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.

Most acids encountered in everyday life are aqueous solutions, or can be dissolved in water, and these two definitions are most relevant.

Rationalism and empiricism have had many definitions, most concerned with specific schools of philosophy or groups of philosophers in particular countries, such as Germany.

Either approach is adequate for most uses, provided that one attends to the necessary changes in language, notation, and the definitions of concepts like restrictions, composition, inverse relation, and so on.

Another related notion which ( by most definitions ) is strictly weaker than compactness is local compactness.

He has several definitions, the most famous one being that war is the continuation of politics by other means.

These definitions are equivalent to one another, so the most convenient definition can be used to determine whether a given function is continuous or not.

The two perhaps most popular definitions used in older literature are the 15 ° C calorie and the thermochemical calorie.

The most fundamental definitions belonging to the phenomenon were also drafted by this time.

In contrast with most other OO languages, other methods applicable to the class are often defined outside of the class, and thus class definitions in Dylan typically include the definition of the storage only.

A central proposition of existentialism is that existence precedes essence, which means that the most important consideration for the individual is the fact that he or she is an individual — an independently acting and responsible conscious being (" existence ")— rather than what labels, roles, stereotypes, definitions, or other preconceived categories the individual fits (" essence ").

IEEE 754-1985 represents numbers in binary, providing definitions for four levels of precision, of which the two most commonly used are:

Many definitions of philosophy begin by stating the difficulty of defining the subject, calling it " notoriously difficult ", saying that there is " no straightforward definition " and that most interesting definitions of philosophy are controversial.

Economist Intelligence Unit, while admitting that “ there is no consensus on how to measure democracy ” and that “ definitions of democracy are contested ”, lists North Korea in last place as the most authoritarian regime in its index of democracy assessing 167 countries.

The only high speed rail line ( though by most definitions, real high speed rail only includes speeds over 200 km / h ) in central-eastern Europe is the Centralna Magistrala Kolejowa ( CMK ), the Central Railway Route.

Manufactured exports, by most definitions, accounted for less than 5 percent of total exports ; when semiprocessed agricultural products were included, however, that figure reached 77 percent.

In these contexts, it can sometimes explicitly include contaminants that are man-made, which contradicts most formal definitions of the term " toxin ".

Pascal, like many programming languages of today ( but unlike most languages in the C family ), allows nested procedure definitions to any level of depth, and also allows most kinds of definitions and declarations inside procedures and functions.

The meaning of the " weasel " is unclear but the two most likely definitions are: a flat iron used for finishing clothing ; or rhyming slang for a coat ( weasel and stoat ).

Modesto and Anderson reviewed the many previous definitions, and proposed a modified definition which they intended to retain most traditional content of the group while keeping it stable and monophyletic.

Unlike most previous definitions of Reptilia, however, Modesto and Anderson's definition includes birds.

Echoes of James ' and Durkheim's definitions are to be found in the writings of, for example, Frederick Ferré who defined religion as " one's way of valuing most comprehensively and intensively ".