Like a fair number of bootleggers he disliked alcohol.

The Heroninos Archive is the name given to a huge collection of papyrus documents, mostly letters, but also including a fair number of accounts, which come from Roman Egypt in 3rd century AD.

* It is a normal number, which means that its digits are equidistributed as if they were generated by tossing a fair coin.

Munch returned to Christiania in 1897 where he also received grudging acceptance, where one critic wrote, " A fair number of these pictures have been exhibited before.

This is, in fact, the inverse of what actually happens, even on a fair chance of a successful event, given a set number of iterations.

There are a fair number of bright stars, both single and double, in Lepus.

The vast majority of Mongols have black hair and brown eyes, although a certain number of Mongols, particularly the Oirat tribe in western Mongolia tend to exhibit lighter features such as fair skin, blue or green eyes, varying shades of brown hair, and sometimes even red or blonde hair.

The October 20, 1996 presidential, legislative, and mayoral elections also were judged free and fair by international observers and by the groundbreaking national electoral observer group Ética y Transparencia ( Ethics and Transparency ) despite a number of irregularities, due largely to logistical difficulties and a baroquely complicated electoral law.

When dealing with experiments that are random and well-defined in a purely theoretical setting ( like tossing a fair coin ), probabilities describe the statistical number of outcomes considered divided by the number of all outcomes ( tossing a fair coin twice will yield HH with probability 1 / 4, because the four outcomes HH, HT, TH and TT are possible ).

In the case of tossing a fair coin, frequentists say that the probability of getting a heads is 1 / 2, not because there are two equally likely outcomes but because repeated series of large numbers of trials demonstrate that the empirical frequency converges to the limit 1 / 2 as the number of trials goes to infinity.

He also says that " Singulary little change followed the 1928 decree ; a fair number of slaves returned to their original homes, but the great majority remained in the villages in which their former masters had placed them or their parents.

In 1992 the army was expanded to 6, 150 under President Joseph Saidu Momoh in a ' poorly designed strategy that eradicated the few remaining elements of cohesion in the military ... recruits were mainly drifters, rural and urban unemployed, a fair number of hooligans, drug addicts, and thieves.

Since all robots ( at least in modern times ) have a fair number of the same features, a self-replicating robot ( or possibly a hive of robots ) would need to do the following:

Thirdly, as ratification is but the expression of the approbation of the people and is to be effective when had in three-fourths of the States, there is a fair implication that it must be sufficiently contemporaneous in that number of States to reflect the will of the people in all sections at relatively the same period, which of course ratification scattered through a long series of years would not do.

Venires must represent a fair cross-section of the community ; the defendant may establish that the requirement was violated by showing that the allegedly excluded group is a " distinctive " one in the community, that the representation of such a group in venires is unreasonable and unfair in regard to the number of persons belonging to such a group, and that the under-representation is caused by a systematic exclusion in the selection process.

Speaking of noise temperature therefore offers a fair comparison between components having different impedances rather than specifying the noise voltage and qualifying that number by mentioning the component's resistance.

The fair was financed through the sale of memberships, which allowed purchases of a certain number of admissions once the park was open.

The band released recordings of a fair number of their concerts, and on some of these the band worked out material which would later form the backbone of their studio recordings ( for example, Pergamon, which documents a concert given in East Berlin shortly after Johannes Schmoelling joined the group, contains themes that would appear later on Tangram ).

As such, it achieved a fair amount of use and recognition within the legal community, including a number of PC users with between 150, 000 to 200, 000 users.

A number of foods are claimed to have been invented at the fair.

# Land Reforms Program and Abolishing " Feudalism ": The government bought the land from the feudal land lords at what was considered to be a fair price and sold it to the peasants at 30 % below the market value, with the loan being payable over 25 years at very low interest rates.

Because Hallowell was curating a loan exhibition of the latest French art for the exposition, the Palmers accelerated their collecting because the curator wanted the latest and greatest in French art for the fair.

This section also limits the amount of a home equity loan, when combined with all other loans against a home, to no more than 80 percent of the home's fair market value at the time of the loan.

The purpose of this appraisal is to verify that the sale price of the property ( upon which the underwriting of the loan is based ) is equal to or less than the fair market value of the property.

The key words here are fair and eventually-if characters ' ranks are close, and the weaker character has obtained some advantage, then the weaker character can escape defeat or perhaps prevail.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

This light is quite unmistakable and unique ; but of course her words, though a fair description of it, might equally apply to some other.

The movement ( known as ' fair trade ' two words as distinct from ' Fairtrade ' indicating the certification ) advocates the payment of a higher price to exporters as well as higher social and environmental standards.

For they … by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple ", and which recounts the parable of the Good Shepherd, and provides the procedure to be followed in dealing with those who err:

In the hands of any but the most skilled constructors, the constraints of the American-style grid ( in which every letter is checked ) usually require a fair number of answers not to be dictionary words.

Only Sten is fluent in English, with Christo having fair knowledge, and Karl knowing only a few words.

The Naxian's fate interested later authors such as Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom, since it had been a fair fight yet he was punished for it by the gods: he had gone to the temple of Apollo at Delphi to consult the oracle and was rebuked with the memorable words: " You killed the servant of the Muses ; depart from the temple.

There was a fair amount of negative response to the novel as well, arising largely from the book ’ s sexual content, which made Sister Carrie, in the words of the Omaha Daily Bee in 1900, “ not a book to be put into the hands of every reader indiscriminately ”.

Merger of the diphthongs in " fair " and " fear " takes place both in Jamaican Standard and Jamaican Patois, resulting in those two words ( and many others, like " bear " and " beer ") becoming homophones.

The etymology of Pākehā is unknown, although the most likely sources are the words pākehakeha or pakepakehā, which refer to mythical human-like creatures, with fair skin and hair, sometimes described as having come from the sea.

" Although he clarified his statement as merely a poor choice of words, critics of Diebold and / or the Republican party interpreted this as at minimum an indication of a conflict of interest, at worst implying a risk to the fair counting of ballots.

Judge Denny Chin told Fox, which had claimed that the subtitle of the book, which included the words " fair and balanced ", infringed on their trademark of the term, " this is an easy case.

Nevertheless, Liutprand saw this treaty as between him and the Pope alone ; in the words of Jeffrey Richards, " he still regarded the exarch as fair game.

It was introduced on February 28, 2007 after the hosts began repeating the words " fair or foul " for a few episodes because of a viewer email including them earlier in the week.

Examples of this are seen the pronunciation of the words stair ( sterr ), hair ( herr ), fair ( ferr ) and chair ( cherr ).

The paradox of life versus lifelessness extends beyond the lover and the fair lady and takes a more temporal shape as three of the ten lines begin with the words " for ever ".

Prince Karim later attended the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, the most expensive boarding school in Europe, for nine years where he ended up with, in his words, " fair grades.

A number of other words have been used to convey the idea in informal or humorous ways, such as " gobs of "( e. g., " gobs of jobs " career fair ); and

Another of the king's chief men, approving of Coifi's words and exhortations, presently added: " The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter amid your officers and ministers, with a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he has emerged.

In other words, it makes the calculation fair because employees don't get taxed on their employers ' contribution of the second half of FICA, therefore self-employed people shouldn't get taxed on the second half of the self-employment tax.

More recent sources tend to claim a simpler derivation, namely from the two Welsh words hardd ( fair / fine ) and llech.

At some point during the fair, someone was able to gain access to the manuscript, tearing off the bottom right-hand corner of the second to last page ( folio 99r / 45r ), containing the words " Quam olim d: C :" ( an instruction that the " Quam olim " fugue of the Domine Jesu was to be repeated " da capo ", at the end of the Hostias ).

These are to be distinguished from thoughts ( e. g., " I feel I didn't get a fair deal ") and from words colloquially used as feelings but which convey what we think we are ( e. g., " inadequate "), how we think others are evaluating us ( e. g., " unimportant "), or what we think others are doing to us ( e. g., " misunderstood ", " ignored ").