Scholars note Bhaṭṭa's contribution to the decline of Buddhism.

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 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.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

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.

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

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

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

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 inside and outside Germany unanimously reject the notion, pointing out the German army was out of reserves and was being overwhelmed in late 1918.

Scholars theorize the form was originally used in Ionian dirges, with the name " elegy " derived from the Greek ε, λεγε ε, λεγε-" Woe, cry woe, cry!

Scholars who believe Paul wrote Titus date its composition from the circumstance that it was written after Paul's visit to Crete ( Titus 1: 5 ).

" Al-Obeikan, however, was subsequently removed from his position as advisor to the royal cabinet in May 2012 after opposing moves to relax gender segregation, and in August of 2012, Obeikan ’ s morning radio show “ Fatwas on Air ,” in which he would issue daily fatwas, was canceled after a royal decree that authorizes only members of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars to issue fatwas.

" Scholars have put forward several theories to explain Papias: perhaps Matthew wrote two gospels, one, now lost, in Hebrew, the other our Greek version ; or perhaps the logia was a collection of sayings rather than the gospel ; or by dialektōi Papias may have meant that Matthew wrote in the Jewish style rather than in the Hebrew language.

Scholars in the first half of the 20th century came to the conclusion that the Yahwist was produced in the monarchic period, specifically at the court of Solomon, and the Priestly work in the middle of the 5th century BC ( the author was even identified as Ezra ), but more recent thinking is that the Yahwist was written either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century, and the Priestly final edition was made late in the Exilic period or soon after.

Scholars immediately identified apparent deficiencies in Q1, which was instrumental in the development of the concept of a Shakespearean " bad quarto ".

Scholars disagree whether the reconstruction was pirated or authorised.

Scholars of Mesopotamian mythology, however, suggest that Adapa was likely associated with fishing and depicted in half-fish form many centuries before the story of Jonah appeared.

Scholars say she did notice some geographical features, but " Sacagawea ... was not the guide for the Expedition, she was important to them as an interpreter and in other ways.

Scholars William M. Reynolds and Julie A. Webber have written that Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith tradition, was a " fighter for women's rights " that was " in no way misogynistic " in contrast to some of his contemporaries.

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 recognize that classification ultimately depends on how one defines religion.

Scholars who are not Christian Scientists rely on it, but church members strongly disfavor it.

Scholars are divided on whether it is based on Ezra-Nehemiah, or reflects an earlier literary stage before the combination of Ezra and Nehemiah accounts.

In September 2007, the Central Java division and Jepara branch of the Indonesian organisation Nahdlatul Ulama ( the Awakening of the Religious Scholars ) declared the government's proposal to build a nuclear power station nearby at Balong on the Muria peninsula haram or forbidden.

Scholars do not agree on the process of how he developed his own unique model.

A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and at one point, about 40 percent of graduates were going on to earn a Ph. D. — the highest rate of any college or university in the nation.

Scholars have ranked him favorably on the list of greatest presidents for his ability to set an agenda and achieve all of it.

Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a passage usually called the Testimonium Flavianum.

Scholars lack information on this period.

Scholars have found that the styles of Shakespeare and Oxford, based on a computerised textual comparison developed by the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic, are " light years apart "; it was reported that the odds of Oxford having written Shakespeare are " lower than the odds of getting hit by lightning ".

Scholars on both sides of the question have believed Polonius is based on Lord Burghley.

Scholars disagree on the date when infant baptism was first practiced.

Scholars believe that Rashi's commentary on the Torah grew out of the lectures he gave to his students in his yeshiva, and evolved with the questions and answers they raised on it.

She graduated from Wellesley as one of the 33 Durant Scholars on June 19, 1917, with a major in English literature and minor in philosophy.

Scholars have traditionally focused attention on Melville's treatment of race, and the narrator's portrayal of his hosts as noble savages, but there is considerable disagreement as to what extent the values, attitudes and beliefs expressed are Melville's own, and whether Typee reinforces or challenges racist assessments of Pacific culture.

Scholars that continue to research the background of the Zohar include Yehudah Liebes ( who wrote his doctor's degree for Scholem on the subject of a Dictionary of the Vocabulary of the Zohar in 1976 ), and Daniel C. Matt, also a student of Scholem, who is currently reconstructing a critical edition of the Zohar based on original unpublished manuscripts.

Scholars also debate the exact influence of Jewish thought on Durkheim's work.

Scholars think it might have been an Etruscan ( or local ) creation based on Vitruvius ' treatise on architecture, in which the three deities are associated as most important.