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In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.
Aristotle argued against the idea of a first cause, often confused with the idea of a " prime mover " or " unmoved mover " ( or primus motor ) in his Physics and Metaphysics.
In what he called " first philosophy " or metaphysics, Aristotle did intend a theological correspondence between the prime mover and deity ( presumably Zeus ); functionally, however, he provided an explanation for the apparent motion of the " fixed stars " ( now understood as the daily rotation of the Earth ).
For Aristotle, the first cause was the unmoved mover, a being which set the universe into motion without itself being in motion, which has been read as God, particularly when Aristotle's work became prevalent again in the Medieval West.
The front of their first trailer is supported by the turntable on the prime mover.
Prodigy was unable to capitalize on any of its first mover advantage in online advertising.
Lighter systems with shorter tracks are widely deployed at airports ; the world's first airport people mover was installed in 1971 at Tampa International Airport in the United States.
On September 30, 2006, the Peachliner in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan became that nation's first people mover to cease operations.
During the Suez Crisis, when Britain invaded Egypt in collusion with France and Israel, according to Labour leader Harold Wilson Macmillan was ' first in, first out ': first very supportive of the invasion, then a prime mover in Britain's humiliating withdrawal in the wake of the financial crisis caused by pressure from the U. S. government.
* 1983: As passenger numbers grew, a circular satellite pier was added to the terminal building, connected to the main terminal by the UK's first automated people mover system ( now replaced with a walkway and travelators ).
The concourse and its satellite were briefly linked by buses until the airport's first automated people mover ( Adtranz C-100 ) opened in 1980.
* First-mover advantage, advantage gained by the first mover in a game theoretic scenario or the market advantage gained by the first entrant
The prime mover was Rhaune Laslett, who was not aware of the indoor events when she first raised the idea.
Important College leaders in the 19th century include John C. Holmes, who kept the Agriculture School from being a part of the University of Michigan and is widely credited with being the prime mover for the school's founding ; Joseph R. Williams, the first president ; and Theophilus C. Abbot, the third president who stabilized the College after the Civil War.
The airport's people mover system was the first such system in the world.
TPA was the first airport in the world to deploy a fully automated, driver-less people mover system and is host to Bombardier Transportation's longest-running APM system.
The first example is a simple heat pump, while the second is a prime mover.
They value being the first in an industry, thinking that their “ first mover advantage ” will provide them with premium pricing opportunities and high margins.
They are seldom a first mover in an industry, but are often second or third place entrants.
The SD80MAC uses a 20 cylinder version of EMD's 710G prime mover, and is the first diesel locomotive to use a 20-cylinder engine since the SD45 / SD45-2.

first and must
In his recognition of his impersonal self the dancer moves, and this self, in the `` first revealed stroke of its existence '', states the theme from which all else must follow.
But the metamorphosis must come first.
So we must first analyze our present institutions with respect to the effect of each on man's major needs.
Asked by the townsmen to cease his suit, Greville had answered that `` hytt shulde coste hym 500 first & sayed it must be tried ether before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his uncle Ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more prevaile then we ''.
The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.
But those who would revitalize so complex an organization must, first of all, overcome the resistance of layers of officials wedded to traditional procedures, suspicious of innovation and fearful of mistakes.
And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.
We must, first of all, be willing to forgive others before we can secure God's forgiveness.
In the first instance, adequate appropriate reading materials and library accommodations must be planned.
One must first detect a fleeting mobile or moving target, decide that it is worthy of destruction, select the missile to be fired against the target, compute ballistics for the flight, and prepare the missile for firing.
The first time I saw the latter filly she trotted by me and I noticed such a family resemblance that I said to myself, `` that must be Hickory Ash ''.
The interior designer, then, must first be an artist but also understand carpentry and painting and lighting and plumbing and finance.
To do this we must first show that every line which meets **zg in a point P meets its image at P.
Feelings of a community of interest will have to be recreated -- in some of the new nations, indeed, they must be built for the first time -- on a new basis which looks toward the future and does not rely only on shared memories of the past.
To establish an emotionally meaningful relationship the worker must demonstrate actual or potential helpfulness immediately, preferably within the first interview, by meeting the client's specific needs.
But first, we must define two terms so that their meaning will be clearly understood: form -- any unique sequence of alphabetic characters that can appear in a language preceded and followed by a space ; ;
But before we can do this, we must first find answers to our original questions 1 and 2 ; ;
Logically, then, the first principle of the plan must be that it is not rigidly oriented toward any geographical area.
He recognized that whatever transformation may be effected in the first stage of an R-stage process, the remaining stages must use an optimal Af-stage policy with respect to the state resulting from the first stage, if there is to be any chance of optimizing the complete process.
`` An optimal policy has the property that whatever the initial state and initial decision are, the remaining decisions must constitute an optimal policy with respect to the state resulting from the first decision ''.
To become an orthodontist, a man must first be licensed by his state as a dentist, then he must spend at least two years in additional training to acquire a license as a specialist.
If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.

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