Insofar as any basis for the elevator's propulsion can be discerned-the book is, after all, a work of children's fantasy-it appears to fly by some combination of rockets and an unstated magical principle.

Insofar as treaties are concerned, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties writes on the topic of interpretation that:

In the Phenomenology of Perception Merleau-Ponty wrote: “ Insofar as I have hands, feet ; a body, I sustain around me intentions which are not dependent on my decisions and which affect my surroundings in a way that I do not choose ” ( 1962, p. 440 ).

Insofar as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would not otherwise be possible on an individual basis ; both individual and social ( common ) benefits can thus be distinguished, or in many cases found to overlap.

Insofar as an attack on property is a crime, reasonable force may be used to prevent the crime or to arrest the offender, whether it be theft of a sum of money or the damage of an object.

Insofar as the hilly topography of the site would allow, the city was built on a Roman grid plan and settled with veterans who fought in the victorious legions and other foreign colonists.

Insofar as the only evidence for properties of UG are in language itself, Harris's view was that such properties cannot be presupposed, but they may be sought once a principled theory of language is established on a purely linguistic basis.

Insofar as they represent a description of a world view, they can be evaluated on the basis of accuracy and value to the holder.

Insofar as stands, ladders, scaffolds, and overhead rigs are properly installed, grips are charged with making them safe because the other crew members will invariably have to climb on, walk around, or otherwise negotiate the different grip set-ups.

Insofar as one is going to show it on the screen at all, it should be presented as such-and the more people it shocks into sickened recognition of these facts the better.

In an interview with the Journal of Visual Culture, academic Martin Jay explicates the rise of this tie between the visual and the technological: “ Insofar as we live in a culture whose technological advances abet the production and dissemination of such images at a hitherto unimagined level, it is necessary to focus on how they work and what they do, rather than move past them too quickly to the ideas they represent or the reality they purport to depict.

Insofar as they do not depend directly on the producers of the necessary product for their maintenance, they have to be sustained from communal or state resources, or by some other means.

Insofar as its own governing documents are concerned, Emory University could now consider applications from prospective students, and others seeking applications from prospective students, and others seeking the opportunity to study or work at the university, irrespective of race, color or creed.

Insofar as she still painted at all, De Lempicka sometimes reworked earlier pieces in her new style.

According to a report conducted by the ICTY entitled Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia opined that, " Insofar as the attack actually was aimed at disrupting the communications network, it was legally acceptable " and that, " NATO ’ s targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental ( albeit complementary ) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milosević in power.

Insofar as it questions conventional wisdom at its roots, philosophy must guard itself especially against those readers who believe themselves authoritative, wise, and liberal defenders of the status quo.

Insofar as they are the subject of pure mathematics, I now know at least that they can exist, because I grasp them clearly and distinctly.

Insofar as the thermohaline circulation governs the rate at which deep waters are exposed to the surface, it may also play an important role in determining the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Jessica Martin writes, " Insofar as rollback is concerned, American support for rebels, especially in Afghanistan, at the time helped to drain Soviet coffers and tax its human resources, contributing to that nation's overall crisis and eventual disintegration.

Insofar as it questions conventional wisdom at its roots, philosophy must guard itself especially against those readers who believe themselves authoritative, wise, and liberal defenders of the status quo.

Insofar as surviving records can prove, the earliest known traceable date of a Lodge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes is the " Phoenix Lodge No. 1 " in 1822 at the Harp Tavern, Great Russell Street near Drury Lane Theatre, London and was created by stage hands and theatre technicians who had been denied a long held privilege extended to them by the actors and artists of the day.

Insofar as The Dark Tower series ' overall plot is concerned, it is revealed in the seventh book that Ted is essential to the Crimson King's quest to break the beams that hold the Dark Tower up, in turn, holding the universe together.

Insofar as Qutb's book follows the fundamentalist prescription that " the Quran is our law ," it comes under modernist criticism of Islamism and Islamic fundamentalism which points out, for example, that of 6000 verses in the Quran only 245 concern legislation, and only 90 of those concern constitutional, civil, financial or economic matters.

" Insofar as we know, this book is out of copyright.

Insofar as these nations claim to incarnate traditions and ways of life which constitute ultimate, trans-political justifications for their existence, such people are inevitably led to emphasize the ways in which these traditions and ways are theirs rather than someone else's.

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

Insofar, most of the mentioned peoples are considered the " indigenous " peoples of the vast region.

Insofar as the essential properties of a thing are necessary to it, they are those things it possesses in all possible worlds.

Herbert Marcuse criticized Being and Nothingness for projecting anxiety and meaninglessness onto the nature of existence itself: " Insofar as Existentialism is a philosophical doctrine, it remains an idealistic doctrine: it hypostatizes specific historical conditions of human existence into ontological and metaphysical characteristics.

Insofar as these bodies or nominated individuals may resolve disputes in a judicial or quasi-judicial fashion, or promote treaty obligations in the nature of laws, the power ceded to these bodies cumulatively represents its own jurisdiction.

Insofar as only true statements can be known, moral nihilists are moral skeptics.

" Insofar as precedent is concerned, stare decisis is important only for the decision, for the detailed legal consequence following a detailed set of facts.

Insofar as the " so-called " postmoderns follow the thoroughly modern trend of idealism, it is more an ultramodernism than anything else.

Insofar as hoplite warfare could be perfected, the Spartans did so.

" Insofar as we can tell, these changes were sudden and not gradual.

Insofar as its route coincides almost entirely with the city limits of Paris, it can be seen as a " frontier ", symbolizing a rift in the sociological economic and cultural cooperation between Paris and its suburbs.

Insofar as a system has multiple threads awaiting dispatch ( either system or user threads ), this architecture makes good use of hardware resources.

Insofar as the legally constituted civil authority requests its cooperation, the army is further charged with protecting constitutional institutions and their capacity to act, as well as the democratic freedoms of the inhabitants ; maintaining order and security in the interior ; and rendering aid in disasters and mishaps of extraordinary scope.

Insofar as hermeneutics is a cornerstone of both critical theory and constitutive theory, both of which have made important inroads into the postpositivist branch of international relations theory and political science, hermeneutics has been applied to international relations.

Insofar as central government is concerned, the borough is divided among the constituencies of Old Bexley and Sidcup ; Erith and Thamesmead ( shared with the Royal Borough of Greenwich ); and Bexleyheath and Crayford.

Insofar as there is a distinction between gerunds and present participles, it is generally fairly clear which is which.

Insofar as we can tell, the distinction was purely cultural.

Insofar as Blenheim does have a grand staircase, then it is the series of steps in the Great Court which lead to the North Portico.

Insofar as they are inefficient, however, subsidies would generally be considered by economists to be bad, as economics is the study of efficient use of limited resources.