Problems include wide-spanned chords, which can be difficult for people with small hands ; chords that require unusual hand positions that can initially be uncomfortable, and fast scales, trills and arpeggios.

The deaths of Ben, Barbra and the supporting cast offered audiences an uncomfortable, nihilistic glimpse unusual for the genre.

In cases requiring a rigid cystoscopy it is not unusual for the patient to be given a general anesthetic, as these can be more uncomfortable, particularly for men.

For humans, maintaining an upside down position, with the head vertically below the feet, is highly uncomfortable for any extended period of time, and consequently burial in that attitude ( as opposed to attitudes of rest or watchfulness, as above ) is highly unusual and generally symbolic.

Part of Quinn's highly unusual approach was not to edit out jokes which fell flat, often leading to uncomfortable pauses, which were enjoyed by fans of the Cringe comedy style, but which may have appeared awkward to the mainstream television audience.

Alan shares an unusual relationship with Morris, who makes a point of making Alan appear uncomfortable on-air: in one episode, Alan's sports reports are interrupted three times by Morris ; in another, Morris openly humiliates Alan on-air ; and in the final episode, Morris atypically compliments Alan on his report, and goes so far as to kiss Alan on the mouth.

The trailer section of a " puller " bus can be subject to unusual centripetal forces, which many people can find uncomfortable, although this is not an issue with " pushers ".

Hatherton found himself in the unusual and uncomfortable position of defending the status quo alongside Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, a Tory grandee hated in the mining areas of Northumberland and Durham.

Despite Baldy's unusual, uncomfortable pace, Meade became quite devoted to him and rode him in all of his battles through 1862 and the spring of 1863.

The 3B had an unusual ( and noisy ) feature, a small fourth engine ( a Rolls-Royce RB162 ) in the base of the tailfin to increase power during takeoff.

The National Transportation Safety Board evaluated the performance characteristics of the DC-9-14 airplane following an abrupt loss of power from the right engine in the takeoff phase of flight and found the airplane to be docile, easily controllable, and requiring no unusual pilot skills or strength.

What made the rare occurrence even more unusual is that the ball first bounced off Schafer ’ s glove and head before landing in his glove for the first out.

An unusual landing ; a Piper J-3 | Piper J3C-65 Cub lands on a trailer as part of an airshow.

One unusual capability of the Snark missile was its ability to fly away from its launch point for up to 11 hours, and then return back for a landing.

Then came a boat dock and landing, whose peaked roof, carved figure ­- heads, and benches added yet another charming touch to the unusual setting.

On Tuesday 13 August 1996, in a very unusual accident, a Lear Jet landing at the airfield overshot the runway and ended up crashing into a van that just happened to be passing on the A40.

The wedding date marked the couple's fifth anniversary together and was booked by Yoo one year in advance despite landing on a Friday – an unusual day for a wedding.

In 1929, Waterman built his first tailless monoplane, the Whatsit, which also used the then unusual tricycle landing gear.

For example, if a local law enforcement agency is alleged to have engaged in racial profiling it would not be unusual for the case to be resolved by having the local law enforcement agency adopt procedures to be used in traffic stops, with compliance supervised by a federal trial court judge.

Some of the methods essentially replicate what a human scheduler would do if he had enough time ; others make use of unusual devices or procedures designed especially for the computer.

The budget resolution also can generate a budget reconciliation bill, which the Congress considers under expedited procedures unusual for the Senate.

Though prison officials have revised their procedures since 2006, death row inmates allege the procedures are still flawed and expose them to cruel and unusual punishment.

In criminal cases, many of these due process protections overlap with procedural protections provided by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees reliable procedures that protect innocent people from being executed, which would be an obvious example of cruel and unusual punishment.

Pioneer's administrative procedures are as unusual as its charter.

Referred to by a leading scholar as the July 2 Cases and elsewhere referred to by the lead case Gregg, the Supreme Court set forth the two main features that capital sentencing procedures must employ in order to comport with the Eighth Amendment bar on " cruel and unusual punishments.

An unusual aspect of the emergency response was the need to carry out disinfecting procedures at the scene due to the foot and mouth epidemic in the UK at the time of the incident.

Her music features canonic structures and prominent, sometimes exclusive, glissandos, being " characterized by extremely strict, even rigid technical procedures ( canonic structures ), which are often worked out with unusual musical materials ( glissandi )".

Nothing unusual can be seen in brain scans, so diagnosis is usually based on the description of the symptoms and the response to the medication or procedures.

Audit procedures used to review for subsequent events include asking management whether any unusual adjustments to their information systems have been made during the subsequent events period ( after the completion of the audit, but before the audit report is issued ), or obtaining a representation letter from management.

Unlike those who have procedures such as RNY, DS, or BPD, it is unusual for gastric band patients to experience any nutritional deficiencies or malabsorption of micro-nutrients.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

The old-time bridges over the Merrimac River in Massachusetts are of unusual interest in many respects.

In the period since the end of World War 2, -- a period coinciding with merchandising demands for the colorful, the unusual, and the original in signs and displays -- plastics have come on so strong that today they are the acknowledged leaders in the field.

he was working with species of Java, so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect.

Conversely, experimenters would consider as impressive such statements as the following, which, if they turned out to be hits, are so unusual as to be really significant:

Several unusual applications, such as a nuclear battery or fuel for space ships with nuclear propulsion, have been proposed for the isotope < sup > 242m </ sup > Am, but they are as yet hindered by the scarcity and high price of this nuclear isomer.

The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

* phaser-another way of creating an unusual sound ; the signal is split, a portion is filtered with an all-pass filter to produce a phase-shift, and then the unfiltered and filtered signals are mixed.

* Historical estimates of past climate changes suggest that the recent changes in global surface temperature are unusual.

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).

Numerous medical studies on treatment of these abscesses with antibiotics have been done with varying results, but the consensus is once pus is aspirated and analysed, provided no unusual bacilli are present, the abscess will generally heal on its own in a matter of weeks.

Blizzard-like conditions are not unusual during many winters.

Scholars opposing this view claim that while the dagger is unusual, ghosts of murdered victims are more believable, having a basis in the audience's superstitions.

These cylindrical carbon molecules have unusual properties, which are valuable for nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials science and technology.

Sponges are known from spicules and anchor ropes, and include various forms such as the Calcispongea Cotyliscus and Girtycoelia, the demosponge Chaetetes, and the genus of unusual colonial glass sponges Titusvillia.

Likewise, a type collection might focus on an unusual design feature such as coins with a hole in the middle, coins that are not circular in shape or coins with brockage.

However, there is also demand for good quality ' unsigned ' pieces, especially if they are of an unusual design.

Bacterial cell walls are made of peptidoglycan ( also called murein ), which is made from polysaccharide chains cross-linked by unusual peptides containing D-amino acids.

Although not truly unique, the cell walls of Archaea are unusual.

A and B chromosomes are very similar, forming right-handed helices, while Z-DNA is a more unusual left-handed helix with a zig-zag phosphate backbone.

Linebarger's stories are unusual, sometimes being written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.

Scholarly debate over the interpretation of these passages has focused on placing them in proper historical context, for instance pointing out that Sodom's sins are historically interpreted as being other than homosexuality, and on the translation of rare or unusual words in the passages in question.