It might be pointed out that the integrating function of religion, for good or ill, has often supported or been identified with other groupings -- political, nationality, language, class, racial, sociability, even economic.

The engineering work will consist of having a good model to evaluate the function.

" R. M. Hare also criticised ethical naturalism because of its fallacious definition of the terms ' good ' or ' right ' explaining how value-terms being part of our prescriptive moral language are not reducible to descriptive terms: " Value-terms have a special function in language, that of commending ; and so they plainly cannot be defined in terms of other words which themselves do not perform this function "

* An equalization filter is not designed to fully pass or block any frequency, but instead to gradually vary the amplitude response as a function of frequency: filters used as pre-emphasis filters, equalizers, or tone controls are good examples.

It should be noted that a good deal of the American use of cross-cutting was not the rapid alternation between parallel chains of action developed by D. W. Griffith, but a limited number of alternations to make it possible to leave out uninteresting bits of action with no real plot function.

Still, in a half-full table, a good hash function will typically narrow the search down to only one or two entries.

A good hash function should map the expected inputs as evenly as possible over its output range.

In many cases, one can design a special-purpose ( heuristic ) hash function that yields many fewer collisions than a good general-purpose hash function.

Needless to say, a function that is exceptionally good for a specific kind of data may have dismal performance on data with different distribution.

The element serves no apparent vital biological function, since animals and plants survive in good health without it.

The is not strictly necessary at the end of a function like this, but is good programming practice in case other functions are added below later.

Although it is normal to regard the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied as functions of the price of the good, the standard graphical representation, usually attributed to Alfred Marshall, has price on the vertical axis and quantity on the horizontal axis, the opposite of the standard convention for the representation of a mathematical function.

Since our concepts of good and evil as instilled in us by God are only intended to facilitate ethical behaviour in our relations with other humans, we should have no expectation that our concepts are accurate beyond what is needed to fulfil this function, and therefore cannot presume that they are sufficient to determine whether what we call evil really is evil.

In other words, cultural ecology was good at exploring function in the nature-culture dichotomy, but the conclusions drawn from that theoretical position tended to ignore the impact of environment on political and economic factors.

This function is a very good approximation to the number of prime numbers less than x.

Even if the bad bishop is passively placed, it may serve a useful defensive function ; a well-known quip from GM Mihai Suba is that " Bad bishops protect good pawns.

In contrast, one of the characteristics of a commodity good is that its price is determined as a function of its market as a whole.

A given noun can function in more than one class ; for example, wine can be either countable or uncountable ( this is a good wine, I prefer red wine ).

The Taylor series is frequently a very good approximation to the original function.

`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.

`` But to take him and leave his mother behind is not good ''.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

It is not good, Mr. Waddell: you will do him great harm ''.

`` Billy Tilghman is too good a man to shoot in the back.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

The line is a pretty good one.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

if he is legal, he may not be good.

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.

It is a total situation that is defended: the `` good old days ''.

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.

He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.

This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.

She is not only a trained mathematician and Classicist, but a good architect.

Living was essentially good, barring pain and illness.

" Let not Fell ," writes R. South to Ralph Bathurst, " have the fingering and altering of them ( i. e. his Latin verses ), for I think that, barring the want of siquidems and quinetiams, they are as good as his Worship can make.

This meant that there was good chance that the IRS would pay the refund within weeks, barring fraudulent income reporting.

Diego de Covarrubias and Luis de Molina developed a subjective theory of value and prices, which asserted that the usefulness of a good varied from person to person, so just prices would arise from mutual decisions in free commerce, barring the distorting effects of monopoly, fraud, or government intervention.