Thus throwing a rock at someone for the purpose of hitting him is a battery if the rock in fact strikes the person and is an assault if the rock misses.

In fact it stated that the nobility would choose someone else to be king if Bruce proved to be unfit in maintaining Scotland's independence.

Giving sincere advice is not, as some may argue, meddling in someone else's business, but is in fact a valuable favor and one of the best forms of charity.

", because the writer wrote it from a real experience where someone sold him the car based on the fact that it was my car.

relation to her Witch-Cult theory, She behaved in fact rather like someone who was a fully convinced member of some unusual religious sect, or perhaps, of the Freemasons, but never on any account got into arguments about it in public.

This observation stems in part from Nietzsche's perspectivism, or his notion that " knowledge " is always by someone of some thing: it is always bound by perspective, and it is never mere fact.

The claim that the works of Shakespeare were in fact written by someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon dates back to the mid-nineteenth century.

" From its earliest beginnings, Christianity spread much more quickly in major urban areas ( like Antioch, Alexandria, Carthage, Corinth, Rome ) than in the countryside ( in fact, the early church was almost entirely urban ), and soon the word for " country dweller " became synonymous with someone who was " not a Christian ," giving rise to the modern meaning of " pagan.

However, according to the US Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual, " the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes.

Therefore, Descartes concluded, if he doubted, then something or someone must be doing the doubting, therefore the very fact that he doubted proved his existence.

It is, therefore, permissible to suggest, for instance, that someone is a bad lawyer, but not permissible to declare falsely that the lawyer is ignorant of the law: the former constitutes a statement of values, but the latter is a statement alleging a fact.

Forrest asserted that Paterson had in fact written the self-described " ditty " to impress Winton woman Christina Macpherson, whose family he visited in January 1895 and with whom he flirted despite being engaged to someone else.

In fact, I think someone should wake up the Mayor!

He is also name-checked in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon as someone who claimed to have seen lunar inhabitants through his telescope, though that particular fact is merely part of Verne's fiction.

Any invisible ink can be made visible by someone who is sufficiently determined, but the limitation is generally time available and the fact that one cannot apply hours of effort to every single piece of paper.

The third and most compelling piece of evidence is the fact that traces of DNA on the bullet came from someone with a DNA sequence possessed by only 1 % of the Swedish population.

One such rush was the Yellow River Stampede of 1900 in which many prospectors left Nome to venture into the Kuskokwim basin upon rumors that someone had found the Yellow River strike despite the fact that the location of that strike was unknown.

If you told someone who purports to be a sage of Israel that the Deity sends an angel who enters a woman's womb and there forms an embryo, he would think this a miracle and accept it as a mark of the majesty and power of the Deity, despite the fact that he believes an angel to be a body of fire one third the size of the entire world.

Ferguson claimed a police officer who escorted him from the Nassau County Jail said to him, " You realize someone else, in fact, was actually responsible for the shooting.

In fact, in Daniel 5: 7, 16, 29 Belshazzar implies that he is the second ruler in the kingdom, not the sole ruler ; and yet, he has sufficient power to make someone the third ruler in the kingdom.

They were either colored with watercolor by Smith or colored by someone else after the fact.

In fact, someone will almost certainly have been sick.

** once Charles de Gaulle named someone else as High Commissioner for the French Territory of the Pacific and the Far East, January 1941 – 1945: Georges Thierry d ' Argenlieu ( b. 1889 – d. 1964 ), while in December 1941 the Vichy ( pro-German ) government named Jean Decoux ( b. 1884 – d. 1963 ) to the post ( who in fact was only responsible for Wallis and Futuna, which was the only Pacific territory not to have rallied to the Free French at that time ).

I got off a plane and someone asked me about the fact that Glastonbury hadn't sold out for the first time in years, and if it was because of Jay-Z.

The only fact that holds any weight in the article is the result of the tea party.

Vocational training which holds no hope that the skill developed will be in fact a marketable skill becomes just another school `` chore '' for those whose interest in their studies has begun to falter.

The fact of having been baptized remains a fact and the Catholic Church holds that baptism marks a person with a lasting seal or character that " is an ontological and permanent bond which is not lost by reason of any act or fact of defection.

A common misconception holds that a non-validating XML parser does not have to read document type declarations, when in fact, the document type declarations must still be scanned for correct syntax as well as validity of declarations, and the parser must still parse all entity declarations in the internal subset, and substitute the replacement texts of internal entities occurring anywhere in the document type declaration or in the document body.

On the contrary, Rousseau holds that " uncorrupted morals " prevail in the " state of nature " and he especially praised the admirable moderation of the Caribbeans in expressing the sexual urge despite the fact that they live in a hot climate, which " always seems to inflame the passions ".

In fact, the very notion of finding coherence and permanence within sensory experience was so preposterous to him, that he had to postulate the notion of a God who holds all reality in HIS mind, in order to explain why the world doesn't just vanish when we stop perceiving it.

It is, in its purely physical application, a theory that he fully accepts ; he holds that it was taught by Pythagoras, Empedocles, and in fact, nearly all the ancient philosophers, and was only perverted to atheism by Democritus.

Another, more recently developed, theory, the Handicap principle of Amotz Zahavi, Russell Lande and W. D. Hamilton, holds that the fact that the male of the species is able to survive until and through the age of reproduction with such a seemingly maladaptive trait is effectively considered by the female to be a testament to his overall fitness.

The lack of the infinite ( or dynamically growing ) external store ( seen at Turing machines ) can be understood by replacing its role with Gödel numbering techniques: the fact that each register holds a natural number allows the possibility of representing a complicated thing ( e. g. a sequence, or a matrix etc.

and the fact that equality holds only when u and v are linearly dependent ( the fact that conversely one has equality if u and v are linearly dependent is immediate from the properties of the inner product ).

Descriptive moral relativism holds only that some people do in fact disagree about what is moral ; meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong ; and normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, we ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when we disagree about the morality of it.

The name comes from the fact that Buck holds a doctorate in physics.

In fact, Murcia holds temperature records close to the highest recorded in southern Europe since reliable meteorological records commenced in 1950.

However, it also shows that the compactness of the product of compact Hausdorff spaces can be proved using ( BPIT ), and in fact the converse also holds.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, after examining the philosophical works of Khayyám, maintains that it is really reductive to just look at the poems ( which are sometimes doubtful ) to establish his personal views about God or religion ; in fact, he even wrote a treatise entitled " al-Khutbat al-gharrå ˘" ( The Splendid Sermon ) on the praise of God, where he holds orthodox views, agreeing with Avicenna on Divine Unity.

To bring the numerical values of parameters μ, σ into the domain where strong inequality holds true one could use the fact that if X is log-normally distributed then X < sup > m </ sup > is also log-normally distributed with parameters μm, σm.

** " Essentialist primordialism " further holds that ethnicity is an a priori fact of human existence, that ethnicity precedes any human social interaction and that it is basically unchanged by it.

Local legend holds that Shawnee chief Blue Jacket was in fact a young white hunter named Marmaduke Van Swearingen who was kidnapped in the area.

Boulder Junction holds a trademark as the " Musky Capital of the World ," based on the fact that more muskies are caught per square mile than any other similar sized area of the world.