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The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.
Specific staining by DEAE-cellulose treated Af and Af, although clearly distinguishable under the microscope from either nonspecific staining or autofluorescence of cells, was not satisfactorily photographed to show such differences in spite of many attempts with black and white and color photography.
Further research in the meaning of crises as experienced by the consumers of traditional social casework services -- including attempts to develop a typology of family structures, crisis problems, reaction mechanisms, and differential treatment approaches -- and the establishment of new experimental programs are imperative social needs which should command the best efforts of caseworkers in collaboration with community planners.
Our presence here should also be considered further, sincere evidence of the attempts by our people and their chosen government to seek any and all possible ways to effect closer, peaceful ties among all people.
Central was rebuffed by the other two railroads in previous attempts to make it a three-way merger.
He bravely attempts to face this alternative realistically, i.e., by considering the worst possible outcome, namely, the total domination of the world by Russia within a few years.
President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.
Other calls include those given by a female in response to the advertisement call and a release call given by a male or female during unwanted attempts at amplexus.
B attempts to falsify A's conditional statement (" if Republican then against gun control ") by providing evidence he believes would contradict its implication.
A partial formalization of the concept began with attempts to solve the Entscheidungsproblem ( the " decision problem ") posed by David Hilbert in 1928.
Related to this is lexicostatistics, which attempts to determine the degree of relation between a set of languages by comparing the percentage of basic vocabulary ( words like " I ", " you ", " heart ", " stone ", " two ", " be ", " and ") they share in common.
He escaped custody and fled to the United States, where he successfully defeated legal attempts by the British authorities to have him extradited to face charges arising from the attack and the burning of the Valley House.
The connection to Phoenician religion claimed by Herodotus I. 105, 131 ) has led to inconclusive attempts at deriving Greek Aphrodite from a Semitic Aštoret, via hypothetical Hittite transmission.
Some of the earliest attempts to apply scientific methods to the study of phenomena relating to an afterlife were conducted by this organization.
The true beginning of atomic physics is marked by the discovery of spectral lines and attempts to describe the phenomenon, most notably by Joseph von Fraunhofer.
Collaborative attempts by several amateur writers have led to notable accomplishments.
In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.
The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.
The Emperor's attempts to bolster the empire's defenses by special concessions to Byzantine and Bulgarian notables in the frontier zone backfired, as the latter built up regional autonomy.
After being excommunicated for his audacities by Pope Honorius III, Afonso II promised to make amends to the church, but he died in 1223 before making any serious attempts to do so.
After a few failed attempts at invasion, the brothers signed a peace treaty, arranged by Afonso's mother Queen Elizabeth.

attempts and philosophical
It is thus a term used to describe attempts to use philosophical methods to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.
In 18th century Europe, attempts to treat the operations of formal logic in a symbolic or algebraic way had been made by philosophical mathematicians including Leibniz and Lambert, but their labors remained isolated and little known.
Through such thought experiments, Wittgenstein attempts to get the reader to come to certain difficult philosophical conclusions independently ; he does not simply argue in favor of his own theories.
A philosophical treatise attempts to say something where nothing can properly be said.
Holocaust theology ( from the Greek: hólos, " whole " and kaustós, " burnt "), refers to a body of theological and philosophical debate and reflection, and related literature, primarily within Judaism, that attempts to come to grips with various conflicting views about the role of God in the universe and the human world in light of the Holocaust of the late 1930s and 1940s when approximately 11 million people, including 6 million Jews, were subjected to genocide by the Nazi regime and its allies.
There have been many modern attempts to integrate Western and Eastern philosophical traditions.
In Destruction & Creation, Boyd attempts to provide a philosophical foundation for his theories on warfare.
In 2009, he published Life After Death: The Evidence, which attempts to use scientific and philosophical arguments to support the concept of the afterlife, and also uses theoretical physics to support the concept of God and the fine-tuned Universe and refute atheist arguments.
Special attention was paid in it to later childhood and adolescent developments — ' I have always been more attracted to the latency period than the pre-Oedipal phases ' - emphasising how the ' increased intellectual, scientific, and philosophical interests of this period represent attempts at mastering the drives '.
What critical theory attempts to do is to place itself outside of philosophical strictures and the confines of existing structures.
* Open Theism — An Introductory Presentation Jonathan Erdman, not an Open Theism advocate, attempts an objective and very detailed analysis of Open Theism focussed on the biblical, philosophical, and existential arguments of Open Theism as outlined by their leading proponents.
In recent philosophical literature, starting with Kant, and perhaps related most popularly with Strawson, attempts have been made at transcendental arguments.
The Lankavatara Sutra " appears to be one of the earliest attempts to provide a philosophical justification for the Absolutism that emerged in Mahayana in relation to the concept of Buddha ".
Inoshiro frequently attempts to attract Yatima away from philosophical Konishi and into more aesthetic and avant-garde pursuits.
His work, which attempts a synthesis of the seemingly divergent strands of Indian and Chinese Buddhist doctrine, makes use of the essence-function ( 體用, or che-yong ) framework, which was popular in native East Asian philosophical schools.
There Daniel takes part in a number of experiments, including the exploration of the diminishing effects of gravity with changes in elevation, the transfusion of blood between dogs and Wilkins ' attempts to create a philosophical language.
One of the earliest attempts to use incompleteness to reason about human intelligence was by Gödel himself in his 1951 Gibbs lecture entitled " Some basic theorems on the foundations of mathematics and their philosophical implications ".
Science-envy is manifested also by those who -- hoping to enhance their prestige by close association with the sciences -- contort themselves in attempts to show that this or that philosophical problem can be quickly settled by some scientific result, or to displace philosophical problems in favor of scientific ones.
Some attempts have been made at finding a priori probabilities, i. e. probability distributions in some sense logically required by the nature of one's state of uncertainty ; these are a subject of philosophical controversy, with Bayesians being roughly divided into two schools: " objective Bayesians ", who believe such priors exist in many useful situations, and " subjective Bayesians " who believe that in practice priors usually represent subjective judgements of opinion that cannot be rigorously justified ( Williamson 2010 ).
Specifically speaking to the history of the United States, Avakian has recently published Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy, which attempts to deconstruct the philosophical basis, and consequences, of Jeffersonian democracy.
Kobra " corrupted " Dybbuk through a series of philosophical conversations about the nature of good and evil ; he then attempts to use Dybbuk to start World War III.
MacIntyre's account also defends three further theses: first, that all rational human inquiry is conducted whether knowingly or not from within a tradition ; second, that the incommensurable conceptual schemes of rival traditions do not entail either relativism or perspectivism ; third, that although the arguments of the book are themselves attempts at universally valid insights they are nevertheless given from within a particular tradition ( that of Thomist Aristotelianism ) and that this need not imply any philosophical inconsistency.
Various forms of systematic and philosophical reflection on Ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology arose in the classical period — from Hesiod's attempts to organize the diverse materials of mythology into a unified Theogony to the more properly philosophical analysis reportedly carried out by Socrates.

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