He was also credited by Lorentz ( 1895 ) with the first published description of the length contraction hypothesis, in 1893, though in fact Lodge's friend George Francis FitzGerald had first suggested the idea in print in 1889.

This is the key fact emerging from Sunday's national election.

In fact, this very story, along with some hints from " The Shadow over Innsmouth ", provides the key to the origin of the ' Derleth Mythos '.

At 6: 30 pm EDT, Kennedy convened a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisers, in a group he formally named the Executive Committee of the National Security Council ( EXCOMM ) after the fact on October 22 by the National Security Action Memorandum 196.

A key enabling factor for these applications is the fact that the DFT can be computed efficiently in practice using a fast Fourier transform ( FFT ) algorithm.

Early in the 1970s, the asymmetric key algorithm was invented by staff member Clifford Cocks, a mathematics graduate: this fact was kept secret until 1997.

The fact that how fast reactions occur can often be specified with just a few concentrations and a temperature, instead of needing to know all the positions and speeds of every molecule in a mixture, is a special case of another key concept in physical chemistry, which is that to the extent an engineer needs to know, everything going on in a mixture of millions of billions of billions of particles can often be described by just a few variables like pressure, temperature, and concentration.

The Diffie – Hellman key exchange relies on the fact that there are efficient algorithms for modular exponentiation, while the reverse operation the discrete logarithm is thought to be a hard problem.

The fact that the three versions cannot be matched word for word helps to explain why its decipherment has been more difficult than originally expected, especially for those original scholars who were expecting an exact bilingual key to Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Key realizations made during World War II, notably the fact that most small-arms engagements occurred within 100 yards ( 90 meters ), and that a high rate of fire was generally more effective than the slower but more accurate fire, ( such as provided by bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles ) were some of the key causes for the development of the assault rifle.

The owner has in effect added a vulnerability — the fact that the entry key is stored under the doormat — to the system, and one which is very easy to guess and exploit.

Just like the 49ers in the NFC title game, the Chargers advanced to the Super Bowl despite the fact that the Steelers had outgained them in many key statistical categories such as total plays ( 80 – 47 ), total offensive yards ( 415 – 226 ), and time of possession ( 37: 13 – 22: 47 ).

Nonviolence was key to Edison's moral views, and when asked to serve as a naval consultant for World War I, he specified he would work only on defensive weapons and later noted, " I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Professor Mark Rodger and Dr. David Quigley, from the University of Warwick, who helped develop a recent study with colleagues from Sheffield University, point out that in fact a key chicken protein, ovocleidin-17, which helps in the formation of the egg's hard shell, actually comes both before and after the egg shell.

The fact that it shifts ( modulates ) and ends in a different key, a feature it shares with the Italian national anthem, makes it compositionally unusual.

The idea of an ansible is known but none yet exists-Shevek's new physics may be-in fact, eventually is-the key.

* Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1979 resigned as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Although it has been argued that the Abbey was being used as a refuge from the battle by the women and children and was occupied by German troops only after the bombing, many reports from troops on the ground suggest that in fact Germans were occupying the monastery, and it was considered a key observational post by all those who were fighting in the field.

What's most impressive about that gift -- focused as it may be by the intensified concentration that his dyslexia demands -- is Boies ' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure.

Yet in fact, the key roles were played by the Central Committee, its Politburo and Secretariat, which were subject to the strict control of the authorities of the Soviet Union.

The key to TDR ’ s success is its ability to accurately determine the permittivity ( dielectric constant ) of a material from wave propagation, and the fact that there is a strong relationship between the permittivity of a material and its water content, as demonstrated in the pioneering works of Hoekstra and Delaney ( 1974 ) and Topp et al.

" Seymour Hersh goes on to refute the official account, describing it as " in fact a debacle, plagued by squabbling between the services, bad military planning and avoidable deaths of American soldiers, as well as the escape of key al-Qaeda leaders, likely including Osama bin Laden.

Accused of speculating in Marconi shares on the inside information that they were about to be awarded a key government contract ( which would have caused them to increase in value ), he told the House of Commons that he had not speculated in the shares of " that company ", which was not the whole truth as he had in fact speculated in shares of Marconi's American sister company.

In fact, as far as prediction goes, the quantum development is at least as predictable as the classical motion, but the key is that it describes wave functions that cannot be easily expressed in ordinary language.

In fact, operational errors, chiefly in key choice, made the system less secure than it could have been ; in that way the Purple code shared the fate of the German Enigma machine.

Central obesity is a key feature of the syndrome, reflecting the fact that the syndrome's prevalence is driven by the strong relationship between waist circumference and increasing adiposity.

The reason for this may have been Ahmed's religious objection to figurative art or the fact that the complex organ served as a daily reminder of the waxing influence and power of the West.

Assuming the appropriate gravity of the charge, and all other things being equal, a guilty plea to the same charge would cause the reverse effect: An opponent at trial could introduce the plea, over a hearsay objection, as evidence to establish a certain fact.

A common objection towards free-will is the fact that God knows the future, and what is already known is not considered part of free-will, thus is considered predestination.

Harsanyi argues that the objection overlooks the fact that “ people attach considerable utility to freedom from unduly burdensome moral obligations … most people will prefer a society with a more relaxed moral code, and will feel that such a society will achieve a higher level of average utility — even if adoption of such a moral code should lead to some losses in economic and cultural accomplishments ( so long as these losses remain within tolerable limits ).

The first objection often raised to the logical school's approach is that it fails to explain how the judge's announcement appears to be vindicated after the fact.

In fact, the party adopted a neutral standpoint and urged ( with only limited success ) conscientious objection to war service.

Another objection lies in the fact that the people who are most likely to recite the Pledge every day, small children in schools, cannot really give their consent or even completely understand the Pledge they are taking.

According to Kramer, he and Rose intentionally structured the film to debunk ethnic stereotypes ; the young doctor, a typical role for the young Sidney Poitier, was purposely created idealistically perfect, so that the only possible objection to his marrying Joanna would be his race, or the fact she had only known him for ten days: the character has thus graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in Africa, refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her willingness, and leaves money in an open container on his future father-in-law's desk in payment for a long distance phone call he has made.

He has, however, no objection to the private reading of the Apocrypha, as is evident from the fact that he himself makes frequent use of Sirach ( W. Bacher, Ag.

The objection that faith in a divine providence is inconsistent with the existence of evil in the world, because God can not be the author of evil and good at the same time, is refuted by the fact that evil has no existence in itself, but is only the natural result of the absence of actual good, and that, consequently, evil needs no creator.

# there was a ‘ special section ’ in the Anarchist Revolutionary Military Council constitution that dealt with disobedience and desertion " secretly and without mercy ” ( this objection was made in spite of the fact that Special Punitive Brigades of the Bolshevist Red Army had already been shooting deserters and members of their families since 1918 );

This is of course possible, and the fact that Ingenioso himself speaks in praise of Nashe, who is regarded as dead, is not an insuperable objection.

At first, the managers of restaurants tried to discourage him from this practice, but he gradually won them over, due in part to his politeness, charm, persistence and the fact that by and large, the patrons of the restaurants had no objection to this new way of selling his newspapers.

Unlike many of his conservative followers, Bryan was not a strict biblical literalist, and had no objection to " evolution before man but for the fact that a concession as to the truth of evolution up to man furnishes our opponents with an argument which they are quick to use, namely, if evolution accounts for all the species up to man, does it not raise a presumption in behalf of evolution to include man?

The objection asserts that although the outcome of an SFA is not determined, one's history up to the event is ; so the fact that an SFA will occur is also determined.

The main objection to the Museum's role in answering the letters was the prosaic fact that the number 221B bestowed on the Museum by the Council was out of sequence with other numbers in the street: an issue that has since vexed local bureaucrats, who have striven for years to keep street numbers in sequence.

the objection is just that, if the italicized words are taken as a sentence, then it is false, because something more is required for the whole statement to be true than merely the fact that " grass is green " is true.

" The fact that " alef " and "' ayin " are confounded in this interpretation does not constitute an objection ; for assonance and not etymology is the decisive factor in the biblical name-legends, and of this class are both the first and the second chapter.

Bernice showed no objection to Luann's plan, but this was due to the fact that she knew Ben would be out of town the night Luann was planning dinner.

Without regretting his earlier opinions, he now claimed that he only was rejecting the fact that the law of same-sex marriage was a way of the state to interfere with the religious communities, but: " To call this objection to gay marriage is senseless.

The British government made no particular objection to the fact of a prison ship traversing neutral waters.

If the objection to the possible deviation of the new theory is not answered it is irrelevant as often history has shown that in fact differing points of view change or modify their fields of application, for example the physics of Aristotle and Newton .»

Cordelia does not want this, at first because she believes the Groosalugg to be more demon-like, but this objection falls when Cordelia meets him and sees that he is, in fact, very handsome and nearly human.

The objection asserts that although the outcome of an SFA is not determined, one's history up to the event is ; so the fact that an SFA will occur is also determined.