With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

The context switch is an essential feature of a multitasking operating system.

A distinguishing feature of all flamenco guitars is the tapping plates ( golpeadores ) glued to the table, to protect them against the taps with the fingernails that are an essential feature of the flamenco style.

This is not an accidental feature of Rousseau's educational and political philosophy ; it is essential to his account of the distinction between private, personal relations and the public world of political relations.

Lycanthropy is often confused with transmigration ; but the essential feature of the were-animal is that it is the alternative form or the double of a living human being, while the soul-animal is the vehicle, temporary or permanent, of the spirit of a dead human being.

The English cleric Richard Cumberland wrote a lengthy and influential attack on Hobbes's depiction of individual self-interest as the essential feature of human motivation.

He emphasized intuition as a neglected but essential feature of productive thinking.

An essential feature of a quango in the original definition was that it should not be a formal part of the state structure.

This feature proved essential as the growth of the Usenet made it impossible to read every article in even a limited selection of newsgroups.

In Syria, even the smallest city is centred on a defensible citadel, and Saladin introduced this essential feature to Egypt.

This is inefficient, but tolerated as it is an essential feature for most software, especially string processing.

Simple, single-page manga had begun to appear in these magazines by 1910, and by the 1930s more sophisticated humor-strips had become an essential feature of most girls ' magazines.

In telecommunication, an essential service ( critical service ) is a network-provided service feature in which a priority dial tone is furnished.

In Brownlee v The Queen ( 2001 ) 207 CLR 278, the High Court of Australia unanimously held that a jury of 12 members was not an essential feature of " trial by jury " in section 80 of the Australian Constitution.

Unity, under this ideology, is seen as an essential feature of the nation and the nation-state — unity of descent, unity of culture, unity of language, and often unity of religion.

This strategy is a feature of some traditional Chinese martial arts as wing chun, as well as an essential component of European épée fencing.

This announcement or striking feature is an essential characteristic of true clocks and distinguishes such watches from ordinary timepieces.

Since I / O requests are performed using message passing, high priority threads receive I / O service before low priority threads, an essential feature in a hard real-time system.

In the 1980s the breakbeat became an essential feature of many genres of breaks music which became popular within the global dance music scene, including big beat, nu skool breaks and progressive breaks.

The late 19th century saw a boom in the building of public art galleries in Europe and America, becoming an essential cultural feature of larger cities.

The river Segre is an essential feature of the Lleida's geography, dividing the city in two.

Its essential feature is preventing gas escaping the breech when the gun is fired, by means of an expansive cartridge case containing its own means of ignition.

This feature is essential for maximum charge pressure ( volumetric efficiency ) and fuel efficiency.

* Gabapentin, approved for treatment of seizures and postherpetic neuralgia in adults, has side-effects which are useful in treating bipolar disorder, essential tremor, hot flashes, migraine prophylaxis, neuropathic pain syndromes, phantom limb syndrome, and restless leg syndrome.

* Gabapentin, approved for treatment of seizures and postherpetic neuralgia in adults, is used off-label for a variety of conditions including bipolar disorder, essential tremor, hot flashes, migraine prophylaxis, neuropathic pain syndromes, phantom limb syndrome, and restless leg syndrome.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

Similarities to the approach which I have described are evident in the prompt establishment of a helping relationship, quick appraisal of key issues, and the immediate mobilization of treatment plans as the essential dynamics in helping to further the ego's coping efforts in dealing with the interplay of inner and outer stresses.

`` I did not perceive this essential distinction either, First-Born '', Hesperus said at once, `` I was only practicing a concept that Jack taught me, called a deal ''.

Einstein later expressed to Erwin Schrödinger that, " it did not come out as well as I had originally wanted ; rather, the essential thing was, so to speak, smothered by the formalism.

The essential distinction between the frequentists and the non-frequentists is, I think, that the former, in an effort to avoid anything savouring of matters of opinion, seek to define probability in terms of the objective properties of a population, real or hypothetical, whereas the latter do not.

Since World War I, achieving and maintaining air superiority has been essential for victory in conventional warfare.

" There are four things, which I humbly conceive, are essential to the well being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States as an independent power:

" There I learned the science and technique of building, which is just as essential to architecture.

I think that in all essential respects you have given the best possible proof & this does not happen frequently.

As nothing is essential to the fable, but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and, by circumscribing the extent of the drama, lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented, that they were not known by him, or not observed: Nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him, that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus.

Access control systems provide the essential services of identification and authentication ( I & A ), authorization, and accountability where:

The individual urge to restore this lost unity is ( as I have formerly pointed out ) an essential factor in the production of human cultural values " ( Rank, 1932 / 1989, p. 113 ).

This was, I argued, essential to the story of characters driven by the uglier aspects of ambition and greed ".

As Laird put it, " In terms of United States strategic objectives, SALT I improved our deterrent posture, braked the rapid buildup of Soviet strategic forces, and permitted us to continue those programs which are essential to maintaining the sufficiency of our long-term strategic nuclear deterrent.

Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system ; hence the selection of the fittest characters to expound the law, and dispense justice, has been an invariable object of my anxious concern.

Thomas Jefferson, stated as early as 1799 that " Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto ", and in 1801 " I deem of the essential principles of our government be peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.