Upon consideration of the variety of soils and fabrics normally encountered in the washing process, it is little wonder that the use of a number of detergent constituents having `` synergistic '' properties has gained widespread acceptance.

According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

In the course of time and during their development, adhesives have gained a stable position in an increasing number of production processes.

When the total number of mandates gained by a party has been determined, they are distributed between the Land lists.

The album gained a following in the United Kingdom, charting at 59 on the UK Albums Chart, as well as its lead single, " Teenage Whore " entering the country's Indie chart at number one.

A number of Dalhousie's individual programs and faculties have also gained accolades both nationally and internationally.

Its title track, though only reaching number 24 in the UK singles chart, gained lasting popularity, and within months had been released in both German and French.

The increased time gained by issuing accurate warnings of severe weather will be crucial to save lives, for instance by evacuating a large number of people from endangered areas ( e. g. storm surges in the North Sea ), or taking cautionary actions to avoid major threats to goods and services ( e. g. extreme winds ).

A number of global forest classification systems have been proposed, but none has gained universal acceptance.

While the community was skeptical that this new method could possibly outperform hand-coding, it reduced the number of programming statements necessary to operate a machine by a factor of 20, and quickly gained acceptance.

Sufficient interest arose that Maitland gained permission to test inoculation at Newgate prison in exchange for their freedom on six prisoners due to be hanged, an experiment which was witnessed by a number of notable doctors.

In Japan, the number of ISDN subscribers dwindled as alternative technologies such as ADSL, cable Internet access, and fiber to the home gained greater popularity.

It is a member of the Japonic ( or Japanese-Ryukyuan ) language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which have gained wide acceptance among historical linguists ( see Classification of Japonic ).

He gained western recognition during the 1950s and 1960s with a number of bleak films, two anti-war films with The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain, Alone on the Pacific ( Taiheiyo hitori-botchi ) and the technically formidable period-piece An Actor's Revenge ( Yukinojo henge ) about a kabuki actor.

In 1999, she aided her husband in campaigning for the presidency in a number of ways, most notably delivering a keynote address at the 2000 Republican National Convention, which gained her national attention.

Thanks to these extra elements, Earth in the Marvel Universe is home to a large number of superheroes and supervillains, who have gained their powers by any of these means.

Methods of identifying infertile days have been known since antiquity, but scientific knowledge gained during the past century has increased the number and variety of methods.

In the 18th century, a number of Italian sopranos gained international renown and often engaged in fierce rivalry, as was the case with Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni, who started a fist fight with one another during a performance of a Handel opera.

A number of terms with the suffix-phobia are used non-clinically but have gained public acceptance, though they are often considered buzzwords.

A number of attempts for layer 2 technologies that add QoS tags to the data have gained popularity during the years, but then lost attention.

Such people have often gained this experience through working in any of a wide number of fields.

Financial synergy gained by the combined firm is a result of number of benefits which flow to the entity as a consequence of acquisition and merger.

Australia has had quite a number of well known soap operas, some of which have gained cult followings in the UK, New Zealand and other countries.

Sufism gained adherents among a number of Muslims as a reaction against the worldliness of the early Umayyad Caliphate ( 661-750 CE ).

In the late 1960s, the revival of interest in Victorian painting gained impetus, and a number of well-attended exhibitions were held.

In all `` degree '' courses in interior design a number of `` academic '' or `` general studies '' courses are included.

The final choice of material depends upon such factors as costs, method of fabrication, degree of complexity, number of units required, time available for tooling, and projected life expectancy of the unit.

This means that such factors as the health of the parents, particularly the mother, their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life, the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring.

Fortunately the number of pathological bigots appears to be quite small, but it would be a mistake to think that more than a matter of degree separates them from the rest of us.

The degree of saturation depends on the number of hydrogen atoms on the fat molecule.

The care of offspring among amphibians has been little studied but in general, the larger the number of eggs in a batch, the less likely it is that any degree of parental care takes place.

A monastery must have been granted the status of an abbey by the Pope, and such monasteries are normally raised to this level after showing a degree of stability — a certain number of monks in vows, a certain number of years of establishment, a certain firmness to the foundation in economic, vocational and legal aspects.

* Given an algebraic number, there is a unique monic polynomial ( with rational coefficients ) of least degree that has the number as a root.

If its minimal polynomial has degree, then the algebraic number is said to be of degree.

An algebraic number of degree 1 is a rational number.

If a is algebraic over K, then K, the set of all polynomials in a with coefficients in K, is not only a ring but a field: an algebraic extension of K which has finite degree over K. In the special case where K = Q is the field of rational numbers, Q is an example of an algebraic number field.

A tree with ' n ' number of nodes has exactly ' n-1 ' branches or degree.

In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.

In the legal profession, graduates of almost all Canadian law schools receive the LLB degree and are not referred to as " doctor " ( in a growing number of Canadian law schools the degree of Juris Doctor is conferred, but the title is not used in practice ).

Unlike other countries, Spain registers a comparatively small number of Doctor degree holders.

The total number of degree confluences is 64, 442, of which 21, 543 are on land, 38, 409 on water, and 4, 490 on the Antarctic and Arctic ice caps.

Traditional encyclopedias are written by a number of employed text writers, usually people with an academic degree, and distributed as proprietary content.

Of the 12 fundamental solutions to the problem with eight queens on an 8x8 board, exactly one is equal to its own 180 degree rotation, and none are equal to their 90 degree rotation, thus the number of distinct solutions is 11 * 8 + 1 * 4 = 92 ( where the 8 is derived from four 90-degree rotational positions and their reflections, and the 4 is derived from two 180-degree rotational positions and their reflections ).

Now, the degree of a vertex is the number of edges abutting it.