Along these lines, the particular point that sensitivity in literature leads to sensitivity in human relations would require more proof than I have seen.

May I add a caution on this particular point??

The extent of such interference -- which may be so slight as to be undetectable at any point where either of the stations renders a usable signal, or may be so great as to virtually destroy the service areas of both stations -- depends on many factors, among the principal ones being the distance between the stations, their respective radiated power, and, of particular significance here, the time of day.

Nevertheless, their conclusions and recommendations cannot please everybody, and they often represent a particular economic or political point of view.

Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.

What we can attempt with some hope of dependable conclusions is to point out the manner in which Christianity entered into particular aspects of the life of the nation.

Societies are also a meeting point for people with particular interests, such as amateur telescope making.

Christie made a point of having Poirot supply false or misleading information about himself or his background in order to assist him in obtaining information relevant to a particular case.

However, for most alloys there is a particular proportion of constituents ( in rare cases two )— the eutectic mixture — which gives the alloy a unique melting point.

In astronomy, a given point on the celestial sphere ( that is, the apparent position of an astronomical object ) can be identified using any of several astronomical coordinate systems, where the references vary according to the particular system.

Zwitterions have minimum solubility at their isolectric point and some amino acids ( in particular, with non-polar side-chains ) can be isolated by precipitation from water by adjusting the pH to the required isoelectric point.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

An apology is basically a defense or justification for a belief that aims to convince or persuade an audience of a particular point of view.

A decisive battle is one of particular importance ; often by bringing hostilities to an end, such as the Battle of Hastings or the Battle of Hattin, or as a turning point in the fortunes of the belligerents, such as the Battle of Stalingrad.

Most writers on the philosophy of consciousness have been concerned to defend a particular point of view, and have organized their material accordingly.

It is not a vector field because it depends not only on the position of a particular material point, but also on the local orientation of the surface element as defined by its normal vector.

But although cognitive psychology is concerned with all human activity rather than some fraction of it, the concern is from a particular point of view.

If there is one particular coordinate change that leads to a decrease in the total energy in both directions, the stationary point is a transition structure and the coordinate is the reaction coordinate.

Years are usually counted from a particular starting point, usually called the epoch, with era referring to the particular period of time ( Note the different use of the terms in geology ).

At any point in history, in any location, rhyming slang can be seen to incorporate words and phrases that are relevant at that particular time and place.

The point was that the incorporation would survive longer than the lives of any particular member, existing in perpetuity.

This experimental fact is highly reproducible, and the mathematics of quantum mechanics ( see below ) allows us to predict the exact probability of an electron striking the screen at any particular point.

Yet another equivalent definition of the ellipse is that it is the set of points that are equidistant from one point in the plane ( a focus ) and a particular circle, the directrix circle ( whose center is the other focus ).

Aside from controversies over the merits of particular conspiratorial claims, the general discussion of conspiracy theory is itself a matter of some public contention.

* Absolute truth, the contention that in a particular domain of thought, all statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false

In particular, the use of primatological studies to assert gender roles, and to both promote and subvert feminism has been a point of contention.

A particular point of contention is Clemente's order for mass executions of prisoners he has declared to be enemies of the state.

In others, Malebranche placed a greater emphasis than he had previously done on his occasionalist account of causation, and particularly on his contention that God acted for the most part through " general volitions " and only rarely, as in the case of miracles, through " particular volitions ".

In particular, pleonasm sometimes serves the same function as rhetorical repetition — it can be used to reinforce an idea, contention or question, rendering writing clearer and easier to understand.

His distaste for Aberhart's social credit government — and in particular its contention, which Brownlee viewed as unfair, that the UFA had left the government bankrupt — did not prevent him from advising it behind the scenes on a number of issues, most notably Alberta's submission to the Rowell-Sirois Commission, The Case for Alberta.

However, as the conference progressed the full implications of the Racial Equality Proposal, regarding immigration to the British Dominions ( with Australia taking particular exception ), would become a major point of contention within the delegation.

Speaking of the importance of that precedent, the judge in his discussion said: " If such a contention is accepted a day will come when that part of history which is unpalatable to a particular religion will have to be kept in cold storage on the pretext that the publication of such history would constitute an offence punishable under Sec.

In the September / October 1995 issue of Mother Jones, Maya Sinha praised the essay's provocative contention, paying particular note to Black's observation that much of what is termed " free time " is consumed by efforts related to facilitating or recovering from work itself.

… opening up qualitatively more space to give expression to the intellectual and cultural needs of the people, broadly understood, and enabling a more diverse and rich process of exploration and experimentation in the realms of science, art and culture, and intellectual life overall, with increasing scope for the contention of different ideas and schools of thought and for individual initiative and creativity and protection of individual rights, including space for individuals to interact in " civil society " independently of the state – all within an overall cooperative and collective framework and at the same time as state power is maintained and further developed as a revolutionary state power serving the interests of the proletarian revolution, in the particular country and worldwide, with this state being the leading and central element in the economy and in the overall direction of society, while the state itself is being continually transformed into something radically different from all previous states, as a crucial part of the advance toward the eventual abolition of the state with the achievement of communism on a world scale.

Schleswig was a particular source of contention, as it contained a large number of Danes, Germans and North Frisians.

A particular bone of contention was the tendency of foreign ships to pose as English to avoid attack.

Due to the policy of launching only one local radio service at a time in a particular area, when it came to choosing whether Norfolk or Devon would receive a BBC or commercial station first, there was contention between the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) as to who would get which area.

A program called World Cafe, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a particular bone of contention.

One particular area of contention was with crew assignments to missions.

The choice of secular or religious designs is frequently a bone of contention ; church leaders often see secular designs as diluting the meaning of the holiday, while postal officials fear that overly religious designs could lead their secular customers to avoid the stamps, leaving millions unsold, and even expose the postal administration to charges that they are violating laws prohibiting the promotion of a particular religion.

The author uses this for his contention that horror in general " offers no characterization, no theme, no particular artifice ; it does not aspire to symbolic beauty.

In particular, it reduces contention for the heap ( the central data structure used in dynamic memory allocation ) caused when multiple threads allocate or free memory, and avoids the false sharing that can be introduced by memory allocators.

Where there is ( independent ) contention about identifying any particular group as an indigenous people, the contention should be noted in the relevant article along with the cited reference ( s ) in which this contention appears.

The support of the PNM government to creole art forms in Carnivals, while their public rejection and ridicule of Hindu art forms, was a particular source of contention for the Hindu minority.

In the 1930s, matters again began to boil over ; one point of particular contention was that the Council had begun regularly referring to Andorra as a republic, which understandably caused some contention with the co-princes.