Of course, that's not definite proof ''.

Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.

Although there is no definite proof of the date of his birth, it has been suggested by Ukrainian historian Mykhaylo Maksymovych that it is likely 27 December 1595 ( St. Theodore's day ).

Though definite proof is lacking, there is evidence that the islands were first discovered by an unrecorded Portuguese expedition before Magellan set sail.

Probability of loss is generally an empirical exercise, while cost has more to do with the ability of a reasonable person in possession of a copy of the insurance policy and a proof of loss associated with a claim presented under that policy to make a reasonably definite and objective evaluation of the amount of the loss recoverable as a result of the claim.

Although no definite medical proof exists, he was reputed to have been affected by Marfan syndrome.

( so must be positive definite, as the proof shows, in fact it is enough that is symmetric ).

A more definite standard of proof ( often probable cause ) would be required to warrant a more thorough stop / search.

The ununseptium synthesis serves as definite proof of the existence of the " island of stability ", according to the discoverers.

The fact that Duse was just coming out of a relationship with rebellious young lesbian feminist Lina Poletti fueled speculation as to the nature of Duncan and Duse's relationship, but there has never been definite proof that the two were involved romantically.

At the death of Germanicus during the same year most people suspected Piso of having poisoned him ( although no definite proof was available ).

The summary of the ASI report indicated definite proof of a temple under the mosque.

Schmidt believed that the cultural-historical school of ethnology had produced proof that an older, genuine totemism had been an integral part of a culture located in a definite area and that it was " organically " connected with definite forms of technology, economy, art, and worldview.

While there is no definite proof, there are compelling reasons to think the sport of racing pigeons may go back at least as far as 220 AD or possibly earlier.

It also introduced the Dirichlet function as an example that not any function is integrable ( the definite integral was still a developing topic at the time ) and, in the proof of the theorem for the Fourier series, introduced the Dirichlet kernel and the Dirichlet integral.

On the second question, no definite consensus has been formed, and the intentional discovery hypothesis lacks solid proof.

For instance, it is possible to attempt to " repair " the proof by supposing that a and b have a definite nonzero value to begin with, for instance, at the outset one can suppose that a and b are both equal to one:

The defendant Hudgins did not provide definite proof of Wright's descent from a slave mother.

The report also noted out that there was suggestive evidence, if not definite proof, for a causative role of smoking in other illnesses such as emphysema, cardiovascular disease, and various types of cancer.

Mackenzie claims that 200 indigenous servants looked after the horses and cattle and helped load muskets but no definite proof or witness of servants helping to reload is available.

With no living heirs, Amenhotep was succeeded by Thutmose I, whom he married to his sister, Aahmes, although once again there is no definite proof that the two were related.

He therefore approached Eirik with hopes of being crowned — the definite proof of recognition.

These are 2 – 10 µm in diameter and are typical for a rabies infection and thus have been used as definite histological proof of such infection.

The first definite appearance was in 312 / 311 BC, when they were attacked at Sela or perhaps Petra without success by Antigonus I's officer Athenaeus as part of the Third War of the Diadochi ; at that time Hieronymus of Cardia, a Seleucid officer, mentioned the Nabataeans in a battle report.

Remington completed another novel in 1902, John Ermine of the Yellowstone, a modest success but a definite disappointment as it was completely overshadowed by the best seller The Virginian, written by his sometime collaborator Owen Wister, which became a classic Western novel.

While many reviews remained decidedly mixed, the book was a definite commercial success and won numerous prizes.

His first definite success came in 1852, when he published the novel Bellah and produced the comedy La Crise.

The report documented mixed success at disarming the Rwandan Army and militias, but a definite and systematic attempt ( though not fast enough as far as then-General Paul Kagame of the opposing RPF forces was concerned, in documentation of the latter's communications with the French forces ).

" Despite things not being a huge success at retail, there's a definite, but smaller, portion of the population that likes the FPS + RTS genre.

The most obvious sign of Carossa's financial success and definite turn toward literature was his ability to fulfill his desire for a Goethean pilgrimage to classic Italy.

Jesting apart, I heartily wish your plans success, and if there are any more definite ways in which I can help, let me know, and I will do my best.

The second half of his rookie season was a definite success.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

But there was no definite agreement about business arrangements ''.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

the college was one of the first to recognize the importance of music not only as a definite part of the curriculum but as a vital adjunct to campus life.

The cubist generation before World War 1,, and, on a lower level, the surrealists of the period between the wars, both assumed an accepted universe of discourse, in which, to quote Andre Breton, it was possible to make definite advances, exactly as in the sciences.

And was he afraid to do anything as definite as releasing her??

Britain's plans to press Russia for a definite cease-fire timetable was announced in London by Foreign Secretary Lord Home.

It was flat, definite.

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

" No news of the show appeared until July 14, 1963, in an article in The New York Times about Kermit Bloomgarden, where it discussed the four shows he was producing for the coming season ; two were maybes, two were definite.

During the Middle Bulgarian period, the language underwent dramatic changes, losing the Slavonic case system, but preserving the rich verb system ( while the development was exactly the opposite in other Slavic languages ) and developing a definite article.

It was then known as Bill Haley's Saddlemen, indicating their definite leaning toward the tough Western style.

It appears that the particular term, with its more definite sense, was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950s, while criticizing alternate " interpretations " ( e. g., David Bohm's ) that had been developed.

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

It was a very definite walk-not going back, no hesitation.

Berthollet was engaged in a long-term battle with another French chemist Joseph Proust on the validity of the law of definite proportions.

But it was found later that Berthollet was not completely wrong because there exists a class of compounds that do not obey the law of definite proportions.

They also note that though there was no deflation in the 1980s, there was a definite fall in the inflation rate during this period.

The " Diatribe " did not encourage any definite action ; this was its merit to the Erasmians and its fault in the eyes of the Lutherans.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

Nevertheless, the Griffith style of film-making was still followed in its full idiosyncrasy, with extensive use of side by side spaces and a definite " front " for the camera, in most slapstick comedy.