In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

The dissertation was generally regarded as conclusive, although Isaac Vossius published an angry and scurrilous reply to it in the appendix to his edition of Pomponius Mela.

Open access advocates generally reply that because open access is as much based on peer reviewing as traditional publishing, the quality should be the same ( recognizing that both traditional and open access journals have a range of quality ).

Verses addressed to an Imitator of Horace by a Lady ( 1733 ), a scurrilous reply to these attacks, is generally attributed to the joint efforts of Lady Mary and her sworn ally, Lord Hervey.

An employee must make the request in writing, the employer must reply in writing, and can only decline the request on the basis of a correct fact assessment, and within 8 grounds listed in section 80G, which generally concern business and organisational necessity.

The reply of Prince Paul to the message of the Greek government caused considerable perturbation in Greece and to some extent even in Europe generally.

For many years it was assumed that Harvey himself had adopted the persona of Lichfield and written the reply to Nashe, but the style of the pamphlet is nothing like his and appears quite genuinely to be by Lichfield, and is generally so accepted today.

Observers have reported that the " impatient reply " was, " When I need advice from a junior officer I generally ask for it.

Austria must become predominant in the Balkans as compared to the little ones, and at Russia ’ s expense .” Count Szögyény reported to Vienna that “ here, it is generally taken for granted that if Serbia rejects our demands, we shall at once reply by declaring war, and opening military operations.

An expanding universe generally has a cosmological horizon which, by analogy with the more familiar horizon caused by the curvature of the Earth's surface, marks the boundary of the part of the universe that an observer can see.

Elements heavier than iron are made in energy-absorbing processes in large stars, and their abundance in the universe ( and on Earth ) generally decreases with their atomic number.

In cosmology, if one assumes the Copernican principle and observes that the universe appears isotropic from our vantage-point on Earth, then one can prove that the Universe is generally homogeneous ( at any given time ) and is also isotropic about any given point.

Causality is not required by special or general relativity, but is nonetheless generally considered a basic property of the universe that cannot be sensibly dispensed with.

Wiccans generally, as well as some other neopagans, tend to conceive of the universe as polarized into gender opposites of male and female energies.

However, he also generally does not hurt or infringe on others, making him an uncannily neutral character in the Max Headroom universe.

Because of this, up and down quarks are generally stable and the most common in the universe, whereas strange, charm, top, and bottom quarks can only be produced in high energy collisions ( such as those involving cosmic rays and in particle accelerators ).

The two characters, brought into being within the puzzling universe of Stoppard's play by an act of the playwright's creation, have generally interchangeable, yet periodically unique, identities.

Cosmological redshift is seen due to the expansion of the universe, and sufficiently distant light sources ( generally more than a few million light years away ) show redshift corresponding to the rate of increase of their distance from Earth.

Since the number of particles in the universe is generally considered to be less than 10 to the power 100 ( a googol ), there is no hope to find an explicit counterexample by exhaustive search.

* A much better understanding of the evolution of the universe was achieved, its age ( about 13. 75 billion years ) was determined, and the Big Bang theory on its origin was proposed and generally accepted.

However, these depictions of sex are not generally understood to be a license for free sexual practices, but are instead meant to celebrate procreation as an integral part of existence in the universe.

) That the observed abundances in the universe are generally consistent with these abundance numbers is considered strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.

From three to seven curves are generally appropriate to cover the required range of an input value, or the " universe of discourse " in fuzzy jargon.

More generally, it is sometimes assumed that the universe starts out covered with a periodic pattern, and only a finite number of cells violate that pattern.

While the term " Foundation Series " can be used specifically for the seven Foundation books, it can also be used more generally to include the Robot series ( four novels ) and Empire series ( three novels ), which are set in the same fictional universe, but in earlier time periods.

This event heralded more generally the concept of the DC Comics Multiverse, a decades-long recurring theme of the DC Comics universe, allowing old and new heroes to co-exist and crossover.

This mandala is generally structured according to the model of the universe as taught in a Buddhist classic text the Abhidharma-kośa, with Mount Meru at the centre, surrounded by the continents, oceans and mountains, etc.

In Samoan mythology, Tagaloa ( also known as Tagaloa-lagi or Tagaloa of the Heavens / Skies ) is generally accepted as the supreme ruler, the creator of the universe, the chief of all gods and the progenitor of other gods and humans.

If the geometry of the universe is not compact, then it is infinite in extent with infinite paths of constant direction that, generally do not return and the space has no definable volume, such as the Euclidean plane.

Even light itself does not have a " velocity " of c in this sense ; the total velocity of any object can be expressed as the sum where is the recession velocity due to the expansion of the universe ( the velocity given by Hubble's law ) and is the " peculiar velocity " measured by local observers ( with and, the dots indicating a first derivative ), so for light is equal to c (- c if the light is emitted towards our position at the origin and + c if emitted away from us ) but the total velocity is generally different than c .( Davis and Lineweaver 2003, p. 19 ) Even in special relativity the coordinate speed of light is only guaranteed to be c in an inertial frame, in a non-inertial frame the coordinate speed may be different than c ; in general relativity no coordinate system on a large region of curved spacetime is " inertial ", but in the local neighborhood of any point in curved spacetime we can define a " local inertial frame " and the local speed of light will be c in this frame, with massive objects such as stars and galaxies always having a local speed smaller than c. The cosmological definitions used to define the velocities of distant objects are coordinate-dependent-there is no general coordinate-independent definition of velocity between distant objects in general relativity ( Baez and Bunn, 2006 ).

Time asymmetries are generally distinguished as between those intrinsic to the dynamic laws of nature, and those due to the initial conditions of our universe.

While the terms " parallel universe " and " alternative reality " are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term " alternative reality " that implies that the reality is a variant of our own.

Your suggested solution, it seems to me, is grossly oversimplified and is inconsistent with your generally realistic attitude toward, and endorsement of, sound planning.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

It is generally conceded that the Formosan air force is the best by far in Asia, and the army the best trained.

The total adverse impact of disease, insects, fire, weather, destructive animals, and other forces on the uses and values of forest resources is not generally recognized.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

Now, the machine has been improved to a point where it is generally more economical than oil heat at temperatures down to 15 degrees.

It is generally an inaccurate method of rating, for the horsepower is that of the compressor motor, and many other components beside it determine how much cooling you'll get.

Above this point there is no generally used parallel ladder.

Advances in equipment and fabrication techniques give the sign or display manufacturer an extremely wide choice of production techniques, ranging from injection molding for intricate, smaller-size, mass-production signs ( generally 5000 units is the minimum ) to vacuum and pressure forming for larger signs of limited runs.

Brown ( 1959 ) has reviewed generally the various methods of assaying TSH, and the reader is referred to her paper for further information on the subject.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

My answer is in the negative because I believe that total capital demands during the Sixties will continue to press against available supplies, and interest rates will generally tend to be firm at high levels.

In general, it appears that trustees and board members attempt to represent the public interest in their administration of educational policy, and this is made easier by the fact that the dominant values of the society are middle-class values, which are generally thought to be valid for the entire society.

In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.

The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.

Because of undesirable flavors, odors, colors, and generally low palatability associated with radiation treatment of this magnitude, the inactivation of enzymes is best accomplished prior to irradiation by the conventional heat-processing methods of blanching.

The polyester urethane foam is generally produced with adipic acid polyesters ; ;

An electrostatic system suffers generally from image plane curvature leading to defocusing in the peripheral image region if a flat viewing screen ( or interstage coupler ) is utilized, while a magnetic system requires accurate adjustment of the solenoid, which is heavy and bulky.

The packing efficiency, F.R., of fiber plates did not receive much attention in the literature, probably as it is high for the larger fibers generally used, until rather recently.

Intermarriage, which is generally regarded as a threat to Jewish survival, was regarded not with horror or apprehension but with a kind of mild, clinical disapproval.

Beer, generally fermented from barley, is an old alcoholic beverage.