In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Even earlier than that he had resented the fact that I had been chosen to edit the club's Reporter.

In fact, I can only say this seems to me to follow from a wide, continuous, and properly guided exposure to literary art.

`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.

It bulks under a veil of thin, new grass, like some embarrassing fact of physicalness, and I think Mrs. Pastern set out the statuary to soften its meaning.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.

By picturing Roman authority negatively proponents of this view believe that it is emphasizing the fact that Christian ’ s should obey and submit to Christ ’ s authority ( Acts 4: 19-20 ; 5: 29 ).

It is this fact that leads some scholars to believe that Beowulf has endured a long and complicated transmission through all the main dialect areas.

Bernard G. Campbellin wrote: " That Gigantopithecus is in fact extinct has been questioned by those who believe it survives as the Yeti of the Himalayas and the Sasquatch of the north-west American coast.

Judaism unilaterally supports, in fact mandates, abortion if doctors believe that it is necessary to save the life of the woman.

This conquest never happened, but some historians believe that the crossing referred to was in fact a small-scale exploratory or punitive expedition to Ireland.

Again, though, other physicists believe that tunneling experiments in which particles appear to spend anomalously short times inside the barrier are in fact fully compatible with relativity, although there is disagreement about whether the explanation involves reshaping of the wave packet or other effects.

Many physicists believe that the above phenomena are in fact impossible, and that future theories of gravity will prohibit them.

The fact that all currently known ( 2009 ) matter particles fit nicely into three copies of the smallest group representations of SU ( 5 ) and immediately carry the correct observed charges, is one of the first and most important reasons why people believe that a Grand Unified Theory might actually be realized in nature.

The fact that only half of the American population believe that global warming is caused by human activity could be seen as a victory for these so-called skeptics.

Many people believe that the fact that qualified commentators abroad were beginning to doubt the official Spanish version the very same day of the attacks while the government insisted on ETA's implication directly influenced the results of the election.

For some reason he could never comprehend, people were inclined to believe the very worst about anything and everything ; they were immune to contrary evidence just as if they'd been medically vaccinated against the force of fact.

Origen's statement in his Commentary on Matthew ( Book X, Chapter 17 ) that Josephus " did not accept Jesus as Christ ", is usually seen as a confirmation of the generally accepted fact that Josephus did not believe Jesus to be the Messiah.

The reason for this is that rational agents would tend to believe that pieces of information that go against their prior beliefs in fact originate from low-quality news providers.

In fact, Nazareth was described negatively by the evangelists ; the Gospel of Mark argues that Nazareth did not believe in Jesus and therefore he could " do no mighty work there "; in the Gospel of Luke, the Nazarenes are portrayed as attempting to kill Jesus by throwing him off a cliff ; in the Gospel of Thomas, and in all four canonical gospels, we read the famous saying that " a prophet is not without honor except in his own country.

Oxfordian researchers believe that the play is an early version of Shakespeare's own play, and point to the fact that Shakespeare's version survives in three quite different early texts, Q1 ( 1603 ), Q2 ( 1604 ) and F ( 1623 ), suggesting the possibility that it was revised by the author over a period of many years.

In other words, we are urged to believe that Plato's theory of ideas is an abstraction, divorced from the so-called external world, of modern European philosophy, despite the fact Plato taught that ideas are ultimately real, and different from non-ideal things -- indeed, he argued for a distinction between the ideal and non-ideal realm.

The Hive Queen has also managed to make contact with the pequeninos philotically, and has told them a number of things — including the fact that " Andrew Wiggin " is not only the original Speaker for the Dead, but the original Xenocide as well, which romantically involved Zenadors ( a shortened form of the word xenologists ) Miro and Ouanda do not believe.

In fact, anarchists believe that there is no justification for the state at all, and that human societies would be better off without it.

A xenophobic person has to genuinely think or believe at some level that the target is in fact a foreigner.

However a lot of controversy rages around the fact that no evidence of any nuclear programs has been found in Iraq, leading some to believe that the Bush administration declared war simply to gain influence over Middle-Eastern oil supplies.

In fact, some historians believe that the psychological stress of slavery may also have played a part in the massive number of native deaths while in servitude.

This fact is cited as a reason to doubt the validity of DID, and proponents of both etiologies believe that the discovery of DID in a child that had never undergone treatment would critically undermine the SCM.

In fact, 88 % of parents of junior high school students and 80 % of parents of high school students believe that sex education in school makes it easier for them to talk to their adolescents about sex.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

As a matter of fact you could probably find a new home development in every populated county in the country with three-bedroom ranch style cottages in the $14,000 range.

As a matter of fact, this happened every four or five months.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

But there is every reason to regard deal as a monosyllable, and because of the fact that /l/ commonly has the quality of AAb/ when it follows vowel sounds, deal seems to be a perfectly satisfactory rhyme with deal.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

The fact that metropolitan churches of the major denominations have moved approximately every generation for the last hundred years becomes somewhat more intelligible in the light of this struggle to maintain economic balance.

Although he never gets to play while the clock is running, he gets a big kick -- several every Saturday, in fact -- out of football.

Almost every film bearing the imprimatur of Hollywood is physically authentic -- in fact, impeccably so.

The reason that we are able to choose least elements from subsets of the natural numbers is the fact that the natural numbers are well-ordered: every nonempty subset of the natural numbers has a unique least element under the natural ordering.

Thus, if every historian were to claim that there was a solar eclipse in the year 1600, then though we might at first naively regard that as in violation of natural laws, we'd come to accept it as a fact.

In point of fact, Capp maintained creative control over every stage of production for virtually the entire run of the strip.

However, despite those efforts, the presence of the Armed Forces on the border regions of the Brazilian Amazon continues to be sparse and disperse, given the fact that the Army has just 28 border detachments in that area, a total of 1, 600 soldiers, or 1 men for every of borders.

The company had re-leased estimates covering 20 % damage to be re-insured at minimal fees when in fact the damage was over 65 % and every claim was in the millions.

In fact, every compact metric space is a continuous image of the Cantor set.

This definition of cofinality relies on the axiom of choice, as it uses the fact that every non-empty set of cardinal numbers has a least member.

Bemba has publicly commented on election " irregularities ," despite the fact that every neutral observer has praised the elections.

Much encyclopaedism of the French Renaissance was based upon the notion of not including every fact known to humans, but only that knowledge that was necessary, where necessity was judged by a wide variety of criteria, leading to works of greatly varying sizes.

To Socrates, a person must become aware of every fact ( and its context ) relevant to his existence, if he wishes to attain self-knowledge.

In fact, every ESS corresponds to a Nash equilibrium, but some Nash equilibria are not ESSes.

In fact, every real n-dimensional vector space V is isomorphic to R < sup > n </ sup >.

Differences under the Maliki school included the fact that those following the Maliki school could state their purpose ( or niat ) once only for compulsory fasting which is valid for the whole month of Ramadhan whilst for the Shafi ' i. e. school ( see below ), one would have to state his purpose every day of the month of Ramadhan for his fast to be valid the next day.

Particles interact in every way available ; in fact, intermediate virtual particles are allowed to propagate faster than light.

In Fichte's technical terminology, the original unity of self-consciousness is to be understood as both an action and as the product of the same I, as a fact and / or act ( Tathandlung ), a unity that is presupposed by and contained within every fact and every act of empirical consciousness, though it never appears as such therein.