Jensen claimed, on the basis of his research, that general cognitive ability is essentially an inherited trait, determined predominantly by genetic factors rather than by environmental conditions.

He admitted that what they said was " more truthful than the lying propaganda found in most of the press " but added that he could not " associate himself with an essentially Conservative body " that claimed to " defend democracy in Europe " but had " nothing to say about British imperialism.

It was a sardonic response to Mach, which claimed to be a microkernel while being monolithic, essentially unstructured, and slower than the systems it sought to replace.

Some historians have claimed that Sergius IV was essentially a puppet ruler for Crescentius III.

In Asia, Japan termed nations under its occupation as being part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, essentially a Japanese hegemony which it claimed was for purposes of liberating colonised peoples.

* January 22, 1959: The Knox Mine disaster in Port Griffith, Jenkins Township claimed the lives of 12 people and essentially shut down the mining industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Although exact details surrounding the band's demise are sparse, Navarro claimed on his website, in June 2004, that the reasons for the breakup were essentially the same as they were in 1991.

Thus absolute, universal power was vested under early Islam in the original Caliphate ( before it became the political toy of worldly powers ' behind the throne ' and was even politically discarded by essentially secular princes ), and later again claimed by Mahdis.

* The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge was a strategy game for the PC and PlayStation 2 by Julian Gollop's Mythos Games ( the authors of Enemy Unknown and Apocalypse ), claimed to having been " essentially a remake of the first X-Com with 3D graphics ".

The Andrews trust essentially claimed that under a 1963 agreement, Modell owed a finder's fee for his original purchase of the team which was to be paid when Modell sold his entire interest.

Finally, Portugal, which already had a long, but essentially abandoned colonial Empire in the area through the mostly defunct proxy state Kongo Empire, also claimed the area due to old treaties with its old proxy, the Kingdom of Spain, and the Roman Catholic Church.

( One scholar, otherwise skeptical of the French Communists ' willingness to maintain democracy after forming a government, has claimed that the " moderate, nonviolent and essentially antirevolutionary " Communists opposed revolution because they sincerely believed that the party must come to power through legal elections, not armed conflict that might provoke harsh repression from political opponents.

At first this did not matter too much, as Enriques's intuition was so good that essentially all the results he claimed were in fact correct, and using this more informal style of argument allowed him to produce spectacular results about algebraic surfaces.

Parisi had said he did not want to sell the domain name to anyone in the adult entertainment industry, and even claimed to have turned down what was essentially a blank check from a buyer hiding his identity behind his broker.

Later, he claimed he had, with the firing, essentially given LaRosa a release from his contract that the singer requested.

Chevrolet claimed that a Chevette's turning circle ( 30. 2 feet ) was one of the smallest in the world and that it was essentially a " metric " car, " international in design and heritage.

Malthus himself essentially claimed that British society would collapse under the weight of overpopulation by 1850, while during the 1960s the book The Population Bomb made similar dire predictions for the US by the 1980s.

Spinoza also posited a novel view of the Torah ; he claimed that it was essentially a political constitution of the ancient state of Israel.

The finding of unconstitutionality essentially dismisses any claimed presumptive legal need for absolute secrecy in regard to terrorism cases.

Some have claimed that it was the Live 8 concerts which were instrumental in raising the profile of the debt issue at the G8, but these were announced after the Summit pre-negotiations had essentially agreed the terms of the debt announcement made at the Summit, and so can only have been of marginal utility.

Some critics have claimed that car donations are essentially a tax shelter.

In the US, the phrase " consisting of " excludes additional limitations, while the phrase " consisting essentially of " excludes additional limitations that would " materially affect the basic and novel characteristic ( s ) of the claimed invention ".

Nevertheless, Le Sage later claimed that his father never told him that Fatio had created a theory of gravitation essentially identical to his own.

Bill Freimuth, Recording Academy Vice President of Awards, claimed that the category was eliminated because " it wasn't enough competition essentially, due to the lack of the number of releases in that category.

Being placed on the Aventine, and thus outside the pomerium, meant that Diana's cult essentially remained a foreign one, like that of Bacchus ; she was never officially transferred to Rome as Juno was after the sack of Veii.

Another law that was enacted in 1886 requires essentially the same standards for the transport of passengers between U. S. points, directly or indirectly transported through foreign ports or foreign points ( 46 App.

The application of these coastwise shipping laws and their imposition on Puerto Rico consist in a serious restriction of free trade and have been under scrutiny and controversy due to the apparent contradictory rhetoric involving the United States Government's sponsorship of free trade policies around the world, while its own national shipping policy ( cabotage law ) is essentially mercantilist and based on notions foreign to free-trade principles.

An alternative form of regulatory subunit called the 11S particle can associate with the core in essentially the same manner as the 19S particle ; the 11S may play a role in degradation of foreign peptides such as those produced after infection by a virus.

According to historian Thomas Woods, " Ever since the Korean War, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution — which refers to the president as the ' Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States ' — has been interpreted to mean that the president may act with an essentially free hand in foreign affairs, or at the very least that he may send men into battle without consulting Congress.

Robert Blake considers Salisbury " a great foreign minister, essentially negative, indeed reactionary in home affairs ".

In prohibiting the people of Thebes from burying Polyneices, Creon is essentially placing him on the level of the other attackers — the foreign Argives.

Many countries with civil unions recognize foreign unions if those are essentially equivalent to their own ; for example, the United Kingdom lists equivalent unions in Civil Partnership Act Schedule 20.

Some city-states, notably Athens, evoked her as a protector but her most celebrated Greek rites and processions show her as an essentially foreign, exotic mystery-goddess, who arrives in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music, wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following.

Like Dionysus, Cybele remained an essentially wild, foreign deity of distinctly un-Hellenic temperament, simultaneously embraced and " held at arms length " by the Greeks.

An examination of several of the major foreign policy decisions that confronted the Eisenhower administration reveals that the NSC system was used to manage some, but was essentially bypassed in others.

They might have been more persuasive in maintaining the system had they pointed to the fact that the NSC apparatus was essentially limited to policy review, but was not used by them to manage foreign policy crises or day-to-day decisions.

Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, as well as U. S. Department of State specialists, argued for what was essentially the continuation of existing U. S. foreign policy.

Within the Council, there is the Foreign Affairs Council ( FAC ) configuration, essentially a meeting of foreign ministers and the Political and Security Committee or PSC, which monitors the international situation in the areas covered by the CFSP and contributes by delivering opinions to the Council of Ministers, either at its request or its own initiative, and also monitors the implementation of agreed policies.

Despite foreign conquest or change of government, the nature of such states would remain essentially unchanged because of the unchanging need to mobilize human labor.

" The rule was essentially two 30 year rules ; one requiring that records be transferred from government departments to the Public Record Office ( now The National Archives ) at 30 years unless specific exemptions were given ( by the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on Public Records ), and that they were opened at such time unless they were deemed likely to cause " damage to the country's image, national security or foreign relations " if they were to be released.

Finally, responding to charges that Strauss's teachings fostered the neoconservative foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration, such as " unrealistic hopes for the spread of liberal democracy through military conquest ," Professor Nathan Tarcov, Director of the Leo Strauss Center at the University of Chicago, in an article published in The American Interest asserts that Strauss as a political philosopher was essentially non-political.

In 1922 Gillani negotiated the first Anglo-Iraqi Treaty, which ensured nominal independence for the country, though Britain maintained control of the military and foreign affairs, essentially establishing a Mandate in the country.

Robert Blake considers Salisbury “ a great foreign minister, essentially negative, indeed reactionary in home affairs ".

Thus some have argued that the New Imperialism was caused essentially by a flight of foreign capital.

As such, it essentially operates as a hard fixed exchange rate, whereby local currency in circulation is backed by foreign currency from the anchor nation at a fixed rate.

As late as 1972 – 1973, it was a commonly held belief, both within and outside Cambodia, that the war was essentially a foreign conflict that had not fundamentally altered the nature of the Khmer people.

Struggling to catch up with the industrialized West as of the late 19th century, Russia upon the revolution in 1917 was essentially a semi-peripheral or peripheral state whose internal balance of forces, tipped by the domination of the Russian industrial sector by foreign capital, had been such that it suffered a decline in its relative diplomatic power internationally.