To understand American politics is, simply, to know people, to know the relative weight of names -- who are heroes, who are straw men, who controls, who does not.

Thompson, it is likely that Sidonius, whose purpose was to write a panegyric and not a history, simply added some spurious names to his list, including the Bastarnae.

In these countries, words like dollar or pound " were simply names for given weights of gold.

The latter course seems to have been seldom adopted ; the ordinary mode of inflicting the punishment was simply this: the censors in their new lists omitted the names of such senators as they wished to exclude, and in reading these new lists in public, quietly omitted the names of those who were no longer to be senators.

In all of these documents it also refers to itself both simply as the Catholic Church and by other names.

The one general exception to this is modern Chinese place names, personal names, and ( occasionally ) food names — these will often be written with kanji, and katakana used for the furigana ; in more casual writing these are simply written in katakana, as borrowed words.

The names for the days of the week, like those in the Creation account, are simply the day number within the week, with Shabbat being the seventh day.

The names for the days of the week are simply the day number within the week.

" Didymium " was found some years later to be simply a mixture of two genuine rare-earth elements, and these were given the names neodymium and praseodymium, meaning " new twin " and " green twin ".

Due to the devotional popularity of Guanyin in East Asia, she is known by many names, most of which are simply the localised pronunciations of " Guanyin " or " Guanshiyin ":

The crowd, however, simply shouts out names containing the letter " r ", in order to mock Pilate's speech impediment.

Muay boran, and therefore muay Thai, was originally called by more generic names such as pahuyuth ( from the Sanskrit bahu-yuddha meaning unarmed combat ), dhoi muay ( boxing or pugilism, a cognate of the Malay word tomoi ) or simply muay.

Mass communication, communication studies or simply communication may be more popular names than “ media studies ” for academic departments in the United States.

However, unlike foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character lou, which always cooked their specialty dishes on locations like higher ranking foodservice establishments, foodservice establishment of this category would either cook on location, or simply bring the already cooked food to the location.

Often the parishes are referred to simply by their common names.

There is another interpretation, however, according to which these ostraka were prepared beforehand by enterprising businessmen who offered to them for sale to citizens who could not easily inscribe the desired names for themselves or who simply wished to save time.

In other dialects she was known under variant names: Persephassa (), Persephatta (), or simply Korē (, " girl, maiden ").

and, if they did not simply name their place Smith's Beer House, they would apply topical pub names in an effort to reflect the mood of the times.

As " Robert " and its diminutives were amongst the most common of names at the time, and also since it was usual for men to adopt the name of their hometown (" De Lockesly " means simply, " Of from Lockesly "), the record could just as easily be referring to any man from the area named Robert.

Systematic biology ( hereafter called simply systematics ) is the field that ( a ) provides scientific names for organisms, ( b ) describes them, ( c ) preserves collections of them, ( d ) provides classifications for the organisms, keys for their identification, and data on their distributions, ( e ) investigates their evolutionary histories, and ( f ) considers their environmental adaptations.

Others use names that reflect their historic roots by keeping simply the designation " Unitarian " or " Universalist " ( e. g. " Community Unitarian Church at White Plains ").

Even after it became clear that Odo was sentient, the scientists kept calling him that, giving him the name ' Odo Ital ' ( like a typical Bajoran name ), which was eventually shortened to simply " Odo " ( Episode " Heart of Stone ").

However, instead of simply considering the space of ultrafilters on, the right way to generalize this construction is to consider the Stone space of the measure algebra of: the spaces and are isomorphic as C *- algebras as long as satisfies a reasonable finiteness condition ( that any set of positive measure contains a subset of finite positive measure ).

Stone was married more than a year when, in July 1856, she firmly requested of Susan Anthony that for the annual convention her name be given simply as " Lucy Stone ".

Bob Stanley ( later of Saint Etienne ), reviewing the Stone Roses album in Melody Maker wrote: " this is simply the best debut LP I've heard in my record buying lifetime.

The first, led by Barton W. Stone began at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky and called themselves simply Christians.

The first, led by Barton W. Stone, began at Cane Ridge, Kentucky and called themselves simply " Christians ".

In modern times, large crowds make it practically impossible for everyone to kiss the stone, so it is currently acceptable for pilgrims to simply point in the direction of the Stone on each of their circuits around the building.

Some even say that the Stone is best considered simply as a marker, useful in keeping count of the ritual circumambulations ( tawaf ) that one has performed.

Stone ", that he understood the term, " agent " to mean " useful contact ," and that the " take any money " reference simply meant that Stone would not permit a Soviet employee to pick up the check for lunch then, or in the future, as had sometimes been done before.

Stone wrote, " There is a range of military activity which is simply never permissible in that it violates basic international standards.

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing ( often simply referred to as Big Rigs ) is a 2003 third-person racing video game developed by Stellar Stone and published by GameMill Publishing for Microsoft Windows PC systems.

* The Hunter: A Southern-accented crime-fighting bloodhound ( voiced by Kenny Delmar ) often chases after an evil fox simply named the Fox ( voiced by Ben Stone ).

Stone and Parker were especially proud of the animation of the lava, which they said took hours to perfect, although they acknowledged it ended up simply resembling orange construction paper.

Writing in Rolling Stone magazine at the time of the album's release, reviewer Michael Bloom said that " Love Beach isn't simply bad, it's downright pathetic.

Though the purchase was made in 1925, the first classes did not begin until 1929, and the F. T. Stone Laboratory ( known simply as Stone Lab ) was dedicated on June 22, 1929, making it the oldest freshwater field station in the United States.

* Heart of TARDIS by Dave Stone ( Also features the Second Doctor, although neither Doctor meets the other, each Doctor simply tackling a different end of the same crisis with only the Fourth aware of his other self's involvement )

Vince Aletti of Rolling Stone magazine, in a review of the album Whitney, criticized the song, commenting that " not taking any chances, the songwriters Merrill and Shannon Rubicam have simply come up with a clever anagram of their original hit Will I Know, and Michael Walden has glossed it over in an identically perky style.

The first album, simply called The Stone Poneys was more folk than rock and featured relatively few lead vocals by Ronstadt ; it received little notice.

Hilton of Cadboll, or simply Hilton, () is a village about southeast of Tain in Easter Ross, is in the Scottish council area of Highland It is famous for the Hilton of Cadboll Stone.

Barton W. Stone and five others published The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery in 1804 giving up denominational ties and preferring to be known simply as Christians.

Rolling Stone stated, " His music is witty, soulful and ferociously energetic, brimming with novel harmonic turnarounds, committed vocals and simply astonishing guitar work.