In reviewing an incident so important in the history of the Transvaal as the appointment of the Potchefstroom assembly it is of interest to note the gist of the complaint among the Boers which led to this revolution in the government of the country as it had previously existed.

Arguably, had he not done this, the gist of what was said would not otherwise be known at all — whereas today there is a plethora of documentation — written records, archives and recording technology for historians to consult.

) About ' Aristocracy in art ' - art is not for all but only for the chosen few-but the only way to find those few is to bring art to everyone-then the artists have a sort of masonic signal by which they recognise each other in the crowd-he put it much better than that-but that is the gist .</ p >

In the second book, dealing with dialectic and rhetoric, Isidore is heavily indebted to translations from the Greek by Boethius, and in treating logic, Cassiodorus, who provided the gist of Isidore's treatment of arithmetic in Book III.

The gist ... is explicit and intelligent: the lure of the city, of civilization, of style and order and bourgeois living is real, for elephants as for humans.

This is usually accounted for by source-monitoring error, where a person can recall specific facts, but cannot correctly identify the source of that knowledge because of apparent loss of the association between the episodic ( specific experience, or source ) and semantic ( concept-based, or gist ) accounts of the stored knowledge.

The gist of the following elementary proof is due to Paul Erd &# 337 ; s. The basic idea of the proof is to show that a certain central binomial coefficient needs to have a prime factor within the desired interval in order to be large enough.

The gist of the RG is this group property: as the scale μ varies, the theory presents a self-similar replica of itself, and any scale can be accessed similarly from any other scale, by group action, a formal conjugacy of couplings in the mathematical sense ( Schröder's equation ).

" The gist of his argument is expressed in a single sentence:

The story is written in a gist.

The gist is that al-Qaeda's efforts have been counterproductive and used as " subterfuge " by some Western countries to extend their regional ambitions.

As Lord Mustill famously held in R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Doody ( 1993 ): " Since the person affected usually cannot make worthwhile representations without knowing what factors may weigh against his interests fairness will very often require that he is informed of the gist of the case which he has to answer.

He or she must also be told what is at stake ; in other words, the gist of the case.

Instead, what is stored in semantic memory is the " gist " of experience, an abstract structure that applies to a wide variety of experiential objects and delineates categorical and functional relationships between such objects.

The gist of the signed memorandum was " This programme for eliminating the war-making industries in the Ruhr and in the Saar is looking forward to converting Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in its character.

The gist of the grant is recounted as follows:

The gist of Kant's position is that even though we cannot know whether there are final causes in nature, we are constrained by the peculiar nature of the human understanding to view organisms teleologically.

He has written five concertos for orchestra: the first, variously translated as Naughty Limericks or Mischievous Folk Ditties ( neither of which completely get the gist of the Russian which refers to a chastushka ( часту ́ шка ), an irreverent, satirical kind of folk song ) is by far the best known, and was the work which first established him on the international stage.

The accompanying haiku may have a direct or subtle relationship with the prose and encompass or hint at the gist of what is recorded in the prose sections.

If one was lost, the other three would still reveal the gist of the plans.

The gist of it was that in 1944 Robinson had a neighbour named Steve Brodie who one day saw ( in Robinson's apartment ) a copy of one of Ray Palmer's magazines featuring the Dero.

In 1292, there was a slight tendency to regard the detainer rather than the bailment as the gist of the action, where is was stated " it is not enough to say, ' you did not bail to me ' defense, but one must add, ' and I do not detain it of the chattel from you.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

To the baroness's overtures he replied in a long and polite letter, the gist of which was that she must leave St. Petersburg at once.

The gist of the book is the philosophy of a child who has the wisdom to comprehend more than what would be expected of her.

Why, Mr Carrington, I have never read Lancelin's work, but if you have given the gist of it in your book, then I can write a book on the things that Lancelin does not know !".

Sentence-by-sentence interpreting requires less memorization and therefore lower likelihood for omissions, yet its disadvantage is in the interpreter's not having heard the entire speech or its gist, and the overall message is sometimes harder to render both because of lack of context and because of interrupted delivery ( for example, imagine a joke told in bits and pieces, with breaks for translation in between ).

" Alt text is intended for visually impaired readers or those with older browsers or computers that cannot display the image, and should describe the gist of the picture's appearance.

The original version of the story was written for C. S. Forester so that he could get the gist of Dahl's story and rewrite it in his own words.

The word " yeast " comes to us from Old English gist, gyst, and from the Indo-European root yes -, meaning boil, foam, or bubble.

On 14 June, he received a despatch from the King, the gist of which was that there was a time-limit imposed on the northern enterprise.

The writ was a command to the defendant that he should deliver up to the plaintiff the chattels ‘’ quae ei injuste detinet ’‘-“ which he unlawfully withholds from him .” The gist of the action was the unlawful detention by the defendant.

The reader will only need to reread to get a " gist " of the text to spark their memory.

* Asia Online, provides a custom machine translation engine building capability that they claim gives near-human quality compared to the " gist " based quality of free online engines.

His Exec, John Matheson, would make reference to the gist of the Prime Directive as a criticism some might apply to this act.

Technically, Jung recommended stripping the dream of its details and presenting the gist of the dream to the dreamer.

1, pp. 68-69, 90 ; 78 references are supplied ( along with the gist of their contents ) in :- Martha Beckwith: Hawaiian Mythology.

Nevertheless like Teuffel he encounters the same problem of trying to summarize the voluminous detail in a way that captures in brief the gist of a few phases of writing styles.

[...] And the gist of Bhagwan's response, yes, it was going to be necessary to kill people to stay in Oregon.

The four volumes of Blackstone put the gist of that tradition in portable form.

However, he asserted that the gist of his report had been accurate.

In a thesis by publication, the chapters constitute an introductory and comprehensive gist of the appended published and unpublished article documents.

T. H Tan cabled the gist of the reply to the Alliance co-chairman, Tan Cheng Lock.