Sometimes, especially in computer science, the term is used for any binary function.

Sometimes an entire biome may be targeted for protection, especially under an individual nation's biodiversity action plan.

Sometimes described as New England folk dance, contra dances can be found around the world, though they are especially popular in North America.

Sometimes a higher ( premium ) fare may be required for the faster journey, especially for some international trains in western Europe.

Sometimes, especially during Friday prayers, a raised minbar or pulpit is located to the side of the mihrab for a khatib or some other speaker to offer a sermon ( khutbah ).

Sometimes, the road surface has to be renewed within 7 years, especially on routes with heavy truck traffic causing widespread track formation.

Sometimes passage tombs are covered with a cairn, especially those dating to later times.

; Errors: Sometimes packets are corrupted due to bit errors caused by noise and interference, especially in wireless communications and long copper wires.

Sometimes, especially outside the U. S. and in the context of cable / satellite television, it is used instead of the term television network, which otherwise ( in its technical use above ) describes a group of geographically-distributed television stations that share affiliation / ownership and some or all of their programming with one another.

Sometimes, especially in northern Spain, they are also called pinchos ( pintxos in Basque ) in Asturias, in Navarre, in La Rioja ( Spain ), the Basque Country, Cantabria and in some provinces, such as Salamanca, because many of them have a pincho or toothpick through them.

Sometimes, a character can even be noted especially for taunting ( for example, Dan Hibiki from Street Fighter Alpha ).

* Sometimes, especially in the Microsoft world, it refers to a now-obsolete variant of XSLT developed and shipped by Microsoft as part of MSXML before the W3C specification was finalized

Sometimes influence, especially within a limited area and time, is clearer, as when considering the influence of Perrault's tales on those collected by the Brothers Grimm.

Sometimes, they swarm in large numbers and can be found washed up in flotsam, especially along the coast of eastern Australia.

Sometimes when a Federation starship or vessel crashes on a planet that has a pre-warp civilization, the survivors or the wreckage are collected by the natives, and this then influences their society, especially when Federation technology is recovered and added to the technology of the planet.

Sometimes internal imagery can overwhelm the sensory input from external stimuli when sharing neural pathways, or if indistinct stimuli is perceived and manipulated to match one's expectations or beliefs, especially about the environment.

Sometimes firms within a specific industry adopt certain pricing strategies to create barriers to entry, one of the most widely adopted strategy is limit pricing by lowering prices to a level that would force any new entrants to operate at a loss, this strategy is especially effective when the existing firms have a cost advantage over potential entrants.

Sometimes it is not the wrecking of the ship that is important, but the fact that we have access to the remains of it, especially where the vessel was of major importance and significance in the history of science and engineering ( or warfare ), due to being the first of its type of vessel.

Sometimes terms which refer to branches of soil science, such as pedology ( formation, chemistry, morphology and classification of soil ) and edaphology ( influence of soil on organisms, especially plants ), are used as if synonymous with soil science.

Sometimes a veil of this type was draped over and pinned to the bonnet or hat of a woman in mourning, especially at the funeral and during the subsequent period of " high mourning ".

Sometimes lipofuscin, a yellow " wear and tear " pigment, also enters into the visible eye color, especially in aged or diseased green eyes ( but not in healthy green human eyes ).

Sometimes the term can mean someone who is involved in the management of a company, especially as an owner or an executive.

Sometimes these properties are also used for " defining " the dot product, especially in 2 and 3 dimensions ; this definition is equivalent to the above one.

Sometimes, especially on bicycles, the latter type is referred to as a spindle.

Sometimes a deceased-donor organ, usually a liver, may be divided between two recipients, especially an adult and a child.

Sometimes gimp is covered in beads or spangles.

Sometimes it is necessary to roughly calculate the square inch area of the opening but the calculation can usually be made with sufficient accuracy that it won't affect the final computation.

Sometimes it is not a verbal stereotype -- a `` How are you now ''??

Sometimes even the number of syllables is not clear.

Sometimes sprouted wheat is added to bread and causes the children to remark, `` Lillian, did you put nuts in the bread today ''??

Sometimes a desired acreage is offered only as part of a larger tract.

Sometimes this is accompanied by visible shifts of the ground surface ; ;

Sometimes, however, the decision of the lower proceeding is itself admissible as evidence, thus helping to curb frivolous appeals.

Sometimes a significant amount of alcohol ( up to 27 % vol ) is added, as a carrier for the flavor, to provide " bite ".

Sometimes he is sociable, but at other times he shuts himself up in his room.

Sometimes it is possible to " see " anagrams in words, unaided by tools, though the more letters involved the more difficult this becomes.

Sometimes the whole space is taken up with the inscription.

Sometimes this dish is referred to as " chow mein " ( which literally means " fried noodles " in Cantonese ).

Sometimes it is instead only required that the faces that meet at one vertex are related isometrically to the faces that meet at the other.

Sometimes the Kaliningrad Oblast is called the Янтарный край, which means " the amber area ".

Sometimes the name Sporozoa is taken as a synonym for the Apicomplexa, or occasionally as a subset.

Sometimes an internal standard is added at a known concentration directly to an analytical sample to aid in quantitation.

Sometimes medication is combined with psychotherapy but research has found that there is no benefit of combined pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy versus monotherapy.

Sometimes this non linearity is deliberately designed in to reduce the audible unpleasantness of hard clipping under overload.

Sometimes this is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative, competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian law.

Sometimes a misdealt card ( such as one of the down cards in poker that has flashed during the deal ) will be used as the burn card — in those cases, the card should be immediately placed face up on the deck after the deal is complete.

Sometimes this carries jurisdiction over metropolitan bishops, but usually it is purely honorific.

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

Sometimes a full tree is ambiguously defined as a perfect tree.