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Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.
In fact, the antipathy to outward ceremonies hailed by modern exponents as so uniquely characteristic of the `` direct thinking '' Zennist was a feature of Taoism.
Kant is not generally considered to be a modern anthropologist, however, as he never left his region of Germany nor did he study any cultures besides his own, and in fact, describes the need for anthropology as a corollary field to his own primary field of philosophy.
The fact that haplogroups N9b and M7a were observed in Hokkaido Jomons bore out the hypothesis that these haplogroups are the ( pre -) Jomon contribution to the modern Japanese mtDNA pool.
In fact, modern historians use AUC much more frequently than the Romans themselves did.
In byte-oriented systems ( i. e. most modern computers ), the term uncompressed BCD usually implies a full byte for each digit ( often including a sign ), whereas packed BCD typically encodes two decimal digits within a single byte by taking advantage of the fact that four bits are enough to represent the range 0 to 9.
In fact, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ), which uses antibodies, is currently one of the most sensitive tests modern medicine uses to detect various biomolecules.
In fact, they've fallen short of it but -- difficult as it is for me to understand -- a modern sophist might say that these last years have actually demanded a reduction in conscience and feeling in the name of greater intelligibility.
Sets are of great importance in mathematics ; in fact, in modern formal treatments, most mathematical objects ( numbers, relations, functions, etc.
The degree to which these external factors should influence adjudication is the subject of active debate, but that judges do draw of learning from other fields and jurisdictions is a fact of modern legal life.
Based on a study of the British rock succession, it was the first of the modern ' system ' names to be employed, and reflects the fact that many coal beds were formed globally during this time.
However, none of these parameters differ significantly from early writings of Howard and Balfour, suggesting that in fact modern composting has not made significant advances over the traditional methods that take a few months to work.
One of Claudius's investigators discovered that many old Roman citizens based in the modern city of Trento were not in fact citizens.
More generally, unspecific coercion may be the form taken by disciplinary coercion, and this appears to be in fact the case within the most effective command systems of the modern world.
The Maya are generally given credit for creating the first modern chocolate beverage over 2, 000 years ago, despite the fact that the beverage would undergo many more changes in Europe.
Unlike the modern historian, most chroniclers tended to take their information as they found it, and made little attempt to separate fact from legend.
In 18th and 19th century Germany, several thousand local languages of the continental west Germanic dialect continuum were reclassified as dialects of modern New High German although the vast majority of them were ( and still are ) mutually incomprehensible, despite the fact that they all existed long before New High German, which had at least in part been shaped as a compromise or mediative language between these local languages.
In one opinion, this pattern is clearly present among the modern Romance tongues, with Italian and Spanish having a high degree of mutual comprehensibility, which neither language shares with French, despite some claiming that both languages are genetically closer to French than to each other: In fact, French-Italian and French-Spanish relative mutual incomprehensibility is due to French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change than have Spanish and Italian, not to real or imagined distance in genetic relationship.
Several modern authors such as Dorey have argued the opposite: that Agricola was in fact a close friend of Domitian, and that Tacitus merely sought to distance his family from the fallen dynasty once Nerva was in power.
The idea of a relation between the language of the Aegean Linear scripts was taken into consideration as the main hypothesis by Michael Ventris before discovering that in fact the language behind the more modern Linear B script was Mycenean, a Greek dialect.
However, this view neglects the fact that i ) both modern cyanobacteria and alpha-proteobacteria are Gram negative bacteria, which are surrounded by double membranes ; ii ) the outer membranes of the endosymbiotic organelles ( chloroplasts and mitochondria ) are very similar to those of these bacteria in their lipid and protein compositions.
Hence England and, by extension its modern successor state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is in fact an Empire ruled by a King endowed with the imperial dignity.
The nature of interaction between early humans and these sister species has been a long standing source of controversy, the question being whether humans replaced these earlier species or whether they were in fact similar enough to interbreed, in which case these earlier populations may have contributed genetic material to modern humans.
The Revolution is, in fact, often seen as marking the " dawn of the modern era ".

fact and scholarly
In the years since, however, scholarly consensus has shifted to consider that ethnic groups may in fact be counted as rational actors, and the puzzle of their apparently irrational actions ( for example, fighting over territory of little or no intrinsic worth ) must therefore be explained some other way.
Yet in Arturo Uslar-Pietri's vague, ample usage, magical realism was wildly successful in summarizing for many readers their perception of much Latin American fiction ; this fact suggests that the term has its uses, so long as it is not expected to function with the precision expected of technical, scholarly terminology.
The narrator begins the novel telling of his connection to the Dresden bombing, why he is recording it, a self-description ( of self and book ), and of the fact that he believes it is a desperate attempt at scholarly work.
* " The Madness Hypothesis ," a special issue of The New Philosophy ( 1998 ; 101: whole number ), a journal produced by the Swedenborg Scientific Association, reviews the question of Swedenborg's sanity in scholarly detail, making the case that he was in fact quite sane.
In fact, Rebbe Nachman claimed that while even a complete simpleton can become a pure and righteous Jew, the ideal study schedule of an extremely scholarly Hasid should include the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) with its commentaries, the entire Talmud with its commentaries, the entire Shulchan Arukh, all the Midrashic works, the Zohar and Tikkunei Zohar, the teachings of the Arizal and other kabbalistic works, all over the course of a single year.
Nicholas is described not by his valor in battle or honor in the court but instead it is mentioned at great lengths the many skills he has, including the fact that he is studying one of the many scholarly arts which were popular at that time.
In the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera The Pirates of Penzance, Major-General Stanley, in his introductory song, includes the fact that he " knows the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes " in a list of all his scholarly achievements.
As to his influence, there are considerable differences of scholarly opinion concerning how far Paul did in fact influence Christian doctrine.
Despite the recognition he received for his scholarly work, Sweet never received a university professorship, a fact that disturbed him greatly ; he had done poorly as a student at Oxford, he had annoyed many people through bluntness, and he failed to make every effort to gather official support.
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines.
See also Brisbane's Early Years Of Alexander Smith ( 1869 ) ( but be aware that Brisbane's is not a scholarly work and contains errors of fact ).
* The fact that there is a scholarly society, formed in 2004, the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship, with a mission to promote serious reflection on the Christian faith following Torrance ’ s own approach to theology, is certainly testimony to the growing importance of his work and extraordinary contributions to the Christian Church and its theology.
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines.
“ The biography should be a fresh and scholarly treatment of the subject based upon reliable sources ( where possible first-hand ) precise and accurate in statements of fact, concise, but presented in attractive literary form .... the aim is to secure independent and original treatments and not mere compilations of preceding accounts .”
" ( The Never Ending Struggle by Christopher Sullivan, Southern Partisan 1999 4th Quarter ) As a prime example, Sullivan pointed to excerpted quotations that critics purported to speak favorably about slavery but were in fact a synopsis of statistical data from Time on the Cross, a scholarly study on slavery authored by socialist cliometrists Stanley Engerman and Nobel prize recipient Robert Fogel.
However, Augustine was the first author to give a detailed scholarly textual analysis of the three texts ' interdependence, and to articulate a theory for the express purpose of explaining this fact.
In fact, his investigations should be done again, taking into account all the scholarly work that Luxenberg doesn't seem to know.

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