Social Darwinism challenged positivism's claim of deliberate and rational choice as the determining behaviour of humans, with social Darwinism focusing on heredity, race, and environment.

Kelly's athleticism gave his moves a distinctive broad, muscular quality, and this was a very deliberate choice on his part, as he explained: " There's a strong link between sports and dancing, and my own dancing springs from my early days as an athlete ... I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

Maude has survived and lives a life rich with meaning and deliberate choice.

The presentation of a false choice often reflects a deliberate attempt to eliminate the middle ground on an issue.

Is also conceivable, however, that holding the election in Italy was a deliberate choice on the part of Otto II in order to demonstrate that Italy was an equal part of the Empire on the same level as Germany.

In his 2006 book about Virginia Woolf he stated that she put an end to her life by a conscious and deliberate act, her suicide being an expression of her freedom of choice.

This choice of terminology by IBM may have been a deliberate attempt to ignore the existence of those plug compatible manufacturers ( PCMs ), because they competed aggressively against IBM hardware dominance.

Oberth commented later that he made the deliberate choice not to write another doctoral dissertation.

Her decision was at once a deliberate personal choice and a political negotiation: by returning to the marriage, she ensured that Hungary, with which she felt an intense emotional alliance, would gain an equal footing with Austria.

The Catholic Encyclopedia states the Church's view on the latter claim by saying that while midwinter pagan feasts such as Saturnalia may have helped influence the eventual choice to fix the date of Christmas, this does not mean that Christian Christmas traditions find their origin or inspiration there: " though the abundance of analogous midwinter festivals may indefinitely have helped the choice of the December date, the same instinct which set Natalis Invicti at the winter solstice will have sufficed, apart from deliberate adaptation or curious calculation, to set the Christian feast there too.

Volition is essentially a free choice between alternatives, and that is best which is most deliberate, because it is most rational.

It is a deliberate choice " ( see Campaign Against Arms Trade ).

For example, the availability of legal abortion now allowed men to view their offspring as the deliberate product of female choice rather than as the chance product of sexual intercourse.

In the Ashby-and-Cybernetics tradition, the word " trial " usually implies random-or-arbitrary, without any deliberate choice.

The historian Malyn Newitt subscribes to some sort of ulterior maneuvering and has said that the choice of Cabral " was a deliberate attempt to balance the interests of rival factions of noble families, for he appears to have no other quality to recommend him and no known experience in commanding major expeditions.

Although this was a deliberate choice by writer Roy Thomas, it created confusion in Marvel's production department, as the covers of Avengers # 85 and # 141 ( Nov. 1975 ) claimed the issues featured appearances by the Squadron Sinister, when in fact it was the Squadron Supreme that appeared in both issues.

The choice of suitable acts and objects for symbolism is narrow enough that it would not be easy to avoid the appearance of an imitation of other traditions, even if there had been a deliberate attempt to invent an entirely new ritual.

These recurring elements were a deliberate choice on the part of the filmmakers.

Like in the original exercise, she does not explicitly tell participants to mock others but uses choice of language and tone, removal of basic rights ( such as being allowed to speak without permission ) and a constant changing of the rules to discomfort the blue-eyed participants-a deliberate reversal of what happens in society at large.

This characteristic makes depressants a common choice for deliberate overdoses in the case of suicide.

* Note: The inconsistency of branding between " One " and " 2 " and " 3 " was a deliberate design choice on CBC's part and is not an error.

A few hip hop insiders, such as the members of Public Enemy, Immortal Technique, Paris and Common have made the deliberate choice not to don expensive jewelry as a statement against materialism.

The main stream of discussion starts in Chapter 1, from an assertion that all making, investigating ( every methodos, like the Ethics itself ), all deliberate actions and choice, all aim at some good.

135 AD, indicating the pronunciation ʻAštōreṯ (" Ashtoreth ," " Ashtoret ") is a deliberate distortion of " Ashtart ", and that this is probably because the two last syllables have been pointed with the vowels belonging to bōšeṯ, (" bosheth ," abomination ), to indicate that that word should be substituted when reading.

It is also sufficient to show the Christian and any other champion of justice that he needs to make sure not only that his cause is just but also that his conduct is just, i.e., that, if economic pressure has to be resorted to, this be applied directly against those persons directly in the way of some salutary change in business or institutional practices, while, if injury fall upon others, it fall upon them indirectly and secondarily ( however inevitably ) and not by deliberate intent and direct action against them.

If deliberate, it may also have been used to maintain a sense of community.

War and deliberate attacks may also be put in this category.

He preferred to trust to rapid close-range fire rather than deliberate ranging and operating at extreme range, a failing which had also been pointed out to him previously.

* Thompson's poem is also the source of the phrase, " with all deliberate speed ," used by the Supreme Court in Brown II, the remedy phase of the famous decision on school desegregation.

But the fallacy can also arise simply by accidental omission of additional options rather than by deliberate deception.

This can happen quite naturally through reflection or deliberate recall ( also known as recapitulation ), often dependent on the perceived importance of the material.

The Bears were penalized five yards for delay of game, but according to NFL rules, ten seconds should have also been run off the clock during such a deliberate clock-stopping attempt in the final two minutes of a half.

It has also been employed by some sympathizers, and rests on the deliberate obfuscation between all kinds of violence ...”

The use of force by states is already thoroughly regulated under international law " However, he also made clear that, " regardless of the differences between governments on the question of definition of terrorism, what is clear and what we can all agree on is any deliberate attack on innocent civilians, regardless of one's cause, is unacceptable and fits into the definition of terrorism.

In computing, spamdexing ( also known as search spam, search engine spam, web spam or search engine poisoning ) is the deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes.

Studies in evolutionary physiology, behavioral genetics, and other areas of organismal biology have also made use of deliberate artificial selection, though longer generation times and greater difficulty in breeding can make such projects challenging in vertebrates.

Additionally, bird migration, flower blooming, and the growth of Rome that caused the Colosseum to become embedded within the modern city centre rather than on the outskirts of the ancient city, as well as deliberate transport of species, are also contributing causes.

Bach's dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered rococo style also then in vogue.

Growth was also hampered by a deliberate exclusion from the higher educational system of children of ' bourgeois ' families.

During the trial, Muybridge undercut his own insanity case by indicating that his actions were deliberate and premeditated, but he also showed impassive indifference and uncontrolled explosions of emotion.

Black Swans have also naturally flown to New Zealand, leading scientists to consider them a native rather than exotic species, although the present population appears to be largely descended from deliberate introductions.

The setting on the Mount of Olives is also thought by some scholars not to have been incidental, but a quite deliberate echo of a passage in the Book of Zechariah which refers to the location as the place where a final battle would occur between the Jewish Messiah and his opponents.

Etymology: An orthographic and phonetic blend of Mrs n .< sup > 1 </ sup > and miss n .< sup > 2 </ sup > Compare mizz n. The pronunciation with final /- z / would appear to have arisen as a result of deliberate attempts to distinguish between this word and miss n .< sup > 2 </ sup >; compare mizz n., and perhaps also Miz n .< sup > 1 </ sup > -- n .: Etymology: Representing the spoken realization of Ms n .< sup > 2 </ sup > ( see discussion at that entry ).

It appears in every blindly acting force of nature, and also in the deliberate conduct of man ….

Alister McGrath, a Christian theologian, has also commented critically on Dawkins ' analysis, suggesting that " memes have no place in serious scientific reflection ", that there is strong evidence that such ideas are not spread by random processes, but by deliberate intentional actions, that " evolution " of ideas is more Lamarckian than Darwinian, and that there is no evidence ( and certainly none in the article ) that epidemiological models usefully explain the spread of religious ideas.

Rusk also drew the ire of supporters of Israel after he let it be known that he believed the USS Liberty incident was a deliberate attack on the ship, rather than an accident.