Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

In his opening statement to a jury of eight women and four men, Bernard H. Sokol, attorney for the detectives, said that evidence would show that his clients were `` entirely innocent ''.

Jubal couldn't reconstruct the crime from the way the girls behaved because patterns kept shifting -- ABC vs D, then BCD vs A or AB vs CD, or AD vs CB, through all ways that four women can gang up on each other.

Abu Bakr felt compassion for slaves, so he purchased eight slaves ( four men and four women ) and then freed them, paying 40, 000 dinar for their freedom.

Since 1995 the UK government has advised that regular consumption of 3 – 4 units a day for men, or 2 – 3 units a day for women, would not pose significant health risks, but that consistently drinking four or more units a day ( men ), or three or more units a day ( women ), is not advisable.

Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women — his largest sculptures — entitled Grande femme debout I through IV ( 1960 ).

The Talmud amplifies this idea, mentioning her as being one of the " four women of surpassing beauty in the world.

Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.

Chapter 4 ( Sura-e-Nisa ), verse 3 of the Quran states that a man may only be married to four women at the most, should he be able to treat them all fairly and equally.

Male chauvinism was found to represent an attempt to ward off anxiety and shame arising from one or more of four prime sources: unresolved infantile strivings and regressive wishes, hostile envy of women, oedipal anxiety, and power and dependency conflicts related to masculine self-esteem.

Knucklebones was a skill game played by women and children ; a derivative form had the four sides of the bone receive different values and count as modern dice.

* In the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Backyard Bard toured a Biblical Storytelling production of ' Esther ', featuring four women storytellers telling the story word-for-word from the Biblical account.

This policy was reinforced by bestowing the Cross of Honor of the German Mother on women bearing four or more babies.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

A team of four skaters, consisting of two men and two women, perform singles and pairs elements in unison, as well as unique elements that involve all four skaters.

He proposed marriage to four women, and eventually Sonia Brownell accepted.

Typically men compete on six events: Floor Exercise, Pommel Horse, Still Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars, and High Bar, while women compete on four: Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam, and Floor Exercise.

He and his group of about 20 young goths were on a camping trip in the vicinity of Rothwell when two 18-year-olds ( Quinn Colley, Ryan Woodhead ) and one 22-year-old ( Andrew Hall ) raided, stabbed four of the men and robbed two women.

Created by Mother, the campaign will begin with a TV advert shot in front of a live audience, featuring four stand-up comedians, two men and two women, having the debate over which gender is the messiest.

Each union council comprised thirteen members elected from specified electorates: four men and two women elected directly by the general population ; two men and two women elected by peasants and workers ; one member for minority communities ; two members are elected jointly as the union mayor ( nazim ) and deputy union mayor ( naib nazim ).

These are traversed by another line of vaults, and thus rooms, arched on all four sides, are formed.

All four types of message listed in Table 1 are permitted, although decorum and cocktail tradition require holding the commands to a minimum, while exclamations having complimentary intonations are more than customarily encouraged.

Some accounts are quite lengthy but Florida's is the shortest of all, requiring only four paragraphs.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

The long-range aspects of this program are divided into four distinct phases: basic mapping, inventory, analysis and plan and policy formation.

There are forty-seven special district governments in Rhode Island ( excluding two regional school districts, four housing authorities, and the Kent County Water Authority ).

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

There are four rather obvious ways to reduce or eliminate the vulnerability of aircraft on the ground:

But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.

There are four versions of the formula that involves the relationships of car speed, engine speed, rear axle gear ratio, and rear tire size.

The roof timbers are precut and the panels standard so that the house can be completely enclosed in a matter of three or four days.

The real question that follows is -- how are those four years used and what is their value as training??

They are laid a minimum of 24'' '' deep and in some areas four feet down, particularly under roads, to stay clear of all other piping such as water and sewers and to minimize shocks from heavy trucking.

With the exception of the sports cars, even the quite tiny sedans will seat four passengers if you are willing to sacrifice comfort and luggage space for really economical transportation.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The purpose of washing is, obviously, to remove soils which are arbitrarily classed in the four major categories given below: 1.

Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.

The four functional problems of a social system are, to some extent, solved by the subsystems within this population.

What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes: ( 1 ) body parts and products, which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253, 25 out of 100 ) come out with nearly even ratios ; ;

This second conclusion, independently arrived at by independent study of material from two pairs of language families as different and remote from one another as these four are, cannot be ignored.

Plate 12 illustrates four examples, which are Ripe or Late Geometric work of common spirit but of different schools.

These contemporary structures, beautifully adapted to a school in the country, are home to 60 children, ages eight to fourteen, grades four through eight.