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Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
Even if men eventually find themselves able to look through walls and around corners, one may question whether this will help them to live better lives.
Even if the self portrait we distribute for popular consumption were accurate it would be dangerous to present it as a picture of the ideal society.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
Even if the electric power fails after an attack, any time that the heater has been used will make the shelter that much more comfortable.
Even if we were not bound by Nugent, petitioner here would not be entitled to the report.
Even if all these operations could be performed instantaneously, the ICBM still has a time of flight to the target of about 30 minutes.
Even if this is some day possible, there remains the 30-minute time of flight of a missile to its overseas target.
Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.
Even if gymnastics are not the ultimate goal, the good tumbler will be a better dancer, a better athlete, and a human being with a greater margin of safety in any activity.
Even if we strip their respective claims to the barest minimum, the `` odds '' still favor them both, for the trend in effect is always more likely to continue than to reverse.
Even if we marshal substantial agreement behind mandatory public education, we likely cannot expect that all the states will enact the legislation.
Even if there are no livestock, the farmer cannot leave the farm for long periods, particularly during the growing season.
Even if it did not, how would this little world of gentle people cope with its new reality of grenades and submachine guns??
Even then, if she took one step forward he could catch her.
Even if he is gifted with the merest mustard grain of imagination, something must seep in.
Even if he angry, Tim wouldn't hurt a woman.
Even the two-year-old feels miffed if the family has a prayer-time without her.
Even if the atom were big enough to hold a football field, this nucleus is still only about the size of a pinhead.
Even if that's all the promise he ever gave or ever will give, the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it, even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe, and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie.
Even if we do, you'll be out of here in a week, probably ''.
Even if they ever did say anything about people like Lucille Warren, I know they wouldn't have dreamed of saying it in front of me.
Even if not yet ratified, the Articles provided domestic and international legitimacy for the Continental Congress to direct the American Revolutionary War, conduct diplomacy with Europe and deal with territorial issues and Indian relations.
Even so, half of a given amount of astatine will vaporize in an hour if put on a clean glass surface at room temperature.
Even if the resolution of an analog signal is higher than a comparable digital signal, the difference can be overshadowed by the noise in the signal.

Even and theory
Even circuit theory may not be relevant to a person designing telecommunication systems that use off-the-shelf components.
Even though the set may be the same, the same function might be a homomorphism, say, in group theory ( sets with a single operation ) but not in ring theory ( sets with two related operations ), because it fails to preserve the additional operation that ring theory considers.
Even accepting the theory of universal positivity, it is difficult to explain, for example, the actions of a soldier who sacrifices his life by jumping on a grenade in order to save his comrades.
* Even if life were to survive the hardships of space, or further, was being created in space, these would be very enduring life forms, as the theory itself proposes, and they would have already visibly populated and altered Venus and Mars as well as other moons in the solar system.
Even with the defining postulates of both Einstein's theory of general relativity and quantum theory being indisputably supported by rigorous and repeated empirical evidence and while they do not directly contradict each other theoretically ( at least with regard to their primary claims ), they have proven extremely difficult to incorporate into one consistent, cohesive model.
Even so, republicanism flourished in the " country " party of the early 18th century, which denounced the corruption of the " court " party, producing a political theory that heavily influenced the American colonists.
Even for observational data, statistical theory provides a way of calculating a value that can be used to interpret a sample of data from a population, it can provide a means of indicating how well that value is determined by the sample, and thus a means of saying corresponding values derived for different populations are as different as they might seem ; however, the reliability of inferences from post-hoc observational data is often worse than for planned randomized generation of data.
Even the " standard " ten-dimensional string theory allows the " curled up " dimensions to be compactified in an enormous number of different ways ( one estimate is 10 < sup > 500 </ sup > ) each of which corresponds to a different collection of fundamental particles and low-energy forces.
Even in their own time, with limited translations of their dense theoretical texts, combined with their very successful self-mythologisation, the term " situationist " was often used to refer to any rebel or outsider, rather than to a body of surrealist-inspired Marxist critical theory.
Even if the crimes start out small, they may eventually become much worse if not effectively addressed ( broken windows theory ).
Even a Marxist theoretician such as Gramsci – reminds Caruso – admitted of the Homo economicus as a useful abstraction on the ground of economic theory, provided that we grant there be as many homines oeconomici as the modes of production.
Even if the recount was fair in theory, it was unfair in practice.
Even though ISI is a development theory, its political implementation and theoretical rationale are rooted in trade theory: it has been argued that all or virtually all nations that have industrialized have followed ISI.
Even though Gorman later admitted he had lied, Knight's book was responsible for a conspiracy theory that accuses royalty and freemasonry of complicity in the Ripper murders.
Even though the theory on why and how the non-mechanized factories gradually replaced the small artisan shops is still ambiguous, what is apparent is that the larger-scale factories enjoyed technological gains and advance in efficiency over the small artisan shops.
Even Trivers, who once dismissed her apparently illogical convictions, admits that her theory regarding female sexual strategies has " worn well.
Even though γ < sub >+</ sub > and γ < sub >–</ sub > cannot be determined separately, γ < sub >±</ sub > is a measureable quantity that can also be predicted for sufficiently dilute systems using Debye – Hückel theory.
Even though later disproven by the influence of bacteria and the discovery of viruses, the miasma theory helped make the connection between poor sanitation and disease.
Even if one wants to construct a string field theory which only reproduces tree-level interactions between closed strings, the classical action must contain an infinite number of vertices consisting of string polyhedra.
Even his teaching at the University of Hamburg went beyond the strict boundaries of mathematics to include mechanics and relativity theory.

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