`` Neutral Tones '' we immediately recognize as a fine poem in Hardy's most characteristic style: the plain but not quite colloquial language, the hard, particular, colorless images, the slightly odd stanza-form, the dramatic handling of the occasion, the refusal to resolve the issue -- all these we have seen in Hardy's best poems.

Another issue with verbal report as a criterion is that it restricts the field of study to humans who have language: this approach cannot be used to study consciousness in other species, pre-linguistic children, or people with types of brain damage that impair language.

Modern Nationalism, as developed especially since the French Revolution, has made the distinction between " language " and " dialect " an issue of great political importance.

The Institute for Creation Research, in order to treat evolution as a category of religions, including atheism, fascism, humanism and occultism, commonly uses the words evolutionism and evolutionist to describe the consensus of mainstream science and the scientists subscribing to it, thus implying through language that the issue is a matter of religious belief.

Another political issue in 19th-century Greece was uniquely Greek: the language question.

The issue was settled in favour of the origin of Greek being that of a language which had both developed from all of these elements and then also taken its recognisable form all within Greece.

The issue was resolved during the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who under great pressure from Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was made to give assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C ++ language, addressed this issue succinctly:

Some writers have attempted to defuse the issue by referring to the language as M, square brackets being the customary notation for optional syntax elements.

This formulation implicitly acknowledges that Sapir and Whorf were not the first or only scholars to have theorized about relations between language and thought and that other strands of thinking about the issue also exist.

Because of the centrality of the question of the relation between thought and language to these debates, the issue of linguistic relativity has received attention not only from linguists and psychologists, but from anthropologists, philosophers, literary theorists and political scientists.

* Performance was also affected for some operations, but assembly language helped with the speed issue.

When the Opposition raised the issue of reform during one of the first debates of the year, the Duke made a controversial statement defending the existing system of government, recorded in the formal " third-party " language of the time:

While action theorists generally employ the language of causality in their theories of what the nature of action is, the issue of what causal determination comes to has been central to controversies about the nature of free will.

The issue is that oral language is very repetitive.

For these reasons, the issue of which language is the parent of a creole — that is, whether a language should be classified as a " Portuguese creole " or " English creole ", etc.

Unlike the language of France in the 17th and 18th centuries, French in New France was fairly unified though unification might have occurred either before or after immigration ( see the Barbaud-Wittmann controversy on this issue ).

The language issue is still contentious, particularly in Latvia, where ethnic Russians have protested against plans to liquidate education in minority languages, including Russian.

An example of it being used solely to mean the North Island appeared in the first issue of Huia Tangata Kotahi, a Māori language newspaper published on 8 February 1893.

The bewildering number and variety of phonetic values that signs could have in Sumerian led to an unfortunate detour in understanding the language – a Paris-based orientalist, Joseph Halévy, argued from 1874 onward that Sumerian was not a natural language, but rather a secret code ( a cryptolect ), and for over a decade the leading Assyriologists battled over this issue.

In the years immediately following independence, another change of alphabet was discussed, but the issue does not seem to generate the same passions in Kyrgyzstan that it does in other former Soviet republics, perhaps because the Kyrgyz Cyrillic alphabet is relatively simple and is particularly well-suited to the language.

As such, open theists resolve the issue of human free will and God's sovereignty by claiming that God is sovereign because he does not ordain each human choice, but rather works in cooperation with his creation to bring about his will.

The state variable S may be a 32-or 64-bit unsigned integer ; in that case, S0 can be 0, and G ( S, n ) can be just S mod n. The best choice of F is a complex issue and depends on the nature of the data.

This is very expensive, and is being replaced by IP-based conferencing, but where cost concern is less of an issue than predictable quality and where a QoS-enabled IP does not exist, BRI is the preferred choice.

The presentation of a false choice often reflects a deliberate attempt to eliminate the middle ground on an issue.

* In the July 10, 1920 issue of The Illustrated London News, G. K. Chesterton took issue with both pessimists ( such as Spengler ) and their optimistic critics, arguing that neither took into consideration human choice: " The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down ; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up.

# Each legal category has one or more choice of law rules to determine which of the competing laws should be applied to each issue.

Courts faced with a choice of law issue have a two-stage process:

Such beliefs or philosophical systems may hold that any outcome is finally determined by the complex interaction of multiple, possibly immanent, possibly impersonal, possibly equal forces, rather than the issue of a Creator's conscious choice.

This was confirmed in June 2009 by his publicist, who identified Bono's preferred name as Chaz Bono and said, " It is Chaz's hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his coming out did.

The Scholastics and magisterial reformers have different views on the issue of what is voluntary and what is not: the Catholic Scholastics considered the emotions of love, hate, like and dislike to be acts of will or choice, while the early Protestant reformers did not.

The court noted that the issue in itself allowed for an intervener with a legitimate purpose to come forth, and through the statute's requirement of first showing the relationship, second showing the rebuttal of the presumption, and finally judging the choice on the best interest of the child standard, the fundamental right of the parent was being given proper Due Process Requirements under the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause.

The Labour Party had decided not to participate in the election, allowing the electorate to decide on the issue of Home rule versus a Republic by having a clear two way choice between the two nationalist parties.

In response, Carter had the choice of trying to salvage the agreement by conceding the issue of the West Bank to Begin, while advocating Sadat's less controversial position on the removal of all settlements from the Sinai Peninsula.

Some say that Dennett's theory does not satisfactorily deal with the issue of why we feel so strongly that we do have behavioral choice.

In 2003 the issue of the limitation of the right of a bishop to ordain candidates of his choice gave rise to a differences of opinions which resulted in two groups: a " traditional " and a more " liberal " one.

" The same issue of Time commended her role choice and criticized the restricted roles available for female actors in American films: A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics.

Palin herself, the Los Angeles Times and other commentators accused Newsweek of sexism for their choice of cover in the November 23, 2009 issue discussing Palin's book, Going Rogue: An American Life.

The issue of Nabisco's choice to release Mallomars seasonally became a parodied topic on a sketch delivered by graphic artist Pierre Bernard on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

Out of those who were given a choice, many decided to do their sentences in jail as an added protest to the issue.

Though called " irons ," they are no longer made of iron, as a rule, but instead stainless steel is the metal of choice, due to its strength, though when weight is an issue, such as for a jockey, they may also be made of aluminum.

But for an idolic person religious identity is not at all an issue of membership or choice.

Yes, I suppose you have to say that freedom of sexual choice is part of that, but it shouldn't be the main issue ...." She ignored lesbians in the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) initially but objected to what she saw as demands for equal time.