He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

When he heard of his brothers' anger, Palfrey was still hopeful that they could be persuaded to accept his notion of paying wages.

God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.

The American Thomas Jefferson was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the notion that farmers are “ the most valuable citizens ” and the truest republicans.

Although he was not an innovator, he would not follow the absolute letter of the law ; rather he was driven by concerns over humanity and equality, and introduced into Roman law many important new principles based upon this notion.

While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

Even when this elder brother first displayed symptoms of delicate health, the notion that he might die young was never taken seriously, and he was betrothed to the Princess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ).

André Malraux explains that the notion of beauty was connected to a particular conception of art that arose with the Renaissance and was still dominant in the eighteenth century ( but was supplanted later ).

However, he wrongly posed the notion that the water was evaporating.

During the early settlement of Australia by Europeans, the notion that the bunyip was an actual unknown animal that awaited discovery became common.

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

However, a different notion of compactness altogether had also slowly emerged at the end of the 19th century from the study of the continuum, which was seen as fundamental for the rigorous formulation of analysis.

It was this notion of compactness that became the dominant one, because it was not only a stronger property, but it could be formulated in a more general setting with a minimum of additional technical machinery, as it relied only on the structure of the open sets in a space.

The notion of cardinality, as now understood, was formulated by Georg Cantor, the originator of set theory, in 1874 – 1884.

The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955 ; the idea of an ' ITV2 ' was long expected and pushed for.

Aristotle's famous argument was contrary to the atomist's depiction of a non-eternal cosmos which, he argued, would require an efficient first cause, a notion that Aristotle took to demonstrate a critical flaw in their reasoning.

The Angels in turn would exercise similar restraints in respect for the natural preferences and natures of the Earthmen -- but they had no faintest notion of man's perverse habit of passing and enforcing laws which were contrary to his own preferences and violations of his nature.

In turn, the notion of direction is strictly associated with the notion of an angle between two vectors.

Our understanding of the world is shaped by social facts ; for example the notion of time is defined by being measured through a calendar, which in turn was created to allow us to keep track of our social gatherings and rituals ; those in turn on their most basic level originated from religion.

The notion of " free love " appears to be practiced, with two women seemingly sharing the affections of the hitch-hiking communard, and who then turn their attention to Wyatt and Billy.

This notion of expanding the circle can also be seen in societies where hunters give animals to priests, who sacrifice a portion to a deity ( who, in turn, is expected to provide an abundant hunt ).

The Proto-Indo-European root is * wert-" to turn, rotate ", in Common Germanic * wirþ-with a meaning " to come to pass, to become, to be due " ( also in weorþ, the notion of " worth " both in the sense of " price, value, amount due " and " honour, dignity, due esteem ").

Others have argued that this lack of a causal history renders incoherent the notion that Swampman could have a mind at all, which in turn raises the question of whether he is, in fact, a person.

At the time the filmmaker came across the notion of a rain of frogs, he was " going through a weird, personal time ", and he started to understand " why people turn to religion in times of trouble, and maybe my form of finding religion was reading about rains of frogs and realizing that makes sense to me somehow ".

The title " zeroth law of thermodynamics " began to appear in textbooks to refer to statements of this kind, though now stripped of their explicit reference to heat ; their implicit dependence on the notion of heat could not be removed because they rely on the concept of thermal equilibrium which in turn relies on the concept of transfer of heat by conduction or radiation, the presence or absence of which must be empirically recognizable in order to make the concept of thermal equilibrium empirically recognizable.

To this he responded with his famous notion of ' Animal Spirits ' – that they were ruled by speculative behavior influenced not only by one's own personal equation but by his or her perceptions of the speculative behavior of others ; in turn others behavior was motivated by their perceptions of others behavior, et al.

As a result, many turn to a notion of probabilistic causation.

These included the concept of the decimal fractions as an extension of the notation, which in turn led to the notion of the decimal point.

He puts forward the notion of piety as a form of knowledge of how to do exchange: giving the gods gifts, and asking favours of them in turn ( 14e ).

Although much like the gods, these figures were not always depicted without considerable moral ambiguity: “ On this account, the other traditional notion of the daemon as related to the souls of the dead is elided in favour of a spatial scenario which evidently also graduated in moral terms ; though says nothing of that here, it is a necessary inference from her account, just as Eros is midway between deficiency and plenitude … Indeed, Xencrates … explicitly understood daemones as ranged along a scale from good to bad … speaks of ‘ great and strong beings in the atmosphere, malevolent and morose, who rejoice in days, religious festivals involving violence against the self, etc., and after gaining them as their lot, they turn to nothing worse .’… The use of such malign daemones by human beings seems not to be even remotely imagined here:

: As a Jewish religious notion, nonduality begins to appear unambigously in Jewish texts during the medieval period, increasing in frequency in the centuries thereafter and peaking at the turn of the nineteenth century, with the advent of Hasidism.

Foremost among these is the notion that the Partisans responsible for the Via Rasella attack were ordered to come forward and turn themselves in to the SS and wilfully declined to do so.

This leads to the notion that the points of the stack should carry automorphisms themselves, and this in turn gives rise to the notion of a stack as a certain kind of " category fibered in groupoids ".

On one hand, the notion of intrinsic dimension refers to the fact that any low-dimensional data space can trivially be turned into a higher dimensional space by adding redundant ( e. g. duplicate ) or randomized dimensions, and in turn many high-dimensional data sets can be reduced to lower dimensional data without significant information loss.

In this work Byrne is the central protagonist, confessing his art beliefs to a classical female nude who in turn responds, thus playing on the traditional notion of an artist and his muse.

She further explains simply that the nature of her employment for Goldfinger is that she's " a damn good pilot ", intending to negate any notion of any more intimate relationship, and then tells Bond, " You can turn off the charm.

* Institutional repositories are partly linked to the notion of digital interoperability, which is in turn linked to the Open Archives Initiative ( OAI ) and its Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting ( OAI-PMH ).

Marx explicitly developed the notion of critique into the critique of ideology and linked it with the practice of social revolution, as in the famous 11th of his Theses on Feuerbach, " Philosophers have only interpreted the world in certain ways ; the point is to change it.

The notion of causation is closely linked to the problem of induction.

This indifference of " things in themselves " ( closely linked with the later notion of " being-in-itself " in his Being and Nothingness ) has the effect of highlighting all the more the freedom Roquentin has to perceive and act in the world ; everywhere he looks, he finds situations imbued with meanings which bear the stamp of his existence.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson says that it has been suggested that the figures are partaking in a dance, and that they may have been connected with weddings and linked to the Vanir, representing the notion of a divine marriage, such as in the Poetic Edda poem Skírnismál ; the coming together of the Vanir god Freyr and his love, Gerðr.

John Hales, whose socially liberal rhetoric linked the issue of enclosure with Reformation theology and the notion of a godly commonwealth.

Already in the earliest Vedic texts, Ṛta as an ethical principle is linked with the notion of cosmic retribution.

Class passing is common in US media and is linked to the notion of the American Dream and of upward class mobility.

Eventually, as Chinese political ideas developed further, the Mandate was linked to the notion of the dynastic cycle.

Here, social relationship influences how participants reason about physical distance, and supports the notion that social distance, defined here as friendship, and physical distance are, again, conceptually linked.

In the West the term Catholic has come to be most commonly associated with the Roman Catholic Church because of its size and influence in the West, and because that is historically its name ( although in formal contexts most other churches still reject this naming, because the title " Catholic Church " is so linked with the notion of it being the one true church ).

The notion was interwoven into the film, with the presence of water being linked to death.

Sacks argues that ' members ’ categories comprise part of the central machinery of organization and developed the notion of MCD to explain how categories can be hearably linked together by native speakers of a culture.

This idea — often linked with the notion of the consent of the governed — was not invented by the American revolutionaries.

This period of roughly 30 years fits with the notion that these cycles are closely linked to generational change.

For Aristotle and his scholastic followers the notion of essence is closely linked to that of definition ( horismos ).

At this point, the notion of nirmanakaya, or created body of a Buddha, became linked to a notion of regular manifestation ().

Most use the notion that a brand ( sponsor ) and event ( sponsoree ) become linked in memory through the sponsorship and as a result, thinking of the brand can trigger event-linked associations, while thinking of the event can come to trigger brand-linked associations.

These properties do not exist in a vacuum ; they are linked to the semantics of the programming language they describe, and there is a large space of varied languages that can fit these criteria, since the notion of " well typed " program is part of the static semantics of the programming language and the notion of " getting stuck " ( or " going wrong ") is a property of its dynamic semantics.

In a number of situations, the objects of two categories linked by a duality are partially ordered, i. e., there is some notion of an object " being smaller " than another one.

The notion of the action of a conjuration is traditionally linked to the task of repelling negative spirits away, and protecting an individual, space or collectivity.

Montague's treatment of quantification has been linked to the notion of continuation in programming language semantics.

In the work of Foucault, this notion is indeed linked to other concepts such as biopolitics and power-knowledge.