The Poetics, in affirming that all human arts are `` modes of imitation '', gives a more serious role to artistic mimesis than did Plato.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.

In each city quick public reaction and fast action by the city government halted the threats of more serious incidents.

This may be opera bouffe now, but it will become more serious should the cold war mount in frenzy.

A dreadful fear entered my consciousness that perhaps he had entertained aspirations toward Viola's favors -- or, even more serious perhaps, that he had attained a share of them and had then been superseded by some luckier chap.

Instead of emotional recrimination, loaded phrases and sloganeering, we need a dispassionate study of the facts, a better understanding of the opposite viewpoint and a more serious effort to extend the areas of agreement until a solution is reached.

then his mind moved on to be confronted by something far more serious, and as the thought expanded, the implications jarred him.

It must be getting more serious.

Hindemith's joust with Weber tunes was a considerably more serious misfortune, for it demands transluscent textures, buoyant rhythms, and astringent wit.

"' The only exception to this is that if a defendant appeals a conviction for a crime having multiple levels of offenses, where they are convicted on a lesser offense, the appeal is of the lesser offense ; the conviction represents an acquittal of the more serious offenses.

The situation may become widespread and result in more serious and permanent consequences.

While anagramming is certainly a recreation first, there are ways in which anagrams are put to use, and these can be more serious, or at least not quite frivolous and formless.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

Additionally, if a Defendant has been charged on an indictment with assault occasioning actual bodily harm ( ABH ), or racially / religiously aggravated assault, then a jury in the Crown Court may acquit the Defendant of the more serious offence, but still convict of common assault if it finds common assault has been committed.

Scottish law also provides for a more serious charge of aggravated assault on the basis of such factors as severity of injury, the use of a weapon, or Hamesuken ( to assault a person in his own home ).

The more serious crime of aggravated assault is treated as a felony.

Even so, the flat country and weather uncertainties made flooding much more unpredictable than in the case of the Nile ; serious deluges seem to have been a regular occurrence, requiring constant maintenance of irrigation ditches and drainage systems.

Oral antibacterials are orally ingested, whereas intravenous administration may be used in more serious cases, such as deep-seated systemic infections.

The firm soon established a reputation in more serious music circles by championing the works of Franz Schubert.

* One of the more serious of these side effects is tardive dyskinesia, in which the sufferer may show repetitive, involuntary, purposeless movements ( that are permanent and have no cure ) often of the lips, face, legs, or torso.

Currently, hunting is the more serious factor in most areas.

Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman ( 1956 ) with Jean-Louis Trintignant.

It is still not clear how far Orkney ’ s advance was planned only as a feint ; according to historian David Chandler it is probably more accurate to surmise that Marlborough launched Orkney in a serious probe with a view to sounding out the possibilities of the sector.

Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.

The Woonsocket Patriot admitted that John Brown might deserve punishment or imprisonment `` but he should no more be hung than Henry A. Wise or James Buchanan ''.

Behavioral choices are when a person selects between two or more options ( e. g., voting behavior, choice of a punishment for another participant ).

Canadian Government policies such as ; publicly funded health care, higher and more progressive taxation, outlawing capital punishment, strong efforts to eliminate poverty, an emphasis on cultural diversity, and most recently legalizing same-sex marriage – are social indicators of Canada's political and cultural values.

" He also asked his readers if the smallpox epidemic may have been given to them by God as " punishment for sin ," and warned that attempting to shield themselves from God's fury ( via inoculation ), would only serve to " provoke him more.

If a person is to be punished criminally, then the contempt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but once the charge is proven, then punishment ( such as a fine or, in more serious cases, imprisonment ) is imposed unconditionally.

: This subject is discussed in more detail in Religion and capital punishment.

Hunger and disease soon led to mutiny, punishment, disillusion, and more hunger and disease.

Other faiths are even more subtle: the doctrine of karma shared by Buddhism and Hinduism is a divine law similar to divine retribution but without the connotation of punishment: our acts, good or bad, intentional or unintentional, reflect back on us as part of the natural working of the universe.

The punishment was more lenient for those owing debt to a member of a lower class.

Concerning the liberal use of the death penalty in the Draconic code, Plutarch states: " It is said that Drakon himself, when asked why he had fixed the punishment of death for most offences, answered that he considered these lesser crimes to deserve it, and he had no greater punishment for more important ones.

Generally, then, a lack of social context creates an element of anonymity, which allows users to feel insulated from the forms of punishment they might receive in a more conventional setting.

On anarchism, Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier: " I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

During the period of German Empire the Germanisation policies in Masuria became more effective ; children using Polish in playgrounds and classrooms were widely punished by corporal punishment, authorities tried to appoint Protestant pastors who would use German instead of Polish which resulted in protests of local population.

The penalty of vandalism is a fine not exceeding S $ 2, 000 or imprisonment not exceeding three years, and also corporal punishment of not less than three strokes and not more than eight strokes of the cane.

While Eysenck's R-factor is easily identified as the classical " left-right " dimension, the T-factor ( representing a factor drawn at right angles to the R-factor ) is less intuitive ; high-scorers favored pacifism, racial equality, religious education, and restrictions on abortion, while low-scorers had attitudes more friendly to militarism, harsh punishment, easier divorce laws, and companionate marriage.

* – Whipping with the flagrum ( flagellum, flagella ), or " short whip " — a much more brutal punishment than simple flogging.

The punishment may not be more severe than the punishment of a hudud crime.

:* If the thing stolen is worth more than $ 5000 or is a testamentary instrument the offence is commonly referred to as Theft Over $ 5000 and is an indictable offence with a maximum punishment of 10 years imprisonment.

In this way, the United States Supreme Court " set the standard that a punishment would be cruel and unusual it was too severe for the crime, it was arbitrary, if it offended society's sense of justice, or if it was not more effective than a less severe penalty.

::“ Surely the utilitarian must admit that whatever the facts of the matter may be, it is logically possible that an ‘ unjust ’ system of punishment — e. g. a system involving collective punishments, retroactive laws and punishments, or punishments of parents and relations of the offender — may be more useful than a ‘ just ’ system of punishment ?”

Witchcraft of a more benign and socially acceptable sort may then be employed to turn the malevolence aside, or identify the supposed evil-doer so that punishment may be carried out.