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Wasiolek said the school has not done any kind of survey on Adderall usage to determine whether the policy has made an impact.
American usage, in most cases, keeps the u in the word glamour, which comes from Scots, not Latin or French.
Portugal is also known for having decriminalized the usage of all common drugs in 2001, the first country in the world to do so.
The term Varangian remained in usage in the Byzantine Empire until the 13th century, largely disconnected from its Scandinavian roots by then.
In Norway and Iceland, the usage is closest to the Old Norse, with fjord used for both a firth and for a long, narrow inlet.
The differences in usage between the English and the Scandinavian languages have contributed to confusion in the use of the term fjord.
The system may be used also for mobile receivers on land with more limited usage and coverage.
In culinary usage, clams are commonly eaten marine bivalves, as in clam digging and the resulting soup, clam chowder.
Consequently, the third person plural forms hun and hen are interchangeable in normal usage, with hun being more common.
Even though the dictionaries are sometimes used as official decrees of the language, their main purpose is to describe current usage.
Although naval warfare has a long history, the earliest known usage of the naval mine dates to the Ming dynasty.
The oil crisis sent a signal to the auto industry globally, which changed many aspects of production and usage for decades to come.
In common usage, deposits rich in oil are known as oil fields, and deposits rich in natural gas are called natural gas fields.
However, at just 50 percent of all distance traveled, car usage is the lowest of all G8 countries.
Its modern usage is as a romantic or poetic name for Scotland as a whole, comparable with Hibernia for Ireland and Cambria for Wales.
The term was widely adopted only after more than a decade, when in the 1980s it came into common usage in science and environmental policy.
Efforts among researchers are now underway to establish and encourage usage of a unified and more consistent nomenclature.
Certain mushrooms enjoy usage as therapeutics in folk medicines, such as Traditional Chinese medicine.
A stackexchange discussion provided a large number of links to historic newspapers covering the usage of the term from 1902 onwards.
Another category of idioms is a word having several meanings, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes discerned from the context of its usage.
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The prevalent usage, however, is to call all the results flakes, which can be confusing.
The modern usage of the name was recorded in the Russian language after the Empire's conquest of the Siberian Khanate.
Work on classification began in 1913 by the government's Roads Board to determine the quality and usage of British roads.
Vendors may support usage of higher frequencies as a proprietary extension to the standard.
The fur of mammals has many uses protection, sensory purposes, waterproofing, and camouflage, with the primary usage being thermoregulation.
It maintains a UK Flag Registry and offers advice and guidance about flags and their usage.
In addition, there are numerous hybrids and cultivars in commercial and horticultural usage.
Some of the practices used in commercial livestock production, including the usage of growth hormones, are controversial.
The natural gas and coal consumed by the production of nitrogen fertilizer can account for over half of the agricultural energy usage.
Ivory usage in the last thirty years has moved towards mass production of souvenirs and jewelry.
Signs also change their meanings over time, as the conventions governing their usage gradually change.
In current usage the word monarchy usually refers to a traditional system of hereditary rule, as elective monarchies are rare nowadays.
The opening is envisaged at the end of 2011, with an average usage of 41,000 vehicles a day.
Following independence, the government of Ukraine began restoring the image and usage of Ukrainian language through a policy of Ukrainisation.
Gregory wrote in Late Latin which departed from classical usage frequently in syntax and spelling with relatively few changes in inflection.
The modern American usage of the word is much closer to the European sense.
The French term canton was not adopted into German usage prior to 1648, and after that only in occasional use.
Symptomatic of the federalist system of Switzerland, the Landsgemeinde differs in the scope of its usage from canton to canton.
The usage of the Landsgemeinde was progressively abandoned at the cantonal level through the 19th and 20th century.
Unlike common usage of the term brat, when it is used in this context, it is not necessarily a derogatory term.
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The term was in common usage in both the Boer republics and the Cape Colony by the late nineteenth century.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines five meanings of the noun barbarian, including an obsolete Barbary usage.
This usage, emphasising the idea that the Germans were barbarians, was reinforced by Allied propaganda throughout the war.
Terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage.
This fact occasionally creates some ambiguity or prompts some usage discussion.
The notion of the Levant has undergone a dynamic process of historical evolution in usage, meaning, and understanding.
According to Byzantine usage it included CisJordan and TransJordan and even Lebanon and Sinai.
This comprised the initial usage of subterranean plant parts within the fabrication of incense.
Incense usage reached its peak during the Song Dynasty with numerous buildings erected specifically for incense ceremonies.
Both ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian mythology suggest the usage of incense by goddesses and nymphs.
Recreational use of opium elsewhere in the world remained rare into late in the 19th century, as indicated by ambivalent reports of opium usage.
The study of placenames is called toponymy, while that of the origin and historical usage of placenames as words is etymology.
Spaniards extended the usage of cacique to refer to leaders at the town or village level in virtually all indigenous groups in Spanish America.
Historical and cultural usage of the word Iran is not restricted to the modern state proper.
The definition given above describes the international usage of the term brigantine.
One method to solve the shortage was through the usage of indentured servants.
The modern usage of terms for mail armour is highly contested in popular and, to a lesser degree, academic culture.
This usage derives from the recessive trait that causes an occasional black lamb to be born into an entirely white flock.
Colonialism in modern usage also tends to imply a degree of geographic separation between the colony and the imperial power.
However, for culinary purposes and in common English language usage, peanuts are usually referred to as nuts.
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Chinese characters were traditionally read from top to bottom, right to left, but in modern usage it is more common to read from left to right.
Despite its long history, this usage is sometimes considered ungrammatical.
The case system of Dutch, simpler than that of German, is also simplified in common usage.
Fuller information on tense formation and usage in particular languages can be found in the articles on those languages and their grammars.
The usage of the indicative, subjunctive, and jussive moods in Classical Arabic is almost completely controlled by syntactic context.
Grammars evolve through usage and also due to separations of the human population.
With the advent of written representations, formal rules about language usage tend to appear also.
Formal grammars are codifications of usage that are developed by repeated documentation over time, and by observation as well.
This often creates a discrepancy between contemporary usage and that which has been accepted, over time, as being correct.
The word armour was once somewhat common in American usage but has disappeared from the current language.
New Zealand English, while sharing some words and syntax with Australian English, follows British usage.
Furthermore, Johnson, unlike Bailey, added notes on a word's usage, rather than being merely descriptive.
In Early Modern English, the semantic value was lost, and the usage of forms with do began to approximate that found today.
Instances of attested prior usage, it can be seen, were incidental or not intended for the same purpose.
In modern American English usage, a complete sentence precedes a colon, while a list, description, explanation, or definition follows it.
German usage requires capitalization of independent clauses following a colon.
From this usage, in palaeography, a colon is a clause or group of clauses written as a line in a manuscript.
In the action denotation usage it has the inverse function of quotation marks, denoting actions where unmarked text is assumed to be dialogue.
Many words used by Australians were at one time used in the United Kingdom but have since fallen out of usage or changed in meaning there.
Similarly, in Australian usage, the to in I'll write to you is retained, as opposed to US usage where it may be dropped.
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While this group may not be unique to Ireland, their usage is not widespread, and could be seen as characteristic of the language in Ireland.
As with all linguistic forms, its usage is influenced by age, status, topic, and setting.
Educators have held that attempts should be made to eliminate AAVE usage through the public education system.
For more general information about English verb inflection and auxiliary usage, see English verbs and English clause syntax.
It is suggested that the progressive passive was popularized by the Romantic poets, and is connected with Bristol usage.
Examples of this apparently ungrammatical usage can be found throughout the history of English.
It was accepted as the ultimate authority on meaning and usage and its preeminence was virtually unchallenged in the United States.
This usage is less common than forms with s at the end, such as MPs, and may appear dated or pedantic.
To achieve widespread acceptance, this encapsulation was based on popular usage.
The various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage.
Each pidgin has its own norms of usage which must be learned for proficiency in the pidgin.
Others object to this usage, arguing that this terminology obscures the universality of public worship as a religious phenomenon.
In modern usage, the word often refers to the governing body of a particular church, whether its members are meeting or not.
This usage reflected the terminology used in the Cranmerian 1552 Book of Common Prayer.
Premature births and stillbirths are generally not considered to be miscarriages although usage of these terms can sometimes overlap.
A term may be implied on the basis of custom or usage in a particular market or context.
In Syriac Church usage, a consecrated wooden block called a thabilitho is kept for the same reasons.
At first he did not call himself bishop, but eventually submitted to the usage by the denomination.
In the ancient world, saeculum was not defined in contrast to any sacred concerns and had a freestanding usage in Latin.
The first clear example of modern usage goes back as early as 1808, when it was used as a heading title in a collection of essays.
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In some cases, substitution of more abundant materials, such as plastics for cast metals, lowered growth of usage for some metals.
Despite growth in usage of aluminium, it is still the main material for car bodies.
Since the 1960s there has developed an overlap of usage between the terms milling machine and machining center.
Used as an acidity regulator, anticaking agent, stabiliser or colour it is approved for usage in the EU, USA and Australia and New Zealand.
Perhaps this common usage itself reflects an old error in assuming that a single plant species was used by the Spaniards for their industry.
In modern usage, most concrete production takes place in a large type of industrial facility called a concrete plant, or often a batch plant.
In general usage, concrete plants come in two main types, ready mix plants and central mix plants.
France transported convicts to Devil's Island and New Caledonia, but their usage both started and ended at later times.
More recently as recorded in the 18th century, the Taoist master Liu Yiming continued to advocate this usage.
This process involved extensive research into historic usage and often public enquiries.
It was in 1813 that he first commenced daily usage, in response to illness and his grief over the death of Wordsworth's young daughter Catherine.
The lower section of the River Dart forms Dartmouth Harbour, a deep water natural harbour with a long history of maritime usage.
Tolkien's use of the word in the naming of the creatures known as the Ringwraiths has influenced later usage in fantasy literature.
A debate rages on whether or not the singular they constitutes Standard English usage.
It is useful to strike through an incorrect text, leaving it legible, to demonstrate that it is an incorrect usage.
In the study, 80 of them were selected and divided into 4 groups according to their different warfarin dosage and their usage of amiodaron.
Because of its efficacy and widespread clinical usage, amphetamine has been the standard anorexigenic drug for some time.
The usage of coin weights, especially glass ones, goes back to Ptolemaic and Byzantine times.
A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
Online dictionaries and grammars are likely to influence usage much more than their traditional Fowlerian counterparts ever did.
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The practice and usage have been recognised in a variety of instances by the Governors General of Louisiana.
This usage of the word is the origin of the modern concept of Germanic languages, but it was not defined strictly by language.
This was simply a result of custom and usage rather than a specific decision.
There is a tradition of military usage of Dartmoor dating back to the Napoleonic Wars.
Revised editions appeared throughout the twentieth century to keep it up to date with changes in English usage.
Less dense usage is suggested for north Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, the Clyde Valley and eastern Dumfriesshire.
The Y and Z Holes are the last known construction at Stonehenge, built about 1600 BC, and the last usage of it was probably during the Iron Age.
Proposed functions for the site include usage as an astronomical observatory or as a religious site.
In English usage, Scandinavia sometimes refers to the geographical area, also known as the Scandinavian Peninsula.
It was only in the late 17th century that it passed into common usage among historians.
Virginia hit peak car usage before the year 2000, making it one of the first such states.
Certain Greek and Hebrew words were to be translated in a manner that reflected the traditional usage of the church.
On 23 July, riots erupted in Edinburgh upon the first Sunday of the prayer book's usage, and unrest spread throughout the Kirk.
Dowding had introduced the concept of airborne radar and encouraged its usage.
This wider usage of London is documented as far back as 1888, when the County of London was created.
The limestone plateaux of the White Peak are more intensively farmed, with mainly dairy usage of improved pastures.
Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh were accepted as cities by ancient usage by the 18th century, while Perth and Elgin also used the title.
In informal usage, city can be used for large towns or conurbations that are not formally cities.
The ISO standard does not regulate either the spacing, prefixing or suffixing in usage of currency codes.
In its strictest sense, petroleum includes only crude oil, but in common usage it includes all liquid, gaseous and solid hydrocarbons.
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In American English the term metric ton is the normal usage whereas in other varieties of English tonne is common.
In this usage, the motor works against a return spring to move the throttle in accordance with the output of the governor.
The devices come in multiple colors which vary in usage depending on local traffic marking standards.
While Australian designs generally follow those in the US, the colors generally follow European usage.
They have enjoyed widespread usage in the British Isles and elsewhere around the world.
In technical usage, a replaceable component that produces light from electricity is called a lamp.
The three main categories of locomotives are often subdivided in their usage in rail transport operations.
This shuttle usage can be as transport between locations, or to and from parking lots.
From opening in 1999, usage averaged about five million passengers annually, and this number had reached a plateau.
Though there were few initial changes to the service, usage increased and the network became profitable.
The precise usage, including the different use of the terms ESL and ESOL in different countries, is described below.
Internet usage statistics for 2007 also show Spanish as the third most commonly used language on the Internet, after English and Mandarin.
In English it was sometimes spelled Mussulman and has become archaic in usage.
Although there are exceptions, among scholars of Pagan studies it is the older, inclusive use of the term which has gained wider usage.
This term is the most commonly used option by practitioners in the United Kingdom, with growing usage in North America and elsewhere.
The usage is essentially the same in Italy, Spain and Portugal, as well as the former Austrian Empire.
It consists of more than 100 courtyards, each with a unique traditional usage.
Despite this, helmet usage rates in North America are estimated to be between eight and twenty percent.
What is now called Latin America, a designation that came into usage in the later nineteenth century, was claimed by Spain and Portugal.
This name has since come into usage for almost all versions of the original manuscript even though they differ from each other.
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The traditional recipe once included oysters, but increasing cost eliminated them from common usage.
This usage is also common in New Zealand where scones of all varieties form an important part of traditional colonial New Zealand cuisine.
Old English borrowings were relatively sparse and drew mainly from ecclesiastical usage after the Christianization of England.
The scientific definition of a term sometimes differs substantially from its natural language usage.
The terms for shanties in these languages do not always precisely correlate with English usage.
This usage contrasted with the term trad, which described traditional jazz players and fans.
This usage of the word modernist should not be confused with modernism in the context of literature, art, design and architecture.
The potential decline in library usage, particularly reference services, puts the necessity for these services in doubt.
This new usage appears be the endogenous transposition of the term, by Canadian baseball fans, from ice hockey, where its use is ubiquitous.
While early matches were often between teams named after counties, they were not the club teams the usage would imply today.
Prior to the final 2014 contract event ESPN traded the Friday cable rights back to NBC for increased usage of English Premier League highlights.
In the past this has led to issues surrounding certain flag and anthem usage.
This general usage is most commonly found among the writings of historians or popular writers.
Distance, height, weight and speed are the most common examples of such usage.
The usage of these products expanded dramatically in the years leading up to the crisis.
Another example relates to AIG, which insured obligations of various financial institutions through the usage of credit default swaps.
The Committee which last met in 1988 is concerned with the design and usage of wafer seals.
The first usage of the word electricity is ascribed to Sir Thomas Browne in his 1646 work, Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
Following Darwin's primary usage, the term is used to refer both to the evolutionary consequence of blind selection and to its mechanisms.
This usage continued after the end of the Warsaw Pact when these countries started to undergo transition.
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The movement has a wide variety of forms of worship, ranging from high church to low church in liturgical usage.
In America, United Methodism has a wide variety of forms of worship, ranging from high church to low church in liturgical usage.
The parameters of their usage were clearly spelled out by the 7th ecumenical council.
In common usage, tabloid and broadsheet are frequently more descriptive of a newspaper's market position than physical format.
The boat needed to be stable and fast with the large crew hence making it ideal for its modern racing usage.
During the Frankish Carolingian Dynasty, usage of the word spread throughout Europe.
Kuwait's official language is Modern Standard Arabic, but its everyday usage is limited to journalism and education.
This had an immense impact on internet speed, availability and usage in Iraq.
This is an attempt to boost usage and comes as a result of significant improvements in Internet infrastructure in the country.
The widespread usage of these two documents for identification purposes has made them de facto identity cards.
In common parlance and legal usage, it is often used imprecisely to mean illicit drugs, irrespective of their pharmacology.
The geographical name has not reached general recognition, but its usage is increasing.
It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world.
In modern usage, poets of the Scots revival in the 18th century, such as Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson are also makars.
Silver plays a certain role in mythology and has found various usage as a metaphor and in folklore.
Silver provides increased workability and corrosion resistance during usage.
Notwithstanding heavy automotive usage in Atlanta, the city's subway system is the eighth busiest in the country.
There have been numerous proposals and usage of decimal time, most of which were based on the day as the base unit.
This usage is retained in British English, where the name is also extended to cover several other small species of the genus.
Research done on signature whistle usage by other dolphin species is relatively limited.
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In British English usage, the term Asians usually refers to people with roots in South Asia, essentially the Indian subcontinent.
This usage contrasts to that in the United States, where it is used to refer to people of East Asian origin.
Origen was largely responsible for the collection of usage information regarding the texts that became the New Testament.
Names given by Norse settlers, such as Swansea, Fishguard and Anglesey, tended to be adopted in English usage but not by the Welsh.
The context is then unmasked by observation and questions concerning both its production and its usage.
This usage is also found in later Arabian, North African, Central American and Chinese medicine during the Middle Ages.
Seasonal industry might then take advantage of high wind and low usage times such as at night when wind output can exceed normal demand.
Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of atonality.
The meaning of the negated form depends on the usage of the modal.
The usage of paper currency later spread throughout the Mongol Empire.
As no census exists, there are no official statistical data regarding the distribution or usage of Belgium's three official languages or their dialects.
This autoamplification of singlet oxygen through versatile usage of tumor cell specific ROS chemistry finally leads to the inactivation of catalase.
I prepared the three Matched Guise samples myself, controlling the forms carefully to represent basilectal, mesolectal, and acrolectal levels of usage.
This being the day on which the autumnal equinox occurred, some Welsh bards resident in London assembled in congress on Primrose Hill, according to ancient usage.
Today, welsch is not in usage in German except in Switzerland.
The amount of copper in use is increasing and the quantity available is barely sufficient to allow all countries to reach developed world levels of usage.
This usage, however, was adopted by the Visigoths themselves in their communications with the Byzantine Empire and was still in use in the 7th century.
Anthracite usage was inhibited by the difficulty of igniting it.
In 1755 Samuel Johnson published his A Dictionary of the English Language which introduced a standard set of spelling conventions and usage norms.
An older usage of the word expatriate was to refer to an exile.
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Zwingli rejected the word sacrament in the popular usage of his time.
In Canada, e is usually preferred over oe and often over ae, Elsewhere, the British usage prevails, but the spellings with just e are increasingly used.
A number of historical phases of the language have been recognised, each distinguished by subtle differences in vocabulary, usage, spelling, morphology, and syntax.
Place name analysis suggests dense usage of Gaelic in Galloway and adjoining areas to the north and west, as well as in West Lothian and parts of western Midlothian.
The original usage dates from at least 1337, but from as early as 1678 the term gradually came to be used for another seabird, the Atlantic puffin.
In English, usage of the ligature varies in different places.
As electricity prices fell, usage increased dramatically and central stations were scaled up to enormous sizes, creating significant economies of scale.
The purpose which Neolithic people had for the Avebury monument has remained elusive, although many archaeologists have postulated about its meaning and usage.
In the 20th century, the railways saw a gradual drop in usage as the heavy industrial works and mines began to reduce output and close and many stations became redundant.
In modern usage, ethos denotes the disposition, character, or fundamental values particular to a specific person, people, corporation, culture, or movement.
Outside the United States watts or kilowatts are generally used for electric motor ratings and in such usage it is the output power that is stated.
Its usage is highest in Europe, East Asia, and South America.
Entries cover the etymology, meanings, attested forms, synonyms, usage peculiarities, and regional differences of words found throughout the German speaking world.
In other cases it is because usage and style have changed over the years, and there is debate over which form or spelling of a placename should be used.
The term British Isles is controversial in Ireland, where there are objections to its usage due to the association of the word British with Ireland.
A good working knowledge of the ladder parts, how they work, their capacities, and proper usage are a must before anyone is sent out to ladder a building.
However, the latter are traditional and in more frequent usage.
Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.
Development of the village since has been through redevelopment of the former farming and military land into commercial usage and housing development.
In 1856, the burgh of Dunfermline resolved to use the title of city in all official documents in the future, based on long usage and its former status as a royal capital.
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In older usage, only the term resonant was used with this meaning, and sonorant was a narrower term, referring to all resonants except vowels and semivowels.
The Loch already sees small craft usage, with the Loch Ryan Sailing club operating from Wig Bay, and Stranraer Marina in Stranraer harbour beside the West Pier.
In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move.
The Supreme Court of India had authenticated the usage of this title by the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in its verdict in Malankara Church case.
With a large influx of native speakers of Arabic in latter years, the prevalence of native Arab speakers is likely more widespread than actual usage of Finnish.
In modern usage, a millwright is engaged with the erection of machinery.
At Stapenhill near Burton, there were similar calls for a new bridge, a tally of usage showed that the foot ferry was being used 700 times per day.
This includes choice of arbitration institutions, procedures, applicable law and arbitrators, and the goal to reflect customs, usage and good practice among the parties.
Herbs have long been used as the basis of traditional Chinese herbal medicine, with usage dating as far back as the first century CE and far before.
After realising that, he also provided the means to build such a rail network by inventing a rotary phase converter suitable for locomotive usage.
The sea area is a continuation of the Skagerrak and may be seen as a bay of the Baltic Sea or the North Sea or, as in traditional Scandinavian usage, neither of these.
The high toll prices, which were set by the operating company and over which the UK government has no influence until 2054, were blamed for the low usage.
This usage is also common in Queensland, Australia and New Zealand.
The usage often changes with different localities and at different times.
In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
As such, its usage is controversial, and at odds with the views of conservatives in other countries prepared to defend socialized medicine such as Margaret Thatcher.
There has never been an exact distinction of usage between a bull and a brief, but nowadays most letters, including encyclicals, are issued as briefs.
Others are emerging concepts that may or may not gain popular usage.
Actual usage of French varies depending on the region and social status.
Other usage is typically considered archaic, poetic or stylistic.
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Many of the words of Arabic origin have been adopted through Persian and have different pronunciations and nuances of meaning and usage than they do in Arabic.
This usage of league is referenced frequently in the Texas Constitution.
However, it is not to be confused with gasoline, especially in North America, where the term gasoline is often shortened in colloquial usage to gas.
In the 21st century, however, the preferred usage of ria by geologists and geomorphologists is to refer solely to drowned unglaciated river valleys.
In modern usage, an amphitheatre is a circular, semicircular or curved, acoustically vibrant performance space, particularly one located outdoors.
There are many theories surrounding the effects of opium on literary creation, and notably, his periods of low usage were literarily unproductive.
Coupled with the above, the Solent is renowned for its large volume of vessel usage, thus resulting in one of the highest density of declared lifeboat stations in the world.
Coventry claimed the status of a city by ancient prescriptive usage, was granted a charter of incorporation in 1345, and in 1451 became a county in its own right.
In the Thai usage, the word can refer to any European person.
The wide ecological diversity typical of Mediterranean Europe is predominantly based on human behavior, as it is and has been closely related human usage patterns.
In modern usage, however, the Mizrahim are sometimes termed Sephardi due to similar styles of liturgy, despite independent development from Sephardim proper.
The hard usage they were subjected to and inherent flexibility of their shallow wooden hulls meant that relatively few of them had careers longer than a decade.
This usage has been the subject of debate since the late 20th century.
Though not consistent, this is the usage that was most commonly employed.
English is the language most widely used in education, business, and heavily in everyday usage throughout Metro Manila and the Philippines itself.
Actual usage of the grave in handwriting saw a rapid decline in favor of uniform usage of the acute during the late 20th century, and it has only been retained in typography.
It included many Latinate neologisms, as well as obsolete words already dropped from popular usage so completely that their meanings were no longer understood.
Small sections of a main sign could be used to represent the whole main sign, and Maya scribes were highly inventive in their usage and adaptation of glyph elements.
For most types of deer in modern English usage, the male is a buck and the female a doe, but the terms vary with dialect, and according to the size of the species.
In older usage, the male of any species is a hart, especially if over five years old, and the female is a hind, especially if three or more years old.
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The usage of firearms in Japan would start again after 1854 with the resumption of contacts with the West and the accumulation of conflicts from that period.
Whether a landform is called a mountain may depend on local usage.
Boss, from baas, evolved in New Netherland to the usage known today.
By the end of the 20th century, this usage had become common.
In the popular mind they have come to symbolise the nation of England, although according to heraldic usage nations do not bear arms, only persons and corporations do.
Although such usage is common, it is sometimes considered ungrammatical.
For further examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
As usage increases, many of these ships have to lower cruising speeds to allow for navigation and traffic control, making them prime targets for piracy.
The Swadeshi movement consisted of the usage of natively produced goods.
Despite its common usage to address people who call with no one answering the phone, the here here is semantically contradictory to one's absence.
The ongoing trend of mobile usage is reshaping progressively the taxi business initially born as a nearly fixed infrastructure business regulated and ruled by City Halls.
In the 1860s, Americans adapted this usage to newly freed blacks.
The usage arises from the legislation governing the management of the Thames and laying down the categories of boats and the tolls for which they were liable.
Tax avoidance is the legal usage of the tax regime in a single territory to one's own advantage to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law.
In formal standard English usage, more than one modal verb is not used consecutively, as modals are followed by an infinitive, which they themselves lack.
Terra Australis still saw occasional usage, such as in scientific texts.
Recent Basque Government policies aim to change this pattern, as they are viewed as potential threats against mainstream usage of the minority tongue.
There have been widespread efforts to promote usage of Putonghua in Hong Kong since the handover, with specific efforts to train police and teachers.
Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.
Another type of existential usage is in clauses of the there is.

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