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Adams concludes that “ right action, by act-utilitarian standards, and right motivation, by motive-utilitarian standards, are incompatible in some cases .” The necessity of this conclusion is rejected by Fred Feldman who argues that “ the conflict in question results from an inadequate formulation of the utilitarian doctrines ; motives play no essential role in it …( and that )… Precisely the same sort of conflict arises even when MU is left out of consideration and AU is applied by itself .” Instead, Feldman proposes a variant of act utilitarianism that results in there being no conflict between it and motive utilitarianism.
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Alan Haynes describes him as " one of the most strangely underrated of Elizabeth's circle of close advisers ", while Simon Adams, who since the early 1970s has researched many aspects of Leicester's life and career, concludes: " Leicester was as central a figure to the ' first reign ' Elizabeth as Burghley.
Later, in Washington DC, intelligence analyst Dr. Chappell ( Christine Adams ) concludes that some sort of mind control device must have been used.
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Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).
To demonstrate what can be achieved with the most mundane objects if planned correctly and imaginatively, Adams has worked with companies to develop “ dream ” products for Dilbert and company.
Article XIV of the Massachusetts Declaration of the Rights written by John Adams and enacted in 1780 as part of the Massachusetts Constitution added the requirement that all searches must be “ reasonable ” and served as the basis for the language of the Fourth Amendment:
Adams refers to Sidgwick ’ s observation that “ Happiness ( general as well as individual ) is likely to be better attained if the extent to which we set ourselves consciously to aim at it be carefully restricted .” Trying to apply the utility calculation on each and every occasion is likely to lead to a sub-optimal outcome.
Adams argues that Jack will only have skipped the less interesting bits of the cathedral if “ he had been less interested in seeing everything in the cathedral than in maximizing utility.
Jackson and his followers immediately labeled Clay and Adams as striking a “ corrupt bargain ", and they continued to lambast the President until the 1828 election.
“ Hypokinesia ... is a reversible long-term lethargy characterized by lack of spontaneous movement or response to external stimuli ,” ( Banks and Adams ).
An American clairvoyant by the name of Catherine Adams has written, “ My philosophy is to teach and practice spiritual freedom, which means you have your own spiritual guidance, which I can help you get in touch with.
* Stuart W. Shulman, “ The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda ‐ Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press ,” in Jane Adams ( Ed .).
In 1969 she appeared in Alan J. Pakula's first feature film, The Sterile Cuckoo ( 1969 ), as “ Pookie Adams ”, a needy, eccentric teenager.
* “ Weston ” by Charles Alexander Nelson in Samuel Adams Drake, compiler, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 2 ( L-W ), 1880, pp. 488-505.
On May 19, 1760, after coming to Sevilleta, Bishop Tamarón passed the ruins of “ the house they called Colorada ,” and from that point on they began to see pens of ewes, corrals, and small houses ( Adams 1953: 201 ).
Harvard Board of Overseers member Mitchell L. Adams said, “ This is an extraordinary moment in Harvard ’ s history and in the history of this rapidly emerging field ... And because of Harvard ’ s leadership in academia and the world, this gift will foster continued progress toward a more inclusive society .”
In his arguments, Adams called the crowd “ a motley rabble of saucy boys, negros and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs .” In particular, he charged Attucks with having “ undertaken to be the hero of the night ,” and with having precipitated a conflict by his “ mad behavior .”
Two years later, Samuel Adams, a cousin of John Adams, named the event the “ Boston Massacre ,” and helped assure that it would not be forgotten.
* Adams, Mikaëla M., “ Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 1865 – 1934 ,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 ( Winter 2009 ), 404 – 35.
Adrian Searle has written that, “ Tyson ’ s conceptually inventive and quirky games-like watching Douglas Adams meet Marcel Duchamp over chess-leave me a bit cold.
Using the example of Peruna in his article, Adams described how this tonic, which was made of seven compound drugs and alcohol, did not have “ any great potency ”.
In October 2007, in an incident referred to by the Wall Street Journal as, " Sam Adams v. Sam Adams ," the Boston Beer Company demanded that control of the domain names " samadamsformayor. com " and “ mayorsamadams. com " be turned over to the company.
Adams and right
Adams took advantage of his right to defend himself in front of the members to deliver days of prepared and impromptu remarks against slavery and in favor of abolition.
Adams rose again to argue that the right to petition was a universal right granted by God so that those in the weakest positions might always have recourse to those in the most powerful.
Tombs of Presidents John Adams ( left ) and John Quincy Adams ( right ) and their wives, in a family crypt beneath the United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts | United First Parish Church
Adams vilified slavery as a terrible evil and preached total abolition, while Calhoun countered that the right to own slaves had to be protected from interference from the federal government to keep the nation alive.
It is this pulsing A, played as an eighth note as opposed to a sixteenth note, that pokes fun at the minimalist, yet Adams still uses the pulse ( i. e. alternating eighth notes between the right and left hand, creating a sixteenth note feeling ) as an engine for the movement.
That the Louisiana Purchase was illegal was described pointedly by the historian Henry Adams, who wrote: " The sale of Louisiana to the United States was trebly invalid ; if it were French property, Bonaparte could not constitutionally alienate it without the consent of the Chambers ; if it were Spanish property, he could not alienate it at all ; if Spain had a right of reclamation, his sale was worthless.
What was critical to American values, John Adams insisted, was that the government should be " bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend.
In 1833, when Congress rejected Michigan's request for a convention, Adams summed up his opinion on the dispute: " Never in the course of my life have I known a controversy of which all the right was so clearly on one side and all the power so overwhelmingly on the other.
This idealized depiction of ( left to right ) Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson working on the Declaration ( Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1900 ) was widely reprinted.
Adams argued strongly that the phonics and the whole language advocates are both right, and that phonics is an effective way to teach students the alphabetic code, building their skills in decoding unknown words.
However he was a charter member of All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington D. C. in 1821 signing his name right next to John Quincy Adams and remained a member for all his life.
These were generally presented by John Quincy Adams, who as a member of Congress identified himself particularly with the struggle against any Congressional abridgment of the right of petition.
Nimrod Expedition South Pole Party ( left to right ): Frank Wild | Wild, Shackleton, Eric Marshall | Marshall and Jameson Adams | Adams.
Wheeler continues, " On page 980, Adams spoke, ' I hold that it is no perjury, that it is no high-treason, but the exercise of a sacred right to offer such a petition.
Adams Holland opines it would have been originally the name of a small bridge connecting the Tiber Island ( on which she supposes the first shrine of Janus stood ) with the right bank of the river.
" Adams, whose knowledge is as incomplete as the next person, got around this by using the aforementioned " simplest explanation " for each concept raised in the book because, while " in this complicated world the simplest explanation is usually dead wrong ", a more simple explanation often sounds more right and more convincing than anything complicated.
The five prominent figures depicted are, from left to right, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.
Numerous variants of the theory have been presented: historically, figures including Saint Augustine, Duns Scotus, and Thomas Aquinas have presented various versions of divine command theory ; more recently, Robert Merrihew Adams has proposed a " modified divine command theory " based on the omnibenevolence of God in which morality is linked to human conceptions of right and wrong.
Adams suggests that a believer's concept of morality is founded in their religious belief and that right and wrong are tied to their belief in God ; this works because God always commands what believers accept to be right.
Adams and action
The South African Paul Adams, known for his unusual bowling action, is perhaps one of the best-known left-arm wrist spinners.
" John Adams " took absolutely no independent action.
Adams ( allegedly ) rose to become the most senior figure in the IRA Northern Command on the basis of his absolute rejection of anything but military action, but this conflicts with the fact that during his time in prison, Adams came to reassess his approach and became more political.
Breaking with tradition, Adams said in reaction to the bombing " I am totally horrified by this action.
This new township was formed and named Adams, until August 1850 when the action of the court was reconsidered to change the name to McNair Township.
Adams speculated that " With Mr Wolfowitz so far refusing to step down, the board may need to take radical action to break the stalemate.
Many thought Washington would die ; but neither he, nor Vice President John Adams, nor the Senate attempted to invoke any effort to install Adams as acting president temporarily, because there was no provision for such action.
Samuel Adams ( April 10, 1912 – June 6, 1942 ) was an officer in the United States Navy decorated for action in the Battle of Midway during World War II.
Adams proposes that an action is morally wrong if and only if it defies the commands of a loving God.
During the course of the Second Continental Congress, Adams and his group of colleagues decided the wisest course of action was to remain quiet and wait for the opportune time to rally the people.
After the American Revolution, The United States was left without Britain's protection in Mediterranean, thus the Washington and Adams administrations chose paying tribute to the Barbary states as a cost effective alternative to military action.
Adams missed at least six weeks of action as a result of his injury.
The scheduled final story of the season, Adams ' own Shada, was abandoned midway through recording due to industrial action, and the season finished, after just twenty episodes, in January 1980.
When Batman, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter try to fight them, Major Force manages to knock them down causing Nathaniel Adams to take action and crashes a jet into him.
The film reaches its climax when Lewis, finally unable to ignore Orrin Price's reign of terror over Adams College, decides to take action.
John Adams was to write of this engagement: " There has not been a more memorable action this war.
In a widely read New York Times article, Richard Taruskin defended the orchestra's action, and denounced Adams and the opera for " romanticizing terrorists ".
According to Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, this was done on Adams ' request, who wanted nothing to do with the publisher, and took action to keep his name off the book's cover.
One week later, he returned to ring action for the first time in over four months, and debuted his new finisher, a version of Terry Gordy's Oriental thumb spike ( dubbed the " Ice Pick "), for a submission victory over Adams.
" Their petition received very little action other than to be handed over to a Congressional committee for consideration, which consisted of three men: John Adams, Daniel Roberdeau, and Jonathan Bayard Smith.
The Adams – Bashforth methods were designed by John Couch Adams to solve a differential equation modelling capillary action due to Francis Bashforth.
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