Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

The pronunciation of a language often evolves independently of its writing system, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language.

French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation, though complex, are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

If its minimal polynomial has degree, then the algebraic number is said to be of degree.

During its 4-year run, the positions, parallaxes, and proper motions of 118, 218 stars were determined with an unprecedented degree of accuracy.

* Modified Baltic amber – gemstone subjected only to thermal or high-pressure treatment, which changed its physical properties, including the degree of transparency and color, or shaped under similar conditions out of one nugget, previously cut to the required size.

It was this high degree of agricultural productivity in the south that enabled the growth of the highest population densities in the world at this time, giving Akkad its military advantage.

Depending on its outcome, the entire treatment would give the epistemologist a degree of certitude in the treatment of miracles.

Samuel, another disciple of Judah I, at the same time brought to the academy at Nehardea a high degree of prosperity ; in fact, it was at the school of Rav that Jewish learning in Babylonia found its permanent home and center.

The uniform use of brass for coinage and military equipment across the Roman world may indicate a degree of state involvement in the industry, and brass even seems to have been deliberately boycotted by Jewish communities in Palestine because of its association with Roman authority.

However, the degree of influence remains debated, and it has recently been argued that its grammatical influence accounts for the substantial innovations noted between English and the other West Germanic languages.

5 ) Funding rangers to collect the above data in Kenya, enhance the degree of protection afforded to the eastern bongo and level of understanding of its ecological needs.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

When two places trade with one another, this doctrine supposes that, if the balance be even, neither of them either loses or gains ; but if it leans in any degree to one side, that one of them loses and the other gains in proportion to its declension from the exact equilibrium.

Later, he would receive an honorary degree from its S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

This method fell into disrepute in the early twentieth century because of grave doubts about its reliability, but has been rehabilitated to some degree, especially when used in combination with techniques for examining brain activity.

Comoros also confronted domestically the problem of the degree of democracy the government was prepared to grant to its citizens, a consideration that related to its standing in the world community.

However, Cambridge University and its subsidiary body UCLES are pioneers in trying to get some degree of accountability and quality control to consumers of English courses, through their CELTA and DELTA programs.

Some professional exegetes consider the Bible, to a greater or lesser degree, to be a document of its time, taking on attitudes which may not be God's.

Both parties and the Ministry of the Interior were busily at work after the elections trying to unearth the political affiliations of the successful candidates and, thereby, give the elections a confidential but known degree of national political significance.

Students of the college who are candidates for the A.B. degree and can satisfy the academic requirements of the medical and business schools, may enter either of these associated schools at the beginning of senior year, thus completing the two-year postgraduate course in one year.

Dartmouth, previously serving as a men's institution, began admitting women as full-time students and undergraduate degree candidates in 1972 amid much controversy.

As such, lawyers practicing common law in England were not doctoral candidates and had not earned the doctorate level degree.

The President presides over a Faculty Council which has the authority to alter curricular requirements, establish new degree programs, and approve candidates for degrees.

Gilbreth completed a dissertation and attempted to obtain a doctorate from the University of California in 1911, but was not awarded the degree due to noncompliance with residency requirements for doctoral candidates ; this dissertation was later published as The Psychology of Management.

Membership is by invitation and candidates are required to be Master Masons, holders of the degree of the Holy Royal Arch and to sign a declaration that they profess the Doctrine of the Holy and Undivided Trinity.

Hu attempted to reform China's political system by: requiring candidates to be directly elected in order to enter the Politburo ; holding more elections with more than one candidate ; increasing government transparency ; increasing public consultation before determining Party policy ; and, increasing the degree that government officials could be held directly responsible for their mistakes.

The university consists of 30 colleges and 12 departments, with 93 specialties for undergraduates, 2 specialties for the second Bachelor's degree, 199 specialties for Master's degree candidates and 173 specialties for Doctoral candidates.

PhD doctorate candidates shall preferably hold a Master of Sciences / Research degree prior to entering doctoral cursus.

In attendance also are, usually, the Registrar ( who is responsible for legal and administrative matters ) and the Junior and Senior Proctors ( who present undergraduate and postgraduate candidates for degree commencement ceremonies ).

The examinations were carefully structured in order to ensure that people of lesser means than what was available to candidates born into wealthy, landowning families were given a greater chance to pass the exams and obtain an official degree.

At the college and university level, the faculty will usually wear academic dress at the formal ceremonies, as will the trustees and degree candidates.

When he was fourteen " in preference to a great number of candidates " ( Burney ) he was chosen as organist at St Andrew's, Holborn and at the age of seventeen became the youngest person ever to obtain the Bachelor of Music degree ( B. Mus.

Its findings confirmed those of the Smith & Naylor study in that it found that privately educated pupils who, despite their educational advantages, have only secured a poor A level score, and who therefore attend less selective universities, do less well than state educated degree candidates with the same low A-level attainment.

However, candidates must have three years of progressively responsible work experience, have completed a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor ’ s degree, or possess an equivalent combination of work experience and college credits.

B. Ed was introduced as a four year special degree and in contrast with the 9-10 3hr papers at the final degree examination, a B. Ed degree required a candidates to sit for 19-20 papers for the finals.

Drew Theological School offers degree programs designed to train candidates for the ministry.

Officer candidates enter the RAN at various ranks depending on previous experience or degree qualifications ; graduates from a three-year course, non-degree qualified entrants, and sailor changeovers below the rank of leading seaman enter as midshipman.

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

This concept of " corrected lime potential " to define the degree of base saturation in soils became the basis for procedures now used in soil testing laboratories to determine the " lime requirement " of soils.

The term was also used to describe sculpture and painting that demonstrated a greater degree of naturalism.

One technique used to reach very low temperatures ( thousandths and even millionths of a degree above absolute zero ) is adiabatic demagnetisation, where the change in magnetic field on a magnetic material is used to provide adiabatic cooling.

Documents executed since 4 August 1944 in connection with recommendations for the award of decorations of higher degree than the Bronze Star Medal cannot be used as the basis for an award under this paragraph.

The way for computational phylogenetics was paved by phenetics, a set of methods commonly used from the 1950s to 80s and to some degree later.

Only in Western Canada is the term Associates degree used as in the United States.

* Jean-Luc Godard, in his film Sympathy for the Devil, used a crane for almost every shot in the movie, giving each scene a 360 degree tour of the tableau Godard presented to the viewer.

As a brute-force method, ray tracing has been too slow to consider for real-time, and until recently too slow even to consider for short films of any degree of quality, although it has been used for special effects sequences, and in advertising, where a short portion of high quality ( perhaps even photorealistic ) footage is required.

Even when extensions are used in a computer system, the degree to which the computer system recognizes

Rhyming slang is used mainly in London in England but can to some degree be understood across the country.

Therefore there are now a huge variety of different styles and types of map-for example, one area which has evolved a specific and recognisable variation are those used by public transport organisations to guide passengers, namely urban rail and metro maps, many of which are loosely based on 45 degree angles as originally perfected by Harry Beck and George Dow.

Porter used Rogers ' transcripts to devise a system to measure the degree of directiveness or non-directiveness a counselor employed.

By 1990, an estimated 50 % of islanders had some degree of proficiency in Corsican, and a small minority, perhaps 10 %, used Corsican as a first language.

The term may be used to refer to the existence of any form of disease, or to the degree that the health condition affects the patient.

Like the term " tyrant " ( which was originally a respectable Ancient Greek title ), and to a lesser degree " autocrat ", " dictator " came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.

Abbreviated " Dr " or " Dr .", it is used as a designation for a person who has obtained a doctorate-level degree.

The title of doctor has not customarily been used to address lawyers in England or other common law countries because until 1846 lawyers in England were not required to have a university degree and were trained by other attorneys by apprenticeship or in the Inns of Court.

In the legal profession, graduates of almost all Canadian law schools receive the LLB degree and are not referred to as " doctor " ( in a growing number of Canadian law schools the degree of Juris Doctor is conferred, but the title is not used in practice ).

doktōr ) is used to formally address both holders of a doctorate degree and physicians.

The title " Διδάκτωρ " ( didaktōr ) is used to reference holders of a doctorate degree, while the term " Ιατρός " ( iatros ) is used for physicians of any specialty.