During its flowering in the sixth to the eighth centuries, Mahayana offered a supernatural package to the Chinese which bears no resemblance to the highly digested philosophical Zen morsels offered to the modern Western reader.

Beowulf bears no weapon because this would be an " unfair advantage " over the unarmed beast.

However, there is no scientific evidence that ORAC bears any biological significance in the human body.

The evolution of CPC ideology has gone through a number of defining changes that it no longer bears much resemblance to its founding principles.

Eusebius ' Preparation for the Gospel bears witness to the literary tastes of Origen: Eusebius quotes no comedy, tragedy, or lyric poetry, but makes reference to all the works of Plato and to an extensive range of later philosophic works, largely from Middle Platonists from Philo to the late 2nd century.

What the mind ( nous ) thinks must be in it in the same sense as letters are on a tablet ( grammateion ) which bears no actual writing ( grammenon ); this is just what happens in the case of the mind.

His gravestone bears the simple epitaph: " Here lies Eric Arthur Blair, born 25 June 1903, died 21 January 1950 "; no mention is made on the gravestone of his more famous pen-name.

Because your true bears have no tails.

Identity, sometimes called Numerical Identity, is the relation that a " thing " bears to itself, and which no " thing " bears to anything other than itself ( cf.

The screen test used an early script for Rebel Without A Cause that bears no relation to the film eventually produced in 1955.

The language of the coextensive East Slavic people, the Lemkos, which demonstrates significant lexical and grammatical commonality with the Góralski dialect and Ukrainian, bears no significant Vlach or other Romanian influences.

He uses O instead of I, Q instead of L, R instead of F, and S instead of N. The resemblance to the letters is a bit more strained ( most notably that the " O ," a straight line, bears no resemblance to an actual letter O ), but this scheme has the advantage that it uses 12 consecutive letters of the alphabet.

Polar bears can hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.

In the Church — the City of God — marriage is a sacrament and may not and cannot be dissolved as long as the spouses live: But a marriage once for all entered upon in the City of our God, where, even from the first union of the two, the man and the woman, marriage bears a certain sacramental character, can in no way be dissolved but by the death of one of them ..

( NOTE: This is not to suggest that God-the-Son Himself bears no wrath toward sin ; we see from the book of Revelation, for instance, Christ himself executing divine wrath on the enemies of God.

The PowerBook 190, released in 1995, bears no resemblance to the rest of the PowerBook 100 series, and is in fact simply a Motorola 68LC040-based version of the PowerBook 5300 ( and the last Macintosh model to utilize a Motorola 68k-family processor ).

As an apex predator, red wolves have no natural predators, although they may compete for prey with bobcats and coyotes and kills may be stolen by American black bears.

English developed from such a reordering language, and still bears traces of this word order, for example in locative inversion (" In the garden sat a cat ") and some clauses beginning with negative expressions: " only " (" only then do we find X "), " not only " (" not only did he storm away, but he also slammed the door "), " under no circumstances " (" under no circumstances are the students allowed to use a mobile phone "), " on no account " and the like.

In arguing before the Supreme Court, Gitlow contended that " the statute as construed and applied by the trial court penalize the mere utterance, as such, of ' doctrine ' having no quality of incitement, without regard to the circumstances of its utterance or to the likelihood of the unlawful sequences " While acknowledging " liberty of expression ' is not absolute ,'" he maintained " it may be restrained ' only in instances where its exercise bears a causal relation with some substantive evil, consummated, attempted or likely '" As the statute took no account of the circumstances under which the offending literature was written, it violated the First Amendment.

As there is no reliable method of determining plant sex before flowering in the sixth to eighth year, and sexual propagation bears inconsistent yields, grafting is the preferred method of propagation.

The crossguard bears the following Latin inscription: Quicumque hec / nomina Deii secum tu / lerit nullum periculum / ei omnino nocebit (" Whoever will carry these names of God with him, no danger will harm him ").

It bears the same relationship to postmodernist music that postmodernity bears to postmodernism.

There is also speculation about the relationship the song bears to " The Bold Fusilier " ( a. k. a. " Marching through Rochester "), a song sung to the same tune and dated by some back to the 18th century but first printed in 1900.

Endometriosis bears no relationship to endometrial cancer.

Rohirric bears a similar relationship to Westron, the Common Speech of Middle-earth, as that of Old English to modern English, and so Tolkien rendered Rohirric names and phrases into Old English ( English of the Anglo-Saxon period ), just as the Common Speech is translated into English.

* non sequitur: Statement that bears no relationship to the context preceding

Houston County bears no relationship, save its namesake, with the City of Houston, which is located approximately to the south, in Harris County.

The song bears no relationship to the original song, which is a tongue-in-cheek assessment of Flemish women.

The Lutheran church was the first to be based on Danish architecture and bears a close relationship to Danish equivalents.

Most modern readers would agree with Dodd that this farrago bears no relationship to the real meaning of the parable.

This is known as " MIThenge ", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun ( although the type of alignment bears a closer relationship with that of Newgrange and Maeshowe in that the sunlight passes through the mass of the buildings rather than through the standing stones of Stonehenge ).

The alga bears its own scientific name, which bears no relationship to that of the lichen or fungi.

Sometimes the parallel universe bears no historical relationship to any other world ; instead, the laws of nature are simply different than those in our own, as in the novel Raft by Stephen Baxter, which posits a reality where the gravitational constant is much larger than in our universe.

The Petrine Matthew bears the closest relationship to this original Gospel ( Urevangelium ); the Pauline Luke is later and arose independently ; Mark represents a still later development according to Baur ; the account in John is idealistic: it " does not possess historical truth, and cannot and does not really lay claim to it.

The role of the puppetmaster in creating ARG narratives and the puppetmaster's relationship with an ARG's players bears a great deal of similarity to the role of a game master, gamemaster or referee in a role-playing game.

Structural recursion is a recursion method bearing the same relationship to structural induction as ordinary recursion bears to ordinary mathematical induction.

In this case there is some vexillological relationship between them, as the flag of New Biscay bears the arms of Biscay impaled on its seal.

This mummy, according to craniological examinations, bears a striking first-order ( father-to-son, brother-to-brother ) relationship to Tutankhamun.

Although " Arianism " suggests that Arius was the originator of the teaching that bears his name, the debate over the Son ’ s precise relationship to the Father did not begin with him.

Note that the rotational direction of tides around an amphidromic point bears no relationship to its location relative to the equator.

Steinway & Sons ' earliest employment of the duplex scale made use of aliquots, individually positionable ( hence tunable ) contact points, where each note of the duplex scale bears a perfect harmonic, intervallic relationship to its speaking length, i. e., an octave or fifth whether doubled or tripled.

There is a relationship between sex-determining mechanism and whether a species bears live young or lays eggs.

Dzongkha bears a close linguistic relationship to J ' umowa spoken in the Chumbi valley of Southern Tibet and to the Dranjongke language of Sikkim .< ref >