* Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist ( Cambridge University Press, 2009 )

First, for any value of T for which all values of f{t} are ordinary points the number of values of f{t} must be odd.

Ampère claimed that " at eighteen years he found three culminating points in his life, his First Communion, the reading of Antoine Leonard Thomas's " Eulogy of Descartes ", and the Taking of the Bastille.

First, for any two distinct points P and Q in the plane, let L ( P, Q ) denote the unique line through P and Q, and let C ( P, Q ) denote the unique circle with center P, passing through Q.

Churchill's account of the First World War, The World Crisis, describes Beatty's next order as, " Steer two points nearer the enemy.

First, all corners, points that belong to ( technically, are in the closure of ) three or more countries, must be ignored.

In 2001, Fulham took the First Division ( now Football League Championship ) under manager Jean Tigana, winning 100 points and scoring over 100 goals in the season.

These were followed by Gregory Benford's The Martian Race ( 1999 ), Geoffrey A. Landis's Mars Crossing ( 2000 ), and Robert Zubrin's First Landing ( 2002 ), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focussed expedition strategies evolved in the late 1990s, mostly building on the concepts of Mars Direct.

And Jason Lawrence points out that Shakespeare ’ s Italian dialogue in the play derive " almost entirely " from Florio ’ s First Fruits ( 1578 ).

In his natural philosophy, he differs from the schools on two major points: First, he rejects the analysis of corporeal substance into matter and form ; second, he rejects any appeal to ends — divine or natural — in explaining natural phenomena.

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In other words, Y is colored in a two-step process: First, for every x in X, the point f ( x ) is colored green ; Second, all the rest of the points in Y, that are not green, are colored blue.

Albion won the Football League title in 1919 – 20 for the only time in their history following the end of the First World War, their totals of 104 goals and 60 points both breaking the previous league records.

First, goods were shipped through Funan to the Isthmus of Kra, portaged across the narrow, and then transhipped for India and points west.

First, the signals start as raw outputs of points in the rod and cone cells.

Calvin points out that human beings are typically expected to refrain from harming other human beings ( except in times of extreme duress like war, or to save a greater number ) and this is equivalent to a robot's First Law.

In the 1986 – 87 NBA season, Jordan continued his assault on the record books, leading the league in scoring with 37. 1 points per game and becoming the first Bull named to the All-NBA First Team.

First there is the quote from 2 Thess. 3-4 :" Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God " which points to the Great Apostasy happening in the future, during the time of anti-Christ.

* First in Red Wings history in points, goals and games played, second in assists

In his rookie season, he made the NBA All-Rookie First Team, averaging 14. 8 points, 6. 3 rebounds, and 2. 1 blocks per game.

First explicitly noted by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick in The Methods of Ethics, the paradox of hedonism points out that pleasure cannot be acquired directly, it can only be acquired indirectly.

Sunderland returned to the Premier League as First Division champions in 1999 with a then-record 105 points.

Linguist Geoffrey Pullum, in an essay entitled " Here come the linguistic fascists " charges English First with " hatred and suspicion of aliens and immigrants " and points out that English is far from under threat in the United States, saying " making English the official language of the United States of America is about as urgently called for as making hotdogs the official food at baseball games.

First, the PED for a good is not necessarily constant ; as explained below, PED can vary at different points along the demand curve, due to its percentage nature.

The sophomore averaged 21. 7 points, 11. 4 rebounds, 2. 4 assists and 2. 5 blocks in the regular season, making both the All-NBA and All-Defense First Teams.

He averaged 23. 2 points, 12. 4 rebounds, 3. 2 assists and 2. 2 blocks per game, earned another pair of All-NBA and All-Defense First Team call-ups, and was co-MVP with Shaquille O ' Neal of the NBA All-Star Game.

First, we've got to get out of here ''.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

To be sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First Corinthians.

First, it came out after Mr. Cooper's will was settled -- he had died the year before -- that John and his mother weren't rich any more.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

* 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ( present-day Sri Lanka ) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.

* FPOM — First Pitch Outs Made: Number of outs earned where the batter ground or flies out on the first pitch.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

J. P. Harris and Robert M. Citino point out that the Germans had always had a marked preference for short, decisive campaigns – but were unable to achieve short-order victories in First World War conditions.

The First Balkan War broke out when the League attacked the Ottoman Empire on 8 October 1912 and was ended seven months later by the Treaty of London.

The Second Balkan War broke out on 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 when Bulgaria attacked its erstwhile allies in the First Balkan War, Serbia and Greece, while Montenegro, Romania and the Ottoman Empire intervened later against Bulgaria.

Finally, when a Serbian backed organization assassinated the heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne, causing the 1914 July Crisis, nobody could stop the conflict and the First World War broke out.

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

Chaplin was eager to start with the new company, and offered to buy out his contract with First National.

In response to a call for aid from Alexius, the First Crusade assembled at Constantinople in 1096, but declining to put itself under Byzantine command set out for Jerusalem on its own account.

In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but, two years later, after he had contracted typhoid fever, his aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at an art school.

First, Kennedy had explicitly promised the American people less than a month before the crisis that " if Cuba should possess a capacity to carry out offensive actions against the United States ... the United States would act.

There, a convened Central Committee voted Khrushchev out of office, both as First Secretary of the Central Committee and Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

The Roman Catholic Church recognizes as ecumenical various councils held later than the First Council of Ephesus ( after which churches out of communion with the Holy See because of the Nestorian Schism did not participate ), later than the Council of Chalcedon ( after which there was no participation by churches that rejected Dyophysitism ), later than the Second Council of Nicaea ( after which there was no participation by the Eastern Orthodox Church ), and later than the Fifth Council of the Lateran ( after which groups that adhered to Protestantism did not participate ).

First introduced at AirVenture 2008, the Switchblade is to utilize a single Wankel rotary engine and ducted fan to keep the propeller out of harm's way on the ground.

: The First, Second and Third Assistant Art Directors carry out the instructions of the Art Director.

The Office of the First Lady of the United States is accountable to the First Lady for her to carry out her duties as hostess of the White House, and is also in charge of all social and ceremonial events of the White House.