What they discuss with dialectical seriousness is the degree to which sex can inspire the Muse.

Newspaper advertising was mainly concentrated in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Eastern and Midwestern editions ) which averaged two prominent ads per month, and to a lesser degree the New York Herald Tribune and, for the west coast, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal ( Pacific Coast edition ).

This broad delegation leaves within our discretion ( subject to the always-present criterion of the public interest ) both the determination of what degree of interference shall be considered excessive, and the methods by which such excessive interference shall be avoided.

An example of the overall standards applied is the 20-to-1 ratio established for the determination of that degree of cochannel interference which is regarded as objectionable.

For proper accreditation of schools, teachers in any course must have a degree at least one level above that for which the student is a candidate.

( 2 ) In the critical micelle region, there is a rapid agglomeration or polymerization to give the micelles, which have a degree of polymerization averaging around 60 - 80.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

The general intellectual outlook which had appeared in the eleventh century was now consolidated to a significant degree.

but all too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took place in the early first millennium.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

The account of the growth and final transcription of these epics rests partly, however, upon the degree to which they were formulaic.

The adolescent's capacity to anticipate achievement and to exercise the self-discipline necessary to complete tasks successfully depends on the degree to which he or she developed autonomy, initiative, and self-discipline during childhood.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

the attitude adopted by realtors and their associations, either negative or positive, plays a large part in the public acceptance of such measures and the degree to which they may be effectively enforced.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

Could it just be, Theresa wondered, that Anne had understood only too well, and that George all along was extraordinary only in the degree to which he was dull??

The degree to which these principles are practiced is different for householders and monks.

The pronunciation of a language often evolves independently of its writing system, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language.

Related to this is lexicostatistics, which attempts to determine the degree of relation between a set of languages by comparing the percentage of basic vocabulary ( words like " I ", " you ", " heart ", " stone ", " two ", " be ", " and ") they share in common.

* Modified Baltic amber – gemstone subjected only to thermal or high-pressure treatment, which changed its physical properties, including the degree of transparency and color, or shaped under similar conditions out of one nugget, previously cut to the required size.

Absolute temperature measurement is uniquely determined by a multiplicative constant which specifies the size of the " degree ", so the ratios of two absolute temperatures, T < sub > 2 </ sub >/ T < sub > 1 </ sub >, are the same in all scales.

He was eventually rescued by Dampier after four years, in which he had developed hunting and woodcraft skills to a high degree.

If a is algebraic over K, then K, the set of all polynomials in a with coefficients in K, is not only a ring but a field: an algebraic extension of K which has finite degree over K. In the special case where K = Q is the field of rational numbers, Q is an example of an algebraic number field.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

That this is due in some degree to accident is clear from the character of the words, and from the fact that several reappear and are common after the Norman Conquest.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

* " Doc " is a common nickname for someone with a doctoral degree, in real life and in fiction — for example, the gunfighter Doc Holliday, the character " Doc " in Gunsmoke, and pulp hero Doc Savage

It has been described as " a language lexically predominantly Romance, morphologically intensively agglutinative, and to a certain degree isolating in character ".

Although Villaggio's movies tend to bridge trash comedy with a more elevated social satire ; this character had a great impact on Italian society, to such a degree that the adjective fantozziano entered the lexicon.

The third edition rules replace specialized matrices with the Action Control Table ( ACT ), a single, color-coded chart that allowed players to determine whether a character action succeeded, and the degree of success, with a single roll.

Each character has unique weapons and physical characteristics, lending an additional degree of variety and replay value to the gameplay.

Its analog joystick could register movement in any direction as well as measure the degree of push, which could move the player character at different speeds depending on how far the joystick is pushed in a certain direction.

The audience sees a philosophical ebb to his character, however, along with a degree of optimism, yet his polite façade collapses when events get the better of him, and a full verbal onslaught is forthcoming.

The player then rolls a number of dice equal to their level in the relevant skill, and the number of dice rolled that meet or exceed the target number determines if the character is successful performing the action and the degree of success the character has.

:"... first clearly laid down that the character and structure of a language expresses the inner life and knowledge of its speakers, and that languages must differ from one another in the same way and to the same degree as those who use them.

The remaining three days of Holy Week retain a smaller degree of Lenten character, but each has elements that are unique to it.

Nevertheless, many Romans still viewed his character with a degree of respect.

Not all of his friends from former years welcomed these changes ; some felt that, along with his shyness, his scientific caution and good sense may have deserted him to a degree but most people who saw how happy Rivers had become agreed that the slight alterations to his character were for the better.

In this film, he parodies that character to some degree, as much of the criticism is deserved.

Chapter 13 in James Joyce's Ulysses is entitled " Nausicaa " and echoes the story to a degree: the character Gerty McDowell ( Nausicaa's analogue ) tempts Bloom.

On campus, academic training occupies a central position and the University ’ s special character is reflected in the organisation of its degree programmes.

* By focusing on the improvised character of German and Italian foreign policy, he helped to create a debate over the degree to which fascist states were fulfilling a programme versus taking advantage of events.

Most stories have an author surrogate, insofar as the author is usually capable of pointing to one character ( major or minor ) whom he or she identifies with to a much greater degree than any other character.

Monash's success in part reflected the tolerance of Australian society, but to a larger degree his success-in the harshest experience the young nation had suffered-shaped that tolerance and demonstrated to Australians that the Australian character was diverse, multi-ethnic and a blend of the traditions of the ' bush ' and the ' city '.

The text gives reference, for example, to the flame-proof " ( or salamander )' s fur robe " ( perhaps familiar to watchers of the anime InuYasha as the vestment of the title character ), which attests to considerable degree of book-knowledge and learning by its author.

Based on a character originally developed by Atkinson while he was studying for his master's degree at Oxford University, the series follows the exploits of Mr. Bean, described by Atkinson as " a child in a grown man's body ", in solving various problems presented by everyday tasks and often causing disruption in the process.

The character of Mr. Bean was developed while Atkinson was studying for his master's degree at Oxford University.