The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

Of the handful of painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S..

What they should recognize is that children who have been placed in one of these groups on a narrow academic basis still differ widely in attributes that influence success, and that they still must be treated as individuals.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

Utopia is still widely read because in a sense More stood on the margin of modernity.

Every few days, in the early morning, as the work progressed, twenty men would appear to push it ahead and to shift the plank foundation that distributed its weight widely on the Rotunda pavement, supported as it is by ancient brick vaulting.

Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.

The suburban high school, it is worth noting, also is not a widely comprehensive high school because of the absence of vocational programs.

Corruption is hardly a recent development in the city and state that were widely identified as the locale of Edwin O'Connor's novel, `` The Last Hurrah ''.

There is nothing in the whole range of human experience more widely known and universally felt than spirit.

The English saints are widely venerated, quite naturally, and now there is great hope that the Forty Martyrs and Cardinal Newman will soon be canonized.

The average overall albedo of Earth, its planetary albedo, is 30 to 35 %, because of the covering by clouds, but varies widely locally across the surface, depending on the geological and environmental features.

Famous novelists of the 20th century include Mohammed Dib, Albert Camus, Kateb Yacine and Ahlam Mosteghanemi while Assia Djebar is widely translated.

Among the proposed etymologies is the Hurrian and Hittite divinity, Aplu, who was widely invoked during the " plague years ".

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

The abacus was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.

The Brønsted-Lowry definition is the most widely used definition ; unless otherwise specified acid-base reactions are assumed to involve the transfer of a proton ( H < sup >+</ sup >) from an acid to a base.

This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language.

Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.

Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.

This machine, operating at speeds up to 350,000 revolutions per minute, is believed to provide one of the fastest mechanical operations in industry today.

The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.

It is believed that these boards will, within the next few years, replace many of the conventional flood-lighted boards now in use.

An enemy would obviously choose an agent that is believed to be highly infectious.

It is believed that drug therapy and electroshock involve the former and psychotherapy the latter mechanism.

She later divorced Graham, who is believed to have moved to Bolivia.

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.

It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.

The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.

It is significant, too, that the older teen-agers I interviewed believed, unlike the younger ones, that Jewish students tend to do better academically than their gentile counterparts.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

The charges of the electron and proton are believed to be exactly equal and opposite, but Dr. Lyttleton is not so sure.

Even if that's all the promise he ever gave or ever will give, the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it, even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe, and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie.

It is during this period in Athens from 335 to 323 BC when Aristotle is believed to have composed many of his works.

The earth deity had power over the ghostly world, and it is believed that she was the deity behind the oracle.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

The first " true alphabet " in this sense is believed to be the Greek alphabet, which is a modified form of the Phoenician alphabet.

Based on letter appearances and names, it is believed to be based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

The title is never revealed in the novel, but at Oscar Wilde's trial he admitted that he had ' had in mind ' Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours (' Against Nature ').

Dorian's " poisonous French novel " that leads to his downfall is believed to be Joris-Karl Huysmans ' novel À rebours.

" Balzac's story Une Heure de ma Vie ( An Hour of my Life, 1822 ), in which minute details are followed by deep personal reflections, is a clear ancestor of the style which Proust used in À la recherche du temps perdu.

His admiration for American jazz is echoed in L ' enfant et les sortilèges, the Violin Sonata and the Piano Concerto in G, while the Russian school of music inspired homage in " À la manière de Borodin " and the orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

He is most famous for the novel À rebours ( published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature ).

The climax of his early work is the novella À vau-l ' eau ( 1882 ) ( Downstream or With the Flow ), the story of a downtrodden clerk, Monsieur Folantin, and his quest for a decent meal.

The film exhibits notable similarities to a 1931 French film directed by René Clair entitled À nous la liberté ( Liberty for Us ) — the assembly line sequence is a clear instance.

Marcel Proust is an important early example of a writer using the stream of consciousness technique in his novel sequence À la recherche du temps perdu ( 1913 – 1927 ) ( In Search of Lost Time ), while Dorothy Richardson is the first to use it in English, in Pointed Roofs ( 1915 ), the first novel in her novel sequence Pilgrimage ( 1915 – 35 ).

* 1930: À propos de Nice ( In Cinémathèque royale de Belgique there is a copy of preliminary editing of this film ( copie de travail.

This " yellow book " is understood by critics to be À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, a representative work of Parisian decadence that heavily influenced British aesthetes like Beardsley.

Breathless ( French: À bout de souffle ; literally " at breath's end ") is a 1960 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and Godard's first feature film.

The lady stands in front of a tent, across the top of which is written " À Mon Seul Désir ", an obscure motto, variously interpretable as " my one / sole desire ", " according to my desire alone "; " by my will alone ", " love desires only beauty of soul ", " to calm passion ".

It is also debated whether the lady in " À Mon Seul Désir " is picking up or setting aside the necklace.

Remaining legacy is open case of the so called " LE GENDARME À WATERLOO " ( Gendarme / Policeman at Waterloo ).

A popular French ballad, À la claire fontaine was adapted by the voyageurs and gave us the version that is known today in Quebec.

À la carte () is a French language loan phrase meaning " according to the menu ", and used in

A notable example is Leica Cameras " Leica À la carte " for their M-System

is: À la carte

Combray is also an imagined village in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time ), a book which was strongly inspired by the village of his childhood, Illiers, which has now been renamed Illiers-Combray in his honor.

Combray is the title of the first part of the first volume of À la recherche du temps perdu, titled Du côté de chez Swann ( Swann's Way ).

À nous la liberté ( English: " Freedom for Us ") is a 1931 French film directed by René Clair.

Nowadays it is also ordered as an À la carte item but is never the main course and is had as a light snack or on the side of another dish and usually not separately as a meal.