Since antiquity, Ithaca has been identified as the home of the mythological hero Odysseus.

Since he is a fictional character, the name Odysseus does not appear to mean anyone at all ; yet sentences like " Odysseus was set down on the beach at Ithaca " are meaningful, in that they can be true or false.

Since " argosy " and " odyssey " sound alike and both refer to ships or voyage by ship (" odyssey " refers to Odysseus ' journey, not to his ship, which goes unnamed in Homer's Odyssey ), occasionally " argosy " is misused as a synonym for " odyssey ", namely as an adventure.

Since Troy could not be captured while it safeguarded this image, the Greeks Diomedes and Odysseus made their way to the citadel in Troy by a secret passage and carried it off.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Since a Skeletal Age rating can be made at any age during growth, from Elbow, Shoulder, Knee, or Foot as well as Hand, it seems to be the method of choice when one wishes to study most aspects of skeletal developmental progress during childhood.

Since the will and word of God are for them concentrated in Christ-like love, it seems clear to them that non-violent resistance is quite another thing.

Since an objective viewer might well conclude that this is not a situation that would often arise, the film's extensive discussion of the problem seems, at best, superfluous.

Since many commentators view the notion of sense as identical to the notion of concept, and Frege regards senses as the linguistic representations of states of affairs in the world, it seems to follow that we may understand concepts as the manner in which we grasp the world.

Since Magneto was the last person on Genosha, it seems that it ’ s now totally uninhabited, which is corroborated by Wiccan and Speed when they began their search for their mother, the Scarlet Witch.

Since existence without essence seems blank, it is associated with nothingness by philosophers such as Hegel.

Since the historical Midas of the 8th century BC and Gyges are believed to have been contemporaries, it seems most likely that Herodotus believed the throne was donated by the earlier, legendary King Midas.

Since the presence of borderline cases seems to threaten principles like this one ( excluded middle ), the fact that supervaluationism can " rescue " them is seen as a virtue.

Since a mass driver could use any type of mass for reaction mass to move the spacecraft, a mass driver or some variation seems ideal for deep-space vehicles that scavenge reaction mass from found resources.

Since existence without essence seems blank, it associated with nothingness by philosophers such as Hegel.

Since these variables do not stand for individual objects, it seems we are “ ontologically committed ” to entities other than individuals — sets, classes, and so on.

Since the valley seems to be too wide to correspond with the size of the river, the valley may have been formed by water from unknown sources in prehistoric times.

Since the sea flooded it, the valley seems to have been kept open by tidal action.

Since, in certain grammatical circumstances ( soft mutation ) the Welsh initial ' G ' is lost, the river seems to have been named from its silty nature.

John Cox suggests that it is linked to the unfolding conflict between the Earl of Essex and Queen Elizabeth, in which Parthenophe stands for Elizabeth: " Since Parthenophe means virgin Barnes's dream seems unavoidably political, and the stance of frustrated expectation, occasioned by an unyielding and unapproachable female, seems appropriate to one of Essex's party in the early 1590s.

Since the 1990s, a number of conservative politicians has called for an abolition of this rule, but there seems to be no majority for such a change.

Since Nonius does not mention Christianity and calls himself a peripatetic, he seems not to have converted.

Since an empty sum by definition has no terms, it seems contradictory to talk about its terms ; however in practice there almost always is an expression that describes the terms of a summation, even if the range of summation happens to be empty.

Since, as just noted, it seems clear that the July 19 date is correct there appears to be no credible basis for an explanation based on the 29th.

Since this curriculum strives to reflect the values and principles of a democratic society there seems to be an opportunity for critical literacy and Media Education in Languages and Culture courses.

Since the name Hagley did not appear on the documents transferring ownership at that time, it seems likely that Dawes gave this name to the Brandywine location.

( Since Hrothgar is an old man at this time — he tells Beowulf he has been king for " fifty winters "— and Wealhþeow's two sons are not yet grown, it seems likely that Wealhþeow is much younger than Hrothgar, and may not be his first wife.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

Since the homosexuals widely use marijuana, they do not have to be initiated.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.

Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown Act.

Since two of these could be trustees of the college, actually it would be necessary to have the consent of only one elected official to impose a levy of millions of dollars of tax revenue.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

Since his Christ was to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly??

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.

Since April 15, 1962, is on Sunday your return for the calendar year 1961 will be timely filed if it is filed on or before Monday, April 16, 1962.

Since he can neither accept nor reject them all, he must be governed by the time and energy available for his prime professional obligations.

Since fly cutters are one sided and not balanced, they should be used at the slowest speed available, and fed very slowly to avoid binding.

Since there are almost no schools in the country offering graduate work in interior design this rule cannot at present be observed.

Since most European cars average more miles per gallon of gasoline than American cars, it naturally follows that the cost per kilometer for these models will be less, but the greater seating capacity of the large American cars will equalize this, provided your group is sufficiently large to fill a 7-passenger limousine.

Since the absorption of radio waves in rocklike material varies with wave length, it should be possible to sample the temperature variation at different depths beneath the surface and possibly detect changes in the structure or composition of the lunar surface material.

Since Af is ferromagnetic, we felt that any results obtained from the magnetically contaminated Af would be suspect.

Since there is a continual loss of micrometeoritic material in space because of the radiation effects, there must be a continual replenishment: otherwise, micrometeorites would have disappeared from interplanetary space.

Since emotional reactions in the higher vertebrates depend on individual experience and are aroused in man, in addition, by complex symbols, one would expect that the hypothalamus could be excited from the cortex.

Since electrical stimulation of the posterior hypothalamus produces the effects of wakefulness while stimulation of the anterior hypothalamus induces sleep, it may be said that the reactivity of the whole organism is altered by a change in the autonomic reactivity of the hypothalamus.