There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

There is no clear end to the ironclad period, but towards the end of the 1890s the term ironclad dropped out of use.

There are three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland.

There is no earlier use of the term and Adjacium is not an attested Latin word, which probably means that it is a Latinization of a word in some other language.

There is no evidence that the term was a title that had any practical use, with implications of formal rights, powers and office, or even that it had any existence before the 9th-century.

There is a tendency to use the term in a less strict way, to mean approximately the same thing as " culture " and therefore, the term can more broadly refer to any important and clearly defined human society.

There is no precise definition for the term " Chicagoland ," but it generally means the city and its suburbs combined together.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

Note: There is some confusion about the term ' compression ratio ', particularly outside academia and commerce.

There does exist in Filipino an equivalent, gender-neutral term for the professional that carries the more general notion of " healer ", traditional ( for example, an albuláryo ) or otherwise: manggagámot.

Thus, in the sentence " There exists a man ", the term " man " is asserted to be part of existence.

There has never been general agreement on the definition of the term.

There also exist planetary-mass objects that orbit brown dwarfs and other bodies that " float free " in space not bound to any star ; however, the term " planet " is not always applied to these objects.

There are two basic circuits that both use the term mixer, but they are very different types of circuits: additive mixers and multiplying mixers.

There are at least three senses of the term:

There are many assertions as to the use of the name flamenco as a musical term ( summarized below ) but no solid evidence for any of them.

There are also some criticisms against the political usage of the term " fundamentalism ".

There are a number of modern dances, such as hip hop dance, that evolve spontaneously, but the term " folk dance " is generally not applied to them, and the terms " street dance " or " vernacular dance " are used instead.

There also exist a host of games where the term " graffiti " is used as a synonym for " drawing " ( such as Yahoo!

There were constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointed Ramón Villeda as President, and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term.

" There are a variety of interpretations as to who or what the term " Hīnayāna " refers to.

There was some objection to the term, as many writers preferred terms such as " poetic painting " ( poesia ), or wanted to make a distinction between the " true " istoria, covering history including biblical and religious scenes, and the fabula, covering pagan myth, allegory, and scenes from fiction, which could not be regarded as true.

There are a number of uses of the term kernel in mathematics ; see Kernel ( mathematics ).

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

There is controversy concerning the safety of benzodiazepines in pregnancy.

There are also door safety products which eject the fingers from the push side of the door as it is being closed.

There are many words for ice, however, that describe its forms, colors, age, relative safety for crossing or traveling over, and other aspects.

There is evidence of prehistoric settlements at the site of the town: flint arrowheads and Bronze Age artefacts have been found ; Iron Age forts have been excavated on both the East and West Hills suggests an early move to the safety of the valley in between, so that the settlement was already a port when the Romans arrived in Britain for the first time in 55 BC.

There are several safety warnings given to passengers, such as the ' mind the gap ' announcement and the frequent announcements to passengers to keep behind the yellow line.

There has been plenty of time for prompt and decisive measures, the employment of which would have prevented this disaster .</ br >< p > The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination of the Indians.

* There are 4 safety squares on the board, like castle squares in Pachisi, as well as the safe home squares, where a piece may able to move forwards or backwards and start their turn before previous player finishes.

There was safety in large flocks which often numbered hundreds of thousands of birds.

There may also be concerns about safety, if for example one is wary of becoming the victim of crime or stalking.

There are safety concerns of fluoroquinolone use during pregnancy and, as a result, are contraindicated except for when no other safe alternative antibiotic exists.

There, he commandeers a " Kobra " rocket-plane and flies to safety in Malta.

There is an entire realm of safety and reliability engineering known as Reliability Centered Maintenance ( RCM ), which is a discipline that is a direct result of analyzing potential failures within a system and determining maintenance actions that can mitigate the risk of failure.

There is a growing interest in developing a thorium fuel cycle due to its safety benefits, absence of non-fertile isotopes, and its higher occurrence and availability when compared to uranium.

There are safety considerations regarding the spinning blades, especially in a strong wind.

There are many goals of Smarth Growth and they include: making the community more competitive for new businesses, providing alternative places to shop, work, and play, creating a better " Sense of Place ," providing jobs for residents, increasing property values, improving quality of life, expanding the tax base, preserving open space, controlling growth, and improving safety.

There are a several approaches for avoiding race conditions to achieve thread safety.

There is a significant difference between the safety of airliners and that of smaller private planes, with the per-mile statistic indicating that airliners are 8. 3 times safer than smaller planes.

There is a Karting Test Track ( KTT ) that features the same type of abrasive safety zones as the car track.

There is no excuse for encouraging a situation where the physical safety and well-being of any individual is put significantly at risk.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

There are two safety nets:

There was no suggestion these results called into question the safety of Lipitor.