In the strict sense, however, agnosticism is the view that humanity does not currently possess the requisite knowledge and / or reason to provide sufficient rational grounds to justify the belief that deities either do or do not exist.

Frederick Henry Hedge wrote of the group's nature: " There was no club in the strict sense ... only occasional meetings of like-minded men and women ".

In some cases, the term admiralty is used in a wider sense, as meaning sea power or rule over the seas, rather than in strict reference to the institution exercising such power.

In the United Kingdom, bankruptcy ( in a strict legal sense ) relates only to individuals ( including sole proprietors ) and partnerships.

In strict play, the dealer then offers the deck to the previous player ( in the sense of the game direction ) for cutting.

In C, all executable code is contained within subroutines, which are called " functions " ( although not in the strict sense of functional programming ).

The spiritual teacher Meher Baba stated that " or the aspirant a life of strict celibacy is preferable to married life, if restraint comes to him easily without undue sense of self-repression.

Such acts of recognition of a saint were authoritative, in the strict sense, only for the diocese or ecclesiastical province for which they were issued, but with the spread of the fame of a saint, were often accepted elsewhere also.

For ' crannogs ' in the strict sense, typically this effort began on a shallow reef or rise in the lochbed.

( The system is not limited to alphabets in the strict technical sense ; languages that use a syllabary or abugida, for example Cherokee, can use the same ordering principle provided there is a set ordering for the symbols used.

Although it never uses the term, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( The Mormon Church ) is episcopal, rather than presbyterian or congregational, in the sense that it has a strict hierarchy of leadership from the local bishop up to a single prophet / president, believed to be personally authorized and guided by Jesus Christ.

It is impossible to delineate Illyrian tribes from Paleo-Balkans in a strict linguistic sense, but areas classically included under " Illyrian " for the Balkans Iron Age include the area of the Danube, Sava, and Morava rivers to the Adriatic Sea and the Shar Mountains.

Some of the less formal kinds of foods that foreigners typically associate with Japanese food may not fall under this washoku definition in this strict sense.

Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, Jeb's mother, who was known as a strict religious woman with a good sense for business, ran the family farm.

Therefore, one can find an economic analysis of the market of grapes in Russia, for example, which is not a market in the strict sense of general equilibrium theory monopoly.

In Veraguas, however, there remained a strict sense of submission to the Spanish Crown.

However, Whitehead is not an idealist in the strict sense.

taken in the strict sense.

** In a strict sense, the possessive pronouns are only those that act syntactically as nouns.

Lomas de Chapultepec is an example of an affluent suburb, although it is located inside the city and by no means is today a suburb in the strict sense of the word.

Thus, Unitarians contend that main-line Christianity does not adhere to strict monotheism but that they do, maintaining that Jesus was a prophet, and in some sense the " son " of God, but not God himself.

New Objectivity was not a strict movement in the sense of having a clear manifesto or set of rules.

An ideal solution can be said to follow Raoult's Law but it must be kept in mind that in the strict sense ideal solutions do not exist.

He expressed his misgivings in a letter to his wife: " There is too little drama here, and no movement ... To me, opera without drama, in the strict sense, is unnatural.

An alternative of access control in the strict sense ( physically controlling access itself ) is a system of checking authorized presence, see e. g. Ticket controller ( transportation ).

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

According to Suetonius, Agrippina had a strict upbringing and education.

Ibn Yasin certainly had the ardor of a puritan zealot, his creed was mainly characterized by a rigid formalism and a strict adherence to the dictates of the Qur ' an, and the Orthodox tradition.

While the civil market has had weather radar for a while, there are strict rules about using it to navigate the aircraft.

As a result scurvy broke out, and in October 1788 Phillip had to send Sirius to Cape Town for supplies, and strict rationing was introduced, with thefts of food punished by hanging.

Capone showed promise as a student, but had trouble with the rules at his strict parochial Catholic school.

The Admiralty, upon receiving Herbert's report, immediately ordered its suppression, but the strict censorship imposed on the event failed when Americans who had witnessed the incident from Nicosians lifeboats spoke to newspaper reporters after their return to the United States.

Palmer observed that Russian society in early 20th century had a rigid insistence and strict observance of differences in social rank.

Cuma too had a cult of a chthonic Hecate and certainly had strict contacts with Latium.

Speaking was allowed in the common parlor, but it was subordinate to strict rules, and the prioress, subprioress or other senior nun had to be present.

It had strict rules against gambling, horses, guns, tobacco and alcohol, but these rules were generally ignored.

The earlier necessity and expediency had mutated into a strict tradition that did not allow for current expediency or necessity, but only dictated that daughters of a restricted circle of families were eligible brides, because they had produced eligible brides for centuries.

Some earlier incarnations of football allowed unlimited forward passing, while others had strict offside rules similar to rugby.

He went to Italy, escaped from arrest at Genoa, and had to take refuge among the Apennines, Pope Clement XI, who was his bitter enemy, having given strict orders for his arrest.

Their answer was to insist on strict observance of the Law ( the Torah ), isolation from the gentiles, and minimalisation of the expectation of the coming of the Messiah ( the expectation which had provoked the war ).

The base had about water in storage, and strict water conservation was put into effect immediately.

While the Jewish population had received strict orders requiring them to hold their ground everywhere at all costs, the Arab population was more affected by the general conditions of insecurity to which the country was exposed.

Throughout his reign as Liberal leader, Menzies had enforced strict party discipline but, once he was gone, dissension began to surface.

Atta also began adhering to a strict Islamic diet, frequented the mosque, seldom socialized, and was unfriendly towards the couple's unmarried daughter who had a young child.

While Genscher and Tröger were talking with the hostages, Kehat Shorr had told the Germans that the Israelis would not object to being flown to an Arab country, provided that strict guarantees for their safety were made by the Germans and whichever nation they landed in.

For many years, Nintendo had a policy of strict content guidelines for video games published on its consoles.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.