It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

Even with all possible precaution, homecomings are usually rather cruel and sad, and only the perpetually ebullient and the continually optimistic are made happy by them.

The necrosis often involved only a portion of the length of a given fiber, and usually the immediately adjacent fibers were normal.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Programs usually are expanded only when outside funds are available or local business leaders demand it.

Drifts usually happened only with cattle, for hosses had 'nough sense to avoid 'em, and to find shelter for 'emselves.

So junior's bedroom was usually tricked out with heavy, nondescript pieces that supposedly could take the `` hard knocks '', while the fine secretary was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only.

This might be the proper standard of review, for example, if the lower court resolved the case by granting a pre-trial motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment which is usually based only upon written submissions to the trial court and not on any trial testimony.

Generally, there is no trial in an appellate court, only consideration of the record of the evidence presented to the trial court and all the pre-trial and trial court proceedings are reviewed — unless the appeal is by way of re-hearing, new evidence will usually only be considered on appeal in " very " rare instances, for example if that material evidence was unavailable to a party for some very significant reason such as prosecutorial misconduct.

Members of the family are usually perennial herbs with sword-shaped unifacial leaves ; the inflorescence is a spike or panicle of solitary flowers, or forms a monochasial cyme or rhipidium ( meaning that the successive stems of the flowers follow a zig-zag path in the same plane ); and the flower has only three stamens, each opposite to an outer tepal.

Affidavits from persons who are dead or otherwise incapacitated, or who cannot be located or made to appear may be accepted by the court, but usually only in the presence of corroborating evidence.

Dau Miu () is a Chinese vegetable that has become popular since the early 1990s, and now not only appears on English-language menus, usually as " pea shoots ", but is often served by upscale non-Asian restaurants as well.

Wace usually only refers to li roi (" the king ") without naming him, and someone has taken an early mention of Uther's epithet Pendragon as the name of his brother.

Since the difference between the U. S. and International acre is only about a quarter of the size of an A4 sheet of paper ( 0. 016 square metres, 160 square centimetres or 24. 8 square inches ), it is usually not important which one is being discussed.

However, there is no universal standard for the Goðar amongst organizations, and the title is usually only significant to the particular group with whom they work.

Astrology's modern representation in western popular media is usually reduced to sun sign astrology, which considers only the zodiac sign of the Sun at an individual's date of birth, and represents only 1 / 12 of the total chart.

Multi-winged angels, often with only their face and wings showing, drawn from the higher grades of angels, especially cherubim and seraphim, are derived from Persian art, and are usually shown only in heavenly contexts, as opposed to performing tasks on earth.

When sitting in review of a decision, the Court will only look at the method in which the decision was arrived at, whereas in an administrative appeal the correctness of the decision itself will be examined, usually by a higher body in the agency.

On top of the spray chamber is a burner head that produces a flame that is laterally long ( usually 5 – 10 cm ) and only a few mm deep.

The advantage of this technique is that only a medium-resolution monochromator is necessary for measuring AAS ; however, it has the disadvantage that usually a separate lamp is required for each element that has to be determined.

As bookmakers become more proficient, the odds of making an ' arb ' usually last for less than an hour and typically only a few minutes.

Relativistic effects in the ion flight are usually ignored, as realisable ion speeds are only a very small fraction of the speed of light.

However, the discrete and separate nature of the molecular concept usually requires that molecular ions be present only in well-separated form, such as a directed beam in a vacuum in a mass spectrograph.

Curiosa generally refers to erotica and pornography as discrete, collectible items, usually in published or printed form.

Prior to the advent of the microprocessor, a computer was usually built in a card-cage case or mainframe with components connected by a backplane consisting of a set of slots themselves connected with wires ; in very old designs the wires were discrete connections between card connector pins, but printed circuit boards soon became the standard practice.

This serves to bias the two output transistors slightly into conduction reducing crossover distortion ( in some discrete component amplifiers, this function is usually achieved with a string of two silicon diodes ).

( Since the sub-structure is usually represented in the computer by a set of integer variables with constraints, these problems can be viewed as special cases of constraint satisfaction or discrete optimization ; but they are usually formulated and solved in a more abstract setting where the internal representation is not explicitly mentioned.

Its discrete analog is the Kronecker delta function which is usually defined on a finite domain and takes values 0 and 1.

A discrete function f ( n ) is usually called a sequence a ( n ).

Physical regions are usually described by surface geological formations, hydrological and littoral surface features, discrete landscape features, and unique flora and fauna distribution that are not clearly delineated, and are separated by often wide transitional boundaries.

Abstraction of computing processes is used in both the computer science and computer engineering disciplines and usually assumes discrete time paradigm.

In radio-frequency and fast switching circuits the inductance and capacitance of the printed circuit board conductors become significant circuit elements, usually undesired ; but they can be used as a deliberate part of the circuit design, obviating the need for additional discrete components.

The sampling rate, sample rate, or sampling frequency () defines the number of samples per unit of time ( usually seconds ) taken from a continuous signal to make a discrete signal.

The methods developed for analyzing discrete time signals and systems are usually applied to digital and analog signals and systems.

* A presentation of content, usually with an example or examples, often broken up into discrete modules or sections.

An important example of the unilateral Z-transform is the probability-generating function, where the component is the probability that a discrete random variable takes the value, and the function is usually written as, in terms of.

Most modchips consist of one or more integrated circuits ( microcontrollers, FPGAs, or CPLDs ), often complemented with discrete parts, usually packaged on a small PCB to fit within the console system it is designed for.

A tea table is a type of rock column comprising discrete layers, usually of sedimentary rock, with the top layers being wider than the base due to greater resistance to erosion and weathering.

In signal processing it is usually the context ( discrete or continuous time ) that distinguishes the Kronecker and Dirac " functions ".

And by convention, generally indicates continuous time ( Dirac ), whereas arguments like i, j, k, l, m, and n are usually reserved for discrete time ( Kronecker ).

Linear regulators can be constructed using discrete components but are usually encountered in integrated circuit forms.

The relationship between the two tasks is that continuous tasks usually use gross motor skills and discrete tasks use finer motor skills.

It usually involves subtle advertising campaigns and other discrete promotional measures, like personal selling and public relations.

The side chain conformations with low energy are usually determined on the rigid polypeptide backbone and using a set of discrete side chain conformations known as " rotamers.

Isoperimetric profiles have been studied for Cayley graphs of discrete groups and for special classes of Riemannian manifolds ( where usually only regions A with regular boundary are considered ).