Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.

Perhaps it was his misfortune, or good fortune, whichever way one looked at it, to belong to the former group, and he was struggling unconsciously to build up pressure in a world which demanded none, which was positively antagonistic to it.

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 nothing better represents this hybrid background than Mexico's languages: the country is both the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world and home to the largest number of Native American language speakers on the continent.

Perhaps some day only there could the capital of the world be established!

Perhaps the most definitive usage of the pseudonym for his hometown, in Summer Morning, Summer Night, a collection of short stories and vignettes exclusively about Green Town, Bradbury returns to the signature locale as a look back at the rapidly disappearing small-town world of the American heartland, which was the foundation of his roots.

Perhaps the most famous is his analogy between a watch and the world.

Perhaps the strangest geographically specific arcus cloud in the world is the Morning Glory, a rolling cylindrical cloud that appears unpredictably over the Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia.

Perhaps the most widely visible Buddhist leader in the world is Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, who first visited the United States in 1979.

Perhaps most notably, the concept takes on an essential role as the philosophical-spiritual basis of Thelema ( and its various delineations ), an occultic system of thought developed by the writer-mystic Aleister Crowley: Crowley argued that Will provides for a certain ground of being, as well as the possibility that rituals such as ceremonial magic, yoga, and meditation allow for conscious beings to have direct influence over reality and both the spiritual and metaphysical world.

Perhaps first known for the Alma Springs Sanitarium, built and promoted in the 1880s by millionaire lumberman and capitalist Ammi Willard Wright, it achieved its greatest prominence nationally in the 1910s and 1920s as home of the Republic Motor Truck Company, briefly the largest exclusive truck manufacturer in the world. In 1953 Alma became the first place that high-octane gas, 96 octane, was produced.

Perhaps as many as 400, 000 French Protestants emigrated to various parts of the world, including the British North American colonies.

Perhaps the most famous person to be buried in Coulsons Boothill cemetery is Muggins Taylor, the scout who carried the news of Custer's Last Stand to the world.

Perhaps the most significant legacies of Edwin's reign lay in his failures, the rise of Penda and of Mercia, and the return from Irish exile of the sons of Æthelfrith which tied the kingdom of Northumbria into the Irish sea world for generations.

Perhaps his most notable and lasting achievement was his involvement with the design of The Pentagon, the largest office building in the world.

Described as both " Rabelaisian " and also as a " spiritual enigma ," " Perhaps more than any other artist, the ample figure of Solomon Burke symbolized the ways that spirituality and commerce, ecstasy and entertainment, sex and salvation, individualism and brotherhood, could blend in the world of 1960s soul music.

Perhaps the most famous playwright in the world, William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon, wrote plays that are still performed in theatres across the world to this day.

Perhaps the most famous Welsh painters, Augustus John and his sister Gwen John, mostly lived in London and Paris ; however the landscapists Sir Kyffin Williams and Peter Prendergast remained living in Wales for most of their lives, though well in touch with the wider art world.

Perhaps the most famous megalithic structure is Stonehenge in England, although many others are known throughout the world.

Perhaps the most famous form is prayer, which is ordained by many religions as a spiritual duty, even aside from any effects on the outside world.

Perhaps the most important Vauxhall product of the 2000s so far is the fifth generation Astra, launched in early 2004 – and praised by the motoring press for its dramatic styling, which was a world of difference from the relatively bland previous Astra.

Perhaps to show that he was " living in obedience to the law ", Paul took a biblical vow along with some others ().

Perhaps the earliest prototype for a law of government, this document itself has not yet been discovered ; however it is known that it allowed some rights to his citizens.

Perhaps the first instrument of modern public international law was the Lieber Code, passed in 1863 by the Congress of the United States, to govern the conduct of US forces during the United States Civil War and considered to be the first written recitation of the rules and articles of war, adhered to by all civilized nations, the precursor of public international law.

Perhaps the earliest recorded example is the prohibition of the use of alcohol under Islamic law ( Sharia ), which is usually attributed to passages in the Qur ' an dating from the 7th century.

The small, thin bratwurst from Franconia's largest city, Nuremberg, was first documented in 1313 ; it is surprisingly small, being only 7 to 9 cm in length and weighing between 20 and 25 g. Perhaps the most popular sausage in Germany, the denominations Nürnberger Bratwurst and Nürnberger Rostbratwurst ( Rost refers to the cooking grate above the flames ) are Protected Geographical Indications ( PGI ) under EU law since 2003, and may therefore only be produced in the city of Nürnberg, where an " Association for the Protection of Nürnberger Bratwürste " was established in 1997.

Perhaps I ought to, in accordance with the law of Natural History.

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law ), Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which the astronomers of Laputa are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

Perhaps Herrnstein's most notable accomplishment in this field was the formulation of the matching law.

Perhaps the one thing in all this that Phiber and Lex Luthor agree on is that in reality there simply was no " Great Hacker War ", and that the notion of " warring hacker gangs " was an invention of overzealous law enforcement which was latched onto by irresponsible mass-media because the imagery made for good copy.

Perhaps as a result of Tomlinson's campaign, during 1998 the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee recommended that MI6 should be subject to UK employment law.

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law of planetary motion ), Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which Laputa's astronomers are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

Perhaps the greatest relevance of White-Smith, however, is that it foreshadowed the debate over whether object code ( computer program code in the form of 0s and 1s encoded in a magnetic tape or disc or in an EPROM ) was protected by US copyright law.

Perhaps the revolution's climatic confrontation between Khomeini's theocrats and the National Front occurred in June 1981 after parliament approved the law of retribution ( qisas, aka blood revenge or " an eye for an eye ").

Perhaps the nation's most outspoken white Radical on the " race question " in the late 1880s and 1890s, Tourgée had called for resistance to the Louisiana law in his widely read newspaper column, " A Bystander's Notes ," which, though written for the Chicago Republican ( later known as the Chicago Daily Inter Ocean and after 1872 known as the Chicago Record-Herald ), was syndicated in many newspapers across the country.

Perhaps more remarkable than the actual law, if we are to believe the historians of the period, is the degree to which L. Sextius and Gaius Licinius were able to disrupt the normal election of major magistrates ( no curule magistrates elected from 375 BC to 371 BC after which problems with Velitrae prompted them to permit the elections ) and therefore help to set the stage for the law that would resume the consulship with a forced plebeian seat.

Perhaps due to Lambert's influence, the 1949 code followed the French civil law model.

Perhaps a clue to these and related problems lies in the fact that changes in the intensity of hypothalamic discharges which are associated with changes in its balance lead also to qualitative alterations in reactivity.

Perhaps they are mourning a recent death and want comfort, to feel in touch with the deceased, or seek indications for future plans.

Perhaps you are not His child.

Perhaps you think the editorial meetings are solemn affairs, a little sanctimonious??

Perhaps one of the reasons these Sonatas are not programmed more often is their great length.

Perhaps this meal was like the 1932ish Baghdad tea, where she stares " unbelievingly ", horrified by the first hint of the future, when her host Dr Jordan, Director of Antiquities, pausing while playing Beethoven, says " Our Jews are perhaps different from yours.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

Perhaps the manuscript by Shakespeare is a distinct work of art from the play by the troupe, which is also distinct from the performance of the play by this troupe on this night, and all three can be judged, but are to be judged by different standards.

Perhaps the one meaningful distinction at present is the question of range: a bomber is generally a long-range aircraft capable of striking targets deep within enemy territory, whereas fighter bombers and attack aircraft are limited to ' theater ' missions in and around the immediate area of battlefield combat.

Perhaps his two most influential ideas are the concepts of the public sphere and communicative action ; the latter arriving partly as a reaction to new post-structural or so-called " post-modern " challenges to the discourse of modernity.

Perhaps the most extensive are critical health psychology and community psychology.

Perhaps equally unsurprising as the attitude of post-Domitianic historians, the poems of Martial and Statius are highly adulatory, praising Domitian's achievements as equalling those of the gods.

Perhaps the most important technical skills for electrical engineers are reflected in university programs, which emphasize strong numerical skills, computer literacy and the ability to understand the technical language and concepts that relate to electrical engineering.

Perhaps the best-known type of planetary engineering is terraforming, by which a planet's surface conditions are altered to be more like those of Earth.

Perhaps the most significant changes are in the pelvic region, where the long downwards facing iliac blade was shortened and became wide as a requirement for keeping the center of gravity stable while walking.

Perhaps the most important station in Gabon ( and one that many shortwave radio listeners are familiar with ) is the privately owned Afrique Numero Un, which operates on FM in the Libreville area and also broadcasts via shortwave radio.

In the mid-1950s Rothbard wrote an article under a pseudonym, saying that " we are not anarchists ... but not archists either ... Perhaps, then, we could call ourselves by a new name: nonarchist ," concerned with differentiating himself from communist and socialistic economic views of other anarchists ( including the individualist anarchists of the 19th century ).

Perhaps the most complex aspects of IP are IP addressing and routing.

Perhaps as a result of this, and the fact that Le Morte D ' Arthur was one of the earliest printed books in England, published by William Caxton in 1485, most later Arthurian works are derivative of Malory's.

Perhaps the most frequently-performed of his symphonies are No. 4, for strings, and No. 6 ; probably his most widely-known work, through performances and recordings, is his Concerto funebre for violin and strings, composed at the beginning of World War II and making use of a Hussite chorale and a Russian revolutionary song of 1905.

Perhaps the view for which the logical positivists are best known is the verifiability criterion of meaning, or verificationism.

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 the most prominent figures in the history of philosophy who have rejected moral rationalism are David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche.