Despite the fact that much of their work is discounted by the traditional French audience, Arab rappers use their work to explore issues surrounding this sense of exclusion and tensions in the community.

Modern historians have discounted this, as the list also includes benefactors, not just students ; other evidence points to the fact that Walter had a poor grasp of Latin, and did not consider himself to be a learned man.

This theory is discounted, however, as traditional satay often consists of four pieces of meat and the fact that four is considered to be an inauspicious number in Chinese culture.

Despite conflicting accounts, it is possible that Ryan may have in fact eventually ended up with McNab's LAW rocket, an item that Ryan later claimed to have used against an Iraqi ' Land-Rover type ' vehicle, though this event is discounted by Ratcliffe who states that, at the Regimental debrief, " made no mention at all of encountering enemy troops on his trek.

Therefore, lessees can often benefit from comprehensive maintenance programs offered by lessors while still paying a discounted premium due to the fact that the asset is being leased, not purchased.

In fact, this similarity was recognized as early as 1884 by Elliott Coues, but his reasoning was initially discounted and subsequently ignored until the late 20th century.

Although the director accepts the often " uncanny " similarities between the films, Alien distributors 20th Century Fox discounted the threat of derivation after watching final cut of Inseminoid: " They agreed it was not an Alien rip-off, and in fact, the head of Fox sent us a very nice letter saying how much he enjoyed the film and wished us luck with the release ...

While they seem to have similarity to the Aetherius Society or to Raëlism, as they emphasize " space brothers " who will come from the stars in 33 spaceships to improve humanity, these beliefs are not held by all Unariuns and in fact, are discounted by many as contradictory to true Unariun principles.

The novel aims to make the valid point that these Serbo-Croatian complementary traditions were also transmitted in Albanian ( a fact that most scholars continued to ignore ).

It also is possible that Bede had the date of Æthelberht ’ s death wrong ; if, in fact, Æthelberht died in 618, this would be consistent with his baptism in 597, which is in accord with the tradition that Augustine converted the king within a year of his arrival.

In the fifth century, Pope Dioscorus, the Patriarch of Alexandria, rejected certain Christological dogmas promulgated by the Council of Chalcedon, and as a result, the Oriental Orthodox churches split from the rest ; however they continued the episcopal tradition, and today in fact there is dialog between the various orthodox churches over whether the schism was due to real differences or simply translation failures.

The specific feature in Japan has been the fact that these marriages have been soon incorporated as elements of tradition which controlled the marriages of later generations, though the original practical alliance had lost its real meaning.

" Although tradition ascribes the biblical writings to times and authors contemporaneous with events, they were in fact pseudonymous, written in many cases after the times they describe and by authors with a religious and nationalist agenda, and it is therefore important to treat them with circumspection.

The tradition that the Island was called Caesarea by the Romans appears to have no basis in fact.

Scholars defending Luke's authorship say there is no reason for early Christians to attribute these works to such a minor figure if he did not in fact write them, nor is there any tradition attributing this work to any other author.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

The shrine of Dodona was the oldest Hellenic oracle, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus and in fact, dates to pre-Hellenic times, perhaps as early as the second millennium BC when the tradition probably spread from Egypt.

This condemnation was subsequently confirmed by Leo II ( a fact disputed by such persons as Cesare Baronio and Bellarmine, but which has since become commonly accepted ) in the form, " and also Honorius, who did not attempt to sanctify this Apostolic Church with the teaching of Apostolic tradition, but by profane treachery permitted its purity to be polluted ".

This newly established Danish interest in British cask beer and the British pub tradition is reflected by the fact that some 56 British cask beers were available at the 2008 European Beer Festival in Copenhagen, which was attended by more than 20, 000 people.

Louisiana, a state that derives its legal tradition from the Spanish and French ( as opposed to English common law ), employs a system of fact pleading wherein it is only necessary to plead the facts that give rise to a cause of action.

The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.

In fact, the fame of Arthur's entourage became so prominent in Welsh tradition that in the later additions to the Welsh Triads, the formula " Arthur's Court " in the titles of the triads began to supersede the older " Island of Britain " formula.

In fact it has distorted that tradition beyond recognition.

However, Scotland has a tradition of popular sovereignty as opposed to parliamentary sovereignty and the fact that the Scottish parliament was established following a referendum would make it politically difficult to significantly alter its powers without popular consent.

Because there are no accounts of the custom in Great Britain prior to the 17th century, some historians and folklorists have theorised that it was not an ancient British custom but was in fact imported into Britain from continental Europe in the early modern period, possibly from Flanders in Belgium, where the tradition thrived in this period.

Although it has been often interpreted by historians as the struggle between two rival French right-wing families ( the Bonapartists, represented by Chirac, and the Orleanists, represented by VGE ), both figures in fact were members of the Liberal, Orleanist tradition, according to historian Alain-Gérard Slama.

As such the term does not describe any single communion or common religious tradition and in fact some " Eastern " churches have more in common historically and theologically with " Western " Christianity than with one another.

Louis had him crowned at Reims in 1179, in the Capetian tradition ( Philip would in fact be the last King so crowned ).

The Philistines, while an integral part of the Canaanite milieu, do not seem to have been ethnically homogenous with the Canaanites ; the Hurrians ( who spoke a language isolate ), Hittites ( Indo-European speakers ), as well as the Semitic Aramaeans, Moabites, and Ammonites, are also considered " distinct " from generic Canaanites / Amorites, in scholarship or in tradition ( although in the Biblical Book of Nations, " Heth ", Hittites are a son of Canaan, despite the fact that it has been proven beyond doubt that the Hittites spoke an Indo-European language ).

" His career coincided with the ascendency of dramatic styles of poetry, as embodied in the works of Aeschylus or Sophocles, and he is in fact one of the last poets of major significance within the more ancient tradition of purely lyric poetry.

They argue that the author adds imaginative details such as the thirty pieces of silver, and the fact that Judas hangs himself, to an earlier tradition about Judas ' death .< ref >

In fact, the figures and arrangement of modern Scottish country dances, while derived from a 300-year tradition, make it difficult to generalize because many newer dances feature new ideas such as partner changes ( you dance with a new partner on each new time through the dance, as in " Nighean Donn " ( by Peter Hastings ) or " Caddam Wood " ( by John Mitchell )), palindromic structure ( the sequence of figures is similar seen from the end to the beginning as it is seen from the beginning to the end, as in " The White Heather Jig " by Cosh ), fugues ( the sequence of figures for each couple is intricately intertwined to resemble the structure of a musical fugue ), canons ( a new couple begins their time through even though the couple before have not finished theirs yet ) and others, such as John Drewry's " Crossing the Line ", where the bottom of the set becomes the top for the next time through.

The name of Barcelona's hill thus refers to the popular tradition that it was in fact the exceedingly high mountain itself.

In fact, the entire letter gives the impression that the lost battle was nothing more than an " unfortunate affair ".

After being exposed to the truth, most of the people of Omelas are initially shocked and disgusted, but are ultimately able to come to terms with the fact and resolve to live their lives in such a manner as to make the suffering of the unfortunate child worth it.

" Tillemont, possibly influenced by the fact that no honour is paid to the memory of Nicolas by any branch of the Church, allows more weight to the testimony against him ; rejects peremptorily Cassian's statement — to which Neander gives his adhesion — that some other Nicolas was the founder of the sect ; and concludes that if not the actual founder, he was so unfortunate as to give occasion to the formation of the sect, by his indiscreet speaking.

The term " Knocking away the props " was used, perhaps as an unfortunate consequence of the fact that all of Germany's allies lay south of ( i. e. ' beneath ') her on the map.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who described the period of looting in general as " untidiness ", said of the museum's looting, " To try to pass off the fact of that unfortunate activity to a deficit in the war plan strikes me as a stretch.

While the numerous patent and trademark disputes have left an unfortunate legacy, the fact is that these disputes did not occur until well after Windsurfing International, its licensees, class associations, retailers, schools and owners had built the sport to a successful commercial basis.

Duyvendak hypothesized that it was the ignorance of the fact that " China " is the mighty " Cathay " of Marco Polo that allowed the Dutch governor of East Indies Jan Pieterszoon Coen to embark on an " unfortunate " ( for the Dutch ) policy of treating the Ming Empire as " merely another ' oriental ' kingdom ".

For in fact he could not have chosen a more unfortunate example.

This was an unfortunate fact that he turned to humour in his stage act.

It turns out that the sword is actually one of three magical artifacts that Orphen will need if he is to save Azalie, and, in fact, was the very sword Azalie used in her experiment that ended with her unfortunate transformation.

That fact has an unfortunate bearing on the following.

: The term " ingrown toenail " is unfortunate in that it incriminates the nail as the causative factor and is responsible for the fact that most operative and conservative treatments are directed toward the nail.

... We have in fact by this unfortunate series of incidents forfeited the confidence of the remaining small neutral States in Europe.

In fact the only casualty he noted, but never reported, by Montanelli was a single death in the Alpini regiment caused by a mule kick that threw the unfortunate trooper down into a dry river bed.

In fact, during the Seinfeld DVDs special features, Knight recounts an occasion when he was having a particularly bad day, where after a series of unfortunate events, a fan happened to yell " Hello, Newman.

The unfortunate inhabitants implored with piteous entreaties the mercy of the conqueror, and it is with genuine satisfaction we record the fact that Kin Shun informed them of their safety, and bade them have no further alarm.

In fact, this building is one horrible charnel house, the unfortunate paupers being nearly all the victims of a fearful fever, the dying and the dead, we might say, huddled together.

: While I am, as always, pleased to travel in Justice Breyer's company, the unfortunate fact is that today's judgment has nothing to do with jury sentencing.