According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

The genesis of chemistry can be traced to the widely observed phenomenon of burning that led to metallurgy — the art and science of processing ores to get metals ( e. g. metallurgy in ancient India ).

Though the theory of dark matter remains the most widely accepted theory to explain the anomalies in observed galactic rotation, some alternative theoretical approaches have been developed which broadly fall into the categories of modified gravitational laws and quantum gravitational laws.

It is widely believed that giant planets form through core accretion, and that process may sometimes produce planets with masses above the deuterium fusion threshold ; massive planets of that sort may have already been observed.

However, statistical analysis shows that this can only account for 50 % of the observed pattern, and other evidence ( such as fungal spikes ) provides reassurance that most widely accepted extinction events are indeed real.

The frequency of introns within different genomes is observed to vary widely across the spectrum of biological organisms.

Although human infanticide has been widely studied, the practice has been observed in many other species of the animal kingdom since it was first seriously studied by Yukimaru Sugiyama.

Old traditions such as bonfires are no longer widely observed, though the practice still persists in some communities, such as Arklow, County Wicklow.

It is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays.

Today, the astronomical community widely agrees that Planet X, as originally envisioned, does not exist, but the concept of Planet X has been revived by a number of astronomers to explain other anomalies observed in the outer Solar System.

Such practices, while requirements of Conservative Judaism, are not to be widely observed among Conservative laity.

The American Heritage Dictionary ( 2000 ) uses the following two sentences to illustrate the difference, noting that the distinction " is useful in principle, but it is by no means widely observed, and considerable variation in usage occurs at all levels.

At the same time he also observed that the languages of these fairly widely scattered islands are quite similar.

Norms that are widely observed have great moral significance: incest, for example, is generally thought of as wrong in society, but many jurisdictions do not legally prohibit it.

During a test of his equipment for measuring the east-west effect, Rossi observed that the rate of near-simultaneous discharges of two widely separated Geiger counters was larger than the expected accidental rate.

Sumner coined the term mores to refer to norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.

The critical function of cultural relativism is widely understood ; philosopher John Cook observed that " It is aimed at getting people to admit that although it may seem to them that their moral principles are self-evidently true, and hence seem to be grounds for passing judgement on other peoples, in fact, the self-evidence of these principles is a kind of illusion ".

These rhythms are driven by a circadian clock, and rhythms have been widely observed in plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria.

Various Catholic countries had a tradition ( no longer widely observed ) of role reversal between children and their adult educators, including boy bishops, perhaps a Christianized version of the Roman annual feast of the Saturnalia ( when even slaves played " masters " for a day ).

The values which Laura precariously, but ultimately successfully, clings to were widely shared and respected ( if not always observed ) at the time of the film's original setting ( the status of a divorced woman, for example, remained sufficiently scandalous in the UK to cause Edward VIII to abdicate in 1936 ).

Traveling widely, and interacting with the highest military commands and royal families, McClellan observed the siege of Sevastopol.

This law was declared unconstitutional, being overturned by the Supreme Court's 1977 decision in the Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Willingboro case, but is still widely observed by local realtors.

" It is widely believed that it was so named due to the richness of wildlife which the initial French colonists observed when they settled in the region.

" It has since been largely eclipsed by the more widely observed Earth Day, except in Nebraska, where it originated.

Although results vary widely within regions and countries, the trend indicates that the world as a whole can meet the goal of halving the percentage of people living in poverty.

Leopards have the largest distribution of any wild cat, occurring widely in eastern and central Africa, although populations have shown a declining trend and are fragmented outside of sub-Saharan Africa.

UPA pioneered the technique of limited animation, and though this style of animation came to be widely abused during the 1960s and 1970s as a cost-cutting measure, it was originally intended as a stylistic alternative to the growing trend ( particularly at Disney ) of recreating cinematic realism in animated films.

* Average directional indexa widely used indicator of trend strength

After 2001, user added content played a more and more important role on the internet in a trend that is widely referred to as Web 2. 0.

In 1986, Cheung co-starred with Chow Yun-fat in A Better Tomorrow ( directed by John Woo ), which was widely considered as a trend starter for Hong Kong triad movies in the 1980s.

However, this trend is widely regarded as a temporary one against the longer term trend towards more open and competitive markets.

When concrete became widely available, there was a trend to make steel reinforced anvil bases by some smiths, though this practice has largely been abandoned.

The car is widely considered to have begun the trend of high performance, two-seater, mid-engined sports cars.

The size trend has been observed in hyperiid and gammarid amphipods, copepods, stomatopods, mysids, and planktonic euphausiids, both in comparisons of related species as well as within widely distributed species.

Later books evince a trend toward more " worldwide " points of view, with Rand receiving comparatively little focus, although his presence ( or absence ) is still widely noted.

While chaptalization was widely practiced for most of the 20th century, there has been a trend of riper vintages in recent years, producing grapes with higher sugar levels that have diminished the need to chaptalize.

Italy's highly fragmented party system made it hard to identify an overall trend, but the results were generally seen as a defeat for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a victory for the centre-left opposition coalition identified with Romano Prodi, who was President of the European Commission until 2004, and was widely expected to re-enter Italian politics at the next election.

Although the detailed goals of these migrations vary widely, the trend is migration towards greater private liberty and flight from state persecution, most often in the face of crackdowns or after failed uprisings.

These radio sets were designed to receive amplitude modulation ( AM ) broadcasts in the medium wave band, and were manufactured in the United States from the mid 1930s until the early 1960s ( FM broadcasting in the United States, while running on a small scale from 1930, only became widely popular in the late 1950s, with the trend towards high-fidelity audio ).

Despite this trend, dolphinariums are still widely spread in Europe, Japan and North America.

After World War II, there appeared a new and often subversive trend in publishing that allowed for books to be written, cheaply produced, and widely distributed using technology previously unavailable.

Square feet are also widely used in retailing in the United Kingdom, but there are signs of a trend towards use of square metres.

MSG paid an average of $ 55 million a year for those rights, and the deal is widely credited as having started a national trend towards greater team coverage on regional sports networks, with more games being broadcast than over-the-air stations ' regular programming schedules could usually permit.

Boland and Collopy are widely published leaders in the emerging ' design thinking ' trend.

This maneuver marks a trend for later mobile suit pilots as a technique widely adopted for re-entry operations.

That represented a year-over-year decrease of about 10. 5 percent ; a trend widely reflected during the same year in newspapers throughout Washington state.

Though no longer widely considered to actually cure disease, shades of the supposed curative properties of sea water can still be noted with the trend of bath products containing Dead Sea salt, which is claimed to provide some relief from certain skin diseases.