Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

Often, a serial bus can be operated at higher overall data rates than a parallel bus, despite having fewer electrical connections, because a serial bus inherently has no timing skew or crosstalk.

Often clairvoyance has been associated with religious or shamanic figures, offices and practices.

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 after the director has had his chance to oversee a cut, the subsequent cuts are supervised by one or more producers, who represent the production company and / or movie studio.

Often the training period-the costs of which are in great part covered by the initial fee-is too short in cases where it is necessary to operate complicated equipment, and the franchisee has to learn on his own from instruction manuals.

Often a hero in these situations has a foil, the villain, typically a charismatic evildoer who represents, leads, or himself embodies the struggle the hero is up against.

Often the villain will try to convince the hero either a ) the villain is not in fact evil like the hero thinks he is, b ) the hero is actually the evil / immoral one, c ) the mentor character has been using the hero's special qualities for his own ends and does not really care about him / her.

Often informal or formally intrinsic to local religious customs, this type of insurance has survived to the present day in some countries where a modern money economy with its financial instruments is not widespread.

Often serious crimes have been either poorly investigated or prosecution has been declined.

Often outing is used solely to damage the outed person's reputation, and has thus been controversial.

Often in a pan and scan telecast, a character will seem to be speaking offscreen, when what has really happened is that the pan and scan technique has cut his image out of the screen.

Often the center has a chimney of sorts built with sticks and then lined with feedbags or grasses that allows water placed at the center to flow out into the soil and reach the plants ' roots.

Often the heel of the sole has a rubber plate for durability and traction, while the front is leather for style.

Often, a block in a data flow diagram has a single input and a single output, and operate on discrete packets of information.

Often, parents of sick children would learn at check-out time that " Mr. Williams has taken care of your bill.

Often a court will assert a modest degree of power over a case for purposes of determining whether it has jurisdiction, and so the word " power " is not necessarily synonymous with the word " jurisdiction ".

Often an unregulated activity of opportunity in coastal communities, wrecking has been subjected to increasing regulation and evolved into what is now known as marine salvage.

Often they are recent immigrants, but xenophobia may be directed against a group which has been present for centuries, or became part of this society through conquest and territorial expansion.

A standard indoor track is designed similarly to an outdoor track, but is only 200 metres in length and has between four and eight lanes, each with width between 0. 90 m and 1. 10 m. Often, the bends of an indoor track will be banked to compensate for the small turning radius.

Often has whiskers.

Often used for fly fishing the fly reel or fly casting reel has traditionally been rather simple in terms of mechanical construction, little has changed from the design patented by Charles F. Orvis in 1874.

Often, the child has a large vocabulary and can identify many objects and pictures, but cannot put their language skills to good use.

Often he seems even to have been able to guess correctly, without the tracing motions, solely on the basis of qualitative differences among the blot-like things which appeared in his visual experience.

Often ornaments have been found within an excavated cist, indicating the wealth or prominence of the interred individual.

Often when someone takes the bait, others will point this out to them with the acronym " YHBT ", which is short for " You have been trolled ", or reply with " don't feed the trolls.

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 said to have been a son of Sybil Corbet.

Often enormously complicated matters, ICJ cases ( of which there have been less than 150 since the court was created from the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1945 ) can stretch on for years and generally involve thousands of pages of pleadings, evidence, and the world's leading specialist public international lawyers.

Often it is the local government or a business, but many murals have been paid for with grants of patronage.

Often these are the products of enzymatic degradation performed in the laboratory on a controlled sample, but can also be forensic or paleontological samples that have been degraded by natural effects.

Often, the pop-up concept relies solely on visitors to provide both the objects on display and the accompanying labels with the professionals or institution providing only the theme of the pop-up and the space in which to display the objects, an example of shared historical authority .. Due to the flexibility of the pop-up museums and their rejection of traditional structure, even these latter provisions need not be supplied by an institution ; in some cases the themes have been chosen collectively by a committee of interested participants while exhibitions designated as pop-ups have been mounted in places as varied as community centers and even a walk-in closet.

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 there have been few implementations matching all of the critical elements of the specification, and existing implementations were incomplete or inadequate.

Often on days when a legislature is not in session, the committees of each house meet and consider the bills that have been referred to them to decide if the assigned bills should be reported for further action.

Often, secondary buyouts have been successful if the investment has reached an age where it is necessary or desirable to sell rather than hold the investment further or where the investment had already generated significant value for the selling firm.

Often it is said to be " about " long.

Often the dead were said to dwell in the realm of Osiris, a lush and pleasant land in the underworld.

* Adam Smith: Often said to have founded modern economics ; explained emergence of economic benefits from the self-interested behavior (" the invisible hand ") of artisans and traders.

; Freeboarding: Often said to be the board whose feel is the most similar to snowboarding.

Often, the École des Beaux-Arts school of design is said to have primarily promoted top-down design because it taught that an architectural design should begin with a parti, a basic plan drawing of the overall project.

Often they have a " sign-in " page where you put your label or name, then each page will often contain a question which you answer ( i. e. When was the last time you said " I love you ") and the signer would write the appropriate response.

Often such an object is said to be connected if, when it is considered as a topological space, it is a connected space.

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 minor parties form part of a larger major party, and through that membership it can be said that the king fulfills his constitutional mandate of constulting with party represenitives with Congressional representation.

Often, however, the said trap would fail, with the outcome usually being that Shaggy or Scooby-Doo would be captured instead, or the trap would miss.

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 minor parties form part of a larger major party, and through that membership it can be said that the king fulfills his constitutional mandate of consulting with party representatives with Congressional representation.

Often said by music critics to be about her break-up from Jones and moving on with her life, the song reached No. 1 on the U. S. country singles charts, and No. 84 on the pop singles charts, becoming her first single in eight years to enter the pop charts.

Often criticism was governed by very strict cultural rules of politeness, propriety and decency, and there could be immediate penalties if the wrong words were said or written down ( in 17th century England, more than half of men and about three-quarters of women could not read or write ).

Often the connotation is, that if a deliberation is a " critique " and not just a " criticism ", then there is " a lot of extra thought and profound meaning " behind what is being said.

Often, Lefty would give a silly description of said item's " usefulness " so as to trick Ernie ( who he hoped was naive and unwary ) into buying.

Often a business owner will open multiple email addresses and then corresponding Yelp accounts and write a multitude of testimonials seemingly by many customers of said business.

Often referred as thousand-petaled lotus, it is said to be the most subtle chakra in the system, relating to pure consciousness, and it is from this chakra that all the other chakras emanate.

Often the coverage in the press can be said to reflect the views of the person in the street.

Often, jikininki are said to look like decomposing cadavers, perhaps with a few inhuman features such as sharp claws or glowing eyes.

Often, the famous line, " Live long and prosper ", is said after it.

Often depicted as a winged deer, the peryton is said to have the head, neck, forelegs and antlers of a stag, combined with the plumage, wings and hindquarters of a large bird, although some interpretations portray the peryton as a deer in all but coloration and bird's wings.

Often a kick for touch saw the ball end up in the pool and it was said that the Australians were more adept at handling the slippery ball.