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.

Paul Lansky ( born June 18, 1944, in New York ) is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day ( see discography, below ).

As a representative for his associates Meyer Lansky and Charlie Luciano, Siegel is in California to muscle control of betting parlors away from Los Angeles gangster Jack Dragna.

His wife, Esta, is full of marital frustration ; Daughter Millicent feels abandoned on her birthday ; Associate Meyer Lansky is conflicted between wanting to fund Ben's Casino-Hotel and worrying about Ben's obsession with wanting to kill Mussolini.

Upset about the costs, the fact that the casino is a failure, and that $ 2 million of the budget is unaccounted for, Meyer Lansky asks Bugsy to meet him in Los Angeles.

For being the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino, and Vito Genovese, all of whom he led, Luciano is considered by many to have been the most powerful American Mafia boss of all time.

Lansky developed a gambling empire which stretched from Saratoga, New York to Miami to Council Bluffs, Iowa and Las Vegas ; it is also said that he oversaw gambling concessions in Cuba.

Although his role was considerably more restrained than in previous years, Lansky is believed to have both advised and aided Chicago boss Tony Accardo in initially establishing his hold.

* Meyer Lansky is portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the 2005 film The Lost City.

* In the HBO series Boardwalk Empire Meyer Lansky is played by Anatol Yusef.

* In the 2010 book of photographs " New York City Gangland ", Meyer Lansky is seen " loitering " on Little Italy's famed " Whiskey Curb " with partners Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Vincent " Jimmy Blue Eyes " Alo, and waterfront racketeer Eddie McGrath.

* In the 2009 theatrical adaption by Joseph Bologna " Lansky " is portrayed by Mike Burstyn in a one act play.

* In the 2009 novel Ride of the Valkyries by Stuart Slade, Meyer Lansky is the President of Mafia run Cuba.

* In the 1999 film Lansky, Maranzano is portrayed by Ron Gilbert.

The first is several seconds of Mild und Leise, a piece by Paul Lansky, forming the four chord progression repeated throughout the song.

There is some evidence to indicate that the circle of groups and individuals included Hashomer Hatzair, returning war veterans, non-Jewish pilots and engineers and ( with inconclusive evidence ) mobsters such as Meyer Lansky and ( somewhat questionably ) Lucky Luciano.

* Adonis is portrayed in the 1984 film Gangster Wars by James Percell, the 1991 film Bugsy by Lewis Van Bergen and in the 1999 television movie Lansky both by Casey McFadden and Sal Landi.

RTcmix is descended from the MIX program developed by Paul Lansky at Princeton University in 1978 to perform algorithmic composition using digital audio soundfiles on a VMS mainframe computer.

For children, the Lansky score is used.

Set in New York City, taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel.

Central Park West is the address of several famous residences, including The Dakota ( where John Lennon lived with Yoko Ono, who still resides there, and outside of which he was murdered in 1980 ), The San Remo ( home to U2's Bono, Demi Moore, Diane Keaton, & Steve Martin ), The El Dorado, The Beresford ( home to Diana Ross & Jerry Seinfeld ), The Langham, The Century, 15 Central Park West ( home to Sting ), 41 Central Park West ( home to Madonna ), 455 Central Park West, The St. Urban, and The Majestic ( which was home to some of the former heads of the Genovese crime family, including Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello.

Wu-Syndicate is a group from Virginia consisting of Joe Mafia, Napoleon, and Myalansky ( who named himself after the gangster Meyer Lansky ).

Levine was a member of the notorious Mafia gang, Murder, Inc., and is credited with being the trigger man, with Dutch Schultz lieutenant Abraham " Bo " Weinberg, in the 1931 murders of Joe " The Boss " Masseria and, along with Joe Adonis, Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, one of the three hitmen sent by Meyer Lansky to assassinate the Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano in his office.