For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

Probably the primary reason for special treatment of a net operating loss carryover is the unique opportunity it presents for tax avoidance.

In the case of the tapering worm tubes Selkirkia, trilobites are always found with their heads directed towards the opening of the tube, suggesting that they reversed in ; the absence of any moulted carapaces suggests that moulting was not their primary reason for seeking shelter.

This had been a primary reason for the success of the Atari 2600 VCS against systems like the Intellivision.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

One would have been forced to hard boil the eggs that the chickens produced so as not to waste food, and for this reason the Spanish dish hornazo ( traditionally eaten on and around Easter ) contains hard-boiled eggs as a primary ingredient.

The primary reason that Eskimo is considered derogatory is the arguable but widespread perception that in Algonkian languages it means " eaters of raw meat.

The primary duty of an evangelist in the Community of Christ remains the giving of sacramental " evangelist's blessings "; it is for this reason that evangelists are often referred to as " ministers of blessing ".

This security of military help was the primary reason the lord entered into the feudal relationship.

The primary reason behind this missing functionality is often due to marketing and control.

The primary reason for studying E < sub > 6 </ sub > models comes from E < sub > 8 </ sub > × E < sub > 8 </ sub > heterotic string theory.

This was a primary reason the movie immediately met with harsh criticism.

The primary reason for this is that the entire intracellular machinery ( enzymes, structural proteins, etc.

Some feel the primary reason for the endorsement was to keep the flat tax idea and other supply-side views alive.

Foreign investors often cite Luxembourg's labour relations as a primary reason for locating in the Grand Duchy.

His primary purpose for creating her was to have a companion which voiced honest opinions about his plans, and to give him an extra voice of reason to counsel him on his obsessive quest for the Black Lantern energy.

His primary reason for leaving Microsoft for Oop!

This reason is believed to be embodied, in its most abstract form, in the concept of a primary precept: " Good is to be sought, evil avoided.

The primary virtue in Objectivist ethics is rationality, as Rand meant it " the recognition and acceptance of reason as one's only source of knowledge, one's only judge of values and one's only guide to action.

Contact printing is liable to damage both the mask and the wafer, and this was the primary reason it was abandoned for high volume production.

The primary reason for the problem is polymer degradation of the paint matrix due to exposure of UV radiation in sunshine and condensation from dew.

The primary reason was not performance, but the PDP-11's superior real-time responsiveness.

A primary reason for this is that PLCs solve the logic in a predictable and repeating sequence, and ladder logic allows the programmer ( the person writing the logic ) to see any issues with the timing of the logic sequence more easily than would be possible in other formats.

A primary reason for OEM's inability to coordinate communications and information-sharing in the early hours of the WTC response was the loss of its emergency operations center, located on the twenty third floor of 7 World Trade Center which had been evacuated after debris from tower's collapse struck the building, igniting several fires.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

In 1960 one-quarter of the 92.5 million recreation visits to the National Forests and Grasslands were for the primary purpose of hunting and fishing.

Here the reasonable mastery of the elements of administration can do much to free a president for his primary role.

In the primary decomposition theorem, it is not necessary that the vector space V be finite dimensional, nor is it necessary for parts ( A ) and ( B ) that P be the minimal polynomial for T.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

As stated in Seaboard and numerous other cases, the two primary reasons for the enactment of section 203 of the United States Code were to prevent the Government from having to deal with more than one claimant and to prevent the assignment of meretricious claims on a contingent-fee basis.

One is the primary purpose for which marriage exists, namely, the continuance of the race through the gift and heritage of children ; ;

`` The primary objective of non-violence '', writes the outstanding Mennonite ethicist, `` is not peace, or obedience to the divine will, but rather certain desired social changes, for personal, or class, or national advantage ''.

He will be succeeded by Ivan Allen Jr., who became a candidate in the Sept. 13 primary after Mayor Hartsfield announced that he would not run for reelection.

In his only attack on the Republicans, Hughes said, `` The three Republican candidates for governor are tripping over their feet for popular slogans to win the primary.

Calling the Democrats the `` party that lives, breathes and thinks for the good of the people '', Hughes asked, `` a representative Democratic vote in the primary for a springboard toward victory in November ''.

Some Democratic district and county leaders are reported trying to induce State Controller Arthur Levitt of Brooklyn to oppose Mr. Wagner for the Mayoral nomination in the Sept. 7 Democratic primary.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

Lincoln adhered to the Whig theory of the presidency, which gave Congress primary responsibility for writing the laws while the Executive enforced them.

Kant is not generally considered to be a modern anthropologist, however, as he never left his region of Germany nor did he study any cultures besides his own, and in fact, describes the need for anthropology as a corollary field to his own primary field of philosophy.

Experienced commanders on both sides in the English Civil War recommended the abandonment of garrisoned fortifications for two primary reasons.

Inferring the events to represent experiments on people until they died, the study interpreted that use of trepanation as an indicator of the stressful sociopolitical climate that not long thereafter resulted in the abandonment of Monte Alban as the primary regional administrative center in the Oaxacan highlands.

Many recent theories propose conquest-induced political collapse as the primary reason for Cahokia ’ s abandonment.

An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim.

After abandonment of an older delta lobe, which would cut off the primary supply of fresh water and sediment, an area would undergo compaction, subsidence, and erosion.