As usual in ancient democracies, one had to physically attend a gathering in order to vote.

* Flamenco melodies are characterized by a descending tendency, as opposed to, for example, a typical opera aria, they usually go from the higher pitches to the lower ones, and from forte to piano, as was usual in ancient Greek scales.

Plutarch then goes on to repeat the usual ancient account with its brutal landlords on one side and wretched tenants on the other.

Majora's Mask is set in Termina, an alternate version of the usual series setting of Hyrule, where the Skull Kid has stolen Majora's Mask, a powerful ancient artifact.

Since ancient times the description " Lives on Dal " has been the description used by the inhabitants themselves to describe where they live, instead of the usual " lives in ...".

Unlike usual infanticide — where historically girls were more likely to be killed at birth — prostitutes in ancient times were more likely to kill male offspring.

In ancient Greece, the usual Greek practice was to give a bride price.

Either way, the sentiment was meant to set up an ironic contrast between the shadow of death and the usual idle merriment that the nymphs and swains of ancient Arcadia were thought to embody.

He sold the usual religious tourist paraphernalia and ancient pots he had acquired from Arab farmers.

Konservat-Lagerstätten preserve lightly sclerotized and soft-bodied organisms or traces of organisms that are not otherwise preserved in the usual shelly and bony fossil record ; thus, they offer more complete records of ancient biodiversity and behavior and enable some reconstruction of the palaeoecology of ancient aquatic communities.

In ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy ( performed by an haruspex ), in which the sacrifice was an animal.

As usual with ancient languages, the exact nature and pronunciation of the consonants are uncertain.

The most ancient Greek coin of the city also gives the name " ΗΕΝΝΑΙΟΝ " there is therefore little doubt that this form ( Henna ) of the ancient name is the more correct, though Enna is the more usual.

This ancient culture had remarkably advanced bronze casting technology which was acquired by adding lead to the usual combination of copper and tin creating a stronger substance that could create substantially larger and heavier objects ; for instance, the world's oldest life-size standing human statue ( 260 cm high, 180 kg ), and a bronze tree with birds, flowers, and ornaments ( 396 cm ), which some have identified as renderings of the fusang tree of Chinese mythology.

M71 was long thought ( until the 1970s ) to be a densely packed open cluster and was classified as such by leading astronomers in the field of star cluster research due to its lacking a dense central compression, and its stars having more " metals " than is usual for an ancient globular cluster ; furthermore, it's lacking the RR Lyrae " cluster " variable stars that are common in most globulars.

"— 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.

Adventures are the usual stuff of Hollywood pirate or naval adventure films: ancient relics, captured damsels, sea monsters, etc.

Throughout this period, native people continued to fish at Celilo, under the provisions of the 1855 Treaties signed with the Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and the Walla Walla, Umatilla, and Cayuse, which guaranteed the tribes ' ancient " right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed stations.

Due to lack of political freedom of speech in many ancient civilizations, covert satire is more usual than overt satire in ancient literatures of political liberalism.

Many of the ancient Roman amphitheatres had characteristics that can be seen in the bullrings of today ( in fact the ring in Nîmes, France, is a Roman artifact, though it is more elliptical than the usual plaza ), and the origin of bullfighting is very closely related to certain Roman traditions.

It is usual to date them from the 7th century BC and consider the southwestern script to be the most ancient paleohispanic script with characters most closely resembling specific Phoenician letter forms found in inscriptions dated to c. 825 BC.

Hopper ’ s wife, as usual, posed for him for the painting, and noted in her diary, “ Ed beginning a new canvas — a burlesque queen doing a strip tease — and I posing without a stitch on in front of the stove —- nothing but high heels in a lottery dance pose .”

Charles Willson Peale painted a miniature of Washington — for which he charged his usual “ 56 Dollars ”— and presented it to Martha, along with painting other miniatures of Washington.

After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on.

He began painting outside his usual detailed bird paintings and completed a series of " working men.

As usual for Northern Europe, a very thin layer of chalk priming was applied to the planks before painting in tempera.

Other songs drop the usual dance accompaniment — one song depicts an argument between two protagonists through the song's lyrics, another establishes the character's state of mind through a moody photo collage, while yet another imagines the beautiful and idealised world of an artist in love through a song inside a painting.

Its main fund raising activity each year for the upkeep of the hall is the Marymas Fair, held in late August on a nearby farm field, it has the usual attractions such as Highland dancing, a display of vintage and classic cars and motorcycles, bonniest baby, home baking, tossing the wheatsheaf, line dancing, face painting, raffles and tug of war.

During World War II mapmaking and medical drawing were added to the usual curriculum in drawing, painting and sculpture.

Although the design of the frescoes is evidently Piero's, he seems to have delegated parts of the painting to assistants, as was usual.

Juvenal, for example, was fond of occasionally creating verses that placed a sense break between the fourth and fifth foot ( instead of in the usual caesura positions ), but this technique —- known as the bucolic diaeresis -— did not catch on with other poets.

Because of this, the fourth series saw the introduction of many ' outdoor ' scenes, filmed around places such as medieval castles across the UK, and composited into the blue room using the usual chromakey technique.

Another multitexture technique is bump mapping, which allows a texture to directly control the facing direction of a surface for the purposes of its lighting calculations ; it can give a very good appearance of a complex surface, such as tree bark or rough concrete, that takes on lighting detail in addition to the usual detailed coloring.

Volley fire allowed armies to turn their usual formation into a rotating firing squad with each row of soldiers firing a shot then marching to the back of the formation to reload, a technique first proposed by Aelian.

Along with the usual heavy metal compositional technique of guitars and bass playing the same riff in unison, this creates an impressively loud and bass-heavy wall of sound.

This technique replaced the usual flat-plane, drawn and painted cartoon backgrounds with a circular 3-D scale-model background — a diorama — in front of which the action cels were positioned and photographed.

In the slap technique, the bassist replaces the usual plucking motion of the index and middle fingers with " slaps " and " pops ".

It was shot largely using the sync sound technique, which was usual in those days ; some scenes were dubbed.

His manufacturing technique involved a coal furnace, made hotter than usual by the inclusion of a wind tunnel, and a higher ratio of sand to potash and lime than was customary.

In signal processing, undersampling or bandpass sampling is a technique where one samples a bandpass filtered signal at a sample rate below the usual Nyquist rate ( twice the baseband bandwidth, i. e. twice the upper cut-off frequency ), but is still able to reconstruct the signal.

The usual technique was to set break points in the code undergoing testing ( e. g., with a BRK instruction in 6502 assembly language ) and start the program.

The usual technique is to hold one lightly with the thumb and fingertips of the non-dominant hand, with the palm up.

I am creator of a technique, of a musical grafía that allows the piano to be studied in a third of the usual time that it takes today.

This use of pseudo-folk material was a marked departure from his usual technique.

Today, in many parts of the world it is usual for journalists to first complete university-level training which incorporates both technical skills such as research skills, interviewing technique and shorthand and academic studies in media theory, cultural studies and ethics.

The breast reduction performed with the liposuction-only technique usually applies to the woman whose oversized breasts require the removal of a medium volume of internal tissue ; and to the woman whose health precludes her being under the extended anaesthesia usual to surgical breast-reduction operations.

Immersion lithography is a photolithography resolution enhancement technique for manufacturing integrated circuits ( ICs ) that replaces the usual air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid medium that has a refractive index greater than one.

The technique of fouling a poor free throw shooter in order to win back possession in the hope that the player will ( as usual ) miss his free throws is sometimes known as the Hack-a-Shaq strategy.

Restricting the transformations to the usual practice of twelve tone technique before 1950, within all 144 cells, a tone row has a maximum of 48 permutations, including its prime form.

This issue was created entirely with a paint brush, instead of Vasquez's usual pen and ink technique.

Just as in free climbing, the usual aid technique involves two climbers, a leader and a belayer.

As is usual for the period and the work of Sesshū's teacher Tenshō Shūbun, style and technique are heavily influenced by Song Dynasty Chinese paintings, in particular the works of Xia Gui.

The danger most often associated with suspension bondage, over and above the usual risks inherent in bondage, is falling ; whether due to a weak suspension point, faulty equipment or poor technique.

Although several techniques can be used to form such a definition, the genus and difference technique is the usual one applied.

By making use of these commercial distributive channels of commerce, this technique is particularly effective in conveying messages that reveal and subvert its usual intentions.