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making and distinctions
The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.
Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.
In the second place, a large number of writers, making a more direct claim than Frost to being `` folk writers '' of one sort or another, clearly make no distinctions between genuine and bogus material.
Native Hindi speakers pronounce / व / as in vrat (' व ् रत ', fast ) but in pakwan (' पकव ा न ', food dish ), treating them as a single phoneme and without being aware of the allophone distinctions they are subconsciously making, though these are apparent to native English speakers.
( Note that Mazatec is a tonal language, so the glottis is making several tonal distinctions simultaneously with the phonation distinctions.
What the final intrusion of Pop into the citadels of High Art provides, therefore, for the critic is the exhilarating new possibility of making judgments about the ' goodness ' and ' badness ' of art quite separated from distinctions between ' high ' and ' low ' with their concealed class bias.
This 1999 Act took down barriers to competition between traditional banks, investment banks, and insurance companies, in some cases allowing firms to participate in all three markets thus making distinctions between these categories less clear.
This is about half the number required to represent all the syllables in Tuhua, as tonal distinctions are frequently ignored, making it " the most revolutionary and thorough simplification of Chinese characters ever attempted ".
Galileo's trial in 1633 involved making fine distinctions between " teaching " and " holding and defending as true ".
When talking about ethnic humour, distinctions are sometimes made as to whether the humour comes from the inside or the outside, the idea being that when self-mocking humour comes from the inside, it pushes out the boundaries of acceptable or expected behaviours by making fun of one or more of the group characteristics known to the insider.
For one thing there are gradations of resemblance between young and mature organisms of the same species, making it hard to draw clear distinctions between young and larvae, and accordingly, between ovoviviparity and ovolarviparity.
If it is conceded that philosophical claims are a function of the sophistication of conceptual distinctions, arguments, and logical tools, and if it is conceded that there has been progress in making conceptual distinctions, progress in our sophistication about the nature of philosophical arguments, and progress in logic, then clearly there is progress in philosophy.
Without making distinctions between the Acadians who had been neutral and those who had resisted the occupation of Acadia, the British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council ordered them to be expelled.
For them, the Vinaya ( code of monastic discipline ) bans all sexual activity, but does so in purely physiological terms, making no moral distinctions among the many possible forms of intercourse it lists.
The range of forms, styles and subjects that were established in the early 17th century continued to be developed and refined without major innovation for the next two centuries, and although the Kanō school was the most successful in Japan, the distinctions between the work of it and other schools tended to reduce, as all the schools worked in a range of styles and formats, making the attribution of unsigned works often unclear.
Other previous distinctions include making ComputerWorld's " Top 100 Places to Work in IT 2005 ", " Best Places to Work " in the Greater Bay Area in 2006 by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, and the 8th spot on the 2006 list of " Best Workplaces in Germany " by Capital Magazine.
In the context of U. S. constitutional law, for example, they point out that the constitution twice lists " life, liberty, and property " without making any distinctions within that troika.
During the 10th century, each of the cavalry " banda " making up these forces is recorded as having plumes and other distinctions in a distinctive colour.
Since it is a word that describes a movable time frame, rather than a particular style or unifying idea, there are no universally agreed on criteria for making these distinctions.
Other strategies exist that rely on making simple distinctions rather than building top-down management " systems " using performance audits and full cost accounting.
Geographer Kurt Scharlau categorized the different types in the 1930s, making distinctions between temporary and permanent Wüstung, settlements used for different purposes ( farms or villages ), and the extent of abandonment ( partial or total ).

making and like
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
Still, he did like music making and even sang in the chapel choir of the Woodberry Forest School, near Orange, Virginia, where he sounded fine but did not matriculate too well.
I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.
`` You always live up to your name, always like this, always making happy ''??
More and more, these days, she'd been driving that pretty little mare that looked like her, over to Tillie's and Nick's -- his own old square frame box on posts, chickens and cats and pups under the house, everybody friendly inside, making a to-do over the babies dressed like dollies.
They combed their hair and streaked it at the part and greased the bangs so that the hair above their foreheads stood rigid like the tails of sage hens making love.
Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.
Sava is making a natural border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and towns like Brčko, Bosanski Šamac, Bosanska Gradiška lies on the river.
By 1000 BC ancient civilizations were using technologies that formed the basis of the various branches of chemistry such as ; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.
Their tough skin is covered with dermal teeth ( again with Holocephali as an exception as the teeth are lost in adults, only kept on the clasping organ seen on the front of the male's head ), also called placoid scales or dermal denticles, making it feel like sandpaper.
The prank involved making The Cube sculpture look like the Valve Corporation Weighted Companion Cube from the video game Portal.
The main structures making up the nucleus are the nuclear envelope, a double membrane that encloses the entire organelle and unifies its contents from the cellular cytoplasm, and the nucleoskeleton ( which includes nuclear lamina ), a meshwork within the nucleus that adds mechanical support, much like the cytoskeleton, which supports the cell as a whole.
Cooperative Linux ( in short coLinux ) runs a full, but modified Linux kernel like a driver under Windows, effectively making Windows and Linux two coroutines, using cooperative multitasking to switch between them.
Giving him abilities ranging from ( but not limited to ) air cannons in his hands and rear end, guns in his wrists, and the ability to extend the front part of his lower body outward, making him look like a backwards centaur.
Although there has been an old tradition and like for making census in Spain, the oldest ones dating back to the 12th century ( by Alfonso VII of the Kingdom of Castile ), the first modern census was carried out in 1768 by Conde de Aranda, under the reign of Carlos III.
Some processors, like the Intel 80386 and its successors, have hardware support for context switches, by making use of a special data segment designated the Task State Segment or TSS.
Part of the civil liberties argument, especially from groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was that parents who wanted to block sites could use their own content-filtering software, making government involvement unnecessary.
Multilayer coils have the problem of interlayer capacitance, so when multiple layers are needed the shape needs to be radically changed to a short coil with many layers so that the voltage between consecutive layers is smaller ( making them more spiral like ).
In contrast, though Oslo ( Norway ) and Stockholm ( Sweden ) are quite dominant in terms of speech standards, cities like Bergen, Gothenburg and the Malmö-Lund region are large and influential enough to create secondary regional norms, making the standard language more varied than is the case with Danish.

making and perception
Many animals that hunt other animals evolved eyes that face forward, thus making depth perception possible.
This request, however, if turned down, would have been viewed as disloyalty to the crown, the perception of which carried much social stigma, making it difficult for Kidd to have done so.
It is possible he was shrewder than he is given credit for, and played to his audience's perception of him, in effect making his recitals an early form of performance art.
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes also further damaged the perception of Louis XIV abroad, making the Protestant nations bordering France even more hostile to his regime.
The parasite has a long history with the brown rat, and there are indications that the parasite has evolved to alter an infected rat's perception to cat predation, making it more susceptible to predation and increasing the likelihood of transmission.
" During the making of All About Eve, ( 1950 ) Joseph L. Mankiewicz told her of the perception in Hollywood that she was difficult, and she explained that when the audience saw her on screen, they did not consider that her appearance was the result of numerous people working behind the scenes.
These carriers ’ perception was that with collective rate making limited, and a Commission apparently more interested in letting their rates go down than go up, the regulatory system, as a whole, in the net, no longer favored them.
This device, although it has the important virtue of making the narrative clear and easy to read, tends to falsify the character slightly since uncanny perception where his own feelings are concerned makes him a little less of the ordinary mortal which his behaviour would show him to be.
Although we cannot see things apart from the way we do in fact see them, we can think them apart from our mode of sensibility ( perception ); thus making the thing-in-itself a kind of noumenon or object of thought.
Analogy plays a significant role in problem solving, decision making, perception, memory, creativity, emotion, explanation and communication.
In psychology, pattern recognition, making sense of and identifying the objects we see is closely related to perception, which explains how the sensory inputs we receive are made meaningful. Pattern recognition can be thought of in two different ways: the first being template matching and the second being feature detection.
Identity politics are often vulnerable to bias resulting from the ( subconscious ) perception that the undesirable qualities / actions of individuals from the favored group ( s ), are merely isolated incidents that do not reflect strongly on the favored group, while the undesirable qualities / actions of members the unfavored group ( s ), are useful for making generalizations about the unfavored group ( s ).
This perception was in sharp contrast with those bands who formed the wave of newly-commercialised grunge music which was making its way across the Atlantic, and those bands who formed the foundation of Britpop, such as Pulp, Oasis, Blur and Suede.
Fred Lerdahl ( 1992, 112-13 ) argues that discretization is necessary even for perception by learned listeners, thus making it a basis of his analyses, and finds pieces such as Artikulation by György Ligeti inaccessible ,( Lerdahl 1988, 235 ) while Rainer Wehinger ( 1970 ) created a " Hörpartitur " or " score for listening " for the piece, representing different sonorous effects with specific graphic symbols much like a transcription.
The administrative weight of these proclamations is upheld because they are often specifically authorized by congressional statute, making them “ delegated unilateral powers .” Presidential proclamations are often dismissed as a practical presidential tool for policy making because of the perception of proclamations as largely ceremonial or symbolic in nature.
This has been used to devastating effect most recently to target Nigerian IP addresses due to the perception that all business emanating from the country is fraudulent, thus making it extremely difficult for legitimate businesses based in the country to interact with their counterparts in the rest of the world.
The vomeronasal organ, also called Jacobson's organ, is a chemoreceptor organ named for its closeness to the vomer and nasal bones, and is particularly developed in animals such as cats ( who adopt a characteristic pose called the Flehmen reaction or flehming when making use of it ), and is thought to have to do with the perception of certain pheromones.
As of the early 2000s, the Eaton Centre's owners have redesigned the mall's Yonge Street façade, bringing it closer to the street and making it more closely resemble an urban shopping district, with stores opening directly onto the street, and presenting a variety of façades to create the perception of an urban streetscape.
He is the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude change, and has carried out research on psi phenomena ( a technical term for extra-sensory perception ), group decision making, handwriting analysis, sexual orientation and personality theory and assessment.
Similarly, a price increase may increase that high status and perception of exclusivity, thereby making the good even more preferable.
Health numeracy is defined as “ the degree to which individuals have the capacity to access, process, interpret, communicate, and act on numerical, quantitative, graphical, biostatistical, and probabilistic health information needed to make effective health decisions .” Those who lack health numeracy skills, such as patients, run the risk of making poor health related decisions because of an inaccurate perception of information.
These areas receive input from the sensory areas and lower parts of the brain and are involved in the complex process that we call perception, thought, and decision making.
Bube also maintained that the God-of-the-gaps was not the same as the God of the Bible ( that is, he was not making an argument against God per se, but rather asserting there was a fundamental problem with the perception of God as existing in the gaps of present-day knowledge ).

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