The ubiquitous black market and rampant smuggling supplied the needs of the people, while the central government slid slowly into bankruptcy.

Technology, particularly military technology and its application on the battlefield, is central to the BattleTech series and is one of its most ubiquitous elements.

While the following consonantal features are central to the common stereotype of a " New York accent ", they are not nearly as ubiquitous in New York as many might assume.

As CB1 receptors are fairly ubiquitous throughout the central nervous system, it is not currently understood where exactly the inverse agonist is acting to cause these side-effects.

In " Understand where I'm Coming From ," feelings of rebellion and separation from central government are rapped about just as they might be in politically-conscious American hip hop ; also, in the POC song " Dallah Flet 2 ," " negative and mysogynistic attitudes towards single mothers " are rapped about, something which author Zine Magubane claims is " ubiquitous in American rap music.

The central ranges are of a different topographical nature to the rest of the Flinders, being composed of roughly flat-lying strata, creating a high plateau into which spectacular gorges have been cut, instead of the buckled and folded strata further south which lead to the ubiquitous cuestas of Wilpena Pound.

The central part of the old town is a conservation area rich in historical buildings, some dating to the Middle Ages, and many vernacular buildings of the 17th-early 19th centuries built in the locally ubiquitous grey granite.

The central heating system derives its technological qualities from the fact that it is easy to use, safe to operate, ubiquitous, and the user generally needs to understand little of the way in which the system operates.

* South Africa: Johannesburg-Although not as ubiquitous as in European cities, the central Newtown district is a centre for street art in the city.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

But these are side issues to a powerful central theme.

Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.

Money, so important a theme elsewhere in Dickens, is here central, and hands are often associated in some way with the false values -- acquisitiveness, snobbery, self-interest, hypocrisy, toadyism, irresponsibility, injustice -- that attach to a society based upon the pursuit of wealth.

In structure, Johnson points out the same central theme, that of cannibalism and the eating of babies as well as the same final argument, that " human depravity is such that men will attempt to justify their own cruelty by accusing their victims of being lower than human.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

He wrote that the central theme of the topics above is that of topos theory, while the first and last were of the least importance to him.

A cycle of paintings in Schloss Eggenberg, near Graz in Austria, translated the theme to a different medium ; this was completed in the 1670s shortly before the Ottoman army attacked the Habsburgs in central Europe.

The central theme of Daniel 1-6 is God demonstrating that he is more powerful than the monarchs of Babylon and Persia.

A central theme in Second Isaiah is that of a new Exodus – the return of the exiled people Israel from Babylon to Jerusalem.

The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that ".. nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry.

The Four Noble Truths are regarded as central to the teachings of Buddhism ; they are said to provide a unifying theme, or conceptual framework, for all of Buddhist thought.

The idea of freedom ( for the theatre against the dominance of its French model ; for religion from the church's dogma ) is his central theme throughout his life.

The basic narrative expresses the central theme: God creates the world and appoints man as his regent, but man proves disobedient and God destroys his world through the Flood.

The central theme of hydrology is that water circulates throughout the Earth through different pathways and at different rates.

His point of departure is Freud's Oedipal theories, and the central theme of mourning that runs through Hamlet.

Bounded rationality is a central theme in behavioral economics.

The general view is that the central theme of the Grail is Christian, even when not explicitly religious, but that much of the setting and imagery of the early romances is drawn from Celtic material.

It is also a central theme of the 2006 Russian film Ostrov.

The first statement in the Institutes acknowledges its central theme.

Its central theme is atonement and reconciliation.

The central theme of the Kaddish is the magnification and sanctification of God's name.

Schwitters published a periodical, also called Merz, between 1923 – 32, in which each issue was devoted to a central theme.

The impact of inventions and technology on society is a recurring, if not central theme in Niven's work: for example, addiction to electric brain stimulation resulting in " wireheads ", or the secondary and tertiary effects of an invention such as teleportation on social behavior, problems, and mores.

Although Whorf's approach to understanding the Maya script is now known to have been misguided, his central claim that the script was phonetic and should be deciphered as such was vindicated by Yuri Knorozov's syllabic decipherment of Mayan writing in the 1950s.

The People's Bank of China evolved its role as a central bank starting in about 1979 with the introduction of market reforms, which accelerated in 1989 when the country adopted a generally capitalist approach to its export economy.

He combined Enlightenment ideas with Christian values, cameralist plans for central control of the economy, and a militaristic approach toward diplomacy.

A new physical therapy approach for patients with pusher syndrome suggests that the visual control of vertical upright orientation, which is undisturbed in these patients, is the central element of intervention in treatment.

The modern predictive approach was pioneered by Bruno de Finetti, with the central idea of exchangeability – that future observations should behave like past observations.

The council sought to revive the central role of Scripture in the theological and devotional life of the Church, building upon the work of earlier popes in crafting a modern approach to Scriptural analysis and interpretation.

With this approach, there is no central store of the wiki's content ; instead, every user keeps a complete copy of the wiki locally, and the software handles merging and propagating of changes when they are made.

He combined Enlightenment ideas with Christian values, cameralist plans for central control of the economy, and a militaristic approach toward diplomacy.

It is central to the Neyman – Pearson approach to statistical hypothesis testing, and, like statistical hypothesis testing generally, is both widely used and much criticized.

A common aspect of many policies following the second approach is that they avoid presenting any specific ethnic, religious, or cultural community values as central.

Bertolt Brecht coined the term " defamiliarization effect " ( sometimes called " estrangement effect " or " alienation effect "; German Verfremdungseffekt ) for an approach to theater that focused on the central ideas and decisions in the play, and discouraged involving the audience in an illusory world and in the emotions of the characters.

This shifted into a different approach during the 1982 Falklands / Mavinas war, when Bell started to concentrate on two central characters-Royal Navy officer Kipling and the Penguin he befriends.

The New York writer Paul Goodman, who was co-founder with Fritz Perls of the Gestalt method of psychotherapy, one of the most popular in the world today, and one that makes Otto Rank's " here-and-now " central to its approach, described Rank ’ s post-Freudian ideas on art and creativity as “ beyond praise ” in Gestalt Therapy ( Perls, Goodman and Hefferline, 1951, p. 395 ).

This configuration was called the bent axis approach, as anyone entering would make a ninety degree turn to face the cult statue at the end of the central hall.

The final phase of James's short narratives shows the same characteristics as the final phase of his novels: a more involved style, a deeper psychological approach, and a sharper focus on his central characters.

It can be converted into the true anomaly, which does represent the real geometric angle in the plane of the ellipse, between periapsis ( closest approach to the central body ) and the position of the orbiting object at any given time.

( Historically, this is not the only approach taken by central banks.

The bridge's central main span is long, its two side spans are each long, and the approach viaducts are on the north side and on the south side.

Some of his central presuppositions have been questioned by other researchers and the opaque nature of his explanations has led to a variety of competing interpretations of his approach.

* Second Severn Crossing between England and Wales is 3. 186 miles ( 5. 127 km ) long, consisting of a single central navigation span over the " Shoots " channel and approach viaducts on either side.

From the outset in 1822, when British MP Richard Martin shepherded a bill through Parliament offering protection from cruelty to cattle, horses, and sheep ( earning himself the nickname Humanity Dick ), the welfare approach has had human morality, and humane behaviour, at its central concern.

Minott developed a talent for writing new songs to fit over existing rhythms ( which at the time was common when singers performed live, but rare in the studio ), often proving more popular than the original songs, pioneering an approach that would be central to the emerging dancehall style.

This is divided into a southern approach of 376 metres ( 1, 234 ft ), a northern approach of 731 metres ( 2, 398 ft ) and the three central spans of 520 metres ( 1, 706 ft ).