As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

A female Oriental Latrine Fly ( Chrysomya megacephala ) feeds on animal feces.

Among the features that have contributed to its cult appeal are the theme song, the dubbed dialogue spoken in a variety of over-the-top " Oriental " accents, ( except for Sandy who inexplicably speaks with an English accent ), the reasonably good synchronization of dubbing to the actors ' original dialogue, the fact that the young priest Tripitaka was played by a woman and the fact that Guan yin, who is usually depicted in statues and paintings as a female, is portrayed by a male.

* In S. M. Stirling's novel Drakon ( The Domination series ), the female drakensis Gwendolyn Ingolfson comments on Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism: " Interesting analysis.

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The Florida woods roach looks remarkably similar to the female Oriental cockroach, and the two could be mistaken for each other by the casual observer.

Oriental cockroach ( female )

Huge oil paintings adorning the walls of St Jacques-sur-Caudenberg ; biblical scenes, such as The Daughter of Sion Reviled ( in the Brussels Gallery ), The Death of Judas, The Magi travelling to Bethlehem, Judiths Prayer, and The Drought in Judaea ; genre pictures, such as A Box in the Theatre at Budapest ( Brussels Gallery ), portraits of officials and of high society, Oriental scenes and, above all, pictures of exotic female figures and exotic life.

The female oriental cockroach looks somewhat similar to the Florida woods cockroach, and may be mistaken for it.

Worse still, in a number of cases it has been claimed that the Psithyrus female kills the Bombus queen.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

While originally written as a male role, it has been performed by female cast as well.

* In Futurama, the future equivalent of baseball ( blernsball ) has Leela as the first female pitcher.

The male is torpedo-shaped, with gold stripes between the blue stripes ; the female has a larger, whitish belly and silver stripes instead of gold.

Weissman has also argued that Chaplin's problematic relationship to his mentally ill mother was often reflected on the female characters in his films and the Tramp's desire to save them.

Love is also self-identified feminist, and has been noted throughout her career for her subversive feminism and " self-conscious parody of female sex roles ".

The fraction of female undergraduates has been increasing since then.

The female cuckoo then has time to lay her egg in their nest without being seen to do so.

Since the NCAA has yet to recognize cheerleading as an official college sport, there are no solid numbers on college cheerleading, yet when it comes to injuries, 67 % of female athlete injuries at the college level are due to cheerleading mishaps.

During mating, the female has the advantage and mating choice.

Blanche Hunt ( Maggie Jones ) embodied the role of the acid-tongued busybody originally held by Ena Sharples, Sally Webster ( Sally Dynevor ) has grown snobbish, like Annie Walker, and a number of the programme's female characters mirror the vulnerability of Elsie Tanner and Bet Lynch.

* Cyborg, a film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth due to a nuclear disaster, and has a female cyborg as a central character.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

The spotted hyena, which has a particularly well-developed clitoris, is the only species in which the female urinates, mates and gives birth via the clitoris.

* The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to ' admire ' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.

Clitoral reconstructive surgery was developed by French surgeon Pierre Foldès and has been clinically proven to allow women who have undergone female genital mutilation with clitoridectomy, to achieve clitoral orgasms and reduce pain.

The term female chauvinism has been adopted by critics of some types or aspects of feminism ; second-wave feminist Betty Friedan is a notable example.

Unusually, he suggests that Christ is neither male or female, and that God the Father has both male and female aspects: the eucharist is described as milk from the breast ( Christ ) of the Father.

Thus, he implicitly emphasized that it is God-made (" God has joined together "), " male and female ," lifelong (" let no one separate "), and monogamous (" a man ... his wife ").

On the night of Christmas Eve, so important is the appearance of the first star in remembrance of the Star of Bethlehem, that it has been given an affectionate name of " the little star " or Gwiazdka ( the female counterpart of St. Nicholas ).

It has been described as the arrival of the expression of raw female sexual desire in pop music.

He has indicated that the institution of the Dalai Lama may be abolished in the future, and also that the next Dalai Lama may be found outside Tibet and may be female.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

A somewhat more improbable example is Baroness Orczy's aristocratic female Scotland Yard detective Molly Robertson-Kirk, known as Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.

In Nepal, somewhat larger male ranges have been found at about, while female ranges at ; female home ranges decreased to when young cubs were present, while the sexual difference in range size seemed to be in positive proportion to overall increase.

The practice of referring to countertenors as " male sopranos " is somewhat controversial within vocal pedagogical circles as these men do not produce sound in the same physiological way that female sopranos do.

As for Trance, little is known at first about this pixie-like purple female alien other than that she has a tail and seems somewhat distant.

The expected afterlife for the exclusively female initiates in the sacra Cereris may have been somewhat different ; they were offered " a method of living " and of " dying with better hope ".

Cranach was equally successful in somewhat naive mythological scenes, in which at least one slim female figure, naked except for a transparent drape, and perhaps for a large hat, nearly always features.

For radical feminists, the importance of matriarchy is that " veneration for the female principle ... somewhat lightens an oppressive system.

These were then carried on the female ’ s backs after being carefully wrapped up, somewhat like a mother would wrap up a newborn child.

The Marassa are somewhat different from standard Loa, both on a level above them, and counted in their number, they are both twins, and yet they number three, they are male and female, and both male and both female-an example of the Haitian worldview's capacity to retain two seemingly contradictory concepts.

However, the last statistic is somewhat misleading because of female longevity, and if adults 18-65 were considered, the numbers would be very close to equal.

* Iyanla-the Great Mother, also called Awon Iya mi ( Our Mothers ) and sometimes referred to as Gelede, the female masquerade commonly found in the Egba areas of Yoruba land and somewhat well preserved in Bahia, Brazil.

Except during the early follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, its serum levels are somewhat higher than that of estrone during the reproductive years of the human female.

More similar to the female Mallard in North America are the American Black Duck ( A. rubripes ), which is notably darker hued in both sexes than the Mallard, and the Mottled Duck ( A. fulvigula ), which is somewhat darker than the female Mallard, with no white edge on the speculum and slightly different bare-part coloration.

The Shanghainese name was somewhat in contrast with usage in Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, where chángshān ( the Mandarin pronunciation of 長衫 ) refers to an exclusively male dress ( see changshan ) and the female version is known as a qipao.

The flowers open before the leaves, the female flowers being somewhat longer than the male flowers ; they are dark purple, and without petals, and are wind-pollinated.

Francis Iles ( Anthony Berkeley Cox ) was somewhat muted in his praise in his review in The Guardian of 7 December 1962 when he said, " she has of course thought up one more brilliant little peg on which to hang her plot, but the chief interest to me of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was the shrewd exposition of what makes a female film star tick the way she does tick.

The practice of referring to countertenors as " male sopranos " is somewhat controversial within vocal pedagogical circles as these men do not produce sound in the same physiological way that female sopranos do.

In his last years Curll published a series of " Merryland " books which constitute a major contribution to the somewhat peculiar genre of English seventeenth and eighteenth century erotic fiction in which the female body ( and sometimes the male ) was described in terms of topographical metaphor.

The Femforce's military liaison was initially a man named General Gordon, an old school and somewhat sexist soldier who occasionally clashed with his female allies.

However, in vascular plants this is mostly achieved without physical contact between mating individuals ( see pollination ), and in some cases, e. g., in fungi no distinguishable male or female organs exist ( see isogamy ); however, mating types in some fungal species are somewhat analogous to sexual dimorphism in animals, and determine whether or not two individual isolates can mate.

Immatures are somewhat larger than a Sharp-shinned Hawk and smaller than a Northern Goshawk, though small males nearly overlap with large female Sharp-shinned Hawks, and large female Cooper's Hawks nearly overlap with small male Goshawks.