Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

There was no reference to the incident on the stairs, his powers being absorbed by this more immediate business.

An exhaustive survey was made of the literature, and a primary reference file of approximately 600 references was catalogued.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

The deep concave gradient employed ( fig. 2 ) was obtained with a nine-chambered gradient elution device ( `` Varigrad '', reference ( 8 ) ) and has been described elsewhere.

The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.

In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.

`` On the hoof '' was a reference to live cattle and was also used in referrin' to cattle travelin' by trail under their own power as against goin' by rail.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

In the Notre Dame report, reference was made to the fact that faculty members were reduced to `` luncheon-table communication ''.

Though the reference to race was stricken by the association in 1950, being an agent of such `` detrimental '' influences still appears as the cardinal sin realtors see themselves committed to avoid.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

Another early reference to Amber was Pytheas ( 330 BC ) whose work " On the Ocean " is lost, but was referenced by Pliny.

This was a reference to a boating outing Carroll had with the three girls and their family.

The best-known attempt is doubly special relativity, which posits that the Planck length is also the same in all reference frames, and is associated with the work of Giovanni Amelino-Camelia and João Magueijo.

Being the one-particle excitation operator and the two-particle excitation operator, and convert the reference function into a linear combination of the singly and doubly excited Slater determinants, respectively.

Each array contains 140 ( one for each priority level ) pointers to doubly linked lists, which in turn reference all processes with the given priority.

For equally ( balanced ) correlation of ground and excited states ( better excitation energies ) one can use more than one reference determinant from which all singly, doubly, ... excited determinants are included ( multireference configuration interaction ).

Thus he may be referring to some concrete thing, or incident, in his immediate environment by some symbolic-sounding, hyperbolic reference to transcendental events on the global scene.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".

The word dandelion ( literally, tooth of lion, referring to the shape of the leaves ) is another example, being a substitute for pissenlit, meaning " wet the bed ", a possible reference to the fact that dandelion was used as a diuretic.

In the strictest technical sense, the word " stability " is a thermodynamic term referring to the energy of a substance relative to a reference state or to some other substance.

When the police use search warrants in connection with a vandalism investigation they are often seeking judicial approval to look for items such as cans of spray paint and nozzles from other kinds of aerosol sprays, etching tools or other sharp or pointed objects used to etch or scratch glass and other hard surfaces, and permanent marking pens, such as markers or paint sticks ; evidence of membership or affiliation with any gang or tagging crew, paraphernalia to include any reference to “( tagger ’ s name ),” and any drawings, writings, objects or graffiti depicting taggers ’ names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or mention of tagging crew membership ; any newspaper clippings relating details of or referring to any graffiti crime.

Additionally, both the terms strigoi and moroi are traditionally closely associated with both pricolici and vârcolaci, and while modern fiction makes a clear distinction between the terms ( with strigoi and moroi being in usage more a reference to the vampiric than the lycanthropic, and the latter in turn referring more to " living " as opposed to undead vampires ), older folklore leaves them not always so easily differentiated, especially with regional variants.

The social panic approach is justified by the language used – we talk of the battle against terrorism or the war on drugs ..." The Economist magazine has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of such regulation, particularly with reference to countering terrorist financing, referring to it as a " costly failure ", although concedes that the rules to combat money laundering are more effective.

The author of the Catholic Encyclopedia article goes on to enumerate the accounts of each of these three persons ( the unnamed " sinner ", Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Bethany ) in the Gospel of Luke and concludes that based on these accounts “ there is no suggestion of an identification of the three persons, and if we had only Luke to guide us we should certainly have no grounds for so identifying them the same person .” He then explains first the Catholic position equating Mary of Bethany with the sinful woman of Luke by referring to, where Mary is identified as the woman who anointed Jesus, and noting that this reference is given before John ’ s account of the anointing in Bethany:

In weighted reference counting, we assign each reference a weight, and each object tracks not the number of references referring to it, but the total weight of the references referring to it.

( Conversely, the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Awakening " includes a line from the long-deceased Surak referring to the enemies of logic in his time as " those who marched beneath the raptor's wing ": this would appear to be a reference to the symbol of the Romulan Empire.

French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L ' Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed priests and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively.

The Americans in the novel respond to their conquerors ' racism by often referring to them in unflattering terms, such as " flat face ", " slanty " ( a derisive reference to the look typical of Asian eyes ), and " monkey boy ".

* a term used when referring to a user of the popular forum Gaia Online, or spoken in reference to the Avatar character used to represent oneself in the forum.

To emphasize " equal footing " in cross-strait relations, the term is used in official contexts with reference to Taiwan, with the PRC referring to itself as " the mainland side " ( as opposed to " the Taiwan side ").

Villeneuve was seen driving a VW before stopping and saying at the camera that he has nothing against German guys ... much less for the " allemandes ", referring to the vehicle and German girls — a reference to his rivalry with Michael Schumacher and for the incident at the 1997 European Grand Prix.

Extension ( semantics ) to the actual things that referring terms like nouns stand for, provided that agreement on reference is accomplished, is one method of breaking this circularity, but this is outside the capacity of a text-based definition.

A similar reference had already been established in the German versions of Magica comics, where her raven is called " Nimmermehr " (" Nevermore "), referring to the most recognizable keyword from Poe's poem.

Indeed the only Homeric reference to writing was in the phrase " γράμματα λυγρά ", grámmata lygrá, literally " uneducated ", when referring to the Bellerophontic letter.

The nickname may have been a combined reference to the Swiss politician Besançon Hugues ( died 1532 ) and the religiously conflicted nature of Swiss republicanism in his time, using a clever derogatory pun on the name Hugues by way of the Flemish word Huisgenoten ( literally housemates ), referring to the connotations of a somewhat related word in German Eidgenosse ( Confederates: i. e. A Citizen of Switzerland ) Geneva was John Calvin's adopted home and the center of the Calvinist movement.

He moved to Athens where tradition says he became a pupil of Diogenes of Sinope ; the precise relationship between Crates and Diogenes is uncertain, but there is one apparent reference to Crates referring to himself as " a fellow-citizen of Diogenes, who defied all the plots of envy.