Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism " decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else ".

Although the Vienna Circle's logical positivists appreciated the Tractatus, they argued that the last few passages, including Proposition 7, are confused.

While an urban legend, a 1999 television documentary, part of the Modern Marvels ' Engineering Disasters sub-series, argued that — even if there was no specific plan to make alcohol to beat Prohibition — there may have been some general idea of increasing the volume at the last minute so as to prepare in case total alcohol prohibition might occur.

Forms of hedonism were put forward by Aristippus and Epicurus ; Aristotle argued that eudaimonia is the highest human good and Augustine wrote that " all men agree in desiring the last end, which is happiness.

Some researchers have even argued that a Uralic form of language may have been spoken in Estonia and Finland since the end of the last glaciation.

In it he argued that the Vedas could only have been composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards brought them south after the onset of the last ice age.

In the last few centuries, some scholars have argued that Homer's Ithaca was not modern Ithaca, but a different island.

As an example, when the cavalry shows up at the last moment and saves the day, that can be argued to be a plot device ; when an adversarial character who has been struggling with himself saves the day due to a change of heart, that is dramatic technique.

Vico argued that the world was coming to the end of the last of three ages, these being the age of gods, the age of heroes, and the age of humans.

Gore had argued for a new recount that would pass constitutional muster, but the Court instead chose to end the election, asserting that “ the Florida Supreme Court has said that the Florida Legislature intended to obtain the safe-harbor benefits of 3 U. S. C. § 5 .” This last assertion by the 5 – 4 Bush v. Gore majority has proven very controversial.

It is often argued that Emilia Marty, like the other female heroes in Janáček's later operas, stands for one of the aspects of Kamila Stösslová, the woman with whom he was in love for the last decade of his life.

The 54th and last chapter " The Floating Bridge of Dreams " is sometimes argued to be a separate part from the Uji part by modern scholars.

Jean-François Lyotard has argued that " knowledge has become the force of production over the last few decades ".

Irving Ribner argued that " the evil path of Richard is a cleansing operation which roots evil out of society and restores the world at last to the God-ordained goodness embodied in the new rule of Henry VII ".

It was particularly prominent in Europe during the 19th century, but contemporary critics are also associated with the movement, such as Harold Bloom, who has recently argued against projecting ideology onto literary works, which he believes has been a growing problem in humanities departments over the last century.

* Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield ( 1901 – 1988 ), one of the scholars who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls, argued in his book The Essene Odyssey that the word " Baphomet " was created with knowledge of the Atbash substitution cipher, which substitutes the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet for the last, the second for the second last, and so on.

It has also been argued that the concept of the imperial presidency neglects several important changes in the context of governance over the last three decades, all of which tend to restrict the actual power of the President.

Despite the general shortage of evidence for extensive fishing, thought to require relatively sophisticated tools which have become available only in the last 30 – 50 thousand years, it has been argued that exploitation of coastal fauna somehow provided hominids with abundant LC-PUFAs.

The Cabinet believed that Italian offices might open peace negotiations and Churchill argued that playing for time was in Britain's interest, but Halifax was concerned that the British Expeditionary Force would be destroyed, and Britain would lose its last bargaining chip.

Not for the last time, however, Montgomery had argued a sound course of action in a manner which suggested to others ( in particular his U. S. peers ) that he was entirely preoccupied with his own interests.

Vladimir Lenin, like Kautsky in the 1880s to 1900s, argued that capitalism necessarily induced monopoly capitalism-which he also called " imperialism "-in order to find new markets and resources, representing the last and highest stage of capitalism.

He argued that the Japanese people should defend the Japanese home islands until the last man.

One source argued that his role in the company was never anything more than as " an industrious and faithful head clerk ," despite his official title of head of the firm's chief subsidiary, the American Fur Company, in its last several years of its ownership by Astor & Son.

Several scholars have argued that Acts used material from both of Josephus ' works, rather than the other way around, which would indicate that Acts was written around the year 100 or later.

Wright argued that it does not require a trained anthropologist to classify an array of Englishmen, West Africans, and Chinese with 100 % accuracy by features, skin color, and type of hair despite so much variability within each of these groups that every individual can easily be distinguished from every other.

Near year 100, Dio Chrysostom argued that while the war was historical, it ended with the Trojans winning, and the Greeks attempted to hide that fact.

Gladstone argued that the £ 100 line was " the dividing line ... between the educated and the labouring part of the community " and that therefore the income tax payers and the electorate were to be the same people, who would then vote to cut government expenditure.

" A Romanian Television 1 poll carried out in 2006 nominated Mircea Eliade as the 7th Greatest Romanian in history ; his case was argued by the writer Dragoş Bucurenci ( see 100 greatest Romanians ).

Research published by the Minnesota Paintball Association has argued that paintball is one of the statistically safest sports to participate in, with 20 injuries per 100, 000 players annually, and these injuries tend to be incidental to outdoor physical activity ( e. g. trips ).

* In a television interview with Julian Assange on 17 April 2012, Nasrallah said that Israel “ is and will be an illegal state … It was established on the basis of occupying the lands of others .” He added, “ If I occupy your house by force it doesn't become mine in 50 or 100 years .” While “ Hezbollah does not want to kill anyone ”, the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he argued, was to establish a democratic state on Palestinian land where Muslims, Jews and Christians live in peace but that the US “ won't let people listen to Hezbollah .”

However, some writers of Christian apologetics have argued that, because the Gospels were written before 100 and little is known of Roman Mithraism until after 100, it is not possible to definitively state that Christianity borrowed any of its doctrines from Mithraism ; some have even suggested it is more likely the flow was the other way.

It's currently being argued that if Baltimore does not expand its convention center, the city could " fall off the map as a potential convention choice ," especially since the cities with which Baltimore competes with, Washington D. C. ( recently built and opened the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and has announced plans to open a 1, 175-room Marriott Marquis hotel with 100, 000 SF of convention and meeting space in 2013 ), Philadelphia ( recently opened its newly expanded convention center of over 700, 000 SF of meeting and convention space ), and Nashville ( currently building a 1. 2 million SF convention center and a convention headquarters hotel currently slated to open in 2013 ) has or are in the process of expanding its convention and hotel space.

McDuffie argued that the 40 % tariff on cotton finished goods meant that “ the manufacturer actually invades your barns, and plunders you of 40 out of every 100 bales that you produce .” Mathematically incorrect, this argument still struck a nerve with his constituency.

Some critics have argued that an overemphasis on a limited number of singles has distorted record industry development efforts, and there are nearly as many critics of the Hot 100 as there are supporters.

) He argued for the new approach on the basis of the huge increase in the size of the bomber force, which would carry out not just precision bombing but also indiscriminate area bombing by night of all German cities with populations exceeding 100, 000.

In 2005, Trudeau fought against a proposed $ 100 million zinc mine that he argued would poison the Nahanni River, a United Nations World Heritage Site located in the Northwest Territories.

Some critics have argued that the coat of arms is outdated and anachronistic, being the Andean Condor a very threatened species in the country, with barely 100 creatures soaring the landscape.

State Sen. Mark Leno ( D-San Francisco ) has argued that the rejected $ 10 million budget cut, in abandoning state financial support for the school, would have allowed the Hastings family to launch an expensive court fight to reclaim the $ 100, 000 plus hefty interest.

Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argued in 1998 that vocal languages must have begun diversifying in our species at least 100, 000 years ago.

Many argued the sales of Matt Tubbs and Tyrone Barnett for £ 800, 000 and £ 1, 100, 000 respectively, as well as failing to reach a deal over Andy Drury contributed to their dip in form.

The Town of Richmond Hill planned a hearing with the Conservation Review Board of Ontario to argue for protection of the western 48 % of the property including the observatory buildings under the Ontario Heritage Act ; at the hearing, the Richmond Hill Naturalists argued for 100 % designation of the property, all the buildings and their contents, and the Observatory Hill Homeowners Association argued for the protection of the heritage woodlots and arboretums.

Anthony argued that she was constitutionally guaranteed the right to vote and had not broken the law when she voted in the 1872 election ; Hunt found that Anthony had indeed broken the law, ordered the jury to deliver a guilty verdict, and fined Anthony $ 100 ( which she refused to pay ).

He argued for a slight increase in taxes, which should allow the Commonwealth to create an army of 100, 000 that would at least stand a chance against the still-larger armies of its neighbours.

It can be argued that the negative attitudes to illicit drug use which issued in the international drug Conventions, with prohibitions against their use 100 years ago, still exist today.

Although many modern sources still give estimates of Jews killed in the uprising at 100, 000 or more, others put the numbers killed at between 40, 000 and 100, 000, and recent academic studies have argued fatalities were even lower.