The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds ( as is the double bass ) to avoid excessive ledger lines.

The advice given is, avoid reaching such a conclusion, as not only does it change one's perception of the effect of excessive amounts of food on the body, but also encourages a ' lacklustre ' lifestyle and approach to life as a whole.

Syn soon became aware that his parishioners were smuggling goods from France to avoid the excessive customs duties the government charged.

This transposition applies even when reading the tenor and treble clef, which are used to avoid excessive ledger lines when notating the instrument's upper range.

In the case of high power application it is important to avoid cavitation, caused by excessive negative pressure, as this can cause noise, a loss of power, and damage to the propeller.

First-order predicate calculus is commonly used as a mathematical basis for these systems, to avoid excessive complexity.

After a flare-up of a kidney disorder, Reed is warned to avoid excessive travel or stress, but he decides to take the same path.

This allows them to eat the same foods they normally would, while allowing them to lose weight and avoid other problems associated with excessive caloric intake.

Repeated application of copper sulfate or copper hydroxide as a fungicide may eventually result in copper accumulation to toxic levels in soil, and admonitions to avoid excessive accumulations of copper in soil appear in various organic standards and elsewhere.

Every feast day is preceded ( or followed, as with Shrove Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday ) by a fast as well, in part to avoid the excessive revelry of pagan feasting without moderation.

Specifically, it is designed to lessen congestion in streets and to avoid future congestion ; to secure safety from fire and other hazards ; to provide light and air about buildings in which people live ; to prevent overcrowding of land and avoid excessive concentration of population ; to assist in adequately providing transportation, water supply, sewage disposal, schools, parks, and other public requirements.

Some of these measures may include raising interest rates, which tends to make investors become more risk averse and thus avoid leveraged capital because the costs of borrowing may become too expensive ; others may include certain countermeasures that may be taken pre-emptively during periods of strong economic growth include having the central monetary authority increase capital reserve requirements and attempting to implement regulation that checks and / or prevents processes leading to over-expansion and excessive leveraging of debt.

Another application is in live TV programs, where streams of audio and video need to be seamlessly merged and transitioned from one to the other to avoid silent airtime or excessive overlap.

The cuff pressure is monitored carefully in order to avoid complications from over-inflation, many of which can be traced to excessive cuff pressure restricting the blood supply to the tracheal mucosa.

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For performance on the modern piano, most performers today try to achieve an effect similar to what Beethoven asked for by using pedal changes only where necessary to avoid excessive dissonance.

To avoid excessive complication of the formulas, this derivation assumed that the flow does not change as time passes.

It is said by local residents that ( sometime before the start of the 20th Century ) in order to avoid paying excessive tax on his stockpiled alcohol, the landlord of the local pub, The Druids Arms, would roll barrels of spirits into the wood in order to hide them.

Crop rotation also seeks to balance the fertility demands of various crops to avoid excessive depletion of soil nutrients.

Many couples enter swinging while in secure relationships, providing added motivation to avoid excessive health risks.

The diagnostic criteria utilized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV-TR ) published by the American Psychiatric Association includes repetitive episodes of binge eating ( a discrete episode of overeating during which the individual feels out of control of consumption ) compensated for by excessive or inappropriate measures taken to avoid gaining weight.

To avoid getting a final product with a smudgy or lumpy look, it must be ensured that the amount of ink on the printing plate is not excessive.

The court opined that the nativity scene should be dropped from the pageant or the government end its participation in the event in order to avoid " excessive entanglements " between government and religion.

There were some additional complexities related to the desire to avoid low memory addresses ( which would allow a NULL pointer to scramble critical motherboard registers ) and the desire to avoid this overhead for 32-bit and 64-bit values.

People avoid killing during some festivals, like Taoist Ghost Festival, Nine Emperor Gods Festival, Vegetarian Festival and many others.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Clinton's political opponents charge that to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War during his college years, he used the political influence of a U. S. Senator, who employed him as an aide.

It was decided, during development, that the use of the services therein would be decided on by each given congregation, so as to avoid as much conflict as possible with traditionalists.

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

The Soviet leadership believed, based on their perception of Kennedy's lack of confidence during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, that he would avoid confrontation and accept the missiles as a fait accompli.

Some Jewish personnel avoided flying over German lines during WWII with ID tags that indicated their religion, and some Jewish personnel avoid the religious designation today out of concern that they could be captured by extremists who are anti-semitic.

Additionally, when American troops were first sent to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War there were allegations that some U. S. military authorities were pressuring Jewish military personnel to avoid listing their religions on their ID tags.

Two controversies arose during the campaign which tested him and his staff but were without effect on the campaign ; one involved a report that Nixon had improperly received funds from a secret trust – Nixon spoke out adroitly to avoid potential damage but the matter permanently alienated the two candidates.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

Yamaha's engineers began adapting Chowning's algorithm for use in a commercial digital synthesizer, adding improvements such as the " key scaling " method to avoid the introduction of distortion that normally occurred in analog systems during frequency modulation, though it would take several years before Yamaha release their FM digital synthesizers.

On July 14, the Justice Department filed a motion " to avoid short-circuiting the repeal process established by Congress during the final stages of the implementation of the repeal.

Actors Richard DeManincor ( Scott ) and Theresa Tilly ( Shelly ) both went under different " stage names " during the shoot, since they were members of the Screen Actors Guild and wanted to avoid being penalized for participating in a non-union production.

James Thurber described White as being a quiet man, disliking publicity, who during his time at The New Yorker would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of Schrafft's to avoid visitors whom he didn't know.

It is possible that bipedalism was favored because it freed up the hands for reaching and carrying food, saved energy during locomotion, enabled long distance running and hunting, or helped avoid hyperthermia by reducing the surface area exposed to direct sun.

Another common house rule is that the bottom card of the deck is never given as a replacement, to avoid the possibility of someone who might have seen it during the deal using that information.

He was among the few English military leaders to avoid death or capture during the battle, and although there is no evidence that he acted with cowardice, he was temporarily stripped of his knighthood.

Genoese came during the 18th and 19th centuries, especially from the poorer parts of Liguria, some of them annually following fishing shoals, as repairmen for the British navy, or as successful traders and merchants ; many others came during the Napoleonic period to avoid obligatory conscription to the French Army.

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

He paid special attention to the civilian food supply, as the city financed large warehouses of food that enabled the residents to avoid the worst of the severe shortages that beset most German cities during 1918 – 1919.

Therefore, the male must fully restrain the female during coitus to avoid being hurt.

The firm helped Yamasaki avoid internment as a Japanese-American during World War II, and he himself sheltered his parents in New York City.

Coincidentally, the psychiatrist knew a doctor friend of Brando, and Brando was able to avoid military service during the Korean War.

This is essentially part of the differentiation between " procedural " games, where the aim ( acknowledged or otherwise ) is to tie the entire ruleset into a paradoxical condition during each turn ( a player who has no legal move available wins ), and " substantive " games, which try to avoid paradox and reward winning by achieving certain goals, such as attaining a given number of points.