All through The Republic, Plato attends to the way art relates to the general life and ultimately to a good life for his citizens.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

Providing good customer service requires as thorough a marketing and general management planning job as the original selling of the product.

On the other hand, in a more favorable vein, general business activity should receive some stimulus from rising Federal spending, and the reduction in business inventories has probably run a good part of its course.

The system in general aims to increase blood pressure by increasing the amount of salt and water the body retains, although angiotensin is also very good at causing the blood vessels to tighten ( a potent vasoconstrictor ).

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

In general, good programming is considered to be the measured application of all three, with the goal of producing an efficient and evolvable software solution ( the criteria for " efficient " and " evolvable " vary considerably ).

The English noun commonwealth in the sense meaning " public welfare ; general good or advantage " dates from the 15th century.

At this time there were two customary means of selecting a leader: having a hereditary leader for general purposes, and choosing someone with good qualities in times of crisis or opportunities for action.

A value of h close to zero gives a good approximation to the slope of the tangent line, and smaller values ( in absolute value ) of h will, in general, give better approximations.

An implication of Einstein's theory of general relativity is that Euclidean space is a good approximation to the properties of physical space only where the gravitational field is weak.

Since Ōtomo had weak political support from his maternal relatives, the general wisdom of the time held that it was not a good idea for him to ascend to the throne, yet Tenji was obsessed with the idea.

In general, the surrounding graph must be systematically recolored to turn the ring's coloring into a good one, as was done in the case above where there were 4 neighbors ; for a general configuration with a larger ring, this requires more complex techniques.

Christians may additionally use the term " gospel ", otherwise known as the " good news ", in reference to the general message of the biblical New Testament.

When general health is good, the symptoms are not severe, and the person can fast normally through the night, experimentation with diet ( extra snacks with fat or protein, reduced sugar ) may be enough to solve the problem.

Throughout their raids on the Eastern Roman Empire, the Huns had maintained good relations with the Western Empire, this was due in no small part to their friendship with Flavius Aetius, a powerful Roman general ( sometimes even referred to as the de facto ruler of the Western Empire ) who had spent some time with the Huns.

It appears to me, that the general conclusions established by Mesmer ’ s practice, with respect to the physical effects of the principle of imagination [...] are incomparably more curious than if he had actually demonstrated the existence of his boasted science " animal magnetism ": nor can I see any good reason why a physician, who admits the efficacy of the moral psychological agents employed by Mesmer, should, in the exercise of his profession, scruple to copy whatever processes are necessary for subjecting them to his command, any more than that he should hesitate about employing a new physical agent, such as electricity or galvanism.

Therefore he does not believe in equal rights, but the person's life that should be favored that is most conducive to the general good.

Godwin advocated individualism, proposing that all cooperation in labour be eliminated on the premise that this would be most conducive with the general good.

It is for this reason that loyalty to the good of all alike must be a supreme ( although not exclusive ) commitment by everyone, not only if a truly general will is to be heeded but also if it is to be formulated successfully in the first place ".

The military enjoys, in general, a good reputation.

In a general equilibrium context, a good is a specific concept entangling geographical and time-related characteristics ( grapes sold during October 2009 in Moscow is a different good from grapes sold during October 2009 in New York ).

" But for the searching and right understanding of the Scriptures there is need of a good life and a pure soul, and for Christian virtue to guide the mind to grasp, so far as human nature can, the truth concerning God the Word.

Note that orthography is not a good guide for identifying clitics: clitics may be written as independent words, bound affixes, or separated by special characters ( e. g., apostrophe ).

The rich are either unconvinced by the promise of eternal life, or unaware of the conflict between the possession of material and spiritual wealth, and the good Christian has a duty to guide them towards a better life through the Gospel.

He recalled Rousseau's visit to Britain in 1766, saying: " I had good opportunities of knowing his proceedings almost from day to day and he left no doubt in my mind that he entertained no principle either to influence his heart or to guide his understanding, but vanity ".

To oversimplify its concepts somewhat, natural law theory attempts to identify a moral compass to guide the lawmaking power of the state and to promote ' the good '.

Paine's " libertine " text leads the young man to " bold slanders of the bible ", even to the point that he " threw aside his father's good old family bible, and for a surer guide to pleasure took up the AGE OF REASON!

The IFC attempts to guide businesses toward more sustainable practices particularly with regards to having good governance, supporting women in business, and proactively combating climate change.

Inter Mirifica insists that the Pastor should guide the members of the church so that they can help spread the good truth and further help the common good of the people of the world.

He is also good friends with film historian and critic Leonard Maltin and considers the book Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide to be the standard of film guide books.

To Socrates, truth, not aretē, was the greater good, and each person should, above all else, seek truth to guide one's life.

Defoe was a Puritan moralist and normally worked in the guide tradition, writing books on how to be a good Puritan Christian, such as The New Family Instructor ( 1727 ) and Religious Courtship ( 1722 ).

King himself describes it as a guide for how " a competent writer can become a good one.

On a practical level, Calvinists do not claim to know who is elect and who is not, and the only guide they have is the verbal testimony and good works ( or " fruit ") of each individual.

* Manners from Heaven: a divine guide to good behaviour, ( 1984 ) Quentin Crisp, with John Hofsess, Hutchinson, ISBN 0-09-155810-7.

He tries to guide Condorito and the others in " the good way.

The gods are responsible for much good and no evil, and guide all life towards divine order.

Consequently, when Christian Scripture is interpreted according to the guide of divine simplicity, when it says that God is good for example, it should be taken to speak of a likeness to goodness as found in humanity and referred to in human speech.

The work is more of a sociological and philosophical treatise on the basis of human relations than a how-to guide on etiquette, but the German word “ Knigge ” has come to mean “ good manners ” or books on etiquette.

The statement that relative humidity ( RH %) can never be above 100 %, while a fairly good guide, is not absolutely accurate, without a more sophisticated definition of humidity than the one given here.

: A brownie guide thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day.

Hornsby's performance helped guide the Giants to a 92 – 62 win – loss record during the season, which was good enough for third place in the NL.

Strong currents are a feature of the diving in Puerto Galera and it is good advice to employ the services of an experienced local guide or dive centre.

Wills suggests Adam Ferguson as a good guide to what Jefferson had in mind: