Rareness

In other words, the Board agreed with Judge Seeherman's view that "rareness" is the most important factor in the surname analysis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, we believe it is important to accord the proper weight to the "rareness" of the surname factor while keeping in mind the purpose of Section 2 (e) (4) of the Act. As explained by Judge Seeherman in her concurrence in ❋ Unknown (2009)

Applying the standard four-factor analysis for surname refusals, the Board considered: (1) the degree of the surname's "rareness"; (2) whether anyone connected with applicant has the mark as a surname; (3) whether the mark has any recognized meaning other than as a surname; and (4) whether the mark has the "look and sound" of a surname. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A spirit, for all its rareness, not of “heaven” but of Earth. ❋ Alice Walker Blog Administrator (2009)

Because of the rareness of your parentage, the first mixed-breed Aequitas-Omnivatic child in three thousand years, the Archon has kept an interested eye on you from birth. ❋ Cherry Adair (2010)

Because of the cool looking alternate cover art and rareness of the film I picked it up immediately. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meyer admits that this is nothing other than “a negative claim against Neo-Darwinism,” and fails as we would predict to evaluate whether the rareness of functional protein structures is in fact a problem for evolutionary explanation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Upsets are great, but their specialness derives from their rareness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This thing interconnects so many realms of knowledge and tradition and experience that its mere rareness and specialness may even itself count as some kind of approximation of the divine - whatever that is if it's not ... well just that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I won't go on to paraphrase DB's developing argument about random collisions and rareness, as if you've read this far you'll know if you are with her and want to read the article. ❋ Maxine (2007)

When Nur al-Din heard the sweetness of her voice and the rareness of her verse, he inclined to her for delight and could not contain himself for excess of wonderment; so he recited these couplets. ❋ Unknown (2006)

How I would LOVE to make this dish in all its ruby rareness…but in order to justify the expense I need to find people who would appreciate it! ❋ Unknown (2008)

The world is dwindling away, for lack of men; the nations are perishing for scarcity of men, for the rareness of men... ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm not seeing a hugely right-wing issue here, and as far as it being an example of the right supposedly wanting to "control your patriotism", given the extraordinary rareness of the event and the sacredness of the material to so many of all political persuasions, I'd have to give it a W for weak. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On the contrary, the cow will be considered sacred, in consequence of its rareness and utility. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Every physician is full of such receipts: one only I will add for the rareness of it, which I find recorded by many learned authors, as an approved medicine against dotage, head-melancholy, and such diseases of the brain. ❋ Unknown (2007)