Similar to shark fin soup or bird's nest soup, it is considered a luxury item, and is traditionally reserved for special occasions such as weddings and other celebrations.

Similar to the above, a Bahamian moor is used to sharply limit the swing range of a vessel, but allows it to swing to a current.

Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.

Similar to the United States, there is a wide range of the type of Assault that can occur.

Similar to red-black trees, AVL trees are in general not weight-balanced, that is sibling nodes can have hugely differing numbers of descendants.

Similar evidence is given by the Historia Brittonum.

Similar objections are voiced by Harvey who comments that there is a " strong and ancient tradition " that the presence of an ordained man is necessary for the celebration of the Eucharist.

Similar to the whiff test, the test for clue cells is performed by placing a drop of sodium chloride solution on a slide containing vaginal discharge.

Similar regulations are in place in Germany, where anyone who has spent six months or more living in the UK between January 1980 and December 1996 is permanently banned from donating blood.

Similar to spelling-out numbers in English ( e. g., " one thousand nine hundred forty-five "), it is not an independent system per se.

** Remote plasma-enhanced CVD ( RPECVD ) – Similar to PECVD except that the wafer substrate is not directly in the plasma discharge region.

Similar material is used to protect cockpits of some military airplanes, because of the low weight of the material.

Similar procedures for serving an order first is also used at the Tax Court.

Similar plant communities are found in the four other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin ( where it is known as maquis ), central Chile ( where it is called matorral ), South African Cape Region ( known there as fynbos ), and in Western and Southern Australia.

Similar objects found later were often called " QB1-o's ", or " cubewanos ", after this object, though the term " classical " is much more frequently used in the scientific literature.

Similar to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford — Dublin is administered separately from its respective County with its own City Council.

Similar supports likewise can serve both: painting generally involves the application of liquid paint onto prepared canvas or panels, but sometimes an underdrawing is drawn first on that same support.

Garden door Similar to a French door ; the hinge is next to the adjacent fixed door and the latch is located at the wall opening jamb.

Similar to other functional programming languages, the result of a function is the value of the last expression evaluated — there is no explicit “ return ” statement.

Similar services may also be provided at the embassy ( to serve the region of the capital ) in what is sometimes called a consular section.

Similar subdividing may be repeated several times at lower levels of delegation.

A seemingly clear boundary seems visible when a high mountain chain is viewed from a distance: Similar conditions are repeated at many different points, so that the level at which large snow beds show themselves can be seen as approximately horizontal.

Similar styles and mannerisms can be found in many of his characters as well as running gags and common themes, including repeated references to moose, meat, bees, chihuahuas, monkeys, tacos, pigs, cheese, morbid obesity and " dookie ".

" Similar incidents were repeated on several occasions, including alleged attempts to lure Van Winkle into a van filled with Blood and Crips gang members, before Knight showed up at Van Winkle's hotel suite on the fifteenth floor of the Bel Age Hotel, accompanied by Johnson and a member of the Los Angeles Raiders.

Similar tactics on the part of both protesters and police were repeated at subsequent meetings of the WTO, IMF / World Bank, Free Trade Area of the Americas, and other international organizations, as well as the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in the US.

Similar to alliteration, in which vowel sounds are repeated.

Similar experiments with caesium or rubidium have been repeated ; these include Popular Science columnist Theodore Gray's experiments, the " Viewer Special Threequel " episode of MythBusters, and an attempt made as part of the Periodic Table of Videos series created by several faculty members at the University of Nottingham.

Similar conditions repeated in the Kwantung Army's defense against the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

Similar dramas were repeated on other ranges in the region, eventually forming part of the Canadian Ice Sheet, which at its maximum, extended into eastern Idaho.

Shortly after the battle leaflets circulating throughout the province claimed that "... 700 Australians were killed, one battalion and two companies were destroyed, and two squadrons of APCs ..." Similar claims were repeated on Radio Hanoi on 27 August 1966 and the following day on Radio Peking.

" Similar representations were repeated by Weizsäcker to Monsignore Giovanni Battista Montini ( the later Pope Paul VI ).

Similar to other islands of the archipelago, Santa Maria was a victim of repeated attacks by privateers and pirates.

Similar to the thalamotomy, this procedure can be repeated on both sides of the brain bilaterally, but is not recommended due to a large increase in the risk of speech and cognitive problems post-surgery.

Similar literary exercises were the common doings of a Christian humanist of the first two decades of the sixteenth century.

Similar to Robinson, Doby battled racism on and off the field but posted a. 301 batting average in 1948, his first full season.

Similar to the intrinsic muscles of the hand, there are three groups of muscles in the sole of foot, those of the first and last digits, and a central group:

Similar sorts of decisions have to be made with all the representation technologies, because each of them supplies only a first order guess about how to see the world: they offer a way of seeing but don't indicate how to instantiate that view.

Similar to his " Sestina " each stanza first repeats end-words 12 then 1 of the previous stanza ; the rest are ad lib.

Similar cameras were used for exposing the silver-surfaced copper Daguerreotype plates, commercially introduced in 1839, which were the first practical photographic medium.

Similar to the Queen's Official Birthday, the " Fourth of June " is no longer celebrated on 4 June, but on the Wednesday before the first weekend of June.

" Similar devices that functioned in the same way were patented in the 1930s, and the first mass-produced display tubes were introduced in 1954 by National Union Co. under the brand name Inditron.

Similar to Dippy, Spark's first words in the strip are " George W. Bush is a wanker ".

Similar to the band's first run, members have left and been replaced ; Michael Denner left and was replaced by Mike Wead, Nielsen was later replaced by Snowy Shaw who was then replaced by Bjarne Holm, Timi Hansen left quickly and was replaced by Sharlee D ' Angelo.

Similar to the formula for an annuity, the present value of a growing annuity ( PVGA ) uses the same variables with the addition of g as the rate of growth of the annuity ( A is the annuity payment in the first period ).

Similar to their 1976 release, 2112, Hemispheres contains a single, epic song broken into chapters as the first side of the album (" Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres ") while the second half contains two more conventionally-executed tracks, " Circumstances " and " The Trees.

Similar proposals were made and declined several times since the question was first mooted in 1886.

Similar interdependencies between two particular measurements and the corresponding operators are the uncertainty relations as first expressed by Heisenberg for the interdependence between measurements of distance and of momentum, and as generalized by Edward Condon, Howard Percy Robertson, and Erwin Schrödinger.

Similar traditions remain at Dundee's parent institution, the University of St Andrews, but are however incorporated into a Raisin Weekend and the term gaudie night is not used for the first night.

Similar to Lenin's use of it, left communists, coming from the Communist International themselves started in fact with a theory of decadence in the first place, yet the communist left sees the theory of decadence at the heart of Marx's method as well, expressed in famous works such as The Communist Manifesto, Grundrisse, Das Kapital but most significantly in Preface to the Critique of Political Economy.

Similar to the 1988 Summer Olympics, the Soviet Union and East Germany dominated the events, coming in first and second in the overall medal table.

Similar to our first example above, we can determine the following antiderivative with this method:

Similar markings had been used when the Hawker Typhoon was first introduced into use as it was otherwise very similar in profile to a German aircraft.

Nevertheless, many troupes claimed to have carried out more serious " fieldwork ". Similar to American people who come from all over the world creating one big ‘ melting pot ,’ it is only fitting that some of the first forms of truly American music and drama are composed of elements from many different places

Similar to the Photographic Model, the Emotional-Integrative Model states that the first step toward the registration of a flashbulb memory is an individual's degree of surprise associated with the event.

Similar to the title of Duke of York in England, none of those who received the title Duke of Anjou ( except the first creation ), were able to transmit it ; they either died without a male heir, returned it to the crown, or succeeded to the throne.