Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

And it might be, considering the uncomfortable custom the Angels had of thinking of everything in terms of absolutes, that the proposal of anything less might well amount instead to something like a declaration of war.

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

William of Malmesbury says that Ealdred, by " amusing the simplicity of King Edward and alleging the custom of his predecessors, had acquired, more by bribery than by reason, the archbishopric of York while still holding his former see.

Sewing needles were special to the sewer and were custom made, often with a detailed end that had animal heads.

Although this originally had been planned when Commodore first switched from the parallel IEEE-488 interface to a custom serial interface, hardware bugs in the VIC-20's 6522 VIA shift register prevented it from working properly.

By the early 18th century, the custom had become common in towns of the upper Rhineland, but it had not yet spread to rural areas.

Bede notes that the native Old English month Ēostur-monath ( Old English " Ēostre-month ") was equivalent to the month of April, yet that feasts held in the goddess's honor during Ēostur-monath had gone out of use by the time of his writing and had been replaced with the Christian custom of the " Paschal season ".

But both those who followed the Nisan 14 custom, and those who set Easter to the following Sunday ( the Sunday of Unleavened Bread ) had in common the custom of consulting their Jewish neighbors to learn when the month of Nisan would fall, and setting their festival accordingly.

Two other objections that some Christians may have had to maintaining the custom of consulting the Jewish community in order to determine Easter are implied in Constantine's letter from the Council of Nicea to the absent bishops:

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

There seems little doubt that Bacon had accepted gifts from litigants, but this was an accepted custom of the time and not necessarily evidence of deeply corrupt behaviour.

As the rules of rugby's scrimmage were written when the game came to North America by Mike Newell, they had a significant flaw which was corrected by custom elsewhere, but by the invention of the snap in American football.

He became possessed of a spirit, and suddenly began to rave in a kind of ecstatic trance, and to babble in a jargon, prophesying in a manner contrary to the custom of the Church which had been handed down by tradition from the earliest times.

He would not allow women to view even the gladiators except from the upper seats, though it had been the custom for men and women to sit together at such shows.

For Silius Italicus, who wrote as the games approached their peak, the degenerate Campanians had devised the very worst of precedents, which now threatened the moral fabric of Rome: " It was their custom to enliven their banquets with bloodshed and to combine with their feasting the horrid sight of armed men fighting ; often the combatants fell dead above the very cups of the revelers, and the tables were stained with streams of blood.

By the end of the 12th century they had become holy days of obligation across Europe and involved such traditions as ringing bells for the souls in purgatory and " souling ", the custom of baking bread or soul cakes for " all crysten christened souls ".

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

A letter of Pope Urban IV suggests that by " immemorial custom ", seven princes had the right to elect the King and future Emperor.

Employing the distinction, Henry gave up his right to invest his bishops and abbots, but reserved the custom of requiring them to come and do homage for the " temporalities " ( the landed properties tied to the episcopate ), directly from his hand, after the prelate had sworn homage and feudal vassalage in the ceremony called commendatio, the commendation ceremony, like any secular vassal.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

If the disk was not otherwise prepared with a custom format, ( e. g. for data disks ), 664 blocks would be free after formatting, giving 664 × 254 = 168, 656 bytes ( or almost 165 kB ) for user data.

They are due almost universally to one cause: the desire of the king to know the custom of his subjects.

For perspective, for a product with more restrictive requirements ( such as weight, geometry, safety, environment, etc ), such as a space-suit, a more top-down approach is taken and almost everything is custom designed.

By Hammurabi's time, almost all trace of tribal custom had already disappeared from the law of the Code.

Bach's biographer Forkel explains the Quodlibet by invoking a custom observed at Bach family reunions ( Bach's relatives were almost all musicians ):

In Palestinian, Egyptian and Israeli cuisine, it is the custom to eat almost everything in a pita, from falafel, lamb or chicken shawarma, kebab, omelettes such as shakshouka ( eggs and tomatoes ), Molokhia and hummus and other salads.

From almost the beginning of Mars ' city the custom of New Year's gifts ( strenae ) prevailed on account of the precedent of king Tatius who was the first to reckon the holy branches ( verbenae ) of a fertile tree ( arbor felix ) in Strenia's grove as the auspicious signs of the new year.

Geologically, its terrain is almost completely flat levelled, which is the custom for south-western Skåne as a whole.

Since there are almost never two production pipelines that are the same, custom tools always need to be developed to address problems in the production process, e. g. to address image manipulation issue.

Though support for national treatment was expressed in several controversial ( and legally non-binding ) United Nations General Assembly resolutions, the issue of expropriations is almost universally handled through treaties with other states and contracts with private entities, rather than through reliance upon international custom.

However, it is an almost universal custom among observant Jews to recite it in Hebrew.

Today, Muzak offers almost 100 channels of music via satellite or IP delivery, in addition to completely custom music programs tailored to their clients ' needs.

For almost all Santo's people custom plays a large part in their lives, regardless of their religion.

In both Gunpla and Figure magazines it is almost guaranteed to see Char's custom red mobile suit.

The NLRB, almost without exception, resolves jurisdictional disputes on the basis of the employer's preference in assigning work, with efficiency, custom and practice, and contractual obligations playing at most a secondary role.

This custom has, however, as a result of the High Church movement, become almost completely obsolete.

" This custom is almost forgotten, but still practiced in the area around borders of Mazuria and Masovia.

New Ireland, like much of Papua New Guinea, has a mixture of the old and the new: traditional cultural practices (" custom ") are widespread and almost universally respected, yet society is changing as a result of church activity, urbanisation, and various aspects of global contemporary culture making their mark.

Following custom almost certainly dating back at least to the Middle Ages, most lăutari rapidly spend the fees from these wedding ceremonies on extended banquets for their friends and families over the days immediately following the wedding.

The shoe can be custom made in any color, but typically it has either a white or black based background color with almost any color used to fill in the Nike Swoosh and back heel.

The engine is almost entirely identical to the version in the Interceptor VF500F sport bike, and while Honda sold the VF500C Magna in the United States, it advertised it as the " most powerful midsize custom in the world ".

is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the beauty of flowers, " flower " in this case almost always meaning cherry blossoms (" sakura ") or ( less often ) plum blossoms (" ume ").

Before the entry into force of that Code, it was an almost universal custom to confer all four minor orders at one time, since the bishop was authorized to dispense from the rule that each order had to be exercised for some time before reception of the next highest order.

The inverted coaster quickly became an industry favorite with custom designs being installed almost every year.