In Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ), though written after the present flood of dystopias began, we can see the bright vision of science fiction clearly defined.

The distinction between domiciled ( de jure ) and present ( de facto ) population was not clearly defined.

Congress has not clearly defined the bounds between state and federal court competence.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

Meanwhile, in 1913, physicist Niels Bohr suggested that the electrons were confined into clearly defined, quantized orbits, and could jump between these, but could not freely spiral inward or outward in intermediate states.

Experimental studies of the phenomenon require a clearly defined state of the substrate surface and its contaminant density etc., upon which the thin film is deposited.

More recent IUPAC recommendations now suggest the newer term " hydronium " be used in favor of the older accepted term " oxonium " to illustrate reaction mechanisms such as those defined in the Brønsted – Lowry and solvent system definitions more clearly, with the Arrhenius definition serving as a simple general outline of acid – base character.

Prior to 1991 the law was stricter, when changes more clearly defined which businesses were exempt such as pharmacies, hospitals, and restaurants.

Low productivity and competitiveness on the European and world markets alike due to inadequate R & D funding and a lack of a clearly defined development policy remain a significant obstacle for foreign investment and economic growth.

In Timothy and Titus in the New Testament a more clearly defined episcopate can be seen.

In the works of the Apostolic Fathers, and Ignatius of Antioch in particular, the role of the episkopos, or bishop, became more important or, rather, already was very important and being clearly defined.

Because of the novelty of the field, bioengineer is still not clearly defined.

Parts of Cambodia's border with Thailand are indefinite, and the maritime boundary with Thailand is not clearly defined.

* A municipality is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a town or village.

There is a tendency to use the term in a less strict way, to mean approximately the same thing as " culture " and therefore, the term can more broadly refer to any important and clearly defined human society.

Regional rail does not exist in this sense in the United States, so the term " regional rail " has become synonymous with commuter rail there, although the two are more clearly defined in Europe.

The actual structure of the cell wall is not clearly defined and several models exist-the covalently linked cross model, the tether model, the diffuse layer model and the stratified layer model.

Omnivores also consume both animal and non-animal food, and apart from the more general definition, there is no clearly defined ratio of plant to animal material that would distinguish a facultative carnivore from an omnivore, or an omnivore from a facultative herbivore, for that matter.

Even the protoctists can be elevated, although their new position in the hierarchy is not clearly defined.

Moreover, objectivity is clearly defined in that work.

Through quantifying the evidence or making sense of it in qualitative form, a researcher can answer empirical questions, which should be clearly defined and answerable with the evidence collected ( usually called data ).

When used in science, for example geology, eras denote clearly defined periods of time of arbitrary but well defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic Era from 252 Ma – 66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event.

They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

High-quality studies have clearly defined eligibility criteria and have minimal missing data.

As in similar instances elsewhere, this Pax Americana was not quite clearly marked in its geographical limit, nor was it guided by any theoretical consistency, but rather by the merits of the case and the test of immediate expediency in each instance.

* A geographical or political border that is clearly defined and demarcated

The chain divides Bahia in two clearly distinct geographical zones.

The United States territory includes clearly defined geographical area and refers to an area of land, air or sea under jurisdiction of United States federal governmental authority ( but is not limited only to these areas ).

This is clearly the case in European geographical and political maps published during the 17 – 20th centuries.

According to Singer, such inaction is clearly immoral if a child is drowning in a shallow pond and someone can save it but chooses not to ; nor does placing greater geographical distance between the person in need and the potential helper reduce the latter's moral obligations:

This was the product of the geographical extension of the Mongol Empire, and is most clearly reflected in this work by Rashid al-Din.

Since it is not clearly defined, there is some variation in its geographical limits.

Hiob Ludolf, in his Historia aethiopica, was the first to clearly distinguish the Crocuta from Hyaena on account of physical, as well as geographical grounds, though he never had any first hand experience of the species, having gotten his accounts from an Ethiopian intermediary.

6 .↑ Brigitte Horiot ( linguist, specialist of the dialects between Loire and Gironde, CNRS and University of Lyon III ) wrote ( in “ Les parlers du Sud-Ouest ”, in: “ Français de France et Français du Canada: Les parlers de l ’ Ouest de la France, du Québec et de l ’ Acadie ”, Centre d ’ Etudes Linguistiques Jacques Goudet, Université Lyon III, 1995, p. 228 ) in 1995: « The linguistic description of the ALO ’ s linguistique de l ’ Ouest ( Linguistic Atlas of the West ): Poitou, Aunis, Saintonge, Angoumois area clearly shows the existence between Loire and Gironde of an important linguistic area, created by its geographical situation and its history, and which particularity is to be a transition zone between North and South, between Breton lands and the central region “ Centre ”.

Their Arab tribal origins are not as clearly established as is, however, their Persian geographical origin immediately prior to their rise to notoriety in the lower Persian Gulf.

Defined by its geographical make-up, Westleigh is clearly divided at the midpoint of Quarter Sessions Road.

While the existence of China was clearly known to Roman cartographers of the time, its geographical position is depicted in Ptolemy's Geographia from c. 150 AD rather vaguely: On the map, China is located beyond the Aurea Chersonesus (" Golden Peninsula "), which refers to the Southeast Asian peninsula.

The geographical jurisdiction of each Cornish stannary was more clearly demarcated that of the others than was the case in Devon, as each represented a separate tin-bearing area, but the boundaries were not precisely laid down.

This phenomenon of what might have been taken for a piece of Umbrian text appearing in a district remote from Umbria and hemmed in by Latins on the north and Oscan-speaking Samnites on the south is a most curious feature in the geographical distribution of the Italic dialects, and is clearly the result of some complex historical movements.

The ‘ main impetus behind regional developments ,’ they write, was ‘ the local actors ’ [...] The authors write clearly and authoritatively and with great geographical sweep.

A population density: 1. 49 people per km2 Relief .- belongs to a clearly defined geographical area known as Gran Chaco, which extends to the departments of Chuquisaca and Tarija and the republics of Argentina and Paraguay.

The forms Argidava and Arcidava found in other ancient sources like Ptolemy's Geographia ( c. 150 AD ) and Tabula Peutingeriana ( 2nd century AD ), clearly place a Dacian town with those names at this geographical location.

In the late 1980s, government and professional circles were considering changing the system so that primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of care would be clearly distinguished within each geographical region.

The territory of the Peramangk people prior to European arrival followed clearly defined geographical boundaries and is confirmed by both art site locations, the Tjilbruke Songline ( full version ), and interviews given by survivors to Tindale in various journals.