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This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.
The previous year the British had signed an agreement with the Russians in which the latter agreed to respect the northern boundaries of Afghanistan and to view the territories of the Afghan amir as outside their sphere of influence.
In the latter account, Hephaestus is there represented as older than Athena, so the mythology of Hephaestus is inconsistent in this respect.
He now began to be more regular in the former respect, and in the latter adopted a decided line by making his peace between the Empire and Rome.
This latter provides a specific chapter titled " International Cooperation ", which instructs Mexican authorities to cooperate with foreign authorities with respect to organized crime assets within Mexico, and provides the framework by which Mexican authorities may politely request the cooperation of foreign authorities with respect to assets located outside of Mexico, in terms of any international instruments they may be party to.
* scaling in a given direction, with respect to a line in another direction ( not necessarily perpendicular ), combined with translation that is not purely in the direction of scaling ; taking " scaling " in a generalized sense it includes the cases that the scale factor is zero ( projection ) and negative ; the latter includes reflection, and combined with translation it includes glide reflection,
In the former respect, the charm of graceful melody prevails ; while, in the latter, the music of the most grotesque situations is redolent of fun.
Many of its members were members of the UN, too, and they stood together within the latter organisation to safeguard African interests – especially in respect of lingering colonialism.
An example of the latter is taking the reciprocal of the conjugate, which corresponds to circle inversion with respect to the unit circle.
The Boraginaceae are paraphyletic with respect to Hydrophyllaceae and the latter is included in the former in APG II system.
However, in the latter respect, Popkin was incorrect: the bullet that caused the Baron's death came from the side ( see above ).
For a system consisting of a celestial body and a satellite, the gravitational binding energy will have a larger absolute value than the potential energy of the satellite with respect to the celestial body, because for the latter quantity, only the separation of the two components is taken into account, keeping each intact.
This is extended in the latter part of the song to those who make half-hearted attempts at social change, and who protest the " big " problems but are not willing to make changes in their own lives to respect what they claim is right for all of society.
The former deserves respect and help ; the latter chooses to forfeit both.
At Oxford and Cambridge a distinction came to be drawn between the Faculties of Law, Medicine, and Theology and the Faculty of Arts in this respect, the title of Doctor being used for the former, and that of Master for the latter.
He explained the use of his signature, his picture, and the picture's caption, as having been applied by the magazine's editor, Mihail Polihroniade, to a piece the latter had written after having failed to obtain Eliade's contribution ; he also claimed that, given his respect for Polihroniade, he had not wished to publicize this matter previously.
He has an immense knowledge of marine biology, and it is his respect for Professor Aronnax's expertise in the field which led to his befriending the professor when the latter was cast upon the Nautilus.
The former concerns the right to be left alone in respect of the most intimate details of one's personal life and is a more accepted doctrine than the latter which concerns freedom from undue regulation and control.
In this respect he is the forerunner of Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, etc., and is the first to formulate that idea of “ education according to nature ” so influential during the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century.
Newton says that this thought experiment demonstrates that the centrifugal forces arise only when the water is in rotation with respect to the absolute space ( represented here by the earth's reference frame, or better, the distant stars ); instead, when the bucket was rotating with respect to the water no centrifugal forces were produced, this indicating that the latter was still with respect to the absolute space.
In June of the latter year he formed a cabinet when the country was violently excited over the Dreyfus affair ; his firmness and honesty increased popular respect for him, but a chance vote on a matter of especial excitement overthrew his ministry in October.

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The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.
These cells were used rather than square Pyrex tubing because of the tendency of the latter to shatter when thawing frozen carbon tetrachloride.
After blotting out most of the liquid around the sections, the latter were mounted in buffered glycerine ( 7 parts glycerine to 3 parts of PBS ).
Among this latter group there were also differences in the amount and kind of information necessary before a shift in reaction occurred.
When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.
Shares of capital stock at $15 each in the latter company were payable at the Bank of Manchester or at various other Vermont banks.
The latter two were appointed secretaries.
If only the latter were true.
Under the circumstances, the only protection for the relatively small manufacturers is to engage in exactly the kind of conspiracy with the giants for which the latter were convicted.
Many of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning of the vast Ch'in palace some ten years later ; ;
In the Planalto ( the high plains ), the most important states were those of Bié and Bailundo, the latter being noted for its production of foodstuffs and rubber.
Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.
" None of these attempts were acceptable to the defenders of Nicene orthodoxy: writing about the latter councils, Saint Jerome remarked that the world " awoke with a groan to find itself Arian.
These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.
The Lombards played on the pre-existing hostility between the Avars and the Byzantines, claiming that the latter were allied with the Gepids.
The latter was claimed by Charles of Anjou, but in 1283 Parlement decided that the County of Toulouse should revert to the crown, if there were no male heirs.
For example, armoured personnel carriers were generally replaced by infantry fighting vehicles in a very similar role, but the latter has some capabilities lacking in the former.
The latter two were very heavy vehicles and were built only in small quantities.
Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.
After the accession of the latter to the imperial purple he invited Aedesius to continue his instructions, but the declining strength of the sage being unequal to the task, two of his most learned disciples, Chrysanthius and the aforementioned Eusebius, were by his own desire appointed to supply his place.
During the latter half of the 19th century, considerable public improvements were made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring collieries, a pleasant place to live.

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