While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

Oil paints may require the use of solvents such as mineral spirits or turpentine to thin the paint and clean up ; these generally have some level of toxicity and are often found objectionable.

The water level is generally far more dependent on the regional wind situation than on tidal effects.

Hypomania is generally a mild to moderate level of mania, characterized by optimism, pressure of speech and activity, and decreased need for sleep.

Codes work at the level of meaning — that is, words or phrases are converted into something else and this chunking generally shortens the message.

Players who intend to play a card game at a high level generally ensure before beginning that all agree on the penalties to be used.

Three islands – Sal, Boa Vista, and Maio – generally are level and lack natural water supplies.

Côte d ' Ivoire's terrain can generally be described as a large plateau rising gradually from sea level in the south to almost 500 m elevation in the north.

Other generally later canals took more direct routes requiring the use of various methods to deal with the change in level.

General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).

The country's central spine, a northwest-southeast axis of steep volcanic slopes and deep gorges, generally varies in elevation from above sea level.

More generally, values may be of any of the kinds described as a level of measurement.

The coral reef surrounding the seaward side of the atoll is generally broad, flat, and shallow at about below mean sea level in most locations and varying from 300 to 650 feet ( 100 to 200 m ) in width.

At the individual level, there is a large literature, generally related back to the work of Jacob Mincer, on how earnings are related to the schooling and other human capital of the individual.

Real systems are much more complex than this — organisms will generally feed on more than one form of food, and may feed at more than one trophic level.

They are generally seen as tied to the " young guard " of Fatah politics, organizing young members on the street level, but it is not clear that they form a faction in themselves inside Fatah politics ; rather, different Brigades units may be tied to different Fatah factional leaders.

Ramaprasad ( 1983 ) defines feedback generally as " information about the gap between the actual level and the reference level of a system parameter which is used to alter the gap in some way ", emphasising that the information by itself is not feedback unless translated into action.

Despite the above, the noun form in English (" attendant ") is someone who waits on another, generally with menial tasks and in a temporary fashion, as on an airplane or hotel ; whereas ' assistant ' implies a longer-term, higher level, and often contractual (= employment ), relationship.

Orwell was noted for very close and enduring friendships with a few friends, but these were generally people with a similar background or with a similar level of literary ability.

Part of the volcanic chain in the Lesser Antilles arc, Grenada and its possessions generally vary in elevation from under 300 meters to over 600 meters above sea level.

While the real values of the specific economic items generally stay the same in terms of relatively stable foreign currencies, in hyperinflationary conditions the general price level within a specific economy increases rapidly as the functional or internal currency, as opposed to a foreign currency.

The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.

* Nuclear incident insurance covers damages resulting from an incident involving radioactive materials and is generally arranged at the national level.

Specific constructions had many similarities, but were generally unique in form due to the individual topography of different alcoves along the canyon walls.

The country's topography is generally flat, with the elevation gradually rising as one moves north and east away from Lake Chad.

A major feature of Lebanese topography is the alternation of lowland and highland that runs generally parallel with a north-to-south orientation.

The name Yarra Valley is usually used in reference to the upper regions surrounding the Yarra River and generally does not encompass the lower regions including the city and suburban areas, where the topography flattens out, or the upper reaches which are in inaccessible bushland.

There is little if any spatial topography in the representation: cells lying next to each other in the hippocampus generally have uncorrelated spatial firing patterns.

Modern scholars generally accept the identification of modern Ithaca with Homeric Ithaca, and explain discrepancies between the Odysseys description and the actual topography as the product of lack of first-hand knowledge of the island, or as poetic license.

An objective of topography is to determine the position of any feature or more generally any point in terms of both a horizontal coordinate system such as latitude, longitude, and altitude.

Comanche County lies in an area that is typical of the Great Plains with prairie, few trees, and generally flat topography with gently rolling hills.

The topography of Daphne is generally consistent from a gently sloping sea level on the west to low rolling hills further east.

The topography generally slopes downward from the Atlantic to Cape Cod Bay, and from south to north.

The topography of the area is generally flat, with higher elevation to the western part of the county, gently sloping downward as one travels to the east.

The landscape is generally low lying and flat although minor ridges and glacial moraines provide some variations in topography.

Those geographical variables generally refer to: geographic location of the country or countries in question, size of the countries involved, climate of the region the countries are in, topography of the region, demography, natural resources and technological development.

Streambed topography is the primary factor in creating rapids, and is generally consistent over time.

During the period when Corot acquired the means to devote himself to art, landscape painting was on the upswing and generally divided into two camps: one ― historical landscape by Neoclassicists in Southern Europe representing idealized views of real and fancied sites peopled with ancient, mythological, and biblical figures ; and two ― realistic landscape, more common in Northern Europe, which was largely faithful to actual topography, architecture, and flora, and which often showed figures of peasants.

However, an upper limit of 30-50 ( 48 – 80 km ) miles is more common due to topography, trees on the horizon, low to mid level clouds, and the fact that local visibilities are generally no more than 25 miles ( 40 km ).

The town's topography is generally level and low, except along parts of its eastern and western boundaries, reflecting the passage of the Wallkill River through it from north to west.

The Municipality of Rodriguez is generally very rough in topography, with eighty three percent ( 83 %) of its total land area composed of upland areas, hills and mountain ranges.

The island's topography features a row of mountains spanning from the northwest to the southeast of the island, with generally flat, arable land covering the remainder.

The deliberate vulgarity of these paintings contrast with the French painter Jean Dubuffet's Corps de Dame series of 1950, in which iconic female / goddess imagery was created with a topography of earth colours, and are generally perceived as less provocative.

The topography is generally rolling mixed grass prairie, interspersed in various location, especially to the north, into typical badlands topography.

He designed a system of streets which generally followed the contours of the area's topography.

The topography along the coast is generally hilly to mountainous.