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By definition, committing " venal " acts does not indicate " stealing " or " lying ", but rather suggests a consensual arrangement, perhaps without conscience or regard for consequences, but is not synonymous with stealing.
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By the Brønsted-Lowry definition, any compound which can easily be deprotonated can be considered an acid.
By definition it does not cover problems whose solution are unknown or have not been characterised formally.
By definition a multilinear map is alternating if it vanishes whenever two of its arguments are equal.
By definition, where a director enters into a transaction with a company, there is a conflict between the director's interest ( to do well for himself out of the transaction ) and his duty to the company ( to ensure that the company gets as much as it can out of the transaction ).
By 1963 – 4 Gödel would disavow Herbrand – Gödel recursion and the λ-calculus in favor of the Turing machine as the definition of " algorithm " or " mechanical procedure " or " formal system ".
By contrast, a dictionary definition has additional details, typically including an etymology showing snapshots of the earlier meanings and the parent language.
By his own admission, Hubbard made what he considered was one of the greatest mistakes of his life when he used the biological definition of engram as a " trace on a cell ", which was not in line with the proper biological definition.
By definition, this classifies it as both a river and a strait — a strait being a narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water.
By definition, it is the amount of energy gained by the charge of a single electron moved across an electric potential difference of one volt.
At standard temperature, pressure and concentration conditions, the cell's emf ( measured by a multimeter ) is 0. 34 V. By definition, the electrode potential for the SHE is zero.
By definition, equality follow a number of " equivalence relations ", including ( a ) reflexive ( i. e. ), ( b ) symmetric ( i. e. if then ) ( c ) transitive ( i. e. if and then ).
By definition, a and b can be written as multiples of c: a = mc and b = nc, where m and n are natural numbers.
By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two.
By an abuse of the definition, a particular formal language is often thought of as being equipped with a formal grammar that describes it.
By definition, these clouds must have a v < sub > lsr </ sub > greater than 90 km s < sup >− 1 </ sup >, where v < sub > lsr </ sub > is the local standard rest velocity.
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By contrast, the " Verb of Similarity " ( فعل المضارع, fi ' l al-mudaara ' ah ), so called because of its resemblance to the active participial noun, is considered to denote an event in the present or future without committing to a specific aspectual sense beyond the incompleteness implied by the tense: يضرب " yadribu ", he strikes / is striking / will strike / etc.
By October 2007 the total capital value of PFI contracts signed throughout the UK was £ 68bn, committing the British taxpayer to future spending of £ 215bn over the life of the contracts.
By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.
By 1899, when tensions erupted once more into the Second Boer War, the lure of gold made it worth committing the vast resources of the British Empire and incurring the huge costs required to win that war.
By ratifying Buford's defensive plan and engaging his I Corps infantry, Reynolds essentially selected the location for the Battle of Gettysburg for Meade, turning a chance meeting engagement into a massive pitched battle, committing the Army of the Potomac to fight on that ground with forces that were initially numerically inferior to the Confederates that were concentrating there.
By 1992, it became more clear that the party chose to campaign on a line of criticism of immigration ; for instance demanding a decreased foreign aid, expulsion of immigrants committing crime, loans rather than grants and temporary residence permits instead of asylum.
By deliberately missing shots or committing well-timed turnovers or fouls, a corrupt player can covertly ensure that his team fails to cover the point spread, without causing them to lose the game ( or to lose so badly that suspicions are aroused ).
By committing to Sigma Pi, Brothers also strive to follow the five ideals as expressed in the Sigma Pi Creed.
By committing diablerie ( i. e. drinking all of a vampires ' blood as well as their soul ), a vampire can absorb those purer powers from a vampire of an earlier generation, effectively decreasing their own generation ( the victim, of course, experiences the final death in the process ).
By early 1963, he would begin a four-year quest to extricate Egyptian forces from Yemen, using an unsuccessful face-saving mechanism, only to find himself committing more troops.
By the late 1980s, Dre had released his first song, “ Too Hard For the Fucking Radio .” It was on a cassette tape, and was passed around until it became an “ underground sensation .” Based on the success of “ Too Hard For the Fucking Radio ,” Dre released his first album, Young Black Brother, which coincided with the time the Romper Room gang began committing robberies, which police believed were financing Dre ’ s music.
By front-running, the broker has put his or her own financial interest above ( or in front of ) the customer's interest and is thus committing fraud.
By combining the two main tasks of focusing attention on a partner and committing to an action, the technique aims to force an actor into " the moment " ( a common Meisner phrase ), while simultaneously propelling the actor forward with concentrated purpose.
By committing multiple sins, the priest hopes to sell his soul, so that he can be at the birth of the Antichrist and kill it before it can destroy the world.
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