The most common view today accepts Martin Noth's thesis that Kings concludes a unified series of books which reflect the language and theology of the Book of Deuteronomy, and which biblical scholars therefore call the Deuteronomistic history.

Radford revealed that Tolentino " believed that the creatures and events she saw in Species were actually happening in reality in Puerto Rico at the time ," and therefore concludes that " the most important chupacabra description cannot be trusted.

Partridge concludes, " The basic sense of both Hera and hero would therefore be ' protector '.

Hutton's 1788 paper concludes ; " The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning ,– no prospect of an end.

Ehrman concludes from this that Mary and the others could therefore be thought of as " apostles sent to the apostles ," a title that Mary Magdalene herself came to bear in the Middle Ages ( Latin: apostola apostolorum ).

The computer concludes that nuclear warfare is " a strange game "; having discovered the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (" WINNER: NONE "), therefore " the only winning move is not to play.

He ( Cabeo ) concludes by saying :' I say therefore that from amber or any other electrically attracting body, a very rarefied effluent is emitted which dispels and attenuates the air, extremely agitating it.

He therefore concludes that both reason and experience are necessary for human knowledge.

She concludes that CCTV surveillance should therefore be reserved for specific circumstances in which there are clear and reasonably demonstrated benefits to its implementation and few ethical compromises.

The story concludes that the little ‘ e ’ was probably misinterpreted as an apostrophe and therefore documented the village name as being D ’ Lo.

The festival of Sukkot ( Festival of Booths ) therefore concludes with a prayer recited upon leaving the sukkah ( booth ): " May it be your will, Lord our God and God of our forefathers, that just as I have fulfilled and dwelt in this sukkah, so may I merit in the coming year to dwell in the sukkah of the skin of Leviathan.

Strong therefore concludes that the word means " to whisper a spell, i. e. to incant or practice magic ".

When he is challenged to guess her name, he tells her that she reminds him of a childhood friend named Hermann, and therefore he concludes, her name must be Hermine.

Twining also notes the various allegorical meanings attributed to the three crowns of the papal tiara, but concludes that " it seems more likely that the symbolism is suggested by the idea that took shape in the 13th and 14th centuries that the Emperor was crowned with three crowns -- the silver crown of Germany at Aix-la-Chapelle, the iron crown of Lombardy at Milan or Monza and the golden imperial crown at Rome and therefore the Pope, too, should wear three crowns.

For example, his fourth book of madrigals for five voices begins with a complete sestina by Petrarch, continues with two-part sonnets, and concludes with another sestina: therefore the entire book can be heard as a unified composition with each madrigal a subsidiary part.

" He concludes, " We have therefore concluded that these specific allegations are unfounded.

Zahi Hawass therefore concludes that the figurine was possibly made as an amulet or lucky charm to sell to pious citizens.

Smith therefore ( justifiably ) concludes ( by the rule of the transitivity of identity ) that " the man who will get the job has 10 coins in his pocket ".

Smith therefore ( justifiably ) concludes ( by the rule of disjunction introduction ) that " Jones owns a Ford, or Brown is in Barcelona ", even though Smith has no knowledge whatsoever about the location of Brown.

Professor Wolfgang Helck concludes that " We therefore think it is safer to start from the regnal dates rather than from interpretations of real or supposed Sirius ( Sothic ) or New Moon dates ".

John Gimbel concludes that the U. S. put some of Germany's best minds on ice for three years, therefore depriving the German recovery of their expertise.

Fisher concludes that these reactions have a genetic basis, and therefore love is a natural drive as powerful as hunger.

" The speaker of the poem concludes that the man had lived an entirely average, therefore exemplary, life.

He concludes, “ Those theorists who ground the beautiful in music on the feelings it excites build upon a most uncertain foundation, scientifically speaking, since they are necessarily quite ignorant of the nature of this connection, and can therefore, at best, only indulge in speculations and flights of fancy.

While all Catholics must therefore hold that " the infliction of capital punishment is not contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the power of the State to visit upon culprits the penalty of death derives much authority from revelation and from the writings of theologians ", the matter of " the advisability of exercising that power is, of course, an affair to be determined upon other and various considerations.

The Council of Trent decreed: " If anyone shall say that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he who falls and sins was never truly justified ; or, on the contrary, that throughout his whole life he can avoid all sins even venial sins, except by a special privilege of God, as the Church holds in regard to the Blessed Virgin: let him be anathema.

The International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ) therefore recommends the symbol bit instead of b. The prefix kilo is often used in fields of computer science and information technology with a meaning of multiplication by 1024 instead of 1000, contrary to international standards, in conjunction with the base unit byte and bit, in which case it is often written with a capital letter K, e. g., Kbit and KB.

Thus, on April 28, 2006, after the unofficial repeal of the French First Employment Contract ( CPE ), the Longjumeau ( Essonne ) conseil des prud ' hommes ( labour law court ) judged the New Employment Contract ( CNE ) contrary to international law, and therefore " illegitimate " and " without any juridical value ".

communion is radically contradicted by polygamy ; this, in fact, directly negates the plan of God which was revealed from the beginning, because it is contrary to the equal personal dignity of men and women who in matrimony give themselves with a love that is total and therefore unique and exclusive.

Belgrade proposed that Kosovo be highly autonomous and remain a part of Serbia — Belgrade officials repeatedly said that an imposition of Kosovo's independence would be a violation of Serbia's sovereignty and therefore contrary to international law and the UN Charter.

They are based on highly abstract theories – venerable, academic inventions, half misunderstood by those who are applying them today, and based on assumptions which are contrary to the facts … Our main task, therefore, will be to confirm the reader ’ s instinct that what seems sensible is sensible, and what seems nonsense is nonsense.

The decision, he said, was not only a military decision but also a political decision, and the king had acted without his ministers ' advice, and therefore contrary to the Constitution.

The right to own property, therefore, did not depend upon the whims of a king or parliament ; to the contrary, the primary purpose of government was to protect rights in property, since these rights were at the base of all liberties.

Robert Granfield and Thomas Koenig's 1992 study of Harvard Law students that appeared in The Sociological Quarterly found that students " learn to cooperate with rather than compete against classmates ," and that contrary to " less eminent " law schools, students " learn that professional success is available for all who attend, and that therefore, only neurotic ' gunners ' try to outdo peers.

Akiba therefore teaches, in opposition to the old Halakah, that the sale of a daughter under age by her father conveys to her purchaser no legal title to marriage with her, but, on the contrary, carries with it the duty to keep the female slave until she is of age, and then to marry her ( Mek., Mishpaṭim, 3 ).

The Synod of Diospolis therefore concluded: " Now since we have received satisfaction in respect of the charges brought against the monk Pelagius in his presence and since he gives his assent to sound doctrines but condemns and anathematises those contrary to the faith of the Church, we adjudge him to belong to the communion of the Catholic Church.

To Hodge, Darwinism was contrary to the notion of design and was therefore clearly atheistic.

Attempts to resolve this puzzle include the view that the bandicoot group evolved from the carnivores, retaining the polyprotodont dentition, and independently evolving a syndactyl hind foot ; the contrary view that syndactyly is so unusual that it is unlikely to have evolved twice and therefore the bandicoot group must have evolved from a possum-like diprotodont creature, and re-evolved its extra teeth.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Southern Baptist Convention, and National Organization for Marriage argue that children do best when raised by a mother and father, and that legalizing same-sex marriage is, therefore, contrary to the best interests of children.

* Porphyrogennētos ( πορφυρογέννητος ) — " born-in-the-purple ": Emperors wanting to emphasize the legitimacy of their ascent to the throne appended this title to their names, meaning they were born in the delivery room of the imperial palace ( called the Porphyra because it was paneled with slabs of purple marble ), to a reigning emperor, and were therefore legitimate beyond any claim to the contrary whatsoever.

It is not known whether Bank's recommendations reached President Harry S. Truman, but American policy was contrary: Ho was a long-time Communist, having joined the party in the 1920s in Paris, and therefore was considered unacceptable as leader of a coalition government.

It is therefore proper to speak of moral, mathematical and other non-sensuous forms of beauty, contrary to Burke, Hogarth and others who claimed such usages were metaphorical.

We could not be too humble, nor mortify our feelings too far ; this was to be done by opposing them and acting contrary to them ; and what she proposed was, therefore, pleasing in the sight of God.

That the people have a right to hold themselves, their houses, papers, and possessions free from search and seizure, and therefore warrants without oaths or affirmations first made, affording a sufficient foundation for them, and whereby any officer or messenger may be commanded or required to search suspected places, or to seize any person or persons, his or their property, not particularly described, are contrary to that right, and ought not to be granted.

Similar debates on the education of girls in headscarves have long raged in secular-yet-Muslim Turkey ; the European Court of Human Rights upheld the laws of Turkey, which are more restrictive than the French law ; it therefore seems highly unlikely it would declare the French law contrary to the Convention.

Speaking in the House of Commons he said “ Despite media speculation to the contrary, there has been no recent change to force levels ”, adding “ There is no evidence of any current credible military threat to the security of the Falkland Islands and therefore no current plan for significant changes to force deployments.

The City also cannot therefore conclude that the use of term on signs or banners to identify QuAIA constitutes the promotion of hatred or seeks to incite discrimination contrary to the Code.

It, therefore, resolved to lay claim to prophecy and to found a new faith, contrary to our Divine religion, and to contend that it was equally God-given.