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One strong argument is that Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, did not believe the Boers were preparing for war, and also believed that if Britain were to send large numbers of troops, it would strike too aggressive a posture and so prevent a negotiated settlement being reached or even encourage a Boer attack.
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One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.
One of his paraphrases from a well-known line in Ecclesiastes ran: " The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.
One strong possibility is that it is a diptych ( i. e., divided into two parts ), with the division between parts 1 and 2 at the crossing of the Red Sea or at the beginning of the theophany ( appearance of God ) in chapter 19.
One strong theme amongst folk scholars in the early decades of the 20th century was regionalism.
One of the first appearances of a strong female character was that of Wonder Woman co-created by husband and wife team William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston.
One of the most notable researchers arguing for a strong genetic influence on these average score differences is Arthur Jensen.
One feature of this name is that IONA has the same spelling as the island of Iona which is off the coast of Scotland but with which Irish people have strong cultural associations.
One inevitable ambiguity about these structures relates to the strong evidence that channels change conformation as they operate ( they open and close, for example ), such that the structure in the crystal could represent any one of these operational states.
One evening Susan was studying an endgame with their trainer, a strong International Master.
One who studies these books in the order of their production with reference to their inner content finds a direct development with a strong reformatory tendency.
One sweep of the loch made contact with a strong, animate echo for nearly three minutes just north of Foyers.
One of Shakespeare's most forceful female characters, she spurs her husband mercilessly to kill Duncan and urges him to be strong afterward, yet is herself eventually driven to death by the effect of Macbeth's murders on her conscience.
One innovation that helped create the sound of the modern piano was the use of a strong iron frame.
One track on the latter exemplified both the scene's close-knit character and the popularity of heroin within it: " Chinese Rocks "— the title refers to a strong form of the drug — was written by Dee Dee Ramone and Hell, both users, as were the Heartbreakers ' Thunders and Nolan.
One way to do this, which has been used extensively, is to titrate a solution of known concentration of a strong acid with a solution of known concentration of strong alkali in the presence of a relatively high concentration of background electrolyte.
One strong argument against them was that they implied energies that were far in excess of known energy conversion processes, including nuclear fusion.
One tradition of interpretation exemplified by his critics such as Eric Lenneberg, Max Black and Steven Pinker attributes him a very strong view of linguistic determinism, according to which commensuration between conceptual schemes and translation between languages is impossible.
Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".
One of the most noticeable groups of São Paulo's samba, Demônios da Garoa ( Drizzle's Demons ), had a strong link with Adoniran Barbosa, who composed the musics they sang.
One study concluded: " Even when HLA-B alleles behave as strong risk factors, as for allopurinol, they are neither sufficient nor necessary to explain the disease.
One medication for " classical " back pain such as a weak or strong opioid ( e. g. tramadol and Oxycontin respectively ) combined with a medication to combat any neuropathic pain symptoms such as shooting and stabbing pains ( e. g. Neurontin or Lyrica ).
One of these is cis-3-methyl-4-octanolide, known as the " whisky lactone " or " quercus lactone ", a compound with a strong coconut aroma.
One normally obtains spaces of distributions by forming the strong dual of a space of test functions ( such as the compactly supported smooth functions on R < sup > n </ sup >).
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One year the Department collected a file of case histories to document its argument that men in the field were paying the government's entertainment bills out of personal income.
One way to demonstrate the invalidity of this argument form is with a counterexample with true premises but an obviously false conclusion.
One argument given in favor of using the axiom of choice is that it is convenient to use it because it allows one to prove some simplifying propositions that otherwise could not be proved.
One argument often made by the opponents of the anti-globalization movement ( especially by The Economist ), is that one of the major causes of poverty amongst third-world farmers are the trade barriers put up by rich nations and poor nations alike.
One argument claims that this is an instance of " devolution " -- showing an evolutionary trend of decreasing complexity.
One argument in the field of philosophy of consciousness deals with what it is that makes a mental state “ conscious ” in the sense of there being something it is like to experience that state.
One objection to the argument is that it leaves open the question of why the First Cause is unique in that it does not require a cause.
Some cosmologists and physicists argue that a challenge to the cosmological argument is the nature of time: " One finds that time just disappears from the Wheeler – DeWitt equation " ( Carlo Rovelli ).
One argument is that liberalism provides democracy with the experience of civic reformism.
One line of argument in favor of externalism begins with the observation that if what justified our beliefs failed to eliminate significantly the risk of error, then it does not seem that knowledge would be attainable as it would appear that when our beliefs did happen to be correct, this would really be a matter of good fortune.
One way to use this in a response to skepticism is to apply the same strategy to the terms used in a skeptical argument in the following way ( DeRose, 1999 ):
One argument based on incompatible properties rests on a definition of God that includes a will, plan or purpose and an existence outside of time.
One argument is that liberalism provides democracy with the experience of civic reformism.
One argument against non-cognitivism is that it ignores the external causes of emotional and prescriptive reactions.
* Mencius: One of the most important thinkers in the Confucian school, he is the first theorist to make a coherent argument for an obligation of rulers to the ruled.
One should always question every case and argument and constantly check for errors or invalid claims.
One common interpretation of the argument is that while one may have direct or privileged access to one's current mental states, there is no such infallible access to identifying previous mental states that one had in the past.
One argument states that Plautus writes with originality and creativity — the other, that Plautus is a copycat of Greek New Comedy and that he makes no original contribution to playwriting.
One highly publicized legal battle occurred in 1960 involving the opening of a new theatre that was to be open to all races ; the proposed unsegregated restrooms at the newly-built Reps Theatre in 1959 caused an argument called " The Battle of the Toilets ".
One argument in the SCA is the meaning of " Creative Anachronism ".
One commentator asserts that the film garnered little attention from critics, " except to provoke argument about censoring its grisly scenes ".
One answer has been to conceive of a different form of rational argument, one that does not rely on deduction.
One way to rigorously define the delta function is as a measure, which accepts as an argument a subset A of the real line R, and returns δ ( A )
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