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The bewildering number and variety of phonetic values that signs could have in Sumerian led to an unfortunate detour in understanding the language – a Paris-based orientalist, Joseph Halévy, argued from 1874 onward that Sumerian was not a natural language, but rather a secret code ( a cryptolect ), and for over a decade the leading Assyriologists battled over this issue.
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Due to the Kagyu tradition's particularly strong emphasis on guru devotion and guru yoga, and the personal transmission of esoteric instructions ( dam ngag or man ngag ) from master to disciple, the early Kagyu tradition soon gave rise to a bewildering number of independent sub-schools or sub-sects centered round individual charismatic Kagyu teachers and the hereditary lineages as well as mindstream emanation lineages.
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In contrast, mixtures with Blacks, both by Indians and Spaniards, led to a bewildering number of combinations, with " fanciful terms " to describe them.
After leaving Cherry Red records, they then went on to release a variety of singles and EPs on a bewildering number of different labels.
There is a bewildering number of " accidental " isomorphisms between various small groups of Lie type ( and alternating groups ).
Teichmüller space has a bewildering number of different natural metrics.
Among the bewildering number of changes was the change of the lead from Adam Ant to Sting to Martin Hewitt.
This was shortly afterwards joined by the four-cylinder 12 / 14, which continued in a bewildering number of guises until the First World War.
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Magnetic fields are ubiquitous among stars, yet we do not understand precisely why, nor have we fully understood the bewildering variety of plasma physical mechanisms that act in stellar environments.
Each variation may occur separately or in combination, resulting in a bewildering variety of life cycles.
In the late 1990s Apple was trimming its product line from the bewildering variety of intersecting Performa, Quadra, LC, Power Macintosh and PowerBook models to a simplified " four box " strategy: desktop and portable computers, each in both consumer and professional models.
But its arsenals display a bewildering variety of material, much of it captured from Spanish, Mauritanian ( Panhard AMLs ) or Moroccan forces ( Eland Mk7s, Ratel IFVs, AMX-13s, SK-105 Kürassiers ) and made in France, the United States, South Africa, Austria or Britain.
An almost bewildering variety of horse-drawn carriages existed.
Some climbing areas have a bewildering variety of curious and amusing names for their many routes, as seen in the list below.
After offering " a bewildering variety " of models, from twins to fours, in 1902, the range was limited to three models, all designed by Edmund Lewis, and once again, Edward VII was one of the first buyers, of a model.
After 1500, taxes on wine and other alcoholic beverages grew increasingly more burdensome, not only because of the continual increase in the level of taxation, but also because of the bewildering variety and multiplicity of the taxes.
These few remedies, on the other hand, were inadequate to cover the bewildering variety of diseases and symptoms.
Plants synthesize a bewildering variety of phytochemicals but most are derivatives of a few biochemical motifs:
According to the Good Schools Guide, In the UK, state schools exist in a bewildering variety of forms.
Taxes in both cash and kind were assessed on land, and a bewildering variety of small taxes in cash, as well as customs dues and the like, was collected by appointed officials.
McMansions often mix a bewildering variety of architectural styles and elements, combining quoins, steeply sloped roofs, multiple roof lines, complicated massing and pronounced dormers, all producing what some consider an unpleasant jumbled appearance.
Highways were known by a bewildering variety of names which typically changed at each town.
A bewildering variety and array of clocks greets the visitor in the clock room.
In addition to being a chain smoker and heavy drinker, Spider uses an extensive and bewildering variety of drugs ranging from mild stimulants, intellect enhancers, and mood-altering drugs to cocaine, heroin and rare, exotic, futuristic drugs.
Of the bewildering variety of folk music of Orissa, mention may be made of Geeta, Balipuja Geeta, Kela Keluni Geeta, Dalkhai Geeta, Kendra Geeta, Jaiphula Geeta, Ghumura Geeta, Ghoda Nacha and Danda Nacha Geeta, Gopal Ugala and Osa-Parva-Geeta etc.
The centralisation of note issue reduced the problem of the existence of " a bewildering variety of notes of varying qualities ... at fluctuating exchange rates.
There is a bewildering variety that is eaten and according to custom, one has to have a hundred different xaaks ( greens ) during Rongali Bihu.
He details a bewildering variety of alien lifeforms such as Gyrosprinters, Arrowtongues, Grove-backs, Daggerwrists, Skewers, Emperor Sea Striders and Eosapiens.
Historically, the search for logically consistent and computationally tractable gauge fixing procedures, and efforts to demonstrate their equivalence in the face of a bewildering variety of technical difficulties, has been a major driver of mathematical physics from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Preserved meat and sausages come in a bewildering variety of regional variations, and are usually accompanied by sour cream dishes and flat bread or wheat / potato wraps.
Also at the base of the Chief's walls are a bewildering variety of medium-to-large size granite boulders.
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Since no artist in China could make the bewildering array of Himalayan Tantric deities which would be indispensable for his religious activities, he needed to bring with him someone who could.
None knew whether he had the gift of foresight, or whether he merely set the stage for future events with such a bewildering cunning that only an efreet or an adept could evade acting the part given him.
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Such military engineering feats would have been completely new, and probably bewildering and demoralizing, to the Gallic defenders.
Symphonic suites typically followed the same classical / romantic form as conventional symphonies, but have now expanded to encompass an almost bewildering array of musics.
A Grecian Urn throws him into an ecstasy: its ' silent form ,' he says, ' doth tease us out of thought as doth Eternity ,'— a very happy description of the bewildering effect which such subjects have at least had upon his own mind ; and his fancy having thus got the better of his reason, we are the less surprised at the oracle which the Urn is made to utter:
As a result, later generations of language designers have found the structured programming debate tedious and even bewildering.
: The scope of the present statement precludes anything approaching an exhaustive listing of categories of UFO phenomena: much of what might be made clear at great length will have to be compressed into my remark that the scientific world at large is in for a shock when it becomes aware of the astonishing nature of the UFO phenomenon and its bewildering complextiy.
* Normally, there must be at least some freedom in how political principles are formulated, interpreted, and actually applied ; if there are too many rules and principles that people have to adhere to, the result would very likely be, that they simply cannot conform to those principles in practice, or that the bewildering complexity of rules can no longer guide behaviour.
Jasta 11 would then have a bewildering succession of other temporary commanding officers, especially when Lothar was frequently away from the front recovering from wounds.
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Arguably his most ambitious composition to date, it attempted to microsample the history of CD music up to that point ( 1982 – 1992 ) in a 20 minute collage of bewildering complexity.
It is bewildering to this day that this man, scion of one of the pre-eminent musical families of 18th century Europe, supremely taught by some of its best musicians, well connected in aristocratic and musical circles, multi lingual, versed in all musical matters and a genuinely good composer would die in penury as an ordinary music teacher in a minor German city – but this is exactly what happened.
Arguably his most ambitious composition to date, it attempted to microsample the history of CD music up to that point ( 1982 – 1992 ) in a 20 minute collage of bewildering complexity.
Willie Williams has been responsible for the design of all of U2's tours from 1982 onward, most famously the extravagant, bewildering Zoo TV Tour ( 1992 – 93 ), but also the far more minimalist War Tour ( 1982 – 83 ) and Unforgettable Fire Tour ( 1984 – 85 ), as well as the Joshua Tree Tour ( 1987 ), Lovetown Tour ( 1989 – 90 ), PopMart Tour ( 1997 – 98 ), Elevation Tour ( 2001 ), Vertigo Tour ( 2005 – 06 ) and U2 360 ° Tour ( 2009 – 11 ).
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