While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

Rummel explicitly excludes battle deaths in his definition.

But the real definition of the network wars is that the 3 networks battle for ratings supremacy.

A legal battle over the status and definition of " antiquated maps " ensued.

Since Pope Sixtus V gave his broader definition of regicide and excluding monarchs killed in battle, other regicides include:

The battle of Sedgemoor is often referred to as the last battle fought on English soil, but this depends on the definition of battle, for which there are different interpretations.

The battle of Preston is often claimed to have been the last fought on English soil, but this depends on the definition of battle for which there are different interpretations.

In a further bid to battle overwhelming personal despair, Ritter chose a somewhat autobiographical skateboarder from a musical family as the focus of his fourth novel, Under the Baseball Moon, to examine the true definition of happiness and success for an artist in the midst of a Faustian bargain: professional good fortune paid for by an overwhelming loss of spirit and joy.

In his famous proposal for the definition of painting, offered in 1890, he stated: " Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a nude, an anecdote or whatnot, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.

For instance, military battle and unintentional deaths are excluded in Rummel's definition.

According to Grewell, whose definition of science fiction focuses on the struggle between supposedly superior and inferior life forms, " part of the tale that qualifies it as science fiction, rather than as fantasy or imaginative fiction, involves Lucian and his seamen in a battle for territorial and colonization rights:

Weart uses a broader definition of war than is usual in research on the democratic peace theory and includes any conflict causing at least 200 deaths in organized battle by political units against one another.

In the second example CH < sub > 3 </ sub > COOH undergoes the same transformation, in this case donating a proton to ammonia ( NH < sub > 3 </ sub >), but cannot be described using the Arrhenius definition of an acid because the reaction does not produce hydronium.

The light beam from a distant object cannot itself have any transverse velocity component, or it could not ( by definition ) be seen by the observer, since it would miss the observer.

This is a manifest contradiction because infinity cannot, by definition, be completed by " successive synthesis " -- yet just such a finalizing synthesis would be required by the view that time is infinite ; so the thesis is proven.

Based on this definition, the drain efficiency cannot exceed 25 % for a class A amplifier that is supplied drain bias current through resistors ( because RF signal has its zero level at about 50 % of the input DC ).

Note that this definition cannot be expressed in the language of set theory itself.

Since no variables of this language range over the reals, we cannot simply copy the earlier definition of definability.

The qualitative properties of dynamical systems do not change under a smooth change of coordinates ( this is sometimes taken as a definition of qualitative ): a singular point of the vector field ( a point where v ( x ) = 0 ) will remain a singular point under smooth transformations ; a periodic orbit is a loop in phase space and smooth deformations of the phase space cannot alter it being a loop.

" R. M. Hare also criticised ethical naturalism because of its fallacious definition of the terms ' good ' or ' right ' explaining how value-terms being part of our prescriptive moral language are not reducible to descriptive terms: " Value-terms have a special function in language, that of commending ; and so they plainly cannot be defined in terms of other words which themselves do not perform this function "

a fact that cannot be seen directly from the definition of elementary function but can be proven using the Risch algorithm.

Hinduism is a conglomeration of distinct intellectual or philosophical points of view, rather than a rigid common set of beliefs, thus the basic definition of fundamentalism cannot apply to Hinduism considering that it does not contain any fundamental thoughts to abide to.

A goal that the players try to reach and a set of rules concerning what the players can or cannot do create the challenge and structure in a game, and are thus central to its definition.

According to the what economist Nicholas Barr describes as the " classical definition of income :" the 1938 Haig-Simons definition, " income may be defined as the ... sum of ( 1 ) the market value of rights exercised in consumption and ( 2 ) the change in the value of the store of property rights ..." Since the consumption potential of non-monetary goods, such as leisure, cannot be measured, monetary income may be thought of as a proxy for full income.

An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly ( that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism ) by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional.

It provided an ' atomic ' definition of the geometric point, stating that a line is separated into parts, and the part which has no remaining parts ( i. e. cannot be divided into smaller parts ) and thus the extreme end of a line is a point.

The meaning of terms that stand for complex properties can be given by using terms for their constituent properties in a definition ; simple properties cannot be defined, because they are made up only of themselves and there are no simpler constituents to refer to.

The exact point of intersection of the Earth's axis and the Earth's surface, at any given moment, is called the " instantaneous pole ", but because of the " wobble " this cannot be used as a definition of a fixed North Pole ( or South Pole ) when metre-scale precision is required.

The definition of convergence via nets is important in topology, where preorders cannot be replaced by partially ordered sets without losing important features.

These force-carrying particles are virtual particles and, by definition, cannot be detected while carrying the force, because such detection will imply that the force is not being carried.

The resulting footage cannot be called a snuff film according to its definition.

The torque peak cannot, by definition, appear at higher rpm than the power peak.

Since most physicists would consider the statement of the underlying rules to suffice as the definition of a " theory of everything ", most physicists argue that Gödel's Theorem does not mean that a ToE cannot exist.

How does an irreducible but supervenient downward causal power arise, since by definition it cannot be due to the aggregation of the micro-level potentialities?

They assert that DID cannot be accurately diagnosed because of vague and unclear diagnostic criteria in the DSM and undefined concepts such as " personality state " and " identities ", and question the evidence for childhood abuse beyond self-reports, the lack of definition of what would indicate a threshold of abuse sufficient to induce DID and the extremely small number of cases of children diagnosed with DID despite an average age of appearance of the first alter of three years.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

In addition, his definition of a tragedy invites our attention, because a serious and important action may very well be one that tests the moral fiber of the author or of the characters.

Used in several sets of high reps once or twice each week it will not be long before your entire upper leg takes on a razor-sharp definition in which the muscles look like wire cables writhing and twisting under the skin!!

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

It might be contended, of course, that Eichmann in stubbornly denying anti-Semitic feelings was lying or insisting on a private definition of anti-Semitism.

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The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

By the Brønsted-Lowry definition, any compound which can easily be deprotonated can be considered an acid.

The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").

The new definition is expected to be formally proposed at the 25th General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) in 2014.

While there is no generally accepted formal definition of " algorithm ," an informal definition could be " a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations.

As such, it has to be distinguished from agricultural land, which, according to Food and Agriculture Organization's ( FAO ) definition, additionally includes land under permanent crops as well as permanent pastures.

According to one definition of asymmetric, anything that fails to be symmetric is asymmetric.

The meter is defined to be a unit of proper length, but the SI definition does not specify the metric tensor to be used in determining it.

Indeed, the International Committee for Weights and Measures ( CIPM ) notes that " its definition applies only within a spatial extent sufficiently small that the effects of the non-uniformity of the gravitational field can be ignored.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.