How To Use Extant In A Sentence

Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
Extant birds are accomplished endotherms and many maintain the highest body temperatures.
Their tympanum is not homologous with the tympanum of mammals and saurians (extant diapsids) because it developed independently in all three groups.
Phylogenetic relationships of the five extant rhinoceros species (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes. Archive 2006-09-01
But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial

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To measure latitude, Frémont had two sextants and a reflecting circle, essentially sophisticated protractors; they were used to measure the angle of the sun or the polestar above the horizon.
A limited number of documents from the period are still extant.
Most biologists are familiar with only a few of the approximately 40 extant animal phyla such as annelids, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms and chordates.
Today, this circle of gloomy old trees is still extant. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
We propose that the ancestors of the four extant river dolphin taxa were inhabitants of Miocene epicontinental seas.
But the hypothesis that history _might_ contain facts which it does _not_ contain, is no positive evidence for the truth of those facts; and this is the present question; what is the _positive_ evidence that the Church ever believed or taught a Gospel substantially different from that which her extant documents contain? Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
Revolutions are not born to enjoy what has been done; revolutions are waged to create what is nonextant. 26 JULY ANNIVERSARY
Thus in articulating an interpretation, or set of interpretations of the term adequate to frame theoretical issues, we cannot simply describe how it is currently employed ” we must assign it a more definite and coherent meaning than extant in common usage (Block 1995, 2002). Consciousness and Intentionality
As they had had time to take with them a sextant chromometer and The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician
At the same time, there are less than a dozen extant early medieval Welsh manuscripts, and only three are illuminated.
The impala and rhebok were also not included in tribe-level analyses because each is the sole extant member of its tribe.
McKinnon gathered up sextant and chronometer and accompanied them up to the bridge. SAN ANDREAS
True, it's not as if there isn't already a massive body of work extant on the subject.
Wherefore, hereditary succession in the early ages of monarchy could not take place as a matter of claim, but as something casual or complemental; but as few or no records were extant in those days, the traditionary history stuff'd with fables, it was very easy, after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet-like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar. Common Sense
All of the data on extant birth certificates were keypunched into an electronic database. L, t U & E
In fact, Himmler's appointments book and diaries, where extant, come as close as most people would require to demonstrating what the Final Solution was all about.
The letters still extant from the princes of the East to Sapor are manifest forgeries; 151 nor is it natural to suppose that a jealous monarch should, even in the person of a rival, thus publicly degrade the majesty of kings. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The instruments provided for the journey consisted of two barometers, two thermometers, two compasses, a sextant, two chronometers, an artificial horizon, and an altazimuth, to throw out the height of distant and inaccessible objects. Five Weeks in a Balloon
Manuscripts in Greek and manuscripts of translations from the Greek into Latin, Syriac, and Coptic are extant.
Extant examples of maps date from 1602 and there are contemporary accounts of mapping and the use of maps from considerably earlier.
Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
Yet, extant research suggests that a significant minority of these individuals may choose to discontinue all sexual relations and become celibate for at least some period following their diagnosis.
Our museum has come also to possess the largest extant collection of Chinese Imperial Court robes, hundreds of silk ceremonial robes, embroidered and re-embroidered in coloured silks and silver and gold threads. The MuseumPast, Present and Future
The data is inconsistent with orthogenesis, and somehow thinks that because he can draw a line from an extant animal to its many-times-great grandparents, he has supported directed evolution.
The great basis of it is anterior to the date of the Magna charta, which is the oldest statute extant. Letters
Most of the scientific instruments were lost: the sextants, the big telescope, the five compasses, the artificial horizons; even the thermometers.
By counterfeit coinage was meant not so much the striking of imitations from base metal (for which there is in fact very little extant evidence) as coins struck in mints not controlled by the king.
There are a number of extant monumental variants, and renditions proliferated in copies and in versions on coins and vases and in relief sculpture.
Jellyfish belong to one of the oldest extant animal phyla, the Cnidaria.
The measure has been adopted and duly published by the EC Commission and at this time is legally extant and valid.
Rio Grande to the Santa Clara pueblo Indians of the Tanoan stock, it may be of interest to state that there is a vague tradition extant among the modern settlers of the Verde region that the cavate lodges of that region were occupied within the last three generations. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262
Johnson notes that this addition contains an anagram, extant in the Russian text, which would be missing in a literal translation.
The final extant edition ends four weeks before her death in 1895.
Diverse phocine seals – some apparently resembling the extant Pusa** seals – are known to have inhabited Paratethys during the Miocene (Paratethys was a brackish inland sea that covered much of south-east Europe and south-west Asia during the Miocene) and, according to the Paratethyan hypothesis, it is phocines from this region that managed to invade the Caspian Sea, later getting as far east as Lake Baikal. The most inconvenient seal
A sextant is a navigational instrument that measures the altitudes of celestial bodies. The Season of Risks
This is conceivable but unlikely; there are no extant negatives, and contemporary reports stated the plates were destroyed.
Other extant ascetical florilegia still remain unedited. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Three decapod species are congeneric with extant species known from outer shelf and slope habitats documenting an onshore-offshore pattern of ecological preference.
Lewy demonstrated the similarity in breeding strategies between ammonoids and extant octopods.
Following extant written sources, this process has been seen in relation to the quartering of troops that occurred during the war between the Byzantines and the Goths, or simply as the result of occupation by squatters.
A Latin edict of Theodoric is still extant, in one hundred and fifty-four articles. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The nested hierarchy is pervasive in extant and extinct life, morphology and genomics. Beckwith on ID
The instruments we carried were two sextants and three artificial horizons -- two glass and one mercury -- a hypsometer for measuring heights, and one aneroid. The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole
His other instruments still worked fine - sextants, reflecting circle, artificial horizon, telescope, chronometer, several compasses and probably a couple of thermometers - and he continued recording latitudes and longitudes.
His sensations, on entering this vast repository of arms, were not unlike those attributed to a personage whose fictitious adventures, though the production of a _Feringhi_ pen, present one of the most faithful pictures extant of the genuine feelings of an oriental on Frank matters: -- "When we came to the guns," says the eximious Hajji Baba, "by my beard, existence fled from our heads! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
And it's equally true now, even though satellites have taken over from sextants, the Sun and fixed stars as the navigation aids of choice.
Many of his tracts are still extant, and they contain extravagant prophecies couched in the peculiar phraseology of the day. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
On the deckside, only two were on watch -- you and Trent down in the Captain's cabin there keeping an eye on the sextant and chronometer. SAN ANDREAS
Dionysius:Greek historian whose 20-volume history of Rome, of which 10 volumes are extant, is a valuable source for early Roman history.
In both pattern books and extant artifacts, quilted feathers resemble the gadrooned edgings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century furniture and fine metalwares.
As might be expected, in such circumstances, a potato is a far more precious thing than a turtle's egg, and a sack of the tubers would probably be deemed a sufficient remuneration for enough of the materials of callipash and callipee to feed all the aldermen extant. Jack Tier
Today, this circle of gloomy old trees is still extant. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
My quick survey of the antennal structure of extant odonates and mayflies indicates that the flagellum is structurally different.
They found that the hypothesis that a monophyletic Mesonychia is the sister taxon of Cetacea, and a monophyletic Artiodactyla is the extant sister taxon of Cetacea was significantly congruent with the stratigraphic record.
They had sextants, early microscopes, clocks, thermometers, and barometers.
In the second instance it is problematic because what is often thought of as "post-conciliar" in manifestation was extant and growing in influence well before that period. Continuity, Beauty and Dignity within the Liturgical Arts and their Development
Later, celestial navigation using sextants and fairly accurate clocks enabled absolute positioning, but the sailors had to refer back to dead reckoning on days with poor weather conditions.
Indeed, the band's famously-honed instincts and dayglo pop-smarts provide the contradictory musical notions that never allow the album to sway too far in one bleak direction or another: it's that friction extant between Chesnutt's shadowy worldview and the inventive bounce and bray of Elf Power's euphonous intraband chemistry that buoys Dark Developments, provides its freshness, and makes for rewarding repeated listening. My Old Kentucky Blog
The sextant is a powerful optical instrument, magnifying everything it sees twenty-eight times, but the price it pays for this magnification is a very narrow field of view, only 1.8 degrees wide corresponding to 0.6 miles on the ground, so that it is almost like looking down a gun barrel. First Man
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The same is true of the snippets of information we can gain from the extant records of his life. Times, Sunday Times
Extant endemics on Rakiura and its offshore islets include subspecies of southern robin (Petroica australis rakiura), weka (Gallirallus australis scotti), and fernbird (Bowdleria punctata stewartiana), as well as a leaf-veined slug, a Paryphanta spp., and the harlequin gecko (Hoplodactylus nebulosis). Rakiura Island temperate forests
Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
We later learned that the top floor of the bridge is actually a still-extant passage from one palace a few km down-river, to the major art museum, the Uffizi. Firenze
The leaf mining habit is known to have evolved only in four extant orders of insects: the Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera.
The authors have divided the woods into five groups according to their relationship to extant plants.
Wednesday was March 6, but the earliest dated copies extant are, those of March 7.
The larva probably possessed the scraping mouth parts and the branchial filter seen in most extant anuran larvae, and likewise probably also pumped water rhythmically.
Their adaptive radiation occurred in the Eocene when palms, figs, lipid-rich laurels, and other extant families were prominent.
The mineral cabinet in the Stroganoff palace, still extant but unrestored, is generally credited to Voronikhin.
Illiberis were held about the same time, the one in Galatia, the other in Spain; but their respective canons, which are still extant, seem to breathe a very different spirit. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Furthermore, if the Big Bang occurs within already extant and spacially infinite universe, then that would suggest that the Big Bang had a specific spacial location within that universe. A Short Critique of Bradley Monton's Paper
Extant works include ecclesiastical poems, rhythmical verse, and a number of letters.
This chest is one of the most excellent extant Kodai-ji Maki'e lacquerworks.
Divergence estimates between extant perissodactyl species were closely correlated with calibration age - the divergence between rhinos and tapirs, for example, differed by an order of magnitude depending on the calibration applied.
However, G. blacki can be distinguished from the extant hominids by having relatively higher values for postcanine root length and surface area, both absolutely and relative to mandibular size (except for premolar root lengths of humans). Archive 2009-02-01
Her Baltimore ancestor's will is extant, has been examined by Old Mortality's great-grandson, and announces in a kind of preamble that the testator was a native of Donegal; his Christian name was William ( "Notes and Queries," Fourth Series, vol.vii. p. 219, and Fifth Series, August, 1874). Old Mortality, Volume 1.
Introductions (attributed to Aristophanes) to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae (lists of dramatic productions) of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form.
He was sure he was on the right trail, for being no fool he measured by sextant and compass; he was now in New Mexico territory.
No musical setting has survived for the words as they appear in extant published versions of the Obi melodrama. Introduction
Here the chant alternates between monody and three-part polyphony, following the method of twelfth-century Parisian discantus as it has come down to us in the only extant work of Master Albert of Paris precentor of the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne, preserved in the Codex Calixtinus: the Congaudeant catholici. Archive 2009-03-01
Législatif+ or Palais Bourbon, by _Poyet_, the only extant example of a dodecastyle portico with a pediment. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
This distinction was introduced to accommodate fossil taxa within extant taxa without inflating, unnecessarily, the taxonomic hierarchy.
The strong evidence lies in the diversity of extant forms and the deep molecular homologies in both the biochemistry of photoreception and the developmental regulators of form. Ya gotta love August - The Panda's Thumb
A compass, sextant and charts were the necessary tools for plotting a course.
On shelves and bookcases around the flat I could see antique spanners, old sextants, shiny brass things, burnished steel telescopes.
First, Wood reviews the extant literature in order to present a short biography.
He unships the helm; he flings compass and sextant overboard; he fires up the furnaces, and screws down the safety-valve, and says, 'Go ahead!' Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
The semicircular canal dimensions in crania from southern Africa attributed to Australopithecus and Paranthropus resemble those of the extant great apes.
Similarly, although the cladistic approach has produced a prevailing view i.e., that lungfishes are the closest extant relatives of the tetrapods Tree 1; see Rosen et al. Panderichthys rhombolepis - The Panda's Thumb
These units incorporated mechanical gyroscopes and while the aircraft were fitted with sextants, it was the INUs that became the primary means of navigation.
Every newly discovered species, extinct or extant, is a potential falsification. A New Book
Since the 1970s, many evolutionary biologists have considered an eel-like, deep-sea-dwelling creature called the hagfish to be the closest extant relative of a last common ancestor for all backboned creatures. Wired Top Stories
DNA data is directly comparable across all extant organisms, including those that do not fossilize well such as soft bodied taxa, and contains information for the entire history of every lineage.
[156] [Footnote 152: See his life in the Augustan History.] [Footnote 153: There is still extant a very pretty Epithalamium, composed by Gallienus for the nuptials of his nephews: -- "Ite ait, O juvenes, pariter sudate medullis Omnibus, inter vos: non murmura vestra columbae, Brachia non hederae, non vincant oscula conchae."] [Footnote 154: He was on the point of giving Plotinus a ruined city of History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
This now means that I've seen all extant camelid species (all in captivity, of course), though note that the species-level taxonomy of South American camelids is a little muddled (Kadwell et al. 2001). Archive 2006-05-01
The marsh is a mysterious and murky zone where the intricacies of the human mind and personal psychologies are made manifest in a range of characters drawn, in part, from extant folklore and myth, but primarily from the waking dream of the marsh itself. Bill Bush: When the World Was Small and Man Knew His Place in It: This Artweek.LA (May 30 - June 5)
About 9% of the extant flora is hummingbird pollinated and it is estimated that around 47% are wind pollinated. Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
Some gaitered old countryman with little grey whiskers, neat, weathered and firm-featured; or one of those short-necked John Bulls, still extant, square and weighty, with a flat top to his head, and a flat white topper on it! The Silver Spoon
At 4.5 acres (indoors!), the conservatory is the largest extant glasshouse in North America. 01.04
There are many who insist that the paradigms of greed, arrogance and usurpation are the true reference points for our sextants.
Knowledge of the closest extant relatives of the genotypes involved in the initial formation of B. napus would also allow further investigation of the genetic factors required for the formation of a stable amphiploid and permit the more efficient creation of fully fertile re-synthesised B. napus. BioMed Central - Latest articles
Only this I would recommend to you, that before interest had guided men in what they had to do, all the translations that were extant in English did read this text, "And ordained them elders by election," as the word doth signify: so you will find it in your old translations. The Sermons of John Owen
The thinking being that SEO experts have to an extent manipulated results and 'twigged' google algorithm to such an extant that google are now playing a more actuve role, actively intervening and effectively giving a 'yay' or Poynter Online
We have searched for Hox and ParaHox genes in several flatworm groups spanning from freshwater triclads to marine polyclads and, more recently, in the acoels, the likely earliest extant bilaterian.
Paul Nelson: Then, for any extant eukaryote, there exists, not one, but n possible cellular ancestors at the Darwinian threshold (when Eukarya first evolved). A Disclaimer for Behe?
This extant gastropod, like its Pennsylvanian relative, is dominantly a deposit feeder, grazing on vegetable detritus and algae within seasonal alluvial channels.
One famous cult on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides (known as Vanuatu since 1980) is still extant. The God Delusion
All extant hominoids with the exception of highland gorillas are strongly frugivorous.
Jablonski also provides an in-depth discussion of the radiation and paleoecology of Neogene cercopithecoids, highlighting the adaptations of extant and extinct Old World monkeys to a diverse range of niches.
They had sextants, early microscopes, clocks, thermometers, and barometers.
Fossils are often not ancestors of extant taxa, but instead may be extinct sister groups to modern taxa or clades.
The tales were known long before the extant ballad versions began to be copied or printed in the mid-fifteenth century.
Fossil salamanders are known from most extant families, as well as four extinct families.
I had to confess that I was not a navigator, that I had never looked through a sextant in my life, and that I doubted if I could tell a sextant from a nautical almanac. Chapter 4
Between the septate lungs of extant ‘reptiles’ and the derived air sac system of extant birds, there must have existed an entire spectrum of intermediates.
Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
His love-songs, hymns, and historical ballads are published at Innspruck, collated from the only three ancient MS. copies extant, one of which belongs to the present Count Wolkenstein, one to the Imperial Library at Vienna, and one to the Ferdinandeum at Innspruck. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
There are also documents extant on the education of practitioners in relation to the law of bankruptcy in the Inns of Court. Tribe on 17th century insolvency law
That answer focused on the personalities of the two extant sexual partners as being merely unstable, unsuitable for sexual dalliance.
Today there is a variety of extant species that parasitize birds, reptiles, and rodents, as well as human and nonhuman primates.
The earliest coloured illustration of the salt, published by Henry Shaw in 1836, clearly shows that more colour was then extant: red, colouring the orphreys on the tunic; black on his shoes.
This pattern, like the pattern of the dermal bones and the pattern of the scutes and bones of the plastron (ventral shell) is remarkably consistent across all turtles, particularly extant forms.
Just as editors of texts extant only in the form of letterpress printings must know a good deal about how books were printed, and medievalists working with manuscripts must know about calligraphy and codicology, Blake's editors must know as much as possible about the way Blake produced his texts. Introduction
The eleven wooden vessels were powered by the wind and guided by the celestial bodies, thanks to that remarkable scientific instrument, the sextant.
The extant pottery undoubtedly provides a precious resource of iconographic material that can greatly enrich our understanding of ancient Greece; but its status in antiquity has been exaggerated.
Existing laws offer only minimal protection; these include the Natural Communities Conservation Planning Program (NCCP) of 1991 that restricts destruction of some coastal sage scrub, and the Endangered Species Act listing of the California gnatcatcher, which created restrictions on destruction of habitat for extant birds. California coastal sage and chaparral
There are approximately 650 to 700 extant species of cephalopods in two subclasses and five orders.
Among the 11 extant orders of arachnids, Araneae and Acari (ticks and mites) are by far the most species rich.
This extant species has erect jointed colonies, an articulated growth-form which seemingly evolved convergently with that of crisiid cyclostomes.
It is closely related to a longer version extant in four manuscripts three of which assign it to him.
Consequently, lung ventilation rates and, by extension, metabolic rates of the earliest mammals, and at least some Triassic Period therapsids, are likely to have approached or been equal to those of extant mammals.
This would mean that the morphological criteria on which extant supposed D. arnoldi and D. hololissa have been identified are utterly unreliable: an idea which matches suggestions that 'carapace morphology is sensitive to environmental conditions and that captivity can result in aberrant morphologies' (Palkovacs et al. 2003, p. 1409; see also Gerlach 2004b). Archive 2006-02-01
In Bogdanowicz and Owen's analysis, 45 metrical and 30 discrete-state characters in 57 extant hipposiderid species were examined.
The document is an extant work of that most postmodernist of enterprises, the law.
Middle Ages, while others, such as Lucretius, Tacitus, and Manilius, although extant in a few but neglected medieval manuscripts, had to be rediscovered by the humanists. HUMANISM IN ITALY
* Having said that though, given that people have applied the term ‘monkey’ to all extant non-hominoid anthropoids, a stem-group hominoid would still likely be identified by people as a ‘monkey’. Archive 2006-06-01
This was rapidly followed by diversification of the superfamilies, and from our analyses it seems evident that extant bat families appear to have radiated fairly rapidly, with all families having evolved before the late Eocene.
Well, there's somewhat of a Gap in extant organisms between humans and other apes. Assessing Fault
Extant vascular plants range from clubmosses and ferns and their allies (such as whisk ferns and horsetails) to complex seed plants, comprising gymnosperms and angiosperms.
Extant Massachusetts tax records for 1771 show that farms within all of Dartmouth Township averaged 37.i acres, including on average 124 acres of pasturage.
The oldest extant writing surfaces include Babylonian clay tablets and Indian palm leaves.
Another ambition was to categorise the meagre extant material held in archives.
The handle of a spoon bearing the hallmark of this earliest American pewterer, of whom there is a record, is extant and may be seen at the museum at Jamestown. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
Reflecting older cosmologies, evolutionist schemes in anthropology differed markedly from biology in positing universal stages through which cultures pass, and into which extant cultures can be placed.
Lightly feathered dromaeosaurs might have relied on wings for help in climbing steep slopes and even entering trees, just as extant galliform birds do.
We have some extant parish records from the sixteenth century.
Until recently, oceanographers gathered much of their data from solitary vessels that they navigated by means of stars and sextants.
A limited number of documents from the period are still extant.
Over the past several thousand years, mankind has found countless innovative ways to master this task, leveraging geographical characteristics, constellation of planets and stars and later also tools such as sextants and compasses.
This would not be surprising if we consider extant marine arthropods such as Crustacea where it is usual that two or more planktonic larval stages occur prior to metamorphosis.
Grieg was a pianist rather than violinist and his only extant string quartet came at a time of a rumoured affair between his wife and older brother.
However, comparison of these extant hemichordates with the erect, fenestrate colonies of Dictyonema is problematical.
Additionally, a number of other fully-feathered extant birds can readily absorb and use incident radiant solar energy.
He had just invented a new instrument: a prototype sextant with arms nearly six feet in length and a scale graduated to single minutes of arc.
These units incorporated mechanical gyroscopes and while the aircraft were fitted with sextants, it was the INUs that became the primary means of navigation.
Aye, maybe you’re a crack hand with sextants and aerology. LEVIATHAN
This study provides a survey of mandibular shape in a sample of extant hominoids (Pan, Gorilla, Pongo, and Hylobates), as well as extinct Asian and Eurasian taxa (Ouranopithecus, Sivapithecus, and Gigantopithecus) in order to compare overall shape similarity. Archive 2009-02-01
The jaw bones in extant reptiles can transmit sound to the inner ear. A New Book
As often bedevils the translator's task there appears to be at least one lacuna in the extant text, but it was relatively painless to decipher.
Extant archosaurs, crocodilians and birds, employ a two-part stomach with a thin-walled, enzyme-producing anterior, the proventriculus, followed by a thick-walled muscular gizzard.
'To be but pyramidally extant is a fallacy in duration .... On The Art of Reading
For that matter, extant birds are quite different from Jurassic and Cretaceous birds.
In the next paragraph he speaks of the so-called leges regiœ as collected and still extant in the book of Sextus Papirius. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
As in certain extant lepidosaurians, the fourth digit of the manus and pes is significantly more elongate than the others, a condition suggestive of rotation of podal elements to allow enhanced lateral pushoff.
Our few preserved large bronze statues make a striking contrast to the many extant statuettes, whose complex movements and marked torsion make them strongly three-dimensional.
In comparative studies using model organisms, extant taxa are often referred to as basal.
The sole extant example of the castrato voice dates from the dawn of recorded sound, and the singer in question was advanced in years at the time.
The four extant hyena species (spotted hyena, striped hyena, brown hyena, and aardwolf) are the remnants of a large radiation.
He drew portraits of her -- they are extant still -- with straight noses and enormous eyes, and 'Arthur Pendennis delineavit et pinxit' gallantly written underneath. The History of Pendennis
Byronia is most similar to thecae of polypoid coronalids, an extant group of scyphozoans that have been allied with conulariids.
This rocket is already extant and has a flight history. Ares Troubles Mount - NASA Watch
The name vernier, now commonly applied to a small movable scale attached to a sextant, barometer, or other graduated instrument, was given by Lalande who showed that the previous name nonius, after Peter Nunez, belonged more properly to a different contrivance. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
There is no extant attestation for the third member of Awa's coven, Monique, a female brothel-keeper who wants to be a gunner and gets her chance at the 1522 Battle of La Bicocca, where the Swiss pikemen marched to their first decisive defeat, by powder and shot. The Enterprise of Death
There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets.
When the fore and back horizons are brought into line, the sextant reading is twice the angle of dip, assuming that the sextant is free from index error.
Victorinus, bishop of Pettau in Pannonia, who suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in A.D. 303, wrote the earliest extant commentary on the Apocalypse. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
All extant European songbirds belong to the oscines, which are assumed to have arisen on the Australian continental plate.
Mammals are unique among extant vertebrates in possessing a lower jaw formed by a single bony element, the dentary.
The most ancient act of donation that pretends to be extant, is that of the emperor Lewis the Pious, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It is to neoconservatism's credit that this doctrine is consistent with extant work on how best to respond to the zombie menace.
Judith is certainly one of the very best extant specimens of old Jewish story-telling, and forms a worthy companion-piece to Tobit, which it surpasses in vividness of style.
Consequently, the extant data imply that the small size of these fossils does not rule out a woody habit or low-light, closed forest habitats, as some have argued.
Here, too, the line of the extant culture, -- the narrow indented boundary of the _culture_ that professed to take all is always defining the new, -- cutting out the wild not yet visited by the art of man; -- only here the criticism is much more lively, because here 'we come _to particulars_,' a thing which the new philosophy -- much insists on; and though this want in learning, and the wildness it leaves, is that which makes tragedies in this method of exhibition; it has its comical aspect also; and this is the laughing and weeping philosopher in one who manages these representations; and in this case it is the comical aspect of the subject that is seized on. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
When the ten minutes are up, as signified by the ding of an egg timer, a piece of nautical equipment as pedigreed as an astrolabe or a sextant.
Note 54: Anglican parish records for Ferryland district, extant from 1823 onwards, registered the occupations of fathers in baptismal entries until the incoming minister in 1855 stopped recording this information. Gutenber-e Help Page
Phellem appears similar to the primary aerenchyma seen in aquatic roots of species of Ludwigia L.; however, similar lacunate tissue in extant Decodon verticillatus (L.) Ell. is secondary and this study shows this tissue to be homologous to that seen in the fossil Decodon J.F. Gmel.
In both pattern books and extant artifacts, quilted feathers resemble the gadrooned edgings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century furniture and fine metalwares.
To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and particularly to those collectors-too numerous to name here - who have permitted me to examine artifacts surviving so many centuries of futurity, and most especially to those who have allowed me to visit and photograph the era's few extant buildings, I am truly grateful. The Shadow of the Torturer
Straps and rings for bobstay plates are extant in the lower stempost, with mortises into the wood to admit the bobstay chains.
Many extant tetrapods communicate intraspecifically via a mixture of pheromonal and non-pheromonal cues.
This sextant is precisely calibrated for celestial navigation by a collimator that checks its accuracy at every 15, providing an accuracy of 0’.1 arc minute, 200 yards. Oldschool Navigationsystem
And not just because there is no extant reference to the sculpture from the first three centuries after the warrior's death.
It is to neoconservatism's credit that this doctrine is consistent with extant work on how best to respond to the zombie menace.
its nonextant original was written on vellum

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