The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

To illustrate the depth of an anthropological approach, one can take just one of these topics, such as " racism " and find thousands of anthropological references, stretching across all the major and minor sub-fields.

In Shinto, spirits of nature, or kami, are believed to exist everywhere, from the major ( such as the goddess of the sun ), which can be considered polytheistic, to the minor, which are more likely to be seen as a form of animism.

It can be an assault to “ tap ”, “ pinch ”, “ push ”, or direct another such minor action toward another, but an accidental application of force is not an assault.

Self-diagnosis of indigestion does carry some risk because the causes can vary from a minor dietary indiscretion to a peptic ulcer.

Today, " minor tranquilizer " can refer to anxiolytic and / or hypnotic drugs such as the benzodiazepines and nonbenzodiazepines which have some antipsychotic properties and are recommended for concurrent use with antipsychotics, and are useful for insomnia or drug-induced psychosis.

The modern Orioles franchise can trace its roots back to the original Milwaukee Brewers of the minor Western League, beginning in 1894 when the league reorganized.

Other problems can easily occur when a minor is the agreed trump suit, or the key suit when no trump suit is agreed.

The crucial differences with the previous wave can be seen in the downward shift in melodies, increasing durations of movements, the acceptance of Mozart and Haydn as paradigmatic, the greater use of keyboard resources, the shift from " vocal " writing to " pianistic " writing, the growing pull of the minor and of modal ambiguity, and the increasing importance of varying accompanying figures to bring " texture " forward as an element in music.

Even minor pollution such as dropping organic material can have a dramatic effect on the cave biota.

Also, some relatively minor additions to the reaction can be indicated above the reaction arrow ; examples of such additions are water, heat, illumination, a catalyst, etc.

Similarly, some minor products can be placed below the arrow, often with a minus sign.

ETC technology offers a medium-risk upgrade and is to the point, currently, where changes for maturity are so minor that it can be considered as a realistic replacement for current solid propellant guns within the next two decades.

Three DNA types are of particular interest: mitochondrial DNA that we all possess and that is passed down with only minor mutations through the matrilineal ( direct female ) line ; the Y-chromosome, present only in males, which is passed down with only minor mutations through the patrilineal ( direct male ) line ; and the Autosomal DNA, which is found in the 22 non-gender specific chromosomes ( autosomes ) inherited from both parents, which can uncover relatives from any branch of the family.

It is based on XHTML 1. 0 Strict, but includes minor changes, can be customized, is reformulated using modules from Modularization of XHTML, which was published April 10, 2001, as a W3C Recommendation.

However, many of the minor substances in honey can be affected greatly by heating, changing the flavor, aroma, or other properties, so heating is usually done at the lowest temperature possible for the shortest amount of time.

A picture showing scratches on the readable surface of a CD-R. Music and data CDs are coded using error correcting codes and thus can still be read even if they have minor scratches using error detection and correction.

Sudden falls, sometimes resulting in major injury to the skull or other bones, can occur, even from walking on minimally-irregular ground or from other minor imbalances outside or in the home, due to weakness of quadriceps and gluteus muscles depriving the patient of automatic posture maintenance.

The concrete definition given above is easy to work with, but has some minor problems: to use it we first need to represent a Lie group as a group of matrices, but not all Lie groups can be represented in this way, and it is not obvious that the Lie algebra is independent of the representation we use.

This is because these types of data are intended for human interpretation where the mind can easily " fill in the blanks " or see past very minor errors or inconsistencies – ideally lossy compression is transparent ( imperceptible ), which can be verified via an ABX test.

The movement of lymph can also be influenced by the pressure of nearby muscle contraction, arterial pulse pressure, and the vacuum created in the chest cavity during respiration, but these passive forces contribute only a minor percentage of lymph transport.

This microevolution forms an integral part of the grand evolution problem and lies at the base of it, so that we shall have to understand the minor process before we can thoroughly comprehend the more general one ...

A slave may lead a Friday prayer, but Muslim authorities disagree over whether the job can be done by a minor.

Action on a new ordinance permitting motorists who plead guilty to minor traffic offenses to pay fines at the local police station may be taken at Monday's special North Providence Town Council meeting.

You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.

While this loss of precision may be tolerable and viewed as a minor flaw of Algorithm I, it is easy to find data that reveal a major flaw in the naive algorithm: Take the sample to be ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 4, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 7, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 13, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 16 ).

Spencer wrote that in production the advantages of the superior individual is comparatively minor, and thus acceptable, yet the benefit that dominance provides those who control a large segment of production might be hazardous to competition.

The Alexander technique has been shown to be helpful for people suffering from tension headaches, back pain, frozen shoulders, housemaid's knee, flat feet, tennis elbow, minor digestive problems, asthma, difficulties sleeping, clumsiness, irritability and lethargy.

Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

In a turn of events that proved to be a minor embarrassment for the reorganized ownership group, Backman was almost immediately fired after management learned, after the fact, of legal troubles and improprieties in Backman's past.

An exception, for instance in the U. S., may be made for minor violations, such as traffic offenses.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

In the past aviation compared with road and railroad transport used to be a minor mode of freight movement, and only 860, 000 passengers used Bulgarian airlines in 2001.

Different magazines were published featuring programs for specific computers, though some BASIC programs were considered universal and could be used in machines running any variant of BASIC ( sometimes with minor adaptations ).

Second it is likely that over the lifetime of a vehicle ( in constant service and heavy traffic ) that it will get minor damage now and again, and to be able easily to replace a body panel or window etc.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

The book could be seen as an allusion to the history as described by Moses ; for the minor Prophets, in promising God ’ s assistance to his people, must often remind how God in a miraculous manner brought up the Jews from Egypt.

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

In reality, as actual combustion reactions come to equilibrium, a wide variety of major and minor species will be present such as carbon monoxide and pure carbon ( soot or ash ).

Thus, that year ( 501 BC ), Confucius came to be appointed to the minor position of governor of a town.

A second difficulty might be the ability of minor parties to play " kingmaker " and, particularly in close elections, gain far more for their support than their vote would otherwise indicate.