The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

The Istiqlal found that the spontaneous solidarity of the independence struggle was not easily transposed to the more concrete, precise problems of internal politics.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

Uncertainty overcoming itself is the precondition of the quest for new and more precise information about the world.

In continuation of these theoretical studies, a more precise elucidation of the effects of imperfections in network structure is sought.

For more rigorous and precise analysis, the numerical approximations must be used.

A January 15, 1941 story in the Des Moines Register announced the ABC as " an electrical computing machine " with more than 300 vacuum tubes that would " compute complicated algebraic equations " ( but gave no precise technical description of the computer ).

The more precise meaning " three-masted ship " arose in the 17th century, and often takes the French spelling for disambiguation.

By World War II, the use of the smaller divisions, platoons and companies, became much more important as precise operations became vital.

Modifications to each aircraft include removal of the aircraft gun and replacement with the tank that contains smoke-oil used in demonstrations, and outfitting with the control stick spring system for more precise aircraft control input.

Other, more precise and robust methods have been developed For example, the truncated mean of the middle 24 % of the sample order statistics produces an estimate for x < sub > 0 </ sub > that is more efficient than using either the sample median or the full sample mean.

In June 2001, NASA launched a second CMB space mission, WMAP, to make much more precise measurements of the great scale anisotropies over the full sky.

The Jordan – Hölder theorem is a more precise way of stating this fact about finite groups.

The stories locate it somewhere in Britain and sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its precise location is not revealed.

In more precise language, the dependence of y upon x means that y is a function of x.

This more precise usage enables one to distinguish between varieties of a language, such as the French spoken in Nice, France, and local languages distinct from the superordinate language, e. g. Nissart, the traditional native Romance language of Nice, known in French as Niçard.

It provides a more precise guide for the actors, directors and technicians and can be used to complement the traditional ADR method.

Dziga Vertov believed his concept of Kino-Glaz, or " Cine Eye " in English, would help contemporary man evolve from a flawed creature into a higher, more precise form.

For the sake of the example ( and this is a gross simplification ), let's assume that he values this particular risk at 5 % per annum ( we could perform a more precise probabilistic analysis of the risk, but that is beyond the scope of this article ).

His theory of peripatric speciation ( a more precise form of allopatric speciation which he advanced ), based on his work on birds, is still considered a leading mode of speciation, and was the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould.

In order to distinguish esoteric currents based primarily on sources from late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages, from e. g. Islamic or Jewish currents with similar features, the more precise term " Western esotericism " is often employed.

They crowded him in that threatening way once more, forced him to give in.

Belief in the traditional way of life persists much more in the older states than in the new ones.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

Nothing is more revealing of the way of life and literary aspirations of this group than their attitude toward sex.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

Those who do have occasion to deal with the invasions in a more general way, like T.W. Shore and Arthur Wade-Evans, are on the side of a gradual and often peaceful Germanic penetration into Britain.

High school students have more sense of the way to dress than college students.

No, they must look the other way and climb one more painful step up the ladder.

It could continue this way, hitting 106 and more in the Valley, Joe McFeeley knew, into October.

Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.

It would be even more valuable because that same aircraft could immediately destroy any targets it discovered -- no need to wait for a missile to come all the way from the United States with the chance that the target, if it were mobile, would be gone.

Or a bored dog because you are more interested in something else -- maybe the way you look, or the date you have after the Class, or you are just doing this to please the parents.

The most effective way to develop more places for more sportsmen to shoot is to encourage properly managed shooting preserves.

that way you may pay more to shim the window into place than you paid for the window.

The revolution is well under way, but much more remains to be done

and which, more often than all these, conveys a welter of feelings which could in no way be conveyed by any number of words, words which are so unlike this welter in being formed and discrete from one another.

He would tell the Poles, he said, that they had been `` given a fine place to live in, more than three hundred miles each way ''.