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As presently understood, however, string theory admits a very large number ( 10 < sup > 500 </ sup > by some estimates ) of consistent vacua, comprising the so-called " string landscape ".
However, contrary to other designs, large steam volumes are handled with difficulty and only a combination with axial flow turbines ( DUREX ) admits the turbine to be built for power greater than ca 50 MW.
* Diocletianus carries out reforms ; the Roman army returns to conscription, and admits large numbers of barbarian volunteers.
She also admits that one of the reasons stars enjoyed her company so much is because she liked consuming drugs in large quantities all the time.
Anan rejected the admeasurements instituted by the rabbis ( shi ' urim ); and instead of any permissible minimum for prohibited things — which the Talmud admits, as for instance shishim, one part in sixty, or ke-zait, " the size of an olive ," etc .— he insisted that even the smallest atom of anything prohibited, mingling with an infinitely large quantity of a thing permitted, was sufficient to render the whole of the latter prohibited.
The hospital is unique among State facilities serving the mentally disordered in that it admits a large proportion of acutely ill psychiatric patients resulting in a rapid turnover rate and a shorter length of stay.
A proper class is very large ; NBG even admits of " the class of all sets ", the universal class called V. However, NBG does not admit " the class of all classes " ( which fails because proper classes are not " objects " that can be put into classes in NBG ) or " the set of all sets " ( whose existence cannot be justified with NBG axioms ).
The strangeness, both of the expression and of the subjects, only admits of a paraphrastic version for large portions, unless the sense is to be entirely obliterated.

admits and audience
Sojourner admits to the audience that she had once hated white people, but she says once she met her final master, Jesus, she was filled with love for everyone.
In the soliloquy he admits his amorality to the audience but at the same time treats them as if they were co-conspirators in his plotting ; one may well be enamored by his rhetoric while being appalled by his scheming.
Generally, MacKaye's lyrics and singing are more direct and anthemic ( MacKaye admits that he loves audience sing-alongs and writes songs with shout-able slogans ), while Picciotto usually favors a more abstract, oblique approach.
At the same time, however, Turner included an account of their " uses and vertues ", and in his preface admits that some will accuse him of divulging to the general public what should have been reserved for a professional audience.
Dunphy readily admits he never uses a mobile himself but enjoys filming for a mobile audience from the comfort of his own living room in Ranelagh.
The inability of the Citizen and Wife to comprehend how they are satirized, or to understand the main plot, allows the audience to laugh at itself, even as it admits its complicity with the Citizen's boorish tastes.
Interestingly, he also gives great importance to poetry ’ s effect on the audience as a determinant of quality – though he admits that much of the exercise of poetry involves attempting faithful imitation ( albeit of human constructs or “ categories ”, not ones that are necessarily “ true ”), success in poetry is ultimately determined by persuasion, not truth and objectivity.
The poet reminds the audience of the crime several times by having characters mention the story of Cain and Abel, including Claudius himself, who admits being inflicted with " the primal eldest curse ".

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An infant briefly mentioned in Towers of Midnight, Gadren, son of an Asha ' man and currently living at the Black Tower, seems a likely candidate, matching both the timelines and the description-the boy's own father admits he's a very ugly child.
Despite how badly she seems to treat him, Anna unquestionably loves Yoh and explicitly admits to it.
She is always bubbly and happy on the surface but this seems to mask a real sadness which she sometimes lets show, like when she admits she doesn't like living alone.
He was a Roman Catholic and seems to have been intermittently devout ; in his book, he condemns the Brandenburgian peasants for not attending Mass, and at one point tells how he destroyed a book he considered heretical ; on the other hand, he admits that he deceived a nun by pretending to be a Capuchin monk.
There seems to be no evolutionary advantage to evolving religion over any other signal of commitment such as nationality etc., a flaw that Irons himself admits ( Bulbulia 2004 ).
In the 9th installment ,( A Wizard of Mars ), Nita admits that she may be jealous of a female alien that Kit seems to be attracted to.
Their relationship becomes awkward, especially after Anne meets and is courted by fellow Redmond student Roy Gardner, a man who at first seems to personify her " ideal ", although Anne secretly admits to herself that Roy lacks certain qualities and that she and Roy do not share a mutual sense of humour.
She openly admits she is a whore in season 4 ( when Will and Grace are planning to have a baby together ), and thereafter seems to appear whenever Will goes into a hospital.
Lisa admits that she wrote the letter and although Nelson seems indifferent about the matter he begins by visiting her house.
A few days later, Sally returns from hospital and admits that she's grateful for what Kevin did and at last, it seems Kevin's life is back on the up, as his relationships with Sophie and Tyrone are healing ( or healed ) and Sally has fallen back in love with him.
Holly also seems on the road to her perfect man, as now she has some stability in her life, she finally opens up and admits her feelings for Adam.
Leanne is overjoyed upon finding she is pregnant, but although Peter also seems happy on the surface, he admits to Ken that he isn't sure they are ready.
At first it seems that Baryl and Colonel were the culprits of the conspiracy, but later in the end he admits that he was working for Dr. Wily himself.

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Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''.
It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.
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.
Xavier had no part in ( and did not know of ) the Hulk exile decision, but Xavier admits to Hulk that he would have concurred to a temporary exile so Bruce Banner could be cured of transforming into the Hulk.
Dyson cheerfully admits his record as a prophet is mixed, but " it is better to be wrong than to be vague.
As pointed out by Raphael Bousso, Thorn observed in 1978 that string theory admits a lower dimensional description in which gravity emerges from it in what would now be called a holographic way.
Daniel, though claiming to be a contemporary, admits to no knowledge of John's origins — any speculation on John's birth is the result of much later speculation, and is confined to references in the Menologion.
: Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.
He admits that he does not know if these are correct, but argues that " the list demonstrates that one can accept the new empirical findings and still be a card-carrying economist.
In his book, McClellan admits to lying to the media, and describes the contempt he felt for reporters who so easily believed his lies, and were cowed by the fear that if they exposed the lies, they would be accused of " liberal bias ".
A verandah may be roofed with material that protects against sunlight but admits the other elements.
While he admits the existence of caste-based discrimination, he writes that " Every social group cannot be regarded as a race simply because we want to protect it against prejudice and discrimination ".
Connery admits that he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, " I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23.
* The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, admits that the Taliban regime is protecting Osama bin Laden in an unknown location in Afghanistan, that he had been given the ulema recommendation that he leave the country voluntarily which he has turned down, and that the Taliban would be open to negotiations with the US given evidence of bin Laden's culpability in the 9 / 11 attacks.
Critic Danél Griffin remarked, " Romero freely admits that his film was a direct rip-off of Matheson's novel ; I would be a little less harsh in my description and say that Romero merely expanded the author's ideas with deviations so completely original that of the Living Dead is expelled from being labeled a true ' rip-off '".
In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it … No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness … we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good: that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons .”

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