The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i. e. the true crocodiles, the alligators and caimans ( family Alligatoridae ) and the gharials ( family Gavialidae ), as well as the Crocodylomorpha, which include prehistoric crocodile relatives and ancestors.

Another prediction, that the Berlin Wall would be destroyed in 1989, also came true, although the follow-up gag that it would be " quickly replaced by a moat full of alligators " obviously did not.

Crocodilia includes the true crocodiles, the alligators and caimans ( family Alligatoridae ) and the gharials ( family Gavialidae ), as well as the Crocodylomorpha, which include prehistoric crocodile relatives and ancestors.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

but true memory does not count nor add: it holds fast to things that were and they are outside of time.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

They are not true because scientists or prophets say they are true.

In the field of political values, it is certainly true that students are not radical, not rebels against their parents or their peers.

Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

There are, he thought, so few true means of forgetfulness in this life that why should he shun the medicine even when the medicine seemed, as it did, a little crude??

The aspects of physical development that catch the judges' eyes and which rightfully influence their decisions are symmetry and that hallmark of the true champion -- superior definition of the muscles.

`` Is it true that you believe the other animals are saner than the human species ''??

The most distal airways are similar to those found in type 1,, being composed of numerous, apparently true terminal bronchioles and occasional, poorly developed respiratory bronchioles ( figs. 14, 15 ).

But it is true that the therapist can sense, when he hears this stereotype, that there are at this moment many emotional determinants at work in it, a blurred babel of indistinct voices which have yet to become clearly delineated from one another.

These are arranged approximately in the order of the vociferousness of their proponents but will be discussed in the reverse order in the hope that the true order of importance will result.

This also holds true if restorative forces are applied.

`` Emory could not continue to operate according to its present standards as an institution of higher learning, of true university grade, and meet its financial obligations, without the tax-exemption privileges which are available to it only so long as it conforms to the aforementioned constitutional and statutory provisions '', the statement said.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

Members of the family Bufonidae are known as the " true toads ".

A few ( e. g. Fejervarya raja ) can inhabit brackish water and even survive ( though not thrive ) in seawater, but there are no true marine amphibians.

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

If this is true, then the universe today looks just as it did millions of years ago and as it will look millions of years hence, even though the universe is expanding.

This holds true even today, for many areas of the world.

This is especially true of printers equipped with support for PostScript or PCL, which includes the vast majority of printers produced today.

Although his methods were primitive, his basic premises have held true today and have been reaffirmed by more methodologically sound methods.

For this opposition he endured a twenty-year prison sentence during which he wrote well known medical works such as The Complicated Body, encompassing many of the things we know to be true today.

Humanae Vitae became " a sign of contradiction but also of continuity of the Church's doctrine and tradition ... What was true yesterday is true also today.

" Humanae Vitae became " a sign of contradiction but also of continuity of the Church's doctrine and tradition ... What was true yesterday is true also today.

Is it true that the seven dialectical theories of method in use today, to wit, i ) the Aristotelian, 2 ) the Lullian, 3 ) the Ramistic, 4 ) the Mixt, whether indeed in the manner of Keckermann or of Alsted, 5 ) the Forensic of Hotman, 6 ) the Jesuitic, and 7 ) the Socinian, differ mostly in respect to manner of treatment, not in respect to

Around this time he had copied for him a Hebrew Gospel, of which fragments are preserved in his notes, and is known today as the Gospel of the Hebrews, and which the Nazarenes considered was the true Gospel of Matthew.

" Rather, it is necessary to be able to build only a sufficient ( possibly modest ) subset of such structures — as is true, in fact, of any practical manufacturing process used in the world today, and is true even in biology.

Like mythos, legends are stories that are traditionally considered true, but are set in a more recent time, when the world was much as it is today.

After the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U. S. S. R. have, by means of the treaty signed today, definitively settled the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state and have thereby created a sure foundation for a lasting peace in the region, they mutually express their conviction that it would serve the true interest of all peoples to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany on the one side and England and France on the other.

Islam does not refer to itself as " Christian ", asserting that Jesus and all true followers of Christ's teachings were ( and are ) Muslims — a term that means " submitters to God "— not Christians as the term is used today.

* The same is true in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell and was used mainly to portray gambling much the same way poker is today.

It would be true even if the judge said: " You will unexpectedly be hanged today.

The graph at the top shows this trend holds true today.

This is true for those in the past and today.

Thus, in ancient civilization, and even today with fortune telling as a true profession, humankind continues to be curious about its future, both out of sheer curiosity as well as out of desire to better prepare for it.

Trotskyists differ on the extent to which this is true today, but even the most orthodox tend to recognise in the late twentieth century a new development in the revolts of the rural poor, the self-organising struggles of the landless, and many other struggles which in some ways reflect the militant united organised struggles of the working class, and which to various degrees do not bear the marks of class divisions typical of the heroic peasant struggles of previous epochs.

These practices are still true today, however, training methods have advanced to include emphasis on explosive power.