This action was taken in response to an appeal obtained from the governor general and to a request for assistance from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, without consulting the island's head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, Commonwealth institutions or other usual diplomatic channels ( as had been done in Anguilla ).

The term generally refers to the events ( mostly in Eastern Europe ) that led up to the actual reunification ; in its usual context, this term loosely translates to " the turning point ", without any further meaning.

Such was usual in Eastern Europe, for example among Russians and Lithuanians.

In Eastern Catholic Churches, the usual minister of this sacrament is the parish priest, using olive oil consecrated by a bishop ( i. e., chrism ), and administering the sacrament immediately after baptism.

The following is the usual " business day " ( term used by CNBC hosts and announcers ) lineup ( as of February 26, 2009 all times Eastern ):

In 1999 and 2001, Harald Szeemann directed two editions in a row ( 48th & 49th ) bringing in a larger representation of artists from Asia and Eastern Europe and more young artist than usual and expanded the show into several newly restored spaces of the Arsenale.

Polish agriculture suffered from the usual handicaps of Eastern European nations: technological backwardness, low productivity, and lack of capital and access to markets.

Since in German there is only one usual term Ostdeutschland, meaning East Germany or Eastern Germany, the German rather ambiguous term never gained prevailing use for the GDR as did the English term.

"— the " Apostle " is the usual ancient Eastern title for the Epistle reading, and the " Prologue of the Alleluia " would seem to be a prayer or verse before Alleluia was sung by the choir.

This is the usual name for this part of the Liturgy in Greek-speaking Eastern Christianity, but in other Christian traditions that have a comparable rite it is more often called the Eucharistic Prayer.

In Romania, it is usual to divide the Eastern Carpathians in Romanian territory into three geographical groups ( north, center, south ), instead in Outer and Inner Eastern Carpathians.

The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the screen to the other, with the actors at the end coming forward a little and standing more in profile than the others.

The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament.

The usual arrangement for a tied house was that the pub was owned by the brewery but rented out to a private individual ( landlord ) who ran it as a separate business ( even though contracted to buy the beer from the brewery ).

The usual arrangement is that the operating system kernel allocates memory and switches the CPU to different threads of execution.

The arrangement of the underground hall and escalators functioned all too effectively as an incinerator due to heat driven convection added to the usual ventilation system, with temperatures reaching 600 ° C: a BBC television news report called King's Cross St. Pancras station " an efficient furnace ".

However, the arrangement whereby the apse with the altar is at the west end of the church and the entrance on the east is found also in Roman churches contemporary with Saint Peter's ( such as the original Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls ) that were under no such constraints of terrain, and the same arrangement remained the usual one until the sixth century.

By careful mechanical arrangement the liquid oxygen can be removed from the other parts of the air, notably water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, at which point it can be fed into the engine as usual.

These are behind the usual " nine-plate " arrangement typical of colubrids and elapids, and are unique to the king cobra.

This is the usual arrangement for a four-valves-per-cylinder design.

This latter arrangement is the most inertia free, allows the most unimpeded gas flows in the engine and is the usual arrangement for high performance automobile engines.

The column is composed of 29 blocks of Luna marble, weighting in total more than 1100 t. The spiral stair itself was carved out of 19 blocks, with a full turn every 14 steps ; this arrangement required a more complex geometry than the more usual alternatives of 12 or 16.

A structural study suggests that FBPase V has a novel fold for a sugar phosphatase, forming a four-layer alpha-beta-beta-alpha sandwich, unlike the more usual five-layered alpha-beta-alpha-beta-alpha arrangement.

The driving seat was finished in leather but the rear seats were trimmed in cloth, the usual arrangement on many luxury cars of the time.

A variation on this has each coil handle two plugs, on cylinders which are 360 degrees out of phase ( and therefore reach TDC at the same time ); in the four-cycle engine this means that one plug will be sparking during the end of the exhaust stroke while the other fires at the usual time, a so-called " wasted spark " arrangement which has no drawbacks apart from faster spark plug erosion ; the paired cylinders are 1 / 4 and 2 / 3.

The usual arrangement is that the federal leader of the party is from the Right, while the deputy leader is from the Left, although presently Julia Gillard, the federal Labor leader and prime minister, is from the Left with support of the Right.

The work is in four movements, in the usual arrangement ( fast movement, slow movement, minuet, fast movement ) for a classical-style symphony:

Perhaps to accommodate this rather spacious arrangement, Beethoven did not mark the usual internal repeats of the scherzo and the trio.

The piece is scored for violin, viola, cello, bass instead of an additional violin, and piano, unlike the usual arrangement of the piano quintet.

Everything else was Sedaka's, including his own arrangement and backing vocals, piano-playing, and usual female backup singers.

The advent of digital imposition has not only helped a lot in making sure layout and sheet arrangement are correct with higher register precision, but it significantly reduces the usual imposition errors ( e. g., slight movements of register due to parallax ).

Miniature of the Annunciation, with the start of Matins in the Little Office, the beginning of the texts after the calendar in the usual arrangement.

He treats the usual subjects of invention, arrangement, style and delivery in easy and polished Latin.

It is filled with the usual personal abuse of Steele, especially of his physical appearance ; ;

She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.

This conformational entropy is, in this case, equal to the usual entropy, for there are no other changes or other energies involved.

Whereas the usual organic surface-active agent is strongly sorbed at oil - water interfaces, the highly charged ions are most strongly sorbed at interfaces between water and insoluble materials exhibiting an ionic structure ( see Table 26-2 on p. 1678 ).

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

And there are now many millions of workers for whom the factory with the big parking lot, which can be reached by driving across or against the usual pattern of rush hour traffic and grille-route bus lines, is actually more convenient than the walk-to factory.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

Three seconds flat is the usual time, and the space is crossed by moderate mileage, while the overwhelming immensity of such journeys must be conceived as a static pulsation through an enormous number of coexistent frequencies which perpetuate all events.

I was curious to know if Lumumba's death, which is surely among the most sinister of recent events, would elicit from `` our '' side anything more than the usual, well-meaning rhetoric.

Reports are that it is more than probable that the four congressmen from Mississippi who did not support the party ticket will be stripped of the usual patronage which flows to congressmen.

A Plenary Indulgence under the usual conditions is granted once a month for the daily reading ''.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

He is at his usual best in exposing the shams and self-deceptions of political and diplomatic life in the fifties.

One might say, " Even though the usual ordering of the real numbers does not work, it may be possible to find a different ordering of the real numbers which is a well-ordering.

Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.

The usual order relation ≤ on the real numbers is antisymmetric: if for two real numbers x and y both inequalities x ≤ y and y ≤ x hold then x and y must be equal.

* The Bulwagga is a unique design featuring three flukes instead of the usual two.

As well as the usual yellow-orange-brown that is associated with the color " amber ", amber itself can range from a whitish color through a pale lemon yellow, to brown and almost black.

Spiders, for instance, being relatively small, don ’ t fit the usual criterion for a threat in the animal kingdom where size is a factor, but nearly all species are venomous, and although rarely dangerous to humans, some species are dangerous.

Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

As, however, the deity is represented in an Neo-Attic, archaistic and conventional character, this copy cannot be relied on as giving us much information as to the usual style of Alcamenes, who was almost certainly a progressive and original artist.

The usual color is white with crimson veins, but pink or purple also occur naturally.