" This reversal of fortune must be caused by the tragic hero's hamartia, which is often mistranslated as a character flaw, but is more correctly translated as a mistake ( since the original Greek etymology traces back to hamartanein, a sporting term that refers to an archer or spear-thrower missing his target ).

The reversal of his pro-enosis stance, and his eventual agreement to sign the conditions for the independence of Cyprus, have been attributed to moral persuasion on behalf of the Greek and British governments.

These innovations reflect the play's thematic reversal of the Hesiodic myth.

He accentuated the reversal of the classical orientation of the Capitoline, in a symbolic gesture turning Rome ’ s civic center to face away from the Roman Forum and instead in the direction of Papal Rome and the Christian church in the form of St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

This happens because a magnetic field is produced by an electric current, J, which reverses sign under T. Thus, the motion of classical charged particles in electromagnetic fields is also time reversal invariant.

) The laws of gravity also seem to be time reversal invariant in classical mechanics.

Following the classical kinematics of Newton's laws of motion, the kinematics of quantum mechanics is built in such a way that it presupposes nothing about the time reversal symmetry of the dynamics.

Narrated in sprawling Renaissance prose, the romance comprises five " books or acts ," organized according to the five-part structure of classical dramaturgy: exposition, action, complication, reversal, catastrophe.

Various Catholic countries had a tradition ( no longer widely observed ) of role reversal between children and their adult educators, including boy bishops, perhaps a Christianized version of the Roman annual feast of the Saturnalia ( when even slaves played " masters " for a day ).

Yet Salomon's work is a reversal of that tradition which was intended to be the ultimate manifestation of Germanic culture-instead it is a deeply moving and personal masterpiece, created by a ' young woman who belonged to a supposedly alien race and who was therefore held not to even have a right to exist, let alone a place in society.

Having put the difficult problem of the incarnation in a historical perspective by going back to the thought of the Church Fathers, he undertakes a critical re-reading of the phenomenological tradition that leads to a reversal of phenomenology.

These critics assert that people from the Third World see the anti-globalization movement as a threat to their jobs, wages, consuming options and livelihoods, and that a cessation or reversal of globalization would result in many people in poor countries being left in greater poverty.

Thus, many understood Eutyches to be advocating Docetism, a sort of reversal of Arianism — where Arius had denied the consubstantial divinity of Jesus, Eutyches seemed to be denying his human nature.

Despite a reversal in Buddhist influence which began under King Langdarma ( 836-842 ), the following centuries saw a colossal effort in collecting available Indian sources, many of which are now extant only in Tibetan translation.

He recalls that while packing for his lost weekend his mind was on a bottle suspended just outside his window, he ponders, over a reversal of the opening shot, how many other people in New York City are in the same position as he.

Starting in the 1990s, many of the central urban areas in North America have been experiencing a reversal of the urban decay, with rising real estate values, smarter development, demolition of obsolete social housing and a wider variety of housing choices.

At a time of increasing unrest in the streets and campuses of Paris and Berkeley, the album's lyrics seemed to many to mark a reversal of Lennon's position on the question, which was hotly debated during this period.

Indeed, because a single glancing shot could crack many tiles, the placement of the matrix is chosen so as to optimise the chance of a perpendicular hit, a reversal of the previous desired design feature for conventional armour.

Feminist authors Christina Hoff Sommers and Naomi Wolf write that women's sexual liberation has led many women to a role reversal, whereby they view men as sex objects, in a manner similar to what they criticize men's treatment of women.

Also, many battery-operated devices have a low-voltage cutoff that prevents deep discharges from occurring that might cause cell reversal.

Once upon the throne, he immediately initiated a rapid and dramatic reversal of many of his mother's traditionalist policies.

There have been many modern uses and adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood, generally with a mock-serious reversal of Red Riding Hood's naïveté or some twist of social satire ; they range across a number of different media and styles.

The community numbered about 400, 000 after World War II, but the appeal of Israel and economic and cultural pressures at home led many to leave ; recent instability in Israel has resulted in a modest reversal of the trend since 2003.

There are many distinct but interrelated dualities in which geometric or topological objects correspond to other objects of the same type, but with a reversal of the dimensions of the features of the objects.

The reversal of the organs may then lead to some confusion, as many signs and symptoms will be on the ' wrong ' side.

Brice's reversal on the critical issue of tariff reform, however, cost him the support of many in his Democratic base.

In the past, glove compartments typically had an internal light which automatically turned on when they were opened, facilitating the finding of materials therein, but during the 2000s, in a surprising reversal of the trend of optional equipment such as A / C, power windows, and automatic transmission becoming standard even in low-end models, many manufacturers started omitting the glove compartment light for cost-cutting reasons, even in luxury-level lines.

*-chrome, a suffix common to many photographic film brand names, primarily those of color reversal films

Richardson's governorship marked a sharp reversal in policies from previous administrations, rolling back many of the Progressive reforms and state governmental agencies put in place by previous governors Hiram Johnson and William Stephens.

Hartmann is also a vocal critic of the effects of neoliberal globalization on the U. S. economy, claiming that economic policies enacted during and since the presidency of Ronald Reagan have led, in large part, to many American industrial enterprises ' being acquired by multinational firms based in overseas countries, leading in many cases to manufacturing jobs ' – once considered a major foundation of the U. S. economy – being relocated to countries in Asia and other areas where the costs of labor are lower than in the U. S .; and the concurrent reversal of the United States ' traditional role of a leading exporter of finished manufactured goods to that of a primary importer of finished manufactured goods ( exemplified by massive trade deficits with countries such as China ).

This confusing reversal of the RS-232 connector gender convention would cause many hours of frustration for ill-informed end users, as they tried to troubleshoot non-functional serial port equipment connections.

The eve of the equatorial crossing is called Wog Day and, as with many other night-before rituals, is a mild type of reversal of the day to come.

The fact that the backward-pointing hip is present in so many diverse maniraptoran groups has led most scientists to conclude that the " primitive " forward-pointing hip seen in advanced troodontids and oviraptorosaurs is an evolutionary reversal, and that these groups evolved from ancestors with backward-pointing hips.

After this reversal, Sauron sought instead to build power in the eastern countries and left the Westlands in peace for many centuries.

Some commentators regard the creation of Network Rail and its taking maintenance in-house as the beginning of the reversal of rail privatisation.

The APA currently officially states that " some people believe that sexual orientation is innate and fixed ; however, sexual orientation develops across a person ’ s lifetime ", a radical reversal from the recent past, when non-normative sexuality was considered a deviancy or mental ailment treatable through institutionalization or other radical means.

In a reversal, the cartoon The Foghorn Leghorn has Foghorn wanting Henery to believe Foghorn is a chicken, where Henery believes Foghorn is merely a " loud-mouthed shnook ," supposedly a separate kind of creature.

There is evidence that with abstinence, there is a reversal of at least some of the alcohol induced central nervous system damage.

Some early symptoms that correlate with a later diagnosis of dyslexia include delays in speech, letter reversal or mirror writing, and being easily distracted by background noise.

The majority opinion constitutes binding precedent on all lower courts ; when faced with very similar facts, they are bound to apply the same reasoning or face reversal of their decision by a higher court.

The bottom grappler is, on the other hand, concerned with escaping the situation and improving his position, typically by using a sweep or reversal.

The reversal is also a fallacy ( not to be confused with the inverse gambler's fallacy ) in which a gambler may instead decide that tails are more likely out of some mystical preconception that fate has thus far allowed for consistent results of tails.

The program was a dramatic reversal of the traditional secularism of Pakistan's founding Muslim League and its leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah, but unlike neighboring Iran, Zia-ul-Haq's policies were intended to " avoid revolutionary excess ", and not to strain relations with his American and Persian Gulf state allies.

After his reversal he supported the nomination of Heinrich Lübke as the CDU presidential candidate whom he believed weak enough not to interfere with his actions as Federal Chancellor.

Both Pythons later felt that there had been a strange role reversal in the manner of the debate, with two young upstart comedians attempting to make serious, well-researched points, while the establishment figures engaged in cheap jibes and point scoring.

For the most part, fatty acids are oxidized by a mechanism that is similar to, but not identical with, a reversal of the process of fatty acid synthesis.

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

After an Autochrome plate was reversal processed to produce a positive transparency, the starch grains served to illuminate each fragment with the correct color and the tiny colored points blended together in the eye, synthesizing the color of the subject by the additive method.

This and other demonstrations led Ali bin Abdullah to invest the police with his personal authority and support, a significant reversal of his previous reliance on his retainers and beduin fighters.

With US entry to World War 2 approaching, USDA officials ( and the film's editor Helen van Dongen ) attempted to reconcile Flaherty's footage with rapidly changing official messages ( including a reversal of concern from pre-war rural unemployment to wartime labor shortages ).

By now, tactus was generally two semibreves per breve with three per breve used for special effects and climactic sections ; this was a nearly exact reversal of the prevailing technique a century before.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

In 1979, a move towards independence was agreed upon in principle for 1982, but a change in government caused a policy reversal, and they instead approached the Canadian government to discuss a possible union, but at the time the Canadian Government was embroiled in a debate over free trade with the U. S., and little attention was paid to the suggestion.

" Heidegger's largest issue with Sartre's existential humanism is that, while it does make a humanistic ' move ' in privileging existence over essence, " the reversal of a metaphysical statement remains a metaphysical statement.

For Schultes, this was a reversal of his previous interpretation that Cannabis is monotypic, with only a single species.

The expansion underwent a dramatic reversal from 2008, with GDP contracting by 14 % and unemployment levels rising to 14 % by 2010.

Its behaviour on a table, or with various modes of suspension or support, serves to illustrate the curious reversal of the ordinary laws of static equilibrium due to the gyrostatic behaviour of the interior invisible flywheel when rotated rapidly.

A second method of rear delay array combines end-fire topology with polarity reversal, using two subwoofers positioned front to back, the drivers spaced one-quarter wavelength apart, the rear enclosure inverted in polarity and delayed by a few milliseconds for maximum cancellation on stage of the target frequency.

If a new 16 mm print is made from a print with no negative it is called a " reversal ".

It continued for some time outside the US with Agfa and Svema offering reversal film.