To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

Though far from completion, these studies indicated beyond a doubt that savings would result which would be of unprecedented benefit to the railroads concerned, their investors, their customers, their users, and to the public at large.

There is little doubt that the students benefit from vocational education.

`` Listen, Ekstrohm, I want to give you the benefit of every doubt.

Rule 10. 05 ( a ) Comment: In applying Rule 10. 05 ( a ), the official scorer shall always give the batter the benefit of the doubt.

Alexander Pope was inclined to give Homeric nods the benefit of the doubt:

If, though, they went to a port silo, they were given the benefit of the doubt, as that grain was more than likely going overseas.

According to Kenyon, Pindar's idionsyncratic genius entitles him to the benefit of a doubt in all such cases: "... if there be actual imitation at all, it is fairly safe to conclude that it is on the part of Bacchylides.

As one historian put it, they " could scarcely doubt that the state had been taken over by a breed of men whose policy was to rob the poor for the benefit of the rich ".

Pettibon later remarked that " my values are relativistic, and I ’ ll give a cop the benefit of the doubt.

In sum, perhaps we should award Marlborough the benefit of the doubt.

The art thrives on an artist's whim, with the comfort of giving their mistakes the benefit of the doubt.

ELIZA showed that such an illusion is surprisingly easy to generate, because human judges are so ready to give the benefit of the doubt when conversational responses are capable of being interpreted as " intelligent ".

# Making relationship-enhancing attributions for behaviors: giving the benefit of the doubt

The benefit of the doubt is usually given to the catcher if there is uncertainty ; therefore, most of these situations are scored as wild pitches.

Therefore either the brake had not been applied properly by the guard, or it had been tampered with by passengers in the brake carriage ; the guard should be given the benefit of the doubt.

McClellan has responded by stating that he, like many other Americans, was inclined to give the administration the " benefit of the doubt " on the necessity of the Iraq War, and did not fully appreciate the circumstances until after leaving the " White House bubble ".

In cases where one conclusion implies a defendant's guilt and another his innocence, the " benefit of the doubt " principle would apply.

Three strategies are accountable: identifying behaviors that establish credibility, finding common ground that enables mutual understanding, and developing a trust that allows one to know when to give the benefit of the doubt.

A hadith records that, when the second Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab ( 580-644 ) came to kiss the Stone, he said in front of all assembled: " No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither harm anyone nor benefit anyone.

The trend should be given the benefit of the doubt during these reversals.

# Extra-sensory perception: In 1950, extra-sensory perception was an active area of research and Turing chooses to give ESP the benefit of the doubt, arguing that conditions could be created in which mind-reading would not affect the test.

* Three members of the Memon family – Suleiman, Hanifa and Raheen were acquitted with the judge giving them the benefit of doubt.

According to Ned Rorem, she would " always give the benefit of the doubt to her male students while overtaxing the females ".

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

The addition of endurance training later, when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury, provides that final quality that makes the top athlete, soldier or citizen.

it is a tax benefit which might be of substantial value to a corporation which expects to have a high excess profits tax.

Normally, because agricultural labor is not covered by unemployment insurance, we would not expect any issues to arise regarding benefit payments under the trade dispute provision of the Unemployment Insurance Code, although such a situation is quite within the realm of possibility.

Statements by other legislators that Dallas is paying for all its water program by local bonds, and that less populous places would benefit most by the pending bill, did not sway Cotten's attack.

He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents.

Used in this sense, it usually contrasted to egoism, which is defined as acting to the benefit of one self.

This type of sociology seeks contributions that aid grassroots and theoretical understandings of what motivates altruism and how it is organized, and promotes an altruistic focus in order to benefit the world and people it studies.

The kitchen is separated from the living area ( called the stube, the area of the home heated by a stove ), and second-floor bedrooms benefit from rising heat.

One benefit is that the statistical moment calculations can be carried out to arbitrary accuracy such that the computations can be tuned to the precision of, e. g., the data storage format or the original measurement hardware.

Spencer wrote that in production the advantages of the superior individual is comparatively minor, and thus acceptable, yet the benefit that dominance provides those who control a large segment of production might be hazardous to competition.

The analgesic choice is also determined by the type of pain: for neuropathic pain, traditional analgesics are less effective, and there is often benefit from classes of drugs that are not normally considered analgesics, such as tricyclic antidepressants and anticonvulsants.

In the case of parallelization, Amdahl's law states that if P is the proportion of a program that can be made parallel ( i. e., benefit from parallelization ), and ( 1 − P ) is the proportion that cannot be parallelized ( remains serial ), then the maximum speedup that can be achieved by using N processors is

Anointing of the Sick, known also by other names, is distinguished from other forms of religious anointing or " unction " ( an older term with the same meaning ) in that it is intended, as its name indicates, for the benefit of a sick person.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

Sometimes medication is combined with psychotherapy but research has found that there is no benefit of combined pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy versus monotherapy.