He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.

Murray Edridge, of Barnardos New Zealand, criticized the question as " loaded and ambiguous " and claimed " the question presupposes that smacking is a part of good parental correction ".

Though often claimed as being invented by the sōhei during the Nara period, physical evidence of their existence dates only from the mid-Kamakura period, and earlier literary sources are ambiguous.

Despite the one-shot graphic novel " Parallel Lives " and Untold Tales of Spider-Man # 16 revealing that Mary Jane discovered Peter's secret when she noticed Spider-Man climbing out of Peter's bedroom window, many comics published before this revelation claimed that she had simply " figured it out ", with the details of how and when left ambiguous to the reader.

But, at the end of the play, he reasserts his humanity and his individuality in a single, vestigial, yet compelling movement .” In answer to a reviewer who claimed that the ending was ambiguous Beckett replied angrily: “ There ’ s no ambiguity there at all.

Details are ambiguous however: at one point the impostor implied that she had been impersonating the resurrected Madelyne all along, but at another time she claimed she " replaced ... Maddie several months ago.

The Government and former Attorney-General Peter Sutherland dismissed such claims, arguing that, as they had claimed in 1983, the ' Pro-Life Amendment ' was so poorly worded and ambiguous that it could facilitate either pro-choice or anti-abortion interpretations in different circumstances.

Environmentally friendly ( also eco-friendly, nature friendly, and green ) are ambiguous terms used to refer to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies claimed to inflict minimal or no harm on the environment.

Lyne claimed that the new ending was more ambiguous than the original and was the original one by screenwriter Alvin Sargent.

Now some sections of PGT claimed that the party had an ambiguous relation to the ongoing armed struggle.

Sheelba's gender ( if any ) is ambiguous: Harry Fischer, who first conceived of the character, claimed Sheelba was female, while to Fischer's surprise Leiber referred to Sheelba as male beginning in The Swords of Lankhmar.

A notable example is Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote some 18 theological works which describe in detail the nature of the afterlife according to his claimed spiritual experiences, the most famous of which is Heaven and Hell.

" He claimed, " The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

Critics of the East German state have claimed that the state's commitment to communism was a hollow and cynical tool Machiavellian in nature, but this assertion has been challenged by studies that have found that the East German leadership was genuinely committed to the advance of scientific knowledge, economic development, and social progress.

The chemist Ernest Lester Smith wrote a book Intelligence Came First ( 1975 ) in which he claimed that consciousness is a fact of nature and that the cosmos is grounded in and pervaded by mind and intelligence.

Contrary to what his many detractors have claimed, Rousseau never suggests that humans in the state of nature act morally ; in fact, terms such as " justice " or " wickedness " are inapplicable to prepolitical society as Rousseau understands it.

Rousseau claimed that the state of nature was a primitive condition without law or morality, which human beings left for the benefits and necessity of cooperation.

The dilemma is however claimed to be false by some religious apologists, who claim that goodness is the very nature of God and is necessarily expressed in His commands.

Moreover, it is arguable that Block misinterpreted the nature of what Jaynes claimed to be a social construction.

Riefenstahl claimed she was not aware of the nature of the internment camps.

He claimed that " woman is by nature meant to obey.

Folklorist Sabina Magliocco supported this idea, noting that a great many of those Californian Pagans whom she interviewed claimed that they had been greatly interested in mythology and folklore as children, imagining a world of " enchanted nature and magical transformations, filled with lords and ladies, witches and wizards, and humble but often wise peasants.

Kant claimed it was Hume ’ s skepticism about the nature of inductive reasoning and the conclusions of rationalist metaphysicians ( Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz ) that " roused him from his dogmatic ( i. e. rationalist ) slumbers " and spurred him on to one of the most far reaching re-evaluations of human reason since Aristotle.

It has been claimed under reductive physicalism, that when a distinction is made in ones mind between a hypothetical zombie and oneself ( assumed not to be a zombie ), and noting that the concept of oneself under reductive physicalism may ever only correspond to physical reality, the concept of the hypothetical zombie can only be a subset of the concept of oneself and will in this nature also entail a deficit in observables ( cognitive systems ) thereby contradicting the original definition of a zombie.

Although it is often claimed that the photoelectric and Compton effects require a quantum description of the EM field, this is now understood to be untrue, and proper proof of the quantum nature of radiation is now taken up into modern quantum optics as in the antibunching effect.

The nature of Roman kingship is unclear ; most Roman kings were elected by the senate, as to a lifetime magistracy, but some claimed succession through dynastic or divine right.

Even many 19th century Christian communities welcomed scientists who claimed that science was not at all concerned with discovering the ultimate nature of reality.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

The fundamentally uncertain nature of inductive reasoning has been claimed to give rise to scientific paradigm shifts, as described by Kuhn.

Some authors have claimed that the self-referential nature of this statement is the source of the paradox.

Going beyond this, Durkheim claimed that sociology would not only discover " apparent " laws, but would be able to discover the inherent nature of society.

He claimed repeatedly that it is from a construction erected on the inner nature of the real that knowledge of concrete reality is obtained, knowledge not perceived by observation of the facts from the outside.

He claimed that only election or nomination could replace the hereditary nature of the Lords.

Powell claimed the Lords derived their authority not from a strict hereditary system but from its prescriptive nature: " It has long been so, and it works ".

Some within the new " Liberal-Progressive " alliance claimed that this new Liberal party was receiving financial support from the province's Conservatives, as a means of dividing the Liberal vote.

As a result of the closedown of the repeater network, some cable systems in Newfoundland and Labrador owned by EastLink replaced the province's regional CBC outlet, CBNT-DT, with CBHT, due to what EastLink claimed were " technical issues " involving CBNT.

The Liberals claimed they would manage the province's affairs in a businesslike rather than a partisan manner, an approach typified by Provincial Treasurer Edward Brown call for the province to " forget party for five years and get down to business ".

A large number of books have claimed to solve the difficulties, but the results differ, sometimes widely, and none have achieved consensus status.

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

There is also a small group in Montana, originally formed around the personality of Leland Jensen, who claimed a status higher than that of the Guardian.

Political leaders are known to have claimed actual divinity in certain early societies — the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs being the premier case — taking a role as objects of worship and being credited with superhuman status and powers.

Diocles ' parents were of low status, and writers critical of him claimed that his father was a scribe or a freedman of the senator Anullinus, or even that Diocles was a freedman himself.

Despite its status as part of an occupied city, East Berlin was claimed as the capital of East Germany, as the Soviets did not honor the distinction of a free city for their sector.

Although Smith's declaration was not recognised by the United Kingdom nor any other significant power, Southern Rhodesia dropped the designation ' Southern ', and claimed nation status as the Republic of Rhodesia in 1970.

Both Henry II and Richard had argued that kings possessed a quality of " divine majesty "; John continued this trend and claimed an " almost imperial status " for himself as ruler.

The status of Mayotte was changed in 2001 towards one very close to the status of the départements of mainland France, with the particular designation of collectivité départementale, although the island is still claimed by the Comoros.

Finally, the rabbis claimed for the Hebrew language a divine authority, in contrast to Aramaic or Greek-even though these languages were the lingua franca of Jews during this period ( and Aramaic would eventually be given the same holy language status as Hebrew ).

He claimed that the attachment of Third World status to a particular country was not based on any stable economic or political criteria, and was a mostly arbitrary process.

Taoism, in form of the Shangqing school, gained official status in China again during the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ), whose emperors claimed Laozi as their relative.

Indeed they claimed the right to determine questions of war and peace, and thereby held an " international " status.

However, most party members who claimed conscientious objection status did so in the context of their moral and religious beliefs, rather than on political policy.

During his early meetings with Mullá Husayn, the Báb described himself as the Master and the Promised One ; he did not consider himself just Siyyid Kazim's successor, but claimed a prophetic status, with a sense of deputyship delegated to him not just from the Hidden Imam, but from Divine authority ; His early texts, such as the Commentary on the Surih of Joseph, used Quranic language that implied divine authority and identified himself effectively with the Imam.

But the operators of the fraud claimed that they had been sold, and because of the natives ' tax-exempt status were able to claim the GST exemption.

Morgan has claimed the AAH was rejected for a variety of reasons unrelated to its explanatory power: old academics were protecting their careers, sexism on the part of male researchers, and her status as a non-academic intruding on academic debates.

It is often called the Junior Circuit because it claimed Major League status for the 1901 season, 25 years after the formation of the National League ( the " Senior Circuit ").

Under the history of U. S. treaty law, the territorial boundaries claimed by Federally recognized tribes received the same status under which the Southeastern tribal claims were recognized ; until the following establishment of reservations of land, determined by the Federal government, which were ceded to the remaining tribes by de jure treaty, in a process that often entailed forced relocation.

The Bishop of Warmia had claimed the title of an Imperial Prince-Bishopric status, as mentioned in the Golden Bull of 1356 by Emperor Charles IV.

The agreement was signed in London on 6 December 1921 by representatives of the British government ( which included Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was head of the British delegates ) and envoys of the Irish Republic, including Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, who claimed plenipotentiary status ( i. e. negotiators empowered to sign a treaty without reference back to their superiors ).

Roberts claimed to be a corporation sole in succession to the bishops and to have the status of a rajah and effective state immunity.

Because of mixed martial arts ' relatively unknown status within India, and its population of 1. 2 billion, Fertitta claimed that India would be a viable market to expand the UFC brand, however challenging.