Payne finds this episode noteworthy for its resonance with the ritual shearing of a young woman's hair that commonly figured in the ancient ritual of virgin sacrifice, of which classical literature offers one particularly well-known example: the sacrifice of Iphigenia to the gods on the eve of the Trojan War.
They also commonly figured their drugs were diluted with ground glass, Drano, laxatives, and dirt.
The most commonly used figure to account for the number of asexuals in society comes from a 2004 British study of 18,000 people.
Some officials were still saying, for example, that a certain number of spores -- 8,000 to 10,000 was the commonly quoted figure -- were needed to contract inhalation anthrax.
The mathematical form of the three-compartment exponential equation is most commonly used (figure 4C).
The commonly accepted figure for Afghanistan is 5 million to 7 million, an estimate generated by the United Nations.
If that estimate is correct, then the American Muslim population at least equals the commonly accepted figure of six million Jews in the United States.
(Alison Des Forges, an adviser to Human Rights Watch and a leading expert on the killings, said that the commonly used figure of 800,000 deaths was too high).
These days the un-Australian is commonly a figure of colour, who is easily transmittable from one ethnic identity to another.
Six floral kingdoms Boreal (Holarctic), Paleotropical, Neotropical, South African (Capensic), Australian, and Antarctic are commonly distinguished (Figure 1).
