The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

Ambassador Stevenson yesterday described the U.N.'s problem of electing a temporary successor to the late Dag Hammarskjold as `` the gravest crisis the institution has faced ''.

The management of state-owned vehicles since that time has been described in a recent report in the following manner: ``

and ( 2 ) such other special funds as may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be required each to be a claims fund to be known by the name of the foreign government which has entered into a settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

a special fund created for that purpose pursuant to subsection ( A ) of this section any amounts hereafter paid, in United States dollars, by a foreign government which has entered into a claims settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

A refinement of this technique has been described by Drs. Zworykin and Farrar and Mr. Berkely of the Medical Electronics Center of the Rockefeller Institute.

Miss Pulova has a voice that Maria Callas once described as `` like chipping teeth with a screw driver '', and her round, opalescent face becomes fascinatingly reflective of the emotions demanded by the role of Rosalie.

Bravado has been alternately described as `` a symbol of the new grandeur of France and myself '' ( De Gaulle ) and `` a decadent, disgusting slob ''!!

The deep concave gradient employed ( fig. 2 ) was obtained with a nine-chambered gradient elution device ( `` Varigrad '', reference ( 8 ) ) and has been described elsewhere.

It does show one feature of the system that has not been previously described.

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

The cutting ( or shearing ) removal process has been previously described.

By saying `` another emotional death '', she reveals that there has been a previous one, although she has not described it in words.

Mr. Nagrin has described four `` places '', each with its scenery and people, added two `` diversions '', and concluded with `` A Toccata for the Young '', a refreshingly underplayed interpretation of rock'n'roll dancing.

But what has been happening recently might be described as creeping mannerism.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

Poirot has dark hair, which he dyes later in life ( though many of his screen incarnations are portrayed as bald or balding ), and green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining " like a cat's " when he is struck by a clever idea.

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

Baseball historian George B. Kirsch has described the results of the Mills commission as a " myth ".

It has been described as a " probable chronospecies " ( i. e. ancestor ) of A. ramidus.

In other Christian denominations it has been described as an intermediate place or state of confinement in oblivion and neglect.

In recognition of her additions to Menabrea's paper, which included a way to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the machine, she has been described as the first computer programmer.

The Qur ' an has a docetic or gnostic Christology, viewing Jesus as a divine illuminator rather than the redeemer of Pauline Christianity.

The Qur ' an speaks of the oneness of God: " Allah has borne witness that there is no God but Him-and the angels, and those with knowledge also witness this.

The Book of Hosea has also been used in Qur ' anic exegesis by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, especially in reference to Qur ' anic verses which speak of the backsliding of Israel.

Though grammatical gender has no bearing on actual gender in non-personal nouns, the term holy spirit translates in and is used in the masculine form in all the Qur ' an.

In the Qur ' an's narrative of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son ( XXXVII: 102 ), the name of the son is not mentioned and debate has continued over the son's identity, though many feel that the identity is the least important element in a story which is given to show the courage that one develops through faith.

Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti, a contemporary Mauritanian scholar, has argued that " though homosexuality is a grievous sin ... no legal punishment is stated in the Qur ' an for homosexuality ... it is not reported that Prophet Muhammad has punished somebody for committing homosexuality ... there is no authentic hadith reported from the Prophet prescribing a punishment for the homosexuals ..." Hadith scholars such as Al-Bukhari, Yahya ibn Ma ` in, An-Nasa ' i, Ibn Hazm, Al-Tirmidhi, and others have impugned them.

In Arabic there is no such choice, and the almost invariable rule is that a long vowel is written with a mater lectionis and a short vowel with a diacritic symbol, although the Othmani orthography, the one in which the Qur ' an is traditionally written and printed, has some differences which are not always consistent.

The Qur ' an's account has emphasized Moses ' mission to invite the Pharaoh to accept God's divine message as well as give salvation to the Israelites.

W. J. Johnson has compared the importance of the Mahabharata to world civilization to that of the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, the works of Homer, Greek drama, or the Qur ' an.

Noah has several titles in Islam, based primarily on praise for him in the Qur ' an, including True Messenger of God ( XXVI: 107 ) and Grateful Servant of God ( XVII: 3 ).

Because Islam is a religion that focuses very heavily on learning the central text of the Qur ' an, and because Islamic culture has historically tended towards discouraging or prohibiting figurative art, calligraphy became one of the foremost of the arts.

21257 in Musnad Ibn Hanbal ) mentions that there were 124, 000 of them in total throughout history ( with other traditions placing the number of Prophets at 224, 000 while other scholars holding that there is even a greater number in the history of mankind, and God alone knows ), and the Qur ' an says that God has sent a prophet to every group of people throughout time, and that Muhammad is the last of the prophets, sent for the whole of humankind.

The Qur ' an says: " And We verily gave knowledge to Dawud and Sulayman and they said: praise be to God ( Allah ) Who has preferred us above many of his believing servants ".

Mahmood has published papers concerning djinni, which are described in the Qur ' an as beings made of fire.

God says in the Qur ' an, " It is He Who has sent down the Book ( the Qur ' an ) to you with truth, confirming what came before it.

The Qur ' an, much like the Bible and Torah, has a vague condemnation of homosexuality and how it should be dealt with, leaving it open to interpretation.

" The efficacy of this system comes from the belief that every Arabic letter, every word, verse, and chapter in the Qur ’ an, every month, day, time and name were created by Allah a priori, and that each has an angel and a djinn servant.

" preserver ") is awarded to one who has memorized the entire Qur ' an, often by attending a special course for the purpose ; the imam khatib of a mosque is frequently ( though not always ) a hafiz.

The Kuwait-sponsored AMA has translated the Qur ' an into Chichewa ( Cinyanja ), one of the official languages of Malawi, and has engaged in other missionary work in the country.

Tashkent also houses the earliest written Qur ' an which has been in Tashkent since 1924.

* 12th century — Fakhr al-Din al-Razi discusses Islamic cosmology, rejects Aristotle's idea of an Earth-centered universe, and, in the context of his commentary on the Qur ' anic verse, " All praise belongs to God, Lord of the Worlds ," proposes that the universe has more than " a thousand thousand worlds beyond this world such that each one of those worlds be bigger and more massive than this world as well as having the like of what this world has.