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He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.
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The first of the modern review articles on the subject ( MacKie 1965 ) did not, as is commonly believed, propose that brochs were built by immigrants, but rather that a hybrid culture of a small number of immigrants with the native population of the Hebrides produced them in the first century BC, basing them on earlier, simpler promontory forts.
However, James Ussher, in his writings of the Ussher chronology, republished as " The Annals of the World " claims that this is a mistake, basing his opinion on the writings of Clemens Alexandrinus.
Fascism condemns liberal democracy for basing government legitimacy on quantity rather than quality, and for causing quarreling partisan politics, but deny that the ideology is entirely against democracy.
In the Mandatory access control approach, access is granted or denied basing upon the security classification assigned to the information resource.
Another feature of late 20th century opera is the emergence of contemporary historical operas, in contrast to the tradition of basing operas on more distant history, the re-telling of contemporary fictional stories or plays, or on myth or legend.
The Greuthungi are first named by Ammianus Marcellinus, writing no earlier than 392 and perhaps later than 395, and basing his account of the words of a Tervingian chieftain who is attested as early as 376.
However, the play's principal source, the Spanish Diana Enamorada, would not be translated into French or English until 1578, meaning that someone basing a play on it that early could only have read it in the original Spanish, and there is no evidence that Oxford spoke this language.
Tajikistan is slowly rebuilding itself with an integrated government and continues to permit a Russian military presence to guard their border with Afghanistan and the basing of the Russian 201st Motorized Rifle Division that never left Tajikistan when it became independent.
The Greuthungi are first named by Ammianus Marcellinus, writing no earlier than 392 and perhaps later than 395, and basing his account of the words of a Tervingian chieftain who is attested as early as 376.
:" Nyquist ( 1928 ) pointed out that, if the function is substantially limited to the time interval T, 2BT values are sufficient to specify the function, basing his conclusions on a Fourier series representation of the function over the time interval T ."
The main disadvantage of basing a carburetor's operation on Bernoulli's principle is that, being a fluid dynamic device, the pressure reduction in a venturi tends to be proportional to the square of the intake air speed.
The exact provenance of fortune cookies is unclear, though various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century, basing their recipe on a traditional Japanese cracker.
The Liber Pontificalis, basing itself on the Acts of St Marcellinus, the text of which is lost, relates that during Diocletian ’ s persecution Marcellinus was called upon to sacrifice, and offered incense to idols, but that, repenting shortly afterwards, he confessed the faith of Christ and suffered martyrdom with several companions.
Karl Marx described Capitalist society as infringing on individual autonomy, by basing it on a materialistic and commodified concept of the body and its liberty ( i. e. as something that is sold, rented or alienated in a class society ).
Those who use time-out for children to get anger and frustration " out of their system " or for children to think about their behavior, are using time-out in a way that is different than those basing it on operant behavioral principles ( that time-out from positive reinforcement may reduce recurrences of the unwanted target behavior ).
In a sense he " creates his own theology " to suit the situation ; Pargeter herself agreed that Cadfael is a situational ethicist, basing his actions in any given situation on " the right thing to do " rather than on a strict moral code.
The problem is that if the number of features is large or when a feature can take on a large number of values, then basing such a model on probability tables is infeasible.
More recently, in 1995, Professor Alfred P. Smyth argued that the Life is a forgery by Byrhtferth ( who simply ' adopted ' the name of the obscure Asser from the references to him in other records ), basing his case primarily on an analysis of Byrhtferth's and Asser's Latin vocabulary.
Also, there are problems in basing the analysis on a single type of character, such as a single gene or protein or only on morphological analysis, because such trees constructed from another unrelated data source often differ from the first, and therefore great care is needed in inferring phylogenetic relationships among species.
" In recent years manufacturers have continued to try to hone forecasting methods such as applying a trailing 13-week average as a better predictor for JIT planning ; however, some research demonstrates that basing JIT on the presumption of stability is inherently flawed.
Vaishnava News Network and some other U. S .- based news services suggested that they had discovered the remains of the bridge built by Rama and his Vanara army that is referred to in the Ramayana, and that it was not a natural formation, basing their claim on 2002 NASA satellite footage.
It is thought that Saadia closely followed the rules of the Mutazilites-the rationalistic dogmatists of Islam-in the structure of the work, as well as, in part, basing his thesis and arguments on their works.
is and guess
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
I've got a little stashed for a rainy day, and I guess this is rainy enough.
If most of them weren't exactly specific -- well, that's the way it is in life, I guess.
From actions aboard, it is easy to guess that Spencer's boast of twenty staunch followers was a modest estimate ''.
If the next data item is not available when it is needed, the codec has no choice but to produce silence or guess — and if the data is late, it is useless, because the time period when it should have been converted to a signal has already passed.
As he tries to stop Fay, the inmates mingle with the townspeople, until no one can guess who is who.
Instead of listing every single element, sometimes an ellipsis ("...") is used, if the writer believes that the reader can easily guess what is missing ; for example, presumably denotes the set of integers from 1 to 100.
A guessing game is a game in which the object is to guess some kind of information, such as a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object.
The only certainty is that each man must die-beyond that we can only guess.
The word to guess is represented by a row of dashes, giving the number of letters and category of the word.
This and other letter-frequency lists are used by the guessing player to increase the odds when it is their turn to guess.
Another common strategy is to guess vowels first, as English only has five vowels ( a, e, i, o and u ), and almost every word has at least one.
My guess is Libya has seen the winds of change in America and wanted to bury this man before international organisations start demanding access to him.
And I guess for a political reason, because we felt, and I still think, that if there is to be change, it will come from below.
But the task is hopeless in principle — every representation ignores something about the world — hence the best we can do is start with a good guess.
An LL parser has to decide or guess what it is seeing much sooner, when it has only seen the leftmost input symbol of that pattern.
It has been proposed that children acquire these meanings with the use of processes modeled by latent semantic analysis ; that is, when they meet an unfamiliar word, children can use information in its context to correctly guess its rough area of meaning.
The equivalence of the two definitions follows from the fact that an algorithm on such a non-deterministic machine consists of two phases, the first of which consists of a guess about the solution which is generated in a non-deterministic way, while the second consists of a deterministic algorithm which verifies or rejects the guess as a valid solution to the problem.
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I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.
And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.
It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
`` All I have to do to set the record is to go on down.
`` Jed's homestead is on the south bank ''.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
Work is under way to see whether new restraining devices should be installed on all nuclear weapons.
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.
It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.
Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.
He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.
The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
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