As usual, Alcott's methods were controversial ; a former student later referred to him as " the most eccentric man who ever took on himself to train and form the youthful mind.

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.

Its most usual form … is said to be that of an enormous starfish.

Some writers, such as James-Charles Noonan, hold that, in the case of cardinals, the form used for signatures should be used also when referring to them, even in English ; and this is the usual but not the only way of referring to cardinals in Latin .< ref > An Internet search will uncover some hundreds of examples of " Cardinalis Ioannes < surname >", examples modern and centuries-old ( such as this from 1620 ), and the phrase " dominus cardinalis Petrus Caputius " is found in a document of 1250.

The usual incentive to cooperate is some form of plea bargain i. e. an offer to drop or reduce criminal charges against a suspect in return for full cooperation.

In the United States, the usual written form is December 7, 1941, spoken as " December seventh, nineteen forty-one " or colloquially " December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ".

The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used.

In Switzerland this form of playing is called " smallcourt " ( Kleinfeld ), opposed to the usual style of playing on a bigger court, which is called " bigcourt " ( Grossfeld ).

In sponsalia de praesenti, the most usual form, the couple declared they there and then accepted each other as man and wife.

In this form, its defining feature is a constant stress on the tenth syllable, so that the number of syllables in the verse may vary, equaling eleven in the usual case where the final word is stressed on the penultimate syllable.

Early Christianity, emerging from a Graeco-Roman culture where the most usual form of cult image was the three-dimensional statue, for long avoided these in Christian art, associating them with idolatry.

In the usual ( traditional ) description of English, the infinitive of a verb is its basic form with or without the particle to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives.

* The traditional garment, either in its historical form, or in the modern adaptation now usual in Scotland ( see History of the kilt ), usually in a tartan pattern

In this particular case, the usual ingredients of hard-shelled tacos ( fried tortilla, ground beef, lettuce, diced tomato, onions, and some form of salsa ) have more in common with Mexican tostadas that they do with Mexican tacos.

Proof: Notice that the nim-sum (⊕) obeys the usual associative and commutative laws of addition (+), and also satisfies an additional property, x ⊕ x = 0 ( technically speaking, the nonnegative integers under ⊕ form an Abelian group of exponent 2 ).

In particular, the natural numbers with the usual order form such a set, and a sequence is a function on the natural numbers, so every sequence is a net.

Intuitively then, the oracle machine can perform all of the usual operations of a Turing machine, and can also query the oracle for an answer to a specific question of the form " is x in A?

In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive.

They may then be applied in pre-and post-multiplication to the quaternion representation of the coherency matrix, with the usual exploitation of the quaternion exponential for performing rotations and boosts taking a form equivalent to the matrix exponential equations above.

The real numbers R, together with addition as operation and its usual topology, form a topological group.

However, unlike the ripieno concerto, which uses the usual ritornello form of the concerto, at least the first movement of these symphonies is in binary form.

Its usual form is in three generally homophonic movements: fast – slow – fast.

The image of the Lord as the Cosmic Dancer is shown at the Chidambaram temple, an unusual fact as Shiva is depicted in an anthropomorphic form rather than in the usual non-anthropomorphic form of the linga.

But since the usual rule is baptism, such leniency can easily be, and sometimes has been, suspended ( usually in periods when the heretical groups in question were actively opposing the Church ).

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.

For his baptism, which occurred not shortly after birth as is usual, but when he was old enough to play the piano, the violinist and composer George Enescu agreed to be his godfather.

Rather than baptizing infants as is usual in many other denominations, baptism is reserved for adults.

From about the end of the 12th century, when it became usual to baptize infants soon after their birth instead of at stated times ( Easter and Pentecost ), the ceremony of scrutiny was incorporated with that of the actual baptism.

And this in addition to his usual fear of being among people of high society, his fear of making some inane or inappropriate remark.

We must build a corps of highly professional teachers of interior design who have had education, experience in the profession and are willing to take on the usual accompaniments of teaching -- minimal income and minimal status among their confreres.

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.

In 1994, the salmon catch was smaller than usual in the rivers of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, causing concern among commercial fishermen, government agencies, and tribal leaders.

He continues to influence religious thinkers to the present day, and was cited as an influence by T. S. Eliot, among others ( Eliot also borrowed, almost word for word and without his usual acknowledgement, the opening of Andrewes ' 1622 Christmas Day sermon for ' The Journey of the Magi ').

Opening a Changsha branch, Mao replaced the usual textbooks with revolutionary tracts in order to spread Marxist ideas among the illiterate peasantry.

These are sociopathic Mentats free from the usual constraints of human morality or instinctual considerations ( Piter is, among other things, a sadist, and acts as torturer for the Baron ).

Due to his untimely demise, Warren G. Harding is among the relatively few American Presidents who have been honored on a U. S. postage stamp more than the usual two times.

There are sports clubs catering for the usual range of sports, among them football ( Dover Athletic F. C.

I had hiked into White Sides from a different, harder way than usual, and stayed there two or three days among the rocks, under a camouflage tarp with six layers of clothes on.

As a result of this work, " People of the Book " became the usual vernacular locution to refer to Christians among many African, Asian, and Native American people of both hemispheres.

He designed a special procedure of building the tunnels to allow the swift repaving of surface roads ; this procedure involved ( among other things ) building the crown of the tunnel first and the flooring last, the reverse of the usual norm at that time.

Rituale Romanum ) in Latin and the three native languages usual among the diocesan parishioners, to wit German, Lithuanian, and Polish.

Canada is a federal state and not a confederate association of sovereign states, the usual meaning of confederation ; but is often considered to be among the world's more decentralized federations.

Biber, Vivaldi and Vilsmayr ( a student of Biber ) among others, wrote pieces for violin with one or more strings retuned to notes other than the usual fifths.

In the usual scheme Banba is numbered among the Tuatha Dé Danann, who lived in Ireland much later.

The usual mode of transmission is directly person-to-person hand-to-mouth, in the setting of poor hygiene among children.

In 1984, Lozada turned 16 and leaves Menudo, as was usual among its members.

South Orange provides the usual facilities for a municipality of this size ; fire, police, a library of over 90, 000 volumes, a municipal pool, a recreation center, parks, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, trash and yard waste removal provided by contractors, Public, educational, and government access ( PEG ) cable TV, among others.

As well as the usual college facilities, St Catherine's has a number of lecture theatres and seminar rooms, a music house, two student computer rooms, a small gym, squash courts, a punt house, and among the most spacious common rooms in Oxford.

Later, when lands were strictly divided among noble families and tended to remain fixed, agnatic primogeniture ( practically the same as Salic Law ) became usual: succession going to the eldest son of the monarch ; if the monarch had no sons, the throne would pass to the nearest male relative in the male line.

If this be so, we must necessarily ascribe it to the later of the two monarchs commemorated, i. e. to Shapur III, who must be supposed to have possessed more than usual filial piety, since the commemoration of their predecessors upon the throne is very rare among the Sassanians.

Moskovskij Komsomolets cited a Russian special forces operative saying that " if it were a usual storming, we'd have had 150 casualties among our men, added to the hostages.

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