This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

In the modern view axioms may be any set of formulas, as long as they are not known to be inconsistent.

Chinese astronomers were able to view what is modern Antlia from their latitudes, and incorporated its stars into two different constellations.

The contrasting view that " Achaeans ", as understood through Homer, are " a name without a country ", an ethnos created in the Epic tradition, has modern supporters among those who conclude that " Achaeans " were redefined in the fifth century, as contemporary speakers of Aeolic Greek.

However, there are also many modern historians who object to this view and point out that such a hostile attitude towards Athanasius is based on an unfair judgment of historical sources.

This is not a rejection of existence by Gilson, a leading modern metaphysician in the classical tradition: " philosophers are wholly justified in taking existence for granted ... and in never mentioning it again ...." In Gilson's view, the participial being is a given, a primitive of experience, not subject to proof or investigation, as it is the grounds of proof.

Even the critic G. R. Driver recognized that " the presence and popularity of the Daniel manuscripts at Qumran " conflicted " with the modern view which advocates the late dating of the composition of Daniel ".

Calvin took a literal interpretation of ch. 1, but allegorical view of chapter 2, a position echoed by some modern interpreters.

The second article, published in 1938, states that launching a swift strategic knockout has great attractions for Germany but appears to accept that such a knockout will be very difficult to achieve by land attack under modern conditions ( especially in view of the existence of systems of fortification like the Maginot Line ) unless an exceptionally high degree of surprise is achieved.

The prevailing modern view is that Herodotus generally did a remarkable job in his Historia, but that some of his specific details ( particularly troop numbers and dates ) should be viewed with skepticism.

Laissez-faire advocates criticize the term as an ideologically motivated attempt to cast what is in their view the fundamental problem of government intervention or “ investments ” as an avoidable aberration ; free-market advocates refer to governmental favoritism as " crony socialism ", " venture socialism " or " corporatism, a modern form of mercantilism " to emphasize that the only way to run a profitable business in such systems is to have help from corrupt government officials.

Several liberals, including Adam Smith and Richard Cobden, argued that the free exchange of goods between nations could lead to world peace, a view recognised by such modern American political scientists as Dahl, Doyle, Russet, and O ' Neil.

There is a general view that citizenship in ancient times was a simpler relation than modern forms of citizenship, although this view has come under scrutiny.

This view of Chinese history sees Chinese society in the 20th century as a traditional society seeking to become modern, usually with the implicit

This view provided an implicit justification of British colonialism with Britain assuming the " white man's burden " of breaking these societies from their static past and bringing them into the modern world.

This view is also reflected by modern Judaism, in that Righteous Gentiles needn't convert to Judaism and need to observe only the Noahide Laws, which also contain prohibitions against idolatry and fornication and blood.

This point of view sees the modern Romance languages as dialects of Latin, modern Greek as a dialect of Ancient Greek, Tok Pisin as a dialect of English, and Scandinavian languages as dialects of Old Norse.

This view naturally led to what was then usually called necessitarianism ( the modern term is determinism ): the view that everything in the universe – including human behavior – is completely causally determined by antecedent circumstances and natural law.

Some modern deists have modified this classical view and believe that humanity's relationship with God is transpersonal, which means that God transcends the personal / impersonal duality and moves beyond such human terms.

The Frege-Brentano view is the basis of the dominant position in modern Anglo-American philosophy: that existence is asserted by the existential quantifier ( as expressed by Quine's slogan " To be is to be the value of a variable.

However, this view neglects the fact that i ) both modern cyanobacteria and alpha-proteobacteria are Gram negative bacteria, which are surrounded by double membranes ; ii ) the outer membranes of the endosymbiotic organelles ( chloroplasts and mitochondria ) are very similar to those of these bacteria in their lipid and protein compositions.

Most modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

In the final October 9, 1996 Vice Presidential Debate against Al Gore ( held as the Dole – Kemp ticket trailed badly in the national polls ), Kemp was soundly beaten, and Al Gore's performance is considered one of the best modern debate performances.

In modern times, the Vice President usually presides over the Senate only when a tie in the voting is anticipated.

In modern times, the Vice President rarely presides over day-to-day matters in the Senate ; in his place, the Senate chooses a President pro tempore ( or " president for a time ") to preside in the Vice President's absence ; the Senate normally selects the longest-serving senator in the majority party.

Though Walter Mondale's tenure was the beginning of the modern day power of the Vice Presidency, the tenure of Dick Cheney saw a rapid growth in the office of the Vice President.

The book ( and especially the film adaptations and its second sequel, Summer Switch ) might be considered a modern retelling of Vice Versa, the 1882 novel by F. Anstey, in which the protagonists are a father and son.

Actually, for the first year and a half his office was called " Vice President of South Carolina ," but when the new constitution was adopted, the title was changed to the modern usage.

LaRouche identifies the former U. S. Vice President and former PNAC member Dick Cheney as a modern " synarchist ", and claims that " synarchists " have " a scheme for replacing regular military forces of nations, by private armies in the footsteps of a privately financed international Waffen-SS-like scheme, a force deployed by leading financier institutions, such as the multi-billions funding by the U. S. Treasury, of Cheney's Halliburton gang.

He was appointed Vice Minister of Finance in 1871 and was influential in reorganizing government finances on modern lines, especially in the reform of the land tax system, termination of government stipends to the ex-samurai and former aristocracy and for promoting industrialization.

The Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) was made up of more modern armored cruisers ; the Izumo, Azuma, Tokiwa, Iwate, and two protected cruisers Naniwa and Takachiho which were under the command of Vice Admiral Hikonojo Kamimura who had just recently passed very close to the Russian squadron in the dark on opposite courses but neither was aware of the other.

Though it failed to crack the Top 40 in any country it was released ( UK # 41, Canada # 45, US # 49, Australia # 90 ), over the years " Tempted " has become one of Squeeze's most well known songs, especially in North America, thanks to its use in various TV commercials and in modern video games such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

In 1855 President Franklin Pierce appointed him colonel of the new 2nd U. S. Cavalry ( the unit that preceded the modern 5th U. S .), a new regiment, which he organized.

Most modern assassinations have been committed either during a public performance or during transport, both because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d ' état where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely Salvador Allende.

The 2006 national election was expected to be a landslide for former President ( 1986 – 1990 ) and PLN's candidate Óscar Arias, but it turned out to be the closest in modern history.

Harvard economist and former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers explains Hayek's place in modern economics: " What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today?

In modern times, Pakistani scholar and professor Fazlur Rahman Malik has used the term to describe the struggle to establish " just moral-social order ", while President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia has used it to describe the struggle for economic development in that country.

During the conflict, Nehru wrote two desperate letters to U. S. President John F. Kennedy, requesting 12 squadrons of fighter jets and a modern radar system.

Lebanon gained independence in 1943, and established a unique political system, known as confessionalism, a power-sharing mechanism based on religious communities – Bechara El Khoury who became independent Lebanon's first President and Riad El-Solh, who became Lebanon's first prime minister, are considered the founders of the modern Republic of Lebanon and are national heroes for having led the country's independence.

* 1797 – In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.

In modern tradition, the Chief Justice has the ceremonial duty of administering the oath of office of the President of the United States.

However, in the 1998 History Channel documentary entitled Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History, the speculation that Harding may have joined the group is highlighted by the fact that William J. Simmons, the founder of the modern Klan, once visited the President at the White House.

The modern 419 scam became popular during the 1980s during the hyper-corrupt " Second Republic " governed by President Shehu Shagari.

American President Roosevelt and General Stilwell, privately made it adamantly clear that the French were not to reacquire French Indochina, ( modern day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos ) after the war was over.

The office of the President of the Executive Council was less powerful than either its modern equivalent, the office of Taoiseach, or the offices of most modern prime ministers in nations that follow the parliamentary system of government.

The reception was given by President Anastasio Somoza García in the luxurious and modern Palacio de Comunicaciones.

* President Skroob appears to be a parody of a modern American president.

President Richard Nixon purchased the first of his three waterfront homes, forming a compound known as the Florida White House, in 1969 to be close to his close friend and confidant, Bebe Rebozo and industrialist Robert Abplanalp ( inventor of the modern spray can valve ).

The three rivers, west to east, were named by Meriwether Lewis in late July 1805 for President Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State James Madison, and Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin which was in the times the genesis of a mild controversy and eventually spawned a modern day geographical controversyin both cases regarding length comparisons between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.