It is curious that even centuries of repetition of the yearly cycle did not induce a sufficient degree of confidence to allow people to abandon the ceremonies of the winter solstice.

What they discuss with dialectical seriousness is the degree to which sex can inspire the Muse.

No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.

In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.

For this purpose a degree of intellectual and emotional involvement is necessary ; ;

But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes the frame of our international -- and in some degree our domestic -- policy.

Next September, after receiving a degree from Yale's Master of Arts in Teaching Program, I will be teaching somewhere -- that much is guaranteed by the present shortage of mathematics teachers.

An example of the overall standards applied is the 20-to-1 ratio established for the determination of that degree of cochannel interference which is regarded as objectionable.

With respect to nighttime assignments, the degree of skywave service and interference is determined by skywave curves ( figs. 1 and 2 of sec. 3.190 of the rules ) giving average skywave values.

For proper accreditation of schools, teachers in any course must have a degree at least one level above that for which the student is a candidate.

The basic problem involved is that a college setting up a graduate school must have an entirely separate faculty for the advanced degree.

( 2 ) In the critical micelle region, there is a rapid agglomeration or polymerization to give the micelles, which have a degree of polymerization averaging around 60 - 80.

Lung type 3 ( ( fig. 3 ) is to some degree a composite of types 1, and 2.

Furthermore, conditioned reactions are fundamentally altered when the hypothalamic sympathetic reactivity is augmented beyond a critical level, and several types of behavioral changes probably related to the degree of central autonomic `` tuning '' are observed.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

The value-system of a community or society is always correlated with, and to a degree dependent upon, a more or less shared system of religious beliefs and convictions.

The difficulty of analysis of any subsystem in the phonology is an inverse function of the size -- smaller systems are more troublesome -- for any given degree of morphophonemic complexity.

The actual mean of 1.07 being about halfway between 0 of complete correlation and 2.0 of no correlation, it is evident that there is a pretty fair degree of similarity in the behavior even of particular individual items of meaning as regards long-term stem displacement.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

It is a commonplace that to the degree these special preserves of past philosophic hunting grounds establish an empirical content and suitable methodological criteria, they move away from philosophy as such.

A degree of indefiniteness is a salutary condition for the growth of science.

However, skill is required on the part of an operator to level a platform to any degree of accuracy.

He completed his training in pharmacy also, taking his degree with high honors in 1797, and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine.

Five years later, he was awarded the university's degree in law.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of letters by Rhodes University and the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of the Witwatersrand in 1972.

The same year he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree for his dissertation entitled " The aetiology of congenital intestinal atresia ".

Although the first graduate degree, a PhD in classics, was awarded in 1885, many of the current PhD programs trace their origins to the 1960s.

When university degrees became a prerequisite to become a lawyer in England, the degree awarded was the undergraduate LL. B.

Physicians, graduates in medicine, are usually referred to by the title Dr. ( doutor ) even if they have not been awarded a doctoral degree.

An honorary doctorate is a doctoral degree awarded for service to the institution or the wider community.

), however, are only awarded as an honorary degree.

In August 1564 Oxford was among 17 nobles, knights and esquires in the Queen's entourage who were awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts by the University of Cambridge, and was awarded another by Oxford University on a Royal progress in 1566.

The following year, St. Andrews awarded Cantor an honorary doctorate, but illness precluded his receiving the degree in person.

The same institution awarded him a doctoral degree in Bible in 1972.

Such was Cagney's enthusiasm for farming that when he was awarded an honorary degree from Rollins College, he surprised the staff by writing a paper on soil conservation, rather than just " turning up with Ava Gardner on my arm ," as he put it.

Locke was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1656 and a master's degree in 1658.

In the same year, with his comrades Nizan, Larroutis, Baillou and Herland, he organized a media prank following Charles Lindbergh's successful New York-Paris flight ; Sartre & Co. called newspapers and informed them that Lindbergh was going to be awarded an honorary École degree.

He then returned to Cambridge University and was awarded his doctorate degree in mathematics in 1951.

Oxford University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in June 2005.

On 1 July 2011, Dalglish was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Ulster, for services to football and charity.

Sterne graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in January 1737 ; and returned in the summer of 1740 to be awarded his Master of Arts degree.