" 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.

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.

As president of the WCTU, the crux of Willard ’ s argument for female suffrage was based on the platform of " Home Protection ," which she described as " the movement ... the object of which is to secure for all women above the age of twenty-one years the ballot as one means for the protection of their homes from the devastation caused by the legalized traffic in strong drink.

The crux of his argument is that all social costs are reciprocal in nature.

he crux of my argument is simply that America is in a war with militant Islamists that it cannot avoid ; one that it cannot talk or appease its way out of ; one in which our irreconcilable Islamist foes will have to be killed, an act which unavoidably will lead to innocent deaths ; and one that is motivated in large measure by the impact of U. S. foreign policies in the Islamic world, one of which is unqualified U. S. support for Israel.

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 Easterbrook's argument is that the average yards gained on a play is 5 yards.

The argument reached its crux when Freleng reportedly placed his drawing pencil on Selzer's desk, furiously telling Selzer that if he knew so much about animation, he should do the work instead.

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.

The crux of the argument is that nascent industries often do not have the economies of scale that their older competitors from other countries may have, and thus need to be protected until they can attain similar economies of scale.

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.

The crux of my argument with Chuck was that wargames sucked because of a lack of innovation and poor design.

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.

The crux of ecumenical advance is an even more personalized matter than the relation between congregations in the same community.

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.

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

Parish found the game's premise a saving grace, though ; considering it " ambitious ", he added that it also provided the series a vital crux: " Samus ' actions in Metroid II fuel the plots of both its sequels: Super Metroid Metroid Fusion.

In the report, the " dual-band " system was found to be the crux that caused confusion and anxiety among Hong Kong students, in addition to the inevitably keen competition for tertiary places.

The crux of the issue is summed up by the Fat! so?

The crux of the issue is that some historic documentation infers that the building was imported.

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

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.

Use of a simplified symbol associated with Saint Andrew which does not depict his image, namely the saltire, or crux decussata, ( from the Latin crux, ' cross ', and decussis, ' having the shape of the Roman numeral X '), has its origins in the late 14th century ; the Parliament of Scotland having decreed in 1385 that Scottish soldiers shall wear a white Saint Andrew's Cross on their person, both in front and behind, for the purpose of identification.

In the last stages of the Second World War, in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, the Bank for International Settlements became the crux of a fight that broke out when the Norwegian delegation put forth evidence that the BIS was guilty of war crimes and put forth a motion to dissolve the bank ; the Americans, specifically President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau, supported this motion.

The film became a blockbuster, and his portrayals were all critically praised ; one cook role where he spoke in Palakkad Tamil formed the crux for a future venture by his production house.

The Ankh ( or ; U + 2625 ☥ or U + 132F9 ), also known as key of life, the key of the Nile or crux ansata ( Latin meaning " cross with a handle "), was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read " life ", a triliteral sign for the consonants ꜥ-n-ḫ.

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.

The crux of the problem was the stamp paid the fee for a single usage of the mails, but the stamp itself tended to arrive at the destination in reasonably good condition ; it would be the work of a moment to remove the stamp from the envelope and then attach it to another piece of mail.

; < span id =" beta "> Beta </ span >: Advice on how to successfully complete ( or protect ) a particular climbing route, boulder problem, or crux sequence.

; < span id =" crux "> Crux </ span >: The most difficult portion of a climb.

The crux of the problem is that there is no contemporaneous account of the conflict ; writers such as Polybius, who might have met persons whose grandparents participated in the conflict, do not mention it, while the writers who do speak of the conflict, such as Livy or Cicero, report fact and fable equally readily, and invariably assume that there were no fundamental changes in Roman institutions in nearly 500 years.

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Cyber Planet Keys ( Planet Force in Galaxy Force ) are four mystical items that form the crux of Transformers: Cybertron < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s plot ; in order to stop the black hole that is threatening the universe, the Autobots must gather all four.

They are seen as arms in the sense of heraldry, and also as the weapons Christ used to achieve his conquest over Satan ; the prime member, the Cross, had been introduced to Christian art in the 4th century as the crux invicta, a symbol of victory.