They are used to define the characteristic polynomial of a matrix that is an essential tool in eigenvalue problems in linear algebra.

They are working to define their needs, and to help the whole community gain skills to directly lobby decision-makers.

They were one of the first U. S. bands outside of New York to play in the Ramones-style harder-louder-faster mode that would define punk rock.

They are also used as ephemeral ports, from which software running on the host may randomly choose a port in order to define itself.

They use inheritance to compose interfaces and define ways to compose objects to obtain new functionality.

They define and ' protect ' the borders of Frank's territory-the island upon which he lives with his father.

They may also take the in the manner of common nouns in order to establish the context in which they are unique: the young Mr Hamilton ( not the old one ), the Dr Brown I know ; or as proper nouns to define an aspect of the referent: the young Einstein ( Einstein when he was young ).

Although the 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica reflects Herodotus, stating, " They Cimmerians probably did live in the area north of the Black Sea, but attempts to define their original homeland more precisely by archaeological means, or even to fix the date of their expulsion from their country by the Scythians, have not so far been completely successful ," in recent research academic scholars have made use of documents dating to centuries earlier than Herodotus, such as intelligence reports to Sargon, and note that these identify the Cimmerians as living south rather than north of the Black Sea.

They define standardised general relation types, together with the kinds of things that may be related by such a relation type.

They added a number of useful extensions, notably the ability to define your own graphics commands ( macro ) and character sets ( DRCS ).

They are easy to define and easy to program with, in large part because of Standard ML's pattern matching as well as most Standard ML implementations ' pattern exhaustiveness checking and pattern redundancy checking.

They set the policies of the Union, define its global programme of work and elect its Council ( comparable to a company board ) at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.

They contain classes, which describe characteristics and define actions ( methods ) that involve objects.

They are very common and are used to define the scope of Laurentia.

They are often worn to embellish, enhance, or distinguish the wearer, and to define cultural, social, or religious status within a specific community.

They define

They couched their demands in broad moral and political terms that began to define and develop a new nationalistic and democratic political culture.

They continue to try to reach definitions and define boundaries.

They often are willing to take control of their struggle and define their priorities, and work as a team, with little or no hierarchy, but rather favor people to participate with their own skills.

They define the legal bounds of obscenity in England and Wales, and are used to enforce the censorship of obscene material.

They define an arbitrary set of pixels, rather like a bitmap, but in a compressed form which can be very rapidly manipulated in complex ways.

They define an eruption as the arrival of volcanic products, excluding gases, at the Earth's surface.

They have been found to be of interest in gauge theory, and they ( especially the 3-form ) define the action of Chern – Simons theory.

They define themselves as inept and abdicate self-responsibility ; they turn their fate over to others.

They are then counted by the Tellers as they leave the Lobby.

They recorded a single, " On ", produced by veteran rocker, Lobby Loyde, and released in August.

They also say that deciding tax increases in referendums is more democratic, as legislators may be beholden to Lobby groups, special interests and lobbyists.

They went on to release one album, Something To Say, in 1974 but Rudd left for a brief spell in the Coloured Balls with Lobby Loyde.

They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.

They agree with communists that the means of production should be expropriated from private owners and converted to common property, but they advocate the ownership of this property to be vested by a loose group of decentralized communes rather than to be held in common by all of society.

They vary in size from small stone markers to entire artificial hills, and in complexity from loose, conical rock piles to delicately balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering.

They roam the mountainside freely, galloping through the crystal valleys and crossing the precariously loose rock of the mountains.

They believed that permanent wives were inappropriate for warriors, so their marital relations were loose.

They have higher acidities due to the aromatic ring's tight coupling with the oxygen and a relatively loose bond between the oxygen and hydrogen.

They initially approached drummer Mitch Mitchell, who was at a loose end following the breakup of The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Hendrix's departure to The Band of Gypsies.

They are a loose grouping of many tribes with numerous distinct cultures and languages.

They were not even designed for a soft landing ; the large probe had a parachute that was designed to cut loose at a certain altitude, and the small probes had no parachute at all.

They also say there were " tool marks " or pick scrapes on the walls of the money pit and that the dirt was noticeably loose and not as hard packed as the surrounding soil.

They had previously met in another loose association, a sketching-society called the Cyclographic Club.

They are yellowish white, jointed and covered with loose scales.

They engage in the opposite of plagiarism, giving credit to those undeserving by not using precise words but rather loose interpretations and paraphrasing.

They may be keyed to prevent insertion in the wrong orientation, connecting the wrong pins to each other, and have locking mechanisms to ensure that they are fully inserted and cannot work loose or fall out.

They favor the loose soil of the esker upon which the site lies, and their many diggings for their burrows have brought to the surface significant numbers of human and animal bones, pottery, and bits of stone.

They were under loose domination of the Khorchin Mongols even after the Khorchin came under the control of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

They believed in a short, loose, and overt linkage between the two countries amplified by the establishment of a coherent basis for a settlement.

They were loose cluster villages ( lockere Haufendörfer ).

They also had a real choice in selecting premiers – parliaments of the period being composed of independent members who formed loose and shifting factions – and were not always obliged to act on the advice of their ministers.

They breed in loose colonies, with nests rarely being found in the same tree or rock formation, unlike other Old World vultures which often nest in tight-knit colonies.

They let loose a volley of shots.

They nest on the ground in loose colonies.

They swim alone or in very loose aggregations, separated by as much as from a neighboring swordfish.

They usually appear individually or in pairs, and occasionally in loose aggregations of up to twenty animals around feeding areas.