Pliny makes clear the fact in the preface to his work that he had checked his facts by reading and comparing the works of others, as well as referring to them by name.

Uncial itself probably comes from St. Jerome's preface to the Book of Job, where it is found in the form uncialibus, but it is possible that this is a misreading of inicialibus ( though this makes little sense in the context ), and Jerome may have been referring to the larger initial letters found at the beginning of paragraphs.

The reason for this change, as the Committee explained in the preface, was that "... the American Revisers ... were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament ..." Other changes from the RV to the ASV included ( but were not limited to ) substituting " who " and " that " for " which " when referring to people, and Holy Ghost was dropped in favor of Holy Spirit.

Although these lost works seem only to have included arias, with no recitative, they were apparently what Peri was referring to, in his preface to the published edition of his Euridice, when he wrote: " Signor Emilio del Cavalieri, before any other of whom I know, enabled us to hear our kind of music upon the stage ".

The ethos Erasmus sets forth within The Education of a Christian Prince ( Institutio principis christiani ), similar to the Isocratean manner of setting himself apart from potentially incompetent teachers, he shows a certain disdain “ against the sophists .” Actually referring to Isocrates, Erasmus, in the preface of Christian Prince and addressing Charles the prince, he states, “ or he was a sophist, instructing some petty king or rather tyrant, and both were pagans ”.

PPM are most of the time referring to A4 paper in Europe and letter paper in the United States, resulting in a 5-10 % difference.

Based on what Krishnamurti states referring to a scholarly paper published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, the Sanskrit word itself is later than since the dates for the forms with-r-are centuries later than the dates for the forms without-r-(, -, damela-etc.

In 1521, at the Diet of Worms, when the German princes handed in a paper containing a list of " grievances " concerning the condition of the Church, George added for himself twelve specific complaints referring mainly to the abuse of Indulgences and the annates.

A later retrospective article did appear on October 6 in the same paper referring to him as " the late Hiram Melville ", but this appears to have been a typesetting error.

His powerful memory enabled him to dispense with the manuscript on which most German professors relied, and he spoke extemporaneously, referring only occasionally to a few names and dates written on a slip of paper.

The referring paper by Łukasiewicz Remarks on Nicod's Axiom and on " Generalizing Deduction " was reviewed by H. A. Pogorzelski in the Journal of Symbolic Logic in 1965.

Dr Lee Illis of Guy's Hospital in London wrote a paper in 1963 entitled On Porphyria and the Aetiology of Werewolves, in which he argues that historical accounts on werewolves could have in fact been referring to victims of congenital porphyria, stating how the symptoms of photosensitivity, reddish teeth and psychosis could have been grounds for accusing a sufferer of being a werewolf.

Kellermann does in fact include in the conclusion of his 1993 paper several paragraphs referring to the need for further study of domestic violence and its causes and prevention.

Many traditional customs, such as fortune telling, paper art, feng shui consultations, wearing traditional Chinese dresses for weddings, the use of the traditional Chinese calendar, scholarship in classical Chinese literature and the practice of referring to the Chinese New Year as the “ New Year ” rather than the “ Spring Festival ” have been weakened in mainland China.

The word is derived from the Greek διπλωμάτης, diplōmátēs, the holder of a diploma ( a folded paper, literally a " folding "), referring in this case not to an educational certificate but to a diplomat's letters of accreditation, which enable him or her to carry out duties on behalf of one country or institution within the jurisdiction of another country or institution.

Beginning in the 2003-2004 school year, the paper began referring to itself as University of Ottawa's Fulcrum, rather than The Fulcrum, on the cover ( although it is still commonly referred to as " the Fulcrum " by University of Ottawa students ).

Observation statements ( O-statements ) have their meaning fixed by observable truth conditions, e. g. " the litmus paper is red ", whereas observation terms ( O-terms ) have their meaning fixed by their referring to observable things or properties, e. g. " red ".

The referring paper by Łukasiewicz Remarks on Nicod's Axiom and on " Generalizing Deduction ", originally published in Polish in 1931, was later reviewed by H. A. Pogorzelski in the Journal of Symbolic Logic in 1965.

In particular, there are different methods for referring to the elements of a list, a vector, or a matrix, depending on whether one is writing a formal mathematical paper for publication, or when one is writing a computer program.

An academic paper by Vincent Maher, the head of the New Media Lab at Rhodes University, outlined several weaknesses in the claims made by citizen journalists, in terms of the " three deadly E's ", referring to ethics, economics and epistemology.

The usage " crib " was adapted from a slang term referring to cheating: for example ," I cribbed my answer from your test paper.

The surrealist Oscar Domínguez ( referring to his work as " decalcomania with no preconceived object ") took up the technique in 1936, using gouache spread thinly on a sheet of paper or other surface ( glass has been used ), which is then pressed onto another surface such as a canvas.

They wrote to the police over their suspicions, and the police informed them that there were four pieces of paper referring to Ash in Mulcaire's notebooks, and five items relating to Chapman.

Though the Times had been a strong backer of Cryer, the paper in 1927 published an editorial referring to the city government as " Our Local Tammany ", a reference to Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall machine that controlled New York politics in the 19th Century.

The Specialist Applications section allowed the candidate to choose one area for which they take the SA paper and attain full Fellowship ; leading to many referring to this as the “ Fellowship paper .” However, as the rules on the ordering of examinations were relaxed, this examination may be taken before taking some earlier examinations resulting in candidates qualifying on other papers.

The New York Times published his obituary on its front page, referring to him as " a great traveler, both on land and paper.

The paper called the shootings " A heroic day of resistance against the police ", under the headline " Police 2, Oakland residents 4 ", with the " 2 " referring to Mixon and Oscar Grant, a shooting victim of BART Police earlier that year.

When referring to the paper theme, 1UP commented that " It's a cohesive, clever approach that turns the game's visual style into more than just a look ".

Thus he may be referring to some concrete thing, or incident, in his immediate environment by some symbolic-sounding, hyperbolic reference to transcendental events on the global scene.

`` Are you referring, sir '', asked Helva politely, `` to the Dark Age discussions of the number of angels who could stand on the head of a pin ''??

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

He moved to Boston on April 24, 1828, and was immediately impressed, referring to the city as a place " where the light of the sun of righteousness has risen.

Arabs, on the other hand, call the system " Hindu numerals ", referring to their origin in India.

For this reason many people refer to any 625 / 25 type signal as " PAL " and to any 525 / 30 signal as " NTSC ", even when referring to digital signals, for example, on DVD-Video which don't contain any analog color encoding, thus no PAL or NTSC signals at all.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

Ar., lxiv, and De Syn., xviii ), St Athanasius does not recall from memory being a first hand witness to the onset of the great persecution by the Tetrarchy of Diocletian and Maximian in February 303, for in referring to the events of this period he makes no direct appeal to his own personal recollections, but falls back on tradition.

Although the lion had been dropped from the jersey, the players had worn the lion motif on their ties as they arrived in South Africa, which led the press and public referring to them as " the Lions ".

Thinking that the man that the king is referring to is himself, Haman says that the man should be dressed in the king's royal robes and led around on the king's royal horse, while a herald calls: " See how the king honours a man he wishes to reward!

Job does speak of an adversary on several occasions within the central poem, but it is doubtful that he is referring to " the Adversary " of the prose prologue.

* Comedian Paul Shanklin parodied the song with " Ballad of the Black Beret ", referring to the Clinton sex scandal, on his 1999 album Simply Reprehensible.

* A 1977 song by Steely Dan on the Aja album, referring to the root beer float.

In further play on this theme by the director, Jade Fox, as she dies, refers to the poison from a young child, " the deceit of an eight year old girl ", obviously referring to what she considers her own spiritual poisoning by her young apprentice Jen.

The Conservatives capitalised on the crisis with the slogan ' Starve with Strachey and shiver with Shinwell ' ( referring to the Minister of Food John Strachey ).

Twelve is known as " boxcars " because the spots on the two dice that show 6-6 look like schematic drawings of railroad boxcars ; it is also called " midnight ", referring to twelve o ' clock.

* Collection ( horse ), a term referring to the horse carrying more weight on his hindquarters than his forehand

Because Ω depends on the program encoding used, it is sometimes called Chaitin's construction instead of Chaitin's constant when not referring to any specific encoding.

Reportedly, he began referring to himself as a god when meeting with politicians and he was referred to as Jupiter on occasion in public documents.

PID is an acronym for Proportional-Integral-Derivative, referring to the three terms operating on the error signal to produce a control signal.

In 1952 " file " was used in referring to information stored on punched cards.

For instance, manshonyagger derives from the German words " menschen " meaning, in some senses, " men " or " mankind ", and " jäger ", meaning a hunter ; referring to war machines that roam the wild lands between the walled cities and prey on men, except for those they can identify as Germans.

A story in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland, perhaps referring to events some time after 911, claims that Queen Æthelflæd, who ruled in Mercia, allied with the Irish and northern rulers against the Norsemen on the Irish sea coasts of Northumbria.

* The name can be broken down into, " they rested on the twenty-fifth ", referring to the fact that the Jews ceased fighting on the 25th day of Kislev, the day on which the holiday begins.