The percussive rhythms, songs, and dances of Santería are meant to please the orishas (deities) and to persuade them to join the celebration; their acceptance is signaled by their manifestation within the dancers' bodies, what participants often describe as possession.
Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech signaled a subtle shift in his message from the lofty and lyrical "change we can believe in" to the more detailed and down-to-earth "change that we need".
Female acceptance is signaled by wing spreading, thereby allowing the male to mount and copulate; otherwise, females move or fly away at this stage of courtship [32].
The goal of the experiment is to measure the decay branching ratio, O(10−10), with 10% precision collecting about 100 K+→π+ν¯ν events in three years of data taking and assuming a 10% signal acceptance.
They state that once the icons of masculinity demonstrate acceptance, "it would signal social progress".
The threshold for peak acceptance was a signal to noise ratio of 10.
Still, there could be complications for Mr. Mueller if he signals acceptance of the job.
And of course the term "welfare state" signals acceptance of state responsibility for the broader welfare of the people.
What seemed promising, he added, was that the Russian proposal was more concrete than before and that Syria signaled acceptance.
"This acceptance is often signaled and mediated by where we look in airports: down into our palms, where faster and quieter machines connect us to one another".
