The supreme nuchal line and external occipital protuberance represent the cranial border of the dissection and an imaginary line connecting the two mastoid processes the inferior border.
Within this racialized landscape in which whiteness has reigned supreme, the line between white and black has been the starkest marker of racial difference, with the white side of the line representing all that is positive, and the black side of the line representing all that is negative.
For those who have heard his mellifluous voice fill an opera house it was a privilege to be in such an intimate setting, to be close to that supreme sense of line, that untapped power just waiting to be unleashed.
Although Agassiz was quite familiar with the factual evidence concerning environmental change, variability, and hereditary modification on which Darwin built his arguments, he held that the organic world represented repeated interventions by a supreme being in line with Cuvier's doctrine of catastrophism.
The demonstrations, which were largely leaderless and sometimes violent, targeted the reformist president and the hard-line supreme leader alike.
Iran's hard-line supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has the last word on foreign policy, including relations with the United States.
A senior Taliban official surfaced in Pakistan appealing for a pause in the raids to allow moderate Taliban leaders to persuade Mullah Muhammad Omar, the hard-line supreme chief, to surrender Osama bin Laden.
The popular satirical Facebook page "What kind of country are we living in?" was cynical and wondered whether the first part of the speech had actually been written by the hard-line supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
On Iran's side, the hard-line supreme ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has the final word on a deal.
