Lastly and most importantly, the precision in mimicking Cuyp ’ s style by his follower Abraham van Calraet and their contentious signatures makes it all the more difficult to determine which paintings are genuinely that of Cuyp and which ones are actually accurate reproductions in his style.

Authorship is more contentious for this work ; although he started this work, he died before it could be finished, and most likely was more a product of people other than Alexander.

This account is, however, contentious among historians, it being most commonly asserted that he died of natural causes.

Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners, but has been widely decried by both the MLB Players ' Union for his policies and by the general public for presiding over the game during one of its most contentious periods.

These discussions are usually among the most contentious at CoP meetings.

Domestic conciliation is most commonly used to handle contentious divorces, but may apply to other domestic disputes such as the annulment of a marriage or acknowledgment of paternity.

The debt may have been repaid by Sophocles because there appear to be echoes of The Histories in his plays, especially a passage in Antigone that resembles Herodotus's account of the death of Intaphernes ( Histories 3. 119 ~ Antigone 904-20 )-this however is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship.

The most contentious areas of the Treaty for the IRA were abolition of the Irish Republic declared in 1919, the status of the Irish Free State as a dominion in the British Commonwealth and the British retention of the so called Treaty Ports on Ireland's south coast.

His involvement had an impact on three of the most contentious issues of the early postwar period: the fight to establish a Jewish state, the smuggling of Holocaust survivors to Israel, and the battle against racial segregation in the United States.

Her relationship with Patti was the most contentious ; Patti flouted American conservatism and rebelled against her parents by joining the nuclear freeze movement and authoring many anti-Reagan books.

In North America, the most contentious of these issues among these churches at the present time is how far the ordination of gay men and lesbians should be accepted.

The proposals of the other commission, on amateurism, were more contentious, but this commission also set important precedents for the Olympic Games, specifically the use of heats to narrow participants and the banning of prize money in most contests.

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As a young man, he rose through the ranks of the Roman army, serving in some of the most contentious parts of the Empire's frontier.

Mahdi argued that this version is the earliest extant one ( a view that is largely accepted today ) and that it reflects most closely a " definitive " coherent text ancestral to all others that he believed to have existed during the Mamluk period ( a view that remains contentious ).

One of the most contentious issues of the treaty proposed by the United States is with concerns to patents and copyrights.

The future of Palestine was contentious from the beginning of the Palestine Mandate since the British declared support for a " Jewish national home in Palestine " even though most of the population were Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabs.

This policy of liberalization has been one of most contentious policies.

The most contentious statement in the manifesto is: " Artists who don't paint aren't artists ".

The most contentious aspect of SOX is Section 404, which requires management and the external auditor to report on the adequacy of the company's internal control on financial reporting ( ICFR ).

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity ; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science ; it will not require many words to prove, that all mankind have ever agreed in the doctrine of liberty as well as in that of necessity, and that the whole dispute, in this respect also, has been hitherto merely verbal.

In most areas of the Basque Country, the educational Model D, where all subjects are taught in Basque, except " Spanish language and literature " ( which is taught in Spanish ) is now the predominant model.

Though Oceania's Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace each have names with meanings deliberately opposite to their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward: " rehabilitated thought criminals " leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into genuinely loving Big Brother.

The longer poems differ from the polymetra and the epigrams not only in length but also in their subjects: There are seven hymns and one mini-epic, or epyllion, the most highly prized form for the " new poets ".

The puzzling phenomenon of two individuals being exposed to the same evidence and being able to reach different conclusions, has been frequently explained ( particularly by Daniel Kahneman ) by reference to a ' bounded rationality ' - that is most judgments are made by fast acting heuristics ( system 1 ) that work well in every day situations, but are not amenable to decision making about complex subjects such as climate change.

The most important subjects of his inquiries can be enumerated under the following five headings:

His subjects were required to prostrate themselves in his presence ( adoratio ); the most fortunate were allowed the privilege of kissing the hem of his robe ( proskynesis, προσκύνησις ).

Returning to Italy, the most celebrated doors are those of the Battistero di San Giovanni ( Florence ), which together with the door frames are all in bronze, the borders of the latter being perhaps the most remarkable: the modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano ( 1330 ), and of the east doorway by Ghiberti ( 1425 – 1452 ), are of great beauty ; in the north door ( 1402 – 1424 ) Ghiberti adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects in them as Andrea Pisano, but in the east door the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs, in which Scripture subjects are illustrated with innumerable figures, these being probably the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

Hand-coloured films, which were being produced of the most popular subjects before 1900, cost 2 to 3 times as much per foot.

The Nordisk company was set up there in 1906 by Ole Olsen, a fairground showman, and after a brief period imitating the successes of French and British film-makers, in 1907 he produced 67 films, most directed by Viggo Larsen, with sensational subjects like Den hvide Slavinde ( The White Slave ), Isbjørnenjagt ( Polar Bear Hunt ) and Løvejagten ( The Lion Hunt ).

Many aspects of the syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact ( nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors ), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify, relative pronouns are clause-initial.

Gothenburg University has the highest number of applicants per study place in many of its subjects and courses, and is therefore one of the most popular universities in Sweden.

Figures are probably the most variable of all subjects in terms of scale and are often referred to as their metric equivalent ; for example, a 1: 32 scale figure soldier is more commonly described as " 54mm ".

Vortimer, having been most unwilling to part with Hengist, agrees and orders his subjects and the Saxons at the monastery of Ambrius to meet during the nearby month of May.

Comparisons between hypnotised and non-hypnotised subjects suggest that if a " hypnotic trance " does exist it only accounts for a small proportion of the effects attributed to hypnotic suggestion, most of which can be replicated without hypnotic induction.

The most popular subjects for titles are e. g.: the rain, the play of the sea waves, unimaginative moon landscapes and other natural phenomena.

The object of the conference was " To consider the advisability of all maritime nations adopting similar methods in preparation, construction, and production of their charts and all hydrographic publications ; of rendering the results in the most convenient form to enable them to be readily used ; of instituting a prompt system of mutual exchange of hydrographic information between all countries ; and of providing an opportunity to consultations and discussions to be carried out on hydrographic subjects generally by the hydrographic experts of the world.

He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.

During their time in Kassel, Jacob regularly attended the meetings of the academy where he read papers on the most varied subjects.

In the most solemn of ceremonies, for example at the coronation of a new Emperor, the Emperor's subjects would undertake the ceremony of the " three kneelings and nine kowtows ", the so-called grand kowtow, which involves kneeling from a standing position three times, and each time, performing the kowtow three times while kneeling.

In 1969, Hans Kelker succeeded in synthesizing a substance that had a nematic phase at room temperature, MBBA, which is one of the most popular subjects of liquid crystal research.