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It is ( in principle ) easy to measure whether or not two regions ( for example, two glasses of water ) have the same electrochemical potential for a certain chemical species ( for example, a solute molecule ): Allow the species to freely move back and forth between the two regions ( for example, connect them with a semi-permeable membrane that lets only that species through ).
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is and principle
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish.
) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.
Complementing the political principle of nationalism is the legal principle of sovereignty.
As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.
But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.
So far as the existing body of formal principle and procedure is concerned, categorical novelties are not to be anticipated in Jewish-Gentile relationships ; ;
In conformance with the maximization principle we affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations will be harmonious or inharmonious to the degree that one relation or the other is expected by the active participants to yield the greatest net advantage, taking all value outcomes and effects into consideration.
Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.
The principle is commendable but we suspect that in the practice somebody is going to get gulled.
In the United Nations Charter, the right of self-determination is also an essential principle.
Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.
What we will be sacrificing in any such arrangement will be our power to be selective which is contained in the reciprocal trade principle under which we now operate.
A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.
In following this general principle, Mason provides the observer with a natural eye progression from foreground to background, and the illusion of depth is instantly created.
The principle of `` bills only '', or `` bills preferably '', seems so strongly accepted by the Federal Reserve that it is difficult to envision conditions which would persuade the authorities to depart radically from it by extending their open market purchases regularly into long-term Government securities.
In fact, some -- Anzilotti is the principle example -- went so far as to say that all international law could be traced to the single legal norm, Pacta sunt Servanda.
Obviously, the goal here proposed is the guiding principle in Mr. Justice Frankfurter's opinions -- to the extent that Congress leaves the problem to judicial discretion.
Mr. Justice Black no doubt concurs in principle but is more apt to make exceptions to achieve a generous and `` just '' result.
It is an accepted juridical principle in California that a Superior Court decision does not constitute a binding legal precedent.
Logically, then, the first principle of the plan must be that it is not rigidly oriented toward any geographical area.
Therefore the second principle of the plan must be that, while providing for all-out hostilities, its effectiveness is not dependent on general war.
is and easy
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
`` It is easy for you to talk '' ; ;
The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.
The battle is not easy.
It is not easy to become Segovia's pupil.
there is no easy and quick way to follow from the oxcart to the jet plane.
The country about Cambridge is flat and not particularly spectacular in its scenery, though it offers easy going to the foot traveler.
When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.
See, Communese is easy -- once you get onto it.
One of the obstacles to the easy control of a 2-year-old child is a lack of verbal communication.
I was the first to get my squad on the ball, and anybody thinkin it was easy is pretty damn dumb.
It is so easy to falsify sentiment.
When towns have the same fiscal year it is relatively easy to make meaningful comparisons ; ;
While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.
It is relatively easy to go a step further and reason that an attacker, in possession of such absolute power, would simultaneously destroy his opponent's cities and people.
It is too easy for the inexperienced person to make a quick judgment of a few values of the area and base a decision on these alone.
there is a struggle there, in which, if he falls, it is easy for him to rise again, there is freedom of utterance there, which draws after it no irreparable consequences on society.
It's fun, and it's easy -- so easy that there is time left after cooking, and tent keeping, for the women to get out and enjoy outdoor fun with their families.
The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.
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