At first, only those freed prisoners who could raise the fare for their return passage to France were able to go home, so French Guiana was haunted after the official closing of the prisons by numerous freed convicts leading an aimless existence in the colony.

Given earlier debates by Christian authors about the existence of Jesus, e. g. in Justin Martyr's 2nd century Dialogue with Trypho, it would have been expected that the passage from Josephus would have been used as a component of the arguments.

Andreas Köstenberger considers the James passage to be authentic and states that the James passage attests to the existence of Jesus as a historical person, and that his followers considered him the Messiah.

Though narrow at first, he was able to squeeze through the passage and discovered an ethereal utopia, where the people led an ideal existence in harmony with nature.

Luis Váez de Torres, a Galician or Portuguese navigator working for the Spanish Crown, proved the existence of a passage south of New Guinea, now known as Torres Strait.

The intermediate being who makes the passage in this way from one existence to the next is formed, like every living being, of the five aggregates ( skandha ).

Manuscripts, Nero A. II, in the British Museum ), written about the middle of the eighth century, probably by an Irish monk in France, is found perhaps the earliest attribution of the Milan use to St. Ambrose, though it quotes the authority of St. Augustine, probably alluding to the passage already mentioned: " Est et alius cursus quem refert beatus augustinus episcopus quod beatus ambrosius propter hereticorum ordinem dissimilem composuit quem in italia antea de cantabatur " ( There is yet another Cursus which the blessed Bishop Augustine says that the blessed Ambrose composed because of the existence of a different use of the heretics, which previously used to be sung in Italy ).

Of the two passages the James passage in Book 20 is used by scholars to support the existence of Jesus, the Testomonium Flavianum in Book 18 his crucifixion.

Josephus ' James passage not only attests to the existence of Jesus as a historical person but that some of his contemporaries considered him the Messiah.

Erskine's speech is also remembered for a passage on the duty of barristers to take on even unpopular cases: " I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English Bar, without which impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

The letter is said to have been published by Hadrian's freedman Phlegon ( whose existence is mentioned nowhere except in the HA, in another suspect passage ).

No evidence of the existence of this passage has been recorded.

With the passage of the Oklahoma Organic Act, in June 1890, the territorial government came into existence.

The pericope is not found in any place in any of the earliest surviving Greek Gospel manuscripts ; neither in the two 3rd century papyrus witnesses to John-P < sup > 66 </ sup > and P < sup > 75 </ sup >; nor in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, although all four of these manuscripts may acknowledge the existence of the passage via diacritical marks at the spot.

17d and the passage just cited ), only one is now in existence ; it is preserved in the library of the University of Leyden ( see below ).

The offending passage alluded to rumors that " if the prince fell in love with one of his minor wives and she betrayed him, she and her family would disappear with their name, familial lineage and all vestiges of their existence expunged forever.

Wagner regards this chapter is a key passage supporting the existence of territorial spirits, and appeals to Keil and Delitzsch, who suggest that the " prince of Persia " is the " guardian spirit of the kingdom.

The islands are part of the French portion,, of the international Bouches de Bonifacio (" Strait of Bonifacio ") marine park, a nature reserve, signed into legal existence by France and Italy in 1993 for the protection of the strait against passage of ships bearing dangerous chemicals, and implemented in France by a ministerial decree of 1999 detailing the land to be included in the réserve naturelle de Bouches de Bonifacio for the preservation of wild birds, other fauna and flora, fish and nature in general.

Jesus does not answer the question because he requires the individual to answer it, and thus to understand existence in the Bible, one must recognize who that passage is speaking to in particular.

In the one language or the other, there are in existence the following three fragments: ( I ) The passage which appears as lines 235 – 851 of the Old English verse Genesis in the Caedmon Manuscript ( MS Junius 11 ) ( this fragment is known as Genesis B, distinguishing it from the rest of the poem, Genesis A ), about the revolt of the angels and the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve.

The following passage gives an idea of his conception of the movement: “ It is axiomatic that we are at a threshold in human existence, a fundamental change in understanding about our relationship to nature and each other.

It does not apply to mortgage insurance contracts that were in existence prior to passage of the legislation.

A major event in the corporate existence of the NPC was the passage on September 9, 1971 of Republic Act.

In fact, he said explicitly that there were no structural problems with the verb " to be " when used as an auxiliary verb or when used to state existence or location.

Portrait of John Henry Newman, who used the conscience as evidence of the existence of God

Existence is not being ; it gives being – here a customary phrase is used, existence is a principle ( a source ) of being, not a previous source, but one which is continually in effect.

It is sometimes used humorously to dispel cabal-like organizational conspiracy theories, or as an ironic statement, indicating one who knows the existence of " the cabal " will invariably deny there is one.

Evidence of their existence in the area include pits in rock formations, which they used to grind acorns, and a shellmound, now mostly leveled and covered up, along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay at the mouth of Strawberry Creek.

The term " conspiracy theory " is used to indicate a narrative genre that includes a broad selection of ( not necessarily related ) arguments for the existence of grand conspiracies.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

This includes looking for living examples of animals that are considered extinct, such as dinosaurs ; animals whose existence lacks physical evidence but which appear in myths, legends, or are reported, such as Bigfoot and Chupacabra ; and wild animals dramatically outside their normal geographic ranges, such as phantom cats or " ABCs " ( an initialism commonly used by cryptozoologists that stands for Alien Big Cats ).

The informal term quickly used above means the existence of an algorithm for the task that runs in polynomial time.

Banach's fixed point theorem is also applied in proving the existence of solutions of ordinary differential equations, and is used in one proof of the inverse function theorem.

* Analytical chromatography is used to determine the existence and possibly also the concentration of analyte ( s ) in a sample.

The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of a First Cause ( or instead, an Uncaused cause ) to the universe, and by extension is often used as an argument for the existence of an " unconditioned " or " supreme " being, usually then identified as God.

Many of the existence proofs and some of the uniqueness proofs for the sporadic groups originally used computer calculations, most of which have since been replaced by shorter hand proofs.

It was officially opened on 28 April 1877 and for the first 28 years of its existence it was used almost exclusively by the London Athletics Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football.

The term may be used to refer to the existence of any form of disease, or to the degree that the health condition affects the patient.

The Carolina Panthers, who came into existence in 1995, used to attempt the gimmick ( regardless of whether the purpose of beating the early season heat was to be had ) until 2006.

It was the first time the Rams wore white at home since ( moving to St. Louis ) their existence in Los Angeles where they also used to do the same on some occasion against Dallas.

As with the finiteness theorem, he used an existence proof that shows there must be solutions for the problem rather than providing a mechanism to produce the answers.

Thomas Hobbes – a 17th century deist and important influence on subsequent deists – used the cosmological argument for the existence of God at several places in his writings.

The word is also used in Buddhist phenomenology as a term roughly equivalent to phenomenon, a basic unit of existence and / or experience.

For the Greeks, constructions are more primitive than existence propositions, and can be used to prove existence propositions, but not vice versa.

If multiple transiting planets exist in one system, then this method can be used to confirm their existence.