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Furthermore, there are heterodox branches of Esoteric Christianity that practice divination, blessings, or appealing to angels for certain intervention, which they view as perfectly righteous, often supportable by gospel ( for instance, claiming that the old commandment against divination was superseded by Christ's birth, and noting that the Magi used astrology to locate Bethlehem ).
Sometimes the deck is split into equal halves of 26 cards which are then pushed together in a certain way so as to make them perfectly interweave.
In a digital system, as long as the total noise is below a certain level, the information can be recovered perfectly.
That is, quantum effects rarely alter the predictions of classical mechanics, which are quite accurate ( albeit still not perfectly certain ) at larger scales.
Although the optimal strategy of a game may not ( yet ) be known, a game-playing computer might still benefit from solutions of the game from certain endgame positions ( in the form of endgame tablebases ), which will allow it to play perfectly after some point in the game.
This agrees with the extant evidence, in a certain degree, though not perfectly.
Headquarters needs to know that the troops are perfectly capable of forming a good plan for taking a specific objective, and the troops need to know that Headquarters does not direct them to achieve certain objectives without good reason.
For instance, in certain cultures if an individual goes out with another of the opposite gender, emotions of intense jealousy can result ; however, in other cultures, this behavior is perfectly acceptable and is not given much thought ( Hupka 1985 ).
Elizabeth, though older, soon found her knowledge and abilities outstripped by those of her pupil: " When I asked Letitia any question relating either to history, geography, grammar-Plutarch's Lives, or to any book we had been reading, I was pretty certain her answers would be perfectly correct ; still, not exactly recollecting, and unwilling she should find out just then that I was less learned than herself, I used thus to question her: ' Are you quite certain?
Harvard law professor Theophilus Parsons wrote, “ I am just as certain that Wilkes had a legal right to take Mason and Slidell from the Trent, as I am that our government has a legal right to blockade the port of Charleston .” Caleb Cushing, a prominent Democrat, and former Attorney General ( under Franklin Pierce ) concurred: “ In my judgment, the act of Captain Wilkes was one which any and every self-respecting nation must and would have done by its own sovereign right and power, regardless of circumstances .” Richard Henry Dana, Jr., considered an expert on maritime law, justified the detention because the envoys were engaged “ solely a mission hostile to the United States ,” making them guilty of “ treason within our municipal law .” Edward Everett, a former minister to Great Britain and a former Secretary of State, also argued that “ the detention was perfectly lawful their confinement in Fort Warren will be perfectly lawful .”
" The name of the holy Virtues signifies a certain powerful and unshakable virility welling forth into all their Godlike energies ; not being weak and feeble for any reception of the divine Illuminations granted to it ; mounting upwards in fullness of power to an assimilation with God ; never falling away from the Divine Life through its own weakness, but ascending unwaveringly to the superessential Virtue which is the Source of virtue: fashioning itself, as far as it may, in virtue ; perfectly turned towards the Source of virtue, and flowing forth providentially to those below it, abundantly filling them with virtue.
In 1961, the physicist Robert H. Dicke claimed that certain forces in physics, such as gravity and electromagnetism, must be perfectly fine-tuned for life to exist anywhere in the Universe.
But it was 20 minutes later, and already the whole world had seen it ... My attempt to connect my perfectly justified horror at an ugly and corrupting movie to the religious faith and ethnic identity of certain executives was hopelessly clumsy ... accusing a Christian of adoring money above all else does not engage any history of ugly stereotypes.
All other common materials, even when perfectly polished, usually give not more than a few percent specular reflection, except in particular cases, such as grazing angle reflection by a lake, or the total reflection of a glass prism, or when structured in certain complex configurations such as the silvery skin of many fish species or the reflective surface of a dielectric mirror.
In such " Advicemanship ", ' the advice must be vague, to make certain it is not helpful ', although Potter also noted that ' according to some authorities the advice should be quite genuine and perfectly practical '.
A number of plays, from 1587 on, are influenced by certain aspects of revenge tragedy, although they do not fit perfectly into this category.
The ideal experiment must average over all the possible positions of the screen S1, and, for every position, there corresponds, for a certain fixed point F, a different type of interference, from the perfectly destructive to the perfectly constructive.
For all Cirque du Soleil productions, plaster head molds were created to make certain that all wigs, masks, and headpieces fit perfectly.
So not only are the contents perfectly preserved, but they open spontaneously after a certain time period.
It is certain that many frottole, villancicos, and chansons francaises were intimately related to dance, but it seems true that Gastoldi was the first scholarly author, presumably since the thirteenth century, to compose songs for dancing which were modeled on instrumental patterns, and were perfectly apt for instrumental performance alone.
Assuming the planet is perfectly grey with no greenhouse or tidal effects, and a Bond albedo of 0. 1, the temperature would be close to 1600 K. Although it has not been detected directly, it is certain that the planet is a gas giant.

certain and definite
In the following paper it is shown that in a certain definite sense, exactly an odd number of squares can be inscribed in every such curve which does not contain an infinite number of inscribed squares.
Thus the concept ' computable ' is in a certain definite sense ' absolute ', while practically all other familiar metamathematical concepts ( e. g. provable, definable, etc.
In federal civil procedure law, which has also been accepted by approximately 35 states ( through adoption of state civil procedure rules similar to the federal rules ), the class action must have certain definite characteristics ( often referred to by the acronym CANT ):
The center of an atomic projectile striking this plane has geometrically a definite probability of passing within a certain distance of one of these points.
The terms divinity and divine — uncapitalized, and lacking the definite article — are sometimes used as to denote ' god ( s ) or certain other beings and entities which fall short of godhood but lie outside the human realm.
Meanwhile there is definite evidence of grimoires being used by certain, particularly Gnostic sects of early Christianity ; in the Book of Enoch found within the Dead Sea Scrolls for instance, there is various information on astrology and the angels.
That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force ; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party ; that this government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
A few years previously, the French chemist Joseph Proust had proposed the law of definite proportions, which expressed that the elements combined to form compounds in certain well-defined proportions, rather than mixing in just any proportion ; and Antoine Lavoisier proved the law of conservation of mass, which helped out Dalton.
Particulars include only individuals of a certain kind: as a first approximation individuals with a definite place in space and time, such as persons and material objects or events, or which must be identified through such individuals, like smiles or thoughts.
There are, however, certain states that are associated with a definite value of a particular observable.
This also has the effect of turning a position eigenstate ( which can be thought of as an infinitely sharp wave packet ) into a broadened wave packet that no longer represents a ( definite, certain ) position eigenstate.
This may be indicative of the tension between what a certain faction of the people wanted, and a definite reluctance of certain leaders ( e. g., the prophet Samuel ) to break with the old tribal order.
Toothed gears having certain definite ratios are used to cause the winding drum for the cable and the cage for the spools to rotate at suitable relative speeds which do not vary.
For example, in French, the singular form of the definite article is le with masculine nouns and la with feminines ; adjectives and certain verb forms also change ( with the addition of-e with feminines ).
The fact that the density is positive definite and convected according to this continuity equation, implies that we may integrate the density over a certain domain and set the total to 1, and this condition will be maintained by the conservation law.
Under certain conditions on, the reduced matrix will be positive definite.
In languages that employ articles, every common noun, with some exceptions, is expressed with a certain definiteness ( e. g., definite or indefinite ), just as many languages express every noun with a certain grammatical number ( e. g., singular or plural ).
The alleged ( or certain, as certain as historic linguistics can be ) contact similarities are seen in such phenomena as the existence of definite adjectives, which exist in both Baltic and Slavic and nowhere else in the Indo-European family ( languages such as Albanian and the Scandinavian languages developed definite adjectives only in more recent times ), that are not reconstructible for Proto-Balto-Slavic, meaning they are most likely to have had to have developed through language contact.
It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents .”.

certain and way
In certain respects, their task was incomparably greater than ours today, for there was nobody before them to show them the way.
I put in new batteries so as to be certain I'd have plenty of power and on my way out walked over to the regular parking stalls and stood looking at them thoughtfully.
This is a way of getting to school, but, I understand, it entails a certain loss of social status.
Besides, it's important to the way a painter thinks that he should move in a certain atmosphere, an atmosphere in which he may absorb the ideas of other masters, as Durer went to Italy to meet Bellini and Mantegna ''.
In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.
The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).
In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.
After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.
In his work Semantography Bliss had not provided a systematic set of definitions for his symbols ( there was a provisional vocabulary index instead ( 1965, pp. 827 – 67 )), so McNaughton ’ s team might often interpret a certain symbol in a way that Bliss would later criticize as a “ misinterpretation ”.
The standard simply provides a shorthand way of claiming that certain specifications are met, while encouraging manufacturers to adhere to a common method for such a specification.
In that early form of chemical science, it was believed by many that the best way to heat certain materials was to mimic the supposed natural processes, occurring in the Earth's core, by which precious metals were believed to be germinated.
This method gives the HTTP server a convenient way to alter document's encoding according to content negotiation ; certain HTTP server software can do it, for example Apache with the module mod_charset_lite.
The intrinsic property is that it reflects radiation ( including light ) in a certain way.
Mainstream CBT helps individuals replace " maladaptive ... coping skills, cognitions, emotions and behaviors with more adaptive ones ", by challenging an individual's way of thinking and the way that he / she reacts to certain habits or behaviors, but there is still controversy about the degree to which these traditional cognitive elements account for the effects seen with CBT over and above the earlier behavioral elements such as exposure and skills training.
In this case, criminalization becomes a way to set the price that one must pay to society for certain actions considered detrimental to society as a whole.
These categories surely have some objects that are " special " in a certain way, such as the empty set or the product of two topologies, yet in the definition of a category, objects are considered to be atomic, i. e., we do not know whether an object A is a set, a topology, or any other abstract concept – hence, the challenge is to define special objects without referring to the internal structure of those objects.
The concept of context-sensitive grammar was introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s as a way to describe the syntax of natural language where it is indeed often the case that a word may or may not be appropriate in a certain place depending upon the context.
However, in certain applications where discs will not be distributed or exchanged outside a private group and will not be archived for a long time, a proprietary format may be an acceptable way to obtain greater capacity ( up to 1. 2 GB with GigaRec or 1. 8 GB with HD-BURN on 99 minute media ).
For him, the sense of an expression in language describes a certain state of affairs in the world, namely, the way that some object is presented.
Within ten years, the Supreme Court interpreted Rule 48 in such a way so that it could apply to absent parties under certain circumstances, but only by ignoring the plain meaning of the rule.
Or there can be corroborating evidence related to a certain source, such as what makes an author think a certain way due to the evidence that was supplied by witnesses or objects.
In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

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