Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

A notable crux in the Old Norse mythology is the distinction of álfar and dvergar.

Thus it happened that, with Hermes as their guide, the three candidates bathed in the spring of Ida, then confronted Paris on Mount Ida in the climactic moment that is the crux of the tale.

Then, not only knowing that, I would have to know who is at the crux of all of the problems in the world and then blame Jewish people, which is not correct.

Although it still lacks a universally accepted definition, the crux of intelligence-led policing is an emphasis on the collection and analysis of information to guide police operations, rather than the reverse.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

of symbols from, of some length, multiplied in G. The string of length 0 ( null string ) stands for the identity element e of G. The crux of the whole problem is to be able to recognise all the ways e can be represented, given some relations.

The motto of the Carthusians is Stat crux dum volvitur orbis, Latin for " The Cross is steady while the world is turning.

This aspect of reading is the crux of much of the reading debate.

" The crux of his argument is this: " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact which it endeavours to establish.

This is the crux of combined arms to allow a combination of forces to achieve what would be impossible for its constituent elements to do alone.

' Schütz is, according to Natanson, " phenomenology's spokesman of the Lebenswelt "... the mundane lifeworld ', which he divided into four distinct subworlds in what has been called ' the crux of Schütz's theoretical contribution.

At the crux of the El-Hazard plot line is a causal loop, or an example of the predestination paradox.

Thus the crux of the matter is not whether or not Julius Rosenberg was innocent of the charge espionage ; rather it is if he should have received the death penalty.

The crux of the argument is that both the evidence for the bad quarto theory and the evidence for the early draft theory are so compelling that neither is able to completely refute the other.

The European constellation on the right is crux or the Southern Cross, and on the left is Scorpius.

The crux of this problem is that MPC is hard-coded to use an older Vorbis filter, so even if one installs newer filters, MPC is unable to use them.

The crux of this claim is that even when an individual consumes sufficient water, the body may not absorb enough to combat chronic cellular dehydration.

crux ), a Christian symbol of authority used throughout the Middle Ages and even today on coins, iconography and royal regalia.

Another common Byzantine coin type shows a cross with a stepped base, which should be understood as a crux gemmata even though scale does not normally allow any indication of gems.

According to a record, prepared by Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoliy Dobrynin, of discussions between Dobrynin and Kissinger, the crux of the U. S. position, was progress still must be made at the Paris talks and, for domestic political reasons, Nixon " simply cannot wait a year for Hanoi to decide to take some new step and take a more flexible position.

This meant that the jujutsu practitioner's opponent would not have been wearing armour and the vital points that form the crux of atemi-waza were more exposed.

The crux of Tannenbaum's argument is that the greater the attention placed on this label, the more likely the person is to identify themselves as the label.

The crux of Saiving's argument in the article is that the focus on pride characteristic of traditional Christian interpretations of sin reflects male experience in a way that is inappropriate to the experience of most, if not all, women, who are much more likely to be prone to " triviality, distractibility, and diffuseness ; lack of an organizing center or focus ; dependence on others for one's self-definition ; tolerance at the expense of standards of excellence ... in short, underdevelopment or negation of the Self.

It is not usual to use the term " crux gemmata " for crosses from more recent periods, especially for small crosses that fall under the category of jewellery.

After a meeting with King and Council, in which she was told that the crux of the matter was not the nature of her faith but her disobedience to the law, she sent the Imperial ambassador de Scheyfye to threaten war on England.

Sino – Soviet relations had long been strained, and as Suslov told the Central Committee in one his reports, " The crux of the matter is that the Leadership of the CCP has recently developed tendencies to exaggerate the degree of maturity of socialist relations in China ...

Thus, " apple of discord " is used to signify the core, kernel, or crux of an argument, or a small matter that could lead to a bigger dispute.

Beiser instead traces Naturphilosophie as developed by Schelling, Hegel, Schlegel and Novalis to a crux in the theory of matter, and identifies the origins of the line they took with the vis viva theory of matter in the work of Gottfried Leibniz.

:" where two persons embark on a joint enterprise, each is liable for the acts done in pursuance of that joint enterprise, that that includes liability for unusual consequences if they arise from the execution of the agreed joint enterprise but ( and this is the crux of the matter ) that, if one of the adventurers goes beyond what had been tacitly agreed as part of the common enterprise, his co-adventurer is not liable for the consequences of that unauthorised act.

Laurents, ignoring criticism about the show's message being trite and its absurdist style difficult to comprehend, poured his energies into restaging rather than dealing with the crux of the problem.

" The crux of his color theory is its experiential source: rather than impose theoretical statements, Goethe sought to allow light and color to be displayed in an ordered series of experiments that readers could experience for themselves.

Many fans consider the crux of the show's failure to be renewed to have been the decision to show it first on satellite rather than terrestrial television, thus severely restricting its potential audience.

* Stahl ’ s bar ( also known as Spock ear ) — third crus ( in between the superior crux and inferior crux ) making the top of the ear pointed

The chapel was described as being at the crux of the four townships of Eccleston, Parr, Sutton and Windle, and lay on the intersecting roads that criss-crossed the area and that also served as a major thoroughfare for traffic between Lancashire towns such as Liverpool, Ormskirk, Lathom and the Cheshire region south of the River Mersey.

" The confusion of the names was the crux of a long standing dispute between the Penns ( Delaware ) and the Calverts ( Maryland ), the latter claiming that the Lewes ' cape should have been the start of the boundary line.

At its crux, environmentalism is an attempt to balance relations between humans and the various natural systems on which they depend in such a way that all the components are accorded a proper degree of respect.

The crux of Remonstrant Arminianism lay in the assertion that human dignity requires an unimpaired freedom of the will.

A test of the Reformation was the doctrine of the sacraments, and the crux of this question was the observance of the Eucharist.

Their color, shape, size, attachment, ornamentation, and reaction to chemical tests often can be the crux of an identification.

" ( 124 ) As such, the crux of his arguments was that humans are best guided by reason.

John Hodgman's book, More Information Than You Require, uses the Thunderbird as the crux of a satirical historical fiction short story.

The Latin term crux may mean a gallows or a stake.

At times the gibbet was only one vertical stake, called in Latin crux simplex.

Jehovah's Witnesses argue that Jesus was crucified on a crux simplex, and that the crux immissa was an invention of Emperor Constantine.

France was the crux of the Bodyguard plan ; as the most logical choice for an invasion the Allied high command had to mislead the German defences in a very small geographical area.