All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

Our inability to explain why certain people are fond of us frequently induces the same kind of ritual and malaise.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The wife, Amra, and her lover are both savagely portrayed, she as incarnate sensuality, `` voluptuous '' and `` indolent '', possibly `` a mischief maker '', with `` a kind of luxurious cunning '' to set against her apparent simplicity, her `` birdlike brain ''.

Somewhat uneven in interest for an average reader, eight or ten of these are among the finest of their kind in literature.

( C ) Decisions of a general kind are made by the central command.

But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;

Sizzling temperatures and hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

It would seem, then, that movable property and equipment is not taxed as a whole but that certain types are taxed in towns where this is bound to be expedient for that particular kind of personal property.

To all, the Foundation gives the kind of thanks which are more than thanks: to them we are grateful beyond the possibility of conveying in words how grateful we are.

It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.

Life-preservers, the buckle-on kapok-filled kind, are held in readiness, too, for the very young.

Questions like this, framed in verbal fog, are perhaps the only kind that have ever stumped an experienced politician.

that is, they are likely to favor a kind of education that has vocational-advancement value.

This does not necessarily mean that such teachers will favor vocational education, as contrasted with liberal education, but they are likely to favor an approach to liberal education which has a maximal vocational-advancement value, as against a kind of `` pure '' liberal education that is not designed to help people get better jobs.

Since the company under review is supplying what we are here regarding as only one kind of service, we might suppose that the problem of total cost apportionment would be very simple ; ;

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

`` The countries are trying to build in a decade the kind of society we took a century to build '', he said.

What is now called Christian fellowship is often little more than the social chumminess of having a gracious time with the kind of people one likes.

It is not developing an awareness of the new kind of missionary strategy that is called for as young churches emerge in Asia and Africa.

Mr. Robards -- Jenny was the only person she knew of in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood who called him that -- was kind but too easygoing.

His solution was a kind of corporatism called " group government ".

By allowing a new kind of equality among citizens this opened the way to democracy, which in turn called for a new means, chattel slavery, to at least partially equalise the availability of leisure between rich and poor.

This kind of formal English, particularly written English, is often called " standard English ".

An accumulator machine, also called a 1-operand machine, or a CPU with accumulator-based architecture, is a kind of CPU where, although it may have several registers, the CPU mostly stores the results of calculations in one special register, typically called " the accumulator ".

By extension, the term " embark " literally means to board the kind of boat called a " barque ".

Additional help was given by a kind of Catholic Churchman's Almanack, called the Ordo Recitandi Divini Officii, published in different countries and dioceses, and giving, under every day, minute directions for proper reading.

Most scholars of copyright agree that it can be called a kind of property, because it involves the exclusion of others from something.

The mathematicians and computer programmers that do this kind of work are called gaming mathematicians and gaming analysts.

At the turn of the 1st century AD, a kind of folded parchment notebook called pugillares membranei in Latin became commonly used for writing in the Roman Empire.

This kind of cultural imperialism is derived from what is called " soft power ".

The fruit is often a kind of modified berry called a pepo.

In order to remove aliasing, all rendering algorithms ( if they are to produce good-looking images ) must use some kind of low-pass filter on the image function to remove high frequencies, a process called antialiasing.

The district was originally called Sacopenapã ( translated from the tupi language, it means " the way of the socós ( a kind of bird )") until the mid-18th century.

Other people called for the General Secretary to either be elected by the people, or a " kind of party referendum ".

Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “ dean of the Impressionist painters ", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also " by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality ”.

In linguistics, creaky voice ( sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry ), is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together ; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact.

Cactus spines are produced from specialized structures called areoles, a kind of highly reduced branch.

A varied group of individuals are on a pilgrimage to solicit a kind of demon-god called " the Shrike " on the planet " Hyperion " in a universe on the edge of the apocalypse.

Aristotle developed a comprehensive theory of being, according to which only individual things, called substances, fully have being, but other things such as relations, quantity, time, and place ( called the categories ) have a derivative kind of being, dependent on individual things.

This presentation also emphasizes the notation of the two kinds of Bernoulli numbers, called the first and the second kind, which are of equal legitimacy, and in principle not to favor of each other.