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is and so
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
As it is in so many affairs of the heart, a man and a woman meet and something clicks.
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.
And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??
The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.
The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).
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.
The smell is sexual, but so powerfully so that a civilized nose must deny it.
Nowhere in Isfahan is this rich aesthetic life of the Persians shown so well as during the promenade at the Khaju bridge.
Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.
In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.
He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.
Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.
it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.

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.
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.

is and falsify
More generally, to insist that all evidence converge precisely with no deviations would be naïve falsificationism, equivalent to considering a single contrary result to falsify a theory when another explanation, such as equipment malfunction or misinterpretation of results, is much more likely.
Tapping on the face of the gauge is not recommended as it will tend to falsify actual readings initially presented by the gauge. The Bourdon tube is separate from the face of the gauge and thus has no effect on the actual reading of pressure.
However, it may not be possible to empirically test or falsify the rationality assumption, so that the theory leans heavily toward being a tautology ( true by definition ) since there is no effort to explain individual goals.
Such theories are described in such a way that any scientist in the field is in a position to understand and either provide empirical support (" verify ") or empirically contradict (" falsify ") it.
That is, the observation is framed in terms of the theory that also contains the hypothesis it is meant to verify or falsify ( though of course the observation should not be based on an assumption of the truth or falsity of the hypothesis being tested ).
What distinguishes abduction from the other forms of reasoning is an attempt to favour one conclusion above others, by attempting to falsify alternative explanations or by demonstrating the likelihood of the favoured conclusion, given a set of more or less disputable assumptions.
Recollect that the first act of resistance to the laws which have been denounced as void by those who abuse your confidence and falsify your hopes is Treason, and subjects you to all the pains and penalties that are provided for the highest offence against your country.
A sense of " to counterfeit " is already in the Anglo-French verb forger, meaning " falsify.
According to MEMRI, in an interview aired on Al-Alam TV on May 15, 2009, PFLP-GC representative in Lebanon Anwar Raja denied the Holocaust, claiming that " the Jews have managed to falsify history " according to their interests and that the figure of 6 million Jews ( killed by the Nazis ) is an " inflation, falsification, and exaggeration ".
They are debased, cursed, anathematized forever by God and so can never repent and be forgiven ; they are cheats and traitors ; defiant and stubborn ; they killed the prophets ; they are liars who falsify scripture and take bribes ; as infidels they are ritually unclean, a foul odor emanating from them – such is the image of the Jew in classical Islam, degraded and malevolent.
Science should seek for theories that are most probably false on the one hand ( which is the same as saying that they are highly falsifiable and so there are lots of ways that they could turn out to be wrong ), but still all actual attempts to falsify them have failed so far ( that they are highly corroborated ).
The rational motivation for choosing a well-corroborated theory is that it is simply easier to falsify: Well-corroborated means that at least one kind of experiment ( already conducted at least once ) could ( but did not ) falsify the one theory, while the same kind of experiment, regardless of its outcome, would not falsify the other.
" To falsify the claim that the observed Mars Effect is an artifact induced by multiple-comparisons a single reference is sufficient.
# Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.
# Confirming evidence should not count except when it is the result of a genuine test of the theory ; and this means that it can be presented as a serious but unsuccessful attempt to falsify the theory.

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