Mixed marriages between deaf and hearing spouses comprised 65 % of all deaf marriages on the island in the late 19th century, ( higher than the mainland average of 20 %) and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( MVSL ) was commonly used by hearing residents as well as deaf ones until the middle of the 20th century.

Interracial marriages had been banned in 1949 by the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

* Apartheid: Mixed marriages and the immorality act

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949, was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act of 1968 updated the original legislation to invalidate interracial marriages involving a South African citizen that were contracted in other countries.

( Mixed marriages were then encouraged by the Portuguese Crown, for the sake of settlement.

Mixed marriages are not to be contracted unless promises are given that the Catholic party is in no danger of perversion, and will strive to convert the non-Catholic party.

Mixed marriages between ethnic groups are common, particularly in urban areas where many different groups live side by side.

Mixed states are often the most dangerous period of mood disorders, during which substance abuse, panic disorder, suicide attempts, and other complications increase greatly.

Mixed units, for example feet and inches, or pounds and ounces, are normally written with the largest unit first, in decreasing order.

Mixed economies usually employ macroeconomic planning, while micro-economic affairs are left to the market and price system.

" Mixed " dislocations, combining aspects of both types, are also common.

Mixed traffic locomotives ( US English: general purpose or road switcher locomotives ) are built to provide elements of both requirements.

Mixed signal microcontrollers are common, integrating analog components needed to control non-digital electronic systems.

Mixed systems are often helpful in countries with large populations, since they balance local and national concerns.

# Mixed source rocks bearing Type II / III kerogen in deltaic marine shales of the Lower Cretaceous that are II correlative of oil-generating shales in Somalia ;

The burnt fuels are thorium with reactor-grade plutonium ( RGPu ), thorium with weapons-grade plutonium ( WGPu ) and Mixed Oxide fuel ( MOX ).

Slovenians Maja Vtič and Tomaž Naglič are the first Mixed Team ( couples ) winners in history.

The area between the two extremes, where both the real and the virtual are mixed, is the so-called Mixed reality.

Approximately 71 % of the population is White ( British: 49. 0 %, Irish: 2. 0 %, and Other White: 19. 0 %), 16 % are of any Asian ethnicity, 7 % Black, 6 % Mixed, and 4 % belong to other racial groups.

Bruce Lee's theories have been especially influential and substantiated in the field of Mixed Martial Arts, as the MMA Phases of Combat are essentially the same concept as the JKD combat ranges.

* Mixed ensembles are decomposable into a convex combination of different ensembles.

Mixed states arise in situations where the experimenter does not know which particular states are being manipulated.

Mixed impressions are recorded by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, colleagues of Mussorgsky who, unlike him, made their living as composers.

Mixed economies are also promoted by fascists in the form of corporatism, involving a tripartite arrangement between labor, business and the state for the purposes of diminishing class-conflict and unifying the national economy through class collaboration for the purposes of national unity.

Mixed music genres are present throughout their albums.

Mixed climbs are not graded purely on steepness ; you can have a slabby mixed line that is M8.

Most streets are classified as " Mixed.

* Mixed Alphabetic-Expression of vowels and consonants by different kinds of strokes ( e. g., Arends ' system for German or Melin's Swedish Shorthand where vowels are expressed by upward or sideway strokes and consonants and consonant clusters by downward strokes ).

Mixed base PNA molecules are true mimics of DNA molecules in terms of base-pair recognition.

Mixed deciduous and coniferous forest covers most of Washington, but open agricultural fields are also prevalent.

The other two flavours, Mixed Berries and Raspberry & Apple, are fortified with calcium instead ).

* Mixed drink shooters and drink shots, which are small servings of cocktails in special glasses.

Mixed fracture surfaces can be characterised by a certain percentage of adhesive and cohesive areas.

The Honduras-El Salvador Border Protocol ratified by Honduras in May 1999 established a framework for a long-delayed border demarcation, which is currently underway ; with respect to the maritime boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua likely would be required.

Territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank ; with respect to the maritime boundary question in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua likely would be required ; maritime boundary dispute with Honduras in the Caribbean Sea ; Nicaragua is sovereign over the Rio San Juan, and by treaty Costa Rica has the right to navigate over part of the river with ' objects of commerce '.

Likewise, the Africanist Karl Richard Lepsius considered Bantu to be of African origin, and many ' Mixed Negro languages ' as products of an encounter between Bantu and intruding Asiatic languages.

Mixed states can be represented by points inside the Bloch sphere.

Unhappy with what seemed to be a pattern of governments failing to reflect the mood of the electorate, New Zealanders in 1992 and 1993 voted to change the electoral system to Mixed Member Proportional ( MMP ), a form of proportional representation.

Mixed drinks can also be based on beer ( Lamb's wool ) and cider ( wassail ).

* Mixed incontinence is not uncommon in the elderly female population and can sometimes be complicated by urinary retention, which makes it a treatment challenge requiring staged multimodal treatment.

Mixed drinks come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, and they may be either Alcoholic beverage | alcoholic or Non-alcoholic beverage | non-alcoholic.

Mixed catches including cod can be made from the town's beaches.

The parliament was to be elected using Mixed member proportional representation which is a combination of 73 ( First-past-the-post ) constituencies using the same boundaries as was used in the 1997 UK General Election with the exception of Orkney and Shetland as they were made separate constituencies and proportional representation with the 73 constituencies being grouped together to make eight regions which would each elect seven additional members to make a total of 129 Members of Scottish Parliament ( MSP's ).

Mixed woodland rich in aspen seems to be particularly well-liked.

* Mixed integer programming, linear programming where some variables are constrained to be integers

In the 1996 election, the first to be held under the Mixed Member Proportional system, the Alliance won 13 seats in Parliament.

Occupations of or affected by the gambling industry, may be restricted by licensure, such as a racing secretary in horseracing, or people in the boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, and Professional Wrestling industry.

Its broodmares and weanlings were sent to be auctioned at the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Winter Mixed Sale and its remaining bloodstock was sold at the Keeneland Sales in Lexington, Kentucky.

Mixed pickles may also be categorized as sweet or sour depending on the addition of a sweetening agent like sugar.

It was notable for being the first election to be held under the new Mixed Member Proportional electoral system, and produced a parliament considerably more diverse than previous elections.

* Mixed 16 / 32-bit Linear Executable: Introduced with OS / 2 2. 0, these can be identified by the " LE " in ASCII.

Mixed domestic / industrial municipal influent is more polluted, so a living machine may not always be able to treat every contaminant to levels that would not stress the ecosystem that receives the effluent.

Cilia Flores, president of the National Assembly, announced that the Mixed Committee for Constitutional Reform had found the idea to be acceptable.

Mixed sex groups can be common at this time, with single males sharing nest sites with three to seven females or single females sharing nest sites with one to three males.

Grappling, differing from the FILA definition, plays an important role in the practice of Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ) and can be used as a self-defence technique.

Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder ( DSM-IV 315. 32 ) is a communication disorder in which both the receptive and expressive areas of communication may be affected in any degree, from mild to severe.

* The Mixed Reality Lab-Key research in this area may be attributed to the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham.