“ Pondering about Prokosch and his fate, I have come to the conclusion ,” wrote Isaac Bashevis Singer, “ that he is himself in a way at fault for being so woefully neglected.

: Pondering these questions, I sit

Pondering aloud, Rootes realizes that the Dirbanu government's reluctance to interact with Earth must be based on homophobia: since human males and females both resemble Dirbanu males, the Dirbanu were presumably digusted by the impression that Earth is a " planet full of fairies.

Pondering if he himself is a Cylon, Baltar brushes Caprica-Six aside and aligns with D ' Anna.

Pondering what to do with the manuscript, Bertie eventually decides on locking it in the bottom drawer of a bureau in his room.

Louis ' only children were daughters, and this created another dilemma for the succession of the Polish throne.

August tells him of his dilemma and Louis tells him not to give up on his music, and that if he had a concert, he wouldn't miss it for the world.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

Day and night Martin could not drag his mind from the dilemma he had made for himself.

The conflict in the countryside from 1952-1954 between the Ladinos and Indians was not a new occurrence, but rather a continuation of a dilemma fueled by a complicated mix of class, regional, political, and ethnic differences since the colonial times.

The current social dilemma is one that has emerged from the controlling body mainly relying on classic Russian ethnicities, to Kyrgyz or Turkic ethnic groups shaping and forming the infrastructure of Kyrgyzstan.

During his early period, Heinlein's writing for younger readers needed to take account of both editorial perceptions of sexuality in his novels, and potential perceptions among the buying public ; as critic William H. Patterson has put it, his dilemma was " to sort out what was really objectionable from what was only excessive over-sensitivity to imaginary librarians ".

Of course, from the chiefs ' point of view, the dilemma of an honourable ruler faced with British ultimatums can not have been easy.

The prisoner's dilemma game ( invented around 1950 by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher ) takes its name from the following scenario: you and a criminal associate have been busted.

In casual usage, the label " prisoner's dilemma " may be applied to situations not strictly matching the formal criteria of the classic or iterative games: for instance, those in which two entities could gain important benefits from cooperating or suffer from the failure to do so, but find it merely difficult or expensive, not necessarily impossible, to coordinate their activities to achieve cooperation.

Both perspectives on dreams suggest that therapy can provide relief from the dilemma of the nightmare experience.

It creates a dilemma for the patient and physician, as these scars cannot be distinguished from a melanoma.

The " Lennox crisis " refers to the political dilemma in England which arose from the dynastic ambition of the Lennoxes: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, was third in line to the Scottish throne, and his wife Margaret Douglas was niece to Henry VIII and granddaughter of Henry VII.

This puts Tess in a painful dilemma: Angel obviously thinks her a virgin and, although she does not want to deceive him, she shrinks from confessing lest she lose his love and admiration.

A dilemma arises from trying to meet important planning objectives when using the grid: pedestrianism, cost efficiency and environmental responsiveness.

This conclusion implicitly takes the first horn of the Euthyphro dilemma, asserting the independence of good and evil morality from God ( as God is defined in monotheistic belief ).

Another possible resolution of the ethical dilemma might come from the " honest placebo " effect found in a 2010 study carried out by researchers in the Program in Placebo Studies at the Harvard Medical School, where patients with irritable bowel syndrome experienced a significant beneficial effect even though they were told the pills they were taking were placebos, as compared to a control group who received no pills.

Women of this period were faced with the dilemma of protesting oppressive ideals stemming from Confucian ideology or remaining true to their family and maintaining peace and order.

Lakshmana, in a dilemma, decided it would be better that he alone die to save all of Ayodhya from falling under Durvasa's curse, and so interrupted Rama's meeting to inform him of the sage's arrival.

American philosopher William Alston attempted to defend divine command from the Euthyphro dilemma by considering what it means for God to be morally good.

The resocialization of newly released inmates who spent an unreasonable amount of time in solitary confinement and thus suffer from serious mental illnesses is a huge dilemma for society to face.

In one study, for example, Kohlberg questioned a group of boys about what would be a right or wrong action for a man facing a moral dilemma: should he steal a drug to save his wife, or refrain from theft even though that would lead to his wife's death?

" The invention of that ingenious dilemma for extorting contributions from poor and rich alike is ascribed as a tradition to Morton by Francis Bacon ; but the story is told in greater detail of Foxe by Erasmus, who says he had it from Sir Thomas More.

This dilemma goes back at least as far as Descartes, and arises from his skepticism that an evil demon might, conceivably, be controlling his every experience.

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How to respond to this is often a dilemma for the authorities.

Confronting the human dilemma: How can ecosystems provide sustainable services to benefit society ?.

It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.

If the administration does not succeed in passing the sales tax bill, or any other tax bill, it could very well be faced this spring at the fiscal session of the Legislature with an interesting dilemma.

When a hypothetical dilemma was given to 24 people and according to the dilemma they had the capability of pushing a stranger in front of a train so they could rescue five people, individuals who had taken selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were not as likely to support the idea of pushing the person.

In describing an unusual miniature fifth-century Greek bronze in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, that takes the form of a man on all fours with the foreparts of a pig, Dorothy Kent Hill expressed the artist's dilemma: how could an artist depict a man bewitched into a pig other than as a man with a pig's head?

A scientifically minded physicalist may, following Andrew Melnyk, accept the first horn of the dilemma ; that is, a physicalist could live with the idea that the current definition of physicalism may very likely end up being false as long as he believes the proposition is more plausible than any currently formulated rival proposition, such as dualism.

The lack of consensus regarding a date and destination ... reflects a dilemma for this position: on the one hand, the date needs to be early enough for the letter to be have been accepted as Pauline ... the other hand, the date and destination need to be such that the author could be confident that no contemporary of 1 Thessalonians ... could have exposed 2 Thessalonians as a ...

This dilemma was seen most notably in 1861 and 1933, as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt ( plus the newly elected Senators and Representatives ) had to wait four months before they, and the incoming-Congresses, could deal with the secession of Southern states and the Great Depression respectively.

Although Nasser and his Arab allies had been defeated, Arafat and Fatah could claim a victory, in that the majority of Palestinians, who had up to that time tended to align and sympathize with individual Arab governments, now began to agree that a ' Palestinian ' solution to their dilemma was indispensable.

For Rivers, there was a considerable dilemma involved in " curing " his patients simply in order that they could be sent back to the Western Front to die.

Glyn was commenting on a report underscoring the dilemma of rocketing house prices outstripping what locals could pay, with the report warning that '... traditional Welsh communities could die out ..." as a consequence.

Instead of using First Edition's lengthy procedure of a ' seed phase ', which could last upwards of 15 minutes, Second Edition employs an ' on-the-fly ' method for constructing dilemma combinations.

Glyn was commenting on a report underscoring the dilemma of rocketing house prices outstripping that which locals could afford, with the report warning that '... traditional Welsh communities could die out ..." as a consequence.

Packard was in a dilemma: On one hand, the firm could not produce cars in the numbers intended.

This posed a dilemma for politicians since they could not withhold the vote from the very men who were considered to have fought to preserve the British political system.

Liptzin singles out his tragedy Yankel Boila ( 1908, based on his own 1898 story ) as the " apex " of his work, and describes its title character as " a kindhearted but dull-witted Jewish youth … embroiled in a complex moral and emotional dilemma to which he could find no solution short of suicide ".

Specifically, it could be considered as advocating a National Health Service, such as was created in Britain four decades later-since a doctor who is employed by the state and gets a fixed salary for treating whoever needs medical attention would not face the dilemma discussed in the foreword.

The first dilemma was that of historical periodization and how long-term social changes could be related to an understanding of the Nazi period.

In addition to being fans of his food ( especially his trademark Salisbury steak ), the boys would often heartily anticipate encountering Chef where he would serve them in the school lunch-line, so that they could explain whatever dilemma was affecting them, usually after their traditional greeting: