MAJSAT is a decision problem in which one is given a Boolean formula F. The answer must be YES if more than half of all assignments x < sub > 1 </ sub >, x < sub > 2 </ sub >, ..., x < sub > n </ sub > make F true and NO otherwise.

This can be easily shown by exhibiting a polynomial-space algorithm for MAJSAT, defined below ; simply try all assignments and count the number of satisfying ones.

PP has natural complete problems, for example, MAJSAT.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

If the candidate relies on sponsors, the celebrant asks them if they will raise the child in " the Christian faith and life " ( ECUSA BCP ), and will raise the child through " prayers and witness to grow into the full stature of Christ " to which the parents will state to each, " I will, with God's help.

In Alma Chapter 5, Alma the Younger speaks to the people of Zarahemla in which he asks 50 rhetorical questions which are widely cited in the LDS church.

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

The maximum satisfiability problem, an FNP generalization of SAT, asks for the maximum number of clauses which can be satisfied by any assignment.

( p. 238 ) “ Do you see now why it feels so good to be a critical mind ?” asks Latour: no matter which position you take, “ You ’ re always right !” ( p. 238-239 )

The is related to Hilbert's tenth problem, which asks for an algorithm to decide whether Diophantine equations have a solution.

In his reply Eusebius not only regretted the whole controversy, but also stated that he would abide by the words of the Bible, according to which the bread and wine after the consecration become the body and blood of the Lord ( see transubstantiation ); if one asks how this can take place, the answer must be that it is not according to the order of nature but in accordance with the divine omnipotence ; at any rate one must be careful not to give offense to the plain Christian.

This leaves an opportunity for the controversial practice of " fatwā shopping ", in which an individual asks the same question of different sheiks until they receive an answer they like.

The next panel shows a classroom of spiders in which a teacher asks the students why spiders celebrate " National Stupid Day ," implying that the spider was squished.

" This version asks for three words that end in " gry ," not three words each of which ends in " gry.

Two deacons go to priest-elect who, at that point, had been standing alone in the middle of the church, and bow him down to the west ( to the people ) and to the east ( to the clergy ), asking their consent by saying “ Command ye !” and then lead him through the holy doors of the altar where the archdeacon asks the bishop ’ s consent, saying, “ Command, most sacred master !” after which a priest escorts the candidate three times around the Holy Table, during which he kisses each corner of the Holy Table as well as the bishop's epigonation and right hand and prostrates himself before the holy table at each circuit.

At the end, Ray asks his father if there is a heaven, to which his father replies that it is the place where dreams come true.

In the 1994 comedy Airheads ( in which he is credited as " Lemmy von Motörhead "), one scene involving Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi, has Brendan Fraser's character, " Chazz " Chester Darvey talking to an undercover cop who is pretending to be a record executive — Chazz asks him, " Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?

" Eventually, Cleese asks if Palin has any cheese at all, to which Palin replies " yes ".

* 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means ' Land of the Aryans.

These include, which instructs a search engine not to store an archived copy of the page, and, which asks that the search engine not include a snippet from the page along with the page's listing in search results.

For example, the Irish insanity defence comprises the M ' Naghten Rules and a control test which asks whether the accused was debarred from refraining from committing the act because of a defect of reason due to mental illness ( see Doyle v Wicklow County Council 1974 ) 55 IR 71.

St Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ), demonstrated in The City of God that the dimensions of the Ark corresponded to the dimensions of the human body, which corresponds to the body of Christ ; the equation of Ark and Church is still found in the Anglican rite of baptism, which asks God, " who of thy great mercy didst save Noah ," to receive into the Church the infant about to be baptised.

Finally, Odysseus asks Demodocus to return to the Trojan War theme and tell of the Trojan Horse, a stratagem in which Odysseus had played a leading role.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

But much of the land which the aborigine wanders looks as if it should be hospitable.

Yet he presents a realm of source material which may well serve other writers if not himself: the problems with which a New South must grapple in groping through a blind adolescence into the maturity of urbanization.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

We, in our country, think of war as an external threat which, if it occurs, will not be primarily of our own doing.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

Yet with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some of the fortune-happy syndicates which back him, he feels what he cannot formulate ; ;

Yours, but not mine, was an age in which innocence was fostered and carefully -- if not perhaps altogether innocently -- preserved.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.

The poems which were addressed to her, while they are far more restrained than those of `` Love In Dian's Lap '', show no great technical advance over those of the `` Narrow Vessel '' group and are, if anything, somewhat more labored.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

Loyal and unscrupulous, with a single-minded ambition to which he devoted all his energies, he outmatched the English diplomats time and time again until, by a kind of poetic justice, he fell at the battle of Courtrai, the victim of the equally nationalistic if less articulate Flemings.

Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.