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The annual CHIO ( short for the French term Concours Hippique International Officiel ) is the biggest equestrian meeting of the world and among horsemen considered to be as prestigious for equitation as the tournament of Wimbledon for tennis.
The term sidearm actually predates the descriptor forehand, which is seemingly in use today as a simpler means to communicate the technique: equating to a tennis forehand.
During most of the 19th-century in fact, the term " tennis " referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis: for example, in Disraeli's novel Sybil ( 1845 ), Lord Eugene De Vere announces that he will " go down to Hampton Court and play tennis.
It was not until the 16th century that rackets came into use, and the game began to be called " tennis ", from the Old French term tenez, which can be translated as " hold!
The term is used in France today to denote the game of tennis on a court in which the ancient or modern game might be played.
* Lawn tennis ( what is usually meant by the term " tennis " today )
The term real was first used by journalists in the middle of the 20th century to distinguish the ancient game from modern lawn tennis ( even though that sport is seldom contested on lawns these days outside the few social-club-managed estates such as Wimbledon ).
* Protected Ranking, a tennis term used in tournaments-see Glossary of tennis
The term athletic shoes is typically used for running in a marathon or half marathon, basketball, and tennis ( amongst others ) but tends to exclude shoes for sports played on grass such as association football and rugby football, which are generally known as " Studs ," or in North America as cleats.
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In the United States and Canada the term " mountain resort " usually denotes a resort visited all year, both for winter sports and for summer activities, such as hiking, mountain biking, golf, and tennis.
In the Lent ( Spring ) term hockey and football are the main sports, alongside fives, for those not choosing to row, with cricket, tennis and athletics all popular in the Summer term.
In tennis, the term was used at the 1987 Davis Cup against West Germany for unsportsmanlike conduct.
The main games are rugby football, cross-country and basketball during the winter months, and cricket, tennis and athletics during the summer term.
* Hoyt is known as a term for " pusher " in tennis.
The pitch is used primarily for hockey in the winter months and in the summer term the pitch affords a further 8 tennis courts and an extensive multi-purpose training / coaching area.
The term tennis elbow was first used in 1883 by Major in his paper " Lawn-tennis elbow ".
The term polo shirt, which previously had referred only to the long-sleeved buttoned-down shirts traditionally used in polo, soon became a universal moniker for the tennis shirt ; no later than the 1950s, it was in common usage in the U. S. to describe the shirt most commonly thought of as part of formal tennis attire.

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It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.
It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.
Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.
Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.
This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).
the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.
Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.
For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;
If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.
The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.
for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.
The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.
This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.
`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.
This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.
Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.
The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.
In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).
As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.

term and thought
( So prevalent are these isolated peaks and ridges that a specialised term has been adopted in Germany to describe this kind of country, thought to be in great part the result of wind action.
The term " wild type " allele is sometimes used to describe an allele that is thought to contribute to the typical phenotypic character as seen in " wild " populations of organisms, such as fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ).
In the Pan Indian philosophic thought the term ' Satyam Shivam Sundaram ' is another name for the concept of the Supreme.
The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant ( 1724 1804 ), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason that are proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience ( phenomena ).
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, thought the term was derived from the Spanish barrueco, a large, irregularly-shaped pearl, and it was for a time confined to the craft of the jeweller.
The term " Bohemianism ", when used to mean " social unconventionality ", comes from the French bohémien " Gypsy " " because Romani people were thought to come from Bohemia, or because they perhaps entered the West through Bohemia ".
: Third, though the term was unknown, pluralism has characterized Jewish life and thought through the ages.
The exact derivation of the term is unknown, but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.
While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.
The term ' democracy ' first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought in the city-state of Athens.
Also, considering the evidence from the time, Evangeliou thought the definition of the term “ Gnostics ” was unclear.
The exact term was not used by Marx in any of his works, and the actual presence of " dialectical materialism " within his thought remains the subject of significant controversy, particularly regarding the relationship between dialectics, ontology and nature.
Amongst the Western Semites, it is thought that Ea was equated to the term * hyy ( life ), referring to Enki's waters as life giving.
Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the vernacular with several of his neologisms, such as doublethink, thoughtcrime, and thought police.
The term Heracleidae, although it could refer to all of Heracles ' children and further descendants, is most commonly used to indicate the descendants of Hyllus, in the context of their lasting struggle for return to Peloponnesus, out of where Hyllus and his brothers-the children of Heracles by Deianeira-were thought to have been expelled by Eurystheus.
< sup > δ </ sup > Though this term is non-standard usage by " left ", agorists mean " left " in the general sense used by left-libertarians, as defined by Roderick T. Long, as "... an integration, or I'd argue, a reintegration of libertarianism with concerns that are traditionally thought of as being concerns of the left.
Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of 19th-and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and his or her emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts.
Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting.
The term would thus be an official title ; and the thought would not be unsuitable to one whose message closed the prophetical Canon of the Old Testament.
In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, playwright Tony Kushner used the term " Moonies " to refer to religious converts who lacked " spiritual liveliness or freedom of thought ".
His works are sometimes even said to have contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words politics and politician, and it is sometimes thought that it is because of him that Old Nick became an English term for the Devil and the adjective Machiavellian became a pejorative term describing someone who aims to deceive and manipulate others for personal advantage.
Kordofanian was thought to be one of several primary branches rather than being coordinate to the phylum as a whole, prompting re-introduction of the term Niger Congo, which is in current use among linguists.
Today it is usually used to refer to mainstream economics, although it has also been used as an umbrella term encompassing a number of other schools of thought, notably excluding institutional economics, various historical schools of economics, and Marxian economics, in addition to various other heterodox approaches to economics.
The English term lullaby is thought to come from " lu, lu " or " la la " sound made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and " by by " or " bye bye ", either another lulling sound, or a term for good night.

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