Very seldom does he smile, or even laugh.

Very seldom, during their fights for dominance, are they able to inflict bodily harm to the contender.

He seldom appeared in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie ( due to Jerry Nelson's illness at the time of filming ), portraying the Green Fairy in the " Moulin Scrooge " number.

Very occasionally there are short periods of drought but the vegetation seldom loses its rich green for very long.

Very occasionally there are short periods of drought but the vegetation seldom loses its rich green for very long.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on July 18, 2009, Paula's manager David Sonenberg told the newspaper that, " Very sadly, it does not appear that she ’ s going to be back on ‘ Idol ’.

* Very brief, but it does have names for the viola in French, German and Italian.

* Very intense chemical weathering, leaching, and erosion in warm and humid regions where soil does not freeze

Very often, a word-final consonant was not expressed in writing – and was possibly omitted in pronunciation – so it surfaced only when followed by a vowel: for example the / k / of the genitive case ending-ak does not appear in e < sub > 2 </ sub > lugal-la " the king's house ", but becomes obvious in e < sub > 2 </ sub > lugal-la-kam "( it ) is the king's house " ( compare liaison in French ).

Very often in these cases the rhythmic message, the pace of the most complicated musical plots is partially or completely lost, music is dull, scarcely involving and apparently meaningless, it does not make any sense.

An admirer of Christie, Milward Kennedy of The Guardian began his review of July 30, 1935 by saying, " Very few authors achieve the ideal blend of puzzle and entertainment as often does Agatha Christie.

Very feminine ... her main charm was that she does not look like a career woman.

Very much like in English, " The " article is used here to single out the noun as being the only one of its kind, " The god " ( the one and only ) or " God " with a capital G ( the concept of capital letters does not exist in Arabic ).

Very early in his ministry, Joseph Smith, Jr. began to advocate the position that priesthood does not come directly from God through the Holy Spirit, as many Protestants believe, but through a line of direct or apostolic succession.

Very long fins and monofins are used by freedivers as a means of underwater propulsion that does not require high frequency leg movement.

Very often, the problem does not surface until the dog is 6 or more years old, so it is very difficult to screen the problem in a pup.

Very early on, Schulz eliminated the circles around her eyes and allowed her to mature to the age of the other characters ; she does have tiny half circles around her eyes ( as do the other van Pelt siblings ).

Alex does later appear in the fourth season Christmas episode " A Very Dead Zone Christmas " where the idea of her and Johnny getting together is further explored.

The speech on " One Very Important Thought " differs between the two releases, as does the name of the song " Boc Maxima ", renamed " Bocuma " for Music Has the Right to Children.

Very rarely does one find the sequence CVC, where the C's are both labials or both velars.

* Very Shy Mouse, a little gray mouse who is very shy and does not say much.

An archimandrite who does not function as an abbot has the style ' The Very Reverend Archimandrite ' whilst one with abbatial duties uses the style ' The Right Reverend Archimandrite '.

Very little is known about the members of Deathspell Omega, as the band does not have an official website and does not release information about their membership.

Mantello directs a variety of theatre works, as the New York Times noted: " Very few American directors -- Jack O ' Brien ( director ) and Mike Nichols come to mind -- successfully jump genres and styles the way Mr. Mantello does, moving from a two-hander like Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune to the huge canvas of a mainstream musical comedy like Wicked, from downtown stand-up ( The Santaland Diaries ) to contemporary opera ( Dead Man Walking ) to political performance art ( The Vagina Monologues ).

Very often, kritiks are subject to impact turns on account of their philosophical, rather nebulous impacts ; a critique of the state declaring that the purported increase in state power that the plan creates is bad because it unduly exercises power and forces citizens into doing things that they would not choose to do otherwise might be impact turned by first mitigating the harm the state does and then saying that other things the state does — such as provide police and fire services — are good.

Additionally, the railroad does not operate during special events such as Mickey's Pirate and Princess Party, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

The origin of the term " born again " is the New Testament: " Jesus replied, ' Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.

Very commonly a calendar includes more than one type of cycle, or has both cyclic and acyclic elements.

Very long readings also occur for certain kanji or symbols which have a gairaigo reading ; the word " centimeter " is generally written as " cm " ( with two half-width characters, so occupying one space ) and has the seven-kana reading ( it can also be written as the kanji, though this is very rare ); another common example is '%' ( the percent sign ), which has the five kana reading.

Very commonly, these values are powers of 10 ; so for instance, if / stands for one, − for ten and + for 100, then the number 304 can be compactly represented as < tt >+++ ////</ tt > and the number 123 as < tt >+ − − ///</ tt > without any need for zero.

However, the philosopher Donald Davidson published a highly regarded essay in 1974, " On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme ," arguing that the notion that any languages or theories could be incommensurable with one another was itself incoherent.

Alternative-country artist Robbie Fulks sings a wistful ode to " That Bangle Girl ", a song identified as one of his " personal favorites ", on his 2000 Very Best album.

Very often, courtesans would betray one another in acts of political intrigue in attempts to climb into higher positions of power within royal courts.

Very often, just one parameter is used to denote the severity of multipath conditions: it is called the multipath time,, and it is defined as the time delay existing between the first and the last received impulses

Very few organizations have only one oscilloscope.

" Very few of us here in Oxford had any personal knowledge of him ," admitted one obituary in Oxford's staff magazine, " The Clarendonian ".

" Very ", for one example, squares membership functions ; since the membership values are always less than 1, this narrows the membership function.

Very little is known of her, except that she had previously modelled for Gustav Klimt and might have been one of his mistresses.

Very soon three of the five Patriarchates – Constantinople, Antioch and Alexandria – were teaching about Christ ’ s " one theandric energy ".

Very often one of the four Laureates receives an Honorary Award, which means that the other three share the Prize money.

On the death of missionary David Livingstone in 1873, a discolored and much-used copy of one of Spurgeon's printed sermons, " Accidents, Not Punishments ," was found among his few possessions much later, along with the handwritten comment at the top of the first page: " Very good, D. L.

Very large amounts of money are often written or spoken in terms of " lakh crore ", e. g. one lakh crore rupees ( or Rs. 1 lakh cr )

* Fort Davis is home to one of ten dishes comprising the Very Long Baseline Array ( VLBA )

Follow-up observations were made at the Siding Spring Observatory 2. 3m telescope and high-resolution spectra were taken at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, using one of the units of the Very Large Telescope.

Very old racing engines will sometimes have two sets of plugs, one just for starting and another to be installed for driving once the engine is warmed up.

His track on " Almost Alice " is titled " Very Good Advice " which is a cover of one of the songs from the 1951 film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

However, Mansfield wrote only one story during her time there ( Something Childish But Very Natural ) before Murry was recalled to London to declare bankruptcy.

Very generally speaking, zazen practice is taught in one of three ways.

This allowed Virgin's VHF ( Very High Frequency ) timetable to be progressively introduced through early 2009, the highlights of which are a three-trains-per-hour service to both Birmingham and Manchester during off-peak periods, and nearly all Anglo-Scottish timings brought under the 4 hours 30 minutes barrier — with one service ( calling only at Preston ) achieving a London-Glasgow time of 4 hours 08 minutes.

Very few birds live longer than one breeding season.