According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

Perhaps one of the more telling signs of the passion and commitment to basketball at the high school level is the number and size of large basketball gymnasiums in the state.

Perhaps the most famous Scottish loch is Loch Ness, although there are other large examples such as Loch Awe, Loch Lomond and Loch Tay.

Perhaps what he is most known for is his contribution to the art world, giving large amounts of money to artists so they could create master works of art.

Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual invasion from Mars was taking place.

Perhaps the most famous use of the field gun in terms of advanced tactics was Napoleon's use of very large wheels on the guns that allowed them to be moved quickly even during a battle.

Perhaps the most important find is the remains of a large stone wall which may have been long and up to wide.

Perhaps the distinctions between dragons of western origin and Chinese dragons are arbitrary, since the later Roman dragon was certainly of Iranian origin: in the Roman Empire, where each military cohort had a particular identifying signum, ( military standard ), after the Parthian and Dacian Wars of Trajan in the east, the Dacian Draco military standard entered the Legion with the Cohors Sarmatarum and Cohors Dacorum ( Sarmatian and Dacian cohorts )— a large dragon fixed to the end of a lance, with large gaping jaws of silver and with the rest of the body formed of colored silk.

Perhaps the most enigmatic construction at the site is the large circular sanctuary.

Perhaps the oldest implementation of something resembling continuous tracks is to be found in theories of prehistoric erection of large stone monuments, when megaliths may have been slid atop rounded wooden logs.

Perhaps the first businesses to come to Watchemoket were inns built to service the large numbers of people coming through.

His poetry departs from his more serious sociological works, though it too harnesses nationalist sentiment: " Run, take the standard and let it be planted once again in Plevna / Night and day, let the waters of the Danube run red with blood ...." Perhaps his most famous poem was his 1911 Turan, which served to compliment his Turanist intellectual output: " For the Turks, Fatherland means neither Turkey, nor Turkestan ; Fatherland is a large and eternal country -- Turan!

Perhaps the best preserved is Zuoz ( 1, 720 m ), which is a beautiful village of typical Engadin houses, with large, thick stone and masonry walls, funnel-shaped windows, and wall paintings called sgraffito.

Perhaps the closest synonym is plant community, but vegetation can, and often does, refer to a wider range of spatial scales than that term does, including scales as large as the global.

Perhaps more to the point, there is a very large difference between the transverse bulkheads in Chinese construction, which offer no longitudinal strengthening, and the longitudinal members which Brunel adopted, almost certainly inspired by the bridge engineering in which he and his contemporaries in iron shipbuilding innovation were most versed.

Perhaps most distinctive of the area is the extremely large gamyak drum.

Perhaps overlooked but nonetheless true, when the large engines that powered the rotary machines were employed in conventional machines, the two types of machines delivered similar production capacities.

Perhaps the most prominent features of Greek Life at the University are the large, mostly Greek Revival, mansions maintained by the national fraternities and sororities as chapter houses lining South Milledge Avenue and South Lumpkin Street and the ubiquitous t-shirts worn by students on campus commemorating Greek social events.

Perhaps it was the feeling of, if not exactly forbidden, then certainly " not favored " fruit that caused them to loom so large for me.

Perhaps the most impressive addition of the modernization project is the Bing Performing Arts Center which features a two-level 800-seat theater, a suite of practice rooms, a few large classrooms for band, orchestra, and choir classes, a black box theater, a dance studio, and a room filled with electric pianos for the purpose of composing electronic music.

Perhaps his most visible legacy is the large number of his players who went on to successful coaching careers in their own right: Sharman, Alex Hannum, Tex Winter, Jack Gardner, Forrest Twogood and Bob Boyd in basketball, and Rod Dedeaux in baseball.

Perhaps his most outstanding service was during the War of 1812 when he commanded the naval forces on Lake Ontario, conducting amphibious operations in cooperation with the Army, and containing the large British fleet under the command of Sir James Yeo stationed there.

Perhaps Wortley's most notable features at this time were the vast array of railway junctions and its two gasworks, a smaller one in Lower Wortley and Leeds ' largest gasworks in New Wortley which is still marked by the presence of a large spiral guided gasholder.

Perhaps the most severe consequence of using a diode-selected array, in particular for large arrays, is the total reverse bias leakage current from the unselected bit lines.

Perhaps, with my Uncle, she found a measure of economic security that she needed ; ;

Perhaps the most commonly used international measure of development is the Human Development Index ( HDI ), which combines measures of life expectancy, education, and standard of living, in an attempt to quantify the options available to individuals within a given society.

" Perhaps you can take some measure of comfort in the knowledge that millions of Americans, indeed millions of people, share the burdens of your grief.

Perhaps one measure of how profoundly important ethnicity and autonomy were to Slovaks was a Slovak writer's 1968 call for a more positive reappraisal of the Slovak Republic.

Perhaps even more important, Castres was made the seat of the Chambre de l ' Édit of the Parliament of Toulouse, a court of justice detached from the Parliament of Toulouse and in charge of dealing with the cases involving the Protestants of Languedoc, a measure of protection granted to them by the Edict of Nantes.

Perhaps for good measure, Gildas also attacks his daughter, calling her " shameless ".

Perhaps seeing a chance to recover his possessions in Illyria and exact a measure of revenge on Rome, Demetrius immediately advised the young king to make peace with the Aetolians, with whom Philip was currently at war, and turn his attentions westward.

Perhaps present writers hypnotically cling to the older order because they consider it useful and reliable through repeated testings over the decades.

Perhaps it was because it was so late, and because she had no business to be here now.

Perhaps because only the very wealthy could afford the pursuit, in Renaissance times coin collecting became known as the " Hobby of Kings.

Perhaps because of the Emperor's background as a peasant, the Ming economic system emphasized agriculture, unlike that of the Song and the Mongolian Dynasties, which relied on traders and merchants for revenue.

Perhaps to demonstrate conciliation or because of political necessity, Henry withdrew his support for antipope Gregory VIII.

Perhaps because the breed has descended from centuries of hardy working stock, Komondors have few genetically linked problems.

Perhaps notable among the sociologists of religion is Eileen Barker, who criticizes theories of conversion precisely because they function to justify costly interventions such as deprogramming or exit counseling.

Perhaps the first remark that quarks should possess an additional quantum number was made as a short footnote in the preprint of Boris Struminsky in connection with Ω < sup >-</ sup > hyperon composed of three strange quarks with parallel spins ( this situation was peculiar, because since quarks are fermions, such combination is forbidden by the Pauli exclusion principle ): Boris Struminsky was a PhD student of Nikolay Bogolyubov.

Perhaps because of this sleep deprivation, their grades lower and their concentration is impaired.

Perhaps because of its wide attendance, Sukkot became the appropriate time for important state ceremonies.

Perhaps aware that Hutcheson eventually removed his algorithms for calculating the greatest happiness because they “ appear ’ d useless, and were disagreeable to some readers ”

Perhaps the main point of difference was the use of the Hebrew alphabet for the recording of the Germanic vernacular, which may have been adopted either because of the community's familiarity with the alphabet or to prevent the non-Jewish population understanding the correspondence.

Perhaps the first was idealism, so called because reality was said to be in the mind, or a product of our ideas.

Perhaps because of its lower socio-economic status, numerous yakuza members come from Burakumin and ethnic Korean backgrounds.

Perhaps because of this, not all theorists recognize individual capital as being as essential as labour, or distinct from social or political influence, or from instructional capacity.

Perhaps not all opponents know everything, but the analyst should because the goal is to create a system that is secure against any enemy except one that learns the key.

Perhaps this was because at one time high schools were the only public schools to admit both sexes ( as opposed to junior schools and elementary ), and girls may be required to " cover up " not to distract their male counterparts.

Perhaps because of severe loss of trade during the 1849 season, Bent's Fort was abandoned and burned.

Perhaps because of this, it was the last short story Heinlein wrote ; the remaining quarter-century of his career was devoted to writing novels and non-fiction essays.

Perhaps out of self-consciousness for the gambling aspect of the race, none of the region's schools declare that the holiday is explicitly because of the Oaks and most simply say it is an " administrative holiday.

Perhaps because of this, his passage through Alexandria around 40 instigated anti-Jewish riots.

Perhaps because of its design, a CM-5 was featured in the movie Jurassic Park in the control room for the island ( instead of a Cray X-MP supercomputer as in the novel ).

Perhaps because it is not offensive to those who do not recognize it, innuendo is often used in sitcoms and other comedy considered suitable for children, who may enjoy the comedy while being oblivious to its second meanings.

Perhaps because it was the first such process in which they had been involved, the Naskapis placed considerable faith in the consultation undertaken by Indian and Northern Affairs.