As a matter of fact, the Elgin marbles-after an advise by Canova-were acquired by the British Museum, while plaster copies were sent to Florence, Italy, according to Canova's request.

This has been said to be due to the fact that researchers in the past, such as Lamarck, viewed vertebrates as a " standard ": in Lamarck's theory of evolution, he believed that characteristics acquired through the evolutionary process involved not only survival, but also progression toward a " higher form ", to which humans and vertebrates were closer than invertebrates were.

After an unsuccessful expansion into feature films, as well as the fact that Max and Dave Fleischer were no longer speaking to one another, Fleischer Studios was acquired by Paramount, which renamed the operation Famous Studios.

In fact, it was a retrospective policy, as Soviet allies had already acquired much greater freedom of action.

* Suppose & B is equivalent to & D. If we acquire new information A and then acquire further new information B, and update all probabilities each time, the updated probabilities will be the same as if we had first acquired new information C and then acquired further new information D. In view of the fact that multiplication of probabilities can be taken to be ordinary multiplication of real numbers, this becomes a functional equation

The first production X-ray CT machine ( in fact called the " EMI-Scanner ") was limited to making tomographic sections of the brain, but acquired the image data in about 4 minutes ( scanning two adjacent slices ), and the computation time ( using a Data General Nova minicomputer ) was about 7 minutes per picture.

An 1853 US government survey declared that the contested area was in fact government property and could be acquired by private citizens.

The fact that the book was acquired by a 16th-century Earl of Arundel suggests that Duke Humphrey's inscription was not entirely accurate, as New College would probably not have disposed of it.

Perhaps the one purely negative trait Weil acquired from her family home was an obsession with cleanliness ; in her later life she would sometimes speak of her " disgustingness " and think that others would see her this way, despite that fact that in her youth she was considered highly attractive.

Watercolors acquired in the 19th century a market reputation for relative impermanence that continues to suppress their price today, and painters who admire this medium will make choices to improve its market status: in fact, lightfast watercolor paints on archival papers are more durable than any oil painting on canvas.

Despite the fact that commercial stations ( such as Sky Sports ) have acquired the vast majority of sports television broadcasting rights in the UK, the BBC remains dominant in radio sport with BBC Radio 5 Live and its local radio stations.

It is likely that the disconnect between having the knowledge and remembering the context in which the knowledge was acquired is due to a dissociation between semantic and episodic memory – an individual retains the semantic knowledge ( the fact ), but lacks the episodic knowledge to indicate the context in which the knowledge was gained.

That was the case of Ernest Augustus himself, who was only recognized by the Courts as a British subject in 1957, years after the repeal of the Sophia Naturalization Act ; because he was born and was a Protestant when the Act was still in force, the Courts recognized that by that fact he had already acquired citizenship, so that the repeal of the statute did not affect his status.

( In the 1979 Quatermass, he has acquired a granddaughter ; possibly connected with this is the fact that here he seems a much weaker figure who can only defeat the aliens through the sacrifice of the lives of both himself and his granddaughter ).

In 2004, the Saskatchewan Party's aggressive questioning of the provincial NDP government over a bad investment of public funds – SPUDCO – forced cabinet minister Eldon Lautermilch to apologize for misleading the legislature, a fact that only became apparent once sworn evidence was acquired from a civil lawsuit against the province.

As discrete classes of burgh emerged, the royal burghs — originally distinctive by virtue of the fact they were on royal lands — acquired a monopoly of foreign trade.

In fact, the territories acquired by Austria did not correspond exactly to those of former Halych-Volhynia.

It was unearthed in 1506 near the site of the Domus Aurea of the Emperor Nero, in the vineyard of Felice De Fredis (); informed of the fact, Pope Julius II, an enthusiastic classicist, acquired and placed it in the Belvedere Garden at the Vatican (), now part of the Vatican Museums.

Eventually, in fact, his love of electronics led to him enrolling in Denki Tsushin University, where he acquired an Electronics degree.

Thanks to the fact that his publisher, Aldon Music, was acquired by Screen Gems, two of his songs were recorded by The Monkees, and other hits in this period written by Sedaka included The Cyrkle's version of " We Had a Good Thing Goin '" and " Workin ' on a Groovy Thing ", a Top 40 R & B hit for Patti Drew in 1968, and a Top 20 pop hit for The 5th Dimension in 1969.

The package's contents are unknown, as the Essence and the Enchanted Gladius ( if the player has acquired it ) were later sent to Alex in a hastily wrapped and unmarked package dropped inside the mansion's front door, hinting at Michael's possible survival ( also the fact that his statue in the Hall of the Tome of Eternal Darkness is missing, possibly meaning that his life did not end in the hands of the Ancients ).

For people who acquired citizenship by birth within Canada on or after 15 February 1977, a birth certificate issued by the province or territory concerned is adequate proof of the fact.

In the 1970s, as fuel prices rose and fuel economy became an important selling feature, 4-speed transmissions with an overdrive 4th gear or 5-speeds were offered in mass market automobiles and even compact pickup trucks, pioneered by Toyota ( who advertised the fact by giving each model the suffix SR5 as it acquired the fifth speed ).

Today most American stock cars may superficially resemble standard American family sedans, but are in fact purpose-built racing machines built to a strict set of regulations governing the car design ensuring that the chassis, suspension, engine, etc.

Individuals composing society do not directly cause suicide: suicide, as a social fact, exists independently in society, and is caused by other social facts ( such as rules governing behavior and group attachment ), whether an individual likes it or not.

We should also note that the democratic element was not as strong as the mayor's words may seem to imply: in fact, Poitiers was similar to other French cities, Paris, Nantes, Marseille, Limoges, La Rochelle, Dijon, in that the town's governing body ( corps de ville ) was " highly exclusive and oligarchical ": a small number of professional and family groups controlled most of the city offices.

Issues between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan were settled in 2003, but Iran does not recognize these agreements, on the premise that the international law governing open water can not be applied to the Caspian Sea, which is in fact a lake ( a landlocked body of water ).

While a member of a governing party is free to vote their conscience, they are constrained by the fact that voting against the party line ( especially in confidence votes ) might lead to expulsion from their party.

Until the later 19th century, the Students differed from fellows by the fact that they had no governing powers in their own college, these residing solely with the Dean and Chapter.

His popularity had declined, and the fact that his proposals for parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation had become the watchwords of the United Irishmen had brought him the bitter hostility of the governing classes.

* the " payroll vote " ( a term which refers to the fact that members of parliament of the governing majority party will wish to be promoted to an executive position, and then be on the government's payroll ).

Zhuangzi said the world " does not need governing ; in fact it should not be governed ," and, " Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone.

Parfitt described Gayre's work as having a clear objective to " show that black people had never been capable of building in stone or of governing themselves ", although he does add that " The fact that Gayre ... got most of his facts wrong, does not in itself vitiate the claims of the Lemba to have been involved in the Great Zimbabwe civilisation ".

* The Abbasid ( in theory still universal ) Caliph Ar-Radi created the post of Amir al-Umara (" Amir of the Amirs ") for his – in fact governing – Wazir ( chief minister ) Ibn Raik ; the title was used in various Islamic monarchies ; see below for military use

This ultimatum was based on the fact that Jagland had assumed the Prime Minister post based on the votes collected by Brundtland in the 1993 election, which provided an unclear parliamentary basis for governing.

In fact, the most compelling reason for this practice is that the party with the most seats can survive confidence votes so long as the smaller party ( or parties ) simply abstain from confidence votes, whereas a governing party without a plurality in the House needs at least one other party to vote with it at all times ( assuming the largest party will always vote no confidence, but that is almost certain to occur when they are denied the opportunity to govern ).

In fact around 1065 he became an earl, governing Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire.

The FTC ( Federal Trade Commission ) in fact found that in US businesses an alarming number of testimonials were in fact fictitious and misleading that in Dec of 2009 they introduced a new set of rules governing testimonials.

Despite the fact that he overthrew the kingdom of Goryeo, and purged officials who remained loyal to the old regime, many regard him as a revolutionary and a decisive ruler who disposed the inept, obsolete and crippled governing system to save the nation from many foreign forces and conflicts.

Among other things, most motions for summary judgment will require or include: page limits on submissions by counsel ; an instruction to state disputed issues of fact up front ; an instruction to state whether there is a governing case ; an instruction that all summary judgment motions be accompanied by electronic versions ( on a CD-R or DVD-R ), in a chambers-compatible format that includes full pinpoint citations and complete deposition and affidavit excerpts to aid in opinion preparation ; an instruction that all exhibits submitted conform to specific physical characteristics ( i. e. be tabbed with letters or numbers, that pages be sequentially numbered or " Bates-stamped "); an instruction that citations to deposition or affidavit testimony must include the appropriate page or paragraph numbers and that citations to other documents or materials must include pinpoint citations.

Stochastic programming models are similar in style but take advantage of the fact that probability distributions governing the data are known or can be estimated.

The fact that ' norms ' can be established at any level and can then be used to shape the governance process as whole, means metagovernance is part of the both the input and the output of the governing system.

Worthy of note is the fact that the governing party sits on the left side of the speaker of the House of Assembly as opposed to the traditional right side of the speaker.

It refers to the fact that the legislative programme of Parliament is determined by the government, and government bills virtually always pass the House of Commons because of the nature of the majoritarian first-past-the-post electoral system, which almost always produces strong government, in combination with the imposition of party discipline on the governing party's majority, which almost always ensures loyalty.

This, allied to the fact that a governing body had been formed in January 1973 and that Bristow had not only supreme talent for one so young but an imposing personality and uncontained self belief, enabled him to make a very successful living.

John Hastings, an Englishman with extensive estates in Scotland, could not succeed to the throne by any of the normal rules governing feudal legacy and instead had his lawyers argue that Scotland was not a true kingdom at all, based, amongst other things, on the fact that Scots kings were traditionally neither crowned nor anointed.