*" The course of life is unpredictable ... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

These two great ocean currents interact creating huge foamy breakers which constantly advance towards the shore, and building submarine shoals rich in fish, shrimps, and an amazing variety of other marine life forms.

* The Transformational Convergence Technology Office ( TCTO ) mission was to advance new crosscutting capabilities derived from a broad range of emerging technological and social trends, particularly in areas related to computing and computing-reliant subareas of the life sciences, social sciences, manufacturing, and commerce.

In 1291 the Mamluk advance into Syria compelled the friars on Carmel to abandon their monastery ; but on dispersing through Western Europe they found that Western Carmelite congregations – especially in Italy – had largely abandoned the eremetic and ascetic ideal, adopting instead the conventual life and mission of the other Mendicant orders.

Established in 1962, the Gymkhana seeks to cultivate qualities of leadership amongst students to foster a corporate life and to advance the general cause of the student body of the student body of the Institute .< ref >

Given the proposition that ' a persons life prospects should not be decided by factors outside of their control or for which a person cannot claim personal credit ' ( i. e. social status, inherited wealth, race and other accidents of birth ) a meritocracy proposes a system where people are rewarded based on their efforts, and if everyone can start on equal footing with the same opportunity to advance, then the results are just.

The connection between space flight and freedom is clearly ( as is stated explicitly in some of the stories ) an extension of the nineteenth-century American concept of the Frontier, where malcontents can advance further and claim some new land, and pioneers either bring life to barren asteroids ( as in Tales of the Flying Mountains ) or settle on Earth-like planets teeming with life, but not intelligent forms ( such as New Europe in Star Fox ).

Advances in technology now made the indigenous man and his simpler way of life appear, not only inferior, but also, even his defenders agreed, foredoomed by the inexorable advance of progress to inevitable extinction.

Other safe trade reforms seek to advance sustainability by reducing reliance on energy subsidies and oil-based transport, and ( indirectly ) improves equity in economic affairs-that is, it promotes a safer political economy which is more respectful of life in general.

Stanton-Salazar and Dornbusch found that bilingual students were more likely to obtain the necessary forms of institutional support to advance their school performance and their life chances.

* In The Battle for Wesnoth, an open source turn-based strategy game, players may advance their units as practitioners of the dark arts to the level of necromancer, thereby gaining " the terrible ability to awaken the dead with false life ", among other arcane powers.

Munemori saved two of his men at the cost of his own life and did much to clear the path for his company's victorious advance.

The Harrington rod represented a major advance in the field, as it obviated the need for prolonged casting, allowing patients greater mobility in the postoperative period and significantly reducing the quality of life burden of fusion surgery.

However, to take a rather extreme case, it would seem strange to say that when man is compared to bacteria, that mankind is not a vastly more complex and advanced form of life ; or that the invasion of the land by plants and animals was not a great advance in the history of life on this planet.

" " the whole range of evolutionary time we see general advance — improvement in all the main properties of life, including its general organization.

The film follows a single day in the life of an LAPD cop, Jake Hoyt ( Hawke ), who is scheduled to be evaluated by Detective Alonzo Harris ( Washington ), a highly decorated LAPD narcotics officer who could advance Jake's career.

Rabbi Dov Ber's view of prayer was that it is the purpose of the life on earth to advance until the perfect union with God is attained.

While the red edge is almost certainly the easiest way to directly detect life on earth via earthshine observations, it could be extremely difficult to interpret a similar feature due to life on another planet, since the wavelength of the spectral feature is not known in advance ( unlike most atomic or molecular spectral features ).

More recent longevity claims are subcategorized by many editions of Guinness World Records into four groups: " In late life, very old people often tend to advance their ages at the rate of about 17 years per decade .... Several celebrated super-centenarians ( over 110 years ) are believed to have been double lives ( father and son, relations with the same names or successive bearers of a title ) .... A number of instances have been commercially sponsored, while a fourth category of recent claims are those made for political ends ...." The estimate of 17 years per decade was corroborated by the 1901 and 1911 British censuses.

He has merely converted something he was going to lose anyway, time from his life, which, as we all know, is limited though we do not know in advance what the limit is, into something else that he wanted.

In 1311 the Roman Catholic Council of Vienne declared this notion, " that man in this present life can acquire so great and such a degree of perfection that he will be rendered inwardly sinless, and that he will not be able to advance farther in grace " ( Denziger § 471 ), to be a heresy.

* In November 2006, the entire SNO team was awarded the inaugural John C. Polanyi Award for " a recent outstanding advance in any field of the natural sciences or engineering " conducted in Canada.

exist to advance inspired arts and sciences, including alchemy.

Although Robert Owen's vision of New Harmony as an advance in social reform was not realized, the town did become a scientific center of national significance, especially in the natural sciences, most notably geology.

This ability of science to back off, move sideways, and then advance is characteristic of the natural sciences, but contrasts with the position in some social sciences, notably economics.

Through research grants, published journals, the upkeep of the American Philosophical Society Museum, an extensive library, and regular meetings, the society continues to advance a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the sciences.

Some theorists argue that the secularization of modern civilization partly results from our inability to adapt broad ethical and spiritual needs of mankind to the increasingly fast advance of the physical sciences.

Within the Earth sciences area, Goddard plays a major role in research to advance our understanding of the Earth as an environmental system, looking at questions related to how the components of that environmental system have developed, how they interact and how they evolve.

On his November 2007 paper Stop the Numbers Game, he elaborates on several reasons on why the current number-based academic evaluation system used in many fields by universities all over the world ( be it either oriented to the amount of publications or the amount of quotations each of those get ) is flawed and, instead of generating more advance of the sciences, it leads to knowledge stagnation.

" The answer, he said, was " the encouragement of research and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell.

They believe that these conspirators use the power of occult sciences ( numerology ), symbols ( Eye of Providence ), rituals ( Masonic degrees ), monuments ( National Mall landmarks ), buildings ( Manitoba Legislative Building ) and facilities ( Denver International Airport ) to advance their plot to rule the world.

The mission statement of the Trust is: " To protect, preserve and enhance for the benefit of the public the landscape, antiquities, flora, fauna, natural beauty and scientific interest of the island of Steep Holm in the County of North Somerset and to advance the education of the public in the natural sciences.

Another concern noted is that funding for VSE could instead be harnessed to advance science and technology, such as in aeronautics, commercial spacecraft and launch vehicle technology, environmental monitoring, and biomedical sciences.

* to advance the social sciences in the sectors of educational and social policy by promoting academic and applied teaching and research ;

The program focuses on basic sciences, as well as, advance classes in veterinary medicine, microbiology, and genetics.

ASIS & T seeks to advance knowledge " about information, its creation, properties, and use " as well as increase " public awareness of the information sciences and technologies and their benefits to society.

The Society grants an honourable membership to a person or persons, which have contributed significantly to advance of mathematical and natural sciences in Slovenia, and to development of the Society.

Silsila Azeemia believes that as people advance in the physical sciences, they become more distant from religion, that as their faith weakens, they stop pursuing peace and understanding of their inner being.

Will Steger joins Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in receiving the National Geographic Society's John Oliver La Gorce Medal for " accomplishments in geographic exploration, in the sciences, and for public service to advance international understanding " in 1995.

*" The natural sciences did not advance in virtue of the universal appeal of rationality.

# Scientific advance in the greater interests of society: The SSRC's founders believed that the social sciences should address real-world concerns.

The U. S. Animal Welfare Act excludes " pet stores ... state and country fairs, livestock shows, rodeos, purebred dog and cat shows, and any fairs or exhibitions intended to advance agricultural arts and sciences.