I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

As the initial spelling on stones was ' Abrasax ' ( Αβρασαξ ), the spelling of ' Abraxas ' seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration.

Following the Berber Revolt of the 740s, the province was in a state of confusion, with the Muslim community torn by tribal dissensions among the Arabs and racial tensions between the Arabs and Berbers.

If the pencil with the angle u2 is that of the maximum aberration of all the pencils transmitted, then in a plane perpendicular to the axis at O ' 1 there is a circular disk of confusion of radius O ' 1R, and in a parallel plane at O ' 2 another one of radius O ' 2R2 ; between these two is situated the disk of least confusion.

We receive, therefore, in no single intercepting plane behind the system, as, for example, a focusing screen, an image of the object point ; on the other hand, in each of two planes lines O ' and O " are separately formed ( in neighboring planes ellipses are formed ), and in a plane between O ' and O " a circle of least confusion.

Adding to the confusion is the similar initials between the two and the inconsistent signing of paintings which were produced by Cuyp ’ s studio.

Bay ( laurel ) leaves are frequently packaged as tejpatta ( the Hindi term for Indian bay leaf ), creating confusion between the two herbs.

In doubles, players generally smash to the middle ground between two players in order to take advantage of confusion and clashes.

Some companies also use BtuE6 in order to reduce confusion between a thousand Btu vs. a million Btu.

Whenever a confusion between the two kinds of definitions might arise it can be avoided by referring to the more general definition and by reintroducing the erased parameter: writing B < sub > m </ sub >( 0 ) in the first case and B < sub > m </ sub >( 1 ) in the second will unambiguously denote the value in question.

Hemlock is highly toxic and confusion between the two plants could cause death.

Due to the possibility of confusion between the use of the word " cytosol " to refer to both extracts of cells and the soluble part of the cytoplasm in intact cells, the phrase " aqueous cytoplasm " has been used to describe the liquid contents of the cytoplasm of living cells.

Larry Gragg highlights Mather ’ s cloudy thinking and confusion between sympathy for the possessed, and the boundlessness of spectral evidence when Mather stated, “ the devil have sometimes represented the shapes of persons not only innocent, but also the very virtuous .” And writing in the early 1980s, John Demos seemed to consider Mather a moderating influence on the trials.

One of the main sources of confusion in popular classifications is the difference between a dialect and a language.

Perhaps the best example of a film that straddles the line between his works of personal chaos and psychological confusion is Cronenberg's " adaptation " of his literary hero William S. Burroughs ' most controversial book, Naked Lunch.

There are good grounds for the association between hares ( later termed Easter bunnies ) and eggs, through folklore confusion between hares ' forms ( where they raise their young ) and plovers ' nests.

Note that because of historical accident, students encounter a source of possible confusion between the terminology of physics and biology.

This avoids confusion between past events ( which cannot be changed ), the present ( which one can test but not generally change ) and future events ( which one still has time to change even on a large scale ), which can prevent noticing or taking an action to improve a future outcome.

( Due to a mistranslation, Soviet reports said Fermi's work was performed in a converted " pumpkin field " instead of a " squash court ", a mis-translation based on confusion between dual meanings of " squash ", the food-crop plant and the game.

Note that because of historical accident, students encounter a possible source of confusion between the terminology of physics and biology.

Yet another story holds that the freestyle name evolved in Miami over confusion between two tracks produced by Tony " Pretty Boy " Butler, " Freestyle Express " by Freestyle and Debbie Deb's " When I Hear Music ".

This proposal purported to address the confusion that sometimes arises between the letter " O " and the numeral zero, by eliminating the letter from allowable variable names.

The late change of orders resulted in some confusion in the forward formations ( X Corps and XIII Corps ) between the desire to inflict damage on the enemy and the intention not to get trapped in the Matruh position but retreat in good order.

However, to prevent confusion, the two conventions are never mixed.

One way to explain much of the confusion concerning Ammonius is to assume that there were two people called Ammonius: Ammonius Saccas who taught Plotinus, and an Ammonius the Christian who wrote biblical texts.

To add to the confusion, it seems that Ammonius had two pupils called Origen: Origen the Christian, and Origen the Pagan.

Using the same prefixes to mean two different things within the same industry has caused some confusion.

The two illustrators, David Henry Friston and Michael Fitzgerald, show some inconsistencies in their depiction of the characters, and as such some confusion has arisen in identifying the pictures as part of a continuous plot.

The many numerical forms can create confusion when used in international correspondence, particularly when abbreviating the year to its final two digits.

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 issued a formulation of the being of Christ — that of two natures, one human and one divine, " united with neither confusion nor division.

There are two assumptions relating to California chaparral fire regimes that appear to have caused considerable debate, and sometimes confusion and controversy, within the fields of wildfire ecology and land management.

Copts, thus, believe in two natures " human " and " divine " that are united in one hypostasis " without mingling, without confusion, and without alteration ".

This usage is technically incompatible with the normal definition of the word and leads to confusion, inasmuch as there are generally more than two owners of broadcast television stations in markets with broadcast duopolies.

His mother originally named him David Dwight but reversed the two names after his birth to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the family.

However, that is a confusion with two other types of camps.

Gigging through Georgia and South Carolina, they again changed their name to the Toccoa Band to avoid confusion with two other groups who shared the Avons moniker.

The Russian Empire recognized the ethnic difference between the two groups ; it called them both Kyrgyz to avoid confusion between the terms Kazakh and Cossack ( both names originating from Turkic " free man ".

This confusion made by psychologism ( and related disciplines such as biologism and anthropologism ) can be due to three specific prejudices:

It is a measure or specification (" pulses per second ") mostly used within various technical disciplines ( e. g. Radar technology ) to avoid confusion with the unit of frequency hertz ( Hz or " cycles per second "— mainly used for describing the continuous wave base frequency ) of the transmitted electromagnetic signal.

To avoid any possible confusion, suggests employing a new term preplanetary nebula which does not overlap with any other disciplines of astronomy.

To avoid confusion with the term transfer function used in soil physics and in many other disciplines, Johan Bouma ( 1989 ) later called it pedotransfer function.