Although one meets with occasional extremists like Zachrisson or, very recently, Arthur Wade-Evans the majority of scholars have taken a middle position between the extremes of scepticism and gullibility.

Furthermore, the middle number of the Lo Shu is not only the physical mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of its central position ; ;

In this scheme, Russia occupied a middle position.

He occupies a middle position between the Tannaim and the Amoraim, and is accorded the right, rarely conceded to one who is only an ' amora, of disputing the opinion of a tanna ( Bava Batra 42a and elsewhere ).

After March it began to pass northwards, a motion quite apparent by the middle of April ; in June it passed at the same distance from the zenith as it did in December ; and in September it passed through its most northerly position, the extreme range from north to south, i. e. the angle between the March and September positions, being 40 ″.

The policies of the SDP emphasised a middle position between perceived extremes of Thatcherism and the Labour Party.

The terminal phalanx, with the claw attached, folds back in the fore-foot into a sheath by the outer side of the middle phalanx of the digit, and is retained in this position when at rest by a strong elastic ligament.

Conservative Judaism occupied an enviable middle position during a period where American society prized consensus.

Solomon describes the characters of Dilbert, none of whom occupies a position higher than middle management, as dysfunctional time-wasters whose inefficiencies detract from corporate values like ' productivity ' and ' growth ', a very favorable outlook for managers.

If five judges then the highest and lowest scores are discarded and the middle three are summed and multiplied by the degree of difficulty ( DD ), which is determined from a combination of the moves undertaken, in which position and from what height ).

The position of decurion, member of the city council, had been an honor sought by wealthy aristocrats and the middle classes who displayed their wealth by paying for city amenities and public works.

Aristotle was considered to give a more important position to sense perception than Plato, and commentators in the middle ages summarized one of his positions as " nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu " ( Latin for " nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses ").

While Kate is friendly with Emma, who has a more senior position, Kate has fewer ethical qualms about stories than Emma, and tends to be in the middle of conflicts between Emma and the executive producer.

There was little or no violence, but the new Catholic Center Party won a fourth of the seats in the Reichstag ( Imperial Parliament ), and its middle position on most issues allowed it to play a decisive role in the formation of majorities.

A possible middle ground position has been suggested, based on the observation that " hacking " describes a collection of skills which are used by hackers of both descriptions for differing reasons.

Depending on finger position on the string, different tones can be produced: a full sound in the middle of the string, and a nasal, guitar-like sound at the very bottom of the string.

In the middle of the 11th century, with the division of Al Andalus into taifas and the strengthening of the Christian holdings in the Iberian peninsula, Fernando I of León found himself in a position to extract tribute from the fractured Arab states.

He proposed moving the capital to a more defensible position in the middle of Upper Canada's southwestern peninsula between Lake Erie and Lake Huron.

She finished in the middle of the pack, tied for sixth – tenth position with Karpov, Topalov and Jeroen Piket and an even score of 6½ points in thirteen games.

" Hence although men had become less forebearing, and although natural pity had already undergone some alteration, this period of the development of human faculties, maintaining a middle position between the indolence of our primitive state and the petulant activity of our egocentrism, must have been the happiest and most durable epoch.

The country's climate is influenced chiefly by the mountains, Kyrgyzstan's position near the middle of the Eurasian landmass, and the absence of any body of water large enough to influence weather patterns.

The eyeteeth ( third from the middle on top, counting each front tooth as the first ) beginning to protrude like fangs.

The arctic fox's seasonal furs, summer ( top ), " blue " ( middle ) and winter ( bottom )

F-16 carrying an AIM-120 AMRAAM ( top ), AIM-9 Sidewinder ( middle ) and AGM-88 HARM

Historically, women's bicycle frames had a top tube that connected in the middle of the seat tube instead of the top, resulting in a lower standover height at the expense of compromised structural integrity, since this places a strong bending load in the seat tube, and bicycle frame members are typically weak in bending.

In the hind-foot, the terminal joint or phalanx is retracted on to the top, and not the side of the middle phalanx.

This means that the Doric order was the order of the ground floor, the Ionic order was used for the middle story, while the Corinthian or the Composite order was used for the top story.

However, the HP EliteBook line became the top of the business notebook lineup while the HP Compaq B series became its middle business line.

The light from a source located at the top edge of the slit interferes destructively with a source located at the middle of the slit, when the path difference between them is equal to λ / 2.

Similarly, the source just below the top of the slit will interfere destructively with the source located just below the middle of the slit at the same angle.

* Rails-Horizontal boards at the top, bottom, and optionally in the middle of a door that join the two stiles and split the door into two or more rows of panels.

The horizontal cross pieces are the top rail, bottom rail, and middle or intermediate rails.

Those of the Pantheon are similar in design, with narrow horizontal panels in addition, at the top, bottom and middle.

Similar to the flat top guitar in appearance, but with a body that may be made of brass, nickel-silver, or steel as well as wood, the sound of the resonator guitar is produced by one or more aluminum resonator cones mounted in the middle of the top.

* Pastitsio: an oven-baked layer dish: Bechamel sauce top, then pasta in the middle and ground meat cooked with tomato sauce at the bottom.

Denazification removed, imprisoned, or executed most top officials of the old regime, but most middle and lower ranks of civilian officialdom were not seriously affected.

All citizens of Haiti, regardless of skin color, to be known as " Black " ( this was an attempt to eliminate the multi-tiered racial hierarchy that had developed in Haiti, with full or near full-blooded Europeans at the top, various levels of light to brown skin in the middle, and dark skinned " Kongo " from Africa at the bottom ).

In this variation of the hi-hat, the top cymbal moves down and the bottom cymbal moves up simultaneously while the middle cymbal remains stationary.

Constructed from large blocks of light-coloured stone, the tower was made up of three stages: a lower square section with a central core, a middle octagonal section, and, at the top, a circular section.

The Padres played host to the Atlanta Braves on April 20, 1978, and with two out in the top of the fourth inning, Atlanta's Jeff Burroughs hit a ground ball up the middle.

The traditional model of grading on a curve ( top student gets the best grade, worst student always fails ( even if they know all the material ), everyone else is evenly distributed in the middle ) is never accepted in OBE or standards-based education.

First one pulls out a portion of the middle of the stack and places it back on top of the deck ; one then performs a regular cut described earlier.