And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

Warren Weaver posited in 1948 that the complexity of a particular system is the degree of difficulty in predicting the properties of the system-given the properties of the system's parts.

This is posited to bid the price up.

He posited that people will naturally do what is good, if they know what is right.

Søren Kierkegaard, generally considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, posited that it is the individual who is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and for living life passionately and sincerely (" authentically ").

Susman posited that modern anatomy of the human thumb is an evolutionary response to the requirements associated with making and handling tools and that both species were indeed toolmakers.

Hayek posited that a central planning authority would have to be endowed with powers that would impact and ultimately control social life, because the knowledge required for centrally planning an economy is inherently decentralized, and would need to be brought under control.

Positivism simply means that law is something that is " posited ": laws are validly made in accordance with socially accepted rules.

Bujold herself has commented that her posited system is neither technologically nor economically feasible, but is rather a convenience for storytelling.

Since Whitehead, process thought is distinguished from Hegel in that it describes entities which arise or coalesce in becoming, rather than being simply dialectically determined from prior posited determinates.

In classical scholarship it is generally posited that — for female deities in particular — one or more secondary mythic entities sometimes " splinter off " ( so to speak ) from a primary entity, assuming aspects of the original in the process.

It is often posited that pidgins become creole languages when a generation of children learn a pidgin as their first language, a process that regularizes speaker-dependent variation in grammar.

The main research task, then, is generally considered to be the discovery of associations between scores, and of factors posited to underlie such associations.

While early radical feminists posited that the root cause of all other inequalities is the oppression of women, some radical feminists acknowledge the simultaneous and intersecting effect of other independent categories of oppression as well.

Science writer Timothy Ferris has posited that since galactic societies are most likely only transitory, an obvious solution is an interstellar communications network, or a type of library consisting mostly of automated systems.

In this work, Bernoulli posited the argument, still used to this day, that gases consist of great numbers of molecules moving in all directions, that their impact on a surface causes the gas pressure that we feel, and that what we experience as heat is simply the kinetic energy of their motion.

Saussure posited that no word is inherently meaningful.

" He posited that " It is possible that the creative core of the Residents is the duo of Flynn and Fox.

The transducer is a null-type instrument and employs a stretched diaphragm, 0.001 in. thick and 1 in. in diameter.

In general, such apartments afford more protection than smaller buildings because their walls are thick and there is more space.

It is thick, much like an egg plant's skin, so that poison sprays, if they are used, present no hazard to the consumer.

His counterpoint is pertinent, skillful, and rarely thick.

Also available is a slitter which `` peels '' the inside of a folded block of foam and can be used to slit continuous sheets up to 300 yd. in length, down to 1/16 in. thick.

He raced by within twenty feet of her, roped her around the neck, but a lioness' neck is short and thick and with a quick twist she slipped the noose off.

The result is rather wonderful, but so rich as to be indigestible if taken in too thick slices.

It is a slab of white marble long, wide, and thick, on which are 5 groups of markings.

The ears are disproportionately long, and the tail is very thick at the base and gradually tapers.

The greatly elongated head is set on a short, thick neck, and the end of the snout bears a disc, which houses the nostrils.

Following each individual brick should be a layer of adobe mortar, recommended to be at least an inch thick to make certain there is ample strength between the brick ’ s edges and also to provide a relative moisture barrier during the seasons where the arid climate does produce rain.

Averaging at least 1. 6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2. 5 km below sea level ; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur ( e. g., Lake Vostok ).

The thick inner layer of the shell is composed of nacre or mother-of-pearl, which in many species is highly iridescent, giving rise to a range of strong and changeable colors, which make the shells attractive to humans as decorative objects, and as a source of colorful mother-of-pearl.

An abalone diver is normally equipped with a thick wetsuit, including a hood, booties, and gloves, and usually also a mask, snorkel, weight belt, abalone iron, and abalone gauge.

Much of the ACC transport is carried in this front, which is defined as the latitude at which a subsurface salinity minimum or a thick layer of unstratified Subantarctic Mode Water first appears, allowed by temperature dominating density stratification.

Pizza -- made with very thin, and sometimes thick, high-rising doughs, with or without cheese, cooked in the oven or a la piedra ( on a stone oven ), and stuffed with numerous ingredients -— is a dish which can be found in nearly every corner of the country.

With the assistance of a Brooklyn Union Gas Co. ( now National Grid ) engineering crew, he then broke through the massive concrete bulkhead wall, which is several feet thick.

An example of a compostable polymer is PLA film under 20μm thick: films which are thicker than that do not qualify as compostable, even though they are biodegradable.

) folded or arched metal ring attached to a thick wood rim, over which a skin, or most often, a plastic membrane ( or head ) is stretched-it is the bell bronze that gives the banjo a crisp powerful lower register and clear, bell-like treble register-especially in bluegrass music.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

The front part of the mouth is thick with baleen plates ; around 300 plates ( each around one metre ( 3. 2 ft ) long ) hang from the upper jaw, running 0. 5 m ( 1. 6 ft ) back into the mouth.

Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar.