But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

We must use common sense in applying conditions

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

Finally, whatever the techniques used, a twin goal is common to all preventive casework service: to cushion or reduce the force of the stress impact while at the same time to encourage and support family members to mobilize and use their ego capacities.

We come upon a rabbit that has been caught in one of the brutal traps in common use.

We find it in that `` common way of life pleasing to Christ and still in use among the truest societies of Christians '', that is, the better monasteries which made it easier to convert the Utopians to Christianity.

Table 1,, p. 394, shows a comparison of K factor ratings of a number of commercial insulating materials in common use, including two different types of rigid urethane foam.

Inside the body, artificial heart valves are in common use with artificial hearts and lungs seeing less common use but under active technology development.

There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

The term " allocution " is generally only in use in jurisdictions in the United States, though there are vaguely similar processes in other common law countries.

Arsenic is a common n-type dopant in semiconductor electronic devices, and the optoelectronic compound gallium arsenide is the most common semiconductor in use after doped silicon.

In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based detective, depending on logic, which is represented in his vocabulary by two common phrases: his use of " the little grey cells " and " order and method ".

Both terms anti-Semitism and antisemitism are in common use.

Jehovah's Witnesses occasionally use the terms " afterlife " and " hereafter " to refer to any hope for the dead, but they understand Ecclesiastes 9: 5 to preclude common views of afterlife:

This is particularly important for light, modern anchors designed to bury in the bottom, where ratios of 5 – 7 to 1 are common, whereas heavy anchors and moorings can use 3 to 1 or less.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

One such example is the common use of western broccoli ( xīlán, 西蘭 ) instead of Chinese broccoli ( jie lan, 芥蘭 jièlán ) in American Chinese cuisine.

By the mid-16th century, they were in common use in most of Europe.

The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.

This poster from the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention " Get Smart " campaign, intended for use in doctors ' offices and other healthcare facilities, warns that antibiotics do not work for viral illnesses such as the common cold.

Less commonly seen animals include cuvier's beaked whale, false killer whale, pygmy sperm whale, dwarf sperm whale, risso's dolphin, common dolphin, humpback whale and Bryde's whale.

They are the predominant race in Barsaive, and the dwarf language is considered the common language.

Campbell's dwarf hamster ( Phodopus campbelli ) is the most common — they are also sometimes called " Russian dwarfs "; however, many hamsters are from Russia, so this ambiguous name does not distinguish them from other species appropriately.

The bonobo ( or ), Pan paniscus, previously called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is a great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan ; the other is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee.

A red dwarf has a mass of less than half that of the Sun ( down to about 0. 075 solar masses, below which stellar objects are brown dwarfs ) and a surface temperature of less than 4, 000 K. Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of star in the Galaxy, at least in the neighborhood of the Sun.

Several foundlings appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld: most notably Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson ( found as a toddler among the ruins of a caravan party attacked by bandits, surrounded by the bodies of the adults ; Carrot was adopted and raised by the dwarfs who discovered him, and was surprised to learn at age 16-and 6ft 6in tall-that he was not a dwarf ; mounting evidence suggests that Carrot is the scion of the deposed Ankh-Morpork royal family, but he himself has suppressed this as much as possible, considering the role of police captain to be a preferable one in which to safeguard his city and keep order ), also Tomjohn ( rightful heir to the throne of Lancre, rescued from his father's killer by loyal servants, entrusted to the local witches and given to travelling actors to raise ; Tomjohn eventually returns to the kingdom, but does not wish to rule it, preferring to remain an actor ) and Keith ( The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-ironically, Malicia, obsessed with fairytales, is certain that this makes him likely to be a prince, but Keith explains that it is common in the city to abandon babies outside the Guilds where they are likely to receive care and training in a trade ).

The structure features in one of the best-known tales of Yucatec Maya folklore, " el enano del Uxmal " ( the dwarf of Uxmal ), which is also the basis for the structure's common name.

Mongoose range in weight from the common dwarf mongoose, at, to the cat-sized white-tailed mongoose, at.

Annuals are also characteristic of this habitat, including common whitlowgrass ( Erophila verna ), rue-leaved saxifrage ( Saxifraga tridactylites ,) hairy rock-cress ( Arabis hirsuta ) and the nationally scarce dwarf mouse-ear ( Cerastium pumilum ) and fine-leaved sandwort ( Minuartia hybrida ).

Species include the common dogwood Cornus sanguinea of Eurasia, the widely cultivated flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida ) of eastern North America, the Pacific dogwood Cornus nuttallii of western North America, the Kousa dogwood Cornus kousa of eastern Asia, and two low-growing boreal species, the Canadian and Eurasian dwarf cornels ( or bunchberries ), Cornus canadensis and Cornus suecica respectively.

Taxonomists further categorize the common minke whale into two or three subspecies ; the North Atlantic minke whale, the North Pacific minke whale and dwarf minke whale.

Writing in his 1998 classification, Rice recognized two of the subspecies of the common minke whale-B. a. scammoni ( Scammon's minke whale ) and a further ( taxonomically ) unnamed subspecies found in the Southern Hemisphere to which he gave the common name the dwarf minke whale ( first described by Best, 1986 ).

There are several forms of common minke whale, including Scammon's minke whale ( B. a. scammoni ) from the North Pacific and the dwarf minke whale, from the Southern Hemisphere.

Its summer range is close to Antarctica, but it moves further north in winter, overlapping in range with the dwarf form of the common minke whale.

The most common contemporary usage of the word is among the Zulu speaking population of South Africa where it takes on a meaning of dwarf or ' Bushmen ' in reference to the former hunter-gatherers of the region.

Rhithropanopeus harrisii ( common names include the Zuiderzee crab, dwarf crab, estuarine mud crab, Harris mud crab, and white-tipped mud crab ), is a small omnivorous crab native to Atlantic coasts of the Americas, from New Brunswick to northern Brazil.

A number of alpine plants grow near the summit: dwarf willow, cowberry, crowberry, fir clubmoss and common bilberry.

The dwarf buffalo is common in forest areas of Central and West Africa.

A comprehensive list of the animal types found in Tsavo East Park includes the aardwolf, yellow baboon, bat, cape buffalo, bushbaby, bushbuck, caracal, African wildcat, cheetah, African Civet, dik-dik, African hunting dog, African dormouse, Blue Duiker, bush duiker, Red duiker, eland, African elephant, bat-eared fox, greater galago, gazelle, large-spotted genet, small-spotted genet, gerenuk, giraffe, African hare, springhare, Coke's hartebeest, hunter hartebeest, East African hedgehog, spotted hyena, striped hyena, rock hyrax, tree hyrax, impala, black-backed jackal, side-striped jackal, klipspringer, Lesser Kudu, leopard, lion, banded mongoose, dwarf mongoose, Egyptian Mongoose, marsh mongoose, slender mongoose, white-tailed mongoose, black faced vervet monkey, Sykes ' monkey, fringe-eared oryx, clawless otter, ground pangolin, crested porcupine, cane rat, giant rat, naked mole rat, ratel, bohor reedbuck, black rhinoceros, serval, spectacled elephant shrew, bush squirrel, East African red squirrel, striped ground squirrel, unstriped ground squirrel, suni, warthog, waterbuck, common zebra and Grevy's zebra.

It is not to be confused with the Grimm fairy tale Snow White ( which is written Schneewittchen in German, rather than Schneeweißchen ) that provided the basis for the Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; this is a completely different character, and she has nothing in common with the other one, other than sharing her name in English, and having an encounter with a dwarf.

One of the common creations of the Comprachicos was supposed to be artificial dwarfs, formed " by anointing babies ' spines with the grease of bats, moles and dormice " and using drugs such as " dwarf elder, knotgrass, and daisy juice ".

The pygmy marmoset or dwarf monkey ( Cebuella pygmaea ) is a quadrupedal New World monkey native to the rainforest understories of western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia, with an altitudinal range of 200 to 940 m. It is most common in river edge forests, but also can be found in secondary forest and moderately disturbed forest.