The particular characteristics of this ideal observer can vary from an omniscient observer, who would grasp all the consequences of any action, to an ideally informed observer, who knows as much as could reasonably be expected, but not necessarily all the circumstances or all the possible consequences.

Throughout his life, all of his works were infused with the belief that Judaism and Jewish history could not be understood properly without a firm grasp of Halakhah.

( If he bent to drink the water, it drained below the level he could reach, and if he reached for the fruit, the branches moved out of his grasp.

He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.

Prolepsis is sometimes translated as " basic grasp " but could also be described as " universal ideas ": concepts that are understood by all.

For both major allied navies, it had been difficult to grasp that, however large a convoy, its " footprint " ( the area within which it could be spotted ) was far smaller than if the individual ships had traveled independently.

The fact that he became identified with the attempts to make peace added to his unpopularity at a period when the majority of Englishmen believed victory would be in their grasp if the French could be roundly defeated as they had been in the 1350s.

Lenox Simpson commented that the Chinese shrewdly outsmarted the foreign forces, and succeeded in embarrasing the foreigners by escaping from their grasp, where they could not attack them or extract revenge.

He played open games almost to perfection, but he also could handle any sort of position, having a complete grasp of chess that was years ahead of his time.

Those close to him claimed he was academically competent, with a good grasp of Latin, geography, and could speak French, Portuguese and Italian well.

His grasp was so powerful that he could bend a horseshoe with his hand, and even at the end of his life, his energy and endurance were scarcely affected by the illnesses his many excesses had caused.

In Norse mythology, it appears as the serpent Jörmungandr, one of the three children of Loki and Angrboda, who grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth.

Unsoeld lived and died by his philosophy that spirituality and a real grasp of the soul could be gained by risk and pushing past your personal comfort zone.

ROLM was purchased by IBM in the mid 1980s ( which was a financial disaster for the profitable ROLM, as IBM clearly could not grasp the laid back, " think outside the box " attitude of ROLM, which was the # 2 PBX supplier in the US from the mid 70s to late 80s ), then sold half interest to the German company Siemens.

For example, one patient was observed putting a cigarette into her mouth with her intact, ' controlled ' hand ( her right, dominant hand ), following which her alien, non-dominant, left hand came up to grasp the cigarette, pull the cigarette out of her mouth, and toss it away before it could be lit by the controlled, dominant, right hand.

Scientology calls this concept a " gradient ": breaking down a complicated idea into smaller pieces so that someone who could not grasp the whole idea at once can learn it piece by piece.

It should have as little as possible ( e. g. an excessively bulky or projecting set / air valve ) that can catch on things or that an attacker could easily grasp.

Were it within the grasp of one's hand ( within one's power ) to gather within one category from the Supreme Ultimate ( t ' ai-chi 太極 ) above, one could immediately produce both fire and water.

They were simply poor and in need of cheap books, written at a level they could grasp.

LapTrap can translate thirty languages into English ( this may have been increased to thirty-one after the events of The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures ) and, on two occasions, he had robotic arms extend out of his body so that he could grasp hold of something ; however, in The ClueFinders Math Adventures, when entering the Great Hall, Laptrap talks about handball and Joni says " But you don't have arms.

In a wrestler's bridge, he could reach out and grasp a 335-pound barbell, pull it to his chest from off the floor, and bench press it overhead, bridging on his neck.

Striking in Bogue's plan is his grasp of the consequences of growth ; he foresaw that the city's residents would eventually number in the millions and that such a grand park or efficient transit system could put in place early in the development at much lower cost.

Also, his nobles were still making problems for him, along with the city of Tbilisi which still could not be liberated from Arab grasp.

It could wave its hand but it couldn't grasp or point at something.

No matter how devoted a man was, no matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord, he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual.

Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, who could not lie, said, `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God '' ( St. John 3: 3 ).

Hazred could come from the Persian or Arabic word " Hazrat " meaning Great Lord with a twist that makes it sound like " red " and " hazard " both indicative of danger.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

The Aberdour obelisk was built by Lord Morton on his departure from the village to relocate to a large home in Edinburgh, it was built so he could see his former hometown from his new house when he looked through binoculars-it stands in a cowfield between the castle and the beach.

With the bookstacks in the central courtyard of the museum empty, the process of demolition for Lord Foster's glass-roofed Great Court could begin.

" He recalls :... while I sat alone staring at the sea I love, words I had not been certain I could understand or say fell from my lips: " Lord Jesus, I believe in You.

Price, however, believed that Lovecraft's writings could at least be divided into categories and identified three distinct themes: the " Dunsanian " ( written in the vein of Lord Dunsany ), " Arkham " ( occurring in Lovecraft's fictionalized New England setting ), and " Cthulhu " ( the cosmic tales ) cycles.

He called Professor Tolkien in 1964 and asked if he could publish Lord of the Rings as Ace paperbacks.

The words " It took all the strength I had not to fall apart " were changed to " Only the Lord could give me strength not to fall apart ".

Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give Him all the glory ; for all are concluded under sin, and shut up in unbelief as I had been, that Jesus Christ might have the pre-eminence who enlightens, and gives grace, and faith, and power.

Research into oral epics in Serbo-Croatian and Turkic languages, pioneered by the aforementioned Parry and Lord, began convincing scholars that long poems could be preserved with consistency by oral cultures until they are written down.

Watts ( 1674 – 1748 ), whose father was an Elder of a dissenter congregation, complained at age 16, that when allowed only psalms to sing, the faithful could not even sing about their Lord, Christ Jesus.

( See Exodus 40: 35, " Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting, for the cloud rested upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.

By 1761 Reynolds could command a fee of 80 guineas for a full-length portrait ; in 1764 he was paid 100 guineas for a portrait of Lord Burghersh.

Abbadie's income as dean of Killaloe was so small that he could not afford a literary amanuensis ; and Hugh Boulter, archbishop of Armagh, having appealed in vain to Lord Carteret, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on Abbadie's behalf, gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, and Abbadie left Ireland.

He could not meet Lord Macartney, but exhorted him to patience in two letters, explaining that " this world is the reverse of our own ".

However, the Lord Chancellor could not muster the necessary support in the Parliament for the bill as originally proposed in 1874 or when it was reintroduced in 1875.

" Experts at the Archaeological Institute of America show that the term was used when Moses " returned to his people after seeing as much of the Glory of the Lord as human eye could stand ," and his face " reflected radiance.

The need for an alternative non-Russian source of naval stores is indicated by the information from the British Ambassador in Copenhagen, Hugh Elliott, who wrote to Foreign Secretary, Lord Carmarthen on 12 August 1788: “ There is no Topick so common in the Mouths of the Russian Ministers, as to insist on the Facility with which the Empress, when Mistress of the Baltic, either by Conquest, Influence, or Alliance with the other two Northern Powers, could keep England in a State of Dependence for its Baltic Commerce and Naval Stores ”.

In 1829, Lord Lansdowne said, " nothing could be more mischievous or unconstitutional than to recognise by act of parliament the existence of such an office.