The washing process whereby soils are removed consists basically of applying mechanical action to loosen the dirt particles and dried matter in the presence of water which helps to float off the debris and acts, to some extent, as a dissolving and solvating agent.

" An abstraction " is the product of this process – a concept that acts as a super-categorical noun for all subordinate concepts, and connects any related concepts as a group, field, or category.

A hedge fund that is an example of this type of arbitrage is Greenridge Capital, which acts as an angel investor retaining equity in private companies which are in the process of becoming publicly traded, buying in the private market and later selling in the public market.

At high temperatures, organobromine compounds are easily converted to free bromine atoms, a process which acts to terminate free radical chemical chain reactions.

A heat engine acts by transferring energy from a warm region to a cool region of space and, in the process, converting some of that energy to mechanical work.

Often referred to simply as " contempt ," such as a person " held in contempt ," it is the judge's strongest power to impose sanctions for acts which disrupt the court's normal process.

Forgiving others for their faults, extending friendship and asking forgiveness for their own wrongful acts without reservation is part of this process.

Several perspectives or branches of such academic dictionary research have been distinguished: ' dictionary criticism ' ( or evaluating the quality of one or more dictionaries, e. g. by means of reviews ( see Nielsen 2009 )), ' dictionary history ' ( or tracing the traditions of a type of dictionary or of lexicography in a particular country or language ), ' dictionary typology ' ( or classifying the various genres of reference works, such as dictionary versus encyclopedia, monolingual versus bilingual dictionary, general versus technical or pedagogical dictionary ), ' dictionary structure ' ( or formatting the various ways in which the information is presented in a dictionary ), ' dictionary use ' ( or observing the reference acts and skills of dictionary users ), and ' dictionary IT ' ( or applying computer aids to the process of dictionary compilation ).

It is argued that increasing cholinergic stimulation also acts through subtle trophic effects on brain developmental processes and particularly on oligodendrocytes and the lifelong myelination process they support.

The mediator acts as a neutral third party and facilitates rather than directs the process.

The mediator acts as a neutral facilitator and guides the parties through the process.

Behaviourists such as John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner have proposed that perception acts largely as a process between a stimulus and a response but have noted that Gilbert Ryle's " ghost in the machine of the brain " still seems to exist.

" Through the tour, however, both acts quickly learned to get along, a process made easier by the fact that the Beatles admired his work.

In response to Cardassian citizens engaging in acts of sabotage, the Dominion punished the Cardassians by destroying Lakarian City killing millions of men, women, and children in the process of reducing it to ashes.

" Lacking the power of judicial review, English courts possessed no means by which to declare government statutes or acts invalid as a violation of due process.

Dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convecting, and electrically conducting fluid acts to maintain a magnetic field.

Following substantially an account of H. P. Grice, Searle suggests that we are able to derive meaning out of indirect speech acts by means of a cooperative process out of which we are able to derive multiple illocutions ; however, the process he proposes does not seem to accurately solve the problem.

Characters have a much greater significance attached to their acts, especially if they are morally impure, as they risk coming under the influence of the Dark Powers ( through the game process called " dark powers checks ") and gradually transforming themselves into figures of evil.

In the roasting process, sulfuric acid is formed and acts on the clay to form aluminium sulfate, a similar condition of affairs being produced during weathering.

In this respect, it appears clearly to the chamber that the acts of rape and sexual violence, as other acts of serious bodily and mental harm committed against the Tutsi, reflected the determination to make Tutsi women suffer and to mutilate them even before killing them, the intent being to destroy the Tutsi group while inflicting acute suffering on its members in the process.

Pouring detergent into the salt compartment will damage the water softening system, however this can be reversed if the user acts very quickly and the dishwasher is NOT used: with a suitable wet and dry vacuum cleaner, remove the foreign substance e. g. detergent, followed by adding water again and removing the water with the wet and dry vacuum and repeating the process several times.

In this process O < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup >−</ sup > acts as a Brønsted base, initially forming the radical HO < sub > 2 </ sub >·.

They were placed either in the middle of the acts or in the intermissions.

This need not imply that on average 50 % or more of altruistic acts were beneficial for the altruist in the ancestral environment ; if the benefits from helping the right person were very high it would be beneficial to err on the side of caution and usually be altruistic even if in most cases there were no benefits.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom.

The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies — one of his last acts was to publicly burn at the stake Basil, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological dispute.

The plagues in the preceding chapter, chapter four, were supposed to be seen as acts of discipline that turned Israel back to God.

Statutory values for the acre were enacted in England, and, subsequently, the United Kingdom, by acts of:

Furthermore, Spencer argued that individuals with superior resources who deliberately used investment schemes to put competitor out of business were committing acts of “ commercial murder ”.

Some have suggested that the title " Acts " be interpreted as " The Acts of the Holy Spirit " or even " The Acts of Jesus ," since 1: 1 gives the impression that these acts were set forth as an account of what Jesus continued to do and teach, Jesus himself being the principal actor.

The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to " complete " the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell ( short score ) format.

In 1533, three rectors of Aegina were punished for their acts of injustice and we have a graphic account of the reception given by the Aeginetans to the captain of Nauplia, who came to hold an enquiry into the administration of these delinquents.

In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.

The acts were thus meant to guard against this real threat of anarchy.

Great bonfires would mark a time of purification and transition, heralding in the season in the hope of a good harvest later in the year, and were accompanied with ritual acts to protect the people from any harm by Otherworldly spirits, such as the Aos Sí.

* For the rest of Solomon's reign the text names its source as " the book of the acts of Solomon ", but other sources were employed, and much was added by the redactor.

The Elevation of the Host had been forbidden in 1549 ; all manual acts were now omitted.

The so-called manual acts, whereby the priest took the bread and the cup during the prayer of consecration, which had been deleted in 1552, were restored ; and an " Amen " was inserted after the words of institution and before the Communion, hence separating the elements of Consecration and Communion that Cranmer had tried to knit together.

At that time, radical Ustaše cells of Croatian émigrés in Western Europe planned and guerilla acts inside Yugoslavia, but they were largely countered.

During the 1930s, multiple acts of cannibalism were reported from Ukraine and Russia's Volga, South Siberian and Kuban regions during the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933.

Crime in the social and legal framework is the set of facts or assumptions ( causes, consequences and objectives ) that are part of a case in which they were committed acts punishable under criminal law, and the application of which depends on the agent of a sentence or security measure criminal.

Their abilities to govern were only limited by the decrees of the Senate or the people's assemblies, and the Tribune of the Plebs was unable to veto their acts as long as the governor remained at least a mile outside of Rome.

Such acts of recognition of a saint were authoritative, in the strict sense, only for the diocese or ecclesiastical province for which they were issued, but with the spread of the fame of a saint, were often accepted elsewhere also.