* Stewing: Woks are sometimes used for stewing though it is more common in Chinese cuisine to use either stoneware or porcelain for such purposes, especially when longer stewing times are required.

Woks were designed to be used over the traditional Chinese pit-style stove () with the wok recessed into the stove top, where the heat is fully directed at the bottom of the wok.

Woks, be they round or flat bottomed, do not generally work well for stir-frying or other quick cooking methods when used on an electric cooker.

* Woks are wide, roughly bowl-shaped vessels with one or two handles at or near the rim.

Woks are often used for stir frying, steaming, pan frying, deep frying, poaching, boiling, braising, searing, stewing, making soup, smoking and roasting nuts.

Woks sold in western countries are sometimes found with flat bottoms — this makes them more similar to a deep frying pan.

Woks of ( suitable for a family of 3 or 4 ) are the most common, but home woks can be found as small as and as large as.

Woks are also now being introduced with clad or five-layer construction, which sandwich a thick layer of aluminum or copper between two sheets of stainless steel.

Woks can also be made from aluminium.

`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

The American liberal may, in the world of to-day, have a strong case ; ;

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

Looking back, Miss Marsicano feels that her ideas may have been influenced by those of Jackson Pollock.

The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it could hardly be called world-shattering.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

It may, however, be noted that his gift for color and imagery must have been greatly stimulated by his stay in Paris.

Does our society have a runaway, uncontrollable growth of technology which may end our civilization, or a normal, healthy growth??

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

Such activity may or may not have irritated the Kremlin, but it has frequently condemned America to an unnatural defensiveness that has undermined our effort to give leadership to the free world.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

This conflict may have been aggravated by the influx of less settled peoples, Numic-speakers such as the Utes, Shoshones and Paiute people, who may have originated in what is today California.

The name itself may have originated as a nickname given to women who carried water to men on the battlefield during the war.

The one-drop rule may have originated as a means of increasing the number of black slaves and been maintained as an attempt to keep the white race pure.

The term " chicano " may have come from Mexican immigrants to the U. S. during the 1920s and 1930s, but by those originated from Chihuahua ( not the term " Chi -" hua-hua " when they came into Texas where the locals made fun of the way the Chihuahuan Mexicans, primarily indigenous rural peasants, spoke a " less common " dialect of Spanish ).

This legend may have originated from the vampire bat, an animal endemic to the region.

According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ) which inspired Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

Its central importance to many biochemical pathways suggests that it was one of the earliest established components of cellular metabolism and may have originated abiogenically.

The perspective that older chaparral is unhealthy or unproductive may have originated during the 1940s when studies were conducted measuring the amount of forage available to deer populations in chaparral stands.

The word cola as part of the Coca-Cola trademark may have originated from the kola nuts that were originally used as the source of caffeine.

The island may have been visited during the Austronesian diaspora around 700 AD, and some say the old Maldivian name for the islands originated from Malagasy.

These influences serve to reinforce the conclusion that the Book of Exodus originated in the exiled Jewish community of 6th-century Babylon, but not all the sources are Mesopotamian: the story of Moses's flight to Midian following the murder of the Egyptian overseer may draw on the Egyptian Tale of Sinuhe.

Other eukaryotic organelles may have also evolved through endosymbiosis ; it has been proposed that cilia, flagella, centrioles, and microtubules may have originated from a symbiosis between a Spirochaete bacterium and an early eukaryotic cell, but this is not widely accepted among biologists.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

The author drew on three primary sources, each representing a distinct community: a hypothetical collection, or several collections, of sayings ( called " Q ", and shared with Luke ); the Gospel of Mark ; and material unique to Matthew ( called " M ", some of which may have originated with Matthew himself ).

Before any graphic elements may be applied to a design, the graphic elements must be originated by means of visual art skills.

Hakka cuisine, or Kejia cuisine, is the cooking style of the Hakka people, who originated in the southeastern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, but may also be found in other parts of China and in countries with significant overseas Chinese communities .< ref > Linda Lau Anusasananan, < i > The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from Around the World </ i > ( University of California Press, 2012 )</ ref > There are numerous restaurants in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore serving Hakka cuisine.

Yahweh, later the national god of both Israel and Judah seems to have originated in Edom and Midian in southern Canaan, and may have been brought north to Israel by the Kenites and Midianites at an early stage.

They may have arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE and are thought to have originated in Taiwan.

15-17 that appear to have originated from a catechism used by Justin's school in Rome, which may have had a wide circulation.

Many Okinawan weapons such as the sai, tonfa, and nunchaku may have originated in and around Southeast Asia.

These labyrinths may have originated as symbolic allusion to the Holy City ; and some modern thinkers have theorized that prayers and devotions may have accompanied the perambulation of their intricate paths.