" It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that " given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s.

It refers to late medieval navigation jargon, when captains of the Hanseatic trading fleets would compare the Danish Straits to a hole so narrow that even a cat would have difficulty squeezing its way through on account of the many reefs and shallow waters.

Faced with the difficulty of defining RP, many writers have tried to distinguish between different sub-varieties: A. C. Gimson in earlier editions of his book proposed Conservative, General, and Advanced ; Conservative RP refers to a traditional accent associated with older speakers with certain social backgrounds ; General RP is often considered neutral regarding age, occupation, or lifestyle of the speaker ; and Advanced RP refers to speech of a younger generation of speakers.

In essence, it refers to the difficulty of writing correct, understandable, and verifiable computer programs.

Details are uncertain due to the scarcity of source material and a lack of cultural referents ; compounding the matter is a linguistic difficulty: In Manchu the term gūsa denotes a large military formation called a " banner " and tu refers to a flag known as a " banner ", but in Chinese ( the language used in nearly all the pertinent records ) the character qi ( 旗 ) is used for both meanings.

He goes on to explain the unique difficulty he has in addressing the members of the New York chapter-the difficulty which he refers to as " mechanized mentation ".

The one difficulty that comes into play is Paralanguage, “ Language refers to what is said, Paralanguage refers to how it is said.

Stickiness refers to a concept that derives from the difficulty of circulating fluid around an oil refinery ( including effects of the fluid's native viscosity ).

In " Any Old Port in a Storm ", he refers to the difficulty of getting a babysitter.

The ' Kilkenny ' name was originally used during the ' 80s and ' 90s to market a stronger version of Smithwick's for the European and Canadian market due to difficulty in pronunciation of the word Smithwick ’ s ; but it now refers to a similar yet distinctly different beer.

Sexual dysfunction or sexual malfunction ( see also sexual function ) refers to a difficulty experienced by an individual or a couple during any stage of a normal sexual activity, including desire, arousal or orgasm.

In computer science, the funarg problem refers to the difficulty in implementing first-class functions ( functions as first-class objects ) in implementations with stack-based memory allocation.

The difficulty only arises if the body of a nested function refers directly ( i. e., not via argument passing ) to identifiers defined in the environment in which the function is defined, but not in the environment of the function call.

The Socratic problem refers to the difficulty or inability of determining what in Plato's writings is an accurate portrayal of Socrates ' thought and what is the thought of Plato with Socrates as a literary device.

The custom crept back on a more informal basis, being held by each chamber individually: in 1942 the Prefect of Hall's Book refers to " the difficulty of providing food at notions examinā ".

A difficulty with this view is the fact that the couple are known to have had ten children, but the poem refers to the relationship as a childless " married chastity ".

I helped put it up .’” The bricks reference in the title refers to the difficulty of forming bricks with some very necessary tools: money and experience.

Rather, it refers to Papa's " tower construction ", which quite nicely circumvents much of the difficulty in the cut-and-paste efforts that preceded Papa's proof.

; Mate limitation: Mate limitation refers to the difficulty of finding a compatible and receptive mate for sexual reproduction at lower population size or density.

Immobility refers to the state in which someone has either given up walking and exercise in order to gain more weight quicker, usually by sitting in the same place without moving for days, weeks or months and eating nonstop, or where a feedee, foodee or gainer ( sometimes even people outside of the FA community, with eating disorders ) becomes so heavy that movement is either impossible or impractical ( examples include extreme slowness, difficulty fitting through door frames, and difficulty with climbing stairs ).

Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.

The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

Little is known about Omari's life, and it is unclear whether some information refers to Omari or another person by that name.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

Technically, it is inaccurate, since the word literally refers to a stance where a person stands with their elbows bent and their hands on their hips ( arms akimbo ) not a posture well suited to shooting.

In the Church of Scotland, which has a Presbyterian church structure, the word " bishop " refers to an ordained person, usually a normal parish minister, who has temporary oversight of a trainee minister.

Similarly, one declarative sentence can refer to many propositions ; for instance, " I am hungry " changes meaning ( i. e. refers to different propositions ) depending on the person uttering it.

King Alfonso X — named as Affonso in the Cantigas — is also believed to be an author of some of them as he refers himself in first person.

The term percipient refers to the person receiving information and was coined by Robinson.

Generally the term refers to a person who can feel the vibration of other people.

Within the realm of popular music and jazz, " drums " usually refers to a drum kit or a set of drums ( with some cymbals ) and " drummer " to the actual band member or person who plays them.

Though gender discrimination and sexism refers to beliefs and attitudes in relation to the gender of a person, such beliefs and attitudes are of a social nature and do not, normally, carry any legal consequences.

Epharoditus, Paul refers to as a fellow prisoner, we recognize as the person in the book of Acts who was literally drug through the streets into court on charges.

The Romans Road refers to a set of scriptures from Romans that Christian evangelists use to present a clear and simple case for personal salvation for each person.

Bosworth-Toller do not record it as describing a person directly ; it most often describes decisions and deeds, and once refers to the nature of Satan's deceit ( see Fall of Man ).

" Fashion " refers to a distinctive ; however, often-habitual trend in a look and dress up of a person, as well as to prevailing styles in behavior.

For example, in German: Oldtimer refers to an old car ( or antique aircraft ) rather than an old person, while Handy refers to a mobile phone.

In many cultures, the name of a person refers to the family to which he or she belongs.

Hadith also refers to the speech of a person.

Full income refers to the accumulation of both, monetary and non-monetary consumption ability of any given entity, such a person or household.

Usually ' internalism ' refers to the belief that an explanation can be given of the given subject by pointing to things which are internal to the person or their mind who is considering them.

When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person.