It is more difficult with Faulkner than with most authors to say what is the extent and what is the source of his knowledge.

No doubt there are historians who can explain to a great extent what happened to the plans and projects of the eighteenth century.

To what extent such low density applies to micrometeorites is unknown.

The answers to questions such as these certainly depend to some extent upon the educator's own social-class position and also upon his social history, as well as upon his personality and what he conceives his mission to be as an educator.

When the words are used, we are never sure which of the traditional meanings the user may have in mind, or to what extent his revisions and rejections of former understandings correspond to ours.

To what extent and in what ways did Christianity affect the United States of America in the nineteenth century??

To what extent did it mould the morals and the social, economic, and political life and institutions of the country??

Yet to determine precisely to what extent and exactly in what ways any individual showed the effects of Christianity would be impossible.

To what extent Snorri's presentation is poetic creation only remains unclear.

It is not clear to what extent the effect is due to cyanide released by the crushed leaves, and to what extent other volatile products are responsible.

The first option ( although it is debatable to what extent the Duke was committed to such an enterprise ) was a plan to transfer his forces from the Spanish Netherlands to northern Italy ; once there, he intended linking up with Prince Eugene in order to defeat the French and safeguard Savoy from being overrun.

It is not known to what extent escaping German sailors attempted to surrender as they were not asked before shooting them.

Some of the driving research questions in studying how the brain itself processes language include: ( 1 ) To what extent is linguistic knowledge innate or learned ?, ( 2 ) Why is it more difficult for adults to acquire a second-language than it is for infants to acquire their first-language ?, and ( 3 ) How are humans able to understand novel sentences?

To what extent do participants in joint activities experience a sense of community?

Specifically for fluids, the Knudsen number is used to assess to what extent the approximation of continuity can be made.

To what extent armies will adopt even lighter carbines, and to what extent they will be avoided, has yet to be seen entirely.

`` At 200, 300, 400 feet under the water, when he must be paying very much attention, he will be thinking about what you are telling him.

Whether any of us remain in it long will depend on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going on in the countries of Asia and Africa, and also of course on how long the cold war remains cold.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

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.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.

Your self-control in this respect will be the only witness to your understanding of what I am saying.

`` But what will you do this evening, Mr. Davis ''??

When he discusses the subject matter of poetry, he asks what moral effect the scenes will have.

`` And from now on, for the rest of this trip, I will only drink what you agree that I should drink ''.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Malraux pretends, perhaps with a trifle too self-conscious a modesty, that his fragmentary work will accordingly `` appeal only to the curiosity of bibliophiles '' and `` to connoisseurs of what might have been ''.

And it is also a fact of life that there will always ( be youngish half-educated people around, who will be dazzled by the glitter of what looks like a literary movement.

His suggestion that the prestige colleges be made the training institutions for medical, law and graduate schools will run into strong opposition from these colleges themselves -- even though what he is recommending is already taking shape as a trend.

Ironic, is it not, that after completing years of costly scientific training he will receive a cut in pay from what he is receiving as an ordinary unskilled laborer??

Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.

Then see what a boom in all trades, as well as slum clearance at no cost to taxpayers, will happen.

It is a revelation of what has been done, what is being done and what will be done in Newark as shown by architects' plans, models and pictures.

It shows what a beautiful city Newark will become and certainly make every Newarker proud of this city.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

Still another segment of the student population consists of those who seek, in what they regard as religion, intellectual clarity, rational belief, and ethical guidance and reinforcement.

When he asked Gerry Davis what legal options were available, Davis told him that intellectual property law for software was not clear enough to sue.

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

Beliefs are not typically formed completely at random, and thus we have an intellectual responsibility, or obligation, to try to believe what is true and to avoid believing what is false.

An example of the intellectual confusion about what heritability is and is not, is the statement: " If all environments were to become equal for everyone, heritability would rise to 100 percent because all remaining differences in IQ would necessarily be genetic in origin ", which Gould said is misleading, at best, and false, at worst.

Mill notes that, contrary to what its critics might say, there is “ no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect … a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation .” However, he accepts that this is usually because the intellectual pleasures are thought to have circumstantial advantages, i. e. “ greater permanency, safety, uncostliness, & c .” Instead, Mill will argue that some pleasures are intrinsically better than others.

Both of these acts of contextualization are typical of what intellectual historians do, nor are they exclusive.

In other words, on the continent of Europe, dialectics has entered intellectual culture as what might be called a legitimate part of thought and philosophy, whereas in America and Britain, the dialectic plays no discernible part in the intellectual culture, which instead tends toward positivism.

He was an artist putting down paint on canvas creating works not to shock and outrage, but to say, “ This is what I see .” More appreciated over the years by collectors than academicians and critics, Modigliani was indifferent to staking a claim for himself in the intellectual avant-garde of the art world.

Its strategy was two-pronged: armed struggle against what were perceived as Western imperialism and its agents ; and an internal purifying process to free Islamic territory and Muslim minds of non-Islamic cultural, intellectual and spiritual influences, by providing justice, services, resources to the mustazafin ( weak ) masses of the Muslim world.

Even though the via negativa essentially rejects theological understanding as a path to God, some have sought to make it into an intellectual exercise, by describing God only in terms of what God is not.

After its initial success faded, the company turned to legal defenses of what it regarded as its intellectual property.

Letterman renamed a few of his regular bits to avoid legal problems over trademark infringement ( NBC cited that what he did on Late Night was " intellectual property " of the network ).

The intellectual story of Valparaiso University in the post-war years might be best summarized by John Strietelmeier who wrote that what united the VU thinkers of this period was " the dream that somewhere there might be a place where high faith and high intellect might meet to provide an apostate age with a new vision and a new hope.

It is possible to outline a story from this series of love lyrics, but the incidents are slight, and in this case, as in other Elizabethan sonnet-cycles, it is difficult to dogmatize as to what is the expression of a real personal experience, and what is intellectual exercise in imitation of Petrarch.

It should be mentioned that this depiction of intellectual tradition in Islamic Lands is mainly dependent upon what West could understand and received ( or was willing to understand ) from this long era.

It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?

Moyers also referred to what historian Clinton Rossiter called the period of " the great train robbery of American intellectual history ," when " conservatives — or better, pro-corporate apologists " began using terms such as " progress ", " opportunity ", and " individualism " in order to make " the plunder of America sound like divine right.

It should be mentioned that this depiction of intellectual tradition in Islamic Lands is mainly dependent upon what West could understand ( or was willing to understand ) from this long era.