A body of knowledge was there to be learned.

The twentieth century saw a burgeoning of technological applications of the large body of scientific knowledge that was by then in place.

Some of this knowledge is in the form of facts that can be explicitly represented, but some knowledge is unconscious and closely tied to the human body: for example, the machine may need to understand how an ocean makes one feel to accurately translate a specific metaphor in the text.

Studies suggest that knowledge of its existence and anatomy is scant in comparison to that of other sexual organs, and that more education about it could help alleviate social stigmas associated with the female body and female sexual pleasure ; for example, that the clitoris – and the vulva in general – are visually unappealing ; that female masturbation is taboo ; or that women's orgasms are something that " men are expected to master and control ".

" For Kant's transcendental idealism, " critique " means examining and establishing the limits of the validity of a faculty, type, or body of knowledge, especially through accounting for the limitations imposed by the fundamental, irreducible concepts in use in that knowledge system.

He is Demiurge and maker of man, but as a ray of light from above enters the body of man and gives him a soul, Yaldabaoth is filled with envy ; he tries to limit man's knowledge by forbidding him the fruit of knowledge in paradise.

The question concerned the educational value of pre-Christian classical thought: " Given that the body of knowledge of the pre-Christian Romans was heathen in origin, was it safe to teach it to Christian children?

This vision includes establishing a University College to foster both in-depth and wide-interest, society-interest driven education for upcoming engineers ; establishing a combined Graduate School to manage the graduate programs ; an increase of the student body by 50 percent ; a 50 percent increase in the number of annual Ph. D graduations ; an increase of knowledge valorisation to a campus-wide score of 4. 2 ; increasing the international position of the university to within the top-100 universities ; and increasing the embedding of the university within the city and the Brainport region by transforming the campus into a high-grade science park with laboratories, housing facilities for 700 students and researchers and supporting facilities.

In contemporary society, doctors and scientists, for example, are considered to be experts in that they hold a body of dominant knowledge that is, on the whole, inaccessible to the layman ( Fuller: 2005: 141 ).

Technically it refers to the body of Islamic law extracted from detailed Islamic sources ( which are studied in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence ) and the process of gaining knowledge of Islam through jurisprudence.

Heroes make their way in the world, and may also venture into metaphysical realms to gain knowledge and power, at the risk of body and soul.

Most of our knowledge of ancient Hebrew medicine during the 1st millennium BC comes from the Torah, i. e. the Five Books of Moses, which contain various health related laws and rituals, such as isolating infected people ( Leviticus 13: 45-46 ), washing after handling a dead body ( Numbers 19: 11-19 ) and burying excrement away from camp ( Deuteronomy 23: 12-13 ).

With the Renaissance came an increase in experimental investigation, principally in the field of dissection and body examination, thus advancing our knowledge of human anatomy.

Science is a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural world, produced by researchers making use of scientific methods, which emphasize the observation, explanation, and prediction of real world phenomena by experiment.

Such institutions may also offer non-degree certificates, which indicate completion of a set of courses comprising some body of knowledge, but the granting of such certificates is not the primary purpose of the institutions.

The advent of the Age of Enlightenment provided an intellectual framework which welcomed the practical application of the growing body of scientific knowledge — a factor evidenced in the systematic development of the steam engine, guided by scientific analysis, and the development of the political and sociological analyses, culminating in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

How the low-friction surface develops is not known exactly, but a large body of knowledge does exist.

* Non-violence ( to be in soul consciousness rather than body consciousness ) is the foundation of right view, the condition of right knowledge and the kernel of right conduct.

In another the resurrection is shown to be that of what has gone down, i. e., the body ; the knowledge concerning it is the new doctrine in contrast with that of the old philosophers ; the doctrine follows from the command to keep the body in moral purity.

* Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to-or received by-a disciple ( student ); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.

`` I'm Billy Tilghman '', said the stranger, `` and I've come for Pat Conyers' body ''.

I've come for Pat Conyers' body ''.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Curly hair, high cheekbones, wide gnomelike mouth, a pair of drummer's blocky hands, and a body that said well, maybe I can wrestle you for ten minutes -- but then I'm finished.

There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

The sequence may involve a sharp contrast: for example, a quiet meditative sway of the body succeeded by a violent leap ; ;

The creative urge, for example, transcends the body and the self.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

A body of redcoats were seen marching down a nearby slope, a tempting target for the riflemen, who threw a volley into their ranks and `` messed up '' the smart formation considerably.

With all the energy of his broken body he prayed, `` Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do ''.

that is how the Jews prepare a body for burial.

Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate's asking for Christ's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone home to mourn.

`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.

She grasped the chair arms and brought her thin body upright, like a bird alert for flight.

So, I say, Mr. Speaker, God bless you and keep you for many years not only for this body but for the United States of America and the free world.

Is the matter one for the United Nations or some other international body??

It must be conceded that his native land provided Prokofieff with many of the necessary conditions for great creative incentive: economic security and cultural opportunities, incisive idioms, social fermentations for a new national ideology -- a sympathetic public and a large body of performers especially trained to fulfill his purpose.

Let the body down slowly, taking at least five seconds for the letting down.