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There followed a long and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957, in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic.
Munch's stay in hospital stabilized his personality, and after returning to Norway in 1909, his work became more colorful and less pessimistic.
Frank Tipler and John D Barrow used pessimistic numbers and concluded that the average number of civilizations in a galaxy is much less than one.
This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humor.
The estimation of the IMF was proven to be somewhat too pessimistic, as Spain's GDP sank less than that of most advanced economies in 2009 and by the first quarter of 2010 had already emerged from the recession.
Although not as complex as other measures, and now essentially replaced by the Human Development Index, the PQLI is notable for Morris's attempt to show a " less fatalistic pessimistic picture " by focussing on three areas where global quality of life was generally improving at the time, and ignoring Gross National Product and other possible indicators that were not improving.
However, SS2PL is blocking and constraining ( pessimistic ), and with the proliferation of distribution and utilization of systems different from traditional database systems ( e. g., as in Cloud computing ), less constraining types of CO ( e. g., Optimistic CO ) may be needed for better performance.
Those with a pessimistic explanatory style also tend to have weakened immune systems, and not only have increased vulnerability to minor ailments ( e. g., cold, fever ) and major illness ( e. g., heart attack, cancers ), but also have a less effective recovery from health problems.
Instead, when market-wide Q is less than parity, investors are probably being overly pessimistic about future asset returns.
Whatever the number of contract soldiers, commentators such as Alexander Goltz are pessimistic that many more combat ready units will result, as senior officers " see no difference between professional NCOs, ... versus conscripts who have been drilled in training schools for less than six months.
This combined with the massive devastation and loss of life caused by the Second Robotech War, to be followed by only more devastation when the Invid invade less than a year later, causes Dana to become somber and pessimistic and a pale shadow of her former cheerful self.
Compared to a model with a decreasing failure rate, this is quite pessimistic ( important remark: this is not the case if less hours / load cycles are tested than service life in a wear-out type of test, in this case the opposite is true and assuming a more constant failure rate than there is in reality can be dangerous ).
Despite this, Mizoguchi was eventually pressured to make a less pessimistic ending for the film.
The ending was changed to a less pessimistic one, heavily borrowing from the upbeat finale Christie wrote for the stage version of the story, which was and remains completely at odds with the very downbeat ending of her original mystery thriller.

less and interpretation
However, this political restriction is less confining than it may first appear in that the Marxist historical framework is surprisingly flexible, and a rather simple matter to modify an alternative historical theory to use language that at least does not challenge the Marxist interpretation of history.
Some of the more popular translations are written from a less scholarly perspective, giving an individual author's interpretation.
Although the Fortune Deck works as a randomizer, the results obtained by it are entirely arbitrary and subjective, and the GM's absolute power over the game is further emphasized by the three resolution systems: Karma ( the higher character ability wins, modified by situation ), Drama ( the GM decides what happens, by what they think most appropriate ), and Fortune ( more or less the same as the above, with interpretation flavored by a card draw ).
This type of interpretation had previously been used, in less detail, by Carl Jung, and was later invoked by Joseph Campbell.
" Justin's interpretation of prophecy is, however, less clear and full than that of others who follow.
Both are famous less for their interpretation of character than for certain aspects of staging.
On the other hand, Steven Pinker has observed that mondegreen mishearings tend to be less plausible than the original lyrics, and that once a listener has " locked in " to a particular misheard interpretation of a song's lyrics, it can remain unquestioned, even when that plausibility becomes strained.
However, a 1988 article by Brian Martin in Science and Public Policy states that although their paper concluded the effects would be less severe than originally thought, with the authors describing these effects as a " nuclear autumn ", other statements by Thompson and Schneider show that they " resisted the interpretation that this means a rejection of the basic points made about nuclear winter ".
However, some courts ( such as German courts ) have less emphasis on the particular facts of the case than common law courts, but have more emphasis on the discussion of various doctrinal arguments and on finding what the correct interpretation of the law is.
A less common interpretation of the parable is that the merchant represents Christ, and the pearl represents the Church.
In the Early Christian Church, the presumed fact was that the Septuagint was translated by Jews before the era of Christ, and that the Septuagint at certain places gives itself more to a christological interpretation than ( say, 2nd century ) Hebrew texts, was taken as evidence, that " Jews " had changed the Hebrew text in a way that made them less christological.
A debugger can use a symbol table, if one exists, to help the programmer interpret dumps, identifying variables symbolically and displaying source code ; if the symbol table is not available, less interpretation of the dump is possible, but there might still be enough possible to determine the cause of the problem.
These have direct, spatial meaning, and in these theories there seems to be less need to provide special interpretation for those numbers or functions.
Unlike the National Labor Relations Act ( NLRA ), which adopts a less interventionist approach to the way the parties conduct collective bargaining or resolve their disputes arising under collective bargaining agreements, the RLA specifies both ( 1 ) the negotiation and mediation procedures that unions and employers must exhaust before they may change the status quo, and ( 2 ) the methods for resolving " minor " disputes over the interpretation or application of collective bargaining agreements.
A less abstract study was the Stanford biased interpretation experiment in which subjects with strong opinions about the death penalty read about mixed experimental evidence.
Given any such interpretation of a set of points as complex numbers, the points constructible using valid compass and straightedge constructions alone are precisely the elements of the smallest field containing the original set of points and closed under the complex conjugate and square root operations ( to avoid ambiguity, we can specify the square root with complex argument less than π ).
In the 1950s, a less heroic interpretation of the Résistance to the occupation gradually began to emerge.
Without an agreed upon interpretation, much less an elaborated political philosophy, these conflicting views of America's destiny were never resolved.
Nevertheless the famous maori anthropologist Te Rangi Hīroa ( Peter Buck ), gives a less mystical interpretation of this mangaian Avaiki.
" Études Celtiques 32 ( 1996 ), 87-90 .</ ref > Some have suggested that the name may derive from " Gwenhwy-fawr " or Gwenhwy the Great, contrasting the character to " Gwenhwy-fach " or Gwenhwy the less ; Gwenhwyfach appears in Welsh literature as a sister of Gwenhwyfar, but Welsh scholars Melville Richards and Rachel Bromwich, both dismiss this etymology ( with Richards suggesting that Gwenhwyfach was a back-formation derived from an incorrect interpretation of Gwenwhy-far as Gwenhwy-fawr ).
In addition, using this technique was less costly and time-consuming compared to the older method using visual interpretation of aerial photographs.
An alternative ( less well developed ) interpretation is that the risk free rate represents the time preference of a representative worker for a representative basket of consumption.
Hence, it was considered less important for the paper to cover " all the news that's fit to print " ( the motto of The New York Times ) than to offer thoughtful interpretation of current events.
In modern editions of Western classical works, editors often seek to eliminate the potential for different interpretations of ornamental symbology, of which grace notes are a prime example, by converting a composer's original ornamental notation into literal notation, the interpretation of which is far less subject to variation.

less and still
Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.
they still benefit far less than the `` other '' 50 per cent of the nation from that `` welfare state '' which the Soviet Union so greatly prides itself on being.
But having lived with the disc for some time now, I find the performance less exciting than either Schnabel's or Fleisher's ( whose superb performance with the Budapest Quartet has still to be recorded ) and a good deal less filled with humor than Curzon's.
Up to date, however, his garden was still more or less of a mess, he hadn't even started his workshop and if there was a meadow pond in the neighborhood he hadn't found it.
At greater distances from the sun, the situation is still less certain.
And while all concerned are members of the literal public, somewhat less than all concerned, although still a majority, form the quotation marked `` public ''.
After a while we were perhaps less surprised, but still puzzled, when a friendly discussion would suddenly jump the track into the most irrelevant and illogical comparisons.
Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.
When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.
If the voice is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful instrument, controlled and flexible.
In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".
After hard lessons early in the war, machine guns were mounted for use against infantry but the limited traverse of the mounting meant that they were still less effective than those used on turreted tanks.
The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.
The game data still needed to be copied from ROM to RAM before it could be used, so less memory was available and the games loaded relatively slowly.
It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gulf War, where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills ; its kill probability, overall, is still less than 40 %.
Some carbohydrates ( especially after condensation to oligo-and polysaccharides ) contain less carbon relative to H and O, which still are present in 2: 1 ( H: O ) ratio.
The flavour is typically less malty than a traditional bock, and may be drier, hoppier, and more bitter, but still with a relatively low hop flavour, with a mild spicy or peppery quality from the hops, increased carbonation and alcohol content.
Front-engined buses still persist for niche markets such as American school buses, some minibuses, and buses in less developed countries, which may be derived from truck chassis, rather than purpose-built bus designs.
A unit may charge with high morale but less discipline and still emerge victorious.
Arguably, terrain is of less importance in modern warfare, due to the advent of aircraft, though terrain is still vital for camouflage, especially for guerrilla warfare.
Perforator techniques such as the DIEP ( deep inferior epigastric perforator ) flap and SIEA ( superficial inferior epigastric artery ) flap require precise dissection of small perforating vessels through the rectus muscle, and purport the advantage of less weakening of the abdominal wall, though rectus abdominus muscle function may still be compromised.
To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.
Long-term inpatient stays are now less common due to deinstitutionalization, although these can still occur.
This still takes place more or less every five years and concludes with a game of Cornish hurling.

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