As a result of his unusual degree of success, Confucius made powerful enemies within the state, especially with Viscount Ji Huan.

As a result, an unusual cooling may occur in the eastern equatorial Atlantic in spring and summer following El Niño peaks in winter.

IFN therapy causes immunosuppression, in particular through neutropenia and can result in some infections manifesting in unusual ways.

Mummies of humans and other animals have been found all around the world, both as a result of natural preservation through unusual conditions, and as cultural artifacts.

The result was an unusual mix of intelligent, cutting-edge wit, and crass, bawdy frat house jesting.

Other scientists, such as Stefan Mundlos of the Max Planck Institute, believe that the family's unusual gait may result from a genetic abnormality.

Known as " king cheetahs ," they were once thought to constitute a separate subspecies but are in fact African cheetahs ; their unusual fur pattern is the result of a single recessive gene.

Some modern scholars also view the unusual decision of Darius to give the throne to Xerxes to be a result of his consideration of the unique positions that Cyrus the Great and his daughter Atossa have had.

E. coli O157: H7 was first recognized as a pathogen as a result of an outbreak of unusual gastrointestinal illness in 1982.

This unusual method of brood size regulation might be the result of the eggs being laid before the female has been able to gauge the size of the carcass and hence how many larvae it can provision.

Music critic Jeff Bond writes, " The final result was one of the most unusual Star Trek movie themes ," consisting of a six-note theme and variations set against a repetitious four-note brass motif ; the theme's bridge borrows content from Rosenman's " Frodo March " for The Lord of the Rings.

He has said that his good health, excepting the unusual skin tone, is the result of his use of colloidal silver.

As a result, there are no apartments, condominiums or townhouses in the city limits ; however, it is not unusual for the homes along the eastern edge of Hillsborough to face condominiums in neighboring Burlingame, sharing the ZIP code 94010.

The growth of Indianapolis toward Beech Grove, and the distinctness of both cities, led to the unusual result of different names for certain roadways.

" As a result, the community-at that point a mere collection of farms-bore the unusual name " What You Please?

The suit alleged that EMI have withheld $ 50 million from the record label, however an EMI spokesman noted that audits of record label accounts are not that unusual, confirming at least two hundred such audits performed on the label, but that these audits rarely result in legal action.

As a student, he was not especially precocious or industrious, but his work was distinguished by a peculiar reserve and an unusual determination that his hand should be subdued to his eye, with the result that his early works reach their own ideal as surely as those of his maturity.

The reasons for such designs vary ; some are intended to quietly force customers into a vendor lock-in situation, or force upgrading customers to replace more components than would otherwise be necessary ; others are the result of practical considerations such as cost, packaging, ease of design, unusual or enhanced features ; and still others result from an ignorance of standards, or even an absence of standards.

In 2010, the United States Supreme court ruled that sentencing minors to life without parole, automatically ( as the result of a statute ) or as the result of a judicial decision, for crimes other than intentional homicide violated the 8th Amendment's ban on " cruel and unusual " punishment, in the case of Graham v. Florida.

The unusual tail is actually the result of a random spontaneous genetic mutation within the domestic cat population or is related to the dominant Manx gene.

It is now a tourist attraction, as a result of its very unusual design and architecture, featuring 22 rooms on seven levels, and 15 decorated fireplaces.

On the other hand, unusual conditions may result in passivation of materials that are normally unprotected, as the alkaline environment of concrete does for steel rebar.

Hat making was the main trade in Stockport, near where Carroll grew up, and it was not unusual then for hatters to appear disturbed or confused ; many died early as a result of mercury poisoning.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

The lyric, Mercer remembers, was tailored to fit the unusual melody.

It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.

I was delighted to make that personal contact in such trying and unusual circumstances.

An unusual, if not extraordinary, rendering of the classic myth that involves the rescue of Prometheus from the rock by the U.S. Cavalry was given last week in the warehouse of the Albany Leather Conduit Company amid cheers of `` Hubba hubba '' and `` Yalagaloo pip pip ''!!

he was working with species of Java, so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect.

An unusual increase in the number of bronchial arteries present within the substance of the lung was noted.

Manchester's unusual interest in telegraphy has often been attributed to the fact that the Rev. J. D. Wickham, headmaster of Burr and Burton Seminary, was a personal friend and correspondent of the inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse.

This unusual collagen also was shown to undergo a reversible thermal phase transformation.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

but naturally, the royal ritual, which provided unusual control over already supremely powerful divine spirits, was held responsible for regulating the universe and insuring the welfare of the kingdom.

But this was not unusual, because youth in these quarters was always pushed at a distance from its elders.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

But the beer hall riot in Subic had been unusual, too, and Walt Perry was convinced that Doc had started it through some expert tactics in rabble rousing.

I had a pocketful of money, which was unusual when I was in the army, and the plane would be grounded all night.

His report was unusual in its detailed depiction of a non-European culture.

The archaeological record indicates that it was not unusual for ancient Pueblo peoples to adapt to climatic change by changing residences and locations.

It was unusual for a man of Mackenzie's humble origins to attain such a position in an age which generally offered such opportunity only to the privileged.

However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.

The rival forces met at Sievershausen on 9 July 1553, and after a combat of unusual ferocity Albert was put to flight.

Agrippina ’ s actions were considered unusual as for a Roman wife, because a conventional Roman wife was required to stay home.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.