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Pecuniary means he valued no further than they enabled him to promote his researches ; and to the poor, to non-beneficed clergymen, professional authors and artists his services were rendered without remuneration .< p > His nature was kindly and generous, though outwardly rude and repelling .... Later in life, for some private or personal reason, he picked a quarrel with the brother who had formed him and made a man of him, basing the dissension upon a quibble about priority unworthy of so great an investigator.
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Pecuniary and services
Pecuniary avoidance of the ban, known as implicit interest, included preferred loan rates ( often tied explicitly to the customer's demand deposit balances ) and below-cost service charges for services such as check-clearing.
Pecuniary and was
He was criticised by the Sydney Morning Herald for failing to declare his wife's membership of Life Decisions International's Board of Advisors on his entry in the Parliamentary Register of Pecuniary Interests.
Pecuniary and .
Pecuniary and theater space considerations demanded that fewer percussionists covered more percussion parts.
Pecuniary externalities appear to be externalities, but occur within the market mechanism and are not a source of market failure or inefficiency.
Pecuniary interests and competition may also be components, in contrast, camaraderie is common.
Pecuniary penalties, that is, small fines used to punish perpetrators, have been eliminated.
means and valued
Socrates valued rationality ( appealing to logic, not emotion ) as the proper means for persuasion, the discovery of truth, and the determinant for one's actions.
( Efficiency here means accomplishing goals without wasting valued assets.
However, a vigorous campaign was mounted in defence of the system, including those who supported it as an independent indication of excellence valued by outsiders ( especially foreign commercial litigants ) who did not have much else to go on, and those who contended in a letter to The Times that it was a means whereby the most able barristers from ethnic minorities could overcome prejudice.
For example, Montenegrin culture calls this krvna osveta which means " blood revenge " which had unspoken but highly valued rules.
Others valued the tests as a means for parents to measure their children's achievement and that of the school against peers.
This is done by introducing a scalar-valued function f ( s ) ( scalar valued means that f ( s ) is a simple number, such as 0. 3, while s can be a more complicated object, for example a list of destination addresses in the case of the delivery truck ), which is called the fitness function or fitness landscape.
The formal practice, an erotic yet often restrained relationship between a free adult male and a free adolescent, was valued for its pedagogic benefits and as a means of population control, though occasionally blamed for causing disorder.
Strain theory holds that crime is caused by the difficulty those in poverty have in achieving socially valued goals by legitimate means.
The spread of standard Japanese means the regional languages / dialects are now valued as " nostalgic ", " heart-warming " and " precious local identity " and many locals gradually overcame their sense of inferiority regarding their languages / dialects.
While the other Allies, in their zones of occupation, viewed a rapid revival of a German film industry with suspicion, the Soviets valued the medium as a primary means for re-educating the German populace as it emerged from twelve years of Nazi rule and mindset.
Chern – Simons theory is a gauge theory, which means that a classical configuration in the Chern – Simons theory on M with gauge group G is described by a principal G-bundle on M. The connection of this bundle is characterized by a connection one-form A which is valued in the Lie algebra g of the Lie group G. In general the connection A is only defined on individual coordinate patches, and the values of A on different patches are related by maps known as gauge transformations.
She valued socioeconomic diversity and endeavored to make the seminary affordable for students of modest means.
The role of the anthropologist may then be to analyse each culture in regards to its culturally appropriate means of attaining culturally recognized and valued goals.
Zoller also believes that knowledge in the Aquarian Age will only be valued for its ability to win wars ; scientists may even be able to precipitate earthquakes for military means, and the danger in the Aquarian Age is that knowledge and science will be abused, not industry and trade.
The word quincunx comes from Latin " quinque " which means " five " and " uncia " which means " one twelfth ", because the coin was valued at five-twelfths of an as ( a libra ), or five unciae.
In other words, an individual's expectation or estimated probability that a given behavior will bring a valued outcome determines his choice of means and the effort he will devote to these means.
Despite this series of events, Imra's leadership was highly valued in the Legion, and her position as leader, despite its means of acquisition, was allowed to stand.
( Efficiency here means accomplishing goals without wasting valued assets.
: Fair trade means that women ’ s work is properly valued and rewarded.
Philosopher Immanuel Kant, though not formally considered a personalist, made an important contribution to the personalist cause by declaring that a person is not to be valued merely as a means to the ends of other people, but that he possesses dignity ( an absolute inner worth ) and is to be valued as an end in himself.
* Rational actions ( also known as value-rational ones, wertrational ): actions which are taken because it leads to a valued goal, but with no thought of its consequences and often without consideration of the appropriateness of the means chosen to achieve it (' the end justifies the means ').
means and no
The rustling problem was by no means solved.
By no means would we discourage the production of ideas: they provide raw materials with which to work ; ;
The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.
Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.
The Hetman's `` ideas '' for news stories or editorial campaigns were by no means always fruitless or lacking in merit.
It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.
`` Looking young for your age '' means `` for your age '' and it means no more.
But a powerful sense of community, even with little or no machinery, means a great deal.
Mr. Balaguer's troubles are by no means over.
Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.
By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.
With the source of light behind the copy, there is no loss of lumen output, as with conventional boards illuminated by means of reflected light.
After all, social life in the group of the bees is by no means general, although it certainly is a striking feature.
Sometimes, although by no means always, these are indeed alkaline.
The difference is important, for although the older law of nations did cover relationships among sovereigns, this was by no means its exclusive domain.
It was, too, an optimistic philosophy, and, though it separated law from morality, it was by no means an immoral or amoral one.
By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.
so that the absence of the hymen is by no means positive proof that a girl has had sex relations.
By no means.
By no means are these isolated cases.
As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).
Though by no means an ideal procedure, a red wine may similarly be brought from the cellar to the dining room and opened twenty minutes or so before serving time.
He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.
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