In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.

By the very nature of the situation, it is the union which has been able to select the time and place to bring pressure upon management.

By its nature it has always been of great psychological advantage and small efforts have required considerably greater counter-efforts.

Beyond a certain point, of course, no woman can be dominant -- nature has seen to that.

This has been a working session of an organization that, by its very nature, can only proceed along its route step by step and without dramatic changes.

It has been my lot all through life to associate with eminent scientists and at times to discuss with them the deepest and most vital of all questions, the nature of the hope of a life beyond this.

Through which he has granted us the very great and precious promises, so that through them you may become partaker of the divine nature.

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.

Miss Marple solves difficult crimes because of her shrewd intelligence, and St. Mary Mead, over her lifetime, has given her seemingly infinite examples of the negative side of human nature.

The main scholarly outlet has been the journal Annales d ' Histoire Economique et Sociale (" Annals of economic and social history "), founded in 1929 by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, which broke radically with traditional historiography by insisting on the importance of taking all levels of society into consideration and emphasized the collective nature of mentalities.

In contrast to Newton's vision of wretchedness as his willful sin and distance from God, wretchedness has instead come to mean an obstacle of physical, social, or spiritual nature to overcome in order to achieve a state of grace, happiness, or contentment.

In his book The Science Delusion ( 2012 ) he wrote that the philosophy of the organism ( organicism ) has updated the ideas of animism as it treats all of nature as alive.

He also attempts to illustrate the way in which humanity, through sexual perversion and specifically homosexuality, has defiled itself from nature and God.

The unwieldy nature of the Japanese kana with its inability to accurately represent terminal consonants has contributed to the degradation of the original Ainu.

Of other works only fragments and the titles have survived: Messeniakos, advocating the freedom of the Messenians and containing the sentiment that " God has left all men free ; nature has made no man a slave "; a Eulogy of Death, in consideration of the wide extent of human sufferings ; a Techne or instruction-book in the art

The exhaustion which visibly pervades his whole frame proves the terrible nature of the conflict in which he has been engaged.

The city ’ s lush tree canopy, which filters out pollutants and cools sidewalks and buildings, has increasingly been under assault from man and nature due to heavy rains, drought, aged forests, new pests, and urban construction.

There are additional inefficiencies arising from the highly fragmented nature of the municipal bond market which has two million outstanding issues and 50, 000 issuers in contrast to the Treasury market which has 400 issues and a single issuer.

In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.

Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;

After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.

`` Fortunately through our growth studies we have been able to see what nature does, and that helps us know what we can do ''.

Among Christian groups, the Mennonites have commonly been aware more than others of the fact that the nature of divine charity raises decisively the question of the Christian use of all forms of pressure.

With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

The title of " Mystery of God " symbolises, according to Bahá ' ís, that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá is not a manifestation of God but how a " person of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá the incompatible characteristics of a human nature and superhuman knowledge and perfection have been blended and are completely harmonized ".

Since the inefficiency is related to government tax policy, and hence is structural in nature, it has not been arbitraged away.

Although forms of brass have been in use since prehistory, its true nature as a copper-zinc alloy was not understood until the post medieval period because the zinc vapor which reacted with copper to make brass was not recognised as a metal.

The nature of " being " has also been debated and explored in Islamic philosophy, notably by Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, and Mulla Sadra.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

Although high level of stylization, mystical appeal, and surreal elegance were often preferred over realism ( such as in shan shui style ), beginning with the medieval Song Dynasty there were many Chinese painters then and afterwards who depicted scenes of nature that were vividly real.

Different from goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing ; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis.

It was the President himself who popularized the negative term " nature faker " to describe writers who depicted their animal characters with excessive anthropomorphism.

Katsushika Hokusai's pictures depicted mostly landscapes and nature.

The hierarchic nature of the Feed and an alternative, anarchic developing technology, known as the Seed, mirror the cultural conflict between East and West that is depicted in the book.

Godzilla, arguably the most well known of the Daikaiju, has played the roles of hero, villain, and force of nature in the course of his existence, one of the few kaiju of any type to be depicted in multiple roles and having those around him react in different ways, depending on how the creature itself was being presented in the films.

The first panoramas depicted urban settings, such as cities, while later panoramas depicted nature and famous military battles.

" Above all, Thompson claimed, the film depicted nature as being " titanic " while man was only " a moving lichen on the stone of time " and was a negative " caricature of the Decline of the West ," because the film was " cruel " and " brutal and brutalizing.

With their composite form and violent nature, harpies are depicted in films, television and other aspects of popular culture.

The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped nature, especially the sea, and often depicted crabs in their art.

There is much uncertainty about his original nature, especially since he was depicted as a lion, a role which usually was assigned to the son of another deity.

The Osprey is depicted as a white eagle in heraldry, and more recently has become a symbol of positive responses to nature, and has been featured on more than 50 postage stamps used as a brand name for various products and sports teams.

The film depicted America after a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and was the subject of much controversy and discussion at the time of its release due to its graphic nature and subject matter.

The dystopian society depicted in We is presided over by the Benefactor and is surrounded by a giant Green Wall to separate the citizens from primitive untamed nature.

The nature of a waterway depicted by a chart may change, and artificial aids to navigation may be altered at short notice.

Asmodeus was widely depicted as having a handsome visage, good manners and an engaging nature ; however, he was portrayed as walking with a limp and one leg was either clawed or that of a rooster.

In the Harry Potter series created by J. K. Rowling, magic is depicted as a natural force that can be used to override the usual laws of nature.

While Lestat ( Tom Cruise ) is depicted in an attractive but villainous manner, his partner Louis ( Brad Pitt ) and the child vampire Claudia ( Kirsten Dunst ) are meant to capture the audience's sympathy despite their predatory nature.

Due to a long-standing belief that dogs and monkeys are never friendly to each other, Toshiie is often depicted as reserved and stern, in contrast to Hideyoshi's talkative and easy-going nature.

The nature of a waterway depicted by a chart changes regularly, and a mariner navigating on an old or uncorrected chart is courting disaster.

Characters of this nature are often depicted as having tragic lives, but put on a front when in public to create the illusion of happiness.

Sexual relationships in major speculative fiction franchises have generally been depicted as heterosexual in nature.