But as he discovers shortly, on returning among intellectuals obsessed by le culte du moi, his experience of action had also taught him a more positive lesson.

Proximate in the sense that there are more distant, more `` positive '' ends we seek, to which victory over Communism is but a means.

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

It is a proposal that justice now be served by means other than those that have ever preconditioned the search for it, or preconditioned more positive means for attaining it, in the past.

An atom containing an equal number of protons and electrons is electrically neutral, otherwise it has a positive charge if there are fewer electrons ( electron deficiency ) or negative charge if there are more electrons ( electron excess ).

The most positive accomplishment during his Administration was the purchase of Alaska from Russia, though this was probably due more to the efforts of William H. Seward than President Johnson.

The dimmer an object ( at a distance of 10 parsecs ) would appear, the higher ( more positive ) its absolute magnitude becomes.

In 2006, the movie Copying Beethoven referred to Salieri in a more positive light.

It is continued internally by positive ions flowing into the electrolyte from the anode, i. e., away ( surprisingly ) from the more negative electrode and towards the more positive one ( chemical energy is responsible for this " uphill " motion ).

When a positive voltage is applied to anode of the diode from the circuit, more holes are able to be transferred to the depleted region, and this causes the diode to become conductive, allowing current to flow through the circuit.

These orbits were stabilized in the model by the fact that when an electron moved farther from the center of the positive cloud, it felt a larger net positive inward force, because there was more material of opposite charge, inside its orbit ( see Gauss's law ).

Since Bulgarian lev is anyway bounded to Euro Bulgaria is looking for more positive outcomes of the becoming a member of the Eurozone rather than risks.

Often the Chronicles paint a somewhat more positive picture of the same events.

They marked a shift from a largely apophatic ( negative ) philosophical trend within Buddhism to a decidedly more cataphatic ( positive ) modus.

A positive balance is known as a trade surplus if it consists of exporting more than is imported ; a negative balance is referred to as a trade deficit or, informally, a trade gap.

Studies have shown that numerous biological systems, such as Xenopus oocyte maturation, mammalian calcium signal transduction, and polarity in budding yeast, incorporate temporal ( slow and fast ) positive feedback loops, or more than one feedback loop that occurs at different times.

Due to their lower mass, the electrons in a plasma accelerate more quickly in response to an electric field than the heavier positive ions, and hence carry the bulk of the current.

At low pressure, there was enough space between the gas atoms that the ions could accelerate to high enough speeds that when they struck another atom they knocked electrons off of it, creating more positive ions and free electrons in a chain reaction.

These positive evaluations led to the increased use and more thorough implementation of the CRM system.

However, the combined effects of ethnic and religious fractionalization, i. e. the more chance that any two randomly chosen people will be from separate ethnic or religious groups the less chance of a civil war, were also significant and positive, as long as the country avoided ethnic dominance.

They favor a more holistic approach based on the 4 ' E's ; education ( of everyone involved ), encouragement ( to apply the education ), enforcement ( to protect the rights of others ), and engineering ( to facilitate travel while respecting every person's equal right to do so ).

If a person's hands are placed around the glass without touching it, the vanes will turn slowly or not at all, but if the glass is touched to warm it quickly, they will turn more noticeably.

Dependent upon a person's constitution, by adhering to a specific diet or purging, one could physically handle the infection more successfully.

Multiple light sources can wash out any wrinkles in a person's face, for instance, and give a more youthful appearance.

The term Sileni-especially when juxtaposed with the character of Alcibiades-can therefore be understood as an evocation of the notion that something on the inside is more expressive of a person's character than what one sees on the outside.

When a person's actions are completely virtuous in all matters in relation to others, Aristotle calls her " just " in the sense of " general justice ;" as such this idea of justice is more or less coextensive with virtue.

It also prohibits a person from being elected to the presidency more than once if that person previously had served as president, or acting president, for more than two years of another person's term as president.

In social anthropology, polygamy is the practice of a person's making him / herself available for two or more spouses to mate with.

Behavior that may be optimal for an individual ( e. g., saving more during adverse economic conditions ) can be detrimental if too many individuals pursue the same behavior, as ultimately one person's consumption is another person's income.

These systems analyze the person's specific voice and use it to fine tune the recognition of that person's speech, resulting in more accurate transcription.

While genetic discrimination is forbidden by law, in practice it is easy to profile a person's genotype resulting in the valids qualifying for professional employment while the in-valids — considered more susceptible to disease, educational dysfunction and shorter lifespans — are relegated to menial jobs.

Research has found that reducing a person's belief in free will can make them less helpful and more aggressive.

* Loose ties to a person's name with an attached suffix: Gazza for English footballer Paul Gascoigne ( though used more widely in Australia for Gary ) and similar " zza " forms ( Hezza, Prezza, etc.

Plutarch, by his own admission, did not write histories so much as biographies ; he believed that a jest or a phrase could reveal more about a person's character than could a battle that cost thousands of lives.

The fetish subculture is a subculture that comprises people with a broad range of sexual fetishes and other paraphilias, who tend to be more tolerant of other fetishists than the general community, even if they do not share the other person's specific fetish.

Unlike other negative emotions like sadness and fear, angry people are more likely to demonstrate correspondence bias-the tendency to blame a person's behavior more on his nature than on his circumstances.

Altered life situations including death of a partner, relationship breakdown, children starting school or leaving home, death of a child, re-partnering and re-marriage, increased wealth ( which previously factored against having more children ), mean that the psychological associations and effects of vasectomy are not only those which immediately follow the vasectomy, but may be ongoing throughout a person's life history.

The Free Grace doctrine views the person's character and life after receiving the gift of salvation as independent from the gift itself, which is the main point of differentiation from the traditional Calvinist view, or, in other words, it asserts that justification ( that is, being declared righteous before God on account of Christ ) does not necessarily result in sanctification ( that is, a progressively more righteous life ).

Also known as " censitary suffrage ", the opposite of Equal suffrage, meaning that the votes cast by those eligible to vote are not equal, but are weighed differently according to the person's rank in the census ( e. g., people with high income have more votes than those with a small income, or a stockholder in a company with more shares has more votes than someone with fewer shares ).

A randomization of `` ups '' and `` downs '' is more likely than ordered `` ups '' and `` downs '' in position ( 3 ) since the hydrogen atoms are well separated and so the position of one could hardly affect the position of another, and also since ordered `` up '' and `` down '' implies a larger unit cell, for which no evidence exists.

However, in higher-end applications, the benefits afforded by the extra range ( most often the additional address space ) are more significant and often affect design choices.

These different factors affect the diamond's hardness, smoothness, conductivity, optical properties and more.

In immunocompromised patients, Candida infections can affect the esophagus with the potential of becoming systemic, causing a much more serious condition, a fungemia called candidemia.

Drugs affect " younger " tumors ( i. e., more differentiated ) more effectively, because mechanisms regulating cell growth are usually still preserved.

As these issues affect the BIOT as a whole, not just the island of Diego Garcia, they are more appropriately and completely addressed in the Wikipedia articles British Indian Ocean Territory and Depopulation of Diego Garcia.

Freeze-thaw cycles also affect decomposition — freezing temperatures kill soil microorganisms, which allows leaching to play a more important role in moving nutrients around.

These cost from 0 to 3 or more points depending on whether they should be considered Frequent, Major ( or even " Twice Major ", for especially powerful abilities that significantly affect gameplay ) and / or Versatile.

This has led a number of environmentalists to support the use of the precautionary principle in policy making, which ultimately asserts that we don ’ t know how certain actions may affect the environment, and because there is reason to believe they may cause more harm than good we should refrain from such actions.

Gaia philosophy ( named after Gaia, Greek goddess of the Earth ) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life.

Pessimism in the south was more intense after the Cossacks ' Uprising ( 1648 – 1654 ) under Chmielnicki and the turbulent times in Poland ( 1648 – 1660 ), which violently ruined the Jewry of South East Poland, but did not much affect that of Lithuania and Estonia.

* Long QT syndrome is a ventricular arrhythmia syndrome caused by mutations in one or more of presently ten different genes, most of which are potassium channels and all of which affect cardiac repolarization.

Aquinas's influence was such as to affect a number of early translations of these passages, though more recent translations render them more literally.

It is more like the evolution of microbes, with extensive lateral gene transfer: Quite distantly related languages may affect each other through language contact, which in extreme cases may lead to languages with no single ancestor, whether they be creoles or mixed languages.

Muscular dystrophy can affect adults, but the more severe forms tend to occur in early childhood.

Followers of the traditional macrobiotic approach believe that food and food quality powerfully affect health, well-being, and happiness, and that a traditional locally based macrobiotic diet has more beneficial effects than others.

Gorbachev's positions within the CPSU created more opportunities to travel abroad, and this would profoundly affect his political and social views in the future as leader of the country.

Ironically, as his decisions affect the fate of an entire nation, it is even more important that a ruler maintains a set of standards, and yet has none.

Recently, given that more modifications have been found in the structured regions of histones, it has been put forward that these modifications may affect histone-DNA and histone-histone interactions within the nucleosome core.

According to this interpretation, Aquinas's influence was such as to affect a number of early translations of these passages in an unfortunate manner, though more recent translations render them more literally.

These replacement compounds are more reactive and less likely to survive long enough in the atmosphere to reach the stratosphere where they could affect the ozone layer.

They write that " Interest in science fiction may affect the way people think about or relate to science .... one study found a strong relationship between preference for science fiction novels and support for the space program ... The same study also found that students who read science fiction are much more likely than other students to believe that contacting extraterrestrial civilizations is both possible and desirable ( Bainbridge 1982 ).