However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

It is an organized system of these things.

This is necessary for a sounder collective defense system.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals.

The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.

but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.

It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes the frame of our international -- and in some degree our domestic -- policy.

The system is composed of three credit services, Federal Land Banks and National Farm Loan Associations, Federal Intermediate ( short-term ) Credit Banks, and Banks for Cooperatives.

The APG III system ( 2009 ) differs only in that the Limnocharitaceae are combined with the Alismataceae ; it was also suggested that the genus Maundia ( of the Juncaginaceae ) could be separated into a monogeneric family, Maundiaceae, but the authors noted that more study was necessary before Maundiaceae could be recognized.

# Organizing a system in which computation and memory are separated.

In the case of an optimal system the signal is proportional to the concentration of the specific analyte separated.

He created a system of " parties " called the brigade system, which separated the professional kitchen into five separate stations.

This system originated in the Swedish regime of the 17th century, which effectively divided the Finnish people into two groups, separated economically, socially and politically.

The 1894 Act formed an official system of civil parishes, separated from the ecclesiastical parishes, to carry on some of these responsibilities ( others being transferred to the district / county councils ).

Since the gels are fragile and the probes are unable to enter the matrix, the RNA samples, now separated by size, are transferred to a nylon membrane through a capillary or vacuum blotting system.

The development of the Qing military system can be divided into two broad periods separated by the Taiping Rebellion ( 1850 – 1864 ).

According to 19th century British historians, it was these " Aryans " who " invaded " India and established the caste system, an elitist act of social organization that ( according to the British ) separated the " light-skinned " Indo-Aryan conquerors from the " conquered dark-skinned " indigenous Dravidian tribes through enforcement of " racial endogamy ".

They introduced equality before the law, compulsory military service and a uniform tax system, and also abolished certain tax privileges, introduced modern administration, separated powers between the state and the Church, and nationalised the judiciary.

Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other.

The missiles are ejected from their tubes by igniting an explosive charge in a separate container which is separated by seventeen titanium alloy pinnacles activated by a double alloy steam system.

In amphibians and most reptiles, a double circulatory system is used but the heart is not completely separated into two pumps.

The I / O subsystem was separated from the main machine, connected to the main system via a 6 MB / s control channel and a 100 MB / s High Speed Data Channel.

This separation made the 1S look like two " half Crays " separated by a few feet, which allowed the I / O system to be expanded as needed.

The U. S. Treasury was put on a strict hard-money standard, doing business only in gold or silver coin as part of the Independent Treasury Act of 1848, which legally separated the accounts of the Federal Government from the banking system.

Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ( potentially widely separated in space and time ) to collaborate.

Typical tasks when provisioning a server are: select a server from a pool of available servers, load the appropriate software ( operating system, device drivers, middleware, and applications ), appropriately customize and configure the system and the software to create or change a boot image for this server, and then change its parameters, such as IP address, IP Gateway to find associated network and storage resources ( sometimes separated as resource provisioning ) to audit the system.

The operating system keeps its processes separated and allocates the resources they need, so that they are less likely to interfere with each other and cause system failures ( e. g., deadlock or thrashing ).

Pathology is further separated into divisions, based on either the system being studied ( e. g. veterinary pathology and animal disease ) or the focus of the examination ( e. g. forensic pathology and determining the cause of death ).

By monitoring, we mean some system of control over the types of information sent from the various centers.

But none of this has prevented scientists, philosophers, and even historians of science, from speaking of the Ptolemaic system, in contrast to the Copernican.

This system was dependent upon identical maps and Thomas supplied them from a mobile lithograph press.

While Councilman Olson cited the anticipated increase in school costs in answer to a direct question from a taxpayer, the impact upon a school system does not have to be measured only in increased taxes to find alarm in uncontrolled growth.

The education program for retarded children conducted by the East Greenwich school system has pupils from at least one neighboring community.

Not only is this kind of duplication wasteful, but it gives the combined system the ability to take freight traffic away from the New York Central and other railroads serving the area.

The radius is calculated from the mass by assuming spheres of density Af except for the smallest particles, which must have a higher mass density to remain in the solar system in the presence of solar-radiation pressure.

This explains the beneficial effect of electroshock therapy in certain depressions and a shift in the reaction from hypo- to normal reactivity of the sympathetic system as shown by the Mecholyl test.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

For purposes of sample selection only ( individual tests were given later ) we obtained group test scores of reading achievement and intelligence from school records of the entire third-grade population in each school system.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

that is, from aspects of a universal system of Justice into particular rules governing the relations of sovereign states.

In the first place the new doctrine brought a formal separation of international from municipal law, rejecting the earlier view that both were parts of a universal legal system.

That reference in the Report is `` continuation of the trend toward an all-Negro school system '', a remark apparently occasioned by the increase of Negro school population from 74.1 per cent to 76.7 per cent.

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

Certain features we have touched upon: philosophy as a logical, deductive system from which a social science methodology can be built up ; ;

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

This sort of manipulation is especially troublesome in Fromm's work because, although his system is derived largely from certain philosophic convictions, he asserts that it is based on empirical findings drawn both from social science and from his own consulting room.

The high cost of land and a few operational problems resulting from excessive loadings have created the need for a wastewater treatment system with the operational characteristics of the oxidation pond but with the ability to treat more organic matter per unit volume.

Since experience indicates that effluents from oxidation ponds do not create major problems at these BOD concentrations, the goal for the effluent quality of the accelerated treatment system was the same as from conventional oxidation ponds.