For the policy officer will know that action can almost never be secret and that in general the effectiveness of policy will be conditioned by the readiness of the country to sustain it.

In general, the plateau experiences high temperatures and almost no rainfall in summer and cold weather with heavy snow in winter.

However, it has not incorporated the general Eastern umlaut of all synchronic or even historic " ya " sounds into " e " before front vowels – e. g. поляна ( polyana ) vs полени ( poleni ) " meadow – meadows " or even жаба ( zhaba ) vs жеби ( zhebi ) " frog – frogs ", even though it co-occurs with the yat alternation in almost all Eastern dialects that have it ( except a few dialects along the yat border, e. g. in the Pleven region ).

In almost all areas of the law ( even those where there is a statutory framework, such as contracts for the sale of goods, or the criminal law ), legislature-enacted statutes generally give only terse statements of general principle, and the fine boundaries and definitions exist only in the common law ( connotation 1 ).

The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.

The Earley parser executes in cubic time in the general case, where n is the length of the parsed string, quadratic time for unambiguous grammars, and linear time for almost all LR ( k ) grammars.

In general, two extremes of federalism can be distinguished: at one extreme, the strong federal state is almost completely unitary, with few powers reserved for local governments ; while at the other extreme, the national government may be a federal state in name only, being a confederation in actuality.

Craig Evans states that almost all modern scholars consider the Josephus passage on John to be authentic in its entirety, and that what Josephus states about John fits well both with the general depiction of John in the New Testament and within the historical context of the activities of other men, their preachings and their promises during that period.

In 1183 a general tax was levied throughout the kingdom, which was unprecedented in Jerusalem and almost all of medieval Europe to that point.

In general, " twentieth-century theories have tended to see myth as almost anything but an outdated counterpart to science Consequently, moderns are not obliged to abandon myth for science.

However, yearly warfare often did not constitute general devastation but took on an almost ritual character, with established ' rules ' and norms.

The capital was almost out of fuel and transport of supplies caused by a crippling general strike in southern Nepal on February 17, 2008.

:# If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in Criterion A ( Exposure to the social or performance situation almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response ) is unrelated to it, e. g., the fear is not of Stuttering, trembling in Parkinson's disease, or exhibiting abnormal eating behavior in Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa.

However, until the rise of Romanticism and the general acceptance of freedom of religion in Western civilization, " paganism " was almost always used disparagingly of heterodox beliefs falling outside the established political framework of the Christian Church.

In general, cultured pearls are less valuable than natural pearls, whereas imitation pearls almost have no value.

Puritanism has a historical importance over a period of a century ( followed by 50 years of development in New England ), and general views must contend with the way it changed character and emphasis almost decade by decade over that time.

" One party government ", as this system is sometimes called, has been the general rule for almost three hundred years.

In general, however, the Prime Minister and their colleagues may secure the Commons ' support for almost any bill by internal party negotiations with little regard to opposition MPs.

When the first postage stamps premiered in the 1840s, they followed an almost identical standard in their shape, size and general subject matter.

" " Sociobiology is now part of the core research and curriculum of virtually all biology departments, and it is a foundation of the work of almost all field biologists " Sociobiological research on nonhuman organisms has increased dramatically and appears continuously in the world's top scientific journals such as Nature and Science. The more general term behavioral ecology is commonly used as substitute for the term sociobiology in order to avoid the public controversy.

The high point in a British General Elections thus far was when the SNP polled almost a third of all votes in Scotland at the October 1974 general election and returned 11 MPs to Westminster, to date the most MPs it has had, although its representation was reduced significantly in the 1979 general election.

The author Arrian, during his personal experience in Spain, describes hare hunting with Galgos in a manner almost identical to that used nowadays in Spain, adding that it was a general Celtic tradition not related to a social class.

In general, the plateau experiences extreme heat, with almost no rainfall in summer and cold weather with heavy snow in winter.

In general, every UML element may appear on almost all types of diagrams ; this flexibility has been partially restricted in UML 2. 0.

Indeed, scientific consensus is that the breeding population of such an animal would be so large that it would account for many more purported sightings than currently occur, making the existence of such an animal an almost certain impossibility.

Once an area of almost tribal allegiance to different schools of thought, today there is wide spread consensus about the structure of personality assessment and its status within the framework of the cross disciplinary progress being made in our understanding of Human Nature.

Decisive reports such as the Stern Review and the 2007 IPCC Report almost established a climate change consensus.

( The general consensus is that Afroasiatic is indeed a genetic grouping, and that Egyptian did in fact diverge greatly in its prerecorded history, although there is almost certainly a Semitic bias in Afroasiatic reconstruction.

Two " Epistles on Virginity " were traditionally attributed to Clement, but now there exists almost universal consensus that Clement was not the author of those two epistles.

The consensus was key to avoiding a costly format war, which plagued almost every other form of entertainment media that followed roll music.

The film was almost universally panned by critics, garnering an 11 % Rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus that A Night at the Roxbury " has the same problems as the worst SNL movies: one-note characters and plots unreasonably stretched to feature length runtime ".

Big was received with almost unanimous critical acclaim ; based on 53 reviews collected by the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 96 % of critics gave the film a positive " Certified Fresh " review and the consensus stating " Refreshingly sweet and undeniably funny, Big is a showcase for Tom Hanks, who dives into his role and infuses it with charm and surprising poignancy.

There is no scholarly consensus as to what exactly Hidalgo said at the time, as the book The Course of Mexican History states " The exact words of this most famous of all Mexican speeches are not known, or, rather, they are reproduced in almost as many variations as there are historians to reproduce them.

Nevertheless, there is a broad consensus among scholars that the written verse retains many ( and some would argue almost all ) of the features of the spoken language.

He claimed that with few exceptions they " shared the Nehruvian consensus on all important issues ", and that " the RSS and the BJS stalwarts spent almost all their time and energy in proving that they were not Hindu communalists but honest secularists.

There was a widely-held consensus that the oceans were in parts very deep, but almost nothing was known of the make up of the deep oceans, the submarine landscape, nor the life contained within the deep ocean.

Michael E. Parrish, professor at UCSD, said of Frankfurter: " History has not been kind to ... there is now almost a universal consensus that Frankfurter the justice was a failure, a judge who ... became ' uncoupled from the locomotive of history ' during the Second World War, and who thereafter left little in the way of an enduring jurisprudential legacy.

The DSB uses a special decision procedure known as ' reverse consensus ' or ' consensus against ' that makes it almost certain that the Panel recommendations in a dispute will be accepted.

The consensus communis is unparalleled in almost any other area of research ; no specialists now argue that I Enoch 37-71 is a Christian and postdates the first century.

It is currently almost impossible to have consensus over this issue between Korean and Japanese scholars due to nationalism.

There have been serious linguistic proponents of almost every conceivable possible set of relationships of the Afro-Asiatic language subfamilies to each other, although there is reasonably great consensus concerning the subfamily classification of all but a few of the Afro-Asiatic languages.

In an August 6, 2002, article, he wrote that " a consensus of experts " informed the Senate that the Iraqi weapons arsenal was “ almost totally destroyed during eight years of inspections .” On June 3, 2003, Scheer concluded that White House justifications for the war were a " big lie.

Not everyone was taken instantly by the car's styling, but the general consensus was that the car had a modern, almost space age quality about it.

It's unclear if the archbishop of Novgorod was the real head of state or chief executive of the Novgorod Republic, but in any case he remained an important town official ; in addition to overseeing the church in Novgorod, he headed embassies, oversaw certain court cases of a secular nature, and carried out other secular tasks, but the archbishops appeared to have worked with the boyars to reach a consensus and almost never acted alone.

The almost unanimous consensus of most Puerto Ricans was that Agrelot deserved the honor, and the facility was dedicated to him on what would have been his birthday that year.

Although amongst the Sunni scholars there is a difference of opinion about him being still alive, amongst Sunni Sufis there is almost a consensus that Khiḍr is still alive, with many respected figures and shaykhs, and prominent leaders claiming having had personal encounters with him.

Nevertheless, over the course of 40 years, it has gained almost universal popular consensus.