In theory, compulsive behavior is a way of diminishing anxiety, and one might expect a negative association except for the possibility that for many children the obsessive-compulsive defenses are not sufficient to quell the amount of anxiety they suffer.

association by level of achievement is the dominant principle of informal relations.

The stamens are usually found around the style, either aggregated densely or fused into a tube, probably an adaptation in association with the plunger ( brush ; or secondary ) pollination that is common among the families of the order, wherein pollen is collected and stored on the length of the pistil.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

They have not been expelled or suspended, since there is no mechanism in this voluntary association to suspend or expel an independent province of the Communion.

* The Prefect: The Prefect believes at first that the talk of plague is a false alarm, but on the advice of his medical association, he authorizes limited measures to combat it.

Britannia's association with the oceanic British Empire is indicated by her holding a large anchor.

Amber becomes abundant long after the Carboniferous, in the Early Cretaceous,, when it is found in association with insects.

The acre is also approximately 56. 68 percent of a long by wide association football ( soccer ) pitch.

Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).

This ambivalence is expressed also in the god's association with the Thracians, who were regarded by the Greeks as a barbarous and warlike people.

Facilitation, or the positive interactions between different species of plants, is an intricate web of association in a natural environment.

AZ (), an initialism for Alkmaar Zaanstreek, is an association football club from the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

The Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración ( the Latin American Integration Association ; known as ALADI or, occasionally, by the English acronym LAIA ) is a Latin American trade integration association, based in Montevideo.

It is not entirely clear whether this association is causal, and some researchers have been known to disagree with this view.

One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.

The town's other famous association is with Accrington Stanley F. C., the butt of many ( largely affectionate ) jokes.

The SIG is a privately held, not-for-profit trade association founded in September 1998.

The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football ( soccer ): the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field.

The offside rule is also similar to that observed in association football ( soccer ).

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

In the same year, at the age of 21, he composed his Mass, which marks the culmination of his family's long association with church music in his native Lucca.

Perhaps for no other reason than the association of name, the 9th century Persian astronomer Abu Ma ' shar assumed Ptolemy to be member of Egypt's royal lineage, stating that the ten kings of Egypt who followed Alexander were wise " and included Ptolemy the Wise, who composed the book of the Almagest ".

They are composed of about 100 species of vermiform creatures and live in thin tubes buried in sediments at ocean depths from 100 to 10, 000 m. They can also be found in association with hydrothermal vents, methane seeps, with sunken plant material or whale carcasses.

In 1988, in association with the Australian Bicentennial Authority, the company toured Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and the National Opera Workshop in Melbourne with The Ra Project, a music-theatre work composed with the direct participation from the earliest stages of the singers who performed it and marking director Baz Luhrmann's first association with the Australian Opera.

: Business organization or association typically composed of relatively large numbers of businesses, tradespersons or professionals in the same or related fields of endeavor, which pools resources, shares information or provides other benefits for their members.

Simmel refers to " all the forms of association by which a mere sum of separate individuals are made into a ' society ,'" which he describes as a, " higher unity ," composed of individuals.

The Wappingers were one of these groups, composed of eighteen bands, organized not as formally as a tribe, but more of an association, like the Delaware.

A collective business system or collective business model is a business organization or association typically composed of relatively large numbers of businesses, tradespersons or professionals in the same or related fields of endeavor, which pools resources, shares information or provides other benefits for their members.

The show was produced by Jobsite Productions and Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, and the theme song for the show was composed and performed by They Might Be Giants.

* Baltimore Catholic League, a competitive basketball association composed of private Catholic high schools in the Baltimore, Maryland area

During this period Dufay also began his long association with the Este family in Ferrara, some of the most important musical patrons of the Renaissance, and with which he probably had become acquainted during the days of his association with the Malatesta family ; Rimini and Ferrara are not only geographically close, but the two families were related by marriage, and Dufay composed at least one ballade for Niccolò III, Marquis of Ferrara.

The source for the number of Danes in the minority is the „ Beratender Ausschuß für Fragen der dänischen Minderheit beim Bundesminister des Innern “, a consulting commission in the Ministry of the Interior, composed of representatives of the ministry itself, two members of each party in the German parliament, the Commissary for Minorities of Schleswig-Holstein and three members of Danish party ( 2 ) and association ( 1 ).

The organizational structure includes an Executive Committee composed of a Council elected by the churches and the officers ( Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer ) elected by the association.

Also, because the MTA Board is composed of Romney appointees, Kriss's former association with the Romney administration and the ongoing election at the time, the issue was clouded by accusations of partiality and political agendas from both sides of the aisle.

A parent-teacher association ( PTA ) or Parent-Teacher-Student Association ( PTSA ) is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a school.

In 2000, this association was composed of 4 churches with 201 members.

In the years around 1900 a style of guajira emerged in association with Cuban music theater, especially as composed by Jorge Anckermann.

The Compartment upon which the supporters stand is composed of rock from its traditional association with Peter ( and Paeda ) and the motto is similarly derived.

According to a police report on the Alpha Galates dated 13 February 1945 the organisation was only composed of at most 50 members, who resigned one after the other as soon as they sized up the president of the association ( Pierre Plantard ) and figured out that it was not a serious enterprise.

Each planet seems tied to a particular aspect of reality, and manifests this association through a Shard Realm, an incomprehensible realm composed of a single aspect of reality ( for example, The Shard Realm of Time, associated with the planet Saturn, is composed entirely of time ).

The Grand Chapter is composed of the seven grand officers and one voting delegate from each active and elder chapter and geographical association.

They became famous as a team early in their association, so much so that their joined names were applied to the total canon of Fletcher, including his solo works and the plays he composed with various other collaborators — Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, and many more.