He settled in nearby Terrebonne and worked on completing his great map, a summary of his lifetime of exploring and surveying the interior of North America.

Machiavelli describes the contents as being an un-embellished summary of his knowledge about the nature of princes and " the actions of great men ", based not only on reading but also, unusually, on real experience.

: A great surgeon performs operations for stone by a single method ; later he makes a statistical summary of deaths and recoveries, and he concludes from these statistics that the mortality law for this operation is two out of five.

In the beginning of " Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase " Nancy gets a summary call from her friend Helen Corning and is introduced to the Mrs. Flora Turnbull and Mrs. Rosemary Hayes, by Helen, who is the great-grand-daughter of Miss Flora and great niece of Aunt Rosemary.

A famous prayer called the Bhaja Govindam was composed by Adi Sankara, a summary of which is ; " If one just worships Govinda, one can easily cross this great ocean of birth and death.

He cites the traditions of frontier justice and summary executions, and says, “ You ’ re a great cop, Harry, you had a chance to join the team but you ’ d rather stick with the system .” Callahan responds, " Briggs, I hate the goddamn system, but until someone comes along with some changes that make sense I'll stick with it.

Challis and Stam, even more at a loss, concluded in 1989, " In summary, we are left to conclude that, although a great number of interesting and unusual cases continue to be published annually, there is still little conclusive data that explains the occurrence of spontaneous regression.

The following eight great perfections is a summary of the explanation of the Mahasiddhas from the commentary by Vyasa.

The next day Chatfield gave the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Policy a summary of this report: " Russia, although a great Power for other purposes, was only a Power of medium rank for military purposes ... Her assistance would be of considerable, though not of great, military value ".

Further confusion arises when it is taken into account that whilst Larcom used the general term acres in his summary, terms such as ' great acres ', ' large acres ', and ' small acres ' were also used in records.

A summary of Cameron's great journey, from his own pen, appears in Dr Robert Brown's The Story of Africa, vol.

In their 2004 survey of the relevant literature, Meirelles and Gomes found: " In summary, EPOC resulting from a single resistance exercise session ( i. e., many lifts ) does not represent a great impact on energy balance ; however, its cumulative effect may be relevant ".

The prestigious Gramophone of London provides a succinct summary: " Staryk is among the great ones.

This contains a summary of what was known of the great apes at that time.

Wisden in its tour summary stated unequivocally that " Jardine, while nothing like the batsman in Australia of four years earlier, captained the side superbly " but he " had one great difficulty which he never successfully overcame ".

In summary, the traditional example of equity share for the purchase of a home provides the buyer with a 20 % down-payment ; they will have much lower payments, no PMI, better terms / rate and will save a great deal just in payments versus what it will cost them in equity at the eventual sale or refinancing of the property at some point in the future.

Wisden's summary of the 1896 Australian tour said of Trumble, " His great strength lay in the combination of spin with extreme accuracy " and " he was on all wickets distinctly the best bowler on the side ".

Mike MacKenzie, of RPGnet, gave the book a 5 / 5 for style and a 4 / 5 for substance, with the summary comment: " As a DM, I personally think this is a great ( creepy ) book, especially the first and last chapters, and there is some good crunch to be found.

While some sires are careless and leave their childer alone after summary instructions ( if any ), others take great care and devote time and effort to their offspring.

He was not a great natural force ; his early plays and poems are influenced by Leandro Moratín or by Juan Meléndez Valdés ; his Espíritu del siglo ( 1835 ) is a summary of all the commonplaces concerning the philosophy of history ; his Doña Isabel de Solís ( 1837 – 1846 ) is an imitation of Walter Scott's historical novels.

# This social analysis is a summary of a wide variety of books on Methodist history, articles in The Methodist Magazine etc.

Plays of the ancient Greek theatre always included a chorus that offered a variety of background and summary information to help the audience follow the performance.

Bach scholar Christoph Wolff describes the work as representing " a summary of his writing for voice, not only in its variety of styles, compositional devices, and range of sonorities, but also in its high level of technical polish ... Bach's mighty setting preserved the musical and artistic creed of its creator for posterity.

The term " computational neuroscience " was introduced by Eric L. Schwartz, who organized a conference, held in 1985 in Carmel, California at the request of the Systems Development Foundation, to provide a summary of the current status of a field which until that point was referred to by a variety of names, such as neural modeling, brain theory and neural networks.

In their summary, they state that the concern that countries with widespread availability of sexually explicit material would suffer increased rates of sexual crimes was not validated and that the reduction of sexual crimes in Japan during that period may have been influenced by a variety of factors they had described in their study.

A summary execution is a variety of execution in which a person is accused of a crime and then immediately killed without benefit of a full and fair trial.

is a summary index, calculated by testing individuals ' abilities in a variety of tasks and producing a composite score to represent overall ability, e. g., Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

Published by the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D. C., the journal is a quarterly, and consists of serious essays on a variety of science and technology issues as well as a summary of recent events produced by the editors.

A summary of meteorite data, prepared by Whipple ( 1958 ) on the basis of photographic, visual, and radar evidence, is given in Table 5-1.

A proper summary of the experimental evidence on clairvoyance should include a summary of all experiments that were conducted, taking into account their probabilities of turning out false positive and false negative results, and making sure that studies are not included in the review selectively.

Scholars point to Chapter 12 and the frame-editor's summary regarding fearing God and keeping His commandments as evidence of this.

This means that a driver can be ordered " by an authorised person ... upon production of evidence of his authorisation, require him to stop the running of the engine of that vehicle " and a " person who fails to comply ... shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale ".

Author Gareth Russell wrote a summary of the evidence and relates that Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, wrote her memoirs shortly before her death in 1612 ; in it the former lady in waiting and confident to Queen Mary I of England wrote of Anne Boleyn " She was convicted and condemned and was not yet twenty-nine years of age.

The executive summary states, " The evidence is clear ... that direct systematic instruction in phonics during the early years of schooling is an essential foundation for teaching children to read.

Furthermore, deposition transcripts are frequently submitted in support of motions for summary judgment as evidence that there is no triable issue of fact.

In its summary, the commission wrote: " Independent of extrinsic evidence, the Commission finds:

Agathias's Histories are also a source of information about pre-Islamic Iran, providing-in summary form-" our earliest substantial evidence for the Khvadhaynamagh tradition ", that later formed the basis of Ferdowsi's Shahname and provided much of the Iranian material for al-Tabari's History.

** any person in England or Wales is likely to be able to give material evidence, or produce any document or thing likely to be material evidence, at the summary trial of an information by a magistrates ' court,

In summary, a body of evidence that satisfies Koch's postulates is sufficient but not necessary to establish causation.

U. S. Congressmen Sue Myrick ( R-NC ), Trent Franks ( R-AZ ), John Shadegg ( R-AZ ), and Paul Broun ( R-GA ) wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on October 21, 2009, that they were very concerned about CAIR's relationships with terrorist groups, and requesting that the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) provide each Congressman a summary of DOJ's evidence and findings that led DOJ to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial.

On June 23, 2010, Judge Stanton ruled in Google's favor in a motion for summary judgment, holding that Google was protected by provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, notwithstanding evidence of intentional copyright infringement.

In summary the critics contend that a hypothetical model which is both self-consistent and consistent with the laws of science concerning its operation, in the absence of a path to build the device modeled, provides no evidence that the desired device can be built.

In summary, Popper provides that a scientist creatively develops a theory which may be falsified by testing the theory against evidence or known facts.

* Monument Class Description, a synthesis and summary of the archaeological evidence for a British ancient monument

In summary, Spirit found evidence of slight weathering on the plains of Gusev, but no evidence that a lake was there.

Those wishing to pursue the evidence for Thomas Swift may see the summary in A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith's authoritative edition of A Tale of a Tub ( 1920 and 1958 ), where they say, " all the evidence for Thomas Swift's participation in the Tale ... nothing but rumour and

Absent an award of summary judgment ( or some type of pretrial dismissal ), a lawsuit will ordinarily proceed to trial, which is an opportunity for litigants to present evidence in an attempt to persuade the factfinder that they are saying " what really happened ," and that, under the applicable law, they should prevail.

A party may also move for summary judgement in order to eliminate the risk of losing at trial, and possibly avoid having to go through discovery ( i. e., by moving at the outset of discovery ), by demonstrating to the judge, via sworn statements and documentary evidence, that there are no material factual issues remaining to be tried.

A party seeking summary judgment may refer to any evidence that would be admissible at trial, such as depositions ( or deposition excerpts ), party admissions, affidavits in support from witnesses, documents received during discovery ( such as contracts, emails, letters, and certified government documents ).