" Regarding his view on Spectral evidence, Upham concludes that " Cotton Mather never in any public writing ' denounced the admission ' of it, never advised its absolute exclusion ; but on the contrary recognized it as a ground of ' presumption ' ... once admitted nothing could stand against it.

A contrary view is presented here Kidd later settled in the new colony of New York.

For example, Roman Catholics view sex within marriage as chaste, but prohibit the use of artificial contraception as an offense against chastity, seeing contraception as unnatural, contrary to God's will and design of human sexuality.

* Faith as contradicting rationality: In this view, faith is seen as those views that one holds despite evidence and reason to the contrary.

The week after the story, Newsweek published a contrary view from Robert Samuelson, one of its columnists, who said the story of an industry-funded denial machine was contrived and fundamentally misleading.

A contrary view is that of Christian Universalism, which holds that, because of divine love and mercy all will ultimately be reconciled to God.

1308 ), a Friar Minor Conventual like Saint Bonaventure, argued, on the contrary, that from a rational point of view it was certainly as little derogatory to the merits of Christ to assert that Mary was by him preserved from all taint of sin, as to say that she first contracted it and then was delivered.

This view is frequently summarised by the maxim an unjust law is not a true law, lex iniusta non est lex, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

The essential partiality of our view of things, their being given only in a certain perspective and at a certain moment in time does not diminish their reality, but on the contrary establishes it, as there is no other way for things to be copresent with us and with other things than through such " Abschattungen " faint outlines, adumbrations.

Although the canonical view of the neuron attributes dedicated functions to its various anatomical components, dendrites and axons often act in ways contrary to their so-called main function.

This view is frequently summarized by the maxim: an unjust law is not a true law, in which ' unjust ' is defined as contrary to natural law.

Another contrary view has been recently proposed by Arun Bala in his dialogical history of the birth of modern science.

A single-lens reflex ( SLR ) camera is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system ( hence " reflex ", from the mirror's reflection ) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and hence see exactly what will be captured, contrary to viewfinder cameras where the image could be significantly different from what will be captured.

Third Worldism has been defined as " the idea, popular among Third World autocrats and many American and French leftists in the late 60s and 70s, that – contrary to orthodox Marxism's view that the Western working class would deliver the world from the tyranny of capital that ... Third World elites were the privileged historical actor.

He adds that if anybody took the contrary view then “ I think it is self-evident that he would be wrong .”

* Bit order: Some schemes view the low-order bit of each byte as " first ", which then during polynomial division means " leftmost ", which is contrary to our customary understanding of " low-order ".

Israel was the only country represented at the Security Council to express a contrary view.

Social conservatives are sometimes opposed to such events because they view them to be contrary to public morality.

Despite evidence to the contrary, his view held sway with most chemists, and it became commonly accepted wisdom that creosote, carbolic acid, and phenylhydrate were identical substances, with different degrees of purity.

Mozart biographer Maynard Solomon ( 1995 ) takes the view that the tours were lucrative and produced long-term profits for Leopold ; Ruth Halliwell ( 1998 ) states to the contrary that their income generally only covered their travel and living expenses.

Contrary to these views, the Stoic philosophers argued for equality of the sexes, sexual inequality being in their view contrary to the laws of nature.

The chateau includes the main building, with a reconstruction of Voltaire's room ( moved from its original location by later private owners ), a garden with a fine view of the Alps, and a church dedicated, contrary to custom, directly to God.

Indecent exposure is the deliberate exposure in public or in view of the general public by a person of a portion or portions of his or her body, in circumstances where the exposure is contrary to local moral or other standards of appropriate behavior.

on some individuals, contrary to the mainstream view.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

The Angels in turn would exercise similar restraints in respect for the natural preferences and natures of the Earthmen -- but they had no faintest notion of man's perverse habit of passing and enforcing laws which were contrary to his own preferences and violations of his nature.

" Johnson said it was an invasion by federal authority of the rights of the states, it had no warrant in the Constitution and was contrary to all precedents.

Marlborough could not attack Dillingen because of a lack of siege guns – he was unable to bring any from the Low Countries, and Baden had failed to supply any despite assurances to the contrary.

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Kusche noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the contrary.

* RAI International: In Summer 2004, this Italian government controlled channel was denied permission to broadcast independently in Canada on the grounds that it had acted and was likely to act contrary to established Canadian policies.

Desperate measures were taken: contrary to the Roman constitution, Gaius Marius, who had defeated Jugurtha, was elected consul and supreme commander for five years in a row ( 104-100 BC ).

To the contrary, the Agency severely criticized me when I admitted to the press that the FDN had regularly kidnapped and executed agrarian reform workers and civilians.

The International Court of Justice ruled on 27 June 1986 that by disseminating the manual to the contras, the United States of America had " encouraged ... acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law.

He made use of his Scottish experience to write his Tour thro ' the whole Island of Great Britain, published in 1726, where he admitted that the increase of trade and population in Scotland which he had predicted as a consequence of the Union, was " not the case, but rather the contrary ".

This was contrary to the principles of the life of independence which these mountaineers had always lived, and resulted in a general uprising against Egyptian rule.

Learning from Mipps ( who, contrary to Syn's orders, had become a leader of the smugglers ) that certain townsfolk had been ambushed and captured during a smuggling run, Syn purchased the great black stallion Gehenna from gypsies and raced to their rescue.

Naivalu had apparently done so on his own initiative, contrary to a government briefing, sparking a major public disagreement between himself and Foreign Minister Tavola.

He became possessed of a spirit, and suddenly began to rave in a kind of ecstatic trance, and to babble in a jargon, prophesying in a manner contrary to the custom of the Church which had been handed down by tradition from the earliest times.

Advances in technology have never conclusively proved that the ball crossed the line ; on the contrary, in 1995 the Sunday Times reported that image analysis by researchers at Oxford University had concluded that the whole of the ball did not cross the goal-line, and so a goal should not have been awarded ( Computer blows whistle on England's 1966 World Cup win by Adam Jones and John Davison, 23 July 1995 ).

Although the pope assented to the condemnation, the West believed that the Emperor had acted contrary to the decrees of Chalcedon.

He returned to Lutterworth, and sent out tracts against the monks and Urban VI, since the latter, contrary to the hopes of Wycliffe, had not turned out to be a reforming pope.

The Dienststelle Ribbentrop, which had its offices directly across from the Foreign Office's building on the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, had in its membership a collection of Hitlerjugend alumni, dissatisfied businessmen, former reporters, and ambitious Nazi Party members, all of whom tried to conduct a foreign policy independent of, and often contrary to, the Foreign Office.