She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.

She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;

In the complex case, one can also check that the bilinear form is linear over i in one argument, and conjugate linear in the other.

There is continual argument over the precise definition of each of these periods, and one historian might group them differently, or choose different names or descriptions.

They had an argument over a party Eugene held, which Gauss refused to pay for.

The Senate quickly met and began debating a change of government, but this eventually devolved into an argument over which of them would be the new princeps.

In contrast, Dr. William Douglass proposed a more secular argument against inoculation, stressing the importance of reason over passion and urging the public to be pragmatic in their choices.

More controversial than the role of technology is the argument over the role of politics in the origins of the region's decline.

" Picking up this line of argument and declaring " a great departure from the principles of free contract ," Gladstone created an Irish Land Court with complete control over rents and other landlord-tenant issues.

According to Lactantius, Diocletian and Galerius entered into an argument over imperial policy towards Christians while wintering at Nicomedia in 302.

The above definition implies this one: the upper bound of the empty subset is any existing element of A, because A is nonempty ; furthermore, as provable with an induction argument over the size of nonempty finite subsets, the upper bound of a finite subset may be obtained by finding upper bounds of pairs iteratively.

In March 1933, an argument arose over irregularities in the voting procedure.

Flame trolling is the posting of a provocative or offensive message, known as " flamebait ", to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response ( a " flame ") or argument over a topic the poster often has no real interest in.

he use of " liberty " to describe the physical " ability to do what I want ", the power to satisfy our wishes, or the extent of the choice of alternatives open to us ... has been deliberately fostered as part of the socialist argument ... the notion of collective power over circumstances has been substituted for that of individual liberty.

Even if such civilizations are rare, the scale argument indicates they should exist somewhere at some point during the history of the universe, and since they could be detected from far away over a considerable period of time, many more potential sites for their origin are within range of our observation.

After an intense argument with General Heinz Guderian, who insisted on a change of command of the Army Group Vistula, Hitler assigned General Walther Wenck to Himmler's headquarters to take over command of a limited counter-offensive ; Hitler then observed that it was not possible for him to move the troops needed for Guderian's planned double pincer attack from neighbouring regions.

# Natural Rights / Justice Argument: this argument is based on Locke ’ s idea that a person has a natural right over the labour and / or products which is produced by his / her body.

Apart from disputes over the success of the argument or the plausibility of the specific type of semantic externalism required for it to work, there is question as to what is gained by defeating the skeptical worry with this strategy.

For the rest of Major's premiership the main argument was over whether Britain would join the planned European Single Currency.

László Polgár's experiment would produce a family of one international master and two grandmasters and would strengthen the argument for nurture over nature, but also prove women could be grandmasters of chess.

A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect, much like an object given a small push over the edge of a slope sliding all the way to the bottom.

As an example of how an appealing slippery slope argument can be unsound, suppose that whenever a tree falls down, it has a 95 % chance of knocking over another tree.

This argument is analogous to the debate over paper books and e-books.

There has been some argument by modern scholars over the long jump.

Through this model, Fields shows the typical theoretical argument to be ambiguous and says " the predictions derived from the textbook model definitely do not carry over to the two-sector case.

If we use the Von Neumann cardinal assignment, every infinite cardinal number is also a limit ordinal ( and this is a fitting observation, as cardinal derives from the Latin cardo meaning hinge or turning point ): the proof of this fact is done by simply showing that every infinite successor ordinal is equinumerous to a limit ordinal via the Hotel Infinity argument.

Dorfl joined the Watch during the events of Feet of Clay, at which time he was set free by Captain Carrot, sustained considerable damage fighting the golem king, and was rebuilt to a considerable degree, granting him a voice ( which had been considered blasphemous for golems to possess, prior to Dorfl's argument with the Council of Churches, Temples, Sacred Groves and Big Ominous Rocks ).

The U. S. argument was affirmed, however, by the dissenting opinion of ICJ member U. S. Judge Schwebel, who concluded that in supporting the contras, the U. S. acted lawfully in collective self-defence in El Salvador's support.

In the theory of formal languages in computability theory, a pumping lemma or pumping argument states that, for a particular language to be a member of a language class, any sufficiently long string in the language contains a section, or sections, that can be removed, or repeated any number of times, with the resulting string remaining in that language.

from Article 84 of the Constitution of India, which sets the principal qualifications for member of Parliament, and Article 75 of the Constitution of India, which sets the qualifications for the minister in the Union Council of Minister, and the argument that the position of Prime Minister has been described as ' first among equals ', we can describe following qualifications for the Prime Minister of India.

Accusations that this was a u-turn on the EU treaties, which rule out any bail out of a euro member in order to encourage them to manage their finances better, were countered by the argument that these were loans, not grants, and that neither the EU nor other Member States assumed any liabilities for the debts of the aided countries.

Biochemist Michael Behe, another member of " The Wedge ", contributed the argument that he subsequently called " irreducible complexity " ( IC ) to a subsequent edition of Pandas in 1993.

While many shootings occur in the course of a mutual argument of passion, others occur where a partner or family member of a " romantic " or familial relationship, who is an ongoing victim of domestic physical abuse or sexual abuse, uses the force of a firearm in self-defense action against a perpetrator who also happens to be known to or related to the victim.

In 1916, after a long argument with the Genrō, Ōkuma resigned as well, and retired from politics permanently, although he remained a member of the Upper House of the Diet of Japan until 1922.

He gets along well with everyone in the group, especially Peter, but is also the only member who will willingly stand up to Peter when he feels that he is behaving unreasonably, to the extent that he once walked out on the group after an argument with him ( although he reconciled with them at the end ).

This greatly irritated Macdonald, but he nonetheless signed the treaty under the argument that he must as a junior member of the British delegation.

The intended follow-up, " East Side West Side ," written by Ron Welser and Flamingos ' member Terry " Buzzy " Johnson, was released only in Australia, due to an argument with Motown head Berry Gordy.

If x is a member of X, then f ( x ) = y ( the value of f when applied to x ) is the image of x under f. y is alternatively known as the output of f for argument x.

During the course of the argument, he reportedly shoved her resulting in one charge of battery on a household member.

BAA is a founding member of Flying Matters, a coalition of business groups, trade unions, tourism groups and the aviation industry ( airports, airlines, aerospace manufacturers and air traffic control ) launched in June 2007 to " balance the argument around issues of aviation and climate change " arguing that aviation does not contribute significantly to climate change, and that an expansion of aviation will aid the developing world, benefit social justice, and is essential for UK tourism and for the UK economy.

On 27 August 2006, the Mail on Sunday reported that Bramall hit Lord Janner, 78, a veteran campaigner for Holocaust victims and a senior member of Britain's Jewish community, after making what witnesses claim were a series of ' anti-Israel ' comments during an argument over the Lebanon conflict.

A fallacy of distribution is a logical fallacy occurring when an argument assumes there is no difference between a term in the distributive ( referring to every member of a class ) and collective ( referring to the class itself as a whole ) sense.

The second step of the argument of these neo-Roman writers, like Machiavelli, was that you have to be a member of a free self-governing civil association, a republic, if you are to enjoy individual liberty.

To finish the series at a certain point, and to elevate one member of the series to the dignity of an un-caused first cause, is to set at naught the very law of causation on which the whole argument proceeds .".

Blanche was not at Big Daddy's side when he died because she was supposed to attend a ball in Miami, in which she was the host ( she admitted that in order to get the part she had to sleep with a committee member twice ) but refused to go to his funeral because of an argument with her sister Virginia ; Blanche regretted this afterward and resolved to try to rethink her priorities in life.

When during a heated argument Johnston commanded Labor member John Holman to leave the chamber, Holman refused and a policeman was called to eject him.

Another argument is that Japan, as a defeated nation of World War II, would contradict the UN Charter if it were to enter the Security Council as a permanent member ( both Germany and Italy were prohibited from the Council for the very same reason.

The constitutional argument about whether Congress can provide the District of Columbia with a voting member in the House of Representatives, but not in the Senate, is heavily debated by each side.

In 2003, Scappaticci was alleged to have volunteered as an informer in 1978 after being assaulted in an argument with a fellow IRA member.

In the early 1890s the gang began a " snatch racket ", where a gang member would purposely drive his bicycle into a pedestrian and begin an argument.

" Boras won the argument, but the arbitrator ruled he could not grant Drew free agency since he was not a member of the MLBPA.