One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.

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.

Beethoven changes the usual pattern of Classical symphonies in placing the scherzo movement before the slow movement ( in symphonies, slow movements are usually placed before scherzi ).

Following the usual pattern of omission, "( and ) pears " is then dropped and " stairs " becomes " apples ".

" By placing the monosyllable mons at the end of the line, Virgil interrupts the usual " shave and a haircut " pattern to produce a jarring rhythm, an effect that echoes the crash of a large wave against the side of a ship.

While some of the formerly named streets ( including Factory, Herring and Amity Streets ) are now numbered, even they do not always conform to the usual grid pattern when they enter the neighborhood.

* 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

Reversing the usual pattern, the book brings a Martian visitor to Earth for a utopian novel.

The Scandinavian armies of the High Middle Ages followed the usual pattern of the Northern European armies, but with a stronger emphasis on infantry.

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn wrote, " Successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science.

It does not follow the usual pattern of inheritance for an X linked condition.

Solid color bicolor cats occur because there is a white spotting gene present along with a recessive allele of the agouti gene, which evens out the usual striped pattern of the colors of the coat.

Breaking with their usual pattern, neither Harpo's harp nor Chico's piano is used in the film, although Harpo briefly pretends to play harp on the strings of a piano, strumming chords in accompaniment to a music box that is playing the unlikely chime tune, " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

The concept of matching animation to classical music was used as early as 1928 in Disney's cartoon series, the Silly Symphonies, but he wanted to go beyond the usual slapstick, and produce shorts where " sheer fantasy unfolds ... action controlled by a musical pattern has great charm in the realm of unreality.

The usual pattern was to create an endowment to pay the wages of a master to instruct local boys in Latin and sometimes Greek without charge.

Some keep the original order of names, while others reverse the names to match the usual Western pattern.

Silver officer piping on Army caps followed the usual Army pattern.

This is the usual pattern in such stories.

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn wrote that " Successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science.

The harvest cycles, along with the usual boom and bust economic cycles associated with such farming has spurred a worker migration pattern which has been studied.

Achalasia is a major exception to usual pattern of dysphagia in that swallowing of fluid tends to cause more difficulty than swallowing solids.

Coupled with coastlines that do not favor seaport development, this settlement pattern resulted in a much greater than usual dependence on land and railroad transportation.

Years of average rainfall are rare ; the usual pattern is bimodal, with some large string of dry years usually related to La Niña phenomenon ( slightly higher than 11. 5 inches / 300 millimetres ) followed by other years ( around 5 ) related to El Niño that make up the average ( with higher than 39 inches / 1000 millimetres ).

It differs from the usual pattern in that we seem to be involved in a chase: the series of murders appears to be the work of a maniac.

The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

`` Young for his age '' means only the presence of some minor characteristic not quite usual.

As usual, Mrs. Lincoln had lost her head, but nobody blamed her for doing so now.

The Government of India agrees to furnish, upon request of the United States of America, information on the progress of the program, particularly with respect to the arrival and condition of commodities and the provisions for the maintenance of usual marketings, and information relating to exports of the same or like commodities.

set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.

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

The symbols of mother's status, here, are all usual for culture U.S.A..

William, who did not write to Gorham, told Giffen that unless he could operate the plantation as usual for a year, he would sue `` amicably '' to protect his interests.

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

He went for more aspirin later in the day, and passed the surly landlord on the way -- he was still alive and scowling as usual, as if tenants were a burden in his life.

Santa's lieutenants in charge of the Journal-Bulletin Santa Claus Fund are looking for the usual generous response this year from Cranston residents.

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

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 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.

With regard to historic properties ( those properties that are listed or that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, or properties designated as historic under State or local law ), those facilities must still comply with the provisions of Title III of the ADA to the " maximum extent feasible " but if following the usual standards would " threaten to destroy the historic significance of a feature of the building " then alternative standards may be used.

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.