The term itself inspires a certain skepticism, sounding equivalent to " half-baked logic " or " bogus logic ", but the " fuzzy " part does not refer to a lack of rigour in the method, rather to the fact that the logic involved can deal with concepts that cannot be expressed as " true " or " false " but rather as " partially true ".

The virtue of the primary machinery employed — Galois theory, group cohomology, group representations, and L-functions — is that it allows one to deal with new phenomena and yet partially recover the behaviour of the usual integers.

Tommy learns from Cortez that Cortez's own lieutenant, Gonzalez, was partially responsible for the ambush on Tommy's cocaine deal, and Cortez asks Tommy to kill Gonzalez as a favor.

With the inputs disconnected, the gates may be biased into a mode where the outputs are partially conducting ; this leaves the output buffer drawing a great deal of current since it is not fully on or off, creating a low resistance current path between the power supply rails.

Cuban wanted to build his franchise around the younger Nowitzki and did not want to risk signing the 30-year-old Nash to a long-term deal, and offered Nash a four-year deal worth about $ 9 million annually, with a fifth year partially guaranteed.

In a deal partially brokered by Luther, the Duchy of Prussia became the first Protestant state, anticipating the Peace of Augsburg of 1555.

As he was partially responsible for the success of their multiplatinum-selling self-titled album, Whitesnake's label Geffen signed a record deal with Sykes following his dismissal from the band.

On September 24, 2008, the Washington Wizards signed Dixon to a partially guaranteed one-year deal for $ 1. 03 million, the veterans ' minimum for a player with Dixon's experience.

Although slavery was partially outlawed in 1905 by Germany, this caused a great deal of resentment and led eventually to revolts by the native opoulation.

The story covers a great deal of history including the building of various casinos by some of the members of various criminal organizations ; the south ( Las Vegas ) vs. north ( Reno and Lake Tahoe ) rivalry ; the hotel fires in Las Vegas ; how some casinos failed and were left partially finished, and stories of some of the more famous residents including Howard Hughes and Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel.

However, due to the presence of Quakers and 3 schools taught at least partially in English, one can expect a fair deal of bilingual Costa Ricans.

Thus in a deal partially brokered by Martin Luther, Roman Catholic Teutonic Prussia was transformed into the Duchy of Prussia, the first Protestant state.

To set up the pyramid, deal one card face up at the top of the playing area, then two cards beneath and partially covering it, then three beneath them, and so on till you have dealt out a row of seven cards for a total of 28 cards dealt.

In his appearance, a partially obscured figure resembling Soundwave was working for him ; Soundwave later tried to broker an arms deal with Megatron, making it possible that Ratbat wants Megatron's rise to continue for some reason.

However the Competition Bureau, another federal agency, partially blocked the deal over concentration of ownership issues, and ordered Astral Media to sell Radiomédia stations, which were temporarily put into trusteeship.

A similar deal in late 2006 between Blockbuster, Genius Products and The Weinstein Company had been partially thwarted when Netflix and other retailers were able to buy DVDs via wholesale " sell-through ".

After the release of Slim Thug's album, Geffen Records was partially absorbed into Interscope Records, which moved Star Trak Entertainment into an exclusive distribution deal with Interscope Records and ended all association with Geffen Records as Snoop Dogg decided to stay with them and took his Doggystyle Records imprint with him.

He flips the coin and it once again lands on heads, leaving Dante to enter the portal to deal with the partially summoned Argosax, after leaving the coin with Lucia.

And since new turnback tracks are going to need to be built as part of the Westside Subway Extension ( to deal with shorter headways ), this Arts District extension could possibly be partially completed as part of the Westside Subway Extension project, lowering the incremental cost of the station while increasing its usability.

The simulation, whose results were featured in the 2007 documentary Titanic ’ s Achilles Heel, partially refuted Long ’ s suspicions by demonstrating that Titanics expansion joints were strong enough to deal with any and all stresses the ship could reasonably be expected to encounter in service and, during the sinking, actually outperformed their design specifications.

After the 1986 World Cup, Woods left Norwich for Rangers in a £ 600, 000 deal as one of the original ' English invasion ' of players ( others of which included Ipswich and England defender Terry Butcher ) brought to Glasgow by manager Graeme Souness ( although this was at least partially because English clubs had been banned from European competition following the Heysel disaster, while Rangers were virtually guaranteed an annual European place ).

The dealer slides the top card partially off the deck as if to deal it, while the dominant hand instead takes hold of the bottom card.

Some historians, such as Fritz Fischer have theorized that the First World War was partially a result of the strategy of the conservative Prussian Junkers to deal with this result.

He partly succeeded in February 2001 when a further peace deal was brokered between Kabila, Rwanda and Uganda leading to the apparent withdrawal of foreign troops.

He brokered a deal with Hindal which provided that his brother would cease all acts of disloyalty in return for a share in the new empire which Kamran would create once Humayun was deposed.

Gregory brokered a deal with Liutprand, who forced Faroald to return it to the Exarch of Ravenna.

Although Classis was retaken in 728, fighting continued between Byzantine forces and the Lombards until 729, when Gregory brokered a deal between Liutprand and the Byzantine exarch, Eutychius, bringing about a temporary ceasing of hostilities that held until Gregory ’ s death.

The deal was brokered by Ingenious Media, a leading UK corporate finance advisory business.

However, his resignation was part of a “ back door deal ” brokered by Hara Takashi to alternate power between Saionji and Hara.

In a deal brokered by the French king Louis XI, the earl agreed to serve Margaret and the Lancastrian cause.

At a Cabinet meeting on 25 April Foch spoke against the deal Clemenceau had brokered and pushed for a separate Rhineland.

The UN, under Kofi Annan, brokered a deal wherein Iraq would allow weapons inspectors back into the country.

Associate Justice Abe Fortas, who was secretly Johnson's top adviser, brokered the deal in which Fortas would become chief justice.

Mattei visited Moscow in 1959, where he brokered an oil import deal with the Soviet Union in the middle of the Cold War over intense protests from NATO and the U. S. He also publicly supported independence movements against colonial powers, which allowed ENI to take advantage of postcolonial bitterness in places like Algeria.

Howe, as Minister of Reconstruction and Minister of Munitions and Supply ( later Reconstruction and Supply ), brokered the deal with the Hawker Siddeley Group to take over the Victory Aircraft plant in 1945 with Frederick T. Smye hired by HSG's Roy Dobson as its first employee.

Frémont abandoned his political campaign in September 1864, after he brokered a political deal in which Lincoln removed Postmaster General Montgomery Blair from office.

In the end, Lady Mabel Fitzwilliam, sister of the 7th Earl and a local alderman, brokered a deal whereby the West Riding County Council leased most of the house from the estate to house an educational establishment, leaving a small portion of forty rooms as a family apartment.

Tensions were raised again in 2004, when the FBU and local authority employers clashed over whether the deal brokered in 2003 was being honoured.

Geoff Tate also brokered an animated movie deal with Zoetifex Studios for the rights to a film adaptation of Operation: Mindcrime, which would pay him an advance and most of the royalties associated with the movie's merchandising.

In 2007 the auction house brokered a $ 68 million deal that transferred Thomas Eakins's The Gross Clinic ( 1875 ) from the Jefferson Medical College at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to joint ownership by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Military force near Edward's presence was unthinkable and, apparently, Dudley and Archbishop Cranmer brokered an unofficial deal with Somerset, who surrendered.

However, no deal was brokered due to the American Civil War.

As enrollment began to plummet, Father Edward Whelan, S. J., then president, brokered a deal with the US Army to form an officer training program for both Army and Navy officers.

After this battle Heke and Kawiti, in a seriously weakened state, and hounded by the combined forces of the British and loyalist Maoris, brokered a peace deal on the understanding that the rebels would retain their land and not be punished further.

Adding fuel to the fire, Faye Leung, a colourful Chinese-Canadian entrepreneur and the woman who brokered the deal, thought that Vander Zalm was a " bad man " since the day she first met him and secretly recorded conversations she had with him, and was happily willing to speak to the media and provide copies of her audio tapes.

Through the months of July and August, a series of skirmishes in and around Najaf culminated with the Imman Ali Mosque itself under siege, only to have a peace deal brokered by al-Sistani in late August.

In The American President, Sydney Ellen Wade is ultimately fired from her lobbyist position because the president has brokered a deal that causes her legislative effort to fail.