The presence of unusual lumps in the wall or base of the vagina is always abnormal.

The naming ceremony took place in his presence ; there was a last-minute scramble to repaint the station's new nameboards when it was discovered that the unusual dieresis in his name had been omitted ( making the French word for " welcome ").

Also unusual was the presence of two leading men: at this point in their careers both Grant and Colman had been used to having that role all to themselves.

The unusual sex distribution can be partially explained by the presence of VMI, which did not admit women until 1997 and remains overwhelmingly male today.

When British scientists in Antarctica performed airborne ice-penetrating radar surveys in the early 1970s, they detected unusual radar readings at the site which suggested the presence of a liquid, freshwater lake below the ice.

Because of this, the potential for difficulty or complications due to the presence of unusual airway anatomy or other uncontrolled variables is carefully evaluated before undertaking tracheal intubation.

The unusual sex distribution can also be explained by WVU Tech's presence.

Application of spectrum analysis to number station signals has revealed the presence of data bursts, RTTY-modulated subcarriers, phase-shifted carriers, and other unusual transmitter modulations like polytones.

Again, in some land snails, an unusual feature of the reproductive system of gastropods is the presence and utilization of love darts.

The island of Heligoland is a geological oddity ; the presence of the main island's characteristic red sedimentary rock in the middle of the German Bight is unusual.

It contains unusual features like the presence of three USB 2. 0 ports, VGA port, Ethernet LAN port, 4-in-1 card reader, headphone and mic combo jack.

Also known as Clavius or Chandra2, it contains unusual features like the presence of three PCMCIA slots and the use of dual camcorder batteries as a source of power.

The stories behind why these items are cursed vary, but they usually are said to bring bad luck or to manifest unusual phenomena related to their presence.

They have a number of distinctive features, including an unusual structure to the jaw, and the presence of an additional bone in the tail.

He must next get his partisans to secure the presence of the calif himself at the trial — his presence not being an unusual thing at the more important prosecutions.

The presence of a single voiced stop,, contrasting with the voiceless stop, makes Wyandot unusual among Iroquoian languages, all of which lack a voicing distinction.

Because the Shanghai Ceasefire Agreement of 1932, signed after the incident, forbade the Chinese from deploying any troops within Shanghai, the Chinese trained its police garrison, whose presence was allowed in the city, in various military tactics unusual for a police force.

In Ontario, Canada, the air ambulance program began in 1977, and featured a paramedic-based system of care, with the presence of physicians or nurses being relatively unusual.

One published attempt to create a " haunted room " using environmental " complex " electromagnetic fields based on Persinger's theoretical and experimental work did not produce the sensation of a " sensed presence " and found that reports of unusual experiences were uncorrelated with the presence or absence of these fields.

In response, Bonnet sent out a message to André François-Poncet, now the French Ambassador in Rome, to inform him that he should see Count Ciano to complain, " Such behavior may appear rather unusual in the presence of the French Ambassador and immediately following the unconditional recognition of the Italian Empire ", referring to the annexation of Ethiopia.

Hedberg's stand-up comedy was distinguished by the unique manner of speech that he adopted later in his career, his abrupt delivery, and his unusual stage presence.

This unusual response to her presence, of course, alarms Fenna.

In a 2005 profile for the National Post, former student John Turley-Ewart writes: " In the 1990s, when I worked as his teaching assistant, it was not unusual to see 300 people from all walks of life – full-time students, business people, civil servants, journalists – packed into his evening lectures.

The article was not widely read at the time, but Thompson did garner attention from other journalists for its unusual style.

Though unconfirmed by independent journalists or academic researchers, some people address the facts of his father James ' unusual position of authority for an African American, as well as the claim that James was present at the Gettysburg Address in 1863, as evidence that George Johnson was truly the grandson of the 17th President, which meant that he was of mixed Caucasian and African American ancestry.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

This is highly unusual in a relatively well-documented period for a person of such distinction who was still only about 33 years old.

Shortstop Ray Chapman, who often crowded the plate, was batting against Carl Mays, who had an unusual underhand delivery.

Stephen Baxter has imagined perhaps some of the most unusual exotic life-forms in his Xeelee series of novels and stories, including supersymmetric photino-based life that congregate in the gravity wells of stars, entities composed of quantum wave functions, and the Qax, who thrive in any form of convection cells, from swamp gas to the atmospheres of gas giants.

Nor did the vague statements of those who insisted upon his " powerful ambition ... and unusual energy of will " actually account for his revolutionary connections.

Not long after that, in 1883, Georg Cantor, who attended lectures by Weierstrass, published examples of subsets of the real line known as Cantor sets, which had unusual properties and are now recognized as fractals.

Astonished, Amphitryon sent for the seer Tiresias, who prophesied an unusual future for the boy, saying he would vanquish numerous monsters.

A person who is hypnotized displays certain unusual characteristics and propensities, compared with a non-hypnotized subject, most notably hyper-suggestibility, which some authorities have considered a sine qua non of hypnosis.

He acquired a knowledge of Hebrew by studying with a Jew who converted to Christianity, and took the unusual position ( for that time ) that the Hebrew, and not the Septuagint, was the inspired text of the Old Testament.

However, in a few unusual and specific domains, such as immune systems, it seems that humans prefer others who are unlike themselves ( e. g., with an orthogonal immune system ), since this will lead to a baby that has the best of both worlds.

Samuel Galton, Jr., unusual as a Quaker who was also a gun-manufacturer, appears in the letters of other Lunar members as attending meetings from July 1781, and his daughter Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was to provide one of the few first-hand accounts of the Lunar Society's activities.

relation to her Witch-Cult theory, She behaved in fact rather like someone who was a fully convinced member of some unusual religious sect, or perhaps, of the Freemasons, but never on any account got into arguments about it in public.

Those who hold a more liberal view of the Bible as a human witness to the glory of God, the work of fallible humans who wrote from a limited experience unusual only for the insight they have gained through their inspired struggle to know God in the midst of a troubled world.

In the unusual event there is a tie, the tied player who bid the most wins the game ( This is done by adding up each tied-player's successful bids.

An unusual example is that of Emperor Ashoka who became a pacifist after the bloody Kalinga war.

In this respect, as a king regarded as saintly for his life while ruling — in contrast to a king who gives up the kingship in favour of religious life, or who is venerated because of the manner of his death — Bede's portrayal of Oswald stands out as unusual.

Bede says that Ninian was a Briton who had been instructed in Rome ; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons ; that his episcopal see was named after Saint Martin of Tours ; that he preached to and converted the southern Picts ; that his base was at " hwit ærn ", which was in the province of the Bernicians ; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.

With several other additions, Carter's original writing evolved into the concept of the series about two agents who deal with strange and unusual activities.

There is often a dark, paranoid atmosphere and unusual characters who formerly were normal members of society.