Scholars often note that Machiavelli glorifies instrumentality in statebuilding-an approach embodied by the saying that " the ends justify the means.

Scholars note that Petrarch's letter to Dionigi displays a strikingly " modern " attitude of aesthetic gratification in the grandeur of the scenery and is still often cited in books and journals devoted to the sport of mountaineering.

Scholars note that Cranmer had moved, however moderately at this stage, into identifying with certain Lutheran principles.

Scholars note that the famous Yankee " twang " survives mainly in the hill towns of interior New England, though it is disappearing even there.

Scholars note the influence of Leonardo da Vinci's " sfumato " ( smoky ) technique on his work, for example in his Venus and Amor and Lais of Corinth.

Scholars now reject the former notion, but note that there were certain traditions and practices used in both the Irish and British churches but not in the wider Christian world.

Scholars also note similarity between the doctrine of Upanishads and those of Plato and Kant

Scholars have examined Rocky IV and note the film's strong, yet formulaic structure that emphasizes the power of the individual, particularly an idealistic American.

Scholars note that Basil was " the man of action ", Gregory of Nazianzus " the orator " and Gregory of Nyssa " the thinker ".

In 1928, “ a hurricane ravaged both coastal and inland areas of Florida, bringing torrential rains that broke the dikes of Lake Okeechobee .” Scholars of the African diaspora note the cultural practices common to the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States in Their Eyes.

Scholars note ; " For example, citing again the passage intersecting with Rabin: that passage is from Deuteronomy 4: 42, but Drosnin ignores the words immediately following " a murderer who will murder.

Scholars note that Brazil received more enslaved Muslims than anywhere else in the Americas.

Scholars note that the Samanids revived Persian more than the Buyids and the Saffarids, while continuing to patronize Arabic to a significant degree.

Scholars in linguistic anthropology, Elinor Ochs for example, note how gender can be indexed by the stances one adopts, whether physical or linguistic.

Scholars note that cheating was prevalent on the Chinese civil service exams thousands of years ago, even when cheating carried the penalty of death for both examinee and examiner.

Scholars also note that the 5th-century Coptic version of the Gospel is part of the Berlin Codex along with the Apocryphon of John and the Sophia of Jesus Christ which are typically viewed as Gnostic texts.

Other Seattle-area bands of note include Pearl Jam, Sunn O ))), Acceptance, Aiden, Alien Crime Syndicate, Antlers, The Beautiful Mothers, Betty X, the Blakes, The Blood Brothers, Blue Scholars, The Catheters, Charlie Drown, Common Heroes, Dangermart, Daphne Loves Derby ( Kent ), Death Cab for Cutie ( Bellingham ), Daylight Basement, The Divorce, Dog Bone Sanctuary, Dolour, Drop Six, Drown Mary, Harvey Danger, Fleet Foxes, Foo Fighters, Gatsby's American Dream, Maktub, Metal Church, Minus the Bear, Macklemore, Modest Mouse ( Issaquah ), Mudhoney, The Murder City Devils, MxPx ( Bremerton ), The Myriad, Pedro the Lion, Point One, Ruby Doe, Schoolyard Heroes, Screaming Trees ( originally from Ellensburg ), Second Coming, Sky Cries Mary, Sleater-Kinney ( Olympia ), Slicing Grandpa, Smoosh, Soundgarden, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Deluxe, Supersuckers, Sweet 75, Turn to Fall, United State of Electronica, Utterance, Vendetta Red, Vexed, Vindaloo, Visqueen, Zeke and The Zero Points.

Scholars note that the similarities between Mark, Matthew, and Luke are too great to be accounted for by mere coincidence.

He makes a decision to take his inventions to the World Council of Scholars when they arrive in his town in a few days ' time, so that they will recognize his talent and allow him to work with them, as well as to make what he sees as a valuable contribution to his fellow men.

Scholars widely cite his memoirs ( Zikhronot u-masaot, or Memoirs and Travels ), his contribution to Sholom Aleichem's Yudishe Folks-Bibliothek, and his articles in his own periodical Ha-Boker Or ( The Morning Light ) and in other periodicals.

" According to William Schabas, the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, " Dadrian ’ s historical research on the Armenian Genocide is informed by a rich grasp of the legal issues ", and " his contribution both to historical and legal scholarship is enormous.

2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th century — In honor of “ an outstanding contribution in the field of History and Literature.

Scholars such as Dierk Lange attribute the decline of ancient Ghana to numerous unrelated factors, only one of which can be likely attributable to internal dynastic struggles that were instigated by Almalvorid influence and Islamic pressures, but devoid of any military conversion and conquest.

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

Scholars now agree that the word " decline " more accurately renders the intended meaning of Spengler's original German word " Untergang " ( often translated as the more emphatic " downfall "; " Unter " being " under " and " gang " being " going ", it is also accurately rendered in English as the " going under " of the West ).

Scholars of the Renaissance believed that they lived in a new age that broke free of the decline described by Petrarch.

* ---, On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture ( Atlanta: Scholars Press of American Academy of Religion, 1997 ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 ; ISBN 0-7885-0295-6, cloth, ISBN 0-7885-0296-4, pbk ).

* Magliola, Robert, On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture, Atlanta: Scholars P, American Academy of Religion, 1997 ; Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000 ( ISBN 0-7885-0296-4 ).

At the peak of the Tang Dynasty's vitality, Chinese Buddhism produced numerous spiritual masters. Scholars classified Chinese buddhism into 7-15 schools., commonly into 10 schools (: zh: 汉传佛教十宗 ).

He is one of the earliest and most prolific developers of online research resources for the field of Buddhist Studies, being the founder and managing editor of both the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and the H-Buddhism Scholars Information Network, along with having digitized and published numerous reference works.

Scholars such as Martin Verhoeven and Robert Sharf, as well as Japanese Zen monk G. Victor Sogen Hori, have argued that the breed of Japanese Zen that was propagated by New Buddhism ideologues, such as Imakita Kosen and Shaku Soen, was not typical of Japanese Zen during their time, nor is it typical of Japanese Zen now.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries.

Scholars include the linguist and Boasian Edward Sapir.

Scholars generally believe the earliest indigenous populations of Anatolia were the Hattians and Hurrians.

Scholars from this school were good orators, debaters and tacticians.

Scholars place Antoninus Pius as the leading candidate for fulfilling the role as a friend of Rabbi Judah the Prince.

Scholars moved in multiple directions, covering in disconnected fashion the social, economic, and cultural history of different eras and different parts of the globe.

Scholars are unsure how much of Aristophanes ' portrayal is fact and how much mere comic invention.

Scholars in support of the idea of Amos being from the North also say it makes more sense because of Amaziah's accusation of conspiracy found in chapter seven, verse 10.

Scholars break the book of Amos up into three sections.

Scholars have often believed that Ammianus ' work was intended for public recitation for two reasons: the overwhelming presence of accentual clausulae, which implies that it was intended to be read aloud ; and epistle 1063 of Libanius to a Marcellinus of Rome which refers to public recitations.

The Honors college enrolls 3523 undergraduate students, 613 of whom are National Merit Scholars.

Scholars have mapped at least four major regional variations of spoken American English: Northern, Southern, Midland, and Western.

Scholars think that Luke attempts to legitimate Christianity by rooting it in Israelite tradition as evidenced by Luke constantly relating Christianity to Jewish religion.

Scholars generally prefer Paul's account over that in Acts.

Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired by older traditions.

Scholars translated it for him, and he testified that their account fully agreed with Plato's account of Atlantis " or J. V. Luce's suggestion that Crantor sent " a special enquiry to Egypt " and that he may simply be referring to Plato's own claims.

He has served as scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C. and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Scholars have debated whether Athanasius ' list in 367 was the basis for the later lists.

Scholars who favored Irish parallels directly spoke out against pro-Scandinavian theories, citing them as unjustified.