The village and parish are key focal points around which sporting rivalries and other forms of local identity are built and most people feel a strong sense of loyalty to their native county, a loyalty which also often has its clearest expression on the sports field.

“ It seems to me that many philosophers are rightly realizing — to-day perhaps more than ever before — that our clearest renderings of reality, whether couched in austere conceptual terms or variegated with abundant imagery, may with equal justice be described as myths — myths in the sense of partial renderings of some human, historically conditioned standpoint of what necessarily transcends human grasp ” ( Bodkin 1938: 379 ).

Perhaps the clearest exposition of the second meaning comes in William James's Principles of Psychology where he refers to it as the combination problem.

The clearest indication of columnar structure comes from the cholinergic inputs arising from the parabigeminal nucleus, whose terminals form evenly spaced clusters that extend from top to bottom of the tectum.

The clearest example of the coordination of muscles into complex movement in the motor cortex comes from the work of Graziano and colleagues on the monkey brain.

The letter of Auxentius, a 4th-century Arian bishop of Milan, regarding the missionary Ulfilas, gives the clearest picture of Arian beliefs on the nature of the Trinity: God the Father (" unbegotten "), always existing, was separate from the lesser Jesus Christ (" only-begotten "), born before time began and creator of the world.

Political acquiescence in demutualisation was clearest in the case of the position on ' carpet baggers ', that is those who joined societies by lodging minimum amounts of £ 100 or so in the hope of profiting from a distribution of surplus after demutualisation.

One of the first and clearest instances was the portrait in The School of Athens of Michelangelo himself, as Heraclitus, which seems to draw clearly from the Sybils and ignudi of the Sistine ceiling.

The domestication of the horse was an important step toward civilization, and the clearest evidence of early use of the horse as a means of transport is from chariot burials dated c. 2000 BC.

The clearest evidence of early use of the horse as a means of transport is from chariot burials dated c. 2000 BCE.

The clearest proof of the new ruling relation of forces, from 1090, is the Crusade organised by the most important mercantile cities of the Christian states against the Islands.

Its greyer tones, giving a cloudy appearance to the underside, and lack of the Nightingale's obvious red tail side patches are the clearest plumage differences from that species.

After prayers the foetid remains of the pigs from the previous year were mixed with seeds and planted ( Scholiast on Lucian ): "" the clearest example in Greek religion of agrarian magic ," Burkert observes ( 1985 p 244 ).

Yet, perhaps the clearest influence on his art training came from a series of additional art classes he took at London's Borough Polytechnic, where he and fellow St Martin's student Leon Kossoff were taught by David Bomberg from 1947 until 1953.

She is opposite the Big Dipper, and from northern latitudes can be seen at her clearest in early November.

Such a work of art was to be the clearest and most profound expression of a folk legend, though abstracted from its nationalist particulars to a universal humanist fable.

The Ashvamedha is the clearest evidence preserved, but vestiges from Latin and Celtic traditions allow the reconstruction of a few common attributes.

The clearest one are from the 7th century Nara temple building tiles, some of them exactly depicting vines and grapes.

These usually follow a particular sequence of degeneration from, just after death, the clearest experiences of reality of which one is spiritually capable, and then proceeding to terrifying hallucinations that arise from the impulses of one's previous unskillful actions.

For this appearance, Slar was designed and rendered using computer animation, and looked different from the original appearance ; the clearest being lack of compound eyes.

In September 2007, a team of astronomers from the United States and Britain released some of the clearest pictures ever taken of outer space.

) The clearest point at which the natural sciences diverged from philosophy proper just was when they adopted paradigms for research -- especially the work of Galileo and Newton in mechanics.

The movie concludes with the astronauts looking down at Earth from the Space Station, showing most of the northern hemisphere covered in ice and snow, with one of the astronauts calling it " the clearest atmosphere ever seen.

Although polar cores have the clearest and longest chronological record, four-times or more as long, ice cores from tropical regions offer data and insights not available from polar cores and have been very influential in advancing understanding of the planets climate history and mechanisms.

Some theorists believe that it is the clearest way that we express our actual moral choices, i. e., if we say we care about something but continue to buy from parties that have a high probability of risk of harm or destruction of that thing, we don't really care about it, we are practicing a form of simple hypocrisy.

Land trusts have been around at least since Roman times but their clearest history is from the time of King Henry VIII in England.

The clearest single statement appearing in the literature, from an orthodox EM perspective, appears in Rawls ' formulation spanning pages 40 – 41 of, Ethnomethodology's Program.

The clearest alleged instance of existentialism is in the " to be, or not to be " speech, where Hamlet is thought by some to use " being " to allude to life and action, and " not being " to death and inaction.

In one of the clearest signs of Soviet control over the region, the Czechoslovakian foreign minister, Jan Masaryk, was summoned to Moscow and berated by Stalin for thinking of joining the Marshall Plan.

Possibly the clearest definition for this philosophy was offered by gay / lesbian rights advocate Diana Fuss, who wrote: " Essentialism is most commonly understood as a belief in the real, true essence of things, the invariable and fixed properties which define the ' whatness ' of a given entity ".

In one of the clearest signs of Soviet control over the region up to that point, the Czechoslovakian foreign minister, Jan Masaryk, was summoned to Moscow and berated by Stalin for considering joining the Marshall Plan.

The clearest example is provided by Augustus and Livia: whereas he would have inadvertently caused civil war, she manages, through constant and adroit manipulation, to preserve the peace, prevent a return to the Republic, and keep her own relatives in power.

Whistlers were probably heard as early as 1886 on long telephone lines, but the clearest early description was by Barkhausen in 1919.

The clearest evidence of the connection of the two masters is that afforded by pictures, particularly an altarpiece, which has alternately been assigned to each of them, and which may be due to their joint labours.

During his career as writer and while living in the mountains, Muir continued to experience the " presence of the divine in nature ," writes Holmes From Travels in Alaska: " Every particle of rock or water or air has God by its side leading it the way it should go ; The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness ; In God's wildness is the hope of the world.

Studies on the schizoid personality have developed along two distinct paths ; ( 1 ) the descriptive psychiatry tradition which focuses on overtly observable, behavioral, and describable symptoms ( finding its clearest exposition in the DSM-IV revised ); and ( 2 ) the dynamic psychiatry tradition which includes the exploration of covert or unconscious motivations and character structure as elaborated by classic psychoanalysis and object-relations theory.

The Weddell Sea has been deemed by scientists to have the clearest water of any sea.

When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as " the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as ' beat ,' and whose principal avatar he is.

Crater Lake is fed solely by falling rain and snow, with no inflow or outflow at the surface, and hence is one of the clearest lakes in the world.

Mount Graham, with some of the clearest skies in the world, is home to the Mount Graham International Observatory area, where multiple organizations have set up large telescopes in a few separate observatories authorized by a rare peace-time Congressional waiver of U. S. environmental laws.

Instead of trying to make the clearest polyphony they could, the Camerata voiced an opinion recorded by a contemporary Florentine, “ means must be found in the attempt to bring music closer to that of classical times .”

: " By further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles by which Christianity is supported, — that the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible, do miracles become, — that the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us, — that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with the events, — that they differ in many important details, far too important as it seemed to me to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitness ; — by such reflections as these, which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation.

The clearest early description of both colour and contour rivalry was made by Dutour ( 1760, 1763 ; see translations by O ' Shea, 1999a, b ).

" The way ," Washington wrote, " is easy and dictated by our clearest interest.

Jagersfontein was one of the more famous diamond mines and together with the Koffiefontein mine produced one the clearest diamonds of all mines in the early 1900s, despite being overshadowed by the mines at Kimberley ( Streeter called its diamonds of the " first water ").