The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

An adequately staffed and equipped State assessing office could apply uniform methods and standards which would go far toward producing equitable assessments on all properties throughout the State.

The uniform fiscal year brings the town's fiscal year into line with that of the schools, which expend the largest share of local disbursements.

Regardless of its unadjusted allotment, each State is guaranteed by law a minimum allotment each year equal to the allotment which it received in fiscal year 1954 -- increased by a uniform percentage of 5.4865771 which brings total 1954 allotments to all States up to $23,000,000.

A contributing factor is the perspective, the uniform aesthetic distance which is maintained.

Her uniform was of rich, raw silk, in a shade which matched her hair, skin, housepaint, and cats, and since she was so thin as to be almost shapeless, she rather resembled a frozen fish stick.

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.

Gun went to the connecting door, which was open, and stood at attention while Orville Torrence Killpath, in full uniform, finished combing his hair.

He introduced the concept of a uniform space in general topology, as a by-product of his collaboration with Nicolas Bourbaki ( of which he was a Founding Father ).

In geometry, a convex uniform honeycomb is a uniform tessellation which fills three-dimensional Euclidean space with non-overlapping convex uniform polyhedral cells.

This transition to BEC occurs below a critical temperature, which for a uniform three-dimensional gas consisting of non-interacting particles with no apparent internal degrees of freedom is given by:

" Shatner participated in the sketch, outfitted in a USMC Class A uniform, which was a satire of Oliver North and his refusal at that point to speak up about his participation in the Iran-Contra Affair, and in which he had no lines.

Europe, which also has a large biotechnology sector and an impressive education system, has encountered trouble in creating uniform standards as the European community attempts to supplant some of the national jurisdictional barriers that still exist.

Early Bayesian inference, which used uniform priors following Laplace's principle of insufficient reason, was called " inverse probability " ( because it infers backwards from observations to parameters, or from effects to causes ).

The zebrafish is named for the five uniform, pigmented, horizontal, blue stripes on the side of the body, which are reminiscent of a zebra's stripes, and which extend to the end of the caudal fin.

The exception to this rule is in the state of Goa, where a Portuguese uniform civil code is in place, in which all religions have a common law regarding marriages, divorces and adoption.

Criminal law, which is uniform throughout Canada, is based on the common law as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The name Red Sox, chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning.

Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings, and earned the famous nickname, a year or two before hiring the first fully professional team in 1869.

In, the National League club adopted an all-white uniform, and the American League team saw an opportunity.

One of the potential helmet designs Brown rejected was a striped motif that was similar to the helmets adopted by the team in 1981 and which is still in use to this day ; however, that design featured yellow stripes on a turquoise helmet which were more uniform in width.

During the 1995 season, the team wore the navy " Double-Star " jersey for games at Washington and Philadelphia and permanently switched to solid color socks ( royal blue for the white uniform, and navy blue for the dark uniform ).

While the team didn't wear the throwback uniform exactly on Thanksgiving Day in those two years, Dallas wore them on a date around Thanksgiving for those two years.

The team went back to wearing this uniform at home on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 while their opponent was the Oakland Raiders who wore their AFL Legacy Weekend throwbacks.

This created a rare game in which neither team wore a white jersey and the first time the Cowboys wore the alternative uniform as a visiting team.

" Some alumni and students, as well as the conservative student newspaper, The Dartmouth Review, have sought to return the Indian symbol to prominence, but no team has worn the symbol on its uniform in decades.

For 2008, the team dropped the black alternate jerseys in favor of a throwback uniform to commemorate the franchise's 75th anniversary.

The team made some minor uniform adjustments before the start of the 2004 season, including reverting from blue to the traditional gray face masks, darkening their blue colors from a royal blue to speed blue, as well as adding two white stripes to the socks.

Team owner Wayne Weaver reportedly wanted to " clean up " the look, feeling that the team had too many uniform styles.

In September of that year, the team announced that it will now use the black jersey and black pants as their primary uniform combination.

Three years earlier, Bench had been inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in and his uniform # 5 was retired by the team.

The team demonstrated that the magnets do not have to be both uniform and strong, rather two magnets can be used together, where one is strong and the other one is uniform.

During their dynasty years in the 1970s, the A's had dozens of uniform combinations with jerseys and pants in all three team colors, and in fact did not wear the traditional gray on the road, instead wearing green or gold, which helped to contribute to their nickname of " The Swingin ' A's.

The current team colors, uniform, and logo date to 1992.

The Phillies have retired six numbers, and honored two additional players with the letter " P ." Grover Cleveland Alexander played with the team in the era before Major League Baseball used uniform numbers, and Chuck Klein wore a variety of numbers with the team during his career.

Each could have separate uniform colors, but in team mode, teams were defined by uniform color.

The team formally unveiled this new uniform set, which mixes old and new styles, in a private team-only event.

The Orioles wear their black alternate jerseys for Friday night games with the alternate " O's " cap, whether at home or on the road ; the cartoon bird batting helmet is still used with this uniform ( see description on home and road design below ).

* Conical mill ( or conical screen mill ), a machine used to reduce the size of material in a uniform manner

Similarly, hospital emergency codes often incorporate colors ( such as the widely used " Code Blue " indicating a cardiac arrest ), although they may also include numbers, and may not conform to a uniform standard.

In most cases the roadway is flat, so when the weight of the cable is negligible compared with the weight being supported, the force exerted is uniform with respect to horizontal distance, and the result is a parabola, as discussed below ( although the term " catenary " is often still used, in an informal sense ).

The 1960 – 1963 uniform may also be used on other special occasion.

Dorman Luke's construction can only be used where a polyhedron has such an intersphere and the vertex figure is cyclic, i. e. for uniform polyhedra.

The evidence was compiled by W de Sitter ( 1927 ) who wrote " If we accept this hypothesis, then the ' astronomical time ', given by the earth's rotation, and used in all practical astronomical computations, differs from the ' uniform ' or ' Newtonian ' time, which is defined as the independent variable of the equations of celestial mechanics ".

Humble Oil also used similar logotypes, use of the Humble name in all Enco and Esso advertising, and uniform designs for all stations regardless of brand.

In many regions around the world local subdivisions and classification criteria are still used along with the newer internationally coordinated uniform system, but once the research establishes a more complete international system, it is expected that local systems will be abandoned.

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ( PAGE ) is used for separating proteins ranging in size from 5 to 2, 000 kDa due to the uniform pore size provided by the polyacrylamide gel.

The hard, dense product was then broken again into tiny pieces which were separated with sieves to have a uniform product for each purpose ; coarse powders were used for cannons, finer grained powders for muskets, and the finest for small hand guns and priming.

The reforms arising from the Local Government Act of 1972 resulted in the most uniform and simplified system of local government which has been used in England.

When this approach is used, the hash function must be chosen so that the result has fairly uniform distribution between 0 and n − 1, for any value of n that may occur in the application.

Primer pocket uniformer tools are used to achieve a uniform primer pocket depth.

As probability theory is used in quite diverse applications, terminology is not uniform and sometimes confusing.

However, whereas in Quake, the only option was to change the color of the player's uniform unless third party modifications were used, now the game comes with a selection of three different player models: a male marine, a female marine, and a male cyborg ; choice of player model also affects the speech effects the player's character will make, such as exhaling in effort while jumping or groaning when injured.

A URL is technically a type of uniform resource identifier ( URI ) but in many technical documents and verbal discussions URL is often used as a synonym for URI.

Uniform spaces are topological spaces with additional structure which is used to define uniform properties such as completeness, uniform continuity and uniform convergence.

In the trilogy it is used as the symbol of the Legion of Dynamic Discord, a Discordian group ; the golden apple makes a number of appearances, for example, on the cover, on a black flag, and as an emblem on a uniform.