Other Hindu goddesses which might have inspired Chhinnamasta are the malevolent war goddess Kotavi and the South-Indian hunting goddess Korravai.

How this was accomplished may be described, since this sometimes is a crucial problem.

It was the cover story of the issue of Astounding that is sometimes described as having ushered in the " Golden Age " of science fiction.

Astatine is sometimes described as being a black solid ( assuming that it follows this trend ), or as having a metallic appearance ( if it is a metalloid or a metal ).

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

Although he described his method as translating " sometimes word for word, sometimes sense for sense ," Alfred's translation actually keeps very close to his original, although through his choice of language he blurred throughout the distinction between spiritual and secular authority.

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

In this way, angular momentum is sometimes described as the rotational analog of linear momentum.

It is sometimes described as having a torrent-like behaviour, because it can easily go from almost dry to near-flood in a few days.

This light is occasionally described by subsequent interpreters as a meteor, sometimes as the moon, and some accounts also mention the barking of dogs.

To refer explicitly to the technical meaning of " at bat " described above, the term " official at bat " is sometimes used.

Although black is sometimes described as an " achromatic ", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color, as in expressions like " black cat " or " black paint ".

Bahá ' í beliefs are sometimes described as syncretic combinations of earlier religious beliefs.

Three Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls fragments known as The Prayer of Nabonidus ( 4QPrNab, sometimes given as 4QOrNab ) seem to parallel the insanity suffered by Nebuchadnezzar as described in Daniel Chapter 4.

As an exercise in Scots Baronial, it is sometimes described as being too ordered, pedantic, and even Germanic, as a result of Prince Albert's influence on the design.

During the days of the Cold War in the United Kingdom, labour union leaders and other leftists were sometimes derisively described as " Bolshies ".

Human spoken and pictoral languages can be described as a system of symbols ( sometimes known as lexemes ) and the grammars ( rules ) by which the symbols are manipulated.

Cameroon is sometimes described as " Africa in miniature " because it exhibits all the major climates and vegetation of the continent: mountains, desert, rain forest, savanna grassland, and ocean coastland.

In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

As a person, ancient historians described Claudius as generous and lowbrow, a man who sometimes lunched with the plebeians.

Chemical reactions are described with chemical equations, which graphically present the starting materials, end products, and sometimes intermediate products and reaction conditions.

A mercury clock, described in the Libros del saber, a Spanish work from 1277 consisting of translations and paraphrases of Arabic works, is sometimes quoted as evidence for Muslim knowledge of a mechanical clock.

AVI is sometimes erroneously described as a codec, but AVI is actually a container format, while a codec is a software or hardware tool that encodes or decodes audio or video into or from some audio or video format.

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances ( having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, " rude, condescending and intolerable "), as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour.

These groups have been described as inferior, deprived of all political power, have a specific occupation, are hereditary and sometimes despised by others.

It can specifically refer to the divine cow Kamadhenu, the mother of cattle who is also sometimes described as a Matrika (" mother ") goddess.

The term " the United States " has historically been used, sometimes in the plural (" these United States "), and other times in the singular, without any particular grammatical consistency.

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

" The Pali term has sometimes been translated as " wisdom-being ," although in modern publications, and especially in tantric works, this is more commonly reserved for the term jñānasattva (" awareness-being "; Tib.

There is also a 16th century rescension of the Targum Rishon sometimes counted as Targum Shelishi (" Third Targum ").

Due to the Gregorian calendar's obvious connotations of Western Christianity, non-Christians and even some Christians sometimes replace the traditional era notations " AD " and " BC " (" Anno Domini " and " Before Christ ") with " CE " and " BCE " (" Common Era " and " Before Common Era ").

; Asystole (" flatline "): Asystole refers to the absence of electrical activity of the heart and is sometimes referred to as a " flatline " because the electrocardiogram shows a solid line due to the absence of electrical activity.

The Biblia pauperum (" Paupers ' Bible "), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths — which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.

On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:

Catholic episcopi vagantes sometimes appeal to the principle that, in emergency situations, jurisdiction is automatically " supplied " even where it has not explicitly been conferred (" ecclesia supplet ").

Even though being a neighbour to the mighty Soviet Union sometimes resulted in overly cautious concern in foreign policy (" Finlandization "), Finland developed closer co-operation with the other Nordic countries and declared itself neutral in superpower politics.

Public copyright licenses that guarantee these freedoms (" libre licences ") often require attribution for contributors and sometimes include copyleft terms that ensure these essential freedoms remain in future derivative works.

He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".

Québécois sometimes refer to imitation maple syrup as sirop de poteau (" pole syrup "), a joke referring to the syrup as having been made by tapping telephone poles.

In French, the Mach number is sometimes called the " nombre de Sarrau " (" Sarrau number ") after Émile Sarrau who researched into explosions in the 1870s and 1880s.

She is sometimes called la Gran Contessa (" the Great Countess ") or Matilda of Canossa after her ancestral castle of Canossa.

Services are sometimes scheduled from the " Highway stations " (" Gares routières ") found in every town, but are more frequently ad hoc: vehicles ply the trade between towns, picking up at stations or anywhere along the route, and departing only when full.

Thus, Wicca in particular is sometimes referred to by its proponents as " The Old Religion ", a term popularised by Margaret Murray in the 1920s, while Germanic neopaganism is referred to in some of its varieties as Forn Sed (" Old Custom ").

Johanna was a shy, retiring and deeply religious woman — although famed for her sharp tongue in later life — and in his public life Bismarck was sometimes accompanied by his sister Malwine (" Malle ") von Arnim.

The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known since Victorian times as a " Professor " or " Punchman ," and assisted sometimes by a " Bottler ", who corrals the audience outside the booth, introduces the performance and collects the money (" the bottle ").