Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

The moment the sea closed over Nick, some atavistic sense warned him that he would survive in this alien element only if he did not panic.

The prefix " hydro -" is added only if the acid is made up of just hydrogen and one other element.

The satirical element of the pamphlet is often only understood after the reader notes the allusions made by Swift to the attitudes of landlords, such as the following: " I grant this food may be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for Landlords, who as they have already devoured most of the Parents, seem to have the best Title to the Children.

The two species of Doryanthes, the only genus of the family, are huge rosette-forming herbs that are a conspicuous element of the flora in the vicinity of Sydney, Australia, being hard not to notice when in flower.

In theory it can occur only in nuclei somewhat heavier than nickel ( element 28 ), where overall binding energy per nucleon is no longer a minimum, and the nuclides are therefore unstable toward spontaneous fission-type processes.

In practice, this mode of decay has only been observed in nuclides considerably heavier than nickel, with the lightest known alpha emitter being the lightest isotopes ( mass numbers 106 – 110 ) of tellurium ( element 52 ).

Allotropy refers only to different forms of an element within the same phase ( i. e. different solid, liquid or gas forms ); the changes of state between solid, liquid and gas in themselves are not considered allotropy.

In general, each wavelength corresponds to only one element, and the width of an absorption line is only of the order of a few picometers ( pm ), which gives the technique its elemental selectivity.

The cold-vapor technique an atomization method limited to only the determination of mercury, due to it being the only metallic element to have a large enough vapor pressure at ambient temperature.

The advantage of this technique is that only a medium-resolution monochromator is necessary for measuring AAS ; however, it has the disadvantage that usually a separate lamp is required for each element that has to be determined.

The relatively small number of atomic absorption lines ( compared to atomic emission lines ) and their narrow width ( a few pm ) make spectral overlap rare ; there are only very few examples known that an absorption line from one element will overlap with another.

It is a divalent element which occurs naturally only in combination with other elements in minerals.

Primordial beryllium contains only one stable isotope, < sup > 9 </ sup > Be, and therefore beryllium is a monoisotopic element.

Two thirds of the chemical elements occur on Earth only as compounds, and in the remaining third, often the compound forms of the element are most common.

Of the 80 elements with at least one stable isotope, 26 have only one stable isotope, and the mean number of stable isotopes for the 80 stable elements is 3. 1 stable isotopes per element.

Stromeyer found the new element as an impurity in zinc carbonate ( calamine ), and, for 100 years, Germany remained the only important producer of the metal.

It is the heaviest element to occur naturally on Earth ; heavier elements can only be produced by synthesis.

Although the element is only mildly toxic, it is a hazardous material as a metal and its radioisotopes present a high health risk in case of radiation leaks.

It is not a vector field because it depends not only on the position of a particular material point, but also on the local orientation of the surface element as defined by its normal vector.

Cardinals have in canon law a " privilege of forum " ( i. e., exemption from being judged by ecclesiastical tribunals of ordinary rank ): only the pope is competent to judge them in matters subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction ( cases that refer to matters that are spiritual or linked with the spiritual, or with regard to infringement of ecclesiastical laws and whatever contains an element of sin, where culpability must be determined and the appropriate ecclesiastical penalty imposed ).

Ap () is the Vedic Sanskrit term for water, in Classical Sanskrit occurring only in the plural is not an element. v, ( sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, ), whence Hindi.

* The cofinality of a partially ordered set with greatest element is 1 as the set consisting only of the greatest element is cofinal ( and must be contained in every other cofinal subset ).

"... Baeyer is an excellent experimentor, but he is only an empiricist, lacking sense and capability, and his interpretations of his experiments show particular deficiency in his familiarity with the principles of true science ..."

But lacking the ability to hit them with accuracy ( only three or four Ju 87s saw action in Spain ), a method of carpet bombing was chosen resulting in heavy civilian casualties.

The RSFSR, until the establishment of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1990, was the only Soviet republic lacking a republic-level party organisation.

The Labour Charter of 1927, promulgated by the Grand Council of Fascism, stated in article 7: " The corporative State considers private initiative, in the field of production, as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation ", then continued in article 9: " State intervention in economic production may take place only where private initiative is lacking or is insufficient, or when are at stakes the political interest of the State.

The Tandukbenua cone on the NW edge of the caldera is relatively lacking in vegetation, suggesting a young age of only several hundred years.

With many propagators including Democritus, Epicurus, Aristotle and their followers, this theory seems to have some contact with modern theories of what vision really is, but it remained only speculation lacking any experimental foundation.

The serial port is rudimentary, using programmed input / output only and lacking a FIFO buffer.

Dziga Vertov claimed in his 1924 manifesto, “ The Birth of Kino-Eye ” that “ the cinema-eye is cinema-truth .” To paraphrase Hilmar Hoffman, this means that in film, only what the camera ‘ sees ’ exists, and the viewer, lacking alternative perspectives, conventionally takes the image for reality.

Phrenology also advocated variable prison sentences, the idea being that those who were only defective in education and lacking in morals would soon be released while those who were mentally deficient could be watched and the truly abhorrent criminals would never be released.

Low passes are lacking, and the principal roads and the railroads between France and Spain run only in the lowlands at the western and eastern ends of the Pyrenees, near sea level.

At this time, Skuld had gained the necessary power to control the angel and the only thing lacking was the desire to truly be with her.

Others, such as some helicopters, can only operate by VTOL, due to the aircraft lacking landing gear that can handle horizontal motion.

The DSM-IV-TR criteria for DID have been criticized for failing to capture the clinical complexity of DID, lacking usefulness in diagnosing individuals with DID ( for instance, by focusing on the two least frequent and most subtle symptoms of DID ) producing a high rate of false negatives and an excessive number of DDNOS diagnoses, for excluding possession ( seen as a cross-cultural form of DID ), and for including only two " core " symptoms of DID ( amnesia and self-alteration ) while failing to discuss hallucinations, trance-like states, somatoform, depersonalization and derealization symptoms.

In February 1832 Balzac received a letter from Odessa – lacking a return address and signed only by " L ' Étrangère " (" The Foreigner ") – expressing sadness at the cynicism and atheism in La Peau de Chagrin and its negative portrayal of women.

The only vertebrates lacking a spleen are the lampreys and hagfishes.

The Mac version supported only Windows Media encoded media ( up to version 9 ) enclosed in the ASF format, lacking support for all other formats such as MP4, MPEG, and Microsoft's own AVI format.

Disulfide species that have only native disulfide bonds ( but not all of them ) are denoted by des followed by the lacking native disulfide bond ( s ) in square brackets.

The DSM-IV-TR, in describing the differences between spirit possession and Dissociative Identity Disorder, identifies only the claim that the extra personality is an external spirit or entity, lacking that, there would be no difference between the two conditions.

Therefore, lacking a legal remedy, the plaintiff's only option would be petitioning the King.

Recently ( 2008 ), it was shown that the conditional deletion of Mecp2 in catecholaminergic neurons ( by crossing of Th-Cre mice with loxP-flanked Mecp2 ones ) recapitulates a motor symptomatology, it was further documented that brain levels of Th in mice lacking Mecp2 in catecholaminergic neurons only are reduced, participating to the motor phenotype.

Academic and conservatory training typically only peripherally addresses this broad spectrum of musics, and many ( historical ) musicologists who are " both contemptuous and condescending are looking for types of production, musical form, and listening which they associate with a different kind of music ...' classical music '... and they generally find popular music lacking "

The amendment came close to being ratified by the legislatures of enough states to become part of the U. S. Constitution, lacking the approval of only two.

The nine species of moa were the only wingless birds, lacking even the vestigial wings which all other ratites have.

In 2008 sister congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez published the joint memoir Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote: " Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story — noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements ( including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress ) but also for its “ American Dream ” aspect — their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.