Even this relationship, however, is marked by Alan ’ s open contempt for her, and it is apparent that her affection towards him is largely unreturned and that his relationship with her is mainly based on the boost to his ego that their 14-year age gap provides ( which he is frequently heard boasting about ).

She has a fascination and apparent love-interest in the Orbots ' Commander, but doesn't see his alter ego, Rob, as anything more than a good friend and fellow supporter for peace ( she is unaware of the fact Rob and the Orbots ' Commander are the same ).

Also, some observers felt the apparent relationship with a young starlet boosted Groucho's ego, adding to his vitality.

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 ''.

Today our surging strength is apparent to everyone.

After allowing for group exposures, it is apparent that other factors must be considered if we are to comprehend fanaticism.

When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

His revolutionary anger is apparent in most of his early poems.

It should be appallingly apparent that city-trading is not a profitable military tactic.

The concept of apparent black-body temperature is used to describe the radiation received from the moon and the planets.

The apparent black-body disk temperature is the temperature which must be assumed for the black body in order that the intensity of its radiation should equal that of the observed radiation.

It is apparent from the above and from experimental evidence that the cooling requirements for the anode of free burning arcs are large compared with those for the cathode.

It is presumed that this negative head was associated with some geometric factor of the assembly, since different readings were obtained with the same fluid and the only apparent difference was the assembly and disassembly of the apparatus.

In some programs, treatment is concentrated over a short period of time, while in others, after the initial contact is established, flexible spacing of interviews has been experimentally used with apparent success.

There is no apparent reason why we should feel bound by Swadesh's rules and procedure since his predilections and aims have grown so vast.

A training program in a depressed area may have few enrollees unless there is some apparent prospect for better employment opportunities afterwards, and the prospect may be poor if the training is aimed solely at jobs in the local community.

It is apparent, therefore, that the teacher needs to know what factors have a vital bearing on the learning and adjustment of children.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

Within the first five minutes of this interview it is apparent to the therapist that `` everybody '' truthfully refers to the woman's husband.

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.

But it is apparent that no acceptable formula has been found to prevent such a possibility.

Hughes said Monday, `` It is the apparent intention of the Republican Party to campaign on the carcass of what they call Eisenhower Republicanism, but the heart stopped beating and the lifeblood congealed after Eisenhower retired.

It is this spirit which explains some of the anomalies of American Catholic higher education, in particular the wasteful duplication apparent in some areas.

The need for lifetime reading is apparent.

As syntax began to be studied more closely in the early 20th century, in relation to language learning, it became apparent to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers that knowing a language was not merely a matter of associating words with concepts, but that a critical aspect of language involves knowledge of how to put words together — sentences are usually needed in order to communicate successfully, not just isolated words.

Montesquieu did specify that " the independence of the judiciary has to be real, and not apparent merely ".

The deniability can be important to keep the state actor from being tainted by the actions, to allow the state actor to negotiate in apparent good faith by claiming they are not responsible for the actions of parties who are merely sympathizers, or to avoid being accused of belligerent actions or war crimes.

It should be noted however that Holland has later called this a merely apparent lack of back reaction, due to the incompleteness of the description.

However, Aldebaran is completely unrelated to the Hyades, as it is located much closer to Earth ( hence its apparent brightness ) and merely happens to lie along the same line of sight.

Some of them are thought to fall into the category of folk etymology and are proposed based merely on apparent similarity between " okay " and one or another phrase in a foreign language with a similar meaning and sound.

Her apparent distant cousin ( and seducer ) Alec D ' Urberville proved to be a member of a nouveau-riche 19th-century family that had merely adopted the surname of Stoke-D ' Urberville in the hope of sounding more distinguished.

This may result from the stars being physically close and gravitationally bound to each other, in which case it is physical, or this closeness may be merely apparent, in which case the multiple star is optical.

The apparent difference was merely based on legality: Since the CDA and VVD ministers did not want to dismiss Verdonk, the D66 ministers could do nothing but state the obvious legal fact that an unsupported motion has no legal consequence.

The pockets, or bubbles, of matter or antimatter would expand because of annihilations at the boundaries, which Alfvén considered as a possible explanation for the observed apparent expansion of the universe, which would be merely a local phase of a much larger history.

In the most abstract examples, the carving at first glance appears to be merely stylised foliage, with the facial element only becoming apparent on closer examination.

It soon became apparent that Japanese promises of independence were merely a sham and that Ba Maw was deceived.

As God is the source of both his specific revelation of himself in the Christian faith and the source of the general revelation of himself in nature, the findings of science and theology cannot really contradict ; the contradictions must be merely apparent and a resolution possible which is faithful to the truth of God's revelation.

Werner Hamacher has claimed that the earthquake's consequences extended into the vocabulary of philosophy, making the common metaphor of firm " grounding " for philosophers ' arguments shaky and uncertain: " Under the impression exerted by the Lisbon earthquake, which touched the European mind in one its more sensitive epochs, the metaphor of ground and tremor completely lost their apparent innocence ; they were no longer merely figures of speech " ( 263 ).

The trend toward form is apparent in several Japanese dance groups, who merely recycle Hijikata's shapes and present butoh that is mere body-shapes and choreography which would lead butoh closer to contemporary dance or performance art than anything else.

It was apparent that Scharnhorst's skills exceeded those of a merely brilliant staff officer.

In the essay Chance and Necessity ( 1970 ) Jacques Monod rejected the role of final causation in biology, instead arguing that a mixture of efficient causation and " pure chance " lead to teleonomy, or merely apparent purposefulness.

Elminster was originally thought to have been destroyed, but when he later reappeared it became apparent that he had merely been transported to another plane of existence for a time.

* Rama Corporation Ltd v Proved Tin and General Investments Ltd 2 QB 147, Slade J, " Ostensible or apparent authority ... is merely a form of estoppel, indeed, it has been termed agency by estoppel and you cannot call in aid an estoppel unless you have three ingredients: ( i ) a representation, ( ii ) reliance on the representation, and ( iii ) an alteration of your position resulting from such reliance.

A slightly different definition views signs as any indication of a medical condition that can be objectively observed ( i. e., by someone other than the patient ), whereas a symptom is merely any manifestation of a condition that is apparent to the patient ( i. e., something consciously affecting the patient ).

The crew becomes outraged when it becomes apparent that Richardson is choosing to avoid all legitimate targets in order to enter the Bungo Straits undetected in direct contradiction to mission orders, jeopardizing the boat and its crew merely to avenge the destroyed submarine.

But the loss of unity is only apparent, because in reality the idea has merely concealed its unity.

Challenged to explain this apparent U. S. government intervention in a domestic matter, Koizumi merely expressed his satisfaction that Takenaka had been befriended by such an important figure … It is hard to overestimate the scale of the opportunity offered to U. S. and global finance capital by the privatization of the Postal Savings System.

Eventually it becomes apparent that he has been copied multiple times, and inserted into various simulations, and that what he thinks of as his identity is truly not the original, but merely one of many copies.