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The actual reason light acts as such a potent Achilles ' heel for grues is inconsistently given — some games imply that grues find levels of light ordinary for humans to be intolerably, blindingly painful but can nonetheless survive it ( such as in Planetfall, where an obviously grue-like creature exists in a lit laboratory, " squinting and cursing at the light " — although the laboratory contains other creatures that are clearly mutants, so it is possible that this grue is simply a mutant that is able to survive in a lighted area.
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It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.
The stage is set for the concept of God as the cause of all existence, who, as the Almighty, holds everything actual without reason or explanation as an act purely of will.
That was one ( perhaps the main ) reason that a new name was devised for its successor currency, euro, which was felt not to favour any single language .. One other factor that maybe also influenced the decision not to use the name ecu for the actual EURO, was that in some European languages, as Portuguese, it also means " ass "
At the same time, there certainly is no reason to avoid the use of the terms Invertebrata or invertebrates when they are convenient, but it is important not to confuse the terms with the names or relationships of actual taxa.
: Because children below the age of reason did not commit actual sin, theologians came to the common view that these unbaptized children feel no pain at all or even that they enjoy a full, though only natural, happiness through their mediated union with God in all natural goods ( Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus ).
They didn't write * for the same reason that English spells dogs, not * dogz, in spite of actual pronunciation being.
Some theorists argue that a metaphysical account of morality is necessary for the proper evaluation of actual moral theories and for making practical moral decisions ; others reason from opposite premises and suggest that we must impart ideas of moral intuition onto proper action before we can give a proper account of morality's metaphysics.
The notion of the noumenal can only function as a heuristic of reason, not as an actual something to be experienced by contingent beings.
The reason for the reform was that the average length of the year in the Julian calendar was too long – it treated each year as 365 days, 6 hours in length, whereas calculations showed that the actual mean length of a year is slightly less ( 365 days, 5 hours and 49 minutes ) As a result, the date of the actual vernal equinox had slowly ( over the course of 13 centuries ) slipped to 10 March, while the computus ( calculation ) of the date of Easter still followed the traditional date of 21 March.
That some occasions of experience involve experience in the mode of presentational immediacy is the one and only reason why Whitehead makes the occasions of experience his actual entities ; for the actual entities must be of the ultimately general kind.
For this reason, where there is a consensus among political parties not to have a contest, the President may be ' elected ' without the occurrence of an actual ballot.
If for some reason the researcher or archivist does need to handle the actual photo, perhaps to examine the verso for writing, he or she can use gloves if there appears to be a risk from oils or dirt on the hands.
", ostensibly to call attention to a real fire in the actual theater in which the play is being performed, but laughs it off as a reason why there should be limits to free speech, and thus blurring of the line between action in the play and action in real life.
However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.
Misunderstandings, such as the belief that the encoding declaration affects a change in the actual encoding ( whereas it is actually just a label that could be inaccurate ), is also a reason for this editor attitude.
It will in no way be denied that at the time I believed in such possibilities and for that reason renounced the actual vocation of thinking in favor of being effective in an official capacity.
For this reason, engineers, contractors, and management are frequently forced to develop documentation reflecting the actual status of the item before they can proceed with a change.
Sirens continued to be used as a symbol for the dangerous temptation embodied by women regularly throughout Christian art of the medieval era ; however, in the 17th century, some Jesuit writers began to assert their actual existence, including Cornelius a Lapide, who said of Woman, " her glance is that of the fabled basilisk, her voice a siren's voice — with her voice she enchants, with her beauty she deprives of reason — voice and sight alike deal destruction and death.
As pointed out by Christopher Clark, the actual Tannenberg is some to the west, and there was no intrinsic reason — other than the historical battle and its emotive resonance in the narrative of German and Slavic nationalism — to give its name to the 1914 battle.
White stated that while the theory had the scientific characteristics of explanatory power and public debate, the only reason it has received any actual scholarly attention is due to its public appeal, ultimately concluding the AAH was unscientific.
Whatever the actual reason was, Máel Morda sought allies with which to defy the High-King.
Its goodness is its actual cause-its purpose, telos or " reason for which " ( Timaeus 27d8-29a ).
For this reason, latent prints usually present an “ inevitable source of error in making comparisons ,” as they generally “ contain less clarity, less content, and less undistorted information than a fingerprint taken under controlled conditions, and much, much less detail compared to the actual patterns of ridges and grooves of a finger .”
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The need that we not give unqualified approval to any but a limited use of economic pressure directed against the actual doers of injustice is clear also in light of the fact that White Citizens' Councils seem resolved to maintain segregation mainly by the use of these same means and not ordinarily by physical violence.
The actual pressure exerted by light is far too small to move these vanes, but can be measured with devices such as the Nichols radiometer.
The actual measurements show that free-falling frames are the ones in which light propagates as it does in special relativity.
With actual liquid crystal between the polarizing filters, light passing through the first filter would be blocked by the second ( crossed ) polarizer.
In actual use, the room is never completely dark, as one will always have the light from the LCD itself.
However, the slowing process in matter is thought to result not from actual slowing of particles of light, but rather from their absorption and re-emission from charged particles in matter.
Most researchers of the subject at the time used the perceived light of a dim phosphorescent surface as " detectors ", although work in the period clearly showed the change in brightness to be a physiological phenomenon rather than some actual change in the level of illumination.
The first such gravitational lens to be discovered was the double-imaged quasar Q0957 + 561 ( or Twin Quasar ) in 1979 A grouping of two or more quasars can result from a chance alignment, physical proximity, actual close physical interaction, or effects of gravity bending the light of a single quasar into two or more images.
There are 64 identical pieces called ' disks ' ( often spelled ' discs '), which are light on one side and dark on the other — physically with an actual set, or conceptually via computer — to correspond with the opponents in a game.
It may at first seem counterintuitive or " backwards " to send rays away from the camera, rather than into it ( as actual light does in reality ), but doing so is many orders of magnitude more efficient.
** Docklands Light Railway: normally abbreviated DLR, this is the automatically driven light rail network in east London, although actual operation and maintenance is undertaken by a private sector franchisee.
" In Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc., the Court held that " n light of the reduced constitutional value of speech involving no matters of public concern ... the state interest adequately supports awards of presumed and punitive damages – even absent a showing of ' actual malice.
There is also Sword Art Online ( ソードアート ・ オンライン, Sōdoāto Onrain ), a light novel series written by Reki Kawahara ; it is about 10, 000 people being trapped in a game world where in the game would mean an actual " death " in real life and the only way to escape is to complete the game.
Alternatively, Snell's law can be derived using interference of all possible paths of light wave from source to observer — it results in destructive interference everywhere except extrema of phase ( where interference is constructive )— which become actual paths.
In modern times, the practice of statutory interpretation frequently refers to the actual intention of the draftsman as expressed in the words of the Act, but considered in the light of contemporary knowledge.
The colors are called " black " and " white " ( or " light " and " dark "), although the actual colors are usually dark green and buff for boards used in competition, and often natural shades of light and dark woods for home boards.
The actual photopigment is bleached away in bright light and only replaced as a chemical process, so in a transition from bright light to darkness the eye can take up to thirty minutes to reach full sensitivity ( see Adaptation ( eye )).
According to this version, Constantine with his army was marching ( Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it clearly is not in the camp at Rome ), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words " Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα ", En toutō níka, usually translated into Latin as " in hoc signo vinces ," both phrases have the literal meaning " In this sign, shall conquer ;" a more free translation would be " Through this sign shall conquer ".
The actual claim made is that the Jews were chosen for a specific mission, a duty: to be a light unto the nations, and to have a covenant with God as described in the Torah.
These representations can be as simple as an on-screen traffic light, which represents the state of an actual traffic light in the field, or as complex as a multi-projector display representing the position of all of the elevators in a skyscraper or all of the trains on a railway.
A star is classified as variable if its apparent magnitude as seen from Earth changes over time, whether the changes are due to variations in the star's actual luminosity, or to variations in the amount of the star's light that is blocked from reaching Earth.
The secret of Blake ’ s appeal, or Blakes appeal, for the otherwise infallibly fatale Servalan remained a mystery, like the actual wattage of light bulb on which the design of Blake ’ s spaceship, or Blakes spaceship, was plainly based.
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