The theory, and its intellectual context, are treated with engaging irony in Daniel Kehlmann's fictionalised account of the travels of Alexander von Humboldt, Die Vermessung der Welt ( Measuring the World ) of 2006.

In his view, Sartre gives such a generalized account of revolutionary organization that he ignores the real difficulties of groups engaging in common action without infringing the freedom of their individual members.

While Structural Functionalist research programs methodically impose pre-existing analytical schemata on their fields of study ; Symbolic Interactionist programs assume the facticity of the symbols being interpreted by actors party to social scenes ; and various forms of Social Constructionism assume the objective character of the building blocks that make up their descriptions of social structures, and then work retrospectively to account for these social constructions in terms of a formal, predetermined conceptual apparatus ; Ethnomethodology specifically avoids engaging with these types of taken-for-granted programmatic assumptions and descriptive resources in its descriptions of social scenes.

Socrates feels that his description of the ideal state wasn't sufficient for the purposes of entertainment and that " I would be glad to hear some account of it engaging in transactions with other states " ( 19b ).

A more engaging account is given by the late Virginia Tech philosopher Marjorie Grene.

David Hughes of Empire magazine said that the film was " an unforced, engaging and surprisingly incisive account of the disintegration of British rule in Africa ".

Even that property he was in danger of losing by engaging in a dangerous feud on his own account with ' Clan MacDonell of Glengarry.

According to a PnC leader quoted in 2000, " for the past five years they've been engaging in technological, intellectual, financial, and reputational terrorism against Yale with the main goal of damaging the careers of the Yale Corporation — those individuals who hold the purse-strings of Yale's bank account and represent the worst effects of a capitalist society.

In his book, The Complex, John Duignan provides an account of the RPF as living in a rat-infested basement, engaging in degrading jobs years at a stretch, and not being allowed to visit one's spouse or children.

A trial of strength, however, is made quite inevitable by virtue of the fact that anyone engaging in non-violent resistance will be convinced that his action is based on sounder values than those of his opponent ; ;

When Tarrou points out that " victories will never be lasting ," Rieux admits that he is involved in a " never ending defeat ," but this does not stop him from engaging in the struggle.

This will usually involve engaging legal representation, administrative and or court costs.

However, raising the engine speed too high while engaging the clutch will cause excessive clutch plate wear.

In Saudi Arabia, while the maximum punishment for homosexual acts is public execution, the government will generally use lesser punishments — e. g., fines, jail time, and whipping — as alternatives, unless it feels that individuals are challenging state authority by engaging in LGBT social movements.

Activities that will interfere with relaxation and enjoyment of the holiday — such as laundering, mending clothes, engaging in labor-intensive activities — are not permitted.

This sub-genre will often make use of all branches with the whole force of the engaging nations, covering entire wars or long campaigns.

[...] I must not however conceal from Your Excellency, that the Gentry, well disposed, and heartily desirous as they are, to serve the Crown, and to serve it with Zeal, when formed into regular Corps, do not relish commanding a bare Militia, they never were used to that Service under the French Government, ( and perhaps for good Reasons ) besides the sudden Dismission of the Canadian Regiment raised in 1764, without Gratuity or Recompence to Offices, who engaged in our Service almost immediately after the Cession of the Country, of taking any Notice of them since, tho ' they all expected half pay, is still uppermost in their Thoughts, and not likely to encourage their engaging a second Time in the same Way ; as to the Habitants or Peasantry, ever since the Civil Authority has been introduced into the Province, the Government of it has hung so loose, and retained so little Power, they have in a Manner emancipated themselves, and it will require Time, and discreet Management likewise, to recall them to their ancient Habits of Obedience and Discipline ; considering all the new Ideas they have been acquiring for these ten years past, can it be thought they will be pleased at being suddenly, and without Preparation embodied into a Militia, and marched from their Families, Lands, and Habitations to remote Provinces, and all the Horrors of War, which they have already experienced ; It would give appearance of Truth to the Language of our Sons of Sedition, at this very Moment busily employed instilling into their Minds, that the Act was passed merely to serve the present Purposes of Government, and in the full Intention of ruling over them with all the Despotism of their ancient Masters.

9 ) The World Social Forum will always be a forum open to pluralism and to the diversity of activities and ways of engaging of the organizations and movements that decide to participate in it, as well as the diversity of genders, ethnicities, cultures, generations and physical capacities, providing they abide by this Charter of Principles.

One sleeps after engaging in dhikr, the angels will protect him throughout the night.

Perhaps, but it's such an engaging joke that anyone who loves old movies will find it irresistible.

With the partnership in place, the two cities now will focus on creating an educational and interactive environment for networking, sharing best practices and engaging elected officials.

Alice first encounters the Cheshire Cat at the Duchess's house in her kitchen, and then later outside on the branches of a tree, where it appears and disappears at will, engaging Alice in amusing but sometimes vexing conversation.

At the end of Sa Sartiglia, elsewhere within the old walls, another sand covered route will be trodden by horses ridden by those same masked horsemen and women showing their stunning prowess, while engaging in all sorts of acrobatics on two and three galloping steeds at a time.

Consumers employ the strategy of constant information by engaging in bias and search for information that will support their prior beliefs.

As an example, penalties are imposed for constructing an unsafe building or engaging in actions that will negatively impact the safety of a building.

In this role the SASR generally seeks to avoid directly engaging enemy units, though SASR soldiers will call in air and other support to destroy enemy units whenever possible.

A trust exercise involves engaging team members in a way that will induce trust between them.

The biopsychosocial model presumes that it is important to handle the three together as a growing body of empirical literature suggests that patient perceptions of health and threat of disease, as well as barriers in a patient's social or cultural environment, appear to influence the likelihood that a patient will engage in health-promoting or treatment behaviors, such as medication taking, proper diet or nutrition, and engaging in physical activity.

Because of the non-physical motivations ascribed to female intimacy, dancers select women to approach who are smiling and sitting comfortably with open body language such as uncrossed arms, actively participating with the crowd, laughing and engaging with fellow customers, and applauding for dancers at the main stage also increase the likelihood they will be approached.

* September 17 – At a conference at Nyon, Switzerland, to address Italian attacks on merchant ships in the Mediterranean Sea attended by Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Turkey, delegates agree that a British and French naval patrol in the Mediterranean west of Malta previously authorized to sink submarines suspected of attacking merchant ships also will be authorized to attack aircraft suspected of engaging in anti-shipping strikes.

When countered by a threat, the jungle cat will vocalize before engaging in attack, producing small roars, a behavior uncommon for domestic cats.

By engaging in teachings from Odeen, she also concludes on her own the supernova problem that Lamont uncovered in the first section ; outraged that the Pump is allowed to continue to operate, despite the fact that it will eventually result in the destruction of another civilization, she attempts to put a stop to the project.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

For Kant " enjoyment " is the result when pleasure arises from sensation, but judging something to be " beautiful " has a third requirement: sensation must give rise to pleasure by engaging our capacities of reflective contemplation.

For example, a students ' union may be prohibited as an organization from engaging in activities not concerning students ; if the union becomes involved in non-student activities these activities are considered ultra vires of the union's charter, and nobody would be compelled by the charter to follow them.

The Korowai tribe of south-eastern Papua could be one of the last surviving tribes in the world engaging in cannibalism, although there have been media reports of soldiers / rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia eating body parts to intimidate child soldiers or captives.

In addition, the column of air can be lengthened by engaging one or more valves, thus lowering the pitch.

Cyber Patrol, a product developed by The Anti-Defamation League and Mattel's The Learning Company, has been found to block not only political sites it deems to be engaging in ' hate speech ' but also human rights web sites, such as Amnesty International's web page about Israel and gay-rights web sites, such as glaad. org.

It is asserted that, as a result, most major academic libraries in the US do not use the DDC because the classification of works in those areas is not specific enough, although there are other reasons that may truly be more weighty, such as the much lower expense of using a unique " pre-packaged " catalog number instead of having highly skilled staff members engaging in the time-consuming development of catalog numbers.

They frequently used unexpected strategies, engaging in what modern generals would call psychological warfare — waiting for the enemy to be paralyzed with terror and then attacking them suddenly ; distracting the enemy with a small group of soldiers, etc.

After Grindal died in 1548, Elizabeth received her education under Roger Ascham, a sympathetic teacher who believed that learning should be engaging.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Solan secures funding from an Arab oil sheik who happens to be vacationing in Flåklypa, and to enter the race, the trio builds a gigantic racing car: Il Tempo Gigante — a fabulous construction with two extremely big engines ( weighing 2. 8 tons alone and making the seismometer in Bergen show 7. 8 Richter when started the first time ), a body made out of copper, a spinning radar ( that turns out to be useful when Blodstrupmoen starts engaging in smoke warfare during the race ) and its own blood bank.

: A spatial code could for example be, that there is a certain youth group in an area which is engaging heavily in racist activities.

All were born within a fifteen-year period ( 1887 and 1901 ) and, although they cannot be described as members of a single school, they all pursued an exploration of identity, rejecting nostalgia and parochialism and engaging with social and political issues.

Some people require potential sex partners to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases before engaging in sex.

Individual contributors that perform team tasks that are challenging, interesting, and engaging are more likely to be motivated to exert greater effort and perform better than those team members that are working on those tasks that do not have these characteristics.

Both fiction and nonfiction, for Russ, were modes of engaging theory with the real world ; in particular, The Female Man can be read as a theoretical or narrative text.

Besides private sponsors, it relies on resources obtained from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and local authorities, proposing projects to be undertaken with local communities and thus engaging with the general public.

Emotions contribute to negotiation processes by signaling what one feels and thinks and can thus prevent the other party from engaging in destructive behaviors and to indicate what steps should be taken next: PA signals to keep in the same way, while NA points that mental or behavioral adjustments are needed.

* Voyeurism: the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activities, or who is engaging in activities usually considered to be of a private nature.

* Pick-up line, intended to be short and easy method of engaging another person for sex or romance