It is not difficult to see that the stamens of the catkin are always arranged in pairs, and that each individual flower is nothing but one such pair standing on a green, black-tipped little scale.

In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple, the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply, because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors.

Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.

Brønsted acid-base reactions are proton transfer reactions while Lewis acid-base reactions are electron pair transfers.

Fluoride " loses " a pair of valence electrons because the electrons shared in the B — F bond are located in the region of space between the two atomic nuclei and are therefore more distant from the fluoride nucleus than they are in the lone fluoride ion.

Reactions such as + → + ( the two-photon annihilation of an electron-positron pair ) are an example.

The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.

Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).

For example, in humans there are typically 22 pairs of autosomes and one allosome pair.

* 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3, 000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

These are typically written as an ordered pair ( x, y ).

Some recent types have a parallel pair of magnetically-soft probes that are placed on either side of the conductor.

For example, the smallest pair of amicable numbers is ( 220, 284 ); for the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110, of which the sum is 284 ; and the proper divisors of 284 are 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142, of which the sum is 220.

where n > 1 is an integer and p, q, and r are prime numbers, then 2 < sup > n </ sup >× p × q and 2 < sup > n </ sup >× r are a pair of amicable numbers.

where n > m > 0 are integers and p, q, and r are prime numbers, then 2 < sup > n </ sup >× p × q and 2 < sup > n </ sup >× r are a pair of amicable numbers.

In particular, his exploits with Keith Moon are legendary, perhaps the most notorious involving Stanshall going into an unsuspecting tailor's shop and admiring a pair of trousers ; Moon then came in, posing as another customer, admired the same trousers and demanded to buy them.

For instance if an Indian was wearing a necklace or pair of buckskin gloves and another person openly admired one of these items, it was customary for the wearer to take off item and give to the admiring party.

A game warden happens on the pair and, after checking their tags and admiring the buck tells them that they are dragging the deer out all wrong.

In the opening scene, the protagonist of the film, a bookish college professor, explains the history and meaning of the term to a pair of loudly arguing sports fans on a commuter train, and draws an admiring look from an attractive Asian woman who is a fellow passenger.

Marlow forces the pilgrim in " pink pyjamas " to take the wheel so that he can shed his blood soaked shoes, and while flinging the pair overboard, he is hit with a rush of thoughts ; thinking he would never have a chance to hear Kurtz talk, as he is most likely dead-then submits: " Of course I was wrong.

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

Homer and Marge, thinking the children are chasing them again, run from the pair to find refuge in a giant inflatable castle ( which is not a good idea, as it is under repair ), which their lovemaking antics cause to fall into the Niagara River.

This is a classic example of black and white thinking, in which a person fails to see the complex interplay between multiple component elements of a situation or problem, and as a result, reduces complex problems to a pair of binary extremes.

The identification and application of this pair of categories in theological thinking were believed by Paul Tillich to have originated in the 19th century.

Two were summoned to a meeting, because Mary McGlinchey was acting as an emissary the pair were lulled into thinking that there would be no danger of violence.

In most modern switched or hubbed Ethernet over twisted pair systems, neither the MAU nor the AUI interfaces exist ( apart, perhaps as notional entities for the purposes of thinking about layering the interface ), and the category 5 ( CAT5 ) cable connects directly into an Ethernet socket on the host or router.

* The first and second episodes of the first seasons alluded the viewer into thinking that Catherine Pascal and Marcos Chavez would become a romantic pair.

The return spring tension may be adjusted to suit individual requirements by gripping the spring housing with a pair of pliers ( to prevent the spring from unwinding when it is released ), loosening the lock nut or screw, and rotating the housing until the desired tension is achieved.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

It also has a pair of short tentacles near the eye that can be extended and which have tactile and olfactory functions.

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

Electrically, these losses can be diminished by shielding, good connections, and several cable types such as coaxial or twisted pair.

In The Word for World Is Forest, Le Guin explains that in order for communication to work with any pair of ansibles, at least one " must be on a large-mass body, the other can be anywhere in the cosmos.

This signal would be fed into the sound card audio input of the PC, and Banpaia would decode the ESN / MIN pair from this signal and display it on the screen.

In order for Thābit's formula to produce an amicable pair, two consecutive Thabit numbers must be prime ; this severely restricts the possible values of n.

Let ( m, n ) be a pair of amicable numbers with m < n, and write m = gM and n = gN where g is the greatest common divisor of m and n. If M and N are both coprime to g and square free then the pair ( m, n ) is said to be regular, otherwise it is called irregular or exotic.

It is not known whether an even-odd pair of amicable numbers exists, but if it does, the even number must either be a square number or twice one, and the odd number must be a square number.

It is not known whether a pair of coprime amicable numbers exists, though if any does, the product of the two must be greater than 10 < sup > 67 </ sup >.

Also, a pair of coprime amicable numbers cannot be generated by Thabit's formula ( above ), nor by any similar formula.

A pair of beads made from Nassarius sea snail shells, approximately 100, 000 years old, are thought to be the earliest known examples of jewellery.

The order of the elements in each pair of G is important: if a ≠ b, then aRb and bRa can be true or false, independently of each other.

A pair of wheels may be called a wheelset, especially in the context of ready-built " off the shelf ", performance-oriented wheels.

* The case n = 1 can be illustrated by the claim that there always exist a pair of opposite points on the earth's equator with the same temperature, this can be shown to be true much more easily using the intermediate value theorem.