Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

In Buddhist tradition the process occurs across five or six realms of existence, including the human, any kind of animal and several types of supernatural being.

Square EA proved to be very successful, and during its five years of existence released a higher proportion of localized Square titles to the American market than ever before.

In his work, Aquinas presented five ways in which he attempted to prove the existence of God, the quinque viae.

There were also five or six sisters, with the existence of Adeliza and Matilda not being absolutely certain.

Belief in the existence of the infinite comes mainly from five considerations:

Awards were presented to the shorts ' producers during the first five decades of the award's existence.

During its five months of existence, the unit launched repeated raids against military targets and villages used as bases by the fedayeen.

During the five years of its existence, Efftee produced nine features, over 80 shorts and several stage productions.

The basic tenets of Cārvāka philosophy, of no soul and existence of four ( not five ) elements were probably inspired from him.

It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer group and one of the top five largest consumer goods companies in the world ; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.

The underpinnings for the contemporary moral panic were found in a rise of five factors in the years leading up to the 1980s: The establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity and political organization of the Moral Majority ; the rise of the Anti-cult movement which spread ideas of abusive cults kidnapping and brainwashing children and teens ; the appearance of the Church of Satan and other explicitly Satanist groups that added a kernel of truth to the existence of Satanic cults ; the appearance of the child abuse industry and a group of professionals dedicated to the protection of children ; and the popularization of posttraumatic stress disorder, repressed memory and corresponding survivor movement.

In Greek mythology, Erebus (), also Erebos (, " deep darkness, shadow "), was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness ; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony places him as one of the first five beings to come into existence from Chaos.

Chamberlain discovered the existence of such negotiations from Henry Labouchere, but unsure of the precise nature of Gladstone's offer to Parnell, did not press the issue, although he had already stated his opposition to Home Rule, declaring that " I cannot admit that five millions of Irishmen have any greater right to govern themselves without regard to the rest of the United Kingdom than the five million inhabitants of the metropolis ( i. e. London ).

He argues that of the five sources used by Leon-Portilla to argue in favour of the existence of a single creator god among the Aztecs none contain a clear reference to a god of duality.

During the next five years of its existence it had several owners.

Lima is also the headquarters of Kewpee Restaurants, as well as home to three of the last five Kewpee restaurants in existence.

It is one of five churches in existence in 1872, 3 of which still stand and are still active congregations.

Hartmann bases Keller's fame chiefly on 15 short stories, the five mentioned above ; the five contained in the second volume of Die Leute von Seldwyla ( 1874 ): “ Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe ,” “ Der Schmied seines Glücks ,” “ Dietegen ,” “ Kleider machen Leute ,” and “ Das verlorene Lachen ”; and five in Züricher Novellen ( 1878 ): “ Hadlaub ,” “ Der Narr auf Manegg ,” “ Der Landvogt von Greifensee ,” “ Das Fähnlein der sieben Aufrechten ,” and “ Ursula .” The milieu is always that of an orderly bourgeois existence, within which the most manifold human destinies, the most humorous relations are progressing, the most peculiar and hardy types of endurance and reticence being formed.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

Loosely speaking, the existence of a periodic table creates an ordering for the elements.

The axiom of choice asserts the existence of such elements ; it is therefore equivalent to:

In addition to omitting the axiom of regularity, non-standard set theories have indeed postulated the existence of sets that are elements of themselves.

While " there is an intentional editorial unity with a cohesive purpose and message in the canonical form of the book ," Job contains many separate elements, some of which may have had an independent existence prior to being incorporated into the present text.

The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are the sensory qualities solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility ; their characterization as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively, is declared an abstraction — instead of concentrating on the fact of material existence, one observes how a physical thing is sensed, felt, perceived.

When the human main character, Takeru, argues that humans also have the ability to reproduce and disperse, the higher existence says carbon too easily mingles with other elements and therefore it would be impossible for a carbon-based existence to have evolved on its own.

Over the first decade of its existence, the incorporation of elements from various musical genres led to many permutations in its overall style.

Later, Buddhist philosophers like Nāgārjuna would question whether the dharmas ( momentary elements of consciousness ) truly have a separate existence of their own.

In 1938, Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his " demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons ".

He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.

Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements.

Nothing about these four elements was known of in Moseley's lifetime, not even their very existence.

This latter question about the possibility of more undiscovered (" missing ") elements had been a standing problem among the chemists of the world, particularly given the existence of the large family of the lanthanide series of rare earth elements.

Physico-theology is the term for a theology based on the constitution of the natural world, especially derived from perceived elements of " design ", which gave rise to the argument from design for the existence of God, beginning with the " fifth way " of the Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas ( d. 1274 ).

The existence of multiple elements in their salts was suspected from 1702, and this was proven in 1807 when potassium and sodium were individually isolated from different salts by electrolysis.

Darwin himself had noted that " the existence of free gemmules is a gratuitous assumption "; by some accounts in modern interpretation, gemmules may be considered a prescient mix of DNA, RNA, proteins, prions, and other mobile elements that are heritable in a non-Mendelian manner at the molecular level.

Exponentiation to the power of zero can also be defined if the operation has an identity element, so the existence of identity elements becomes especially useful in power-associative contexts.

The ability to diffract comes from the existence of an indefinitely large number of elements with a regular spacing, a property loosely described as long-range order.

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae ( 500-428 BCE ) in Asia Minor, also maintained the existence of an ordering principle as well as a material substance, and while regarding the latter as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements ; he conceived divine reason or Mind ( nous ) as ordering them.

:< nowiki >*</ nowiki > The existence of these elements has been claimed and generally accepted, but not yet acknowledged by the IUPAC.