** Special matches between teams adjudged first-class by the Board ( s ) of cricket concerned, with the approval of the International Cricket Council

** Special Agent

** Senior Special Agent

** Supervisory Special Agent

** Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge ( ASAC )

** Special Agent-in-Charge ( SAC )

** Berlin Film Festival Special Award

** Festival de Cannes Special 40th Anniversary Prize

** U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations

** Office of Special Investigations ( Government Accountability Office )

** Office of Special Investigations ( United States Department of Justice )

** Special model available in some markets containing wider front fenders made out of steel and 8 " wide front wheels.

** Special relativity, a theory formulated by Albert Einstein, Henri Poincaré, and Hendrik Lorentz

** 1981: Special Award

** 5 Saturn Awards nominations Best International Film, Best Director, Best Writing, Best Supporting Actor ( Craig Warnock ), Best Special Effects

** 2 BAFTA Awards "' Best Production Design, Best Special Visual Effects "'

** 3 BAFTA Awards Best Costume Design, Best Make Up Artist, Best Production Design, 1 BAFTA Award nomination "' Best Special Effects "'

** 4 Saturn Awards nominations Best Fantasy Film, Best Costumes, Best Make-Up, Best Special Effects

** Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

** U. K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: The U. N. Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq " accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission ".

** Comité International Spécial des Perturbations Radioélectriques ( CISPR ), or International Special Committee on Radio Interference.

** Special operations, military operations that are unconventional

** Special cases:

** A Lowland Scots tradition strongly influenced by baroque violin technique with staccato and Scotch snap bowing techniques in addition to the use of double stops.

** Khmer Pradal Serey – similar to Muay Thai with an emphasis on elbow techniques ( Ring-wise ).

** Power breaking – using straightforward techniques to break as many boards as possible

** This assumption also set the stage for using techniques of constrained optimization.

** Radiometric dating is a family of techniques used to determine of the approximate period of origin of an object, e. g. ' to carbon-date an artifact '

** École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées de Bretagne ( ENSTA Bretagne, formerly ENSIETA )

** the use of anonymization and other techniques to " sanitize " ( often statistical ) data to purge it of personally-identifiable information in order to protect user privacy ; such techniques include:

** Cognitive interventions, a set of techniques and therapies practiced in counseling

** Error control ( automatic repeat request, ARQ ), in addition to ARQ provided by some transport-layer protocols, to forward error correction ( FEC ) techniques provided on the physical layer, and to error-detection and packet canceling provided at all layers, including the network layer.

** Brand management, the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand

** Nation branding, the application of marketing techniques for the advancement of a country

** Faith branding, the application of marketing techniques to religious institutions or individuals

** Software verification, An overview of techniques for verifying software

** Resolution enhancement techniques, RET – methods of increasing of quality of final photomask.

** Flexible macroblock ordering ( FMO ), also known as slice groups, and arbitrary slice ordering ( ASO ), which are techniques for restructuring the ordering of the representation of the fundamental regions ( macroblocks ) in pictures.

** Food physical chemistry-the study of both physical and chemical interactions in foods in terms of physical and chemical principles applied to food systems, as well as the application of physicochemical techniques and instrumentation for the study and analysis of foods

** Roger Frye used experimental mathematics techniques to find the smallest counterexample to Euler's sum of powers conjecture.

** Dispositifs et techniques de communications

** they are all indirect techniques that attempt to disguise the purpose of the research

** examples of projective techniques include:

** the École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées ( ENSTA ParisTech )-founded in 1741 ;

** A comparative pictorial study of the Wards and techniques of the I. 33 or Tower Fechtbuch by Brian Hunt ( The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts )