But just when was an unknown, and of course the longer it did not happen, the stronger her wish and belief that it might not.

It was at this time, however, that Western Christianity began expanding to parts of Africa and Asia where premodern worldviews still held sway, and where belief in the power of witches and sorcerers to harm was, if anything, stronger than it had been in Northern Europe.

Palmerston's stance derived from the traditional belief that France was the greater threat to Britain and believed she was much stronger than Austria and Prussia.

" The result of custom is belief, which is instinctual and much stronger than imagination alone.

He called on the country to support the Allied and British war effort and Britain's commitment under the Triple Entente ; this was a calculated response to the situation principally in the belief that the attained measure of self-government would be granted in full after the war and to be in a stronger position to stave off a final partition of Northern Ireland.

For example, Tim Kinger and David Mechner argue that " it is our belief that with better tools for representing and maintaining Go knowledge, it will be possible to develop stronger Go programs.

*" My strong sense of identification with every Arab country struggling for its freedom, and especially with Palestine, and my belief in Arab unity has become stronger over the years.

Before the species multiplied, it is believed that the ancestors of Magikarp were actually much stronger than the Magikarp seen today, and this belief has led scientists to research this species.

Since Clark Kent is Superman, taken de re, Lois ’ s belief is untenable ; the names ‘ Clark Kent ’ and ‘ Superman ’ pick out an individual in the world, and a person ( or super-person ) cannot be stronger than himself.

The concept is used to keep robots, many of which are stronger and more intelligent than their masters, from rebelling ; a belief chip is installed in robots to ensure that they will believe that they will go to Silicon Heaven after a life of servitude to humanity.

However, the opposite has been found: individuals high in just world belief have stronger anti-bullying attitudes.

Hauröden is dominated by the Protestant belief, what shows, that the village was historically stronger linked to the Protestant area of Nordhausen and Sondershausen.

Rational Dissenters believed that Christianity and faith could be dissected and evaluated using the newly emerging discipline of science, and that a stronger belief in God would be the result.

On the belief that the international system is Anarchic and that each State must independently seek its own survival, Waltz argues that weaker states try to find a balance with their rivals and to form an alliance with a stronger state to obtain a guarantee of security against offensive action by an enemy state.

Whilst the term Cobdenism is largely unused nowadays, Cobdenism traditionally has a stronger focus on international free trade and a belief that a result of free trade is world peace.

They Both strengthen each other. When you fulfill all the 4 attributes-then you have stronger Emaan ( belief, good deeds, enjoining truth and patience.

While their frequent coalition partners, The Free Democratic Party tended have a stronger belief in civil liberties, they were, as a smaller party, less likely to alienate the more socially conservative elements in the larger Christian Democratic Union.

* A belief of a mental state, whose followers believe in the ability to conquer stronger foes through tactics, fluke, and exploiting enemy arrogance.

Gert's cynical view on her parents ( and adults in general ) also carries through the first and second volumes, where her belief her parents killed her pet pig becomes stronger.

In an August 2009 interview at Helmand Province, Yon reiterated his belief that the Afghan Taliban are stronger than the NATO presence, comparing the situation to Apocalypse Now.

In Jäckel's opinion, the core of Hitler's world-view was his belief in what Hitler saw as the merciless struggle for survival between the " Aryan race " and the " Jewish race " and in his belief that stronger " races " possessed large amounts of Lebensraum ( living space ).

The administration at the same time, looks to the chairmen for strategic aid in building stronger departments.

but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking water is equivalent to without water for drinking, there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water.

Again, in deciding on the content and method of his teaching, does he favor a curriculum which will make his students stronger competitors in the race for higher economic status, or does he favor a curriculum which strengthens students in other ways??

For convenience we chose a stronger pigment, unknown to the early Italians or to Brumidi, titanium oxide, reserving the active lime white for highest lights, put on at the end of the day's stint.

When the snobbery that alienates Pip from Joe finally gives way before the deeper and stronger force of love, the reunion is marked by an embarrassed handshake at which Pip exclaims: `` No, don't wipe it off -- for God's sake, give me your blackened hand ''!!

The stronger of two acids will have a higher K < sub > a </ sub > than the weaker acid ; the ratio of hydrogen ions to acid will be higher for the stronger acid as the stronger acid has a greater tendency to lose its proton.

The new Constitution provided for a much stronger national government with a chief executive ( the president ), courts, and taxing powers.

In class theories such as Von Neumann – Bernays – Gödel set theory and Morse – Kelley set theory, there is a possible axiom called the axiom of global choice which is stronger than the axiom of choice for sets because it also applies to proper classes.

Material scientists around the world are studying the tiled structure for insight into stronger ceramic products such as body armor.

In 1866, Seward and Weed sought out Democratic allies of the President and other conservatives in an effort to establish a stronger base for the President to oppose the Radical Republicans.

A trend toward composite armour is taking place in place of steel-composites are stronger for a given weight, allowing the tank to be lighter for the same protection as steel armour, or better protected for the same weight.

This double bond is stronger than a single covalent bond ( 611 kJ / mol for C = C vs. 347 kJ / mol for C — C ) and also shorter with an average bond length of 1. 33 Angstroms ( 133 pm ).

* Beta brasses, with 45 – 50 % zinc content, can only be worked hot, and are harder, stronger, and suitable for casting.

Ground bay laurel may be substituted for whole leaves, and does not need to be removed, but it is much stronger due to the increased surface area and in some dishes the texture may not be desirable.

Several substyles exist, including maibock or helles bock, a paler, more hopped version generally made for consumption at spring festivals ; doppelbock, a stronger and maltier version ; and eisbock, a much stronger version made by partially freezing the beer and removing the water ice that forms.

The development of stronger locking blade mechanisms for folding knives — as with the Spanish navaja, the Opinel, and the Buck 110 Folding Hunter — significantly increased the utility of such knives when employed for heavy-duty tasks such as preparing game or cutting through dense or tough materials.

In a hospital environment, intravenous clonazepam, lorazepam, and diazepam are first-line choices, clonazepam due to its stronger and more potent anticonvulsant action, diazepam due to its faster onset and lorazepam for its longer duration of action.

The Ease of doing business index created by the World Bank lists Chile as 43rd in the world that encompasses better, usually simpler, regulations for businesses and stronger protections of property rights.

The cell surface area can be increased, to allow stronger current from each cell.

This improved response is then retained after the pathogen has been eliminated, in the form of an immunological memory, and allows the adaptive immune system to mount faster and stronger attacks each time this pathogen is encountered.

For example, the covalent bond present within HCl molecules is much stronger than the forces present between the neighbouring molecules, which exist when the molecules are sufficiently close to each other.

A notrump bidder who has at least four cards in each major suit normally responds in the longer or stronger major, with a preference given to spades.

In the absence of stronger inter-species attractions between like-like or like-unlike molecules, the vapor pressure follows Raoult's Law, which states that the partial pressure of each component is the product of the vapor pressure of the pure component and its mole fraction in the mixture.

Few could disagree with McGonagall's closing judgement: ' I must now conclude my lay / By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay / That your central girders would not have given way ,/ At least many sensible men do say ,/ Had they been supported on each side with buttresses ,/ At least many sensible men confesses ,/ For the stronger we our houses do build ,/ The less chance we have of being killed '.

If the vapor pressure is less than predicted ( a negative deviation ), fewer molecules of each component than expected have left the solution in the presence of the other component, indicating that the forces between unlike molecules are stronger.

In consequence each component is retained in the liquid phase by attractive forces which are stronger than in the pure liquid so that its partial vapor pressure is lower.

For example, stronger strings can discharge through weaker strings until voltage imbalances are equalized, and this must be factored into the individual inter-cell measurements within each string.

* A marriage and divorce law ( 1976 ), which instituted the principle of maintenance obligations of each economically stronger partner.

Proponents of isolationism and non-interventionism claim that a world made up of many nations can peacefully coexist as long as they each establish a stronger focus on domestic affairs and do not try to impose their will on other nations.

The eyes are generally but not always a special design to aid in making the end of each section stronger.

" To explain this finding, it has been proposed that male fetuses provoke a maternal immune reaction that becomes stronger with each successive male fetus.

When the bar and resonator are properly in tune with each other, the vibrating air beneath the bar travels down the resonator and is reflected off the closure at the bottom, then returns back to the top and is reflected back by the bar, over and over, creating a much stronger standing wave and amplifying the fundamental frequency.

The women were committed to dressmaking, knitting, weaving, embroidering, laundering, and cooking, while some of the stronger girls ground flour or carried adobe bricks ( weighing 55 lb, or 25 kg each ) to the men engaged in building.

The Byzantine Empire and Gondor were both only echoes of older states ( the Roman Empire and the unified kingdom of Elendil ), yet each proved to be stronger than their sister-kingdoms ( the Western Roman Empire and Arnor, respectively ).

When thunderstorms merge, which is most likely when numerous thunderstorms exist in proximity to each other, the motion of the stronger thunderstorm normally dictates future motion of the merged cell.

However, the reverse domino theory did not occur as Iran's influence in Iraq after the war is becoming stronger with each passing year.

A regular directed graph must also satisfy the stronger condition that the indegree and outdegree of each vertex are equal to each other.

SNCF's TGV has set many world speed records, the most recent on April 3, 2007, when a new version of the TGV dubbed the V150 with larger wheels than the usual TGV, was able to cover more ground with each rotation and had a stronger 25, 000 hp ( 18, 600 kW ) engine, broke the world speed record for conventional rail trains, reaching 574. 8 km / h ( 357. 2 mph ).

A stronger sense of equality is obtained if some form of Leibniz's law is added as an axiom ; the assertion of this axiom rules out " bare particulars "— things that have all and only the same properties but are not equal to each other — which are possible in some logical formalisms.

In South Korea, there are several amateur systems in use, with the recent introduction of official 7, 6 and 5-dan amateur ranks, each of which is somewhat stronger than the corresponding European grade.

This resulted in a heartfelt discussion in which aunt and nephew confess their darkest secrets, and each learned that the other is far stronger than they had imagined.