As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Bridges, tunnels and ferries are the most common methods of river crossings.

Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).

The most common are the twist drill, the solid center shaft with interchangeable cutting blades, the double spur bit, and the power wood bit.

The common ultimate values, ends and goals fostered by religion are a most important factor.

There is a common problem behind most of these federal question and diversity cases.

The basic mystery of dreams, which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream, is in the fact that they are original, visual continuities.

One of the most common of camp maladies was diarrhoea.

the most common type of letter was that of soldier husbands to their wives.

The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.

Today, as Harrison's Principles Of Internal Medicine, a standard internist's text, puts it, `` The most common form of malnutrition is caloric excess or obesity ''.

The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods.

Apollo's most common attributes were the bow and arrow.

When they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

The analysis of variance has been studied from several approaches, the most common of which uses a linear model that relates the response to the treatments and blocks.

There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).

For most of these scripts, regardless of whether letters or diacritics are used, the most common tone is not marked, just as the most common vowel is not marked in Indic abugidas ; in Zhuyin not only is one of the tones unmarked, but there is a diacritic to indicate lack of tone, like the virama of Indic.

Where the Roman model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.

Marcus Amerman, Choctaw, one of today's most celebrated bead artists, pioneered a movement of highly realistic beaded portraits.

Perhaps the most famous Native bead is wampum, a cylindrical tube of quahog or whelk shell.

In modern manufacturing, the most common bead materials are wood, plastic, glass, metal, and stone.

The beads are compared with the testicles of the patient, and the volume is read off the bead which matches most closely in size.

Electroporation has been shown to be the most efficient way of introducing DNA into the nuclear genome with maximum transformation frequencies two orders of magnitude higher than obtained using glass bead method.

Usually rounded in shape, seed beads are most commonly used for loom and off-loom bead weaving.

Charlotte cuts are most often available as size 15 ° or 13 ° seed beads that have part of the surface of the bead cut ( or " faceted ") to produce more shine.

Where the Roman model and Chinese model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the old version of the Chinese suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing less challenging arithmetic algorithms, and also allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.

Express sights are most often used on heavy caliber rifles intended for the hunting of dangerous big game, and are in the form of a wide and large ' V ' with a heavy white contrast line marking its bottom and a big white or gold bead front sight.

Barbells, captive bead rings and earring studs are the most common types of jewelry worn in tragus piercings.

One of the most popular lattice models, the HP model, features just two bead types — hydrophobic ( H ) and polar ( P )— and mimics the hydrophobic effect by specifying a negative ( i. e. favourable ) interaction between H beads.

Second, the ability to capture the target protein is directly dependent upon the amount of immobilized antibody used, and therefore, in a side-by-side comparison of agarose and magnetic bead immunoprecipitation, the most protein that either support can capture is limited by the amount of antibody added.

The most important thing to do when buying a real dzi bead is not to buy on impulse ; it's always good to consult with different people who deal in these beads and with a little patience, your sixth sense will guide you.

It is normally manufactured in a bead form and most commonly used for gel filtration columns.

It should come as no surprise that the bearer of this bead also happens to be the most powerful warrior of the eight.

It is important to note that most standard beadlocks clamp only the outside bead.

This is fine in most cases because the outside bead is the side that comes unseated most often while off-roading.

The most common type of modern glass bead is the seed bead, a small type of bead typically less than 6 mm, traditionally monochrome, and manufactured in very large quantities. They are a modern example of mechanically-drawn glass beads.

The most significant of the pre-Hispanic finds was a child's burial, in which an obsidian bead with a duck's head, two other beads and deep plate-like objects called cajetes were found.

During the late Middle Ages, Flanders ' trading towns ( notably Ghent, Bruges and Ypres ) made it one of the richest and most urbanized parts of Europe, weaving the wool of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export.

From about 1790 textiles became the most important industry in the west of Scotland, especially the spinning and weaving of cotton, which flourished until in 1861 the American Civil War cut off the supplies of raw cotton.

In American Colonial times, most women were busy spinning, weaving, and making clothing.

The most common occupation for women was weaving clothes for the family, sale at market or for large textile enterprises that employed hundreds of women.

As is true in most weaving cultures, traditionally and nearly exclusively, it is women and girls who are both artisan and weaver.

Madrid continued as a weaving centre through to the 20th century, producing brightly coloured carpets most of whose designs are strongly influenced by French carpet design, and which are frequently signed ( on occasions with the monogram MD ; also sometimes with the name Stuyck ) and dated in the outer stripe.

For most of the 19th century, the main industries in the town were flax spinning and linen weaving.

The most important physical evidence of a connection between the two relics is that the material of the cloth is identical, although there are differences in the manner of weaving.

But Moche ceramics vary widely in shape and theme, with most important social activities documented in pottery, including war, sex, metalwork, and weaving.

Although the economic output of the city has historically been relatively small with a focus on traditional crafts like coppersmithing, tanning, hand weaving, agriculture and animal husbandry, over the past two decades, the city has shown a significant growth in industrial production and light engineering that has made it among the most industrially advanced cities compared to its population size.

The weaving industry survived until most of Europe's textile industry was wiped out due to Asian imports.

During the mediaeval period the main road through Carterton was one of the most important in the country, taking trains of packhorses laden with Cotswold wool over Radcot Bridge and on to Southampton for export to the weaving centres of Europe.

Cristoforo Crespi introduced the most modern spinning, weaving and finishing processes in his Cotton Mill.

Probably because of associations with Mokoš, St. Paraskevia became one of the most popular and beloved saints in Russia ; it was said that she was the patroness of mothers, brides, and female activities such as spinning and weaving, and the protector of the waters ( Mokoš was somehow connected with waters, too, even her name itself means ' wet ').

Although the history of carpet weaving in Bergama dates back to the 11th century, most surviving carpets do not age more than 200 years-mainly due to their wool content.

Traditionally a mining, weaving and textile area, most of Larkhall's traditional industries have now shut, including the Lanarkshire iron and steel works.

In The World of Odysseus he noted that most distribution was internal :" All the production work, the seeding and harvesting and milling and weaving, even the hunting and raiding, though carried on by individuals, was performed on behalf of the household as a whole ... and from the centre they were redistributed ...."

This form of weaving requires the most skill for precise patterns to be woven and is considered the premiere form of ikat.

The name Rasht comes most plausibly from the verb reshtan, weaving.

Therefore most multilayer weaving is currently used to produce relatively narrow width products, or high value products where the cost of the preform production is acceptable.

Because of the long history of rug weaving in Iran, Persian rugs are some of the most beautiful, intricately designed rugs made of the finest silk around the world — and this is recognized internationally by people of varying geographic location.

Apart from the dignitaries who lived in Royton Hall, the population of Royton during the Middle Ages comprised a small community of retainers and farmers, most of whom were involved with pasture, but supplemented their incomes by weaving woollens in the domestic system.

Above them all and weaving them all together into the most exciting flag of all the world and of all history was the triumphal purpose of freedom.