Often it is thin and fragile and gives way readily to the male organ at the first attempt at intercourse.

This led to the first of a number of periods in which an outside power controlled Athens ; Often the outside power set up a local agent as political boss in Athens ; but when Athens was independent, it operated under its traditional form of government ; even the bosses, like Demetrius of Phalerum, kept the traditional institutions in formal existence.

Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.

Often these books follow a formula where the first chapter involves Brown solving a case at the dinner table for his father, the local police chief in the fictional town of Idaville.

Often the work of these auteurs was first recognised abroad rather than in Germany itself.

Often they are the first port of call to critically ill or gravely injured patients, and must perform a variety of procedures to stabilize such patients, such as intubation, burr hole, cricothyroidotomy, and emergency laparotomy or thoracotomy to stanch bleeding.

Often enough, the first records potentially describing use of gunpowder in warfare were written several centuries after the fact, and may well have been colored by the contemporary experiences of the chronicler.

Often called " the first modern historian ", the English scholar Edward Gibbon wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 – 1788 ).

Often, when a convict is sentenced to TBS, he first serves a prison sentence.

Often called the first " modern Prime Minister ", he set both an example and a precedent for his successors.

Often, at first, the new version of an object is given a special name to distinguish it from the established version.

Often, the first part of a slate roof to fail is the fixing nails ; they corrode, allowing the slates to slip.

Often the teacher the student sees as root guru is simply the one who first introduced him to Buddhism, but a student may also change his personal view of which particular teacher is his root guru any number of times.

Often described as queen mother is the first daughter of a patriarchal lineage of a family collective.

Often cited as the moment of inception is his appearance on the UK TV programme Top of the Pops in March 1971 wearing glitter and satins, to perform what would be his second UK Top 10 hit ( and first UK Number 1 hit ), " Hot Love ".

Often, a fix for a problem will be " fragile " in that it fixes the problem in the narrow case where it was first observed but not in more general cases which may arise over the lifetime of the software.

Often in those who have experienced their first episode of hypomania ( which is a level of mild to moderate mania )-generally without psychotic features-there will have been a long or recent history of depression prior to the emergence of manic symptoms, and commonly this surfaces in the mid to late teens.

Often they reenforce the communication of the ideogram by repeating the first or last syllable in the term.

Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions ; however, improvisation is not necessarily involved in all sketch comedy.

Often affidavits are exchanged before trial, but the first opportunity to question the opposing party in most lawsuits is at trial.

Often folding involves first the establishment of regular secondary and supersecondary structures, in particular alpha helices and beta sheets, and afterward tertiary structure.

Often when a negative story is discovered attempts are made first to stop it.

Often readings are created by taking the standard reading and retaining only the first syllable ( for example roku becomes ro ).

Often the first ( more obvious ) meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué or ironic.

Often, but not always, outside first base ( that is, in foul territory ) and adjacent and connected to it there is a contrast-colored " double base " or " safety base ".

) Often, as to the applicability of the law in any given situation, the proviso is: " consult your local rabbi or posek.

Often in natural language, given the appropriate context, the addendum " but not both " is omitted but implied.

Often, a literature review is conducted in a given subject area before a research question is identified.

Often it is impossible to identify S0 in highly deformed rocks, so numbering may be started at an arbitrary number or given a letter ( S < sub > A </ sub >, for instance ).

Often, more than one reaction is possible given the same starting materials.

Often, for some partition of the event space, the event space is given or conceptualized in terms of and.

Often wrestlers have little choice in their name, which is given to them by their trainer ( or stablemaster ), or by a supporter or family member who encouraged them into the sport.

Often, when the mothers disobey the husband ’ s family decision to abort the female fetus and report it to the authorities, the suits are ignored or given a light sentence and the pointed finger targets the mother for bearing girls and disobeying the family ’ s decision to abort the child.

Often given the correctly aligned breezy conditions, a föhn effect will operate, meaning local temperatures are somewhat higher than surrounding area.

Often the charge ( or mass ) distribution are given, and the associated potential is unknown.

Often, it is difficult to determine whether a given property is physical or not.

Often yuánfèn is said to be the equivalent of " fate " ( as is with the title of a 1984 movie, given the western name Behind the Yellow Line, starring Leslie Cheung ) or " destiny ".

Often, practitioners are said to have lived for hundreds of years, and there are inconsistencies in the lifespan dates given, making it impossible to construct a sensible timeline.

Often, the issuer requires that a legal opinion be given indicating that the resale complies with the rule.

Often, if information is given to another user of an online community, one expects equal information shared back.

Often there is a given start and finish position for the player's token.

Often the quest is given to the protagonist through the realm's magic mirror ( the first game involves obtaining the magic mirror, that becomes an important feature in the later games ).

Often several " modes " of oscillation can be observed in a given klystron.

Often, a given country's commander-in-chief need not be or have been a commissioned officer or even a veteran, and it is by this legal statute that civilian control of the military is realized in states where it is constitutionally required.

Often drift diving is performed more for the experience of underwater " flight " and less for interactions with underwater life, which, given the speed at which most divers move, are reduced.

Often only real values of the variable s are considered, although if the integral exists as a proper Lebesgue integral for a given real value s = σ, then it also exists for all complex s with re ( s ) ≥ σ.

Often a passenger ship is stated to " weigh " or " displace " a certain " tonnage ," but the figure given nearly always refers to gross tonnage.

Often a notation is used in which the covariant derivative is given with a semicolon, while a normal partial derivative is indicated by a comma.

Often, the key to determining probability is selecting the best approach for a given problem.