Dalton's atomic hypothesis did not specify the size of atoms.

However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

Another consideration was that the Flag Resolution of 1777, which defined official United States flags, did not specify the arrangement of stars.

He did not specify whether or not this would affect his involvement with a fifth installment of the Indiana Jones series.

After 1918, the newly independent Polish state returned to the Napoleonic tradition and the 1932 criminal code did not specify homosexuality as a crime.

Without Virginia, a new convention might have been held and a new constitution written in a much more polarized atmosphere, since the constitution did not specify what would happen if it was only partially ratified.

Polish law had no provision for a female ruler ( queen regnant ), but did not specify that the King had to be a male.

The Supreme Court did not specify the exact wording to use when informing a suspect of their rights.

" We did not adequately specify how to handle a future MIME version ," Borenstein said.

When Edward Witten named M-theory, he did not specify what the M stood for — perhaps because the nascent theory was not fully defined.

In 1867, three years before it happened, for example, Le Pelletier did so to anticipate either the triumph or the defeat of Napoleon III in a war that, in the event, begged to be identified as the Franco-Prussian war, while admitting that he could not specify either which or when.

Montesquieu did specify that " the independence of the judiciary has to be real, and not apparent merely ".

In 1969, the BBC asked Smallfilms to produce a new series for colour television, but did not specify any particular storyline.

Cromwell ’ s brief instructions establishing the registration system did not specify what sort of register book was to be provided.

Uruguay did not specify the borders of the Palestinian state as part of the recognition.

The term wakizashi did not originally specify swords of any official blade length and was an abbreviation of " wakizashi no kataka " (" sword thrust at one's side "); the term was applied to companion swords of all sizes.

While both sides agreed that all of Vancouver Island would remain British, the treaty did not specify which channel the boundary should follow between the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, resulting in a boundary dispute.

The chronicler Jan Długosz, known for his antipathy towards the king and his father, alleged that there was something unusual about Wladyslaw's sexuality, though Dlugosz did not specify what: "(…) too subject to his carnal desires (…) he did not abandon his lewd and despicable habits " ( Polish: " zbyt chuciom cielesnym podległy (…) nie porzucał wcale swych sprośnych i obrzydłych nałogów (…)" ).

There were two main routes by which Wallace could move his unit to the front, and Grant ( according to Wallace ) did not specify which one he should take.

It did not specify whether it meant the Nicene Creed as adopted by the First Council of Nicaea in 325, or as added to and modified by the First Council of Constantinople in 381.

The original IEEE 754 standard from 1985 ( IEEE 754-1985 ) only described binary floating point formats, and did not specify how the signaled / quiet state was to be tagged.

Ian Hacking noted that traditional " Dutch book " arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

For most of history, most cookbooks did not specify quantities precisely, instead talking of " a nice leg of spring lamb ", a " cupful " of lentils, a piece of butter " the size of a walnut ", and " sufficient " salt.

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer did not specify a particular rite to be observed on Good Friday but local custom came to mandate an assortment of services, including the Seven Last Words from the Cross and a three-hour service consisting of Matins, Ante-communion ( using the Reserved Sacrament in high church parishes ) and Evensong.

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.

She did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;

It did not care what sort of person prowled its woods, plucked at its bark or stripped the berries from its bushes.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

Waddell was not an eminently moral person, but he did not like what he had just heard.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.

Still, it would be surprising if what one reads did not contribute to one's ideas of right and wrong ; ;

Koenigsberg never did learn what Hearst wanted, for the latter shook hands and moved toward the door.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

And that's what he did.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

Lewis told him what clothes he should bring along, and enjoined him not to buy anything that he did not already own, they would do that in New York.

they found out who they were and what they could do, then within the limits of their talent they did it.

The Secretary did not tell him at what cost, at what loneliness, he learned these things.