Often, especially in larger congregations, the elders delegate the practicalities of buildings, finance, and temporal ministry to the needy in the congregation to a distinct group of officers ( sometimes called deacons, which are ordained in some denominations ).

Often these were ex-servicemen or ex-policemen ; retiring to run a pub was popular amongst military officers at the end of their service.

Often Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company ( ANGLICO ) officers are assigned to the battalion, to coordinate naval gunfire support.

Often, police officers and politicians were paid off or extorted to ensure continued operation.

Often Phillip's officers despaired for the future of Sydney.

Often hungry and ill, never well paid, under-equipped and only partially trained, the soldiers were held in contempt by their officers and had little reason to fight the Americans.

Often, even the smallest of departments operates a K-9 team of at least one dog, while the officers of more metropolitan cities can be more used to working with dozens.

Often officers can salute on behalf of their troops, and any such ambiguity will be discussed with the troops beforehand.

Often, junior military officers were given the task of updating each plan to keep them trained and busy ( this was especially true in the case of War Plan Crimson, the invasion of Canada ).

Often the pilots would be expressing their appreciation of the guerrillas to their ships ' debriefing officers within a day or two.

Often the nation's Continental Congress could not find suitable positions for foreign officers — mostly from France — who sought commissions.

Often Phillip's officers despaired for the future of New South Wales.

Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events like unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.

Often these were accompanied by quirky logos such as the face logo for Blockhead, advertisements and promotional items.

Often, they were clerics trained in the Roman canon law.

Often, motifs and initials were stitched on household items to identify their owner, or simply to decorate the otherwise-plain cloth.

Often posted on bulletin boards, clipped strips had an ancillary form of distribution when they were faxed, photocopied or mailed.

Often however Beavers with testicles intact, after escaping as far away as possible, have drawn in the coveted part, and with great skill and ingenuity tricked their pursuers, pretending that they no longer possessed what they were keeping in concealment.

Often slow-moving and overbearing with " cuteness ", Jones ' early cartoons were an attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney's shorts ( especially with such cartoons as Tom Thumb in Trouble and the Sniffles cartoons ).

Often new requirements necessitated gathering, cleaning and integrating new data from " data marts " that were tailored for ready access by users.

Often, there were special prizes and penalties for one's performance in the game.

Often the word takes the definite article and is capitalized — " the Divinity " — as though it were a proper name or definitive honorific.

Often hulls were built of steel only 1 / 8in thick.

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

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

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, one finds statements that Soviet POWs on their return to the Soviet Union were often treated as traitors ( see Order No. 270 ).

Often these games were recreation for British soldiers on postings.

Often these were older veterans.

Often, such tests were conducted without evacuating or even alerting the local population.

Often forced to abandon traditional mounted archery for hand-to-hand combat, many samurai found that their swords were too delicate and prone to damage when used against the thick leather armor of the invaders.

Often local officials were assigned minimum quotas of kulaks to identify, and were forced to use their discretionary powers to " find " kulaks wherever they could.

Often the concatenation changed the part of speech ; i. e., nouns were produced from verb segments or verbs from nouns and adjectives.

Often artistic representations of female sexuality suggest trends or ideas on broad scales, giving historians clues as to how widespread or accepted erotic relationships between women were.

Often riffs were not doubled by guitar, bass and drums exactly, but instead there were melodic or rhythmic variations ; as in " Black Dog ", where three different time signatures are used.

Often, the instruction to be fetched must be retrieved from relatively slow memory, causing the CPU to stall while waiting for the instruction to be returned.

Often, such bonds have no particular orientation in space, since they result from equal electrostatic attraction of each ion to all ions around them.

Often, this type of compression is virtually indistinguishable from the original uncompressed sound or images, depending on the codec and the settings used.

Often the passage from one world or stage to the next is impelled by inner forces, a process of germination or gestation from earlier, embryonic forms.

Often, the solar plasma will fill these loops from one foot point and drain from the other ( siphon flow due to a pressure difference, or asymmetric flow due to some other driver ).

Often such faiths hold out the possibility of divine retribution as well, where the divinity will unexpectedly bring evil-doers to justice through the conventional workings of the world ; from the subtle redressing of minor personal wrongs, to such large-scale havoc as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah or the biblical Great Flood.

Often taken out of context, this act garnered negative attention from critics and some animal rights activists.

Often, the diplomat's visas are canceled ; and the diplomat and her or his family may be barred from returning to the United States.

Often strong men muscle the subject into a car and take him to a place where he is cut from everyone but his captors.

* Release Early, Release Often, excerpt from The Cathedral and the Bazaar, mirrored on personal site

Often ill for much of the winters and kept out of school, Edvard would draw to keep himself occupied, and received tutoring from his school mates and his aunt.

Often, people refer to a " biased estimate " or an " unbiased estimate ," but they really are talking about an " estimate from a biased estimator ," or an " estimate from an unbiased estimator.

Often the early phase, from 1. 8 to 1. 25 Ma, is considered to be a separate species, Homo ergaster, or it is seen as a subspecies of Homo erectus, Homo erectus ergaster.

* Often used as a means to bleed money from customers through lack of defining a deliverable

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 it is possible to reform cases from similarly sized ammunition which is in production, and this is the most economical way of obtaining brass for obscure or out of production calibers.

Often inserts of this sort are done separately from the main action, by a second-unit director using stand-ins.

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 the technology was purchased from Britain or British engineers and entrepreneurs moved abroad in search of new opportunities.

Often, the systems we put in place to keep us secure are keeping us from our more creative selves.