In many societies, what we regard as corruption, favoritism, and personal influence are so accepted as consistent with the mores of officialdom and so integral a part of routine administrative practice that any attempt to force their elimination will be regarded by the local leadership as not only unwarranted but unfriendly.

But in any case, one does not have to read very closely between the lines to realize that the situation is not regarded as a particularly happy one.

His results have never been reproduced, and are generally regarded either as meaningless or considered to have had little if any scientific merit.

For private suits only the victims or their families could prosecute, while for public suits anyone ( ho boulomenos, ' whoever wants to ' i. e. any citizen with full citizen rights ) could bring a case since the issues in these major suits were regarded as affecting the community as a whole.

This had the consequence that it could not any longer be regarded immutable, and hence Hebrew could not be regarded as identical with the language of Paradise.

376 ) cannot be regarded as any real exceptions to this statement.

The out of print Random House publication of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition is widely regarded as the most accurate and least redacted of any English language edition and is sought after on that basis by scholars and collectors.

In any event, Peters never asserted that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper, and this has come to be regarded as an example of false etymology.

Though the exact dating is disputed, it is not regarded as authentic by any scholar.

Behavior can be regarded as any action of an organism that changes its relationship to its environment.

" It was not regarded by any of the Evangelists but John of sufficient importance to record.

For example, the effects on the character of the agent or any other people involved in an action may be regarded as a relevant consequence.

) is idealized by assuming that it is so thin that it can be regarded as a curve and that it is so flexible any force of tension exerted by the chain is parallel to the chain.

Since a wife was regarded as property in biblical times, the betrothal ( erusin ) was effected simply by purchasing her from her father ( or guardian ); the girl ’ s consent is not explicitly required by any biblical law.

Since a wife was regarded as property, her husband was originally free to divorce her for any reason, at any time.

Thomas disliked being regarded as a provincial poet, and decried any notion of ' Welshness ' in his poetry.

After a month had passed with little progress in the case, police continued to focus their investigation upon Echols, interrogating him more frequently than any other person ; however, they claimed he was not regarded as a direct suspect but a source of information.

By this point in his career, Vertov was clearly and emphatically dissatisfied with narrative tradition, and expresses his hostility towards dramatic fiction of any kind both openly and repeatedly ; he regarded drama as another " opiate of the masses ".

Sujin is regarded by historians as a " legendary emperor " and the paucity of material information about him makes difficult any further verification and study.

Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of militant / terrorist groups, although, unlike its rival Islamist faction Hamas, Fatah is not currently regarded as a terrorist organization by any government.

Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in terrorism in the past, though unlike its rival Islamist faction Hamas, Fatah is no longer regarded as a terrorist organization by any government.

After the plot, the army was regarded by the government as a centre of potential subversion, and the militia was developed as a counterforce to any military threat to the government.

Although James Ussher regarded it as genuine, if there is any genuine nucleus of the Martyrium, it has been so greatly expanded with interpolations that no part of it is without questions.

This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.

Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab considered his movement, Wahhabi, an effort to purify Islam by returning Muslims to what he believed were the original principles of that religion, as typified by the Salaf and rejecting what he regarded as corruptions introduced by Bid ' ah and Shirk.

Soon after, his XV Corps was ordered to join Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand in his successful assault on Arkansas Post, generally regarded as a politically motivated distraction from the effort to capture Vicksburg.

In the 1950s, sports car racing was regarded as almost as important as Grand Prix competition, with major marques like Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar and Aston Martin investing much effort in their works programmes and supplying cars to customers ; sports racers lost their close relationship to road-going sports cars in the 1950s and the major races were contested by dedicated competition cars such as the Jaguar C and D types, the Mercedes 300SLR, Maserati 300S, Aston Martin DBR1 and assorted Ferraris including the first Testa Rossas.

" This has been regarded as both a natural evolution and as a dishonest effort to alter the constitution without public scrutiny.

The September 2008 redesign ( discussed here on the Tribune < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s web site ) was controversial and is largely regarded as an effort in cost-cutting.

Many regarded the new secretary as more of a hawk on Vietnam than McNamara, and thought his selection might presage an escalation of the U. S. military effort there.

Palmer has argued that the introduction of new rites at this time was in part an effort to appease Ba ' al Hammon, the Carthaginian god who was regarded as the counterpart of the Roman Saturn and Greek Cronus.

L2TPv3 can be regarded as being to MPLS what IP is to ATM: a simplified version of the same concept, with much of the goodness achieved with a fraction of the effort, at the cost of losing some technical features considered less important in the market.

Tangwai regarded the arrest of Yu as a signal of complete suppression and decided to make a last-ditch effort by holding radical demonstrations on the street, resulting in the escalating conflict between the conservative KMT and Tangwai.

Influenced by bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Killing Joke, and The Cure, the EP is described by Our Band Could Be Your Life author Michael Azerrad as " cold, dark, and resolutely unlistenable ", with the lyrics describing crack addicts and child abusers, and Albini later regarded the effort as one of his few artistic regrets.

Like Hughes, Munro Ferguson regarded the defeat of the conscription referendums in October 1916 and December 1917 as disasters for Australia and the war effort.

While at university, he became an agnostic ; he was sceptical of religious faith, which he regarded as " an effort to believe what common sense tells you isn't true.

A disciple of Carl von Clausewitz, whose theory of war was more an effort to grasp its essential nature, rather than of Jomini, who expounded a system of rules, Moltke regarded strategy as a practical art of adapting means to ends, and had developed the methods of Napoleon in accordance with altered conditions of his age.

But he emphasized his view that the clear visual memory of black " cannot be attained by any sort of effort ", stating that " the memory is not the cause of the relaxation, but must be preceded by it ", and cautioned against " concentrating " on black, as he regarded an attempt to " think of one thing only " as a strain.

In oversight of that effort, he became a regarded authority on all aspects of the events of September 11, 2001, in particular as one of the foremost experts in the curation and preservation of artifacts and objects from the 9 / 11 attacks.

he regarded as a wholesome conservative effort or reaction of the organism to meet the blow of some injurious influence operating from without ; in this he followed the Hippocratic teaching closely as well as the Hippocratic practice of watching and aiding the natural crises.

Countdown to Ecstasy was well regarded as a sophomore effort coming in higher by many reviewers than its predecessor.

But for a long time, Mozart scholars regarded Tito as an inferior effort of the composer.

In addition, fishing from kayaks is regarded by some as an effort to level the playing field, to a degree, with their quarry and / or to challenge their angling abilities further by bringing an additional level of complexity to their sport.

A group of eleven Elders later join forces and meet on Ego the Living Planet ( who is also regarded as an Elder ) in an effort to kill the cosmic entity Galactus, which would cause the concepts Eternity and Death to become unbalanced and end the universe.

It is generally regarded as their weakest studio effort, recorded too soon after the group's formation, and reached no higher than # 119 on the Billboard charts-though there was, of course, minimal sales expectations as this was a debut album.

In partnership with Robert Chartoff from the late 1960s, Irwin Winkler produced an impressive array of modern American gems, beginning with their first effort ( along with Judd Bernard ), John Boorman's taut thriller Point Blank ( 1967 ), largely ignored in its day but now regarded as a top film of the time.

The Purple Hearts resurfaced in 1984 to release a live album, Head on Collision Time ( 1985 ) recorded live at the 100 Club, and their second studio effort, Popish Frenzy ( 1986 ) which has been regarded by some critics as a template for the sound and stance of ` The Stone Roses `. The album featured contributions from Michael Herbage ( Dept S ) on guitar and Brett Ascott ( The Chords ) on percussion.