The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

the prolusion in which the autobiographic statement about the epithet occurs is such a mass of intentionally buried allusions that almost nothing in it can be accepted as true -- or discarded as false.

If the indenture is accepted, the authority will proceed to validate a bond issue repayable from revenue.

If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.

The location of the latter now is determined for tax purposes at the time of registration, and it is now accepted practice to consider a motor vehicle as being situated where it is garaged.

The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.

Your invitation to write about Serge Prokofieff to honor his 70th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya Muzyka is accepted with pleasure, because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; ;

A valid American driving license is accepted in all countries except Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

Oliver's 37-1/2 feet is partly based on this report and can be accepted as probable.

Progress is impeded by psychological inhibitions to effective action among those in power and by a failure on their part to understand how local resources, human and material, can be mobilized to achieve the national goals of modernization already symbolically accepted.

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 a way, we may be witnessing the same thing in the sales of automobiles today as the public no longer is willing to purchase any car coming on the market but is more insistent on compact cars free of the frills which were accepted in the Fifties.

It is an accepted juridical principle in California that a Superior Court decision does not constitute a binding legal precedent.

If the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.

The difference is that Horace accepted his theme with a kind of silken assurance.

Over-chilling is an accepted method for covering up the faults of many a cheap or poor white wine, especially a dry wine -- and certainly less of a crime than serving a wine at a temperature which reveals it as unattractive.

This is what we mean when we say this demand must be accepted without condition.

When we say, then, that today, in our situation, the demand for demythologization must be accepted without condition, we are simply saying that at least this much of the liberal tradition is an enduring achievement.

If the demand for demythologization is unavoidable and so must be accepted by theology unconditionally, the position of the `` right '' is clearly untenable.

Hence, if what is in question is whether in a given theology myth is or is not completely rejected, it is unimportant whether only a little bit of myth or a considerable quantity is accepted ; ;

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

The prophet Habakkuk is also mentioned in the tale of Bel and the Dragon, part of the deuterocanonical additions to Daniel in a late section of that book.

recorded in one of the deuterocanonical books ( 2 Maccabees It is also a reference to 1

Outside of the Roman Catholic Church, the term deuterocanonical is sometimes used, by way of analogy, to describe books that Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy included in the Old Testament that are not part of the Jewish Tanakh, nor the Protestant Old Testament.

When Orthodox theologians use the term " deuterocanonical ," it is important to note that the meaning is not identical to the Roman Catholic usage.

In Orthodox Christianity, deuterocanonical means that a book is part of the corpus of the Old Testament ( i. e. is read during the services ) but has secondary authority.

The Eastern Orthodox books included in the Old Testament are the seven deuterocanonical books listed above, plus 3 Maccabees and 1 Esdras ( also included in the Clementine Vulgate ), while Baruch is divided from the Epistle of Jeremiah, making a total of 49 Old Testament books in contrast with the Protestant 39-book canon.

The term deuterocanonical is sometimes used to describe the canonical antilegomena, those books of the New Testament which, like the deuterocanonicals of the Old Testament, were not universally accepted by the early Church, but which are now included in the 27 books of the New Testament recognized by almost all Christians.

" In 2 Maccabees, a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, the grim martyrdom of a mother and her seven sons is described, and was a well-known mediaeval subject.

It is explicitly Protestant like its predecessor ; the deuterocanonical books are not part of the translation.

In some versions of the apocryphal or deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, Ahasuerus is given as the name of an associate of Nebuchadnezzar, who together with him, destroyed Nineveh just before Tobit's death.

The book 2 Maccabees ( which in the Catholic tradition is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible ) focuses on the Jews ' revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes and concludes with the defeat of his general, Nicanor, in 161 BCE by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of the work.

In the King James Version of the deuterocanonical Greek additions to Esther, his name is spelled as Mardocheus.

Cyrene is referred to in the deuterocanonical book 2 Maccabees.

The same claim is made in the deuterocanonical Book of Baruch, which most scholars believe to have been written around the same time, in the 2nd century BC.

As regards demonology, the writer's position is largely that of the deuterocanonical writings from both New and Old Testament times.

The witch is absent from the version of that event recounted in the deuterocanonical Book of Sirach ( 47: 19 – 20 ).

One such example is mentioned by Josephus and the deuterocanonical book of 3 Maccabees in connection with the Egyptian Jews, though the story is probably apocryphal.

The term " major prophet " is typically a Christian term as the Jewish Hebrew Bible does not group these books together and does not include the deuterocanonical / apocryphal Book of Baruch.

Asmodeus or Asmodai ( Ashmedai ) ( see below for other variations ) is a king of demons mostly known from the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, in which he is the primary antagonist.

The first story of this type is narrated in the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, in which the demon Asmodeus either fell in love with Sarah or felt sexual desire for her ( or both ).