Some chemists, notably Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, heavily criticized the use of structural formulas that were offered, as he thought, without proof.

Galileo, however, felt that the descriptive content of the technical disciplines warranted philosophical interest, particularly because mathematical analysis of astronomical observations — notably the radical analysis offered by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus concerning the relative motions of the Sun, Earth, Moon, and planets — indicated that philosophers ' statements about the nature of the universe could be shown to be in error.

OS / 2 Warp offered a host of benefits over OS / 2 2. 1, notably broader hardware support, greater multimedia capabilities, Internet-compatible networking, and it included a basic office application suite known as IBM Works.

Porsche opted not to offer a convertible variant but several aftermarket modifiers offered convertible conversions, most notably Carelli, based in Orange County, CA.

Additionally while greater graphics card performance was a primary goal of VLB, other devices could also benefit from the VLB standard ; notably many mass storage controllers were offered for VLB with increased hard disk performance.

The term think tank itself, however, originally referred to organizations that offered military advice — most notably the RAND Corporation, founded originally in 1946 as an offshoot of Douglas Aircraft, and which became an independent corporation in 1948.

These programmes are being offered notably by the Punjab Institute of Preventive Ophthalmology ( PIPO ) in Lahore and the Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology in Peshawar.

Initial settlement was concentrated on the port and city, then expanded, notably to the south-west, where the fertile Taieri Plains offered good farmland.

It was Ollivant who offered to hire Jinnah at 1, 500 rupees per month and was notably turned down.

Other composers offered more melodic variants of Futurist music, notably Franco Casavola, who was active with the movement at the invitation of Marinetti between 1924 and 1927, and Arthur-Vincent Lourié, the first Russian Futurist musician, and a signatory of the St Petersburg Futurist Manifesto in 1914.

In 1979, Tyne Tees launched two national series, Alright Now and Check it Out, the latter a mix of rock music and segments on youth-oriented social issues ; among performances by established acts, the two shows offered early exposure to bands linked to the North East, notably Dire Straits and The Police.

Although outnumbered and poorly equipped, soldiers in several parts of the country offered resistance ; most notably the Royal Guard in Copenhagen and units in South Jutland.

Many reasons have been offered for his decline: early overuse, cocaine addiction, the league catching on to some of his pitches ( notably a fastball that rose out of the strike zone, which hitters increasingly avoided ), or the influence of Mets pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre, who convinced Gooden to change his pitching motion in the hopes of prolonging his career.

The car was offered in the usual range of British Leyland colours ; notably beige, brown, and green.

The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in the Homes for the Dying has been criticised in the medical press, notably The Lancet and the British Medical Journal ( BMJ ).

Most notably the legal opinions offered by Alberto Gonzalez, John Yoo et al.

The British offered terms of peace on various occasions, notably in March 1901, but Botha rejected the idea.

Furthermore, a number of aspects of the generally circular nature of the ringfort highlight the defensive advantages, most notably that a circle as a shape " offered broad perspectives of approaching attackers and allowed the maximum area to be enclosed relative to the length of the bank constructed.

Though considered for a number of positions in the new administration, most notably for Attorney General, initially the only job Harlan was offered was as a member of a commission sent to Louisiana to resolve disputed statewide elections there.

The Soviet Union offered support to the partisans in many Wehrmacht-occupied countries in Central Europe, notably those in Slovakia, Poland and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Fusco offered quotes from surviving friends of Hopkins, notably former distance riders Walt and Edith Pyle, and Lt Col William Zimmerman, along with information found in horse history texts, as verification.

Most notably, the Spectrum-like Oric 1 was selling for £ 99 at this point, and offered a far higher specification than the Texet for little difference in cost.

Purchased by St. Thomas in November 1999, the Bernardi Campus houses St. Thomas students participating in academic programs abroad, most notably the Catholic Studies Semester in Rome program for Catholic Studies majors, minors, and graduate students offered through the Catholic Studies Department.

The New Testament contains evidence of some of the earliest forms of reflection upon the meanings and implications of Christian faith, mostly in the form of guidance offered to Christian congregations on how to live a life consistent with their convictions – notably in the Pauline corpus and Johannine corpus.

Having extorted a large sum of money from the citizens of Nuremberg, he quarrelled with his supporter, the French King, and offered his services to the Emperor.

The A. D. Police are offered a great deal of leeway in their activities, often blockading large sections of the city and causing great amounts of property damage in the course of fulfilling their duty.

The large cities offered baseball teams national media distribution systems and fan bases that could generate revenues enabling teams to hire the best players in the country.

This provoked a defiant Plato, as she offered to take a drug test on the air ( and even placed a large wager on the results of the test to one particularly doubtful caller ).

X-ray crystallography theoretically offered the opportunity to reveal the molecular structure of large molecules like proteins and DNA, but there were serious technical problems then preventing X-ray crystallography from being applicable to such large molecules.

Another reason for discontent was that the state offered large tax subsidies and environmental investments, which sometimes cost more than the selling price of the company.

The Soviet Union, other East European countries, and China all offered Albania large amounts of aid.

As mentioned, content externalism ( limited to the semantic aspects ) is only one among many other options offered by externalism by and large.

# Affordable premium: If the likelihood of an insured event is so high, or the cost of the event so large, that the resulting premium is large relative to the amount of protection offered, it is not likely that the insurance will be purchased, even if on offer.

" But in spite of this, and though the plotters offered him a large sum of money from the Pope, as well as safe passage for his wife and children to come to him from England, in the end he declined to have anything further to do with their plans and begged pardon from Sir Robert Cecil and from the Queen.

For a large sum of money, Volkov offered the names of three Soviet agents inside Britain, two of whom worked in the Foreign Office and a third who worked in counter-espionage in London.

It is offered through a large area of exam boards including AQA and WJEC.

These Eid prayers are supposed to be offered in large groups, and so larger mosques will normally host them for their congregants as well as the congregants of smaller local mosques.

Glyndŵr offered to release Mortimer for a large ransom but, in sharp contrast to his attitude to de Grey, Henry IV refused to pay.

Plotters offered the fastest way to efficiently produce very large drawings or color high-resolution vector-based artwork when computer memory was very expensive and processor power was very limited, and other types of printers had limited graphic output capabilities.

When he was convinced that he might do so, he offered to give up the papacy into the hands of his godfather for a large sum of money.

Music plays a large role in most PC ( USA ) worship services and ranges from chant to traditional Protestant hymns, to classical sacred music, to more modern music, depending on the preference of the individual church and is offered prayerfully and not " for entertainment or artistic display.

The College offered Morgan a full professorship ; however, he chose to stay at Johns Hopkins and was awarded a relatively large

: A story tells that after the death of Moses de Leon, a rich man of Avila named Joseph offered Moses ' widow ( who had been left without any means of supporting herself ) a large sum of money for the original from which her husband had made the copy.

These developments were made possible by the large-scale exploitation of fossil fuel resources ( especially petroleum ), which offered large amounts of energy in an easily portable form, but also caused widespread concerns about pollution and long-term impact on the environment.

Sometimes shows are limited exclusively to jumpers, sometimes jumper classes are offered in conjunction with other English-style events, and sometimes show jumping is but one division of very large, all-breed competitions that include a very wide variety of disciplines.

Poetry and fiction involving the supernatural had gone out of fashion to a large extent in the 18th century, in part due to the declining belief in witches and other supernatural agents among the educated classes, who embraced the rational approach to the world offered by the new science.

The large Russian mainland and its many navigable rivers offered good prospects for merchandise and, at times, plundering.