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 ).

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

In particular, the term refers to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of Peter Mongus, Patriarch of Alexandria, and remained " without king or bishop " until they were reconciled by Mark II ( 799-819 ).

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

There is a tendency to use the term in a less strict way, to mean approximately the same thing as " culture " and therefore, the term can more broadly refer to any important and clearly defined human society.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

From his first composition to his last, he rejected the idea of musical development, in the strict definition of this term: the intertwining of different themes in a development section of a sonata form.

As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome by the 20th century became largely synonymous with other terms for the " little people ", such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the " domestic spirit " type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.

Fux applied the term " species counterpoint ", which entails a series of steps whereby students work out progressively more elaborate combinations of voices while adhering to certain strict rules.

Brahms gave away large sums of money to friends and to aid various musical students, often with the term of strict secrecy.

Gray Jedi is the term that refers to Force Users in the Expanded Universe who have left either the Jedi Order or the Sith and do not believe that there is a strict division between the light and dark sides of the Force.

In contrast to the more strict definition proposed by IUPAC, which requires a d-block metal and a sandwich structure, the term metallocene and thus the denotation-ocene, is applied in the chemical literature also to non-transition metal compounds, such as Cp < sub > 2 </ sub > Ba, or structures where the aromatic rings are not co-planar, such as found in manganocene or titanocene dichloride ( Cp < sub > 2 </ sub > TiCl < sub > 2 </ sub >).

In America, the term pilgrim is typically associated with an early colonial Protestant sect known for their strict rules of discipline.

To Quintilian, the satire was a strict literary form, but the term soon escaped from the original narrow definition.

Although in the United Kingdom there is no strict legal or formal definition of who is or is not a member of the Royal Family, and different lists will include different people, those carrying the style Her or His Majesty ( HM ), or Her or His Royal Highness ( HRH ) are always considered members, which usually results in the application of the term to the monarch, the consort of the monarch, the widowed consorts of previous monarchs, the children of the monarch and previous monarchs, the male-line grandchildren of the monarch and previous monarchs, and the spouses and the widows of a monarch's and previous monarch's sons and male-line grandsons.

In this sense, modern term " Ashkenazi " refers to a subset of Jewish religious practices, appropriated over time, rather than to a strict ethno-geographic division, which became erased over-time.

In the strict sense, the term anesthetist refers to any individual who administers anesthesia.

By this strict distinction, because the term noun is used for a class of single words ( tree, beauty ), only single-word proper names are proper nouns: Peter and Africa are both proper names and proper nouns ; but Peter the Great and South Africa, while they are proper names, are not proper nouns.

* Law and order ( politics ), a term common in political debate and discussion, generally indicating support of a strict criminal justice system

" Hospitals should institute strict monitoring of births to comply with full term ( more than 39 weeks gestation ) elective induction and C-section guidelines.

Patience ( 1881 ) was the first opera to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and thus, in a strict sense, the first true " Savoy Opera ", although the term " Savoy Opera " has, for over a century, included the complete set of thirteen operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D ' Oyly Carte:

The inception of the term in the 1960s referred to a strict and focused practice of idea-based art that often defied traditional visual criteria associated with the visual arts in its presentation as text.

This is a strict definition, and often the term " static equilibrium " is used in a more relaxed manner interchangeably with " mechanical equilibrium ", as defined next.