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In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.
Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.
It is also usually associated with an unconscious magical ritual to ward off anxiety engendered by these same women .”
Proliferation is induced by estrogen ( follicular phase of menstrual cycle ), and later changes in this layer are engendered by progestrone from the corpus luteum ( luteal phase ).
Beneath them is the well Urðarbrunnr with the two swans that have engendered all the swans in the world.
Gylfi is furthermore informed that when Loki had engendered Hel, she was cast into Niflheimr by Odin:
For most religious traditions, this attitude is essentially based on a non-literal view of one's religious traditions, hence allowing for respect to be engendered between different traditions on fundamental principles rather than more marginal issues.
It is instructive therefore to read some of what Ballard and Moorcock were writing that engendered such animosity from the established SF community.
During the last ten years, different organizations have tried to measure and monitor the proximity to what they consider sustainability by implementing what has been called sustainability metrics and indices. This has engendered considerable political debate about what is being measured.
Like the other Cappadocian Fathers, he was a homoousian, and Against Eunomius affirms the truth of the consubstantiality of the trinity over Eunomius ' Platonic belief that the Father's substance is unengendered, whereas the Son's is engendered.
For example: The Indian Right to Information Act 2005 is perceived to have " already engendered mass movements in the country that is bringing the lethargic, often corrupt bureaucracy to its knees and changing power equations completely.
Although " Encounter " is a taut drama with excellent performances by Brand and Takei, this historical inaccuracy ( and the complaints it engendered ) has caused this episode to be omitted from syndicated broadcasts of The Twilight Zone.
Faeries represent the first spiritual movement to be both " gay centered and gay engendered ", where gayness is central to the idea, rather than in addition to, or incidental to a pre-existing spiritual tradition.
The squalor engendered by the Brothers ' indolence is often highlighted ; several strips feature the household's cockroach population, ruled over by a fascist monarchy whose leader resembles General Douglas MacArthur.
He is neither conditioned nor determined, neither engendered nor engendering.
That a mountain is a mountain ( as opposed to just another undifferentiated clump of earth ) is socially engendered, and not a brute fact.
Salzer, on the other hand, was the first Schenkerian to attempt to use elements of the theory to explain music that is not strictly tonal, an approach that has since engendered structural and linear analysis of early music as well as post-tonal music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
F-19 is a designation for a hypothetical United States fighter aircraft that has never been officially acknowledged, and has engendered much speculation that it might refer to a type of aircraft whose existence is still classified.

is and by
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.
since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.
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.
But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
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.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.
Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.
As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.
The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

is and confounding
::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.
This early study has been criticized for not taking into consideration the possibility of confounding factors, such as if the ability to crack one's knuckles is associated with impaired hand functioning.
However, this argument has been described as an example of the fallacy of a statistical confounding effect ; it is now known that a herpesvirus, potentiated by HIV, is responsible for AIDS-associated KS.
" He argued that the Pope was the " little horn " of Daniel 7: 8: A little horn has grown up with eyes and mouth speaking great things, which is reducing three of these kingdoms — i. e. Sicily, Italy, and Germany — to subserviency, is persecuting the people of Christ and the saints of God with intolerable opposition, is confounding things human and divine, and is attempting things unutterable, execrable.
One confounding factor, which has been the subject of many studies, is residential self-selection: people who prefer to drive tend to move towards low density suburbs, whereas people who prefer to walk, cycle or use transit tend to move towards higher density urban areas, better served by public transport.
This result is often encountered in social-science and medical-science statistics, and is particularly confounding when frequency
A potential confounding factor is the form of Vitamin E used in these studies.
It is asserted that different sets of conflicting and incomplete diagnostic criteria are in existence, and that when confounding factors such as obesity are accounted for, diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome has a negligible association with the risk of heart disease.
Because of the importance of controlling potentially confounding variables, the use of well-designed laboratory experiments is preferred when possible.
The signifying characteristic of a true experiment is that it randomly allocates the subjects in order to neutralize the potential for experimenter bias and ensures, over a large number of iterations of the experiment, that all confounding factors are controlled for.
An observational study is used when it is impractical, unethical, cost-prohibitive ( or otherwise inefficient ) to fit a physical or social system into a laboratory setting, to completely control confounding factors, or to apply random assignment.
One critic writes that the album is " one of the more complex and simply confounding records ever released by a major label " and another writes that the single "' A Small Victory ', which seems to run Madame Butterfly through Metallica and Nile Rodgers (...) reveals a developing facility for combining unlikely elements into startlingly original concoctions.
In literature, Will o ' the wisp sometimes has a metaphorical meaning, describing a hope or goal that leads one on but is impossible to reach, or something one finds sinister and confounding.
Its relationship to other falcons is not clear ; the issue is complicated by widespread hybridization confounding mtDNA sequence analyses ; for example a genetic lineage of the Saker Falcon ( F. cherrug ) is known which originated from a male Saker producing fertile young with a female Peregrine ancestor, and the descendants further breeding with Sakers.
The evidence of long-term effects on memory is preliminary and hindered by confounding factors.
Research suggests a multitude of explanations for the digital divide including, but not limited to: education, income, age, skills, awareness, race, ethnic origin, location, and gender ( which is contested as being a confounding variable ); political and cultural access ; and psychological attitudes to Internet access and usage.

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