Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

Level II, or conceptual learning, is roughly equivalent to the ability to manipulate and transform inputs, that is, the ability to solve problems.

On some occasions, simple weapons employed in an unorthodox fashion have proven advantageous, as with the Swiss pikemen who gained many victories through their ability to transform a traditionally defensive weapon into an offensive one.

But, in fact, when I look at a person I see this maelstrom of organic, chemical and electron chaos ; volatility and instability, shimmering ; and the ability to change and transform and transmute.

During this battle, Iceman's ability to transform his body into ice is finally shown, giving him the form of Iceman from the comics, being first implied in a previous confrontation between the two former best friends in which Bobby's fist ices over.

Although alteration or transformation of jazz by new influences has often been initially criticized as a “ debasement ,” Andrew Gilbert argues that jazz has the “ ability to absorb and transform influences ” from diverse musical styles.

Lycanthropy is the professed ability or power of a human being to transform into a wolf, or to gain wolf-like characteristics.

Also, like Minerva ( who had the ability to transform into an owl ), the character of McGonagall had the ability to transfigure into a cat.

This was due to the widely recognised ability of the P-Celtic or Brythonic letter ' P ' to transform into the Q-Celtic or Gaelic letter ' C '.

The term lycanthropy, referring both to the ability to transform oneself into a wolf and to the act of so doing, comes from Ancient Greek lykánthropos ( λυκάνθρωπος ): λύκος, lýkos (" wolf ") + άνθρωπος, ánthrōpos (" human ").

Perhaps his most impressive achievement as a composer was his ability to transform so many of the main musical forms of his day and stamp them with his own identity.

For example, Nakagawa Shoshujin, the 17th century founder of Nakagawa-ryū, claimed in his own writings ( Okufuji Monogatari ) that he had the ability to transform into birds and animals.

His incompetence, clumsiness and stupidity, the fact that he is usually right, and his ability to always survive perilous situations are enough to eventually transform his direct superior ( former Chief Inspector Dreyfus ) into a homicidal psychopath – to such a degree that Dreyfus even goes so far as to construct a doomsday device and threatens to destroy the world in a desperate attempt to kill Clouseau.

Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality with the cinematograph, the prolific Méliès is sometimes referred to as the " Cinemagician.

Dinoflagellates have a known ability to transform from noncyst to cyst-forming strategies, which makes recreating their evolutionary history extremely difficult.

His portrayal of " Petrushka " the puppet with a soul, was a remarkable showmanship of his ability to transform into this characters.

Spaceball One's secret weapon is its ability to transform, in parody of various transforming robot toys ( Barf describes it as " a Transformer "), into Mega Maid, a colossal cleaning woman holding a gigantic vacuum cleaner used to extract air from other planets and take it back to planet Spaceball.

Poseidon gave Periclymenus the ability to transform into any animal.

Allen plays Zelig, a curiously nondescript enigma who is discovered for his remarkable ability to transform himself to resemble anyone he's near.

Direct3D 7. 0 introduced the. dds texture format and support for transform and lighting hardware acceleration ( first available on PC hardware with NVIDIA's GeForce ), as well as the ability to allocate vertex buffers in hardware memory.

The purpose of est was " to transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with, clear up just in the process of life itself.

Their purpose was " to transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with, clear up just in the process of life itself.

This means that such factors as the health of the parents, particularly the mother, their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life, the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring.

Putting the key into the switch, pressing the accelerator with his foot, putting the car into reverse, seemed vast endeavors almost beyond the ability of his shaking body.

Even so, Emerson noted that Alcott's brilliant conversational ability did not translate into good writing.

Abdur Rahman Khan showed his usual ability in diplomatic argument, his tenacity where his own views or claims were in debate, with a sure underlying insight into the real situation.

Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing a series of missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads.

Both of these breeds have an increased ability to convert feed into lean muscle, which causes these particular breeds ' meat to have a reduced fat content.

* Many of the parts of the " conspiracy " are based on errors or plot holes identified by fans of the original movie, such as Leon's ability to bring a gun into the Tyrell building, or the reference to the sixth replicant.

Having achieved a breakthrough into the enemy's rear areas, German forces attempted to paralyze the enemy's ability to react.

Use of californium must take into account radiological concerns and the element's ability to disrupt the formation of red blood cells by bioaccumulating in skeletal tissue.

He further states that the incident brought to light Confucius ' foresight, practical political ability, and insight into human character.

All-star cheerleaders are placed into divisions, which are grouped based upon age, size of the team, gender of participants, and ability level.

Included from Camilla are Sandra's ( the titular character ) ability to turn into a cat, and the nature of her first encounter ( and the resulting sexual relationship ) with the series ' second main protagonist, Isabelle von Karatstein.

This early study has been criticized for not taking into consideration the possibility of confounding factors, such as if the ability to crack one's knuckles is associated with impaired hand functioning.

Once born into Osu caste, this Nigerian person is an outcast, shunned and ostracized, with limited opportunities or acceptance, regardless of his or her ability or merit.

At the very end of the novel, where Superman stands poised to destroy the United Nations, Norman McCay makes him realise that, when he abandoned Clark Kent fifteen years ago after the murder of Lois Lane by the Joker and retreated into his Superman self, he lost this instinctive morality and thus the ability to be the hero Superman.

Calculators also have the ability to store numbers into memory.

Trance is the ability to communicate with, and mainly to receive from, other entities, incarnate and discarnate, and may sometimes be independent of time ; it is usually divided into deep trance ( obliterative and so dangerous, where the operative abdicates the throne, quite common ) and light trance ( a high or even total degree of awareness and thus safer for the practitioner, and extremely rare when well-done ).

One important feature of dendrites, endowed by their active voltage gated conductances, is their ability to send action potentials back into the dendritic arbor.

Draugar have the ability to enter into the dreams of the living.

Professional dominatrices may take pride or differentiation in their psychological insight into their client's " needs " and fetishes, as well as their technical ability to perform complex BDSM practices, such as Japanese shibari and other forms of bondage, suspension, torture roleplay, and corporal punishment, and other such practices which require a high degree of knowledge and competency to safely oversee.

A partial solution to this is some programs ' ability to view the composite-order of elements ( such as images, effects, or other attributes ) with a visual diagram called a flowchart to nest compositions, or " comps ," directly into other compositions, thereby adding complexity to the render-order by first compositing layers in the beginning composition, then combining that resultant image with the layered images from the proceeding composition, and so on.

Loop diuretics, such as furosemide, inhibit the body's ability to reabsorb sodium at the ascending loop in the nephron which leads to an excretion of water in the urine whereas water normally follows sodium back into the extracellular fluid ( ECF ).

Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.