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More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.
Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.
For Adams had made up his mind before all the facts were available.
In doing so Marshall and Byrnes were `` asking for the ratification of a grim lesson in the facts of international life ''.
It is not that the facts of the persecution were unavailable ; ;
What was omitted from `` A Neglected Education '' were those essentials known as `` the facts of life ''.
In the United States, both state and federal appellate courts are usually restricted to examining whether the lower court made the correct legal determinations, rather than hearing direct evidence and determining what the facts of the case were.
Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.
These facts were used as an argument against his succession, an oracle having warned Sparta against a " lame reign.
Despite this and other hearsay evidence, there were no actual facts to go upon.
In recent years historians have uncovered that Liddell Hart distorted and falsified facts to make it appear as if his ideas were adopted.
Crime in the social and legal framework is the set of facts or assumptions ( causes, consequences and objectives ) that are part of a case in which they were committed acts punishable under criminal law, and the application of which depends on the agent of a sentence or security measure criminal.
A defendant who had been convicted of an offence could be given a second trial for an aggravated form of that offence if the facts constituting the aggravation were discovered after the first conviction.
There were exceptions, Leonard W. Hall, for example, who as chairman of the Republican National Committee, tried to open the administration's eyes to the political facts of life, with occasional success.
8: 2 ), though the very first converts were of all classes ( Acts 16 ); and the parallel facts, their poverty and their open-handed support of the great missionary and his work, are deeply harmonious.
In the 5th century, the Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus described Eusebius as writing for “ rhetorical finish ” and for the “ praises of the Emperor ” rather than the “ accurate statement of facts .” The methods of Eusebius were criticised by Edward Gibbon in the 18th century.
In summary, " For a writer whose early novels set in Scotland were prized for their historical accuracy, Scott was remarkably loose with the facts when he wrote Ivanhoe ...
Hart rejected Kelsen's views that sanctions were essential to law and that a normative social phenomenon, like law, can not be grounded in non-normative social facts.
As with the Saxon system, these men were charged with uncovering the facts of the case on their own rather than listening to arguments in court.
Medieval juries were self-informing, in that individuals were chosen as jurors because they either knew the parties and the facts, or they had the duty to discover them.
Friedrich Nietzsche was another major precursor of modernism with a philosophy in which psychological drives, specifically the ' Will to power ', were more important than facts, or things.
They replied that if he labours under such partial delusion only, and is not in other respects insane, " he must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real ".
The newspaper also wrote that the German authorities were told about that Palestinians were planning an " incident " at the Olympics three weeks before the massacre, but failed to take the necessary security measures, and these facts are missing from the official documentation of the German government.

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after all, he had had the same set of facts as Jack had had to work from, and he was an almost frighteningly observant man.
Whereas colonial judges routinely instructed jurors that they were the ultimate arbiters of both fact and law, the modern judge asserts almost an plenary control over the evidence, law, and facts, instructing the jury as to what the law is, and may overturn decisions in favor of the defense.
In jurisdictions adopting the ' no-fault ' principle in divorce proceedings, some courts may still take into account the behaviour of the parties when dividing property, debts, evaluating custody, and support — facts that almost always have considerable weight in fault proceedings.
Nevertheless, the linguistic facts do not support an hypothetical theory: the word trover is mentioned in French as soon as the 10th century before trobar in Occitan ( see above ) and the word trovere > trouvère appears almost simultaneously in French as trobador in Occitan ( see above ).
What little of it nevertheless has come to the public attention, shows that the common conception that the kingship since the reign of William III of the Netherlands has in fact been almost fully ceremonial, is not supported by the facts.
The task is made difficult because almost all the suspects are behaving in a suspicious manner ; some have left the district unexpectedly and without explanation, others have given statements which are obviously inaccurate, or are clearly concealing facts.
They are all marked by arrogant dogmatism, violence of language, a constant tendency to self-glorification, strangely combined with extensive real knowledge, with acute reasoning, with an observation of facts and details almost unparalleled.
Confronting the various systems co-ordinated as sensualism, idealism, skepticism, mysticism, with the facts of consciousness, the chasm result was reached " that each system expresses an order of phenomena and ideas, which is in truth very real, but which is not alone in consciousness, and which at the same time holds an almost exclusive place in the system ; whence it follows that each system is not false but incomplete, and that in re-uniting all incomplete systems, we should have a complete philosophy, adequate to the totality of consciousness.
Like any clarified butter, ghee is composed almost entirely of fat ; the nutrition facts label found on bottled cow's ghee produced in the USA indicates 8 mg of cholesterol per teaspoon.
Blair ascribed a wide range of facts to a man featured in the article, almost all of which the man in question denied.
She is a lesbian, shared a relationship with her former partner, Sharon, for almost 20 years, and has two children ( Henry, 1996, and Ben, 2001 ), facts she frequently referenced in her comments on the show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.
They go off almost every day exploring the sights of London, and 26 year-old Bertha, unable as well as unwilling to face the facts, feels flattered by the youth's many attentions.
However, regardless of the scholarly disagreements on the reconstruction of portraits of the historical Jesus, almost all modern scholars consider the baptism of Jesus and his crucifixion to be two historically certain facts about him.
James Dunn states that these " two facts in the life of Jesus command almost universal assent " and " rank so high on the ' almost impossible to doubt or deny ' scale of historical facts " that they are often the starting points for the study of the historical Jesus.
No doubt it is very irritating when Owen will not take the slightest notice of all they have done and proved, and Owen does it all in such a happy manner, that he almost carries conviction from those who know how utterly wrong as to facts he is.
( ISBN 978-0-571-23370-0 ) It promised to be a " bestiary for the 21st century ," and contains almost completely new quite interesting facts.
The nature of the dispute was mis-represented to Parliament, and Parliament played a role in further " suppressing " the facts released to the public, but most of the facts were established by comparative reading of these conflicting accounts in what was originally an anonymous pamphlet, How Wars are Got Up In India ; this account by Richard Cobden remains almost the sole contemporaneous account of who actually made the decision to invade and annex Burma.
Although the axioms defining a single semigroup are almost identical to those defining a category, one frequently assumes many additional facts about the relationship between categories ( functors between them exist, natural transformations between these functors exist, the functors themselves form a category, and so on ).
The family loved to claim legendary versions about its origins ( Fancy genealogies were en vogue at the time ) while established facts reflect quite sober and almost humble beginnings.
In combination with the existence of the Arabika Submarine Depression, all these facts point to the possibility that karst systems in Arabika could have originated in response to the Messinian salinity crisis ( 5. 96 – 5. 33 Ma ) when the Black Sea ( Eastern Paratethys ) could have almost dried up, as did the adjacent Mediterranean, where the dramatic sea level drop of ~ 1, 500 m is well established.

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