"The federal government has failed to provide basic security for its citizens," he wrote, "and has lost its monopoly on violence, two basic attributes of a sovereign state".
Topological structure descriptors represent significant features of molecular structure by encoding in numerical form basic attributes of atoms in molecules.
Yet both works demonstrate the basic attributes of Albers's theory, that colors essentially "deceive" (that is, they look different alone than when juxtaposed) and are experienced uniquely by each viewer.
For reasons that appear completely punitive, he's being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch).
In modern terms, civil war signifies that the government has lost one of the basic attributes of political authority: its monopoly of force and its control over the use of violence.
Following are some basic attributes of the MIPS architecture: load-store architecture, fixed length instructions, orthogonal registers, and single cycle execution.
Existing studies do not agree on the relationship between basic attributes of bryophyte community structure (i.e., species richness and local density), and habitat area and degree of spatial-isolation.
The basic attributes of the SV: its reference position, magnitude, and azimuth, provided a unique set of descriptors for postural control that allowed me unambiguously to differentiate the decline in postural stability caused by natural ageing and Parkinson's disease.
But despite its size, Sherman Square has the basic attributes of an urban park -- a bit of greenery that inspires passers-by to pause, to relax for a second or two, to regroup before plunging back into the density of traffic, crowds and bustle.
It is hardly an exercise in idealism when Cambodian activists insist on basic attributes of a fair and independent tribunal, like judges empowered to resist political pressure and threats; prosecutors permitted to follow the evidence; and defense counsel owing loyalty to clients instead of to the state.
