Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions.

After interviewing a number of women who alleged that Thomas had frequently subjected them to sexually explicit remarks, Wall Street Journal reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson wrote a book which concluded that Thomas had lied during his confirmation process.

In 1922, Himmler became more interested in the ' Jewish question ', with his diary entries containing an increasing number of antisemitic remarks and recording a number of discussions about Jews with his classmates.

Some remarks on the purported or commonly perceived numerological significance of specific small numbers may be found at the articles on these numbers, as at 77 ( number ).

In the index, remarks from the first part are referenced by their number rather than page ; however, references from the second part are cited by page number.

* In the 2011 episode of How I Met Your Mother entitled " Oh Honey ", a gullible cousin played by Katy Perry remarks: " Maybe I should feel weird about giving the guy my social security number, but the guy is a Nigerian prince!

A year later, after Banza made a number of remarks highly critical of Bokassa and his management of the economy, the president, perceiving an immediate threat to his power, removed him as his minister of state.

He has in the past made a number of demeaning remarks on members of parliament from his own party.

However, the party came under persistent partisan attack of being extremist and intolerant due to a number of statements by Reform MPs which were considered to be racist, homophobic, and sexist remarks.

There are only a small number of Treeships in existence-in Hyperion, the Consul remarks that the Yggdrasill is one of only five.

He and McDowell both take the line that Frege's discussion of empty names, and of the idea of sense without reference, are inconsistent, and that his apparent endorsement of descriptivism rests only on a small number of imprecise and perhaps offhand remarks.

This scene introduces General Burgoyne, a Shavian realist, who contributes a number of sharp remarks about the conduct of the American Revolution.

Wells ' ire at Willard had its genesis in a number of remarks Willard had made to The Voice, a temperance newspaper in New York City:

" Gleizes too, the same year, remarks, Metzinger is " haunted by the desire to inscribe a total image [...] He will put down the greatest number of possible planes: to purely objective truth he wishes to add a new truth, born from what his intelligence permits him to know.

During his remarks at the pre-game retirement ceremony, Geoffrion's son Bob recounted how his parents had once gone to a boxing match at the Montreal Forum and that Geoffrion had told his wife Marlene that his own number would someday hang from the rafters beside that of her father's, Howie Morenz.

In his remarks, he noted " China, once again, has demonstrated that it is among the elite number of countries capable of human space flight.

The dependent measurements were whether or not the participant made all of the stress remarks ( measuring absolute obedience ) and the number of stress remarks ( relative obedience ).

The dependent measures for this experiment were the number of stress remarks made and a separate measure of personality designed to measure individual differences.

This backfired spectacularly as the Yvettes, led by Madeleine Ryan, held a number of political rallies in response to her remarks.

Chomsky remarks that the 2003 invasion of Iraq is particularly significant because it signals the " new norm " in international relations, and that in future the U. S. might be willing to wage a preventative war against " Iran, Syria, the Andean region, and a number of others.

Athenaeus's book The Deipnosophists records a number of remarks attributed to Thaïs.

He later withdrew the remarks after condemnation from rights groups.

According to sociologist Harry Lefever and journalist John Leland, the game is almost exclusive to African Americans ; other ethnic groups often fail to understand how to play the game and can take remarks in the Dozens seriously.

" Despite those remarks, there are still some groups in existence today, although the numbers are dwindling.

To this day some Jewish groups, such as the Jewish Defense League, consider Redgrave an opponent and a supporter of terrorism, citing remarks she has made such as, " Zionism is a brutal, racist ideology.

* Dec 16, 2002 CBC News: Aboriginal groups try to distance themselves from anti-Semitic remarks

Many ex-Tories returned to the fold from the NF or its myriad splinter groups, in particular after her " swamping " remarks on the ITV documentary series World In Action on 30 January 1978:

Moran apologized for the remarks, saying that " I should not have singled out the Jewish community and regret giving any impression that its members are somehow responsible for the course of action being pursued by the administration, or are somehow behind an impending war ... What I was trying to say is that if more organizations in this country, including religious groups, were more outspoken against war, then I do not think we would be pursuing war as an option.

IRD remarks, " We should be clear that there is no necessary sin in a Christian organization — the NCC, the IRD, or the Salvation Army — accepting contributions from or forming alliances with persons or groups who may not themselves be Christians.

Maginnis's remarks were also condemned by Gay Rights groups.

MSTing began in the early 1990s, as fans of the show, many of whom were involved in Usenet discussions in groups such as popular MST3K newsgroup rec. arts. tv. mst3k. misc, began adding amusing or critical remarks to others ' posts, attributing them to the show's characters ( typically, Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, Joel Robinson, and later Mike Nelson ).

Parker was opposed by labor groups because of an opinion he had written regarding the United Mine Workers and yellow-dog contracts and by the nascent NAACP because of remarks he had made while a candidate for Governor in 1920 about the participation of African-Americans in the political process.

" This caused an immediate media fracas and the remarks were widely condemned as sexist and out-of-touch by women's groups, sports groups and others.

One reason for the party-dues boycott is contained in remarks made by Rep. Lynn Woolsey ( D-Calif .) encouraging leaders of anti-war groups to field primary challenges to any Democrat who does not vote to end the war in Iraq.

* Biswas, Biswamoy ( 1950 ): On the Shrike Lanius tephronotus ( Vigors ), with remarks on the erythronotus and tricolor groups of Lanius schach Linne, and their hybrids.

" violated the terms of our agreement in ways that substantially and negatively impacted September 24 ’ s message and impact ," remarks that " co-sponsorship with ANSWER on September 24 was welcomed by some in the antiwar movement but limited or prevented completely the participation of others ," and explains, " We did not have consensus " about the decision not to work with A. N. S. W. E. R., but had " a more than two thirds supermajority … We make no recommendations or mandates on this issue to UFPJ member groups in local or constituency-based area …"

" The next day the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee accused Cafferty of " hateful rhetoric " and stated that he had " a history of insensitive remarks towards many minority groups ".

Regardless, real problems prevalent within particular ethnic groups may actually have meaningful discussion prompted by off-the-cuff offensive remarks.

In Kantan Chamorrita, individuals and groups trade witty remarks at each other as part of a debate.

On February 10, 2005, the Quebec Regional Panel of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, answering a listener's complaint, determined that Mailloux had made " specifically-focused abusive and unduly discriminatory remarks " toward ethnic groups when talking about immigration in a broadcast.

In light of Michael Savage's controversial remarks concerning Islam, a group of 70 representatives from various religious groups such Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and Islam gathered in a May 2008 interfaith meeting against alleged bigotry and urged KCMO to drop Savage's program.