The secretary's greatest achievement is perhaps the rekindling of NATO realization that East-West friction, wherever it take place around the globe, is in essence the general conflict between two entirely different societies, and must be treated as such without regard to geographical distance or lack of apparent connection.

* Discussion of the apparent " conflict " between the various explanations of lift

Eno studied at Winchester College and although his iconoclastic style became apparent early and caused some conflict with the college establishment, it also resulted in him meeting important artists and musicians including Cornelius Cardew and Gavin Bryars.

Because traits held to be due to sexual selection often conflict with the survival fitness of the individual, the question then arises as to why, in nature, in which survival of the fittest is considered the rule of thumb, such apparent liabilities are allowed to persist.

The apparent conflict between the strict order of the line-ending words and the emotional complexity of the form has the potential to create an aesthetic tension.

As a solution to the apparent conflict of interests, critics propose legislation to separate the pharmaceutical industry from the psychiatric profession.

" According to Eagleton, " Like almost all diatribes against universalism, Fish's critique of universalism has its own rigid universals: the priority at all times and places of sectoral interests, the permanence of conflict, the a priori status of belief systems, the rhetorical character of truth, the fact that all apparent openness is secretly closure, and the like.

* Although some have been confused by the apparent conflict between Trantorian self-sufficiency in terms of food supply in Prelude and the subsequent characterization in Encyclopedia Galactica of the planet as dependent upon twenty agricultural worlds for food, there is no conflict.

Atkins, like Levene and Lydon, was a control freak, but Levene had the disadvantage of having repeatedly fired Atkins over apparent trifles, and of being incapacitated on heroin much of the time — so when conflict arose again, Levene was the one to go.

This conflict takes on an unusual turn when Aunt May had his enemy, Doctor Otto Octavius ( also known as Doctor Octopus ) as an apparent sweetheart ; Peter struggles to deal with his enemy's game while not hurting his aunt.

If one divides a change in proper distance by the interval of cosmological time where the change was measured ( or takes the derivative of proper distance with respect to cosmological time ) and calls this a " velocity ", then the resulting " velocities " of galaxies or quasars can be above the speed of light, c. This apparent superluminal expansion is not in conflict with special or general relativity, and is a consequence of the particular definitions used in cosmology.

Despite this apparent conflict of interest, Black lobbied the Court for a per curiam denial of the petition.

Impressed by German technology and their apparent number of aircraft, as well as influenced by the staggering number of deaths from World War I, Lindbergh opposed U. S. entry into the impending European conflict.

In the midst of their supporting tour for the album, mounting conflict between Corgan and Chamberlin and the other band members led to the cancellation of the rest of the tour as the band entered an apparent hiatus, formally announcing a breakup in September 2003.

*" Mr. Wolfowitz's contract requiring that he adhere to the Code of Conduct for board officials and that he avoid any conflict of interest, real or apparent, were violated ";

The political overtones of the film also worried the studio, especially with conflict still apparent in the Middle East.

When fighting broke out in Slovenia and Croatia in the summer of 1991, it was immediately apparent that Bosnia would soon become embroiled in the conflict.

Analysis based on marginal cost equals marginal revenue decision rule may appear to have become irrelevant due to the wide use of cost-plus pricing. However, this conflict is more apparent than real.

Indeed, the 1947 Constitution was authorized by the Emperor ( as was declared in the letter of promulgation ), which is in apparent conflict of the 1947 Constitution, according to which that constitution was made and authorized by the nation (" the principle of popular sovereignty ").

A recurring theme of this book is that information and by extension progress are inexorable: the conflict between the neo-luddite / monarchist New Republic and the post-singularity transhuman culture that contacts them is utterly devastating for the status quo of the former, and our spy heroes are world-weary enough to realize this, exasperated by their apparent inability to understand that one can no more avoid change than one can avoid breathing.

By August 2012 it had become apparent to intelligence experts that the Syrian airforce was suffering significant technical difficulties, resulting in less than half of the airforce's most advanced counterinsurgency aircraft such as the Mi-25 Hind-D being available at any given time, due to an increased number of conflict fronts and severe maintenance burdens.

Starting in September 2003, a conflict between Repše and the Latvia First Party, one of his coalition partners, became apparent.

Aristotle recognizes that there is an apparent conflict between what he says about philia and what he says elsewhere ( and what is widely held at the time ) about the self-sufficient nature of the fulfilled life:

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

Phiddian stresses that a reader of the pamphlet must learn to distinguish between the satiric voice of Jonathan Swift and the apparent economic projections of the Proposer.

For very large distances, cosmological redshift complicates the relation between absolute and apparent magnitude, and an additional k correction might be required.

By 1907, a split between Steiner and the mainstream Theosophical Society had begun to become apparent.

These circumstances explain an apparent contradiction in Strabo, who in one sentence says that the Aedui lived between the Saône and the Doubs, and in the next, that the Sequani lived across the Saône ( eastward ).

where θ is the true angle SEE ′, is the apparent angle S ′ EE ′, and is the relative speed between the presumed fixed frame of reference ( such as heliocentric ) and the observer's one.

After March it began to pass northwards, a motion quite apparent by the middle of April ; in June it passed at the same distance from the zenith as it did in December ; and in September it passed through its most northerly position, the extreme range from north to south, i. e. the angle between the March and September positions, being 40 ″.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

In what he called " first philosophy " or metaphysics, Aristotle did intend a theological correspondence between the prime mover and deity ( presumably Zeus ); functionally, however, he provided an explanation for the apparent motion of the " fixed stars " ( now understood as the daily rotation of the Earth ).

The apparent contradiction between harming or murdering a neighbor through inoculation and the Sixth Commandment --" thou shalt not kill "-- seemed insoluble and hence stood as one of the main objections against the procedure.

The apparent contradiction between the fact that there can be only seven protoctists but also a vast number of archangels to be promoted to their order is problematic.

He partly succeeded in February 2001 when a further peace deal was brokered between Kabila, Rwanda and Uganda leading to the apparent withdrawal of foreign troops.

Thus, the change in slope between each successive point is small, reducing the apparent " jaggedness " of the approximation.

Huayna Capac's sudden death and followed days later by the Incan heir apparent from a strange disease, described by one smallpox precipitated a bitter power struggle between Huáscar, whose mother was Coya ( meaning Empress ) Mama Rahua Occillo and legetimate heir, and Atahualpa, a son who, borne to a Quitu princess, and reputedly his father's " favorite.

More often, however, there is an ecological distribution of Symbiodinium, the symbionts switching between hosts with apparent ease.

It was thought some of the apparent planets might instead have been brown dwarfs, objects intermediate in mass between planets and stars.

In 1839, Michael Faraday showed that the apparent division between static electricity, current electricity, and bioelectricity was incorrect, and all were a consequence of the behavior of a single kind of electricity appearing in opposite polarities.

Williams chooses several women, while Roper cunningly chooses Tania ( as a mutual attraction is apparent between them ).

There are a number of factors involved in the strong and apparent visual discontinuities between successive shots in Griffith's films, and the use of cross-cutting between parallel actions is only the most obvious of these.

F. Phillip Bowden and David Tabor ( 1950 ) showed that at a microscopic level, the actual area of contact between surfaces is a very small fraction of the apparent area.

The Fermi paradox ( or Fermi's paradox ) is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity's lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations.

The attraction between a magnet and ferromagnetic material is " the quality of magnetism first apparent to the ancient world, and to us today ".