In determining the extent to which any poem is formulaic it is idle, however, to inspect nothing besides lines repeated in their entirety, for a stock of line-fragments would be sufficient to permit the poet to extemporize with deftness if they provided for prosodic needs.

Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

AD 100 ), states: " The Peucini, however, who are sometimes called Bastarnae, are like Germans in their language, way of life and types of dwelling and live in similar squalor and indolence ... mixed marriages are giving them to some extent the vile appearance of the Sarmatians.

The Honduran cattle sector, however, never developed to the extent that it did in much of the rest of Central America.

The extent to which ordination is considered sacramental in these traditions has, however, been a matter of some internal dispute.

Italian rail network is extensive, especially in the north, generally eclipsing the need for an alternative such as bus or air ( both of which, however, exist to some extent ).

Food irradiation is currently permitted by over 50 countries, and the volume of food treated is estimated to exceed 500, 000 metric tons annually worldwide ; however, the extent of clearances is varying significantly, from a single item ( spices ) in the EU to any food in Brazil.

Kenneth Muir, however, thought that " the extent of verbal echoes of the pamphlets has, I think, been exaggerated.

The extent of this influence, however, is obscured by the channels through which it was exercised.

Some, however, believe that if the foe is willing to hurt others, then it is justified to respond with force, even to the extent of the atomic bomb.

Some religious hardliners however repudiated Khayyam and the like altogether ( and to a lesser extent still do today ).

The extent of urbanization in South Korea, however, is not fully revealed in these statistics.

The origins of soul food, however, are much older and can be traced back to Africa — and to a lesser extent, to Europe, as well.

Splicing occurs in all the kingdoms or domains of life, however, the extent and types of splicing can be very different between the major divisions.

Banded iron formations have been taken as unavoidable evidence for global ice cover, since they require dissolved iron ions and anoxic waters to form ; however, the limited extent of the Neoproterozoic banded iron deposits means that they may not have formed in frozen oceans, but instead in inland seas.

Thus, this congressional clause is contrasted by the general vesting of the executive and judicial powers in Articles II and III in the branches of government those articles govern, which has been interpreted to mean that those branches enjoy " residual " or " implied " powers beyond those specifically mentioned, as contrasted with the Congress, which is vested with those legislative powers " herein granted ;" however, there is substantial contemporary disagreement about the precise extent of the powers conferred by the general vesting clauses.

Care must be taken, however, when using enthalpies of vaporization to measure the strength of intermolecular forces, as these forces may persist to an extent in the gas phase ( as is the case with hydrogen fluoride ), and so the calculated value of the bond strength will be too low.

This suggests a possible " third variable " problem, however, when three such closely related measures are found, it further suggests that each may have bidirectional tendencies ( see " bidirectional variable ," above ), being a cluster of correlated values each influencing one another to some extent.

The Chronicle was a West Saxon production, however, and is sometimes thought to be biased in favour of Wessex ; hence it may not accurately convey the extent of power achieved by Offa, a Mercian.

Baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values ; however, many commentators have disputed the extent of that rejection, noting the widespread continuity of values with older and younger generations.

It is, however, the large extent ( 6, 500 m² ) of the impressive glass mosaics covering the interior which make this church so splendid.

As the market evolved, however, despite the failure of MCA, IBM derived a considerable income from license fees from companies who paid for licenses to use IBM patents that were in the PC design — to the extent that IBM's emphasis changed from discouraging PC clones to maximizing its revenue from license sales.

Yet he has also shown signs of deeply resenting this role, defending the right of poets to be private and apolitical, and questioning the extent to which poetry, however ' committed ,' can influence the course of history.

The panel stated that it would be difficult to discover, however, the full extent of the problem.

After realizing the extent of Amer's control in the country, however, Nasser appointed himself Chief of the Armed Forces, replacing Amer, in 1963.

The defensiveness has been exaggerated by another bad habit, our tendency to rate the `` goodness '' or `` badness '' of other nations by the extent to which they applaud the slogans we circulate about ourselves.

What are the historical trends in this country and abroad in the extent to which these goals are effectively realized??

Both the extent to which this is true and the limits of the field of perceptual skill involved should be acknowledged.

The extent to which we can persuade the less developed countries to appraise their own resources, to set targets toward which they should be working, to establish in the light of this forward perspective the most urgent priorities for their immediate attention, and to do the other things which they must do to help themselves, all on a realistic long-term basis, will depend importantly on the incentives we place before them.

Research and development activities undertaken by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted jointly with the Department of Defense to the end that developments under this Act which are primarily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense of the Nation and that developments which are primarily of a military nature will, to the greatest practicable extent compatible with military and security requirements, be available to advance the purposes of this Act and to strengthen the civil economy of the Nation.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

The extent to which participating bodies such as U. S. voluntary agencies, universities, international organizations, and the host country or institutions in the host country can and should share the cost of the Peace Corps programs must be fully explored.

The extent of such interference -- which may be so slight as to be undetectable at any point where either of the stations renders a usable signal, or may be so great as to virtually destroy the service areas of both stations -- depends on many factors, among the principal ones being the distance between the stations, their respective radiated power, and, of particular significance here, the time of day.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

Fundamental to the difficulty of creating the desired prestige is the fact that, in the business community, prestige and status are conferred in proportion to the authority that one man has over others and the extent of which he participates in the management functions ''.

Observations of the radio emission of a planet which has an extensive atmosphere will probe the atmosphere to a greater extent than those using shorter wave lengths and should in some cases give otherwise unobtainable information about the characteristics of the solid surface.

The washing process whereby soils are removed consists basically of applying mechanical action to loosen the dirt particles and dried matter in the presence of water which helps to float off the debris and acts, to some extent, as a dissolving and solvating agent.

To some extent the system can be considered a Gemeinschaft in which `` social-role occupancies are determined by birth, by attributes such as sex or caste, which are biologically or socially immutable ''.

From here they proceeded to ( 3 ) These same areas in relation to their own future family life stages, developing these to the extent of examining various crises which could be expected to confront them at some time or other.

Whether or not it is in the industry's interest to allow the basic wage rate to rise obviously depends upon the extent to which the public-limit price rises in response to a basic wage increase, and the relation of this response to the increase in costs accompanying the wage increase.

The extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is itself a function of three things: the passage of time, the level of GNP, and the size of the wage increase.

We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.

For if the small group notion involves the implicit claim that the phenomena of sociological investigations are of atomic or subatomic proportions, the philosopher needs to know the extent to which such entities are valid.

Mussorgsky makes this quite clear by the extent to which choral scenes propel the action.

In a sense almost all high school and college courses could be considered as vocational to the extent that later in life the student in his vocation ( which may be a profession ) will be called upon to use some of the skills developed and the competence obtained.