Available data suggest that these gains have been accompanied by analogous increases of head size, and by an increase in the average size of the brain .< ref > This argument had been thought to suffer the difficulty that groups who tend to be of smaller overall body size ( e. g. women, or people of Asian ancestry ) do not have lower average IQs.

Given this view, the difficulty or impossibility of finding a plausible explanation for evil in a world created by God is to be expected, and so the argument from evil is assumed to fail unless it can be proven that God's reasons would be comprehensible to us.

The Funarg problem ( or " functional argument " problem ) describes the difficulty of implementing functions as first class objects in a stack-based programming language such as C or C ++.

Apart of the lack of a causal argument for introducing the axis in the telencephalon, there is the obvious difficulty that there is a pair of telencephalic vesicles, so that a bifid axis is actually implied in these outdated versions.

An argument ensued, with Lee rejecting the political implications of the first choice and indicating the difficulty of the second, but Gordon left the meeting with the impression that Lee was considering those options.

One major difficulty with the argument relates to the claim that pregnancy and child-bearing are within the scope of the term " servitude ".

There are a number of legal issues to be addressed in order to abolish the monarchy, though individuals on both sides of the argument take a different view of the level of difficulty faced.

Meanwhile, writer Tim Cavanaugh points to the difficulty of implementing any sort of reform to the problem of Affluenza: " The genius of the simplicity movement was to shape a political argument ( an extraordinarily broad and total critique of commercial exchange ) into a spiritual koan ( why am I so unfulfilled by my Big Macs and gadgets when simple Bushmen have all the soul nourishment they need ?).

The difficulty only arises if the body of a nested function refers directly ( i. e., not via argument passing ) to identifiers defined in the environment in which the function is defined, but not in the environment of the function call.

The argument is twofold: firstly, small businesses create most American jobs, and secondly, small businesses have more difficulty starting and growing in the face of entrenched existing businesses ( compare infant industry argument, applied at the level of industries, rather than individual firms ).

: 71-80 If symptoms are present, they are transient and expectable reactions to psychosocial stressors ( e. g., difficulty concentrating after family argument ); no more than slight impairment in social, occupational, or school functioning ( e. g., temporarily falling behind in schoolwork ).

The difficulty with this argument, however, is that the traditional endocentric vs. exocentric distinction did not foresee the existence of multi-headed structures, which means that it did not provide a guideline for deciding whether a multi-headed structure should be viewed as endo-or exocentric.

A second source of interpretive difficulty is that in his argument Marx often conflates capital advanced ( to acquire inputs necessary for production ) with capital consumed ( that fraction of the value of inputs used up in the production of new output ).

The difficulty of reconciling such assorted concepts in a single word is a good argument for preferring phylogenetic terms such as ancestral, basal, and derived states, to the likes of primitive and advanced, which irrelevantly, even misleadingly, might suggest a scale of inferiority or superiority.

Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.

He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

Uncle Randolph and Joel had replanted the bottom lands with difficulty, for more of the slaves, including Annie, had sneaked off when the soldiers broke camp.

the attitudes of a U.N. delegate who experiences difficulty in finding adequate housing in New York City, or of a foreign diplomat in similar circumstances in our Capital, can easily be directed against the United States and all that it stands for.

`` A serious problem accompanying the technical-ladder approach is the difficulty of clearly defining responsibilities and standards of performance for each level.

Inability to care for the other children, difficulty in feeding the babies, who seemed colicky, bone-weary fatigue, repeated crying episodes, and short tempers reflected the family's helplessness in coping with the stressful situation.

She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.

The president of a small firm selling restaurant products, had considerable difficulty in finding suitable salesmen for his business.

The difficulty of analysis of any subsystem in the phonology is an inverse function of the size -- smaller systems are more troublesome -- for any given degree of morphophonemic complexity.

Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.

With great difficulty he made his way from his native Hungary to Geneva to renew his contacts as a member of the Provisional Committee for the World Council of Churches.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

What's happening in textiles can be handwriting on the wall for other lines having difficulty competing with imports from low-wage countries.

The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ); but, had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy.

In 1060, Ealdred was elected to the archbishopric of York, but had difficulty in obtaining papal approval for his appointment, only managing to do so when he promised not to hold the bishoprics of York and Worcester simultaneously.

The circumstances preceding the mutiny on the Bounty and Jack London's story " Make Westing " poignantly illustrated the difficulty it caused for mariners seeking to round Cape Horn on the clipper ship route between New York and California.

Air shows, and other big shows such as agricultural shows, on grassy land, are vulnerable to continued heavy rain waterlogging the ground, and making the cloudbase too low for flying, forcing cancellation, or the show ending early, costing much money for the show's organizers, as people and parking cars have difficulty moving about and turn the land into a morass, and the organizers may be tempted to put straw or cinders down to make movement easier, and the owner of the land cannot accept the resulting damage.

The difficulty is heightened when songs merge, as in " Now "/" Later "/" Soon ", because all three have to be performed in the same key, limiting the ability to pick a comfortable key for each singer.

The difficulty in conceiving of or describing an object without also conceiving of or describing its properties is a common justification for bundle theory, especially among current philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition.

Realizing Caesar's difficulty in keeping his troops supplied, Pompey decided to simply mirror Caesar's forces and let hunger do the fighting for him.

Another difficulty is that manuscripts of early writers were often incomplete: it is apparent that Bede had access to Pliny's Encyclopedia, for example, but it seems that the version he had was missing book xviii, as he would almost certainly have quoted from it in his De temporum ratione.

As in other types of climbing, bouldering has developed its own grading systems for comparing the difficulty of problems, mainly because bouldering problems can be much harder than traditional rock climbing routes.

There was some difficulty here.

The order is thought to have first diverged from other related monocots some 120-130 million years ago ( early in the Cretaceous period ), although given the difficulty in classifying the families involved, estimates are likely to be uncertain.

After some difficulty, they relented and allowed some cattle to be " enslaved ".

From there Alaric escaped with difficulty, and not without some suspicion of connivance by Stilicho, who supposedly had again received orders to depart.

49-51, 73, 85-94 ), involves critical problems of some difficulty and interest.

George French Angus may have collected a description of a bunyip in his account of a " water spirit " from the Moorundi people of the Murray River before 1847, stating it is " much dreaded by them … It inhabits the Murray ; but … they have some difficulty describing it.

Earlier in the history of chemistry substances were given name by their discoverer, which often led to some confusion and difficulty.

* Chalk climbing: cliffs of chalk may ( with difficulty ) be climbed using some of the same techniques as ice climbing.

Written CD-Rs and CD-RWs are, from a technical standpoint, fully compatible with the Audio CD ( Red Book ) and CD-ROM ( Yellow Book ) standards, although some hardware compatible with Red Book CDs may have difficulty reading CD-Rs and especially CD-RWs.

Valiente was unhappy with this version, saying that " people seemed to have some difficulty with this, because of the various goddess-names which they found hard to pronounce ", and so she rewrote it as a prose version, much of which differs from her initial version, and is more akin to Gardner's version.

The difficulty with this scheme phylogenetically was that some flightless birds, without strong carinae, are descended directly from ordinary flying birds with carinae.

She encountered some difficulty in publishing the first book, since most publishers would only offer her a deal if she agreed to remove the stories from the internet.

These left him with a noticeable asymmetry during facial expression and resulted in his difficulty in eating or speaking ( he could not pronounce some consonants such as the letter ' r ').

He began complaining of chest pains and of having some difficulty breathing.

On January 3, 1894 he installed a triplex apparatus on the telegraph between Paris and Bordeaux that had previously been operating with some difficulty on the Hughes telegraph system.

To be belongs to the set of irregular verbs in English ; some individuals, especially those who have learned English as a second language, may have difficulty recognizing all its forms.

Suddenly a giant sea louse attacks but is eventually killed with some difficulty.

Defective surveying of the original route of the L & MR caused by the hostility of some of the affected landowners meant that Stephenson encountered difficulty during Parliamentary scrutiny of the original bill, especially under cross-examination by Edward Hall Alderson.

The European Commission had some difficulty funding the project's next stage, after several allegedly " per annum " sales projection graphs for the project were exposed in November 2001 as " cumulative " projections ( which for each year projected, necessarily included all previous years of sales ).

Therefore, some of the symptoms of hyperthyroidism may be nervousness, irritability, increased perspiration, heart racing, hand tremors, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, thinning of the skin, fine brittle hair, and muscular weakness — especially in the upper arms and thighs.

The Roman Empire had difficulty responding to all the barbarian raids, and Flavius Aëtius had to use these tribes against each other in order to maintain some Roman control.

The maximum level of complexity and difficulty of the problem that the child is capable to solve under some guidance indicates the level of potential development.

While some individuals might deliberately use a biased sample to produce misleading results, more often, a biased sample is just a reflection of the difficulty in obtaining a truly representative sample.

A disagreement regarding the legal status and the portion of the annuities to be paid by the " A " mandates was settled when an Arbitrator ruled that some of the mandates contained more than one State: The difficulty arises here how one is to regard the Asiatic countries under the British and French mandates.