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In 1979, because of the difficulties in realizing a Planck radiator at high temperatures and the new possibilities offered by radiometry, the 16th CGPM adopted the modern definition of the candela.
Russell offered his theory of descriptions in part as a way of defining a proper name, the definition being given by a definite description that " picks out " exactly one individual.
The American philosopher Robert Nozick has offered the following definition of knowledge:
Based on this, she offered a definition incorporating those elements, stating that euthanasia " must be defined as death that results from the intention of one person to kill another person, using the most gentle and painless means possible, that is motivated solely by the best interests of the person who dies.
" Prior to Draper, Beauchamp & Davidson had also offered a definition which includes these elements, although they offered a somewhat longer account, and one that specifically discounts fetuses in order to distinguish between abortions and euthanasia:
Wreen, in part responding to Beauchamp & Davidson, offered a six part definition:
A broad definition is offered by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke:
For example, in Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, English professor Howard Schwartz writes, " the definition of ' mythology ' offered here does not attempt to determine if biblical or subsequent narratives are true or false, i. e., historically accurate or not ".
" In 1994, the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy offered a wider definition: " By analogy with racism and sexism, the improper stance of refusing respect to the lives, dignity, or needs of animals of other than the human species.
In the 1980s, economist Peter Bauer offered a competing definition for the term Third World.
2 ( c ) of Directive No. 2004 / 83 / EC, essentially reproduces the narrow definition of refugee offered by the UN 1951 Convention ; nevertheless, by virtue of articles 2 ( e ) and 15 of the same Directive, persons who have fled a war-caused generalized violence are, at certain conditions, elegible for a complementary form of protection, called subsidiary protection.
Possibly the clearest definition for this philosophy was offered by gay / lesbian rights advocate Diana Fuss, who wrote: " Essentialism is most commonly understood as a belief in the real, true essence of things, the invariable and fixed properties which define the ' whatness ' of a given entity ".
In his monumental study of Chivalry, The Broad-Stone of Honour, Kenelm Henry Digby offered the following definition: ' Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world.
Ronald Azuma offered a definition in 1997: AR is about augmenting the real world environment with virtual information by improving people ’ s senses and skills.
The definition of contemporary Christian, as offered by New Harmonies, is of a genre not far removed from traditional hymns ; it is simply more accessible.
Previously, network programming from the United States was received on cable via affiliates from Spokane, Washington, but local viewers now have more choice, given the advances with cable or satellite television that are now being offered as digital or HD ( high definition ) service.
Lane writes in Herland and Beyond that “ Gilman offered perspectives on major issues of gender with which we still grapple ; the origins of women ’ s subjugation, the struggle to achieve both autonomy and intimacy in human relationships ; the central role of work as a definition of self ; new strategies for rearing and educating future generations to create a humane and nurturing environment .”
In fact, when pussy appears in the earlier 1828 edition of the dictionary, this definition is presented for the word, while the older pursy is simply offered as a " corrupt orthography ".
* Telephone broadcasting ( 1881 – 1932 ): the earliest form of electronic broadcasting ( not counting data services offered by stock telegraph companies from 1867, if ticker-tapes are excluded from the definition ).
James Crisfield, the legal advisor to the Tribunals, offered his legal opinion, that CSRT " do not have the discretion to determine that a detainee should be classified as a prisoner of war — only whether the detainee satisfies the definition of ' enemy combatant '".
In the book Counterpower: Making Change Happen, a definition rooted in the political science literature is offered.
In his landmark definition of white collar crime he offered these categories of crime:
There is a high definition feed offered on Comcast Xfinity digital channel 191, RCN digital channel 611, WOW!

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A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.
Throughout the rest of the Poetics, Aristotle continues to discuss the characteristics of these six parts and their interrelationship, and he refers frequently to the standards suggested by his definition of tragedy.
The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.
First, we can encourage responsibility by establishing as conditions for assistance on a substantial and sustained scale the definition of objectives and the assessment of costs.
But contest definition -- that dramatic muscular separation of every muscle group that seems as though it must have been carved by a sculptor's chisel -- is something quite different.
If Af is the operator induced on Af by T, then evidently Af, because by definition Af is 0 on the subspace Af.
Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.
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 has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.
these, almost by definition, are spokesmen for an alienated ideology.
Finally, when the accelerometer output is zero, the entire system remains stationary, and the platform is, by definition, leveled.
If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.
According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.
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 ).
In the narrowest definition, the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto is characterized by an umbellate inflorescence with an inferior ovary.
Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.
This wider definition of Anatolia has gained widespread currency outside of Turkey and has, for instance, been adopted by Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedic and general reference publications.
* Identity: the identity is the identity morphism from an object to itself which exists by definition.
* Inverses: by definition every isomorphism has an inverse which is also an isomorphism, and since the inverse is also an endomorphism of the same object it is an automorphism.
Partial and total orders are antisymmetric by definition.
The latter definition ignores the direction of the vectors and thus describes the angle between one-dimensional subspaces and spanned by the vectors and correspondingly.
The definition of the angle between one-dimensional subspaces and given by
This definition was adopted by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.

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