Bliss, coined the term Critical Mass in the Ted White documentary Return of the Scorcher ( 1992 ) to describe the way cars, bicycles and pedestrians negotiate uncontrolled busy intersections in China.

Mass murder ( in military contexts, sometimes interchangeable with " mass destruction " or " genocide ") is the act of murdering a large number of people ( four or more ), typically at the same time or over a relatively short period of time.

Mass Observation interviews warned the Ministry of Information of this and as a result more attention was given to the official reports of British military casualties.

* In the Mass Effect series of video games, Earth is the industrial, economic and cultural capital of the human Systems Alliance ; however, the military and political capital is at Arcturus, 36 light years from Earth.

* N7, a fictional military designation in the video game series Mass Effect

Londo is averse to actual violence and is often at odds with himself over his desire for military victory and the horror he feels at the suffering and death of others ; when he is present at the Second Conquest of Narn, he is visibly sickened by the level of destruction and death he has semi-unwittingly caused and later challenges Lord Refa over his use of outlawed Mass Drivers in the planetary assault of Narn.

More than 10, 000 people attended the Mass, including foreign ambassadors, United States government officials, military officers, and other dignitaries.

The entire student body gathers for Mass each month ; additionally, the Gold Star Mass is celebrated every Fall to honor those Chaminade alumni who gave their lives in protection of the United States as members of the military services.

" He expressed frustration with the US, saying Libya's decision to give up its Weapons of Mass Destruction programs was contingent upon " compensation " from the US, including the signing of the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, economic cooperation, and cooperation in purchasing conventional weapons and military equipment.

To provide for other circumstances — for chaplains of everything from military to Boy Scout units, for priests traveling alone, for missionaries, or for large outdoor celebrations of Mass on pilgrimages — portable altars, popularly called " altar stones ," were used.

The backstory of Mass Effect features the First Contact War, caused by an alien military patrol observing a human ship, which was unknowingly breaching galaxy-wide conventions, attacking it and occupying a seemingly poorly-defended colony, only to learn of humanity's military prowess in a swift counterattack.

Mir's father, professor Waris Mir, was a columnist for Daily Jang and a critic of military dictator General Ziaul Haq, for which he was removed from the chairmanship of the Mass Communication Department of the University in the 1980s.

This AOI includes the full spectrum of military needs, including transnational threats, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Global War on Terror.

* In Mass Effect 2, Legion is the designation given to a Geth terminal encountered and befriended by Commander Shepard

Mass media outlets, seeking to gain larger advertising profits through increased viewership, may also alter public perception of issues, political groups and candidates by pandering to what they think a given target audience wants to see and hear.

The Thirty-nine articles of religion in the Church of England declare: " Transubstantiation ( or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine ) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy Writ ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions "; and made Mass illegal.

In 1960, Pope John XXIII, while keeping the 26 April feast, which mentions the saint under the name given him in the Canon of the Mass, removed that of 13 July.

The emperor concluded that God had given Widukind the grace of witnessing the divine child, Jesus, behind the Sacred Host of the Mass.

The complete identification of the Mass with the sacrifice of the cross is found in Christ's words at the last supper over the bread and wine: " This is my body, which is given up for you ," and " This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed ... unto the forgiveness of sins.

The text of this revised English translation of the Order of Mass is available, and a comparison between it and that at then-present in use in the United States is given under the heading " Changes in the People's Parts ".

James II, who in the words of the Archbishop of Rheims, had " given up three kingdoms for a Mass ", fled to France, taking with him his son and heir.

Permission was given for use, only in Mass celebrated with the people, of the vernacular language, especially in the Biblical readings and the reintroduced Prayers of the Faithful, but, " until the whole of the Ordinary of the Mass has been revised ," in the chants ( Kyrie, Gloria, Creed, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and the entrance, offertory and communion antiphons ) and in the parts that involved dialogue with the people, and in the Our Father, which the people could now recite entirely together with the priest.

In Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox Churches, a homily is usually given during Mass ( Divine Liturgy for Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, and Divine Service for the Lutheran Church ) at the end of the Liturgy of the Word.

The last promise has given rise to the pious Roman Catholic practice of making an effort to attend Mass and receive Communion on the first Friday of each month.

He was never canonized, and his veneration has been mostly suppressed, though permission is given to celebrate Mass in his honor in the cities of Aachen and Osnabrück, but without using the title of " Blessed.

Out of the major Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam characters, Captain Bright Noa and Axis leader Haman Karn are featured prominently in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ; Hayato Kobayashi, Kamille Bidan, Fa Yuiry, Wong Lee, Yazan Gable, Mineva Lao Zabi, and the children Shinta and Qum are featured in various episodes as well ; Sayla Mass, who had appeared in the first series but had no speaking role in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, also appeared in several episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ; Char Aznable's planned appearance was canceled when Tomino was given the go-ahead to do the Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack movie.

The previous day it had been given a public send-off which included a Mass and celebrations attended by the King, his court and a huge crowd.

Bach did not give the work a title ; instead, in the score four parts of the Latin Mass are each given their own title page —" Missa " ( consisting of the Kyrie and Gloria ), " Symbolum Nicenum " ( the profession of faith or Credo ), " Sanctus ", and " Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei et Dona nobis pacem "— and simply bundled together.

The Blessed Sacrament may be received by Catholics who have undergone the First Holy Communion ( i. e., given by a priest or or Deacon or Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion to a Catholic, and immediately consumed by the communicant ) as part of the Liturgy of the Eucharist during Mass.

Writing in 1968, the English test-driver Archie Vicar wrote in Mass Motorist magazine: " The little 99 has been given a striking and wholly rational appearance.

Cook attended a Catholic Mass on campus and was given the Eucharist but walked out without consuming it.

During the subsequent years she had almost given up going to Mass.

* Adrian's birth year is usually given as 1967 ( as in Aged 13¾, Growing Pains, Wilderness Years, Cappuccino Years ) but sometimes as 1968 ( True Confessions, Weapons of Mass Destruction ).

* At the end of Weapons of Mass Destruction Adrian's father must use a wheelchair after contracting a virus while in hospital for a back operation, but at the start of Prostrate Years the reason for his disability is given as a stroke brought on by years of poor dietary habits and inactivity.

On 22 May 1982, the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham was taken to Pope John Paul II at the Wembley Mass and given a place of honour during his British visit.

The ordinary Roman Rite of the Mass had made no provision for any congregation present to receive Communion.

Mass estimates for giant azhdarchids are extremely problematic because no existing species share a similar size or body plan, and in consequence published results vary widely.

The " Ministry of press and information of the RSFSR " was in 1990s renamed to " Ministry of Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications ( Minpechati )" and in 2004 it was turned into the " Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications ( Rospechat )" which was no longer a standalone ministry but a subdivision to the " Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications " ( originally " Ministry of culture of the RSFSR ").

In 1965 and 1967 some changes were officially introduced into the Roman-Rite liturgy of the Mass in the wake of decisions of the Second Vatican Council, but no new edition of the Roman Missal was produced to incorporate them.

Mass drivers can have no physical contact between moving parts due to the projectile being guided by dynamic magnetic levitation, allowing extreme reusability in the case of solid-state power switching, a life of theoretically up to millions of launches.

We need in this kingdom only priests and schoolteachers, and no merchandise, unless it is wine and flour for Mass.

At Matins, if no priest is present, a nun assumes the stole and reads the Gospel, and although the chanting of the Epistle was, in the time of the Tridentine Mass, reserved to an ordained subdeacon, a consecrated nun sang the Epistle at the conventual Mass, though without wearing the maniple.

He went to Mass, confessed, and in no particular official capacity went to meet Cardinal Pole on his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him to Calais in May 1555.

Churches designated as papal basilicas, in particular, possess a papal throne and a papal high altar, at which no one may celebrate Mass without the pope's permission.

Although most of the Divine Office remains the same as during the season per annum, certain customs of Lent are adopted, including the suppression of the " Alleluia ", the replacement of the Alleluia at Mass with the Tract and the Gloria is no longer said on Sundays.

In the Roman Catholic Church, there is no Mass on this day ; the Easter Vigil Mass, which, though celebrated properly at the following midnight, is often celebrated in the evening, is an Easter Mass.

In Lauds and Vespers there were no suffragia of the saints, and the Mass had only one " oratio " ( if no commemoration was prescribed ).

On a day to which no obligatory celebration is assigned, the Mass may be of any saint mentioned in the Roman Martyrology for that day.

The Latin Rite ordinarily has no celebration of Mass between the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday evening and the Easter Vigil unless a special exemption is granted for rare solemn or grave occasions by the Vatican or the local bishop.

Mass murderers are different from spree killers, who kill at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders and are not defined by the number of victims, and serial killers, who may kill large numbers of people over long periods of time.

" The Roman Catholic Mass or Orthodox Divine Liturgy in many respects more closely resembles the Temple sacrifice than anything modern Jews practice, since in Judaism there is no current Temple in Jerusalem, just the Temple Mount.

There was no daily Protestant service on the Navajo reservation, so Rich frequently attended daily Mass.

" One of the most ancient of these rites of reconciliation, the Kiss of Peace as a sign of reconciliation between communicants as an intrinsic part of these communicants ' preparation for Communion has been restored to all the faithful and no longer limited to clerics at High Mass.