The policy of standardization by the Sirimavo government to rectify disparities created in university enrollment, which was in essence an affirmative action to assist geographically disadvantaged students to obtain tertiary education, resulted in reducing the proportion of Tamil students at university level and acted as the immediate catalyst for the rise of militancy.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

Though what constitutes sex discrimination varies between countries, the essence is that it is an adverse action taken by one person against another person that would not have occurred had the person been of another sex.

His experiments with one of the by-products of tar, naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof fabrics, the essence of his patent being the cementing of two thicknesses of natural ( India ) rubber together, the rubber being made soluble by the action of the naphtha.

Only the attributes of essence ( sifat al-dhatia ) can be ascribed to God, but not the attributes of action ( sifat-al-fi ' aliya ).

Only the attributes of essence ( sifat al-dhatia ) can be ascribed to God, but not the attributes of action ( sifat-al-fi ' aliya ).

#" The time of action must be observed, so that essence and accident are not confused.

These primitive immaterial forces, so closely united as to form but one being ( essence ), acquire definiteness or form through the action upon them of stimuli or excitants from the outer world.

In essence, each action of slicing and dicing is equivalent to adding a " WHERE " clause in the SQL statement.

" The essence of the process is that it moves from the general to the specific, from the vision to the mission to the goals to the corporate objectives of the organization, then down to the individual action plans for each part of the marketing program.

# The time of action must be observed, so that essence and accident are not confused.

## its essence or species as determined by the quality of the action felt from it ( predicate )

This is the very essence of Gorriak ’ s music, not only creating awareness for the cause but also calling for organisation and action.

In essence, the problem-solver estimates the benefit delivered by each action, then selects a number of the most effective actions that deliver a total benefit reasonably close to the maximal possible one.

Only the attributes of essence ( sifat-al-datiat ) can be ascribed to God, but not the attributes of action ( sifat-al-af ' aliyat ).

Normally one would say that " if a course of action doesn't work, try something else ", but if it is no longer even clear what worked and what didn't in the past, or they are mixed up with each other, current political activity may keep reproducing the problematic patterns and traditions, the essence of which the political actors are only dimly aware of.

In its essence the idea of communicative rationality draws upon the implicit validity claims that are inescapably bound to the everyday practices of individuals capable of speech and action.

The Mexican take no prisoner policy was in essence a replay of the similar no quarter given by the Spanish general and royalist Joaquín de Arredondo y Mioño, under whom Santa Anna had served as a staff officer.

Having a character in a story with a prostheses, can sometimes be the whole point of the story ( e. g. Robocop is a full-body cyborg of police officer Alex Murphy, in essence he is a human / robot police officer, which is the basic premise for the film ).

( 1955 ), had come out ; and my dad took me to see it — I just see her, and I go, uh-oh, it doesn't really quite register with me, ' cause I'm in total shock, because I wanted to hate her, but the instant that I met her, I got the essence of her.

In essence, he did not believe that they met the goals of education, which he defined as obtaining freedom of thought.

In essence, Hamilton would feature a tropical rainforest climate if it met the minimum threshold of a tropical climate, a distinct oddity for a city far removed from the equator where tropical rainforest climates are typically found.

Justice Benjamin Cardozo held that the Due Process Clause protected only those rights that were " of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty " and that the court should therefore gradually incorporate the Bill of Rights onto the States as justiciable violations arose, based on whether the infringed right met that test.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

Working in a vacuum of minimal information can result only in show pieces that look good in exhibitions and catalogs and may please the public relations department but have little to do with the essence of interior design.

Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

Under Arianism, Christ was instead not consubstantial with God the Father since both the Father and the Son under Arius were made of " like " essence or being ( see homoiousia ) but not of the same essence or being ( see homoousia ).

Melville devotes the following chapter to a discussion of ambergris, with special attention to the irony that " fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale.

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.

Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract descriptions of equivalent phenomena.

His " Software Tools " series spread the essence of ' C / Unix thinking ' with makeovers for BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal-and most notably his ' Ratfor ' ( rational FORTRAN ) was put in the public domain.

In essence, the excesses of Scarface contrast with the more emotional tragedy of Carlito's Way.

The essence of Deuteronomistic theology is that Israel has entered into a covenant ( a treaty, a binding agreement ) with the god Yahweh, under which they agree to accept Yahweh as their god ( hence the phrase " god of Israel ") and Yahweh promises them a land where they can live in peace and prosperity.

The advantage of such a system lies in its ability to expand its own capacity rapidly and without additional human effort ; in essence, the initial investment required to construct the first clanking replicator would have an arbitrarily large payoff with no additional labor cost, with future returns discounted by their present value.

He argued that the fact of existence could not be inferred from or accounted for by the essence of existing things, and that form and matter by themselves could not originate and interact with the movement of the Universe or the progressive actualization of existing things.

In essence, the earliest vision of Christendom was a vision of a Christian theocracy, a government founded upon and upholding Christian values, whose institutions are spread through and over with Christian doctrine.

The idea that a definition should state the essence of a thing led to the distinction between nominal and real essence, originating with Aristotle.

This preoccupation with essence dissipated in much of modern philosophy.