ), 3-3 is cheung ( 長 long ), 2-2 is ban ( 板 board ), 5-6 is fu ( 斧 hatchet ), 4-6 is ping ( 屏 partition ), 1-6 is tsat ( 七 ) ( long leg seven ), and 1-5 is luk ( 六 ) ( big head six ).

The civilian judiciary is a separate and independent branch of government.

The 2% increase in retail sales in October to a 4-month high is encouraging in this connection as well as the most recent consumer survey by the National Industrial Conference Board, which shows a decided pickup in consumer spending plans.

Since the removal force is a function of coating thickness, a differential transformer pickup has been incorporated into the instrument to accurately measure film thickness.

The most common type is a piezoelectric pickup, which is composed of a thin sandwich of quartz crystal.

The clavichord has also gained attention in other genres of music, in the form of the clavinet, which is essentially an electric clavichord which uses a magnetic pickup to provide a signal for amplification.

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical impulses.

" The body is usually carved or routed to accept the other elements, such as the bridge, pickup, neck, and other electronic components.

The most common type of pickup is electromagnetic in design.

A commonly applied approximation used in selection of a pickup is that less wire ( lower DC resistance )

Some piezo-equipped guitars use what is known as a hexaphonic pickup.

:* Cache-In Trash-Out ( CITO ) Events: This variation on event caching is a coordinated activity of trash pickup and other maintenance to improve the environment.

The most common form of public transportation in Haiti is the use of brightly painted pickup trucks as taxis called " tap-taps ".

* 1998 – James Byrd, Jr. of Texas is killed when white supremacists drag him behind a pickup truck along an asphalt pavement.

The electric locomotive is supplied externally with electric power, either through an overhead pickup or through a third rail.

The sustain at the bottom end is particularly striking, and by routing the two outputs from the stereo " Rick-O-Sound " output, the brighter bridge pick up through a guitar rig and the bassier neck pickup through a bass setup, a particularly distinctive bass sound is produced.

The main purpose of the soldering tweezers is to melt solder in the correct place ; components are usually moved by simple tweezers or vacuum pickup.

In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the word " truck " is mostly reserved for larger vehicles ; in Australia and New Zealand, a pickup truck is usually called a ute ( short for " utility "), while in South Africa it is called a bakkie ( Afrikaans: " container ").

In Australia and New Zealand, the term ute ( short for coupé utility ) is used to describe a pickup truck with an open cargo carrying space but a front similar to a passenger car, and which requires only a passenger car license to drive.

The driver is seated behind the engine, as in most passenger cars or pickup trucks.

After one arrives at these locations, transportation is usually via pickup truck, foot, or small boat.

Each time a dot is created or erased, the change in electrical charge induces a voltage pulse in the pickup plate.

These effects are often undesirable, in the first case amounting to unwanted transmission of energy which may adversely affect nearby equipment or other parts of the same piece of equipment ; and in the second case, unwanted pickup of noise which may mask the desired signal being carried by the cable, or, if the cable is carrying power supply or control voltages, pollute them to such an extent as to cause equipment malfunction.