The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

The need that we not give unqualified approval to any but a limited use of economic pressure directed against the actual doers of injustice is clear also in light of the fact that White Citizens' Councils seem resolved to maintain segregation mainly by the use of these same means and not ordinarily by physical violence.

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

When thus deposited, Keys says that cholesterol is mainly responsible for the arterial blockages that culminate in heart attacks.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

This is mainly due to the immigration wave of the 1990s.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

It is the study of culture, and is based mainly on ethnography.

In aquatic amphibians, the liver plays only a small role in processing nitrogen for excretion, and ammonia is diffused mainly through the skin.

Amateur astronomy, also called backyard astronomy and stargazing, is a hobby whose participants enjoy watching the sky, and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite ( Sb < sub > 2 </ sub > S < sub > 3 </ sub >).

It is a clear liquid resembling ethanol in smell and properties, with a slightly lower boiling point ( 64. 7 ° C ), and is used mainly as a solvent, fuel, and raw material.

This is mainly to do with the breaking up of a topic to make it easier to understand.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

Tottsuru is mainly enjoyed with sake.

Amber is globally distributed, mainly in rocks of Cretaceous age or younger.

This class is mainly based on enantio-labdatrienonic acids, such as ozic and zanzibaric acids.

This class is something of a wastebasket ; its ambers are not polymerized, but mainly consist of cedrane-based sesquiterpenoids.

The general ground-plan is a parallelogram, with irregular outlines, one side overlooking the Tweed ; and the style is mainly the Scottish Baronial.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

When in “ 7800 ” mode ( signified by the appearance of the full screen Atari logo ), the graphics are generated entirely by the MARIA graphics processing unit, all system RAM is available and game data is accessed in larger 48K blocks.

The abstract general idea or concept that is signified by the word " dog " is the collection of those characteristics which are common to Airedales, Collies, and Chihuahuas.

The preclear is instructed to close his eyes for the session, entering a state of " dianetic reverie ", signified by " a tremble of the lashes ".

), or one of the two terms is dominant ( signified over signifier ; intelligible over sensible ; speech over writing ; activity over passivity ; male over female ; man over animal, etc ).

Not only are the topological differences between the words relevant here, but the differentials between what is signified is also covered by différance.

Derrida argues that language is inescapably metaphysical because it is made up of signifiers that only refer to that which transcends them-the signified.

This transcending of the empirical facticity of the signifier by an ideally conceived signified is metaphysical.

It is a matter of considerable scholarly debate whether the biblical " Hittites " signified any or all of: 1 ) the original Hattians ; 2 ) their Indo-European conquerors ( Nesili ), who retained the name " Hatti " for Central Anatolia, and are today referred to as the " Hittites " ( the subject of this article ); or 3 ) a Canaanite group who may or may not have been related to either or both of the Anatolian groups, and who also may or may not be identical with the later Neo-Hittite ( Luwian ) polities.

Intension is analogous to the signified, extension to the referent.

He was given the name " Kon " by an uncle who thought the characters in the kanji 崑 signified good luck because the two halves of the Chinese character look the same when it is split in half vertically.

Such " Cordovan leathers " were a north African style that was introduced to Spain in the ninth century ( hence it is sometimes referred to as ' Spanish leather '); in Spain such embossed leather hangings were known as guadamecí or guadamecil, from the Libyan town of Ghadames, while cordobanes signified soft goat leather.

Use of the atmosphere as reference is usually signified by a ( g ) after the pressure unit e. g. 30 psi g, which means that the pressure measured is the total pressure minus atmospheric pressure.

Meaning ( or the signified, in Saussure's scheme, which is as heavily presumed upon in post-structuralism as in structuralism ) is constructed by an individual from a signifier.

This is why the signified is said to ' slide ' under the signifier, and explains the talk about the " primacy of the signifier.

Rather a word is only a " signifier ," i. e. the representation of something, and it must be combined in the brain with the " signified ," or the thing itself, in order to form a meaning-imbued " sign.

A picture of a full, dark bottle is a sign, a signifier relating to a signified: a fermented, alcoholic beverage – wine.

" Before the blessing of the heavenly words another nature is spoken of, after the consecration the Body is signified.