Apocope examples: the final-e in Middle English words was pronounced, but is only retained in spelling as silent E. In English and were apocopated in final position after nasals: lamb, long.

For the first few years Patriarch Sergius of Constantinople managed to keep him silent, but when Sophronius was appointed Patriarch of Jerusalem in 634, he used his newfound position of authority to challenge the validity of the doctrine of Monoenergism.

The coilgun would be relatively silent with no smoke giving away its position, though a coilgun projectile would still create a sonic boom if supersonic.

He said he had stayed silent so far on the issue in order to protect the impartiality of his current position.

Automatic Electric's rotary dial makes a single clicking sound as it is released but is otherwise fairly silent, while Western Electric's rotary dial has a distinctive whirring sound as the dial returns to the normal position.

When the gene is silent, however, nucleosomes often block the transcriptional start site, suggesting that nucleosome position may play a role in gene regulation.

The mappiq indicates that ה is consonantal rather than silent in syllable-coda position.

In keeping with his position as a high lama he was also meditative and had just completed a three year silent retreat.

Members of George IV's court speculated that Lehzen would be the next to leave, but she remained silent on the issue and preserved her position.

To interpret this, it is necessary to understand that the French language usually drops accents ( diacritics ) on capital letters, but nevertheless very often retains the accent for capital É ( E with acute accent ) when it occurs in a word-final or near word-final position, because in this position it could be mistaken for silent " e " and the word could be mistaken for another word: eg, conté ( told ), conte ( tale ).

This position is often called the gap, and in some theories of syntax there is a silent element called the trace, which occupies this position.

WKNX would then acquire the license of the silent 1, 000 watt WXOX in Bay City and assumed its 1250 AM dial position, as well as its abandoned three-tower directional transmitter site.

Widely tipped to do well in the end of season FLt20 mascot race, Pinky disappointed, with his feet falling off early, but still finished in a creditable 5th position.

He position was to harass and inspire anyone nearby, aka make fun of and be an inspirational mascot, particularly at bbq's in the back on Friday's and running around the lawn while Bowles waited for the Band to come and play.

After the loss of two founding members, they are joined by former Justice League mascot Snapper Carr, who agrees to assume Red Tornado's mentoring position ; with his own unique form of counsel, Snapper attempts to help the remaining members get their feet back on the ground.

A new bulldog named Sherman quietly assumed the mascot position as Handsome Dan XVII in late winter 2006.

Although the school's official mascot is the Bulldog, marketing materials, fans and television announcers often use the term " Zags " as a mascot, which puts the school in the unique position of having a mascot sharing a name with the school, hence the " Gonzaga Zags.

With its strategic position, Constantinople controlled the route between Asia and Europe, as well as the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea.

Constantinople was the largest and richest urban center in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the late Eastern Roman Empire, mostly as a result of its strategic position commanding the trade routes between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.

Law professor Charles Lund Black took a similar position, though Stimson and Black respectively acknowledged that their views differed from the modern view, and differed from the prevalent view in academic writing.

Ukraine has a strategic position in East Central Europe, bordering the Black Sea in the south, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary in the west, Belarus in the north, Moldova and Romania in the south-west and Russia in the east.

In the position from the game Krasenkow versus Zvjaginsev, a thicket of black pawns hems in Black's bishop on c8, so Black is effectively playing with one piece fewer than White.

In the final position the black knight forks the white queen and rook ; after the queen moves away, Black will win the exchange.

When the score resumes with a Black move, an ellipsis (...) fills the position of the White move, for example:

An ellipsis is also used when the series of moves starts with a Black move ( when the score is not of a complete game but starts from a given position ).

The chess position they play for the final between Turati and Luzhin is already a winning position for Black ( Luzhin ), even though Black is down on material.

In 2001, Blanche ceded her position to long-time members Peter H. Gilmore and Peggy Nadramia, the current High Priest and High Priestess and publishers of The Black Flame, the official magazine of The Church of Satan.

It was rumoured ( and believed by many people in England and France ) that he intended to seize the throne for himself and supplant the rightful heir, his nephew Richard, the Black Prince's son, but there seems to have been no truth in this and on the death of Edward III and the accession of the child Richard II Gaunt sought no position of regency for himself and withdrew to his estates.

In a strong defensive position, the English King ordered that everybody fight on foot and distributed the army in three divisions, one commanded by his sixteen-year-old son, Edward, the Prince of Wales known as the Black Prince.

It has been argued that two games should be played from each starting position, with players alternating as White and Black, since some initial positions may offer White a bigger advantage than in standard chess.

The relative position of peasants in Western Europe improved greatly and the Black Death unsettled the demography of medieval Europe.

From these assumptions, Black and Scholes showed that “ it is possible to create a hedged position, consisting of a long position in the stock and a short position in the option, whose value will not depend on the price of the stock .”

For instance, a position might be given with the instruction that White is to move first, and checkmate Black in two moves against any possible defense.

** Seriesselfmate: a selfmate in which White plays a series of moves leading to a position in which Black is forced to give mate.

** Seriesreflexmate: a reflexmate in which White plays a series of moves leading to a position in which Black can, and therefore must, give mate.

The thematic approach to solving is to notice then that in the original position, Black is already almost in zugzwang.

Unlike the Squirrel and Chipmunk that can hold food in its front paws and spin the food in circles to devour it quickly, the Desert Cottontail, like all Cottontails, can only use its nose to move and adjust the position of the food that it places in front of its front paws on the ground.

Unlike the Squirrel and Chipmunk that can hold food in its front paws and spin the food in circles to devour it quickly, the Cottontail Rabbit can only use its nose to move and adjust the position of the food that it places in front of its front paws on the ground.

She quickly exploited the exalted position she now occupied, by harassing the disorganized males and even putting many of them to death.

Where there were none fifteen years ago, several scholars currently are edging their way cautiously towards the acceptance of the `` shore occupied by '' position.

In this scheme, Russia occupied a middle position.

By convention, the bicyclic β-lactams are numbered starting with the position occupied by sulfur in the penams and cephems, regardless of which atom it is in a given class.

At that time, the position next to the driver was said to be occupied by an " express messenger " or sometimes colloquially a " shotgun messenger ".

Conservative Judaism occupied an enviable middle position during a period where American society prized consensus.

While the standard rules allow hopping over only a single adjacent occupied position at a time ( as in checkers ), this version of the game allows pieces to catapult over multiple adjacent occupied positions in a line when hopping.

In the armies of Europe, mounted and unmounted crossbowmen, often mixed with javeliners and archers, occupied a central position in battle formations.

When it is either not possible or not desirable to award the victim in that way, a court may award money damages designed to restore the injured party to the economic position s / he occupied at the time the contract was entered ( known as the " reliance measure "), or designed to prevent the breaching party from being unjustly enriched (" restitution ") ( see below ).

This fourth play in his tetralogy for 438 BC ( i. e. it occupied the position conventionally reserved for satyr-plays ) is a ' tragedy ' that features Heracles as a satyric hero in conventional satyr-play scenes, involving an arrival, a banquest, a victory over an ogre ( in this case Death ), a happy ending, a feast and a departure to new adventures.

It was broad daylight by the time they circled round the back of Deir el Abyad where they found the feature to the east of it occupied by 18th Indian Infantry Brigade which, after a hasty journey from Iraq, had occupied the exposed position just west of Ruweisat Ridge and east of Deir el Abyad at Deir el Shein late on 28 June to create one of Norrie's additional defensive boxes.

Müller remained the Gestapo Chief, a position he occupied until the end of the war.

Affairs in Constantinople remained confused as Gregory's position was still unofficial and Arian priests occupied many important churches.

He was the first Magyar statesman who, for centuries, had occupied a European position.

As of September 2012, the Who's drum position is currently occupied by Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr.

position a wife occupied in the great countries round about.

Currently, the position of President ( head of state ) is occupied by Dr. Ram Baran Yadav.

Consequently, Rome has traditionally occupied a central position in the Catholic Church, although this is not necessarily so.

The 912E occupied the entry-level position left vacant by the discontinuation of the 914, while the new 924 – another Porsche-Volkswagen joint effort vehicle and the 914's official replacement – was being finalized and put into production.

Dark must place a piece with the dark side up on the board, in such a position that there exists at least one straight ( horizontal, vertical, or diagonal ) occupied line between the new piece and another dark piece, with one or more contiguous light pieces between them.

The cores of these great empires were located on the territory of the current Republic of Mali, so current-day Senegal occupied a peripheral position.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) occupied the central position in ruling the country.

In early 1903 Harding announced his campaign for Governor of Ohio, which was soon thwarted by an intra-party alliance that assured the election of fellow Republican Myron T. Herrick ; Harding was awarded the position of Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, a post he occupied from 1904 to 1906.