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.

This new law revoked most of the historical rights and privileges of the different kingdoms that formed the Spanish Crown, especially the Crown of Aragon, unifying them under the laws of Castile, where the Cortes Generales ( Spanish legislature ) had been more receptive to the royal wish.

HT is unique from most other Islamist movements in that the party focuses not on local issues or on providing social services, but on unifying the Muslim world under its vision of a new Islamic caliphate spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to much of central and South Asia.

In most modern usages of spectrum there is a unifying theme between extremes at either end.

Ancestor veneration is one of the most unifying aspects of Vietnamese culture, as practically all Vietnamese, regardless of religious affiliation ( Buddhist or Christian ) have an ancestor altar in their home or business.

Most of these developments were included in the Alto, which added the now familiar SRI-developed mouse unifying into a single model most aspects of now-standard personal computer use.

By artificial it means that Indonesian was designed by academics rather than evolving naturally as most common languages have, in order to accommodate the political purpose of establishing an official unifying language of Indonesia.

Tamar owned her accomplishments most immediately to the reforms of her great-grandfather David IV ( r. 1089 – 1125 ) and, more remotely, to the unifying efforts of David III and Bagrat III who became architects of a political unity of Georgian kingdoms and principalities in the opening decade of the 11th century.

Witten conjectured the existence of a unifying theory called M-theory whose complete structures had not been discovered yet and non-technically could be described as what could be possibly the most fundamental physical theory of the universe.

Cao Cao took over most of Jing Province, and appeared set on finally unifying the empire.

However, Patel is credited for being almost single-handedly responsible for unifying India on the eve of independence. Till date, he is regarded as the most successful Home Minister.

For example, the musicologist Rudolf Steglich has suggested that Handel used the device of the " ascending fourth " as a unifying motif ; this device most noticeably occurs in the first two notes of " I know that my Redeemer liveth " and on numerous other occasions.

A secondary but unifying feature present in most of Eliade's stories is their setting, a magical and part-fictional Bucharest.

By the time his conquests were complete, Chandragupta had succeeded in unifying most of Southern Asia.

Subsequently, in 1637, Charles attempted to introduce a version of the Book of Common Prayer, written by a group of Scottish prelates, most notably the Archbishop of St Andrews, John Spottiswood, and the Bishop of Ross, John Maxwell, and edited for printing by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud ; it was a combination of Knox's Book of Common Order, which was in use before 1637, and English liturgy in hopes of further unifying the ( Anglican ) Church of England and the ( Presbyterian ) Church of Scotland.

Despite the lack of a unifying sport organization to hold unifying championships ( and the friction between the different styles and organizations ), there is a long tradition in most knockdown karate organizations to hold special open tournament knockdown karate events, where fighters from any knockdown karate ( or any other ) style and organization are welcome to participate.

" Physicists attempt to reduce the complexity of nature to a single unifying theory, of which the most successful and universal, the quantum theory, has been associated with several Nobel prizes, for example those to Dirac and Heisenberg.

It emphasizes that a new state unifying most of the Dutch speakers in Europe would create a more powerful political and economic bloc.

The failing health of Jayaprakash Narayan made it hard for him to remain politically active and act as a unifying influence, and his death in 1979 deprived the party of its most popular leader.

If there is a unifying theme that runs through most of managerial economics, it is the attempt to optimize business decisions given the firm's objectives and given constraints imposed by scarcity, for example through the use of operations research, mathematical programming, game theory for strategic decisions, and other computational methods.

His second challenge was implementing a vision of a unifying the region into one large state, which he believed ( and most would agree, correctly ) would be the only guarantee of maintaining American independence from the Spanish in northern South America.

He avoided debating the issue of land reform, at that time the most contentious subject in Romanian politics ; instead, Creţulescu focused on unifying the public health system, creating the Directorate General of the Public Archive, and establishing a Council for Public Instruction.

By late in the century, cyclic form had become an extremely common principle of construction, most likely because the increasing length and complexity of multiple-movement works demanded a unifying method stronger than mere key relation.

Since the text of the motet was no longer available as a structural or unifying device, some other method of musical organization needed to be found: variation form proved the most malleable and durable.