With the album, Waits asserted that he " tried to resolve a few things as far as this cocktail lounge, maudlin, crying-in-your-beer image that I have.

Otherwise, few have seriously asserted that the oath augments the President's powers.

Fromm also asserted that few people in modern society had respect for the autonomy of their fellow human beings, much less the objective knowledge of what other people truly wanted and needed.

In 2004 Sternberg and Grigerenko stated that there were no validating studies for multiple intelligences, and in 2004 Gardner asserted that he would be " delighted were such evidence to accrue " ( p. 214 ), and he admitted that " MI theory has few enthusiasts among psychometricians or others of a traditional psychological background " because they require " psychometric or experimental evidence that allows one to prove the existence of the several intelligences " ( 2004, p.

It is also asserted that Brunel failed to account for atmospheric refraction and the effect is visible a few days too early.

William Butterfield, the original architect, a High Churchman himself, produced a vigorous masterpiece of Victorian Gothic, among his few secular buildings, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner characterized as " manly ", and which, Charles Eastlake asserted, defied criticism, but which only slowly gained adherents during the later 20th century.

" At the time, Almond asserted that " few would question that he was the most original and productive political scientist of his time.

For the next few years of his life Fuller was mainly dependent upon his dealings with booksellers, of whom he asserted that none had ever lost by him.

It may safely be asserted that very few readers will do so.

Oral histories asserted that a few Beothuk survived for some years around the region of the Exploits River, Twillingate, Newfoundland ; and Labrador ; and formed unions with European colonists, Inuit and Mi ' kmaq.

Although his biographer son largely discounted Laing's account of his childhood, an obituary by an acquaintance of Laing asserted that about his parent – " the full truth he told only to a few close friends ".

He became intimate with Mrs Dyson ; a few days before his execution, Peace asserted positively that she had been his mistress, but she strenuously denied this.

With the album Waits asserted that he " tried to resolve a few things as far as this cocktail-lounge, maudlin, crying-in-your-beer image that I have.

In order to counter concerns that international tobacco control legislation would unduly harm economies of which tobacco farming, manufacturing, and sale were an important part, the WHO cited a landmark World Bank publication entitled Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control ( CTE ), which asserted that tobacco control would not harm economies, other than a select few agrarian countries that were unusually dependent on tobacco production.

Richardson asserted that his review found there was little data to support the almost completely negative picture of these groups painted by a few mental health professionals and others.

All of the map's copies passed out of public knowledge after 1574, and the map was largely forgotten – perhaps because only a few copies were printed and because Pope Paul III asserted a 10-year " copyright.

In 1967, she recorded two albums, and released a string of singles during the next few years that often asserted a fiery and violent persona, including 1969's " My Big Iron Skillet ", a top 20 hit which threatened death or assault for cheating on a spouse.

The social democrats emphasized, that they wanted to assure the future of one of the few left-liberal daily newspapers in Germany and asserted they would not exert influence on the articles.

Thereafter the Counts of Bigorre, notable participants in the Reconquista, the Crusades, and the war against the Cathars, strongly asserted their independence, though on a few occasions they prudently acknowledged the suzerainty of another ; as of Alfonso II of Aragon in 1187.

It may be asserted generally that there are few of the ancient physicians, since the time of Hippocrates, who appear to have been less biased by attachment to any peculiar set of opinions, and whose account of the phenomena and treatment of disease has better stood the test of subsequent experience.

And everywhere in evidence among the few remaining defensive units was that old handmaiden of disaster -- multiple command.

Astronomy is sometimes promoted as one of the few remaining sciences for which amateurs can still contribute useful data.

Armenia's record on discrimination toward the few remaining national minorities is generally good.

Ancient-There are few remaining examples with early art often favouring drawing over colour.

The only Ainu speakers remaining ( besides perhaps a few partial speakers ) live solely in Japan.

Nevertheless the Lombards viewed Italy as a rich land which promised great booty, assets Alboin used to gather together a horde which included not only Lombards but many other peoples of the region, including Heruli, Suebi, Gepids, Thuringii, Bulgars, Sarmatians, the remaining Romans and a few Ostrogoths.

Not wishing to see Nicomedia or the other few remaining forts in Asia Minor suffer the same fate, Andronikos III sought to pay off the Ottomans with tribute — the Ottomans did not stop at this and seized Nicomedia as well in 1337.

His loss of the empire's few remaining territories in Anatolia made the Ottoman Turks posed to expand into Europe as did its lack of strength following his reign to prevent the formation of the Serbian Empire.

The few remaining Jews in the Arab countries reside mostly in Morocco and Tunisia.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

The site sprawls over an estimated ; among the few structures remaining today are a ruined bath and gymnasium complex and a recently uncovered stadium.

This line also came under severe pressure and, in turn, was forced back to their third-line of cavalry and the few battalions still remaining on the plain.

For decades the generations of few remaining sighthounds were regarded as hunting-suited, when showing enough attacking initiative for fox hunting.

Often the result of flash floods, such streams usually dry out within a few days as the remaining puddles seep into the sandy clay soil.

Agrippina was one of the few remaining descendants of Augustus, and her son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Emperor Nero ) was one of the last males of the Imperial family.

Although most economies today are market economies or mixed economies ( which are partially planned ), fully planned economies exist in the remaining few countries of Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, and Myanmar.

Temple Bar and Grafton Street are two of the few remaining areas that were not affected by the wave of Georgian reconstruction and maintained their medieval character.

Sapir worked first with Betty Brown one of the language's few remaining speakers.

In the remaining few years of his life, Callistus II attempted to secure the status of the Church as it had existed at the end of the reign of Pope Gregory VII.

In 1969, facing more experienced prototypes and the new yet still unreliable 4. 5 L flat-12 powered Porsche 917s, the winners Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver managed to beat the remaining 3. 0 litre Porsche 908 by just a few seconds with the already outdated GT40 ( in the very car that had won in 1968-the legendary GT40P / 1075 ).

However the Legislative Council had few powers at this time, with government remaining fully in the hands of the colonial authorities.

Conversion to Islam and the Albigensian Crusade ( 1209 – 1229 ) greatly reduced the remaining number of Gnostics throughout the Middle Ages, though a few Mandaean communities still exist.

About 70 – 80 % of the mass in a cluster is in the form of dark matter, with 10 – 30 % consisting of this heated gas and the remaining few percent of the matter in the form of galaxies.

Although quilted armour survived into the English Civil War in England as a poor man's cuirass, and as an item to be worn beneath the few remaining suits of full plate, it was increasingly replaced by the ' buff coat '- a leather jacket of rough suede.

At the end of the 1980s, however, Callejas had few remaining vehicles with which to pull the country out of the deep regionwide recession of the 1980s.