No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.

Under the new rules, testimony is taken orally in open court in all cases except those of an extraordinary character.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

You perform a character of your own making, and with that character and the others working with you, you create a new and spontaneous piece.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

Using the techniques of modern biotechnology, one or two genes ( Smartstax from Monsanto in collaboration with Dow AgroSciences will use 8, starting in 2010 ) may be transferred to a highly developed crop variety to impart a new character that would increase its yield.

Adding new character sets and character encodings enabled a number of other left-to-right scripts to be supported, but did not easily support right-to-left scripts such as Arabic or Hebrew, and mixing the two was not practical.

For months, Howard had been in search of a new character to market to the burgeoning pulp outlets of the early 1930s.

" ( May 1929 ), replacing his existing character Kull of Atlantis with his new hero, and retitling it " The Phoenix on the Sword ".

He was also creating new cartoons for the Internet based on his new character, Thomas Timberwolf.

* " With feeling profound concern, grief, indignation, am compelled disclose Bahá ' í world recent developments Holy Land furnishing further incontestable proof relationship established old and new Covenant-breakers demonstrating increasing boldness, marked, tragic decline in character and spiritual condition grandchildren ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

The character Hippolyta states " And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in Heaven ".

Celebrating Doraemons anniversary, a new Doraemon series began airing on TV Asahi on April 15, 2005 with new voice actors and staff, and updated character designs.

The player character faces them in large numbers, with the number generally increased when the higher of the game's five difficulty levels is chosen when starting a new game.

Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ), the first comic book to feature the new character archetype — soon known as " superheroes " — proved a major sales hit.

Instead of reviving the old character, Schwartz had writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Joe Kubert create an entirely new super-speedster, updating and modernizing the Flash's civilian identity, costume, and origin with a science-fiction bent.

Devo continued to tour actively in 2005 and 2006, unveiling a new stage show at shows in October 2006, and an appearance of the Jihad Jerry character performing " Beautiful World " as an encore.

He recommended the development of a new science, " ethology ," the purpose of which would be explanation of individual and national differences in character, on the basis of associationistic psychology.

Massive evidence has been collected that proves the repressive, undemocratic, illiberal, nonpluralistic character of the GDR regime and its ruling party.

Massive evidence has been collected that proves the repressive, undemocratic, illiberal, nonpluralistic character of the GDR regime and its ruling party.

In one study, the dhcp phase could be produced without compression, using a nonequilibrium annealing regime with a rapid temperature change between about 400 and 700 ° C, confirming the transient character of this samarium phase.

Although Bower didn't dwell at length on the negative aspects of James's character he alluded to the dismay of even those close to the king at his harsh regime.

The character of Nehemiah Scudder, the " First Prophet " of the regime, appeared in Heinlein's first novel ( never published in his lifetime ), For Us, The Living.

The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity " committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.

In a sense, the protagonist of the film is not the Tracy character but a humble German worker played by Hume Cronyn, who changes from Nazi sympathizer to active opponent of the regime as he aids Tracy.

In the TV series Grimm, the Big Bad Wolf, known as Blutbad, was the first villain in the series, with main character Monroe being a ' reformed ' Blutbad who relies on a strict regime to resist his urge to attack humans, serving as the main character's guide to the supernatural world he is abruptly dropped into.

Based on the assumption that a country's climate shapes the character of its population, and hence to a large extent the most suitable form of government, Bodin postulated that a hereditary monarchy would be the ideal regime for a temperate nation such as France.

As part of this regime, the capital Chang ' an's name was changed as well, involving the change of a homophonous character — 長安 ( literally long peace ) to 常安 ( literally enduring peace ).

In 1971 the regime announced that " The selection of applicants must clearly be political in character.

The reason is not clear ; propaganda written in support of her son claims that she was received as Queen by the royalists, but she was quickly arrested by the Republican regime, who publicly announced the capture of " Lucy Barlow, who ... passeth under the character of Charles Stuart's wife or mistress ", and sent her back to Holland in a bid to embarrass the king.

All told, while the basic character of Kádár's regime was far different from that of Rákosi, at bottom it was still a one-party authoritarian state.

In Victor Serge ’ s novel Unforgiving Years ( Les Années sans pardon ) the character Herr Schiff-an old German professor loyal to the Nazi regime, demoralized and disoriented in war-ravaged Berlin in the closing days of the Second World War – rereads Hans Delbrück ’ s The History of Warfare: “ Lately, it was true, the sense of most of what he read escaped him ; but being incapable of inattention, the mechanical act of reading acted upon him like a sedative.

The regime instituted by Goga and Cuza gave itself a paramilitary wing of Fascist character, the Lăncieri (" Lance-bearers ").

A jailer who had personal contact with her lauded her character and behavior and modern women scholars review this kind of accusation as part of a pattern faced by women leaders and writers then and since in a way that Azar Nafisi says "… the Islamic regime today … fears them and feels vulnerable in the face of a resistance that is not just political but existential.

Imee Marcos is widely criticized for taking the lead in street protests in defense of human rights abuses which they say is out character for a daughter of a former dictator whose regime was well known for its brutal violations of human rights.

Many of these men were Alawis ( e. g. all of the above except Atassi, Jundi, and Zouayyen, who were Sunni ), giving the regime a sectarian character.

Although the PCT regime was designed as a Soviet-style socialist party-state, it was essentially a military regime with a strongly ethno-regional character.

While it is undisputed that the regime was an authoritarian dictatorship in character ( it locked away members of the opposition, mostly Nazis, Communists and Social-Democrats, in concentration camps called Anhaltelager or imprisonment centers ), some historians argue that it lacked certain characteristics of true fascism.

Though on regeneration the character loses his memory of his adventures with the Doctor, he assists Gryffen and several teenage companions against a dystopian regime of " The Department ".

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.

Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.

Susan was an active character ; ;

It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.