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1967–68 Seattle SuperSonics season

Selecting Tom Meschery from the San Francisco Warriors was made possible after the Warriors unprotected him for the draft, after Meschery informed the San Francisco front office that he desired to join the Peace Corps.

A Constitution for a Free Scotland

A Scottish Parliament would also be able, if it so desired at some future time, to remove the religious proscriptions which ban Roman Catholics from inheriting the Crown under the Act of Settlement.

Anglo-Saxon Christianity

Pope Gregory issued more practicable mandates concerning heathen temples and usages: he desired that native temples be Christianized and asked Augustine to Christianize pagan practices, so far as possible, into dedication ceremonies or feasts of martyrs, since "he who would climb to a lofty height must go up by steps, not leaps" (letter of Gregory to Mellitus, in Bede, i, 30).

Antonio Martini

Cardinal Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze, knowing that Pope Benedict XIV desired a good version of the Bible in the contemporary Tuscan language, urged Martini to undertake the work.

Asmir Begović

In March 2008, he signed for Yeovil Town on loan for a month with Portsmouth having the right to recall him back when they so desired.

Autonomous system

Autonomous robot, robots which can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance

Ayub Thakur

Dr. Ayyub Thakur also attended the 1991 Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Foreign minister meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, the 1993 OIC summit meeting in Dakar, Senegal and World tactics did not yield the desired result.

Best Mate

EU regulations prevented the burial of his body on the Exeter course as Lewis and many racing fans desired.

Bronze sculpture

In lost-wax or investment casting, the artist starts with a full-sized model of the sculpture, most often a non-drying oil-based clay such as Plasticine model for smaller sculptures or for sculptures to be developed over an extended period (water-based clays must be protected from drying), and water-based clay for larger sculptures or for sculptures for which it is desired to capture a gestural quality - one that transmits the motion of the sculptor in addition to that of the subject.

Certificate in Financial Studies

The Certificate in Financial Studies is produced by the Institute of Financial Services (IFS) and can be followed by the Diploma in Financial Studies if desired.

Color calibration

the overall brightness of the color resulting in the desired color perception: an extremely bright light source will always be seen as white, irrespective of spectral composition.

Conversion as a service

In pay-for-performance models, the success or failure of a solution is not based on whether providers successfully deploy software, but on whether or not the solution delivers desired measurable results.

Cuniculture

Well-known chef Mark Bittman says that domesticated rabbit tastes like chicken because both are blank palettes upon which any desired flavors can be layered.

Ducal Palace of Colorno

It belonged to the Correggio and Terzi families, and in the 16th-17th centuries it was restored by countess Barbara Sanseverino, who desired a true palace for her court, and to house her prestigious collection of works by painters such as Raphael, Titian, Mantegna and Correggio.

Dwayne Cameron

Recent works include playing the lead role of Detective Joshua King in the New Zealand Feature film Desired, the lead role in A Dream a short film made with the assistance of Oscar and Palme d'Or winner Jane Campion, and is based on Franz Kafka The Trial.

Encasement

Encasement differs from encapsulation in that it is a long-term solution; the materials are thicker, applied from 7 to 40 mils depending upon surface conditions, building use and desired warranty, are impact resistant and can allow for mechanical fasteners to be adhered to the surface.

George Henry Williams

The U.S. desired that the boundary run through the Haro Strait, however, this became a highly contentious issue between the U.S., Britain, and Canada.

German Rugby Federation

A legal battle that the DRV chairman Claus-Peter Bach fought with the ministry did not bring the desired result but instead worsened the situation.

Gum base

Gum base is the non-nutritive, non-digestible, water-insoluble masticatory delivery system used to carry sweeteners, flavors and any other desired substances in chewing gum and bubble gum.

Hawkes Children's Library

Hawkes Children's Library may refer to one of the libraries inspired by Albert King Hawkes of Atlanta, Georgia who desired children's libraries and theaters in Georgia's towns.

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

As the suburbs of Denver expanded, the company desired to build a new planned suburb in northern Douglas County, akin to its first planned development of Mission Viejo, California (a suburb of Los Angeles).

Iced coffee

In the Salento region of Puglia, this was perfected by brewing the espresso freshly, adding the desired amount of sugar and finally pouring it in a whiskey glass filled with ice cubes right before being served, known as Caffè in ghiaccio, coffee on the rocks.

Indian Trade

Other products desired by the Europeans produced other components of the Indian Trade, including the deerskin trade in the what is now the east coast of the United States, and the Pemmican and buffalo skin and meat trade on the Great Plains.

Infinite-dimensional vector function

Moreover, for any set A, there exist infinite-dimensional vector spaces having the (Hamel) dimension of the cardinality of A (e.g., the space of functions A\rightarrow K with finitely-many nonzero elements, where K is the desired field of scalars).

John Ikenberry

In the end, the United States created its desired order through a series of security, economic, and financial multilateral institutions, including NATO and the Marshall Plan.

John Lymburn

When the government brought social credit founder C. H. Douglas from the United Kingdom as an advisor, Lymburn provided him with a copy of one of Aberhart's speeches and asked him to critique it; Douglas concluded that Aberhart's proposals did not align with "Douglasite" social credit, and that many of them would not have the desired effect.

Judaicum

The Institutum Judaicum was a special academic course for Protestant theologians who desired to prepare themselves for missionary work among Jews.

Klaus Joehle

Klaus J. Joehle has authored five books and numerous audio recordings on the subjects of sending love ("Living on Love — The Messenger"), using Energy Vortexes and Alien abduction («Living on Love — The Shameful Secret»), finding your Joy ("Weekend with a Drunk Leprechaun"), increasing financial abundance and achieving other desired circumstances through focusing your attention on what you want ("Money is Love — Some things are worth believing in").

Ludwig Kieninger

As he grew older, he desired a studio more closely located to his home in DeSoto, Texas.

Margaret Danner

In 1966, Danner took her long-desired trip to Africa through the John Hay Whitney Fellowship to join prominent African-American cultural figures at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal.

Margaret Kirkby

The register of John Thoresby, Archbishop of York, confirming the enclosure suggests to Hughes that "in common with the epistles of Rolle, Margaret desired an eremitic life in order that she might fashion herself as a servant of God more freely and more quietly with pious prayers and vigils. Such language indicates how she and Rolle were pioneering a change in the conception of the eremitic vocation".

Max Ehrmann

Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired").

Moisés da Costa Amaral

Within the United Nations this was the first big step that led to the so desired independence of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.

Morgan dollar

Linderman desired to involve the western mints of San Francisco and Carson City in production in order to help reach the monthly quota necessary under the Bland–Allison Act.

Natchitoches National Fish Hatchery

The Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is the most desired of all freshwater game.

Old English Black

The color markings were not unlike those of Clydesdale horses, with the desired pattern being four white stocking and a well-defined bald face.

Pagination

This usually involves a markup language (such as XML, HTML, or SGML) that tags the content semantically and machine-readably, which allows downstream technologies (such as XSLT, XSL, or CSS) to output them into whatever presentation is desired.

Paphnutius of Thebes

Natalis Alexander gives this anecdote about Paphnutius in full: he desired to refute Bellarmin, who considered it to be untrue and an invention of Socrates to please the Novatians.

Pediococcus

Pediococcus bacteria are usually considered contaminants of beer and wine, although their presence is sometimes desired in beer styles such as Lambic.

Philip Dumaresq

Mrs. Dumaresq died in 1720 at Hertford, and desired to be buried at Easthampstead ‘as near my dear father as may be.’ Her will of 25 December 1715, with two codicils of 2 (sic) December 1715, and 24 October 1717, was proved at London on 20 December 1720.

Plasmon biscuit

In a letter to William Dean Howells Clemens advised: "Yes--take it as a medicine--there is nothing better, nothing surer of desired results.

Polo shirt

As he desired to exude a certain "WASPishness" in his clothes, initially adopting the style of clothiers like Brooks Brothers, J. Press, and "Savile Row"–style English clothing, he prominently included this attire from the "sport of kings" in his line, replete with a logo reminiscent of Lacoste’s crocodile emblem, depicting a polo player and pony.

Sancho of Castile

Sancho III of Castile (1134–1158), Sancho the Desired, King of Castile and of Toledo

Sleepout

In the US, a sleepout is a tradition of The College of The University of Chicago where students would "sleepout" for their enrollment into their desired subjects of classes.

Strictly standardized mean difference

In an HTS assay, one primary goal is to select compounds with a desired size of inhibition or activation effect.

Utah Olympic Park

For many years the Alf Engen Ski Foundation had desired to construct a museum to honor legendary skier Alf Engen, and display his winter sports collection.

Vedette Shapewear

Vedette is a company, headquartered in Williamson, Georgia, USA, that manufactures and markets undergarments for women, with an emphasis on shapewear undergarments which are functionally designed to help wearers achieve a desired body form for aesthetic purposes, but can also be used as post-surgical support or to encourage posture discipline.

Virtual tour

This is because there is sophisticated math and camera-lens profiles that are needed to create the desired panorama image which is based on your camera's depth of field (FOV) and the type of lens you used.

Win–loss

Win–loss analytics, analysis of the reasons why a visitor to a website was or wasn't persuaded to engage in a desired action


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