He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The topic became disputable as soon as most potent counter-tactical ABMs started to be capable of shooting down SLBMs ( SLBMs naturally tend to be much slower than ICBMs ), nevertheless both sides continued counter-tactical ABM development.

Therefore, while one could argue that Atchison was theoretically President for a few minutes ( though even this much is highly debatable ), claims that he should be considered an official President are surely disputable.

Nevertheless, the definitions of the lower and upper boundaries of the Ediacaran on the basis of chemostratigraphy and ichnofossils are disputable.

It is, however, disputable whether such biblical references mean a common practice or just onetime events.

An alternative and disputable definition of QoS, used especially in application layer services such as telephony and streaming video, is requirements on a metric that reflects or predicts the subjectively experienced quality.

This is disputable, since other sources claimed the developers had played the games before.

Viking tendencies were often misreported and the work of Adam of Bremen, among others, told largely disputable tales of Viking savagery and uncleanliness.

It is possible that distillation was practised by the Babylonians in Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC, with perfumes and aromatics being distilled but this is subject to uncertain and disputable interpretation of evidence.

* 2070 BC ( disputable ): Yu the Great set up the Xia Dynasty, which isn't verified by archeological findings, some propose the Erlitou culture.

What distinguishes abduction from the other forms of reasoning is an attempt to favour one conclusion above others, by attempting to falsify alternative explanations or by demonstrating the likelihood of the favoured conclusion, given a set of more or less disputable assumptions.

Scientific research results regarding the function of dreaming in animals remain disputable ; however, the function of sleeping in living organisms is increasingly clear.

The extravagant claims of Varro and Cicero that augury, divination by dreams and the worship of Minerva and Mars originated with the Sabines are disputable, as they were general Italic and Latin customs, as well as Etruscan, despite the fact that they were espoused by Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome and a Sabine.

This claim is disputable.

It was painted in tempera about 1495, in commemoration of the Battle of Fornovo, whose disputable outcome Francesco Gonzaga was eager to show as an Italian League victory ; the church which originally housed the picture was built from Mantegna's own design.

Even though they didn't officially win any championships, there are two championships that are disputable, in 1920 and 1921.

This means that there are no pronounced breaks in socioeconomic strata, which makes class division highly subjective and disputable.

This definition is disputable ( due to its lack of clarity.

Later deep house tracks ( 1993 — 94 ) were more heavily influenced by disco and even merged into a disputable disco house genre.

Referring to Hamilton's appointment as cronyism seems particularly disputable in retrospect, although it is only after looking at his accomplishments that this determination can be made.

Peterlee is unique among the new towns which came into being after the Second World War in that it was the only one requested by the people through their MP – though whether a majority of the people living in the surrounding colliery villages actually wanted it to be built is disputable.

This may be a disputable practice, but it provides the explanation for the discrepancy in wins awarded to Radbourn in 1884.

Although some of the statistical aspects of the Taguchi methods are disputable, there is no dispute that they are widely applied to various processes.

# Nature of news: People publish already-confirmed news that are thus less disputable.

Although the appearance of the original ice palace is disputable, it has been rebuilt each year since 2005 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia and is open to the public.

On songs such as " Little Girls " and " Capitalism ", Elfman has since stated that his intentions were to write in jest from the perspective of various disputable characters, adding he was " out to offend everybody ".

Decades later, Montferrand admitted in his will that, although his father owned Montferrand estate, the title is disputable " and if there is any doubt, I can accept other names, first of all Ricard, after my father ".

Many egyptologists try to connect Sanakht with the ramesside cartouche name Nebka, but this remains disputable, because no further royal title of that king was ever found, neither in contemporary sources, nor in later.

( This is disputable as according to the current ( 2012 ) Intertel webmaster there's no record of anyone of that name in any category of the member database, present or past ).

However, the legitimacy of Gardner's rumored homophobia is disputable because Gardner showed much more evidence of an open and accepting attitude about practices in his writing which would not be characterized by the hatred or phobia which was common in the 1950s:

The game, which the Lakers won by four, featured several disputable calls, including a late game foul on Mike Bibby -- after he was bleeding from being elbowed in the nose by Kobe Bryant.

There's a popular yet disputable legend, that when Napoleon captured Moscow in 1812 after the Battle of Borodino, he heard that the cross on the central dome of the Annunciation Cathedral had been cast in solid gold, and immediately gave orders that it should be taken down.

( see also counterfactual conditional ), the justified true belief came about, if Smith's purported claims are disputable, as the result of entailment ( but see also material conditional ) from justified false beliefs that " Jones will get the job " ( in case I ), and that " Jones owns a Ford " ( in case II ).

* female brain / left-brain characteristics of language-interpretation and garnering negative connotations due to ( disputable ) gender bias from a male-dominated scientific community:

This is a disputable statement, since Senator Kerry graduated from Yale in 1966 and served in the U. S. Navy from 1966 to 1970.

Whether or not Grodd's plan is a failure or not is disputable: Ambush Bug awakes to " Anchor-Ape Clark Kong ".

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

Etymologist W. W. Skeat reports that, while folklore has long attributed mystical powers to a dead man's hand, the specific phrase " hand of glory " is in fact a folk etymology: it derives from the French " main de gloire ", a corruption of mandragore, which is to say mandrake.

Walter W. Skeat, one of the most important figures in the field of English etymology, and Eliza Gutch, founder of the Folklore Society.

Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

The etymology of Apollo is uncertain.

Several instances of popular etymology are attested from ancient authors.

Paeοn is probably connected with the Mycenean Pa-ja-wo, but the etymology is the only evidence.

The etymology is obscure.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

abate ), as commonly used in the Catholic Church on the European continent, is the equivalent of the English " Father " ( parallel etymology ), being loosely applied to all who have received the tonsure.

The etymology of Greek is unknown.

This has been widely classified as a folk etymology, and numerous speculative etymologies, many of them non-Greek, have been suggested in scholarship.

Another Semitic etymology compares Assyrian barīrītu, the name of a female demon found in Middle Babylonian and Late Babylonian texts.

Another non-Greek etymology suggested by M. Hammarström, looks to Etruscan, comparing ( e ) pruni " lord ", an Etruscan honorific loaned into Greek as πρύτανις.

Hjalmar Frisk rejects this etymology as implausible.

The term " adiabatic " literally means impassable, coming from the Greek roots ἀ-(" not "), διὰ-(" through "), and βαῖνειν (" to pass "); this etymology corresponds here to an absence of heat transfer.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

The latter etymology has resulted in a number of theories.

This etymology has remained the standard derivation of the term.

The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.

The etymology and meaning of Akkad ( written a. ga. dè < sup > KI </ sup > or URI < sup > KI </ sup >) are unknown.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

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