The Treaty limited only ABMs capable of defending against " strategic ballistic missiles ", without attempting to define " strategic ".

* Video of Jacques Derrida attempting to define " Deconstruction "

Archaeologists and historians attempting to trace the origins of these villagers have found it impossible to identify any distinctive features that could define them as specifically Israelite – collared-rim jars and four-room houses have been identified outside the highlands and thus cannot be used to distinguish Israelite sites, and while the pottery of the highland villages is far more limited than that of lowland Canaanite sites, it develops typologically out of Canaanite pottery that came before.

In the book Vasari was attempting to define what he described as a break with the barbarities of gothic art: the arts had fallen into decay with the collapse of the Roman Empire and only the Tuscan artists, beginning with Cimabue ( 1240 – 1301 ) and Giotto ( 1267 – 1337 ) began to reverse this decline in the arts.

One might use definitions that rely on operations in order to avoid the troubles associated with attempting to define things in terms of some intrinsic essence.

A challenge for those attempting to define bugles with such a general classification is to explain how bugles are different from any other kind of brass band instrument.

When attempting to define what something is, it is often helpful to define what something is not.

As well as defining self-harm in terms of the act of damaging the body, it may be more accurate to define self-harm in terms of the intent, and the emotional distress that the person is attempting to deal with.

Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell define populism as an ideology that " pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ‘ others ’ who are together depicted as depriving ( or attempting to deprive ) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity, and voice ".

Opponents of same-sex marriage have worked to prevent individual states from recognizing same-sex unions by attempting to amend the United States Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

In attempting to define “ exceptional ,” Circuit courts are split as to what objectively constitutes malicious, fraudulent, or deliberate misconduct.

Esber had earlier threatened a group of dBASE users who were attempting to define a standard dBASE file format.

For instance, Justice Potter Stewart of the Supreme Court of the United States, in attempting to explain " hard-core " pornography, or what is obscene, famously wrote, " I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced ... ut I know it when I see it ..."

" Later writers have expanded this test, attempting to define power in terms of overall military, economic, and political capacity.

Taking place during the weeks leading up to Socrates ' trial, the dialogue features Socrates and Euthyphro, a religious expert also mentioned at Cratylus 396a and 396d, attempting to define piety or holiness.

In this case, the probability P ( Y = y ) = 0, and the Borel – Kolmogorov paradox demonstrates the ambiguity of attempting to define conditional probability along these lines.

Kress explores libertarian and more collectivist philosophies, attempting to define the extent of people's mutual responsibility for each other's welfare.

The important System V Interface Definition ( SVID ) was written, attempting to standardize the various flavors of Unix, and define the official interfaces which made up a UNIX operating system.

This causes problems when attempting to define left derived functors of a right exact functor ( such as Tor ).

# Books I – V: the eutopia portraying the ideal community and the education of the Guardians, parting from attempting to define justice ;

He begins by conceding that attempting to define the soul is one of the most difficult questions in the world.

The concept of one parent attempting to separate their child from the other parent as punishment or part of a divorce have been described since at least the 1940s, but Gardner was the first to define a specific syndrome.

The film and its accompanying auditory and visual cues ( which include a grinding noise that Orwell describes as " of some monstrous machine running without oil ") are a form of brainwashing to Party members, attempting to whip them into a frenzy of hatred and loathing for Emmanuel Goldstein and the current enemy superstate.

BBC Research has conducted listening trials in an attempt to find the best weighting curve and rectifier combination for use when measuring noise in broadcast equipment, examining the various new weighting curves in the context of noise rather than tones, confirming that they were much more valid than A-weighting when attempting to measure the subjective loudness of noise.

There are many procedures for this, but all attempt to determine whether the actual differences in pixel values constitute noise or real photographic detail, and average out the former while attempting to preserve the latter.

* Musical analysis – a process attempting to answer the question " How does this music work?

It was also during this period, that Parton began to embark on a high-profile crossover campaign, attempting to aim her music in a more-mainstream direction and increase her visibility outside of the confines of country music.

Verdi's comments on Wagner and his music are few and hardly benevolent (" He invariably chooses, unnecessarily, the untrodden path, attempting to fly where a rational person would walk with better results "), but at least one of them is kind: upon learning of Wagner's death, Verdi lamented, " Sad, sad, sad!

Learning music by ear is done by repeatedly listening to other musicians and then attempting to recreate what one hears.

Stravinsky began piano lessons as a young boy, studying music theory and attempting composition.

At this point, the International Skating Union began to try to restrain theatricality in ice dancing, first by attempting to return it to its ballroom roots by adding more restrictions on music and dance holds.

After attempting and failing to teach the kids, he resolves in simply listening to Winston the Janitor's Cat's warbling citing it ' music to his ears ' after listening to The Bash Street Kids singing.

Although The Beatles themselves utilized folk as just one of many styles evident in their music, the underlying folk influences in a number of their songs would prove to be extremely important to folk rock musicians attempting to blend their own folk influences with beat music.

However, " Teenage Dream " from the 1974 album Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders of Tomorrow showed that Bolan was attempting to create richer, more involved music than he had previously attempted with T. Rex.

The Baroque era in British music can be seen as one of an interaction of national and international trends, sometimes absorbing continental fashions and practices and sometimes attempting, as in the creation of ballad opera, to produce an indigenous tradition.

Because of the highly dynamic nature of many audio signals ( e. g., music, which accounts for an alternative name, music power ) there is some sense in attempting to characterize the ability of equipment to handle quickly changing power levels.

This furthered the public belief that the group she represented was a profit making enterprise attempting to extort the music industry under a non-profit tax exemption ; a controversy Tipper managed to deflect amongst her peers and the media.

Because of his activity in Florence, the numerous intermedi that he wrote for the Medici and other members of the aristocracy, his dedication of a book of ricercars to Count Giovanni de ' Bardi, and the dedication of a book of madrigals to Emilio de ' Cavalieri, it is likely that he was a member of the Florentine Camerata, the group of progressive musicians and poets who, in attempting to recreate the music of ancient Greece, created the first monody and ultimately the first opera.

Contest audiences of 1971 also noticed that some Combine corps were attempting " Total Programs "-a phrase describing daring, controversial theme-based competitive innovations in costuming, marching and music that were clearly different and more radical than the then-standard norms.

While Fétis's critical opinions of contemporary music may seem reactionary, his musicological work was ground-breaking, and unusual for the 19th century in attempting to avoid an ethnocentric and present-centered viewpoint.

A movement in Denmark ( Den Nye Enkelhed ) in the late nineteen-sixties and another in Germany in the late seventies and early eighties, the former attempting to create more objective, impersonal music, and the latter reacting with a variety of strategies to restore the subjective to composing, both sought to create music using simple textures.

Unlike the regular pennywhistle, the low whistle is a relative newcomer to Irish traditional music, and some criticise it for attempting to fill a musical role already well served by the tin whistle and Irish flute.

Currently, Morpheus redirects a user attempting to download unauthorized copyrighted music and movie files to a site with purchase links for music.

While maintaining that attempting to read Schubert's sexuality from his music would be essentialism, she proposes that it may be possible to notice intentional ways in which Schubert composed in order to express his " difference " as a part of himself at a time when " the self " was becoming prominent in the arts.