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He suspected that editors tended to favor trees with two branches, as this would maximize the opportunities for editorial judgment ( as there would be no third branch to " break the tie " whenever the witnesses disagreed ).
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The obelus, invented by Aristarchus to mark suspected passages in Homer, is frequent in manuscripts of the Gospel to mark just those sections, like the Pericope in John, which modern editors reject.
suspected and tended
In Poland, the number of productions of Hamlet has tended to increase at times of political unrest, since its political themes ( suspected crimes, coups, surveillance ) can be used to comment on a contemporary situation.
Persons lacking affiliation with a state recognized-religion tended to be classed as atheists and hence suspected as communists.
suspected and favor
Anne had been pledged to Philip Sidney two years earlier, but after a year of negotiations Sidney's father, Sir Henry, was declining in favor with the queen and Cecil suspected financial difficulties.
Baldwin II suspected that once he had died, Fulk would repudiate Melisende, set her and her children aside in favor of Elias, Fulk's younger but full grown son from his first marriage as an heir to Jerusalem.
* I know how very liable we are to delusion in what relates to ourselves ; and also how much the judgments of our friends are to be suspected when given in our favor.
After six years of service, Krupski lost favor with his supervisors and was charged with “ un-Russian activities .” He may have been suspected of being involved with revolutionaries.
Though raised to the highest dignity it was in the power of the citizens of the Commonwealth to bestow he was never accused or suspected of employing any unworthy arts to gain the popular favor nor of obtruding himself on the public as a candidate for places of power and trust.
In the 1960s, ETS students who were suspected of being homosexual were dismissed, but as church and social opinion began to slowly turn in favor of tolerance of homosexuals, EDS would become a leading center of studies on LGBT issues within the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion.
Their humble origins, and the fact that they owed their education and advancement solely to the Emperor, allowed Emperor Haile Selassie to trust them implicitly and to favor them and other commoners of humble origin in government appointments and high positions at the expense of the aristocracy, whose loyalty to his person, rather than to the institution of Emperor he suspected.
By mid-1997, Lazarenko had fallen out of favor with Kuchma, who suspected him of making plans to run for presidency in 1999.
It is suspected, though unconfirmed, that the Band won partly due to very strong voting in their favor by bands previously eliminated who did not want any of their rival bands to win.
However, some locals suspected that its main impetus was from a group of native plant supporters who wished to remove the non-native eucalyptus in favor of native plants.
suspected and trees
Caltrops are known to have been in use since Roman times and may have been used earlier: the concept was familiar to the 4th century BC Greeks, who used rocks, brush, nets and trees placed in the path of enemy conveyances on land or ensnarement devices hidden under water to achieve the same result: stop the enemy or suspected hostile in his tracks for examination or to prevent or limit incursions.
Its habit of nesting in trees was suspected but not documented until a tree-climber found a chick in 1974 making it one of the last North American bird species to have its nest described.
suspected and with
for every grown man ( except a few who were always suspected of being shy on virility ) knew at least the fundamentals of baseball, just as every male American in this era liked to imagine ( or pretend ) that he could fight with his fists.
She suspected that Cathy had been competing with Susan for attention that she had never had.
And one day, on her own, his mother came home with a present entitled The Book of the Dead, which she suspected Richard would enjoy.
This placement is consistent with the modern practice of ordering the elements by proton number, Z, but this number was not known or suspected at the time.
Ross Island with 10 known eruptions and 1 suspected eruption.
It was widely suspected that Germanicus had been poisoned or perhaps on the orders of Tiberius, with Agrippina believing he was assassinated.
Caesarius was suspected of conspiring with the Burgundians, whose king had married the sister of Clovis, to assist the Burgundians capture Arles.
That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexei, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I of Great Britain, whom he consulted on this delicate affair.
Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her rule, and at the same time opened negotiations with the emperor Justinian I with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to Constantinople.
These troops, returning home from a disastrous military expedition to Cyrene in Libya, suspected that they had been betrayed in order that Apries, the reigning king, might rule more absolutely by means of his Greek mercenaries ; many Egyptians fully sympathized with them.
Clinicians have recommended that extra contraceptive measures be applied during therapies using antibacterials that are suspected to interact with oral contraceptives.
In March 1916, the Bureau of Investigation suspected German terrorists were making bombs in the tunnel, and broke through the roof of the tunnel with jackhammers.
Inorganic qualitative analysis generally refers to a systematic scheme to confirm the presence of certain, usually aqueous, ions or elements by performing a series of reactions that eliminate ranges of possibilities and then confirms suspected ions with a confirming test.
From the end of 1888, the Amir spent eighteen months in his northern provinces bordering upon the Oxus, where he was engaged in pacifying the country that had been disturbed by revolts, and in punishing with a heavy hand all who were known or suspected to have taken any part in rebellion.
Osteoporosis can be prevented with lifestyle advice and medication, and preventing falls in people with known or suspected osteoporosis is an established way to prevent fractures.
The diagnosis of CJD is suspected when there are typical clinical symptoms and signs such as rapidly progressing dementia with myoclonus.
MI5 is also said to have suspected CND's treasurer, Cathy Ashton, of being a communist sympathiser because she shared a house with a communist.
Furthermore, there is evidence that the Kuiper belt has an ' edge ', in that an apparent lack of low-inclination objects beyond 47-49 AU was suspected as early as 1998 and shown with more data in 2001.
Moreover, the Church decreed lesser chastisements against laymen suspected of sympathy with Cathars, at the 1235 Council of Narbonne.
The cause of the riots is generally attributed to the food, not generally but just on specific days when it was suspected it had been tampered with prior to the disturbance.
Victor Yannacone, Charles Wurster, Art Cooley and others associated with inception of EDF had all witnessed bird kills or declines in bird populations and suspected that DDT was the cause.
Silverman had since helped Fowler with a large portion of other engine work, including updating the network code and helping to maintain various other aspects of the engine, but with no updates in nearly four years it is suspected the project may never see another release.
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The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.
Because Ambrosius and Vortigern are shown in the Historia Brittonum as being in conflict, some historians have suspected that this preserves a historical core of the existence of two parties in opposition to one another, one headed by Ambrosius and the other by Vortigern.
Capone was suspected in the murders of Colosimo and two other men.
However, when Henry died of suspected typhoid ( or possibly porphyria ) at the age of 18 in 1612, two weeks before Charles's 12th birthday, Charles became heir apparent.
In 1812 they published the two ancient fragments of the Hildebrandslied and the Weißenbrunner Gebet, Jacob having discovered what till then had never been suspected — namely the alliteration in these poems.
It was rejected primarily due to two cases of serious skin rash, suspected to have been Erythema multiforme or Stevens – Johnson syndrome, among 933 subjects receiving the drug.
IRIN reported that the Ministry of Defence had admitted that two Namibian soldiers died fighting suspected UNITA rebels in southern Angola in July 2001.
The craters are notable for being two of several suspected source areas for shergottites, the most abundant class of Martian meteorites.
All the suspected hijackers were from Saudi Arabia ( fifteen hijackers ), United Arab Emirates ( two hijackers ), Lebanon ( one hijacker ) and Egypt ( one hijacker ).
Although he had suspected that two comets that had appeared in succession in 1680 and 1681 were the same comet before and after passing behind the Sun ( he was later found to be correct ; see Newton's Comet ), he was unable to completely reconcile comets into his model.
Also in 2000, the FBI lured two suspected Russian cyber criminals to the US in an elaborate ruse, and captured their usernames and passwords with a keylogger that was covertly installed on a machine that they used to access their computers in Russia.
She suspected the two sugar-phosphate backbones have a peculiar relationship to each other.
In mid-2004, two suspected Mossad agents were jailed for three months and paid a $ 35, 000 fine for trying on false grounds to obtain a New Zealand passport.
He explains that her uncle is one of two men suspected of being a serial killer known as the " Merry Widow Murderer " who seduces, steals from, and murders wealthy widows.
Supposedly, two of Amin's guards killed the former president Nur Muhammad Taraki with a pillow, and Amin was suspected to be a CIA agent.
The UVF was banned again on 3 October 1975 and two days later twenty-six suspected UVF members were arrested in a series of raids.
Subsequent tests and investigations determined the activating mechanism to have been a voltage discharge to the spacecraft frame ; although engineers suspected one or two of the scientific instruments, they could not determine the precise source of the discharge with certainty.
* 1999: Arrest of two suspected members of the Rote Zellen ( Red Cells ) in Berlin.
Then, in 1910, several players were suspected of having taken bribes to fix matches, with two players ( Alex Lang and Doug Fraser ) both found guilty and suspended for 99 matches.
The public was furious over the loss of so many sailors, and over the failure to recover the bodies of the dead for burial, and the generals suspected that Thrasybulus and Theramenes, who had already returned to Athens, might have been responsible for stirring up the assembly against them, and wrote letters to the people denouncing the two trierarchs as responsible for the failed rescue.
After suffering the ravages of two fires in which arson was suspected, it was little more than a burned out shell.
According to the April 7, 1933, DuBois Courier, the brewery won the honor of being one of only two breweries in the entire nation that had never violated or been suspected of violating the Prohibition laws since the 18th Amendment went into effect.
Some suspected that Pius X or persons close to him did not want to have two Rampollas in the College of Cardinals.
Taken with two other unexpectedly unique arthropod-like organisms, Opabinia and Yohoia, Marrella helped to demonstrate that the soft-bodied Burgess fauna was more complex and diverse than had previously been suspected.
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