The terms ' integrative ' or ' integrated medicine ' indicate combinations of conventional and alternative medical treatments that have some scientific proof of efficacy ; such practices are viewed by advocates as the best examples of complementary medicine.

That Homer possesses this rapidity without falling into the corresponding faults, that is, without becoming either fluctuant or monotonous, is perhaps the best proof of his unequalled poetic skill.

Only by the strongest pressure of the Crown were Parliaments maintained during the first century of their existence and the best proof of this assertion lies in the fact that in those countries where the Crown was weak, Parliament ceased to exist.

Paul Joseph Cohen ( April 2, 1934 — March 23, 2007 ) was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.

I think that in all essential respects you have given the best possible proof & this does not happen frequently.

The burden of proof is often associated with the Latin maxim semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, the best translation of which seems to be: " the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges.

The proof of the theorem shows that a randomly constructed error correcting code is essentially as good as the best possible code ; the theorem is proved through the statistics of such random codes.

For the doctrine of proof, Galen quotes the second Analytic of Theophrastus, in conjunction with that of Aristotle, as the best treatises on that doctrine.

This war you are engaged in is the best proof.

I had been doing my best to show in print that the Xn Scientist cult has become a power in the land – well, here is the proof: it has scared the biggest publisher in the Union.

Brown left and was replaced by David Pajo ( formerly of Slint ) for 1996's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, which showed up on many year-end best of lists, and the 20 minute Djed was described by critic John Bush as proof that " Tortoise made experimental rock do double duty as evocative, beautiful music.

His police procedure is to develop the theory that best fits what he perceives in original evidence ; he then doggedly pursues the general line until he obtains proof.

*** When she saw her name beside the 1 on the rankings, she finally had proof that she was the best.

Although no mathematical proof exists that this is the best possible packing for those shapes, the high proximity to the unity and independency of the findings make it unlikely that an even denser packing is to be found.

Among his best known results are the solution of the classical recognition problem for 3-manifolds ( with Robert J. Daverman ) and the proof of the 4-dimensional Cellularity Criterion.

When the B * search terminates with a proof that one move is best, and there is still time remaining, then Maven widens its estimates by 1 point and searches again.

Although not 100 % complete in its scope ( some lines might have been excluded due to lack of proof, although no false lines are included ) the resulting ' Kitab al-Ashraf ( Book of the Sharifs ), kept at the Topkapi Palace ( Museum ) in Istanbul is one of the best sources of evidence of descent from Muhammad.

The best known of these is the proof in his PhD thesis that Yang – Mills theories are renormalizable, for which he shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The character and work of Christ were, he held, the ultimate proof and the best defence of Christianity ; and his tendency was to concentrate attention somewhat narrowly on the historic Jesus.

In these cases, the proof of concept may mean specialized sales engineers will be utilized to ensure that the vendor makes a best possible effort.

Preda V. Mihăilescu ( born May 23, 1955 ) is a Romanian mathematician, best known for his proof of Catalan's conjecture.

He is best known for his proof from 1975 of an old conjecture of Paul Erdős and Paul Turán: if a sequence of natural numbers has positive upper density then it contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.

They decided to choose twelve humans who would represent the best qualities of the human race, make them immortal, and present them to the Celestials as proof of humanity's worth ; these would be known as the Young Gods.

He is best known for having discovered the Ricci flow and suggesting the research program that ultimately led to the proof, by Grigori Perelman, of the Thurston geometrization conjecture and the solution of the Poincaré conjecture.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

It was best to die fighting the marines.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

He felt as I felt about this best of all my books, that it was `` really tops ''.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.