A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

The formal ceremony at which the Awards of Merit are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world, and is televised live in more than 100 countries annually.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

In a common technique of acoustic measurement, acoustic signals are sampled in time, and then presented in more meaningful forms such as octave bands or time frequency plots.

This announcement followed a five-year standardization process in which fifteen competing designs were presented and evaluated, before the Rijndael cipher was selected as the most suitable ( see Advanced Encryption Standard process for more details ).

Of course, some scholars believe Luke ’ s work may be fulfilling more than one purpose and thus may side with more than one of the claims that are presented here.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

When large numbers of delayed signals are mixed over several seconds, the resulting sound has the effect of being presented in a large room, and it is more commonly called reverberation or reverb for short.

Most of the quotations ( 300 of 400 ) of the Old Testament in the New Testament, while differing more or less from the version presented by the Masoretic text, align with that of the Septuagint.

The " warrior " derivation was adopted by the linguist, Julius Pokorny, who presented it as being from Indo-European * bhei ( ə )-, * bhī -, " hit ;" however, not finding any Celtic names close to it ( except for the Boii ), he adduces examples somewhat more widely from originals further back in time: phohiio-s -, a Venetic personal name ; Boioi, an Illyrian tribe ; Boiōtoi, a Greek tribal name (" the Boeotians ") and a few others.

The authenticity of 3: 4 – 8 has presented more challenges, although a number of scholars still defend it.

After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.

Players are judged by how well they time their dance to the patterns presented to them and are allowed to choose more music to play to if they receive a passing score.

Among economists more generally, it argues that a particular definition presented may reflect the direction toward which the author believes economics is evolving, or should evolve.

In 1866, Anderson and Davies presented petitions signed by more than 1, 500 asking that women heads of household be given the vote.

A developing Wikibook about educational psychology gives more detail about the educational psychology topics that are typically presented in preservice teacher education.

Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

" That film expressed Capra's patriotism more than any of his others, and " presented the individual working within the democratic system to overcome rampant political corruption.

This new version of the game presented a more sober and serious approach to the concept of a post-nuclear world, at odds with the more light-hearted and adventurous approach taken by previous editions ; it was also the first edition of the game to include fantastical nanotechnology on a large scale.

Luke, however, sometimes presented events in a different order to more clearly support his emphases.

Moissanite actually has a higher refractive index than diamond and when presented beside an equivalently sized and cut diamond will have more " fire " than the diamond.

Such depictions are mostly dystopian, and in some cases humorous or satirical ; positively presented theocracies are very much the exception.

Several of the songs on the EP deal with events from the band members ' own lives, but presented in a humorous and lighthearted manner.

It is cited as a non-fiction series which has successfully used a formula to entice young children into reading: " The information here is densely packed, at a suitable level for Key Stages 2 and 3, historically accurate and complete with cautions about history being interpretive, but the success lies in the humorous and varied way that the subjects are presented ".

The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour ( usually the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, or just the Stephen Leacock Award ) is an annual literary award presented to the best work of humorous literature in English by a Canadian writer.

Once this is done, the player is presented with a short vignette in which the bartender draws a drink for himself, drinks it, then tosses the empty mug into the air with varying ( usually humorous ) results, such as kicking it and shattering it or having the mug fall atop his head and cover it.

" Although at this stage the question is primarily presented to make a plot point ( the Doctor's name is not Foreman ), the question is later asked for humorous effect many times in the series, and as a dramatic plot device beginning with the conclusion of " The Wedding of River Song ".

* In 2009, the short-fiction podcast The Drabblecast presented a humorous, multi-part audio story called " In Search of the Mongolian Death Worm ".

From 1990 Beadle presented You've Been Framed !, a family show featuring humorous clips from viewers ' home video recordings.

Their shortcomings and weaknesses are presented in a humorous but affectionate way.

Ostensibly presented as detective fiction, the stories of The New York Trilogy have been described as " meta-detective-fiction ", " anti-detective fiction ", " mysteries about mysteries ", a " strangely humorous working of the detective novel ", " very soft-boiled ", a " metamystery " and a " mixture between the detective story and the nouveau roman ".

* Hooting Yard on the air: A humorous literature program written and presented by writer / performer Frank Key.

Aimed at young children, the program has a magazine format, with several segments, some humorous, others educational presented in a simple, straightforward manner.

It presented short, humorous vignettes which ran with musical accompaniment rather than a soundtrack, and challenged panelists to guess which ( obscure ) law was being broken by the " Lawbreaker " character ( portrayed by Paul Soles ), who always got arrested at the end of the vignette ( Robert Warner starred as the police officer ).

These presented the thoughts of the developers in a humorous fashion.

The award is presented to the year's best work of humorous literature by a Canadian.

" Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex " is a 1971 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in having sexual intercourse and reproducing with " a human woman designated LL for convenience ," using arguments based on humorous ( yet logical ) reconciliation between physics, biology, and the abilities of Kryptonians as presented in Superman comic books.

Acey and Nickel explain that the characters of Gnorm Gnat were meant to be presented in a " simple, humorous style " of appearance.

He has also presented a three-part programme, 30 Things to do with your SSIA, in which he gives a humorous list of ideas for spending the money held in a Special Savings Incentive Account.

Alongside humorous lyrics, Zappa presented many musically complex instrumental passages which stretched the band's skill to the absolute limit.

" The program was presented with a low-key ease and naturalness, and Rhymer's humorous dialogue was delivered with a subtleness that made even the most outrageous events seem commonplace and normal.