Each dancer follows the ancient Oriental pattern -- she glides sideways with shoulders motionless while her stomach migrates, and, through breathing and muscle control, she sends ripples across her body to the fingertips and away to the far end of the room.

The only exception to this pattern of eastward expansion is that banking and finance continued to cluster in the Old City around the Stock Exchange, the Bank of Uruguay ( Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay — BROU ), and the Central Bank of Uruguay.

The Oriental Orthodox generally follow the pattern of the Slavic tradition with respect to the archbishop / metropolitan distinction.

The early wares were strongly influenced by Chinese and other Oriental porcelains and an early pattern was blue onion, which is still in production at the Meissen factory today.

This structure is still valid, with some significant variations typical of each rite, for the Catholic Church, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church, while it was modified, both in the pattern and in the underlying theology, during the Protestant Reformation.

* Nain rug, name of a traditional pattern and design of Persian carpet

The coat patterns have three levels of definition ; ( 1 ) ground colour, paler than pattern ; ( 2 ) pattern, delicate though distinct from ground colour ; ( 3 ) appears to wear a misted veil, caused by random ticking in the solid colour areas.

They both have brown wings with little light dots and a delicate but contrasting neck and chest pattern.

They both have brown wings with little light dots, and a delicate but contrasting neck and chest pattern.

He concluded that such a delicate pattern could only be created by means of the canting ( also spelled tjanting or tjunting ; ) tool.

Asian arowana scales are large ( most over 2 cm in length ) and have a delicate net pattern. Asian arowanas grow up to 90 cm ( 35 in ) total length.

In the early 1990s he trained the designer Bella Freud to pattern-cut and an extremely promising new beginning was the use of Clark's mastery of pattern cutting chiffon and delicate fabrics by the Ghost label.

Ackroyd argues that the concern for a light and delicate outline, for surface pattern for its own sake, and for patterns and borders that threaten to overwhelm the portrayal of figures, have all been long-standing characteristics of a continuous English art.

The main bodies of these little bowls has a delicate fluted pattern internally.

Ricotta salata is sold in wheels, decorated by a delicate basket-weave pattern.

This allows for ink only where needed even if the pattern is delicate, because the backing supports the decal while it is being applied.

These sprinklers can be fixed spray heads that have a set pattern and generally spray between 1. 5-2m ( 7 – 15 ft .), full rotating sprinklers that can spray a broken stream of water from 6-12m ( 20 – 40 ft .), or small drip emitters that release a slow, steady drip of water on more delicate plants such as flowers and shrubs.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

He may even alter the pattern by applying a scheme of random numbers.

They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

He says nothing that compresses experience within a closed pattern.

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

Well, after everybody has followed the New England pattern of segregating one's children into private schools, only the poor folks are left.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

But, considered within technical astronomy, a different pattern can be traced.

But their freedom of policy is limited by the pattern of predisposition with which they and the people around them enter the crisis.

As more men and women are made capable of living up to the challenge of decency the chances are improved that the pattern of predisposition prevailing in positions of strength in future crises can be favorably affected.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

There is a clear relationship between their educational evaluations and their basic pattern of general values.

`` The established pattern of relative calm in the field of race relations has continued in all areas '', reported this group headed by Harold Colee of Jacksonville and including two South Floridians, William D. Singer and John B. Turner of Miami.

Generally, throughout the South, there is a growing impatience with the pattern of violence with which every step of desegregation is met.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

The controlling pattern was first displayed in the Hungary-Suez crisis of November 1956.

The New York dancers are highly eclectic, varying the pattern with all kinds of personal improvisations, back bends or floor crawls.

He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread out like a serpent with two heads.

Just as a varitinted Oriental rug may suggest the starting point for a room scheme, so may some of the newest versions of embroidery.

* Oriental rug weaving

No Islamic artistic product has become better known outside the Islamic world than the pile carpet, more commonly referred to as the Oriental carpet ( oriental rug ).

* Oriental rug

* Peoria attorney Jay Janssen ’ s suite — " A large, ornate Oriental rug covers most of the green-carpeted suite, which includes six candelabra wall sconces, a chandelier in the center, cherry wood cabinetry and chair rail, decorative border print, a green marble-topped table, a rose-colored granite pedestal bar overlooking the field and burgundy leather stools and chairs.

The traditional stage for classical dance drama performances contains a table with a decorative pillow and sometimes laid on an Oriental rug or carpet .< ref group =" unver.

Late 17th century saw a decline in the Oriental rug market as European consumers tended to purchase rugs of European origin – primarily Aubusson, Savonnerie and Axminster.

The late 19th century saw the rejuvenation of Oriental rug production, at this time Oushak re-surfaced as a preeminent center of weaving industry.

He included several fine examples of minutely depicted floral and cloudband carpets in his works and even a silk Oriental rug, as well as so-called " Lotto " rugs which he for some reason, in contrast to his meticulous rendering of the floral carpets, depicted only in a very sketchy fashion.