Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

Persons who claim to be pope, but have few followers, such as the modern sedevacantist antipopes, are not classified with the historical antipopes.

He set in motion a historical trajectory that in few decades would lead to one of the largest empires in history.

There are very few historical details in the book of Malachi.

There are a few historical records claiming that this law code was translated into Ge ' ez and entered Ethiopia around 1450 in the reign of Zara Yaqob.

Some enthusiasts become generalists and accumulate a few examples from a broad variety of historical or geographically significant coins.

Clowning was developed from a broad tradition of historical performances, and it is difficult to point out a singular tradition or even a few different ones as being the primary precursors to clowns.

" Their doctrines have numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils and the earlier Paulicians as well as the Manicheans and the Christian Gnostics of the first few centuries AD, although, as many scholars, most notably Mark Pegg, have pointed out, it would be erroneous to extrapolate direct, historical connections based on theoretical similarities perceived by modern scholars.

A similar system has been proposed for a few historical runes ( e. g. p ᛈ and w ᚹ as variants of b ᛒ ), but is in any case much more obscure.

Indeed, according to various historical accounts, after that point few mathematicians tackled the issues and the work of those who did remained obscured largely because of resistance to such unfamiliar emerging concepts, which were sometimes referred to as mathematical " monsters ".

Moore thought Thales ' reasoning was one of the few historical examples of philosophical inquiry resulting in practical advances.

But the government did little to address the historical, underlying structural problems of the economy — its overdependence on too few traditional commodities and lack of investment.

There have been many different theories advanced over the centuries for the origin of the name: most can be dismissed as fanciful on linguistic or historical grounds, while a few have some measure of academic plausibility.

His theory took the diffusionist concept that there were a few " cradles of civilization " which grew outwards in circles, and merged it with the idea that societies would adapt to their circumstances, which is called historical particularism.

It is not common to believe in the detailed accuracy of the historical narrative and historians tend to see little to no historical truth behind the first few sagas, however, they are still seen by many as a valuable source of knowledge about the society and politics of medieval Norway.

For historical reasons discussed below, a few types of carbon-containing compounds such as carbides, carbonates, simple oxides of carbon ( such as CO and CO2 ), and cyanides, as well as the allotropes of carbon such as diamond and graphite, are considered inorganic.

The syllabary systems of Japanese ( hiragana and katakana ) are examples of almost perfectly shallow orthographies – the kana correspond with almost perfect consistency to the spoken syllables, although with a few exceptions where symbols reflect historical or morphophonemic features: notably the use of ぢ di and づ du ( rather than じ ji and ず zu, their pronunciation in standard Tokyo dialect ) when the character is a voicing of an underlying ち or つ ( see rendaku ), and the use of は, を, and へ to represent the sounds わ, お, and え, as relics of historical kana usage.

The historical record contains few details of Romulus ' life.

In the years that followed, the broadcast product lines developed in Camden were terminated or sold off, and most of the buildings demolished, except for a few of the original RCA Victor buildings that had been declared national historical buildings.

Although there are depictions of sieges from the ancient Near East in historical sources and in art, there are very few examples of siege systems that have been found archaeologically.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

If the character encoding for a web page is chosen appropriately then HTML character references are usually only required for a markup delimiting characters mentioned above, and for a few special characters ( or not at all if a native Unicode encoding like UTF-8 is used ).

Pliny the Elder's Natural History has a few brief references to Caligula.

There is little Jewish literature on heaven or hell as actual places, and there are few references to the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible.

Furthermore, Indian case law has quite a few references on how to distinguish a consumer from a customer.

He is the most experienced journalist on the team: a few references are made to him winning a Walkley Award.

One of the few references cited by Watson and Crick when they published their model of DNA was to a published article that included Sven Furberg's DNA model that had the bases on the inside.

A hypothetical pre-Glagolitic writing system is typically referred to as cherty i rezy ( strokes and incisions )-but no material evidence of the existence of any pre-Glagolitic Slavic writing system has been found, except for a few brief and vague references in old chronicles and " lives of the saints ".

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

Some historians see " deistic tendencies " in his few references to an impersonal God.

Dante ( 1265-1321 ) has a few minor references to dance in his works but a more substantive description of the round dance with song from Bologna comes from Giovanni del Virgilio ( floruit 1319-1327 ).

Marcus ' own Meditations offer a window on his inner life, but are largely undateable, and make few specific references to worldly affairs.

A few authors have argued that the absence of 1st and 2nd century AD textual references to Nazareth suggest the town may not have been inhabited in Jesus ' day.

However, there are only a few other references of that time to recognition of the authoritative primacy of the Roman See outside of Rome.

From these few references, which are the only surviving evidence apart from place name analysis, it would seem that the Balts Pytheas would have encountered were past the Common Balto-Slavic stage, but still spoke one language, which would have been Proto-Baltic.

There are few representations of this type of choke in surviving art objects, but there are a number of references to it in the ancient literature.

The references to these few occasions indicate that these were special meetings held for the purpose of performing unusual ceremonies, probably by visiting Freemasons.

Toledo is the setting for the 2010 television comedy Melissa & Joey, with the first-named character being a city councilwoman but few specific references to Toledo are planned.

A few references to men changing into wolves are found in Ancient Greek literature and mythology.

One of the few recorded references is that a Kentish King would only meet the missionary St. Augustine in the open air, where he would be under the protection of the sky god, Woden.

The main plots of acts two and three are the librettists ' invention, with only a few passing references to incidents and characters in Murger.

It was the shortest of the documents and contained few, if any, references to the debates and the rationale that had gone into its making ; therefore, the changes to be brought about by the declaration on the Church's Relations with non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, carried implications not fully appreciated at the time.

Maoists, however, are quick to point out that the CPK strongly deviated from Marxist doctrine, and that the few references to Maoist China in CPK propaganda were critical of the Chinese.

Taking its point of departure in the French epistemological tradition, it makes few references to Anglo-American analytical philosophy except as to speech act theory, from which Foucault distances himself.