The few cases of clear favoritism along social-class lines are as likely as not to involve representatives of the working class on the school board who favor some such practice as higher wages for janitors rather than pay increases for teachers, and such issues are not issues of educational policy.

Giffen had already urged him to journey south, if only for a few days to clear up matters.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

In a few states, a different system of insuring title of real properties provides for registration of a clear title with public authorities.

It does seem clear that possession of slaves allowed even poorer Athenians — owning a few slaves was by no means equated with wealth — to devote more of their time to political life.

A few contractile vacuoles around the periphery of the cell expel excess water, and are visible as clear bulges when full.

During the past few centuries of detailed, scientific study of the Bronze Age, it has become clear that on the whole, the use of copper or bronze was only the most stable and therefore the most diagnostic part of a cluster of features marking the period.

However, by the late 90s, it became clear that DES could be cracked in a few days ' time-frame with custom-built hardware such as could be purchased by a large corporation.

With few clear records matching the Shang oracle bones or the Zhou bronze vessel writings, the Xia era remains poorly understood.

The issues between growing religious movements, which would later become known as Protestantism, and the Catholic Church had become so clear that few could escape the summons to join the debate.

Their literary character is not quite clear ; while most of them are adapted for public delivery, not a few bear the character of ecclesiastical pronouncements.

Because this layer is only a few molecules thick, at a macroscopic scale a clear phase transition interface can be seen.

A plot of the first few factorials makes clear that such a curve can be drawn, but it would be preferable to have a formula that precisely describes the curve, in which the number of operations does not depend on the size of n. The simple formula for the factorial, n < nowiki >!</ nowiki > = 1 × 2 × … × n, cannot be used directly for fractional values of n since it is only valid when n is a natural number ( i. e., a positive integer ).

Europe ), so naturally it feels familiar, even if a little glorified by enchantment of distance in time., Letters pg, 239 ",</ ref > This was not always clear, however, as a few of his early letters described that while his stories take place on earth, elements of the stories as a kind of "... secondary or sub-creational reality " or " Secondary belief " in replies to letters, or " at a different stage of imagination ...".

During one of his few drum solo performances on television, Moon filled clear acrylic drums with water and goldfish, and dressed as a cat.

The horizontal resolution of the plot fails to make clear that the maxima of the curves are not at 45 ° but calculation shows that they are within a few arc minutes of 45 °.

Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

* 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.

Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.

In all but certain specialized cameras, the process of obtaining a usable exposure must involve the use, manually or automatically, of a few controls to ensure the photograph is clear, sharp and well illuminated.

The relatively clear line of sight between the satellites and receivers on the ground, combined with ever-improving electronics, allows satellite navigation systems to measure location to accuracies on the order of a few meters in real time.

For instance, in 2000 a jury in Provo, Utah, took only a few minutes to clear Larry Peterman, owner of a Movie Buffs video store, in Utah County, Utah, a region which had often boasted of being one of the most conservative areas in the US.

Prinze also received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame a few decades after his death, although many argue his clear and present lack of appreciation for his industry, or being in it for the ' long haul ' made him a less than worthy candidate for that star.

In a few languages, e. g., PL / 1, the distinction is not clear.

Saint Bertold has traditionally been associated with the founding of the order, but few clear records of early Carmelite history have survived and this is likely to be a later extrapolation by hagiographers.

With few exceptions travelers on state business are allowed actual travel expenses and $15 per day subsistence.

With few exceptions, your car will be waiting for you at dockside, airport, railroad station or hotel when you arrive, oftentimes at no additional cost.

With a few exceptions, the lawmakers seemed unaware of the technical problems of federal jurisdiction involved -- to say nothing of the delegation of lawmaking power to judges.

With few exceptions, Congress has not given federal courts exclusive authority to enforce rights arising under federal law.

second, that both actual and pending desegregation is, with few exceptions, the product or result of court order.

With a few important and a few more unimportant exceptions, no expression can be deemed le mot juste for its context, because each was very probably the only expression that long-established practice and ease of rapid recitation would allow.

With few exceptions, the major denominations are rapidly losing their hold on the central city.

If it were primarily a believing fellowship, it would recruit believers from all social and economic ranks, something which most congregations of the New Protestantism ( with a few notable exceptions ) have not been able to do.

With a few exceptions, frogs use external fertilisation.

With a few exceptions, adult amphibians are predators, feeding on virtually anything that moves that they can swallow.

These forest-types, which includes the Yungas and parts of the Chocó, are very rich in flora and fauna, although few large mammals exists, exceptions being the threatened Mountain Tapir, Spectacled Bear and Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey.

With a few exceptions, alders are deciduous, and the leaves are alternate, simple, and serrated.

Baboons and mandrills, with few exceptions, are peculiar to Africa.

With a few important exceptions like abstract painting, works of art simulate experiences of the world.

He was at the same time capable of forming and executing the most daring offensive strategy, and his tactical skill in the handling of troops, whether in wide turning movements, as at Würzburg and Zürich, or in masses, as at Aspern and Wagram, was certainly equal to that of any leader of his time, with only a few exceptions.

Before her, erotica written by women was rare, with a few notable exceptions, such as the work of Kate Chopin.

There are few exceptions to this rule: Haemophilus influenzae meningitis is often associated with subdural effusions that are mistaken for subdural empyemas.

Most rare elements on Earth are not needed by life ( exceptions being selenium and iodine ), while a few common ones ( aluminum and titanium ) are not used.

The apparent setting of Joshua is the 13th century ; this was a time of widespread city-destruction, but with a few exceptions ( Hazor, Lachish ) the destroyed cities are not the ones the Bible associates with Joshua, and the ones it does associate with him show little or no sign of even being occupied at the time.

Christian churches accept and teach the New Testament account of the resurrection of Jesus with very few exceptions.

But with a few striking exceptions, such as Xavante and Tahitian-which have no dorsal consonants whatsoever-nearly all other languages have at least one velar consonant: the few languages that do not have a simple usually have a consonant that is very similar.

Most rare elements on Earth are not needed by life ( exceptions being selenium and iodine ), while a few quite common ones ( aluminium and titanium ) are not used.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.