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.

The most famous example of this is the haka of the All Blacks, a Māori posture dance which is performed before international rugby matches ( there are many non-Māori Polynesian All Blacks, thus making this a multi-ethnic borrowing ).

The most well-known haka is " Ka Mate ", attributed to Te Rauparaha, war leader of the Ngāti Toa tribe.

There are however some haka which are performed predominantly by women – one of the most well-known being the Ngāti Porou haka " Ka Panapana "

Joshua's two final addresses challenge the Israel of the future ( the readers of the story ) to obey the most important command of all, to worship Yahweh and no other gods.

Another pupil of David's, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres became the most important artist of the restored Royal Academy and the figurehead of the Neoclassical school of art, engaging the increasingly popular Romantic school of art that was beginning to challenge Neoclassicism.

The Revolution represented the most significant and dramatic challenge to political absolutism up to that point in history and, despite its failures, spread democratic ideals throughout Europe and ultimately the world.

The complex scoring of this magnificent symphony renders it a considerable challenge for most orchestras.

Russ, an out lesbian, was one of the most outspoken authors to challenge male dominance of the field, and is generally regarded as one of the leading feminist science fiction scholars and writers.

The Omani Arabs posed the most direct challenge to Portuguese influence in East Africa and besieged Portuguese fortresses, openly attacked naval vessels and expelled the remaining Portuguese from the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts by 1730.

With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.

" However, whilst a few historians chose to challenge her theories, most simply chose to ignore them as irrelevant, and as later folklorist and vocal critic of the theory Jacqueline Simpson noted, " Normally this is an effective technique for ensuring the oblivion of bad books, but in this case it backfired, since it left her theory free to spread, seemingly unchallenged, among an eager public.

Fellow English team Williams offered the most consistent challenge during this period, the two winning every constructors ' title between 1984 and 1994.

By doing so the victorious Spartans proved to be the most clement state that fought Athens and at the same time they turned out to be its saviour as neither Corinth nor Thebes at the time could challenge their decision.

In that context, he accepted a challenge from one of Alexander's most skilled soldiers named Coragus to fight in front of Alexander and the troops in armed combat.

In his most open challenge to Congress, Harding forced a deferral of a budget-busting World War I soldier's bonus in an effort to reduce costs.

However, the real challenge in aviation is producing FAA-certified alternatives to the standard reciprocating engines that power most small general aviation aircraft.

The Padthaway golf course is carved out of scrubland, this tight course is a challenge even for the most professional of golfers.

Perhaps the most famous aria in the opera is the long and elaborate " Martern aller Arten " (" Tortures of all kinds ") for Konstanze, an outstanding challenge for sopranos.

The carnival of Mindelo, in the island of Sao Vicente is considered the most animated where a number of groups challenge each other for the yearly prize.

As cruel a sentence as this was, it proved most effective as it triggered such obedience of his subjects that from that point on there was no mention of any challenge of his position whatsoever.

By the early 1940s, however, Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray perceived that the most important coming challenge was secularism, a challenge that could best be confronted by many faith communities working together.

The switch to copper plates was probably made in Italy, and thereafter etching soon came to challenge engraving as the most popular medium for artists in printmaking.

Etching soon came to challenge engraving as the most popular printmaking medium.

On the island of Anglesey a new embankment across the Stanley Sands to Holyhead was constructed, but the crossing of the Menai Strait was the most formidable challenge, overcome by the Menai Suspension Bridge ( 1819 – 1826 ).

A key challenge in multi-threaded programming, thread safety was not a concern for most application developers until the 1990s when operating systems began to expose multiple threads for code execution.

Recreating the city was also a challenge ; although Gygax still had his old maps of the original city, all of his previously published work on the city was owned by WotC, so he would have to create most of the city from scratch while maintaining the look and feel of his original.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).