The naming ceremony took place in his presence ; there was a last-minute scramble to repaint the station's new nameboards when it was discovered that the unusual dieresis in his name had been omitted ( making the French word for " welcome ").

Also unusual was the presence of two leading men: at this point in their careers both Grant and Colman had been used to having that role all to themselves.

The unusual sex distribution can be partially explained by the presence of VMI, which did not admit women until 1997 and remains overwhelmingly male today.

When British scientists in Antarctica performed airborne ice-penetrating radar surveys in the early 1970s, they detected unusual radar readings at the site which suggested the presence of a liquid, freshwater lake below the ice.

Because of this, the potential for difficulty or complications due to the presence of unusual airway anatomy or other uncontrolled variables is carefully evaluated before undertaking tracheal intubation.

The unusual sex distribution can also be explained by WVU Tech's presence.

Application of spectrum analysis to number station signals has revealed the presence of data bursts, RTTY-modulated subcarriers, phase-shifted carriers, and other unusual transmitter modulations like polytones.

Again, in some land snails, an unusual feature of the reproductive system of gastropods is the presence and utilization of love darts.

The island of Heligoland is a geological oddity ; the presence of the main island's characteristic red sedimentary rock in the middle of the German Bight is unusual.

The unusual presence of journalists, who also included Robert D. Kaplan of The Atlantic Monthly, at such a strategy meeting was revealed in Bob Woodward's 2006 book State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III.

It contains unusual features like the presence of three USB 2. 0 ports, VGA port, Ethernet LAN port, 4-in-1 card reader, headphone and mic combo jack.

Also known as Clavius or Chandra2, it contains unusual features like the presence of three PCMCIA slots and the use of dual camcorder batteries as a source of power.

The stories behind why these items are cursed vary, but they usually are said to bring bad luck or to manifest unusual phenomena related to their presence.

They have a number of distinctive features, including an unusual structure to the jaw, and the presence of an additional bone in the tail.

He must next get his partisans to secure the presence of the calif himself at the trial — his presence not being an unusual thing at the more important prosecutions.

The presence of a single voiced stop,, contrasting with the voiceless stop, makes Wyandot unusual among Iroquoian languages, all of which lack a voicing distinction.

Because the Shanghai Ceasefire Agreement of 1932, signed after the incident, forbade the Chinese from deploying any troops within Shanghai, the Chinese trained its police garrison, whose presence was allowed in the city, in various military tactics unusual for a police force.

In Ontario, Canada, the air ambulance program began in 1977, and featured a paramedic-based system of care, with the presence of physicians or nurses being relatively unusual.

One published attempt to create a " haunted room " using environmental " complex " electromagnetic fields based on Persinger's theoretical and experimental work did not produce the sensation of a " sensed presence " and found that reports of unusual experiences were uncorrelated with the presence or absence of these fields.

In response, Bonnet sent out a message to André François-Poncet, now the French Ambassador in Rome, to inform him that he should see Count Ciano to complain, " Such behavior may appear rather unusual in the presence of the French Ambassador and immediately following the unconditional recognition of the Italian Empire ", referring to the annexation of Ethiopia.

Hedberg's stand-up comedy was distinguished by the unique manner of speech that he adopted later in his career, his abrupt delivery, and his unusual stage presence.

This unusual response to her presence, of course, alarms Fenna.

At the time, the Wembley surface was in poor condition, with the stadium having hosted the Horse of the Year Show days earlier and having much of the grass turned into hard turf lumps as a result, as well as the presence of a vast covering of sand.

Programmed cell death in plants has a number of molecular similarities to animal apoptosis, but it also has differences, notably the presence of a cell wall and the lack of an immune system which removes the pieces of the dead cell.

Cathode rays are invisible, but their presence was first detected in early vacuum tubes when they struck the glass wall of the tube, exciting the atoms of the glass and causing them to emit light, a glow called fluorescence.

However, a wall would imply the existence of a defensive ditch outside it, so an earlier wall could not be immediately adjacent to site of the tomb, which combined with the presence of the Temple Mount would make the city inside the wall quite thin ; essentially for the traditional site to have been outside the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the Tyropoeon Valley, rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill.

Resistive wall modes ( RWM ) develop in plasmas that require the presence of a perfectly conducting wall for stability.

However, in the presence of a non-ideal wall, the slowly growing RWM is unstable.

Acanthocephala ( Greek,, thorn +,, head ) is a phylum of parasitic worms known as acanthocephalans, thorny-headed worms, or spiny-headed worms, characterized by the presence of an evertable proboscis, armed with spines, which it uses to pierce and hold the gut wall of its host.

The presence of the fourth wall is an established convention of modern realistic theatre, which has led some artists to draw direct attention to it for dramatic or comedic effect when this boundary is " broken ", for example by an actor onstage speaking to the audience directly.

Other details often seen such as a single candle " attached to the wall ," and the presence of God the Father above, also come from Bridget's vision:

The first wall was 7 metres tall, the second, 14 metres and the third wall, which covered all four sides, was 27 metres in height, though no presence of the wall exists in modern times.

Furthermore, some street names hint at the presence of fortifications in times past, for example when words such as " wall " or " glacis " occur.

As soon as he becomes aware of E's presence he rushes down a couple of steps and cowers beside the wall until the camera retreats a little.

Due to the presence of a cell wall, cytokinesis in plant cells is significantly different from that in animal cells.

Legend has it, when a tenant saw the Rent Man from Butterley Co ; advancing towards their houses, they would knock on the adjoining house wall, using the metal poker from their coal fire, and alert their neighbour of his presence and this would continue along the terraced row and they would all lock their doors and wait until he ’ d gone away!

Visual cues such as a rotating wall cloud or tornado may also hint at the presence of a mesocyclone.

Programmed cell death in plants has a number of molecular similarities to animal apoptosis, but it also has differences, the most obvious being the presence of a cell wall and the lack of an immune system that removes the pieces of the dead cell.

Some Protestant advocates of an alternative site claim that a wall would imply the existence of a defensive ditch outside it, so an earlier wall couldn't be immediately adjacent to the Golgotha site, which combined the presence of the Temple Mount would make the city inside the wall quite thin ; essentially for the traditional site to have been outside the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the Tyropoeon Valley, rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill.

The Arrhenius definition of acid – base reactions is a development of the hydrogen theory of acids, devised by Svante Arrhenius, which was used to provide a modern definition of acids and bases that followed from his work with Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald in establishing the presence of ions in aqueous solution in 1884, and led to Arrhenius receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 for " recognition of the extraordinary services ... rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation ".

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

In the early 1960s, the UK was withdrawing its military presence from the Indian Ocean area, not including the base at RAF Gan to the north of Diego Garcia in the Maldives ( which remained open until 1976 ), and agreed to permit the US to establish a Naval Communication Station on one of its island territories there.

Various political parties in India repeatedly called for the military base to be dismantled, as they saw the US naval presence in Diego Garcia as a hindrance to peace in the Indian Ocean.

Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to confirm the presence of gold in items, giving rise to the term the acid test.

The Cuban government opposes the presence of the naval base, claiming that the lease is invalid under international law as it was not a sovereign nation at the time.

The Spanish sent a fleet from Cartagena which destroyed the English colony at Providence island in 1641, and for a time the presence of an English base so close to the shore was eliminated.

In order to maintain security, the province required the presence of three legions ; but command of these forces provided an ideal power base for ambitious rivals.

The presence of large numbers of small watercraft are a challenge and hazard to the warships using the naval base and dockyard.

Phenylacetic acid in the presence of a base will lose water to produce phenylketene due to the high acidity of the alpha proton.

There is still a large military presence on the peninsula ; the home base of Russia's Pacific submarine fleet is across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at the Rybachy base.

Kinnock explained his change of attitude, despite the continuing presence of 90 hereditary peers and appointment by patronage, by asserting that the Lords was a good base for campaigning.

any base ) centered at-50 ; the presence of the-35 element appears to be unimportant for transcription from the UP element-containing promoters.

On its return to base, the expedition learned of the presence of Amundsen, camped with his crew and a large contingent of dogs in the Bay of Whales, 200 miles ( 320 km ) to their east.

Although the British discovered the presence of the Argentine base in 1978, protested and tried to resolve the issue by diplomatic means, no effort was made to remove them by force until after the Falklands War.

Sedevacantists base their claim to be the remnant Roman Catholic Church on what they see as the presence in them of these four " marks ", absent, they say, in the Church since the Second Vatican Council.

In a royal presence, the one performing sungkem would kneel at the base of the throne.

In the laboratory, iodine in the presence of base is commonly employed to oxidize thiols to disulfides.

Such reactions are mediated by enzymes in some cases and in other cases are under equilibrium control, especially in the presence of a catalytic amount of base.

Buffer solutions achieve their resistance to pH change because of the presence of an equilibrium between the acid HA and its conjugate base A < sup >-</ sup >.

The Horseshoe Falls drop about, while the height of the American Falls varies between because of the presence of giant boulders at its base.

This is due to the presence of the UK sovereign base at Episkopi and Akrotiri, and to the displacement of the population in Limassol after the Turkish invasion in 1974.

* Phenolphthalein, commonly used as a pH indicator, turns pink in the presence of a base such as ammonia fumes or sodium carbonate.