These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

Since cycling can be used for the practical purpose of transportation, there can be less need for self-discipline to exercise.

A more practical, albeit less quantitative, approach was put forward in the same year by Walter Heitler and Fritz London.

In addition, improvements in artillery made moving infantry in open areas even less practical than it had been.

In this way, Roads to Freedom presents a less theoretical and more practical approach to existentialism.

His less practical and more metaphysical Idea del tempio della pittura (" The ideal temple of painting ", Milan, 1590 ) offers a description along the lines of the " four temperaments " theory of the human nature and personality, containing the explanations of the role of individuality in judgment and artistic invention.

However, due to practical reasons, usually less than half of the members attended the regular Central Committee meetings during this time, even though they decided all key questions.

Anti-materiel rifles can be used against human targets, but the much higher weight of rifle and ammunition, and the massive recoil and muzzle blast, usually make them less than practical for such use.

Therefore, the practical advantages of Roman law were less obvious to English practitioners than to continental lawyers.

Liquid nitrogen boils at 77 K, facilitating many experiments and applications that are less practical at lower temperatures.

The practical constraints toward adoption have appeared less challenging where domain and scope is more limited than that of the general public and the World-Wide Web.

A human colony on Jupiter would be less practical due to the planet's high gravity, escape velocity and radiation.

Symmetrical aerofoils are, in general, less efficient and lack the lift provided by cambered wings at the zero angle of attack but are used in aerobatics, as they provide practical performance both upright and inverted.

Given the practical weight of suitable power sources, the accelerations given by ion thrusters are frequently less than one thousandth of standard gravity.

More recently, with the progress of computer technology, other representations were introduced and specialized computer languages were developed, since with the explosive growth of the complexity of electronic circuits, traditional schematics are becoming less practical.

Because α is much less than one, higher powers of α are soon unimportant, making the perturbation theory extremely practical in this case.

One of the practical purposes of fasting or sawm during the month of Ramadan is to help one empathize with the hunger pangs of those less fortunate, to enhance sensitivity to the suffering of others and develop compassion for the poor and destitute.

He was granted patents in Germany and in the United States ( 1901 ) for a paper clip of similar design, but less functional and practical, because it lacked the last turn of the wire.

For nanowires with diameters less than 10 nm, existing welding techniques, which requiring precise control of the heating mechanism and may introducing the possibility of damage, will be not practical.

Although variations have been made to improve the illusion of genuine levitation, they are generally harder to perform, and some require gimmicks or setups that make them less practical than the Balducci levitation.

The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune-telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation.

Experimentally, pK < sub > a </ sub > values can be determined by potentiometric ( pH ) titration, but for values of pK < sub > a </ sub > less than about 2 or more than about 11, spectrophotometric or NMR measurements may be required due to practical difficulties with pH measurements.

Liquid nitrogen boils at 77 K, facilitating many experiments and applications that are less practical at lower temperatures.

According to Hume, the difference between the two is that ideas are less vivacious than impressions.

Nevertheless, he admits, humans and animals differ in mental faculties in a number of ways, including: differences in memory and attention, inferential abilities, ability to make deductions in a long chain, ability to grasp ideas more or less clearly, the human capacity to worry about conflating unrelated circumstances, a sagely prudence which arrests generalizations, a capacity for a greater inner library of analogies to reason with, an ability to detach oneself and scrap one's own biases, and an ability to converse through language ( and thus gain from the experience of others ' testimonies ).

Without the price system to match consumer utility to incentives for production, or even indicate those utilities " without providing incentives ", state planners are much less likely to invest in new ideas to satisfy consumers ' desires.

Friedman finds that while Capra's ideas were popular to depression-era and pre-war audiences, they became less relevant to attitudes of a prospering post-war America.

In this view, a story's scientific " hardness " is less a matter of the absolute accuracy of the science content than of the rigor and consistency with which the various ideas and possibilities are worked out.

As a result of Postmodernism, planners are much less inclined to lay a firm or steady claim to there being one single ' right way ' of engaging in urban planning and are more open to different styles and ideas of ' how to plan ' ( Irving 474 ).

" The contract also stipulated that the film would be " non-political ," that immediately available funding came from Mrs. Sinclair in an amount of " not less than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ," that the shooting schedule amounted to " a period of from three to four months ," and most importantly that " Eisenstein furthermore agrees that all pictures made or directed by him in Mexico, all negative film and positive prints, and all story and ideas embodied in said Mexican picture, will be the property of Mrs. Sinclair ..." A codicil to the contract, dated December 1, allowed that the " Soviet Government may have the film free for showing inside the U. S. S. R ." Reportedly, it was verbally clarified that the expectation was for a finished film of about an hour's duration.

Critic Danél Griffin remarked, " Romero freely admits that his film was a direct rip-off of Matheson's novel ; I would be a little less harsh in my description and say that Romero merely expanded the author's ideas with deviations so completely original that of the Living Dead is expelled from being labeled a true ' rip-off '".

The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects the ideas of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated markets, a less powerful state, strong civil liberties ( including support for same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights ), cannabis legalization and regulation, separation of church and state, open immigration, non-interventionism and neutrality in diplomatic relations ( i. e., avoiding foreign military or economic entanglements with other nations ), freedom of trade and travel to all foreign countries, and a more responsive and direct democracy.

Most Turkish think tanks provide research and ideas, yet they play less important roles in policy making when compared with American think tanks.

As time went by Troilo began to fear that the advanced musical ideas of the young bandoneónist might undermine the style of his orchestra and make it less appealing to dancers of tango.

Related ideas such as the floating city are much less hypothetical-funds are presently being sought to build several large ships that would have permanent populations of up to 50, 000 people each.

The cellular bodies may remain altogether normal, their cylinders will not have any anatomical alterations ; but their multiple liaisons, very variable in normal people, may have arrangements more or less fixed, which will have a relation with persistent ideas and deliria in certain morbid psychic states.

The sentence can therefore be construed as " nondescript immature ideas have violent nightmares ", a phrase with less oblique semantics.

Other writers, while admitting the distance between Marx and Engels and Stalin, are less charitable, noting for example that the anarchist Bakunin predicted the oppressive potential of their ideas.

Many of his statistical innovations are arguably less important than the underlying ideas.

Besides the quotations made directly, there are found numberless allusions, more or less distinct, showing that the minds of the New Testament writers were filled with the expressions and ideas as well as historical facts recorded in the Old Testament.

Embedded within Liberalia, more or less at a ritualistic level, were the various freedoms and rights attached to Roman ideas of virility as a divine and natural force.

Finally, the term is sometimes applied to less rigorous ideas that may be interesting observations or relationships, practical or ethical guidelines ( also called rules of thumb ), and even humorous parodies of such laws.

Definition 7 defines what it means for one ratio to be less than or greater than another and is based on the ideas present in definition 5.

Population growth in the past thirty years has continued, but at nowhere near the break-neck pace of the 1950s and 1960s ; today, the main challenge to preserving North Stonington ’ s historically rural character comes less from housing subdivisions and more from big commercial development ideas.

But gradually the social climate became less receptive to these ideas, even turning harsh and hostile.

In his later works he relied less on the text to give him his musical framework and more on his pure musical ideas themselves ; the later Spanish and Italian songs reflect this move toward " absolute music ".