Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.

A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.

One seldom hears the analogy `` nuclear propulsion will do for the aircraft what it has already done for the submarine ''.

It is not a farfetched analogy to say that this is what Thomas did to poetry.

To find out what the precise law is that applies to a particular set of facts, one has to locate precedential decisions on the topic, and reason from those decisions by analogy.

One component of this theory is what is called the " analogy of the crossword puzzle.

Marx, on the other hand, uses a measurement analogy, arguing that for commodities to be comparable they must have a common element or substance by which to measure them, and that labor is a common substance of what Marx eventually calls commodity-values.

They provide an analogy to help one understand what a priority queue is.

* The formal cause tells us what, by analogy to the plans of an artisan, a thing is intended and planned to be.

Perhaps the best analogy is that Britannia is to the United Kingdom and the British Empire what Marianne is to France or perhaps what Columbia is to the United States.

The same notion of analogy was used in the US-based SAT tests, that included " analogy questions " in the form " A is to B as C is to what?

Partly by analogy to what is known about our Moon, Earth is considered to have differentiated from an aggregate of planetesimals into its core, mantle and crust within about 100 million years of the formation of the planet, 4. 6 billion years ago.

A version also exists in India and Hungary where an analogy to what can fly and what cannot is emphasized instead of Simon saying or not, i. e. " Chidiya ud " ( Hindi ) which translates to Bird fly.

Supporters of product based planning suggest that this overcomes difficulties that arise from assumptions about what to do and how to do it by focusing instead on the goals and objectives of the project-an oft-quoted analogy is that PBS defines where you want to go, the WBS tells you how to get there.

Some social movement scholars posit that with the rapid pace of globalization, the potential for the emergence of new type of social movement is latent — they make the analogy to national movements of the past to describe what has been termed a global citizens movement.

In the Mālikī madhhab, sunnah includes not only what was recorded in hadiths, but the legal rulings of the four rightly guided caliphs ( Rāshidūn ), primarily ‘ Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, ijmā ‘ ( consensus of the scholars ), qiyās ( analogy ) and ‘ urf ( local custom which is not in direct conflict with established Islamic principles ).

The nearest analogy would be the Fabergé eggs, but these things are like the toys that are scattered around the nursery inside a U. F. O., celestial toys, and the toys themselves appear to be somehow alive and can sing other objects into existence, so what's happening is this proliferation of elf gifts, which are moving around singing, and they are saying " Do what we are doing " and they are very insistent, and they say " Do it!

Archaeologists use theoretical guidelines derived from anthropology, ethnology, analogy, and ethnohistory to the concept of what defines a state-level society.

The terminology is based on what happens in the region around the value 0, and uses the analogy of viewing the input-output function of the quantizer as a stairway.

Socrates ' analogy, that ignorance is to the philosopher what disease is to the physician, is important and persistent in the dialogues.

Again, with the iceberg analogy, the substance of Garak is what you don't hear.

This transuranic element of the actinide series is located in the periodic table below the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after another continent, America.

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

The term was coined by Fanya Montalvo by analogy with NP-complete and NP-hard in complexity theory, which formally describes the most famous class of difficult problems.

The chromatographic separation behavior was then unknown for the element 97, but was anticipated by analogy with terbium ( see elution curves ).

The analogy was completed when Hawking, in 1974, showed that quantum field theory predicts that black holes should radiate like a black body with a temperature proportional to the surface gravity of the black hole.

" Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

This relationship was extended by analogy to a series of five relationships ():

However, when the research team synthesized element 98, they could not think of a good analogy for dysprosium, and instead named the element californium in honor of the state in which it was synthesized.

The analogy he made was to contrast the compositional approaches of Mozart and Beethoven.

" This phenomenon, known as kindling ( by analogy with the use of burning twigs to start a larger fire ) was discovered by Dr. Graham Goddard in 1967.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

They proposed – among others – that in a fully competitive economic environment ( as they thought was the case of ecosystems ) the most potent individuals would thrive and in turn society would prosper ( in analogy to the observed biodiversity and abundance of life on earth ).

Gnutella ( with a silent g, but often ) ( possibly by analogy with the GNU Project ) is a large peer-to-peer network which, at the time of its creation, was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model.

The horizontal distance was cut in 1872 by a British engineer, Waynman Dixon, who believed on the analogy of the King's Chamber that such shafts must exist.

In particular, the term " graph " was introduced by Sylvester in a paper published in 1878 in Nature, where he draws an analogy between " quantic invariants " and " co-variants " of algebra and molecular diagrams:

By analogy with the ancient Greek term for agriculture, geoponics, the science of cultivating the earth, Gericke coined the term hydroponics in 1937 ( although he asserts that the term was suggested by W. A. Setchell, of the University of California ) for the culture of plants in water ( from the Greek hydro -, " water ", and ponos, " labour ").

Hawking's result was called the second law of black hole thermodynamics, by analogy with the law of entropy increase, but at first, he did not take the analogy too seriously.

" and used the analogy of the scaffolding called centering used to build an arch then removed afterwards: " Surely there was ' scaffolding '.

The term was introduced by Darwin in his groundbreaking 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described by analogy to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.

Their argument was based upon an analogy to contemporary work by Paul J. Crutzen and Harold Johnston, which had