The tendency for general business activity to soften somewhat is becoming more evident.

The tendency to reciprocate can even generalize so people become more helpful toward others in general after being helped.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

The participation of the Bastarnae in these is likely but largely unspecified, due to Zosimus ' and other chroniclers ' tendency to lump all these tribes under the general term " Scythians "-meaning all the inhabitants of Scythia, rather than the specific people called the Scythians.

Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show ".

The general American tendency was to simplify the plots borrowed from novels and plays so that they could be dealt with in one reel and with the minimum of titling and the maximum of straightforward narrative continuity, but there were exceptions to this.

In the course of ongoing imperialistic aspirations in all European great powers, a general tendency towards colonial imperialism also existed in the German states since ca.

However, an examination of the box scores indicate this spike in walks was due to a few games against Saint Louis Browns ' pitchers with horrific control, not a general league tendency.

The intensity of debate spurred Catholic Church interventions against " heresy " and even a general confiscation of Rabbinic texts and in reaction, the defeat of the more radical interpretations of Maimonides and at least amongst Ashkenazi Jews, a tendency not so much to repudiate as simply to ignore the specifically philosophical writings and to stress instead the Rabbinic and halachic writings ; even these writings often included considerable philosophical chapters or discussions in support of halachic observance, as David Hartman observes Maimonides made clear " the traditional support for a philosophical understanding of God both in the Aggadah of Talmud and in the behavior of the hasid pious Jew " and so Maimonidean thought continues to influence traditionally observant Jews.

Though the term has fallen into disfavor among botanists as a formal way to categorize " useless " plants, the informal use of the word " weeds " to describe those plants that are deemed worthy of elimination is illustrative of the general tendency of people and societies to seek to alter or shape the course of nature.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

Party labels before that time indicate a general tendency only.

Party labels before that time indicate a general tendency only.

Party labels before that time indicate a general tendency only.

Political affiliation labels before that time indicate a general tendency only.

In a review of Full House, Richard Dawkins approved of Gould's general argument, but suggested that he saw evidence of a " tendency for lineages to improve cumulatively their adaptive fit to their particular way of life, by increasing the numbers of features which combine together in adaptive complexes.

And moment is the general term used for the tendency of one or more applied forces to rotate an object about an axis, but not necessarily to change the angular momentum of the object ( the concept which in physics is called torque ).

" The first is the fallacy of " reification ", which is " our tendency to convert abstract concepts into entities " such as the intelligence quotient ( IQ ) and the general intelligence factor ( g factor ), which have been the cornerstones of much research into human intelligence.

Warren Nord, in Does God Make a Difference ?, characterized the general tendency of the dissents as a weaker reading of the First Amendment ; the dissents tend to be " less concerned about the dangers of establishment and less concerned to protect free exercise rights, particularly of religious minorities.

This maxim seems to represent the general tendency of Occam's philosophy, but it has not been found in any of his writings.

Slater asserts that there are legal and regulatory pressures to reduce the distinction between online and offline, with a " general tendency to assimilate online to offline and erase the distinction ," stressing, however, that this does not mean that online relationships are being reduced to pre-existing offline relationships.

Implementations were further hindered by the general tendency of the standard to be verbose, and the common practice of compromising by adopting the sum of all submitted proposals, which often created APIs that were incoherent and difficult to use, even if the individual proposals were perfectly reasonable.

In the case of an inconsistency, the general tendency is to try to make minimal modifications to the model to fit the data.

We may take as our unit for study an actual historical case of great dis-equilibrium, such as, say, the panic of 1873 ; or we may take as our unit for study any constituent tendency, such as, say, deflation, and discover its general laws, relations to, and combinations with, other tendencies.

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

The voice sank back into the general tangle of sound, but the question stayed in Mr. Podger's mind.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

Those who, because of population mobility and the reputed desire of employers to train their own employees, would limit vocational education to general rather than specific skills ought to bear in mind the importance of motivation in any kind of school experience.

He was endowed by nature with the most remarkable gifts both of mind and body: he was handsome and eloquent, but licentious ; and, at the same time, active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.

: Science of the mind, or cultural or spiritual science ), a term generally used in German to refer to the humanities and social sciences ; in fact, the term " science " is used more broadly in Europe as a general term that refers to any exact knowledge.

Classics Professor G. P. Goold at University College, wrote of Housman's scholarly accomplishments: " The legacy of Housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value ; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about Latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work ....

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

A concept is a general idea, or something conceived in the mind.

In particular, mind-body dualism claims that neither the mind nor matter can be reduced to each other in any way, and thus is opposed to materialism in general, and reductive materialism in particular.

Education – in the general sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual.

Braid extended Carpenter's theory to encompass the influence of the mind upon the body more generally, beyond the muscular system, and therefore referred to the " ideo-dynamic " response and coined the term " psycho-physiology " to refer to the study of general mind / body interaction.

He proposes that most commonly accepted social institutions — including the notion of State, property as a right, natural rights in general, and the very notion of society — were mere spooks in the mind.

In 1972, Intel launched the 8008, the first 8-bit microprocessor .< ref > using enhancement load PMOS logic ( demanding 14V, achieving TTL-compatibility by having V < sub > CC </ sub > at + 5V and V < sub > DD </ sub > at-9V )</ ref > It implemented an instruction set designed by Datapoint corporation with programmable CRT terminals in mind, that also proved to be fairly general purpose.

Wang Yangming, a Ming Chinese neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general, held that objects do not exist entirely apart from the mind because the mind shapes them.

The meta-language capabilities of literate programming are also claimed to facilitate thinking in general, giving a higher " bird's eye view " of the code and increasing the number of concepts the mind can successfully retain and process.

With this history in mind, the orchestra can be seen to have a general evolution as outlined below.

" In general ," he wrote, " it may be affirmed that there is no such passion in human mind, as the love of mankind, merely as such, independent of personal qualities, or services, or of relation to ourselves.

As such, Gould proposed that IQ-test proponents assume the existence of " general intelligence " as a discrete quality within the human mind, and thus they analyze the IQ-test data to produce an IQ number that establishes the definitive general intelligence of each man and of each woman.

Mathematical realism, like realism in general, holds that mathematical entities exist independently of the human mind.

Aristotle's general position remains attractive to people of a positivist turn of mind, inclined to laying about them with Occam's razor.