Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.

Unfortunately, the purely synthetic problem is the rule.

It is not binding upon another Superior Court, which could rule to the contrary.

More often, though, he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home.

as a rule, the earlier general dental treatment is started, the less expensive and more satisfactory it is likely to be.

The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;

Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

Although he pointed out that mandatory legislation impinging on home rule is basically distasteful, he added that the vital interest in election results transcended county lines.

It is an irritable rule that does baseball more harm than good, especially at the minor league level.

A rule on the Federal deductibility of state taxes is contested.

The difference is not a formal one taxonomically and there are numerous exceptions to this rule.

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

* Sequential analysis – evaluation of sampled data as it is collected, until the criterion of a stopping rule is met

The only rule universally accepted is that one should be consistent, and to make this easier, publishers express their preferences in a style guide.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

As a rule, brain size increases with body size, but not in a simple linear proportion.

As a result, simple distillation is usually used only to separate liquids whose boiling points differ greatly ( rule of thumb is 25 ° C ), or to separate liquids from non-volatile solids or oils.

Disjunction introduction or addition is a simple valid argument form, an immediate inference and a rule of inference of propositional logic.

For example, just by applying a simple rule that constrains each queen to a single column ( or row ), though still considered brute force, it is possible to reduce the number of possibilities to just 16, 777, 216 ( that is, 8 < sup > 8 </ sup >) possible combinations.

The Kasha-Vavilov rule does not always apply and is violated severely in many simple molecules.

Still using the left-hand rule the painter now searches for a simple passage ( made by two boundary pixels ).

Depending on the particular formalism adopted for the calculus, it may be seen as a simple application of a " functional substitution " rule of inference, as in Gödel's paper, or it may be proved by considering the formal proof of, replacing in it all occurrences of Q by some other formula with the same free variables, and noting that all logical axioms in the formal proof remain logical axioms after the substitution, and all rules of inference still apply in the same way.

In simple chemistry, as per valence bond theory, the carbon atom must follow the " 4-hydrogen rule ", which states that the maximum number of atoms available to bond with carbon is equal to the number of electrons that are attracted into the outer shell of carbon. In terms of shells, carbon consists of an incomplete outer shell, which comprises 4 electrons, and thus has 4 electrons available for covalent or dative bonding.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, political movements based on the liberal ideology of free expression and democratic rule have led the opposition in other parts of the world such as Latin America, Eastern Europe and many parts of Asia ; however " the simple fact is that political Islam currently reigns as the most powerful ideological force across the Muslim world today ".

In propositional logic, modus ponendo ponens ( Latin for " the way that affirms by affirming "; often abbreviated to MP or modus ponens ) or implication elimination is a valid, simple argument form and rule of inference.

Neural network models in artificial intelligence are usually referred to as artificial neural networks ( ANNs ); these are essentially simple mathematical models defining a function or a distribution over or both and, but sometimes models are also intimately associated with a particular learning algorithm or learning rule.

Most phospholipids contain a diglyceride, a phosphate group, and a simple organic molecule such as choline ; one exception to this rule is sphingomyelin, which is derived from sphingosine instead of glycerol.

He found an essential clue in a 1924 paper by Edmund C. Stoner which pointed out that for a given value of the principal quantum number ( n ), the number of energy levels of a single electron in the alkali metal spectra in an external magnetic field, where all degenerate energy levels are separated, is equal to the number of electrons in the closed shell of the noble gases for the same value of n. This led Pauli to realize that the complicated numbers of electrons in closed shells can be reduced to the simple rule of one per state, if the electron states are defined using four quantum numbers.

They are related to our everyday ideas of probability by the simple rule that the probability of an event is the square of the length of the corresponding amplitude arrow.

They, too, were considered an integral part of the rhyme, so that " pont " could rhyme only with " vont " and not with " long "; but this cannot be reduced to a simple rule about the spelling, since " pont " would also rhyme with " rond " even though one word ends in " t " and the other in " d ".

In arithmetic, for example, when multiplying by 9, using the divisibility rule for 9 to verify that the sum of digits of the result is divisible by 9 is a sanity test-it will not catch every multiplication error, however it's a quick and simple method to discover many possible errors.

Belief in perfect natural laws driving everything, instead of just describing what we should expect, led to searching for a set of universal simple laws that rule the world.

This is indeed the simple rule for constructing Pascal's triangle row-by-row.

A simple rule of thumb to keep the point of the sword pointed to the opponent ( or at within the area of the gate ) while attempting to parry in all angles, will provide a good foundation for an appropriate counter maneuver reflexes.

A simple but most elegant rule to remember Stefan-Boltzmanns constant is to think " 5-6-7-8 " and try not to forget the negative sign before the final eight.

Stooging, being introduced at this time, made it a more recent rule then most other simple rules in Quidditch history which meant that many did not agree with this rule.

Other eusocial creatures, such as termites, use pheromones to build their complex nests by following a simple decentralized rule set.

In 1521, two years after the Fourth Lateran Council had forbidden the establishment of new religious institutes, Pope Leo X appointed a religious rule with simple vows for those tertiaries attached to existing institutes who undertook to live in a community.