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Even the most rational of men, under great stress, may be transported by a new faith and behave like mystics.
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Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Even `` America's most efficient builder '', Bob Schmitt of Berea, hopes to cut his labor costs another $2,000 per house as a result of the time-&-motion studies now being completed on his operation by industrial efficiency engineers from the Stanley Works.
Even in its most conventional appearance, the guests' song of praise to Marina, there are a few female dissenters criticizing the princess for her coldness.
Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.
Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life.
Even the most advanced structural characterization techniques, such as x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy, have difficulty in distinguishing between amorphous and crystalline structures on these length scales.
Even the most comfortable and technologically advanced autonomous houses may require some differences in behavior.
Even though most proposals call for payments of less than the full amount of the debt owing, in most cases, the creditors will accept the deal, because if they do not, the next alternative may be personal bankruptcy, where the creditors will get even less money.
Even worse, the attempts have instead often created psychopathic supervillains of which Captain America's 1950s imitator and Nuke are the most notorious examples.
Even if for operational reason very large portions of them reside in volatile storage ( e. g., tens of Gigabytes in volatile memory, for in-memory databases ), most of this is backed-up in nonvolatile storage.
Even if for operational reason very large portions of them reside in volatile storage ( e. g., tens of Gigabytes in volatile memory, for in-memory databases ), most of this is backed-up in nonvolatile storage.
" He notes that " Even in traditional bluegrass slap bass only appears sporadically and most of what I've done has been on the more contemporary side of that ( Tony Rice, Tim O ' Brien ).
Even if one does know this, it may not be possible to identify it with any confidence, since most keys refer to adult characters.
Even more ironically most of the bands who actually did appear as themselves in the movie, such as Art Bergman, The Modernettes and D. O. A., were not on the fake tribute album.
Even the " exact " FFT algorithms have errors when finite-precision floating-point arithmetic is used, but these errors are typically quite small ; most FFT algorithms, e. g. Cooley – Tukey, have excellent numerical properties as a consequence of the pairwise summation structure of the algorithms.
Even in the absence of any work in astronomy, Bessel's role in developing the functions which now bear his name would have, by itself, placed him among the most significant and influential mathematicians of the 19th century.
Even the most complex and sophisticated munera of the Imperial era evoked the ancient, ancestral dii manes of the underworld and were framed by the protective, lawful rites of sacrificium.
Even if a gas absorbs radiation efficiently at a certain wavelength, this may not affect its GWP much if the atmosphere already absorbs most radiation at that wavelength.
Even though the revolutionaries were often defeated, most European states had become constitutional ( rather than absolute ) monarchies by 1871, and Germany and Italy had developed into nation states.
Even within a species, different variants of hemoglobin always exist, although one sequence is usually a " most common " one in each species.
Even so, up to the 1930s many of Marx's earlier works were still unknown, and in reality most self-styled Marxists had not read beyond Capital Vol.
Even though Ralph 124C 41 + is one of the most influential science fiction stories of all time, and filled with numerous science fiction ideas, few people still read the story.
Even though the 3. 1x series still lacked most of the important features of OS / 2, such as long file names, a desktop, or protection of the system against misbehaving applications, Microsoft quickly took over the OS and GUI markets for the IBM PC.
Even and rational
Even when he was young, he questioned the validity of superstitious customs and discrimination based on caste and refused to accept anything without rational proof and pragmatic test.
The same holds true for rationality assumptions: Even if all individuals have rational expectations, the representative household describing these behaviors may exhibit behavior that does not satisfy rationality assumptions ( Janssen 1993 ).
Even apart from scaling and shifting, there are infinitely many cases, e. g. by considering rational numbers of which the denominators are powers of a given prime number.
In voting theory, the Condorcet paradox demonstrates a fallacy of composition: Even if all voters have rational preferences, the collective choice induced by majority rule is not transitive and hence not rational.
Even in cases of racial discrimination, where the courts apply a different standard of scrutiny to government action than they do in rational basis review, evidence of disparate impact " alone is insufficient even where the Fourteenth Amendment subjects state action to strict scrutiny.
Even still, the President's decisions are shown to be rational within a few hours of his removal, and the Vice President and supporting Cabinet members rescind their earlier vote.
Even without the assumption of agreement, it is possible to set rational limits on capital asset value.
Even Douglas says that the theory is controversial ; it poses a danger of moving out of the favored paradigm of individual rational choice of which many researchers are comfortable.
Even apart from scaling and shifting, there are infinitely many cases, e. g. by considering rational numbers of which the denominators are powers of a given prime number.
Even perfectly rational players playing in such a game should not guess 0 unless they know that the other players are rational as well and that all players ' rationality is common knowledge.
Even and men
Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.
Even if men eventually find themselves able to look through walls and around corners, one may question whether this will help them to live better lives.
Even though alcoholism can increase the risk of liver cancer, studies have shown that a moderate consumption of alcohol ( 1 serving / day for women and 2 servings / day for men ) does not affect diabetes Type II greatly.
Even men who had been bitter enemies were allowed to not only return to Rome but assume their previous positions in Roman society.
Even more than two hundred years later, during the last century, when Western specialists in Chinese, who had by that time created the discipline known as sinology, designed the early forms of numerous transcriptions used today, the first mistakes of enthusiastic missionaries, envoys and business men were not fully eliminated.
Even once the nationality of a married woman was made no longer dependent on the nationality of her husband, legal provisions were still retained automatically naturalising married women, and sometimes married men as well.
Form Nichiren ’ s point of view, however, his uncompromising stance was to save people from sufferings: “ Even in the case of the Nembutsu priests, the Zen priests, and the True Word teachers, and the ruler of the nation and other men of authority, all of whom bear me such hatred — I admonish them because I want to help them, and their hatred for me makes me pity them all the more ”.
Even in men, the major hormone involved in LH feedback is estradiol, not testosterone.
Even if compliance is good, only 60 to 80 percent of men benefit from this type of drug.
Even though the band is regularly described as being over a hundred men, usually only three or four are specified.
Even before Washington returned, Dinwiddie had sent a company of 40 men under William Trent to that point, where in the early months of 1754 they began construction of a small stockaded fort.
Even if none of the men in the database left the crime-scene DNA, a match by chance to an innocent is more likely than not.
Even more importantly, the Dutch were to supply, by December 1803, five ships-of-the-line, five frigates, 100 gun boats, and 250 flat-bottomed transport craft, capable of holding 60 – 80 men.
Even the men he had trained and who owed much of their success to Wren's original and leadership were no longer young.
< p > Even with the differences, at any given level of abdominal obesity measured as waist circumference or waists to hip ratio, coronary artery disease rates are identical in men and women.
Even though the first session had been announced as being exclusively for women, some young children of both sexes had been brought by their mothers, and about 40 men were there expecting to attend.
Even after this was done the allied city of Utica defected to Rome, and a Roman army of 80, 000 men gathered there.
Even women expecting babies, or with little ones in their care, worked in cassava patches while men sat in hammocks under the shade.
Even the country people brought in scores of prisoners, for officers and men alike, stunned by the suddenness of the disaster, offered no resistance.
Even so, by 4 January 1471, Charles had agreed to support the King-in-exile in regaining the English throne, and this renewal of friendship between the two men was followed by Edward visiting Margaret at Hesdin until 13 January, the first time the pair had seen one another since Margaret's departure from England.
Even amongst gay men, behavior thought of as sissy or camp produces mixed reactions.
Even using crude equipment, these two men had obtained an outstanding diffraction picture of DNA which sparked further interest in this molecule.
Even this may not have been a vote of confidence ; " by the time finished the Institutio Oratoria, the two young men — potential rivals to a shaky throne — had vanished into exile " ( Murphy, xx ).
Even Hathor's priesthood was unusual, in that both women and men became her priests.
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