One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.

It was essential that he should restore his formidable reputation as a rip-roaring, ruthless gun-slinger, and this was the time-honored Wild West method of doing it.

even Christ was baptized by this method.

They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

Beginning with the October 1959 issue of the Journal, the method of production of copy for photo-offset reproduction was changed from varityping to hot typesetting.

Another recent achievement was the successful development of a method for the complete combustion in a bomb calorimeter of a metal in fluorine when the product is relatively non-volatile.

The first diatomic hydride investigated by the paramagnetic resonance method was the OH radical.

Up until recently, this heat pump method of warming air was efficient only in areas of mild winters and when outside temperatures were above 40 degrees.

The third method was, to our knowledge, successfully applied for the first time by C. Sheer and co-workers ( Ref. 2 ).

By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.

A single value of the thermal relaxation time Af at room temperature was measured by the progressive saturation method.

For the low-temperature measurements the sample was cooled by a cold nitrogen gas flow method similar to that of Andrew and Eades.

He advocated scientifically skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ).

In this experimental method he advocated for two types of experiments, experiments done in the lab and experiments done in the classroom.

This embouchure method, advocated by a minority of brass pedagogues such as Jerome Callet, has not yet been sufficiently researched to support the claims that this system is the most effective approach for all brass performers.

This sparked an entire school of thought within economics, Free Banking, with banks not being banned from having fractional reserves as Rothbard advocated, but instead being free to experiment and discover the best method of conducting business.

Afterward he delivered Sabbath-afternoon sermons, in which he advocated the allegoric and philosophic method of Scriptural exegesis.

Some, notably Professor Bruce Biggs, have advocated that double vowels be written to mark long vowel sounds ( for example, Maaori ), but he was more concerned with their being marked be marked at all than with the method that was chosen.

Many of these critics advocated or engaged in deprogramming as a method to liberate group members from apparent brainwashing.

Nichiren viewed his teachings as a method of efficaciously preventing this and other disasters: that the best countermeasure against the degeneracy of the times and its associated disasters was through the activation of Buddha-nature by chanting and the other practices which he advocated.

* Han Feizi: The major figure of the Chinese Fajia ( Legalist ) school, advocated government that adhered to laws and a strict method of administration.

The PPP method differed from existing structural chemistry thinking ( which advocated maximum overlap principle ) by advancing the concept of zero differential overlap approximation.

SOAP may also be used over HTTPS ( which is the same protocol as HTTP at the application level, but uses an encrypted transport protocol underneath ) with either simple or mutual authentication ; this is the advocated WS-I method to provide web service security as stated in the WS-I Basic Profile 1. 1.

But it was part of the method of both alike to eliminate conventional sentiment and morality. In the seventeenth century, the English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, whose Leviathan advocated absolute monarchy, admired Thucydides and in 1628 was the first to translate his writings into English directly from Greek.

In scholasticism, Ockham advocated a reform both in method and in content, the aim of which was simplification.

Boiling can be used as a method of water disinfection but is only advocated as an emergency water treatment method, or as a method of portable water purification in rural or wilderness settings without access to a potable water infrastructure.

One such method is that of ethnography: basically, they advocated living with people of another culture for an extended period of time, so that they could learn the local language and be enculturated, at least partially, into that culture.

In this paper, Lister advocated the use of carbolic acid ( phenol ) as a method of ensuring that any germs present were killed.

Chen introduced many new ideas into popular Chinese culture, including individualism, democracy, humanism, and the use of the scientific method, and he advocated the abandonment of Confucianism for the adoption Communism.

Subsequent psycho-physical investigations " have all been in " the spirit of his work ; and although he consistently advocated the introspective method in psychological investigation, he was among the first to appreciate the help that may be given to it by social psychology, comparative psychology and developmental psychology.

Rarely, this explicit method of granting particular voters more influence is advocated for governmental elections outside corporate management, perhaps because the voters are members of an oppressed group ; currently, all governmental elections with cumulative voting award equal numbers of points for all voters.

He had already, in his Goethes Faust in seiner Einheit und Ganzheit ( 1836 ) and Goethe als Dramatiker ( 1837 ), advocated a new critical method in interpreting the German classics, which he wished to see treated like the ancient classics.

State socialism was traditionally advocated as a means to achieving public ownership of the means of production through nationalization of industry was advocated as a method for transitioning to a socialist economy.

He also described the method for using the transit of Venus to measure the distance of the Earth from the Sun, which was later advocated by Edmund Halley and adopted as the basis of the first effective measurement of the Astronomical Unit.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

The traditional method proceeds by the technique of free association, punctuated by interpretations proposed by the psychoanalytic interviewer.

Mankind, as a result, attains previously undreamed of levels of civilization and culture, a golden age which the Overlords, a very evident symbol of science, have helped produce by introducing reason and the scientific method into human activities.

It may be by bank loans, sale of notes or warrants, or by the somewhat casual method of issuance and registration of warrants.

This work gave a heat of formation of aluminum fluoride which closely substantiates a value which had been determined by a less direct method, and raises this property to 15 percent above that accepted a few years ago.

Using Edgerton's method, the fast-closing action is obtained from the blackening of a window by exploding a series of parallel lead wires.

We have developed an ingenious method of interlocking these so that you can make the major part of your house in your own workshop, panel by panel, according to plan.

Although the Af calculation is obvious by analogy with that for gravitational field and osmotic pressure, it is interesting to confirm it by a method which can be generalized to include related effects.

This method can be extended to include the concentration differences caused by shear fields.

Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.