Appointment of counsel for indigent defendants was nearly universal in federal felony cases, though it varied considerably in state cases.

The Roman has thus become nearly universal, with the allowance only of additional offices for saints specially venerated in each particular diocese.

Since the 1990s, several novel classes of antiemetics have been developed and commercialized, becoming a nearly universal standard in chemotherapy regimens, and helping to successfully manage these symptoms in a large portion of patients.

In developed countries, due to nearly universal advanced water treatment and sanitation practices, cholera is no longer a major health threat.

With the-aŭ suffix, this is nearly universal, and the-aŭ is rarely dropped: anstataŭ ' instead of ', anstataŭe ' instead ', anstantaŭa ' substitute ', anstataŭo ' a substitute ', anstataŭi ' to replace ', etc.

However, the genetic code used by all known forms of life is nearly universal with few minor variations.

IPX did not scale enough for large networks such as the internet and as such, IPX usage decreased as the boom of the Internet made TCP / IP nearly universal.

Nasal occlusives are nearly universal in human languages.

In Western Christianity, the stiff white clerical collar has become the nearly universal feature of priestly clerical clothing, worn either with a cassock or a clergy shirt.

Heat-engine-powered generators are nearly universal, ranging from small engines producing only a few kilowatts to utility-scale generators with ratings up to 800 megawatts.

In his Major Features of Evolution Simpson stated, " Evolutionary change is so nearly the universal rule that a state of motion is, figuratively, normal in evolving populations.

Secret ballots are nearly universal in modern democracy, and considered a basic right of citizenship, despite the difficulties that they cause ( for example the inability to trace votes back to the corresponding voters increases the risk of someone stuffing additional fraudulent votes into the system: additional security controls are needed to minimize such risks ).

It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now finds place in nearly every automobile manufactured.

Suffrage is nearly universal for citizens 18 years of age and older.

One of the most common vowels is ; it is nearly universal for a language to have at least one open vowel, though most dialects of English have an and a — and often an, all open vowels — but no central.

Watermarks were nearly universal on stamps in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but generally fell out of use and are not commonly used on modern U. S. issues, but some countries continue to use them.

This is nearly universal in Dravidian languages and Australian languages, but is widely found elsewhere, for example in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Finnish, and the Polynesian languages.

The 1980s and 1990s saw a return to nostalgic styles, with black jackets and trousers again becoming nearly universal.

The symbols are nearly universal in their interpretation, unlike their normally-typeset counterparts, which are used for many different purposes.

Numbering was a nearly universal practice at the time, and thought to be important in the removal of one's self from the potential for emotional attachment to the subject being studied.

Appearing in various tribal peoples from Aboriginal Australia and Māori New Zealand to the Amazon, African savannah, and pagan Europe, some form of shamanic contact with the spirit world seems to be nearly universal in the early development of human communities.

This practice is nearly universal in the Midwest, where intense and fast moving thunderstorms occur frequently.

Literacy was nearly universal, and the educational level of the Soviet population was among the highest in the world with respect to science, engineering, and some technical disciplines.

Geophagy is nearly universal around the world in the tribal and traditional rural societies ( although apparently it has not been documented in Japan and Korea ).

The early editors, beginning with Alexander Pope, simply conflated the two texts, creating the modern version that has remained nearly universal for centuries.

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

During their second encounter in Siberia, however, the colonies are held hostage by Lady Une, who tries to force the Gundam pilots to surrender their mobile suits to OZ ; Heero, in response, self-destructs his Gundam, nearly killing himself in the process.

* 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

Removing the usual brace between the bell and a valve body allows the use of a sliding bell ; the player may then tune the horn with the bell while leaving the slide pushed in, or nearly so, thereby improving intonation and overall response.

Two days later the French withdrew to a position near Guastalla in response to Austrian maneuvers, but one detachment of nearly 3, 000 men was surrounded and captured by the advancing Austrians.

* February 23 – In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly 2 months early in the United States.

Through threat of nearby enemy response elements, hypothermia and shock of wounded personnel, and across nearly 30 " of snow in extreme terrain, Mako 30 found a site suitable for an MH-47.

Equalization is often unable to achieve flat frequency response at all listening locations in part because of the resonance ( i. e., standing wave ) patterns at low frequencies in nearly all rooms.

This strong, more nearly symmetric response also makes CMOS more resistant to noise.

Furthermore, the quickest DNS response to the resolver is nearly always the one from the network's closest server, ensuring geo-sensitive load-balancing.

In the early 1970s, in response to great demand, a second generation of buildings began to appear, but the economic crisis in 1973 nearly halted all construction in the area.

However, the response rate is wide, ranging from 0 % up to nearly everyone.

Partly in response, the nearly defeated ERP besieged the important Monte Chingolo Armory on December 23.

In 1980, nearly all nations removed their embassies from Jerusalem in response to the passage by the Knesset of the Jerusalem Law extending Israeli sovereignty over the entire city.

In response, Daylight Savings Time is started in January ( nearly four months earlier than usual ), and the national speed limit is lowered to 55 mph.

The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11 when nearly 4, 000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages.

A second-order low-pass filter with a very low quality factor has a nearly first-order step response ; the system's output responds to a step input by slowly rising toward an asymptote.

However, largely in response to the torpedoing of the transport ship ' The Arandora Star ', with the loss of nearly 700 people, the deportations ended.

The head and neck are nearly featherless, and are a dull red color, which may flush and therefore change color in response to the bird's emotional state.

On 20 June 2011, in a speech lasting nearly an hour, in response to the demands of protesters and foreign pressure, al-Assad promised a national dialogue involving movement toward reform, new parliamentary elections, and greater freedoms.

The response from states delivered nearly 40, 000 troops to her command, one of the largest domestic activation of troops in the nation's history.

The film received a nearly universally negative response.

A reflex action, differently known as a reflex, is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus.

Far from resolving the crisis, North ’ s ‘ secret promise ’ nearly wrecked an agreed policy of firm response backed by the threat of naval force.

In response, General Peter Panin set out against the rebels with a large army, but difficulty of transport, lack of discipline, and the gross insubordination of his ill-paid soldiers paralyzed all his efforts for months, while Pugachov's innumerable and ubiquitous bands gained victories in nearly every engagement.