Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Seeing him in that condition, and about to enter the hall where the King, the Queen, the whole royal family and all the members of the highest aristocracy would be present, Grimm and the Abbe Raynal and others tried to stop him.

The accused did not object to the trial court's charge to the jury that discourse `` may constitute a breach of the peace if it stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest.

" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".

*( c ) It may be granted upon condition, cujus est dare, ejus est disponere, and this denization of an alien may come about three ways: by Parliament ; by letters patent, which was the usual manner ; and by conquest.

Of the current total, only about 50 percent of the roads and highways were covered with asphalt and were in good condition ; about 50 percent of the roads were made of crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth ; and the remaining approximately 30 percent were unimproved earth or were little more than tracks.

Calves are usually weaned at about eight to nine months of age, depending on the season and condition of the dam, they might be weaned earlier.

Its main themes include isolation, how such a condition can be borne, and the internal conflict brought about by societal repression of individual desire.

Ike was publicly noncommittal about Nixon's repeating as the Vice President on his ticket ; the question was an especially important one in light of his heart condition.

In general, obesity is not a condition maintained by overeating ; obesity is a condition brought about and maintained by eating more calories than the body uses, consistently.

An estimated 9 million Ecuadorians have an economic occupation and about 1. 01 million inhabitants are in unemployment condition.

The Down's Syndrome Association say that the way in which Billy and Honey found out about their baby's condition and their subsequent support is not a best practice model, but is still a realistic situation.

In other cases, the proposed treatment for cancer is already in use for some other medical condition, in which case more is known about its safety and potential efficacy.

Though the Wissenschaftslehre demonstrates that such an Anstoss must occur if self-consciousness is to come about, it is quite unable to deduce or to explain the actual occurrence of such an Anstoss — except as a condition for the possibility of consciousness.

He thought intensely about the Temptation of Christ, which he compared to his own spiritual condition, but drew strength from his conviction that God would support and preserve him.

We have little information about the early condition of the Homeric poems, but in the second century BC, Alexandrian editors stabilized this text from which all modern texts descend.

In the strategic point of view these victories were enabled partially by the weakened condition of the Ottoman armies brought about by the active presence of the Greek army and fleet.

The French traveller Laurent d ' Arvieux described the city in 1659 as " now desolate, and consists only of about fifty poor houses, in bad condition ...

It is an organization established by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to raise awareness about heart disease in women, and how to prevent the condition.

Krafft-Ebbing, who considered lesbianism ( what he termed " Uranism ") a neurological disease, and Ellis, who was influenced by Krafft-Ebbing's writings, disagreed about whether sexual inversion was generally a lifelong condition.

In the theology of the Catholic Church, Limbo ( Latin limbus, edge or boundary, referring to the " edge " of Hell ) is a speculative idea about the afterlife condition of those who die in Original Sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned.

Rallies, meetings & other programmes are organised by laborers to think about their condition.

In the past 37 years, considerable concern has been expressed about the ecological condition of Lake Nicaragua.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

It is necessary to make sure that u and v are real differentiable, which is a stronger condition than the existence of the partial derivatives but it is not necessary to require continuity of these partial derivatives.

The term may be used to refer to the existence of any form of disease, or to the degree that the health condition affects the patient.

The third condition for economic calculation is the existence of genuine entrepreneurship and market rivalry.

The fifth condition for successful economic calculation is the existence of well functioning financial markets.

The existence of financial markets is a necessary condition for economic calculation.

A necessary condition of every subject's self-awareness, for Fichte, is the existence of other rational subjects.

The existence of a complex derivative is a very strong condition, for it implies that any holomorphic function is actually infinitely differentiable and equal to its own Taylor series.

A necessary condition for existence of the integral is that ƒ must be locally integrable on

A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an S ( 2, 3, n ) is that n 1 or 3 ( mod 6 ).

One proposed explanation of the existence of the recency effect in a continual distractor condition, and the disappearance of it in an end-only distractor task is the influence of contextual and distinctive processes.

Complete regularity is exactly the condition necessary for the existence of uniform structures on a topological space.

He had made it a condition of his joining any administration that Newcastle should be excluded from it which proved fatal to the lengthened existence of his government.

Other researchers disagree and argue that the existence of the condition and its inclusion in the DSM is supported by multiple lines of reliable evidence, with diagnostic criteria allowing it to be clearly discriminated from conditions it is often mistaken for ( schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and seizure disorder ).

Although the chaplain persists in attempting to lead Meursault from his atheism, Meursault finally accosts him in a rage, with a climactic outburst on his frustrations and the absurdity of the human condition ; his personal anguish at the meaninglessness of his existence without respite.

The Kolmogorov extension theorem guarantees the existence of a stochastic process with a given family of finite-dimensional probability distributions satisfying the Chapman – Kolmogorov compatibility condition.

The notion of paracompactness generalizes ordinary compactness ; a key motivation for the notion of paracompactness is that it is a sufficient condition for the existence of partitions of unity.

In the theory of differential equations, Lipschitz continuity is the central condition of the Picard – Lindelöf theorem which guarantees the existence and uniqueness of the solution to an initial value problem.

* Grinberg's theorem, a necessary condition on the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle that can be used to show that a graph forms a counterexample to Tait's conjecture

To Marx and anarchist thinkers like Bakunin and Kropotkin their concept of wage slavery was as a class condition in place due to the existence of private property and the state.

# The diagnosis is excluded by the existence of any condition that would otherwise account for the degree of pain and dysfunction.

# The diagnosis is excluded by the existence of any condition that would otherwise account for the degree of pain and dysfunction.

It may be the only ailment in existence in which the patient defines both the cause and the manifestations of his own condition.

no body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colours of men, & that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence both in Africa & America.