The term " proximate cause " is also used by historians, in the sense of a specific event or incident setting off an event, such as a war or revolution, which had deeper roots and causes.

One of the classic hallmarks of false urban legends is a lack of specific information regarding the incident, such as names, dates, locations, or similar information.

It may relate to a specific incident or action.

A " bashing " may be a specific incident, and one could also use the verb to bash ( e. g. " I was gay bashed .").

Staff Sergeant Louis D. Kenneweg, who is admittedly uncertain in regard to the date, has not associated the incident he recalls with any specific flight.

MACC covers the provision of unarmed military assistance to prevent or deal with the aftermath of a natural disaster or a major incident or, to assist civil sponsors either by carrying out special projects of significant social value to the community or by attaching individual volunteers to specific projects.

Reports range from specific, incident based accounts to figures from hospitals, morgues, and other documentary data-gathering agencies.

* Science: The environment of a very small, specific area, distinguished from its immediate surroundings by such factors as the amount of incident light, the degree of moisture, and the range of temperatures.

The critical incidents method ( or critical incident technique ) concerns “ specific behaviors indicative of good or bad job performance ”.

Often, no actual investigation or substantiated suspicion of a specific incident need exist to support a charge of obstruction of justice.

Indeed, when asked, a Government spokesperson clarified that Mr Kenny was not referring to any specific incident ".

However, although it is possible, the poem need not be referring to this specific relic or have this incident as the reason for its composition.

* Infra-red pollution — incident infra-red light is usually filtered on image sensors, using a specific thin film dedicated to this task ( but which may serve an additional purpose in protecting the relatively much more expensive sensor component from contamination and damage ), and so this issue, if truly the result of ir pollution, may be a problem which is independent of the LBCAST technology of the sensor.

Shi ' as corroborate the revelation of the Quranic verse 5: 55 with the incident widely narrated in both Sunni and Shia narrations ( ahadith ) where Ali gave his ring in charity to a beggar while bowing in prayer, and cite the verses use of the word إ ِ ن َّ م َ ا to indicate that the subjects are specific, not general.

A standing wave results from a sound wave reflected 180 degrees out of phase with its incident wave, which often occurs for at least one specific frequency when two walls are placed parallel to each other.

In one specific incident in September 2008, a late Porter flight was advised by air traffic controllers to divert to Pearson, but instead landed at Bishop.

They found that these crystals, at certain specific wavelengths and incident angles, produced intense peaks of reflected radiation ( known as Bragg peaks ).

The diffracted electrons interfere constructively at specific angles according to the crystal structure and spacing of the atoms at the sample surface and the wavelength of the incident electrons.

Individual racers must be of a specific nationality and meet specific age requirements ; this is necessary to allow teams to obtain the necessary passport documentation to travel across the world without incident.

This occurs only at a specific angle and wavelength of incident light and is highly dependent on the surface of the gold, such that binding of a target analyte to a receptor on the gold surface produces a measurable signal.

Within a corporate incident management system it is important to continue to track incidents even when they are being actioned by a vendor and the Service Level Agreement ( SLA ) may have specific provision for this.

The United States raised specific concerns with respect to anti-union violence, including a 1999 incident in which armed vigilantes threatened and kidnapped leaders of a banana workers ' union who were protesting the illegal dismissal of 900 workers.

released an investigative report into the causes of the 3. 14 incident in Tibet ; launched activities to promote open government information, including requesting the disclosure of three specific types of public expenditures ; hosted a legal organization training workshop where legal knowledge relating to rights defence and elections was discussed ; provided legal aid to Deng Yujiao, victims of " black jails ", and petitioners ; launched residence committee elections and organized symposiums on Green Dam, mental disability, and many more issues ; in order to guide public opinion on a path of rational development, expressed public opinion on many important issues.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

Fundamental values, temperament and the way in which one approaches a conviction change less, of course, than specific opinions.

One specific example is a secret `` fraternity '' which will `` coordinate anti-Communist efforts ''.

The activities of the Planning Division are defined in considerable detail in the enabling act of the Development Council, which assigns to the agency both broad responsibilities and specific duties in the field of planning.

Among the specific areas of concentration in which the staff is engaged, are such projects as biological and biochemical studies of the effects of microwaves ; ;

Mr. Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now-famous Weider Push-Pull Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or `` pushing '' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way, followed by a `` pulling '' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group.

Quite naturally, there is a greater availability of those models which are manufactured within a specific country.

After these treatments the conjugate did not stain healthy or crown gall sweet clover tissues or stained them a very faint green which was easily distinguishable from the bright yellow-green specific staining.

Here there is a specific preventive component which applies in a more generalized sense to any casework situation.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.

and a mere cost apportionment which somehow spreads among the classes and units of service even those costs that are strictly unallocable from the standpoint of specific cost determination.

Metabolite 1, isolated from the medium, however, showed a lower specific activity, which indicates endogenous synthesis of this metabolite.

The person using these tests must determine which combination of procedures is practical for any specific item in order to evaluate the dimensional changes of textile fabrics or garments after laundering procedures commonly used in the home or commercial laundry.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

He is talking about double effects, of which the specific action causes directly the one and indirectly the other, but causes both ; ;

The artists tried also to represent motion in a specific moment ( Myron ), which may be considered as the reappearance of the dormant Minoan element.

; Experimental unit: The entity to which a specific treatment combination is applied.

Each element has a specific set of chemical properties as a consequence of the number of electrons present in the neutral atom, which is Z ( the atomic number ).

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.