According to Grotius, letters of marque and reprisal were akin to a " private war ", a concept alien to modern sensibilities but related to an age when the ocean was lawless and all merchant vessels sailed armed for self-defense.

One example of a simple sentence that displays synecdoche, metaphor, and metonymy is: " Fifty keels ploughed the deep ", where " keels " is the synecdoche, as it names the whole ( the ship ) after a particular part ( of the ship ); " ploughed " is the metaphor, as it substitutes the concept of ploughing a field for moving through the ocean ; and " the deep " is the metonym, as " depth " is an attribute associated with the ocean.

Vietnam War-era activists, such as Seymour Melman, referred frequently to the concept, and use continued throughout the Cold War: George F. Kennan wrote in his preface to Norman Cousins's 1987 book The Pathology of Power, " Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.

The concept of a spherical Earth displaced earlier beliefs in a flat Earth: In early Mesopotamian mythology, the world was portrayed as a flat disk floating in the ocean and surrounded by a spherical sky,

The basic concept of Wernerian geology was the belief in an all encompassing ocean that gradually receded to its present location while precipitating or depositing almost all the rocks and minerals in the Earth's crust.

The emphasis on this initially universal ocean spawned the term Neptunism that became applied to the concept and it became virtually synonymous with Wernerian teaching, although Jean-Étienne Guettard in France actually originated the view.

This concept of a global ocean as a continuous body of water with relatively free interchange among its parts is of fundamental importance to oceanography.

* Seasteading, a concept applying homesteading to the ocean, is a related process.

In 1985 Night Ranger continued headlining their own tours in support of Seven Wishes which followed a very loose concept of the band flying across the ocean in a WWII B-25 Mitchell bomber.

It was envisioned as a concept of how humans could live harmoniously on the ocean, and a prototype for marine communities.

For the concept of New York City and London as " a single city separated by an ocean ", which is also sometimes spelled " NY-Lon ", see NYLON.

In order to describe the connotations of the Spanda concept, a series of equivalent concepts are enumerated, such as: self recurrent consciousness-vimarśa, unimpeded will of the Supreme Consciousness ( cit )-svātantrya, supreme creative energy-visarga, heart of the divine-hṛdaya and ocean of light-consciousness-cidānanda.

* Celestial ocean, a mythological concept, not specific to astronomy

The whole idea of a single-handed ocean yacht race was a revolutionary concept at the time, as the idea was thought to be extremely impractical ; but this was especially true given the adverse conditions of their proposed route — a westward crossing of the north Atlantic Ocean, against the prevailing winds.

Many variations of the concept exist, including a tube above the seabed, a tunnel beneath the ocean floor, or some combination of the two.

The concept of the building was to take visitors under the ocean to " Sea Base Alpha ".

Many metaphors, such as, the illustration of curd and butter, banyan tree and its seed, rivers and ocean etc, are given to illustrate the concept of Atman.

The origins of the type are unknown but certainly hulls conforming to the concept were being built in Jamaica and Bermuda ( the hull of the Bermuda sloop, designed for the open ocean, was broader than the Jamaican and deeper than the American ) by the late 17th century and by the late 18th century were popular both in Britain and the United States.

Although the VPI / VCI values are not necessarily consistent from one end of the connection to the other, the concept of a circuit is consistent ( unlike IP, where any given packet could get to its destination by a different route than the others ).

He wrote a number of software packages ( including BRL-CAD ) and network tools ( including ttcp and the concept of the default route or " default gateway ") and contributed to many others ( including BIND ).

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

While this doesn ’ t quite make complete sense, Lewis wished to stress its implicit point: that even within the attempt to prove that the concept of omnipotence is immediately incoherent, one admits that it is immediately coherent, and that the only difference is that this attempt if forced to admit this despite that the attempt is constituted by a perfectly irrational route to its own unwilling end, with a perfectly irrational set of ' things ' included in that end.

He has written in critique of Unger's early work as being unable to chart a route for the idea to pass into reality, which leaves history closed and the individual holding onto the concept while kicking against air.

There was perhaps a more direct route available: the abelian category concept had been introduced by Grothendieck in his foundational work on homological algebra, to unify categories of sheaves of abelian groups, and of modules.

The concept of a route from one tip of the Americas to the other was originally proposed at the First Pan-American Conference in 1889 as a railroad ; however, nothing ever came of this proposal.

Sylvania's MOBIDIC, short for " MOBIle DIgital Computer ", was a transistorized computer intended to store, sort and route information as one part of the US Army's Fieldata concept.

In a February 29, 2008 speech to the Toronto Board of Trade Prentice rejected the concept of direct subsidies to the auto industry, insisting that setting up a strong economic foundation is a better route to strengthen the business.

* A new concept was introduced with the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main (“ Rhine-Main Industrial Culture Route ”), along which industrial building works on the 160 km between Miltenberg and Bingen are linked together into an adventure route about the Industrial Age in southern Germany.

The concept of algorithmic probability provides a route to specifying prior probabilities based on the relative complexity of the alternative models being considered.

In addition to the original alignment of I-355, the Transportation Plan of April 1962 included the concept of a route that ran from Bolingbrook south to Joliet.

Indeed, the concept of a single route called the Pilgrims ' Way seems to be no older than the Victorian Ordnance Survey map of Surrey, whose surveyor, Edward Renouard James, published a pamphlet in 1871 entitled Notes on the Pilgrims ' Way in West Surrey.

A concept of Auto-Train Corporation founder Eugene K. Garfield, a former employee of the US Department of Transportation, the novel approach allowed families to relax en route and save the expense and unfamiliarity of a rental car on arrival.

The physical scope of an instance of the abstract concept National Route may include many different stretches of paved road comprising more a total route than any single road.

Malone's original concept of a circular route returning to Dublin via West Wicklow was dropped in favour of the linear path between Marlay Park and Clonegal that exists today, mainly because the Government wanted the Wicklow Way to form part of national network of trails to cover Ireland.

This concept was first explored in the contractor-trade publication " Roads and Bridges " in June 1997 ; the article outlining the I-11 route and rationale was titled " Interstate 2000: Improvement for the Next Millennium ", written by Wendell Cox and Jean Love.

However, this triple-voting system is by no means the only way to achieve adequate redundancy and reliability, and in fact soon after BEA and de Havilland had decided to go down that route, a parallel trial was set up using a " dual-dual " concept, chosen by BOAC and Vickers for the VC10 4-engined long range aircraft.

On 8 September 1997, the concept was extended to a fifth route and standardised under the name Metro ( e. g. " Metro Line 1 ").

The attraction's concept is that the roller coaster is a passenger train offering a speedy route through the Himalayas to the base of Mount Everest.

To Schaefer, once this route was scouted, it was finished, per his concept ... "( it ) exist ( s ) as soon as the route had been field explored and then marked on a topo map, and so had become available to the person who appreciates such things.

Since Rockland and Orange counties had become more developed even then, they abandoned the original concept of an unmarked route and pushed instead a conventional trail, although it had to make use of road routes.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

References to the concept of atoms date back to ancient Greece and India.

The decimal numeral system, including the concept of zero, was invented in India during this period.

Karma ( ; ) in Indian religions is the concept of " action " or " deed ", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect ( i. e., the cycle called saṃsāra ) originating in ancient India and treated in the Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh religions.

Meritocracy as a concept spread from China to British India during the 17th century, and then into continental Europe and the United States.

The concept of meritocracy spread from China to British India during the 17th century, and then into continental Europe and the United States.

The numeral system and the zero concept, developed by the Hindus in India slowly spread to other surrounding countries due to their commercial and military activities with India.

Gardner spent several years in India, and may have picked up the concept from the Digambara Jains, a religious sect in which the monks may not wear clothing.

* In India, a man by the name of Pāņini comes up with the first concept for a spoken and written language.

In the philosophical schools of India, the concept of precise and continual effect of laws of Karma on the existence of all sentient beings is analogous to western deterministic concept.

Prester John had been considered the ruler of India since the legend's beginnings, but " India " was a vague concept to the Europeans.

In India, an umbrella organization called the Sangh Parivar champions the concept of Hindutva.

The concept of Mahadevi as the supreme goddess emerged in historical religious literature as a term to define the powerful and influential nature of female deities in India.

According to Joseph R. Strayer, the concept of feudalism can also be applied to the societies of ancient Persia, ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt ( Sixth to Twelfth dynasty ), Muslim India, China ( Zhou Dynasty, and end of Han Dynasty ) and Japan during the Shogunate.

Most ancient cultures, including thinkers of Ancient Greece, Ancient China, and Ancient India, lacked the concept of creativity, seeing art as a form of discovery and not creation.

Auto giant Tata Motors of India has assessed the design passing phase 1, the " proof of the technical concept " towards full production for the Indian market.

In a classic 1956 paper titled " India as a Linguistic Area ", Murray Emeneau laid the groundwork for the general acceptance of the concept of a Sprachbund.

It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept of the Guru, adores it and pays homage to it again and again, and thereby re-affirms its belief and allegiance to it.

The concept of hookah is thought to have originated In India, once the province of the wealthy, it was tremendously popular especially during Mughal rule.

The historical origins of a concept of a cycle of repeated reincarnation are obscure but the idea appears frequently in religious and philosophical texts in both India and ancient Greece during the middle of the first millennium BCE.

Besides reinforcing the concept of the emperor as a deity, the Jinnōshōtōki provided a Shinto view of history, which stressed the divine nature of all Japanese and the country's spiritual supremacy over China and India.