Whichever explanation is true, it seems certain the appellation was chosen by the Almoravids for themselves, partly with the conscious goal of forestalling any tribal or ethnic identifications.

Democritus seems to be the earliest philosopher on record to have categorically embraced a hedonistic philosophy ; he called the supreme goal of life " contentment " or " cheerfulness ", claiming that " joy and sorrow are the distinguishing mark of things beneficial and harmful " ( DK 68 B 188 ).

It seems incorrect to describe such a mother's goal as self-interested.

Investigating the lab, Irma's husband, Ron, explains the basic goal: the scientists investigate " superspace " the underlying region that seems to bind all timelines in the multiverse.

His goal seems to be to completely eradicate the Creedish beliefs and challenge the Church at its core.

Instead, the Übermensch " seems to be the ideal aim of spiritual development more than a biological goal .".

In John, Jesus seems to confirm the fact of his kingship, although immediately explaining, that " kingdom not of this world "; of far greater importance for the followers of Christ is his own definition of the goal of his ministry on earth at the time.

It superficially seems clear that the resulting extended number system cannot agree with the reals on all properties that can be expressed by quantification over sets, because the goal is to construct a nonarchimedean system, and the Archimedean principle can be expressed by quantification over sets, but this is just plain wrong.

* Despite the goal of vast accumulation of wealth, income mobility among the Ferengi seems to be quite high.

The goal, here, is to overcome the tendency to delay work or to do extra work when there seems to be time.

Newsweek magazine's David Ansen wrote, " Everyone seems to be working toward the same goal of relaxed insanity.

This seems to further the Founders ' goal of the destabilization of the Alpha Quadrant as a prelude to their own invasion.

Following his first NHL goal against the Winnipeg Jets, opposing coach John Paddock told reporters, " like with Gretzky the puck seems to following him around ...

She devotes all her resources to this goal, but defeating A-ko seems more important to her than actually winning C-ko's approval.

He objects to the SI on the grounds that the movement seems to be established mainly by artists who have their own interest at heart more than a common goal.

At the end of the novel, he is killed by his partner, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobianinov, who does not want to share the treasure with Bender when it seems like they are about to reach their goal.

Geoffrey's goal seems to have been to recover these lost lands and his father's offices.

590-627 ), decided in 607 to join forces with Persia in order to reunite all the territories of Iberia, a goal he seems to have accomplished.

:" Although I cannot prove this precisely, I sense that the Aztec goal was military glory and staving off the collapse of the universe, whereas the Teotihuacan aim seems to have been the creation of paradise on earth.

A main goal of the 2nd-century author seems to be to establish the superiority of the Greek Septuagint text over any other version of the Hebrew Bible.

( A reference in Virgil seems to refer to the Veneti as Liburnians, namely that the " innermost realm of the Liburnians " must have been the goal at which Antenor is said to have arrived.

Even if " oughts " depend on goals, the ought seems to vary with the person's goal.

Although circumstances of the procedure may look somewhat weird ( it was unanimously accepted on September 28, 1993, at the 2nd Bosniak Congress-an institution of Bosnian Muslim intellectuals and ideologues ), it seems that, in all likelihood, Bosnian Muslims have definitively reached the goal in their quest for national identity.

The waxing and waning of philosophical traditions seems to be far less decisive and far more cyclical ; if this doesn't cast doubt on the notion of philosophical progress simpliciter, it does at least tend to suggest that lasting progress may be an illusory goal.

It seems almost by accident, and yet it is a splendid testimony to her designer, that what was originally conceived on such a broad-based brief has also turned out to be an outstanding racing dinghy, offering close and rewarding competition at the very highest level.

It seems unlikely that he invented the stiletto, but he is probably the first firmly documented designer of the high, slim heel.

Vogue noted the company's growing — even exploding — popularity, saying, " The time may have come when Seventh Avenue ’ s lofty vantage point suddenly seems less relevant than the ground-level perspective of the designer as consumer.

The Streamline pointed to the future in terms of space efficiency, featuring a seven seat interior and, even by the standards of the time, excellent headroom, which seems to have been a particular concern for the designer.

Avoca Handweavers is another Irish ( and it seems, generally considered prestigious ) small chain of stores selling some clothes fashions, but known generally for ' designer / homemade ' home & gift-wares, food and in-store cafes.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

Each wore the monkish scourge at his waist but this, it seems, was not employed for self-flagellation.

and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

The fact seems to be that very many large branch stores are uneconomical, that the choice of location in the suburbs is as important as it was downtown, and that even highly suburbanized cities will support only so many big branches.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

It seems that the aerated lagoon was a very heavily loaded oxidation pond or a lightly loaded activated sludge system.

But if there was evidence at the Trial that aimed over Eichmann's head at his collaborators in the societies where he functioned, the press seems to have missed it.