Occasionally the chain of names of people and places temporarily swamps the reader, but on the whole his picture is clear, made painfully real by a series of close-up portraits.
The formula introducing such a Hadith would speak in the first person: "It was related to me by A, on the authority of B, on the authority of C, on the authority of D, from E (here a companion of Muhammad) that the Prophet said…." This chain of names constituted the isnād on which the saying or event depended for its authenticity.
But what has not changed is the principle of morbid contagion, the apparently endless viral transmission from body to body, the chain reaction of names that inspire and are inspired by other names.
Fausto Puglisi, 36, an Italian designer, with experience of living and working in the United States, will take the reins held, since the founder's departure in 2005, by a chain of creative names including Giambattista Valli, Peter Dundas, the Colombian Esteban Cortázar, the Spaniard Estrella Arch (who resigned when asked to work with the troubled Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan) and Giles Deacon.
It takes a chain of component names as parameters.
Schnitzi's owners, Nir Messer and Yair Isner, modeled the restaurant after an Israeli chain of that name.
There might be a copyright matter to discuss with the Rolling Stones and maybe also with the restaurant chain of that name.
It fixed the Franco-Spanish border, following the mountain chain of that name as the natural boundary between the two countries [4].
Marketing for small children isn't quite at the level it has reached in, say, Taiwan, where a chain of kindergartens named for Tweety, the Warner Brothers cartoon character, features pictures of the quick-thinking canary in schools and provides Tweety uniforms for the children to wear.
Apart from being active as a singer for seven decades, she's also an entrepreneur with her own successful chain of restaurants, named Asha.
For example, Michael Devitt (1981) takes senses to be causal-historical chains linking utterances of names to their referents (see the Causal-Historical Theory below).
